When we don’t have a heart connection, we aren’t living a fulfilled life. Many of us freak out when things are out of our mental control; we want to change things outside of us so we feel ok inside. The head will retread over the same dilemmas and possibilities, keeping our perception of what’s possible limited. It stops us from taking emotional risks. To move into a vivid, 3D experience of life, you have to connect to your heart where openness, expansiveness, joy and opportunity live.

The head focuses on the external (which you have very little control over), whereas the heart focuses on the internal, where you actually do have control. The heart gives us creativity, passion and love. It says “yes” when the head shuts down from fear to tell us “no.” Your head keeps you stuck in the same patterns because it’s what you know, but there is so much more beyond the rules of the mind.

Living in your head can feel like autopilot as you watch everything go by in the blink of an eye. But when you take a moment to be present and feel, things slow down. You realize there’s more than just you—you are actually connected to everything else. Our heart is equipped for us to lead lives way beyond what most of us settle for. When will you be ready to take emotional risks and start living fully from your heart? I know what it’s like to live from my head and I will never go back. It’s like being a caged bird; there’s no life there. It’s only survival… and is that really all we want?