Feelings versus Logic
We are part of the reality that is happening out there, part of the whole.
Our disconnection is illusory – I am not sure if it’s because of the dicstinctions made by the eye-sense, that see strict borderline between our body and environment, or if the disconnection started much earlier in the brain decoding mechanism, or somewhere else.
Anyway, we have believed (in the end, the brain is behind any belief) we are disconnected from the Whole.
Let’s imagine again that we are not separated, that we are interconnected with everything and it was never different – let’s back it up with your favorite theory explaining this interconnection, for example the particle theory about each atom having vast space around and when you zoom close enough, you can’t see any borders between your body and your environment – makes quite sense, right?
Now, you are really connected with Everything – you are not your body avatar only – the Avatar is there only as your lens, as the point of reference from which you observe the Oneness.
How do you get informations from the World?
Senses. Is there anything else then them (I think there’s not, but make me correct in the comments)?
Senses are all there is for you, to get the knowledge about the world.
Does it make logic to listen these senses and to obey them, follow them, because they are some higher logic, higher messages from the Whole reality?
Can you make better decisions made by thinking, by brain, by logic?
What is more restrained – decisions based on senses or decisions based on pure logical thinking of the brain?
Can your brain think up anything different than it already knows from the past?
Isn’t the brain only repeating the past models of thinking, past theories, old stories, old worries?
What about senses? Can they lie? Can they manipulate you?
If you feel joy, is there any false in it?
Is there any reason you shouldn’t be really happy when you feel so? Even when everyone else is not so – maybe at the funeral?
Is there any logic in not following your feelings, your inspirations?
Why should you start using your logic to judge if the inspiration is good, if it’s worth of pursuing, if it will bring you enough of this or that, if it’s childish, if it’s embarrassing etc.?
Can you imagine living totally spontaneously – following your inspirations, feelings, senses – following your intuition – the path of Heart?
It takes some time, to re-learn listening to the senses, to switch from brain consciousness to the heart consciousness – it’s a regular learning process – to de-learn the old habit of “using too much logic”.
But finally, you’ll start to become very spontaneous, not restrained by the pure rational thinking repeating the old patterns – each situation is brand new, totally new variables are presented at each moment, and brain cannot understand it at all – only senses can tell you immediately what is happening around and giving you hints how to behave, how to deal with each situation in every moment.
Does it make sense?
It does to me.. but I am aware I am suggesting here extreme switching from the brain to the heart – I am aware about the advantages of the middle paths – no extremes are good. But I am still not sure what to think about this extreme. I think, that this is what Osho and other total-consciousness teachers do propagate – at least this is how I understand their tips for total-spontaneity. But this lifestyle would be really scary, when bravely applied – you would stop planning, stop thinking about consequences, about problems, barriers – you would just do what you feel at each moment, without fear.
Can it be so easy? Or am I compensating my long term tendency to use too much of the brain logic in my life, by clinging to the opposite extreme?
I am not sure, but I am experimenting with it now – living by the inspiration, intuition of each moment.
As many times in my life – I was hugely inspired by Steve Pavlina with this test.
And sorry for all the typos – I don’t feel like I want to repair them – anyway, I write it for myself at the first place (ok, maybe even for the 2 loyal readers).
Tags: brain, feelings, heart, Inspiration, logic, oneness, thinking
September 15th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Well, I actually don’t see a point in being worried all the time, all this “thinking about consequences, about problems, barriers..” it’s just a mental stuff, it’s trying to get you distracted, .. do we have to think all the time in the end? If you just stop thinking and start following the heart, as you talked about it later, then there won’t be any space for fear, don’t you think? IMHO fear is not constructive and that’s why we should definitely get rid of it. (I am working on it and it’s not easy, I know. But what’s easy in life?;-))
You’ve asked: “Is there any reason you shouldn’t be really happy when you feel so?” I don’t think so. You MUST be happy when you feel like, otherwise you’re committing a violence on yourSelf.
In the end is funeral really so sad or is it only the human (society) interpretation?
Maybe it’s a joyful ocassion! But our “material”senses (eyes, ears, …)are telling us “you don’t see the –gone– person, so he/she is not here anymore”.. aren’t they fooling us? Maybe he/she has just changed the energy form… and so if you feel happy at funeral, you might not be attached only to material things, but you might feel the joyful energy..
Anyway, starting to get lost, sorry. Very nicely-formulated article.
I wish I would be able to follow my intuition, my Heart as you call it. And it makes a perfect sense for me. BUT sometimes it’s hard to recognize what’s Heart’s calling and what’s Mind’s setting… you know, obligations, mental habits, expectations… they’ve lived with you for so long that you’re not sure anymore if the actual desire is from the depth of your soul or if it comes from life-long imprinted habit.. And you start thinking.. And here we go again, damn brain!
I.e.: I have a friend, she’s a Heart follower. To the extreme. She felt the need to move to one little faraway island somewhere in the Ocean. In a few weeks she sold her wonderful, well-situated flat and she’s leaving. It sounds TOO CRAZY also for me, but the truth is that since she has decided that she wanted to follow her intuition, the World has worked out everything for her. Everything. I admire her somehow. She doesn’t know why she’s doing that and what’s gonna come, but she’s happy.
Anyway.
We, people (in general) are too afraid, too knotted, too focused on what people might say.. Too trapped in our little secure realities. To follow intuition requires a HUGE amount of courage. And you also have to risk. I think we are too coward.
So, how are your experiments going?
September 21st, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Thanks Pauli for your thoughts. I will process them more deeply later, because now I am not able to think about this topic from the view I was writing this article. I am now experiencing different processing of the reality, from the Bhakti-yoga teaching’s view, of pure Love (nothing else – no duality, just Love is all). I don’t know if the Love-way-only is the heart path or something else. I know only how Love is felt, how is it when it flows through me. And when it flows, all mind-questions, theories are somehow gone, there’s only so many things to do, to repair this broken society – I think, I am getting glimpses of the bhakti-experience.
Before (from the mind point of view), I would be lost in the vision of so much destructed society, so many things already gone wrong and my brain would think up so many problems, obstacles, that would explain why it’s better to do nothing, because it’s too late. In the end, the mind would construct some logical theory, why it’s still not-too-late to do something.
But the no-mind, loving-perspective is totally different sort of experiencing the reality – there’s no Time, only here&now and no problems, obstacles, only things to do, no matter the logic.
I like this love-flow through me and I pray for never ending of this experience – somehow, it was always lost.. I was lost and with me everything I touched with my mind-logic
Hope it will stick with me longer now.
And I like the crazy behaviour of your friend. I adore her too, very much. It’s a big inspiration. I am playing with similar thoughts, ideas, visions, but as you said.. we are cowards.. but I am sure the strength will come to all of US