People frequently claim that their heart drives them in one direction while their intellect guides them in another. You are a single being, which is the core tenet of yoga. Your head and heart are one; they are not separate.
Let’s start by defining what the terms “head” and “heart” mean. Typically, you place your thoughts in your head and your emotions in your heart. Yet if you examine this closely and honestly, you’ll see that your thoughts directly influence how you feel. But, it is also true that your thoughts and feelings are correlated.
The intellect is what you typically consider to be’mind. Yet, the mind actually has multiple dimensions, including a deeper emotional dimension in addition to the rational one. The heart is the term used to describe the deeper aspect of the mind. Yet, this emotional mind is referred to as manas in yoga. Manas is a sophisticated mash-up of memories that shapes emotions in a specific way. So, your thoughts and feelings are both products of your mind.
Thoughts and sensations are one in the same, but in your experience, they appear to be distinct. What causes this? Because of thought’s inherent mobility. For instance, if you feel warm thoughts for this individual today and think he is a fantastic person. He does something that you don’t like all of a sudden. Even though you know in your mind that he is awful, your feelings about him won’t immediately change. It battles. If something is sweet right now, it cannot suddenly become bitter. Its turning arc is broader.
Depending on how strongly you feel, it can take three days or three years, but eventually things will change. This struggle between the emotions and the mind is unnecessary. The more interesting aspect of thought is emotion. Although it is pleasant, it is not completely steady. Your feeling is less agile than your mind, moving in all different directions. Emotion often appears to be distinct from thought since it takes longer to turn and is typically more stronger than thought. They are not, however, any more distinct than sugarcane and its juice.
