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At times there is conflict between our head and our heart this creates confusion. When I make the time to practice YOGA intelligence no longer flits back and forth from head to heart but instead joins them.
TURN CONFUSION INTO UNION – PRACTICE YOGA 🙂

Yoga Sutra II.7 & IV.4 talk about the brain, intelligence and the spiritual heart and how we can turn confusion/conflict of head & heart into clarity – enjoy

II.I7 The cause of pain is the association or identification of the seer (atma) with the seen (prakriti) and the remedy lies in their dissociation.

Intelligence is the vehicle closest to the soul. Therefore we need to be wary when intelligence is influenced from external objects.  As long as intelligence is undiscriminating, there is suffering. The seat of the ego (or small self) is the seat of the brain, and the seat of the great self is the spiritual heart.  Though intelligence connects the head and the heart, it oscillates between the two. This oscillation ceases through right knowledge and understanding.  Intelligence is then transformed: free from polarity, pure and unbiased.  This is true meditation, in which ego dissolves, allowing the great Self (purusa) to shine in its own glory (IV.4) B.K.S Iyengar ‘Light on Yoga Sutras’

SO HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THE MOOD OF THE HEART & MIND? 

stay tuned for more on Sutra IV.4….