because the heart has a mind of its own

Theoretically brain is the think tank of a person. All important decisions that affect our lives in any form are taken only after we have consulted your brain several times. This is because, generally brain is considered to be more sensible and an organ that analyses all sides of an aspect. All said right, but there is another part of our system which has the capacity to take decisions – The Heart. It is more sensitive, brisk and takes decision based on emotions. May be this is why people don’t trust the verdict of their heart. But at times decisions should be taken based more on emotions than on logic. Being impulsive and doing what the heart wants without giving a chance to the brain to present its opinion can be fatal but then the heart has a brain of its own. If it says something it surely has applied some thought process behind it.

When the heart takes a decision, it combines all your sentiments and tells you what you actually want to do and not what should be done. Following your heart’s judgment gives you a win – win situation. Now this can be explained in a simple way. When you follow an opinion on a certain aspect there can be two possible outcomes – either the decision thus made works in your favour or it backfires. Now the question is, what will give us more comparative satisfaction?

	Succeed	Miss out
Listening to what brain says	V V V X X	X X X X X
Listening to what heart says	V V V V V	X  X X V V

                  X = sad            
                  V = happy 

If we analyse the above matrix we discover some strange but strangely true facts. The first striking feature of the study is even if we succeed and in the best possible circumstance when everything falls in place as we had planned, it still doesn’t give us a complete satisfaction. This is because, somewhere deep within, we are sad for we couldn’t do what we wanted to or what the Heart had suggested. On the contrary, succeeding whilst listening to your heart gives a complete satisfaction and pleasure as you got to do what you wanted and achieved your goal simultaneously. Also while executing the work; it is more like fulfilling your hobby than doing a certain task which could be tedious otherwise. Again, if we consider the other possibility, that is, backfiring of the plan, it does show diversified results. Missing out on the desired result can be fatal if followed the mind, on the other hand, even if we fail to achieve the objective, following our emotional side, we somehow feel happy for the fact that we at least did what our inner self wanted us to do.

Considering this opportunity cost, listening to your sentimental self, driven by flow of emotions, can do a world of good to your confidence and self-belief alongside with providing an emotional and ‘mental’ satisfaction. So the next time you are making an important decision you know who can give you the best opinion.