Heart Wants, Mind Will Not
For example, a man works at a company as an accountant and he is the breadwinner of the family. He has two children and cannot quit the job, although he hates the dull daily routines of crunching numbers over and over, feeding meaningless data into a computer. He in fact, would like to be a counseling psychologist, but cannot afford to pay tuition in order to pay for the expenses of the family, and does not even have the time to dedicate himself to the studies. That is what his heart desires.
On the other hand, his logical mind tells him that he must be accountable for child rearing expenses and the house mortgage. All those concerns prevent him from quitting his present job in order to achieve his dreams. Therefore, he follows the logical mind, and keeps on with his unpleasant work. In the long run, his professional and personal dissatisfaction grows so much that he ends-up developing tendonitis.
He then seeks professional help of an acupuncturist and finds out that his deep dissatisfaction with his job is the cause of his ailments. The illness was a way for his emotional heart to tell the logical mind that something was missing. The heart was telling that he needed personal fulfillment through professional life.
(continues on Work to Live or Live to Work?)
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