atreesvoice

An outsider may see my life as one full of heart. Yet, I know my brain and thoughts are over active and often rule my experience. I am “lucky” that my head and heart often agree on things. Such as work and life should be enjoyable, authenticity is a priority, and that nature and animals have a lot to teach humans.

Some of the differences between my head and heart are about organization. My heart wants to follow what it’s most interested in at each moment. My head thinks it’s important to set goals and see tangible results. Although these two approaches can conflict, they also may be an example of how opposites work together to create a unified whole.

Music is one of my great loves. This morning, while watching videos of artists creating outstanding music, I saw the concentration and focus it takes to play through the structure of a song. A song exemplifies the idea that although the world is limitless, it needs a structure or some matter, in order for it to become something other than spirit. There is an infinite amount of ways a song can come together, yet without something that pulls it all together, the notes are just a bunch of sounds. Perhaps another way to see it is as a string of unrelated words rather than a coherent sentence. This gave me a visual of that very process through which my head and heart sometimes have conflict. My nature is all about freedom and limitlessness and yet to bring that into the physical there needs to perimeters. And I wonder what is the best route to live in the outer world of boundaries while remaining true to the inner world of essence.