
For me, our minds are tricky things - I can't count how many times I used to find myself at a fast food drive through paying before my brain let me acknowledge that I had already ordered and 'driven thru.' It sounds like a miraculous excuse, but if we are not fully aware of our conscious decisions, stuff like that happens. At grocery stores, there are times we grab whatever is hanging around the till that looks good because it happens to be there. Once we leave the store we end up thinking, I bought this because......I just told myself I WASN'T going to buy this!' We've all been there.
How about committing to a full day of doing well nutritionally only to end up standing at your kitchen counter wolfing down piece after piece of toast with cheese whiz because your body wants carbs....and your mind sort of shut off while you got things rolling. I talk about all of that fun 'realization' stuff in my book, The Fat Girl Now 50% Lighter.'
The heart holds more wisdom than the brain because the heart is filled with love. It knows how to give love and get it in return to live. There will be times that it is stepped on, broken, squashed, bled seemingly dry and it will still love knowing the value it holds. We need love and we'll sometimes do ridiculous things to get it.
We succeed with finding the balance between mind and body by loving ourselves first. By doing that, we can love others too. Everyone wants to be loved - if they say otherwise, they fib. Love is a necessity, no matter what skin yer in! This doesn't mean that we should go out and randomly

I could go on and on with research and theory, but I'd rather it explain it this way.....
The heart is purer the more we love. Simple, right? I was exhausted from being miserable, so I decided to stop. It didn't feel like a decision at the time - it felt like I went kicking and screaming, but I went. After awhile, the kicking and screaming subsides as logic meets love and we realize why we are doing anything in life. We realize that the choices we made, we made because we wanted to - consciously or not - and we are where we are because of them.
RECIPE FOR A HAPPY HEART (FILLED WITH LOVE)
by Shawn Cote
Tell the mind to quiet down - just for awhile - you will get back to it later.
OK, now in an imaginary bowl, let's mix together these ingredients:
Baskets and Baskets of LOVE
A world of SMILES
Endless LAUGHTER
Limitless KINDNESS
Imagine in your mind; all of the people you love. See their faces? They love you too! The love in your heart is growing again already!
Into your bowl add:
FUN
ADVENTURE
COMPASSION
WARMTH
UNDERSTANDING
HONESTY
We can't ever find enough TIME for these recipes, so no worries about TIME right now. We do what we can.....
Mix all of your ingredients together and let it all grow inside your heart.
Relaxation, meditation and reflection time all allow us to rejuvenate, feel the gratitude and let ourselves be reminded that it's all about balance.
Rock your day.....now go watch that Roxette video! ;)
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