‘You and your heart shouldn’t feel so far apart.’

That seems to be the message we receive from so many song lyrics..

However, your emotional abilities may have been deprioritized for so many years that they haven’t had a chance to catch up to your intellectual abilities.

It’s not that your emotions aren’t there or as powerful. It’s more that they haven’t been fully seen and heard.

The channel of communication between your head and your heart may have become very fuzzy at best.

And that split between our emotions and our cognition is a source of constant internal friction whether we realize it or not.

SLOW is Steady; and Steady is FAST.

‘If you want to catch your dinner anytime soon you better learn how to slow down’

Childhood lessons from the many hours of spearfishing with my father in the Mediterranean Thermaic gulf 🐟

He was onto something..

The best play is when the ball is dynamic and hits all the targets gathering points from everywhere!

Your brain is not the end all be all. There are more sources of wisdom and intelligence available within you.

And their synergy may surprise you if you pay attention.

You wouldn’t ignore a check engine light on your car’s dashboard.

Or maybe you would, if it wasn’t blinking yet..

Sometimes this short-term strategy of avoidance, that may have been put in place and habituated for valid reasons, creates long term damage.

Years of avoiding relational problems has its consequences too. It erodes trust, breaks down communications and damages relationships leaving people alienated, disconnected and lonely.

Only it doesn’t look so much like a dance as much as it looks like a maddening, brutal soul crushing fight for a lot of us. A fight with just enough miniature breaks to keep it going forever!

They represent qualities in us that are unhealed. Qualities that cause us to lose precious energy and tear ourselves down/self-destruct/sabotage…