Heart vrs Brain

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r_benavides

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Sometimes is so hard to make a choice.. or at least the one that is good for us.
Sometimes our heart can be right. But it's to hot!
Sometimes our brain can be right. But it's to cold!

How can we be sure to which one should we follow?
And be able to move on.. knowing that we ignore one of them.

Because at the end of the day.. its not like we are going to rip our heart out and keep walking.

We have to live with it. With both of them...
 
I tend to listen to my heart, because it seems to be the gateway to intuition and guidance. There is balance with the brain but sometimes it can over think things and cause you to not follow your "first mind".
 
You need to listen to both.

Rational thinking and emotional thinking has a balance, a tipping point if you may. You need to weight the consequences of each action and find a way to go. If someone relies too much on one or ther other, they end up at the extremes.

Too much heart and you become soft.
Too much brain and you become cold.
 
I have the problem when my heart wants me to do something and then my brain stops me or vice versa. It's a hard predicament.
 
Brain makes us face harsh reality, but it is necessary to survive in this cold world. Heart is irrational, but life would be empty without it either.
 
I'm assuming that heart is a metaphor for emotion here because it's just a blood pumping muscle and no feelings or thoughts actually come from it. So this becomes a debate between emotion and logic, both of which originate in the brain. I don't think it's a question of listening to one or the other, it's finding a compromise between the two. Emotions are impulsive and risky and need to be tempered with logic. But logic without emotion essentially makes you no different from a machine. Instead of choosing one or the other, I say make them work together.
 
I try to balance them both, but oftentimes I'm so scared of what I want that I immediately get suspicious of what my heart tells me. It's like my heart wants what's not good for me lol. But they say it's the heart that regrets, not the mind so we have to consider very carefully. :D
 
The balance between heart and brain, or, more frequently put, emotion and reason, teeters on a very fine line. It's important to not emotion overtake reason, for your actions and thoughts will be dictated by it, yet it is necessary to have emotion when you're trying to reason. Without the emotional desire to actually reason, there would be no reasoning to do. The heart sees things in fine detail, yet the mind sees the big picture. Your heart is irrational, yet without it your brain would be unable to function correctly and healthily.
 
Balance is crucial...if you're suggesting that one has to be considered above the other, than for me it would be heart every time. My intuition rarely fails me. It does not leave me up at night analyzing every situation into the proverbial dead horse. And even if the outcome is not what I was expecting, it still leaves me feeling good to know that I trust my intuition.
 
I agree with the above points about balance. You have to rely on both to make healthy and well-rounded decisions. I think it is more important to follow your heart to a certain extent, but sometimes you also need to be smart and realize when it is time to move on from a situation.
 
As for me, I believe that we should both listen to our heart and brain. There should be a balance in everything we do. Follow your heart, but know how to make use of your brain as well.
 
To make a well informed, educated decision you'd think that you would have to listen to your head only, but that's not the case at all.

Sometimes by listening to your head only you can be too sensible and so being able to listen to your heart aswell is also important when making any decisions.
 
We have to use both brain and heart. It's imperative that we start making the most out of those organ God gave us and not let it go to waste. Many individuals fall in love and if emotion where to over rule proper judgement I don't think we're going to make it through.
 
Always balance it, decide with your brain but decide with a heart, because deciding without a heart will possibly hurt others so we should learn to balance it. When your heart is happy, don't make a decision, when your heart is sad, don't make a decision, wait until your brain and heart is balance before you make a decision, so after doing it, you'll not regret what you did.
 
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