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The spiritual journey is all about moving from the head to the heart, but it’s not as simple as just shutting off your thoughts. I used to think that to find peace, I had to escape my mind, but now I see it’s about including both thoughts and feelings in the mix. We want to feel deeper, connect with our bodies, and accept all parts of ourselves—thoughts, feelings, and all. This journey is about balance, not eliminating one for the other. So, join me as I dive into why embracing the whole experience makes us more complete and at peace.

Why do we still suffer after we have taken the spiritual journey to our hearts, starting living from this wonderful new place of love and compassion? Yet, we still suffer?

The spiritual journey often feels like a trek from the chaotic networks of our minds into the calm of our hearts. I started this journey wanting to escape pain and suffering, and honestly, that remains my core motivation. However, diving deeper, I've realized that merely seeking happiness or external connections might not lead us to true understanding or less suffering. It’s more complex than that. The real journey isn’t just about leaving our minds behind; it’s about embracing both the mind and the heart. I share my insights on how to integrate thoughts without letting them overwhelm us, and how to feel emotions without being swept away. It’s about finding balance and acceptance within ourselves. When we can coexist with our thoughts and feelings, we start to feel more at peace, more whole. This journey is ongoing, and it’s essential to recognize that wherever we are in this process, it's exactly where we need to be.

Takeaways:

• The spiritual journey is not just about escaping suffering, but feeling deeper emotions.
• It's important to include both the heart and the mind in our spiritual practice.
• Finding balance between thoughts and feelings creates a more peaceful state of being.
• The journey from head to heart is ongoing and requires acceptance of all emotions.

We often think about the spiritual journey as the journey from the head to the heart.

Although when I set out on my spiritual journey, I just wanted less pain, less suffering, and that's still the case today.

Really, I still think that's the genuine spiritual journey.

If you're entering a spiritual journey to.

I just want to feel happier and I want to connect with, I don't know, guardians or angels or you want to connect with something outside of yourself, then I don't think it's.

Well, I can't say it's not genuine, but it's not the one that will lead you to less suffering.

It's not the one that will open your heart.

It'll just build more of this alter ego than what you have.

But I do want to address the situation of the journey from the head to the heart.

And for many years now, I've said the spiritual journey is the one from the head to the heart.

And I want to update that.

I want to change that.

I want to renew it for a new insight that I've had on asylum retreat recently.

I'm Stephen Webb, and I'm your host of Stillness in the Storms.

And welcome to the podcast.

What a amazing year.

2020 in it?

Yeah, that's how fast this year has gone.

But yeah, that journey from the head to the heart, I want to talk about that.

You know, if we take a deep breath now and we're in our heads now, we're thinking, I'm doing this podcast and it.

A thought's coming up and I'm saying it and it's recording and, oh, it'll go into editing and things like that, because I don't normally I should do it.

I should write out my podcast and then go with a script.

But I don't know, I get an idea on my head and I just turn on the recording software and I just start talking.

So that's why it's probably goes everywhere, all around the.

My mind.

But that's where essentially most of thoughts come from, in the head.

And when we on a spiritual journey, we want more quietness, calmness, we want more heart, more compassion.

And of course, we get those from the body.

So that's why we said journey from the head to the body.

We start living in the body a little more.

But the thing is, we try to.

We try to go to the body and disconnect from the head.

And that's what I try to do for ages.

Just Close down the mind.

Less thinking, no, no thoughts.

I just want to, ah, just breathe.

Ah.

And of course the more I meditate and the more I do it, the more I can go to the body, the more I can include the body in this moment.

Because most of the time the only thing that's present in this moment is my mind.

You know, what I can see, what I can hear, what I can think about, not what I'm feeling.

Most of you know, we go to the body to feeling when the feelings become overwhelming.

So we end up trying to live from our bodies, live from our hearts.

And that makes perfect sense.

It feels more calmer, it feels nicer, it's more pleasant just taking a deep breath and approaching life from ah, this place of ah, you know, you know exactly what I mean.

Just by slowing down, it just feels more pleasant.

But the thing is we're trying to take away our minds, we're trying to take away our thoughts, we're trying to stop them being part of it.

Whereas really the spiritual journey is move from the head to the heart and then include the head.

That's probably the best way of explaining it because here's the thing, if you're okay with your thoughts, oh, I've just had a thought that was a crazy thought, I can ignore it, or I've just had a thought that was a lovely thought instead of, ah, I got to get rid of these thoughts, I got to stop them.

So we have thoughts, we don't have to do anything with them and we have feelings and we don't have to do anything with them.

So when we start approaching life from a place of where the pressure on the outside world equals the pressure on the inside and the thoughts equal the pressure of the feeling.

So you haven't got one that's overpowering the other.

So instead of being thoughts all day and anger and things like that, instead of being an emotion all day, we're a mix of all of them.

And it's a balance, a balance between each one of them.

And I think that's the real journey, that's the real, that's the place you want to get to where you can accept your thoughts and your friends with your thoughts, your friends with your ego and you accept your feelings.

Oh, I'm feeling lonely, that's okay.

Oh, I'm angry, I'm happy, I'm sad, I'm exhausted.

I've got all these different feelings coming up and they're okay, I don't need to do anything with them.

You know, I've got A desire to have more of a deeper spiritual insight, that's fine.

I don't have to do anything with it.

Oh, I've just got a thought that that person, that person's an idiot.

Say perhaps.

And you know that judgment, because the mind judges, you know, I'm not saying that's okay, but discernment is perfect.

We need to be discerned sometimes.

We need to have some kind of judgment that is that person good for me?

Is that person bad for me?

Is, is jumping off this thing going to hurt me?

We need to judge in some way.

But when we're judging all the time, or when we're judging on what we think is right and wrong in the way of opinions, now that's a little bit different, but I see, I told you I don't script it, so I go off track a little bit.

But that's what we see thoughts as.

We see thoughts as something bad.

And they're not.

Thoughts are not bad.

They're just thoughts.

Feelings are not bad.

They're just feelings.

Just like when your heart beats, what is that?

It's a heartbeat.

Not a good one or a bad one.

You know, when your other bodily things do what they do, they're not good or a bad one.

Well, perhaps it can be, but that's, that's a whole different story.

But you know what I mean, it's doing what it's supposed to do.

Yeah, we don't judge a heartbeat.

We don't judge what the body's doing all the time.

We shouldn't judge our thoughts, we should just be okay with them.

And then when we find the balance between the mind and the thinking and the heart, the feeling and the body and the functions and all that, we're suddenly, ah, I'm at peace with it.

So much easier, so much lighter.

Does that make sense?

So, yes, by all means, go on the journey from the head to the heart.

Open your heart, you know, feel things deeper.

You know, that's what the spiritual journey is not about getting rid of pain.

It's about feeling things deeper.

It's about going to your body a lot more often.

And then when you've conquered, go into your body, re.

Reintroduce the head, reintroduce the thoughts and become complete, become more whole, you know, and then integrate your shadows and then integrate.

And it's a never ending journey.

And this is why the spiritual journey, whatever you want to call it, you know, the growing up, the waking up, just becoming more whole, whatever you want to call it, just, it's a lifetime journey, you know, and you're right where you're supposed to be.

You're where you are right now.

And there's nowhere else you can be.

Be okay with that.

Be okay with that.

While working towards including more, you know, Take care, guys.

And I'm Stephen Webb, the host of this Stillness in the Storms.

And head over to my website, Stephen Webb, and you can download some stuff.

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Thank you.

And I'm deeply grateful to you for helping me spread a little more stillness when we need it most.

Take care and thank you for the support all this year.

Namaste.

Love you guys.