Sometimes the decisions our brains make are to feel safe, but that’s not always what we need. 

What does your life look like when you make decisions based on how your heart feels versus how your brain feels? This week Lorena and Kelly dig into their personal experiences and perceptions of what it’s like to try and live without the chatter and distraction our minds often rely on to cloud our true desires. What does this white noise look like and how can we tell the difference between our conscious brain trying to make sense of our heart’s wants and needs and the expectations and rationalisations that our experiences tell us we should be living for? 

The episode starts off with their perspectives on what living from the heart truly means. For Lorena living from the heart is her chance to explore the miracle of consciousness - what would we be doing if we really sat with the thought that all of this is temporary? Not working at a job solely for the money and stability, that’s what! Meanwhile Kelly recalls that their first experience of living from the heart came when confronted with the possibility of a soulmate … who lived 3500 miles away. The two agree on two things: living from the heart is terrifying, but worth it, and that fear is the brain’s greatest weapon against our heart’s wishes. 

The conversation then moves to an exploration of this fear and where it comes from, and how the myth of time can make it all too easy to feel like what our heart really wants is somehow out of reach. True to their style, the two meet in the middle to agree that the heart-centred path is always the best one. For Kelly it’s about the confidence in the decision, the commitment and the knowing that everything, whether good or bad, has a lesson to teach us. For Lorena it’s the only option, for “even if you don’t do the thing, your heart will win by you having regret later.”

The episode wraps up with the two discussing how, exactly, to live from the heart once we’ve decided we will. Lorena and Kelly share thoughts on the importance of trust, vulnerability, and most importantly knowing yourself. Both agree that asking for help is not only self care, but necessary in order to live from the heart - especially if we feel like we don’t know or like ourselves. But the beautiful part about all of that is that there’s nobody left to become, only somebody to get to know better, and that person (it’s you) already has everything they need.

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