Saturday, August 9, 2008
Has there been a time in your life when you've just let go and been what you've always wanted to be?Felt what you've always wanted to feel?And not been afraid to do so? What I attempt to do here is to magnify the human heart and unearth a fragment of the human mind that's embedded in it...i just take one human emotion "Love".
I must admit that though I'm a psychologist by profession,I'm a believer in the medical truth that there's a reason why a person can be brain dead but his heart is what keeps him alive.There have been incidents where comatose patients have responded to a human touch ..they do so not only because their mind rationalises that they are still alive but because they feel that there's a connection and that they are needed.
They say the heart feels what the mind thinks.One throws out of balance what the other chooses to weigh carefully.One emotes while the other rationalizes.One escapes while the other realises.
I can only speak from experience that the heart is a follower in its own footsteps...what do I mean by this ?
The past year has been experiential for me.I started to take baby steps towards the self realisation that I must live for the day and love like I never have.And so the object of my affection reminded me that too much of a good thing isn't bad after all.So my heart spent extravagantly,not giving thought to the instincts of practicality.It just wanted and so it gave because there was a hollow that wanted to be filled with the love that it was receiving.There were moments when reality loomed large like a dark cloud to remind me that I needed my space and time.But my heart had decided.Period.What I got from this irrationality was a sense of completeness and oneness in spirit,body and mind.A unification that nothing in my life could achieve.
A parallel to this can be quoted from my life again.When I decided to change my job recently I had to consider the options of security versus insecurity and change versus comfort.Without going into the thread of the matter....there was the matter of the heart that had to be considered - a relationship.My mind told me to reason out and do what was best for me .But instead my heart challenged the rules of logic and chided me for choosing a job over a relationship that had taken a long time to build.The outcome of this "tangled weave" was that I followed my heart and in the bargain saved the relationship that was at stake and got the job too.The heart understood that it wasn't taken for granted and so it compromised.This brings me back to my rhetorical question at the beginning of this thought.The answer is : I let go and the puzzle fell into place.
Perhaps this is how it is in life.When we let things take their natural course,the heart and the mind conspire to reach a middle ground where we are nurtured and cared for.But then again this isn't a general theory of human kind...it has worked in my case and it is a rule that I intend to follow.
I can't really attempt to speak for or against either of these entities.For some the heart is bigger than the mind...for others vice versa....but in the timeless battle between them - both prevail.
Sir Walter Scott wrote :
" True Love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven:
It is not fantasy's hot fire
Whose wishes soon as granted fly
It liveth not in fierce desire
With dead desire it doth not die.
It is the secret sympathy
The silver link,the silken tie
Which heart to heart and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind."
I must admit that though I'm a psychologist by profession,I'm a believer in the medical truth that there's a reason why a person can be brain dead but his heart is what keeps him alive.There have been incidents where comatose patients have responded to a human touch ..they do so not only because their mind rationalises that they are still alive but because they feel that there's a connection and that they are needed.
They say the heart feels what the mind thinks.One throws out of balance what the other chooses to weigh carefully.One emotes while the other rationalizes.One escapes while the other realises.
I can only speak from experience that the heart is a follower in its own footsteps...what do I mean by this ?
The past year has been experiential for me.I started to take baby steps towards the self realisation that I must live for the day and love like I never have.And so the object of my affection reminded me that too much of a good thing isn't bad after all.So my heart spent extravagantly,not giving thought to the instincts of practicality.It just wanted and so it gave because there was a hollow that wanted to be filled with the love that it was receiving.There were moments when reality loomed large like a dark cloud to remind me that I needed my space and time.But my heart had decided.Period.What I got from this irrationality was a sense of completeness and oneness in spirit,body and mind.A unification that nothing in my life could achieve.
A parallel to this can be quoted from my life again.When I decided to change my job recently I had to consider the options of security versus insecurity and change versus comfort.Without going into the thread of the matter....there was the matter of the heart that had to be considered - a relationship.My mind told me to reason out and do what was best for me .But instead my heart challenged the rules of logic and chided me for choosing a job over a relationship that had taken a long time to build.The outcome of this "tangled weave" was that I followed my heart and in the bargain saved the relationship that was at stake and got the job too.The heart understood that it wasn't taken for granted and so it compromised.This brings me back to my rhetorical question at the beginning of this thought.The answer is : I let go and the puzzle fell into place.
Perhaps this is how it is in life.When we let things take their natural course,the heart and the mind conspire to reach a middle ground where we are nurtured and cared for.But then again this isn't a general theory of human kind...it has worked in my case and it is a rule that I intend to follow.
I can't really attempt to speak for or against either of these entities.For some the heart is bigger than the mind...for others vice versa....but in the timeless battle between them - both prevail.
Sir Walter Scott wrote :
" True Love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven:
It is not fantasy's hot fire
Whose wishes soon as granted fly
It liveth not in fierce desire
With dead desire it doth not die.
It is the secret sympathy
The silver link,the silken tie
Which heart to heart and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind."
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