dailydatewithgod

It is hard for our minds to wrap around the visceral space of our experience. Whether it is what drives our decisions or how we find ourselves reacting, our minds are going to push to make sense of the visceral. We find a sense of security in being able to put specific words and labels. It is helpful to have a category to put things in. It puts our minds at ease. When we are not at ease we know it at a visceral level. Our hearts contain the energy to create a place of peace between the intellectual and the visceral. Rarely are things one or the other. Life is simply not so black and white. It is part of the maturity process to grasp what it means to live in a universe full of duality. Like many things it is not the reality which is the problem, it is our resistance to acceptance of reality. We have probably lost track of the number of conversations we have had with ourselves and others about how things are not the way they “should” be or we “expected” them to be. In the context of making peace between our instinct and our intellect finding a middle ground with acceptance of the reality of both and how they operate is the place to start. Our hearts contain the dynamic energy needed to bridge the gap between our visceral and our intellectual realities. A simple breath to awaken the heart gives us the moment of pause to prevent reacting from a place of rejection of either’s viewpoint. Our heart can hold the space for the visceral and intellectual reality in such a way that we do not break into a war with ourselves that we cannot win. God has gifted us with the three minds through which to be present in our lives. When we learn to use all of who we are in our lives we walk in alignment with the truth of who we are.