Faith and listening to our hearts

Yesterday I had an interesting conversation about faith and listening to our heart with someone. Explaining to him that our heart is our gut and our gut always knows. I could see the conflicted look on the person’s face. Feel his confusion when I said, it is the heart that is always right not our heads.

I explained how our heads are filled with everyone else’s expectations of us, everyone’s opinions about how the world should be, how we should be;  but our hearts, our guts are truly and honestly us.  It is the feeling in the pit of our stomach that either makes us feel sick or well depending on the circumstances we are presented with. Because our heart  always let us know when we are in a situation that is best for us, when we are with people that are best for us. When it is time to remain and when it is time to go.

He  disagreed with me telling me the head is always more important than the heart and I asked him to think back to the times when his heart told him to do one thing and his head told him to do another. To think about the consequences that ensued when he allowed his head to override his heart, his gut because of outside influences rather than his own inner compass, his own inner guide. I asked him to think about how he feels when he is at his best and where that feeling emanates from. Instantly he understood and knew it was when he followed his heart, his gut. But outside influences had led him to believe his head is more important.

He then challenged me on faith. Telling me that sometimes his heart goes against his faith with the same look of conflict on his face. To which I responded there are different levels of faith and also different meanings of faith depending on where we derive our faith from. Faith based on religion is filled with other people’s definitions of where we need to be and what we need to believe in in life and it may not necessarily agree with surrendering to our hearts. Faith based on religion usually is indoctrination into the belief system of a group of people who originally came together based on a common belief system forming a sect of religion and principles and hence we have Jewish beliefs, Christian beliefs, Catholic beliefs, Muslim beliefs, etc. And usually those people believe their religion is the right way. The only way.

Whereas spiritual based faith is all encompassing – it surrenders to the all that is and is normally in harmony with our hearts, our guts because it judges no one. And does not feel righteous to anyone else accepting that everyone is entitled to their own beliefs. Faith based spiritualism recognizes that each one of us comes here for a reason and each one of us is journeying every single day – changing and growing and cannot be confined to any dogma that does not keep up with the changing times. With the changing us.

Faith based spiritualism allows us to develop as we are meant to by surrendering to our inner compass, our hearts, our guts because that is what connects us to the beginning and end. To the One Source that is us all. Recognizing and accepting there is no separation between us because we are all one thereby allowing us to surrender to our own inner compasses. To listen to our hearts which may be looked upon as our gateway to the All.

I explained that at the end of the day faith is based on a belief system. A belief system that no matter what , we will be pulled through the darkness into the light and for some there is the need for religion to keep them grounded while for others it is spiritualism. And neither is wrong or right for as long as we have faith. As long as we follow our hearts without allowing our heads to take us down a path that our hearts were telling us not to go then we will know faith like we have never known it before. We will know ourselves like we have never known ourselves before. But we must listen to our hearts rather than our heads. Because our heart is our gut, our inner compass and it always knows… always knows.