This beautiful poem by John Roedel describes inner conflict. When our heart divorces from our mind, then we experience chaos. Indeed, our hearts sometimes desire something that our mind doesn’t agree to persuade. On the other hand, when our mind thinks it knows best, our heart feels something different. What happens then is that the internal communication falls apart.
This poem gives you the answer to how you can overcome this inner battle. Moreover, it shows the vital role of each organ. When our Heart divorce from our mind. All the organs inside the body communicate and have their own opinion in every situation. When our heart divorces from our mind, we can turn to other body parts for solutions.
Have you ever considered the role of the gut?
Furthermore, do you know which part of our body can become a shelter for us and gives us the healing we need? Equally important, do you see the organ that detoxifies the thoughts and offers peace to the heart?
This story shows us the incredible connections inside our body, its intelligence, and its ability to heal itself! Read throughout and experience the beautiful dynamics of the human body.
~ John Roedel (johnroedel.com)
my brain and
heart divorced
a decade ago
over whom was
to blame about
how big of a mess
I have become
eventually,
they couldn't be
in the same room
with each other
now my head and heart
share custody of me
I stay with my brain
during the week
and my heart
gets me on weekends
they never speak to one another
- instead, they give me
- the same note to pass
- to each other every week
and their notes they
send to one another always
says the same thing:
"This is all your fault"
on Sundays
my heart complains
about how my
head has let me down
in the past
and on Wednesday
my head lists all
of the times my
heart has screwed
things up for me
in the future
they blame each
other for the
state of my life
there's been a lot
of yelling - and crying
so,
lately, I've been
spending a lot of
time with my gut
who serves as my
unofficial therapist
most nights, I sneak out of the
window in my rib cage
and slide down my spine
and collapse on my
gut's plush leather chair
that's always open for me
~ and I just sit there
until the sun comes up
last evening,
my gut asked me
if I was having a hard
time being
between my heart
and my head
I nodded
I said I didn't know
if I could live with
either of them anymore
"my heart is always sad about
something that happened yesterday
while my head is always worried
about something that may happen tomorrow,"
I lamented
my gut squeezed my hand
"I just can't live with
my mistakes of the past
or my anxiety about the future,"
I sighed
my gut smiled and said:
"in that case,
you should
go stay with your
lungs for a while,"
I was confused
- the look on my face gave it away
"if you are exhausted about
your heart's obsession with
the fixed past and your mind's focus
on the uncertain future
your lungs are the perfect place for you
there is no yesterday in your lungs
there is no tomorrow there either
there is only now
there is only inhale
there is only exhale
there is only this moment
there is only breath
and in that breath
you can rest while your
heart and head work
their relationship out."
this morning,
while my brain
was busy reading
tea leaves
and while my
heart was staring
at old photographs
I packed a little
bag and walked
to the door of
my lungs
before I could even knock
she opened the door
with a smile and as
a gust of air embraced me
she said
"What took you so long?"
