What controls you: your head or your heart?

This is a debate that confuses me on the daily. Yes, both have a tremendous influence, but rarely do we ever listen to them both. I often go back and forth between only one or the other. Sometimes, I'll put all my faith into my heart and ignore all other logic because, well, the heart wants what it wants.

This approach has never done too well in my favor, thus I've tried listening to my head while blocking out my heart completely. What can go wrong if you take the logical and practical route? Honestly, a lot. What's the point if what seems so logical isn't making us the happiest we can be?

So, obviously, both approaches have their strengths and weaknesses. Of course, we can see that a good balance would clearly be the most ideal.

But think.

When you are in a situation when you must act upon one or the other, are you really thinking about how to balance your emotions and logic or are you just acting? Normally, when faced with a decision, we do not balance the two options, but rather act upon one or the other.

Although the two options objectively have their pros and cons, I have found that the best way to act happens to be with your heart. Why? Because it is your gut feeling, your intuition. Our brains don't always know what we really want because they think too much!

They think and think and think to the point where we scare ourselves to go against any type of "risk", no matter how badly we may want it. Our brain is constantly trying to prove us wrong. Out of protection, of course, we want to keep ourselves safe.

We don't want to get hurt.

Even with all the logic in the world, we'll never know until we try.

That's why I'm a believer in listening to your heart. You have to put your heart on the line if you feel it. The scary voice in the back of your head telling you to stop and turn away is trying to protect you but, unlike we might think, it doesn't know all!

We can't predict the future. Who are we to say, if you go down this path this will happen? We can't say that, no matter how much we think, predict, and plan. We can never know what will happen. So, why not at least try?

On more occasions than less, our intuition is right. The reason we get that feeling is that we are feeling a glimpse of what could be. Don't let your head hold you back from what your heart wants.

Listen to your intuition and follow that gut feeling.