Indulging Your Heart
Although there is nothing wrong in pursuing one’s logical mind, there must be a balance between heart and mind. The most important thing is to be able to follow one’s commitments in family/working life with joy and fulfillment in the heart. A joyful heart will always enable further enjoyment in life and strength for more material and spiritual fulfillments.
Now let us suppose you follow only your heart's wishes. You wake-up one day and you feel like not going to work, or prepare your kids' breakfast. Let us say someone will do that for you. You will feel great one day, but if you keep on indulging yourself, doing everything as your heart pleases, you will create a murky load of laziness in your chest and not be able to do a thing.
Ancient Chinese Taoists called it humidity of the heart and the Hindi called a state predominated by tama, of inactivity. You will then start feeling lazy about doing anything and even not willing to feed yourself if you overindulge to the wishes of the heart.
(continues on Structure of the Emotional Heart)
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