What's Your Excuse for Not Following Your Heart

happiness of our dear ones....
very often we neglect our thoughts and feelings to see smile in our loved ones' faces

happiness of our dear ones....
very often we neglect our thoughts and feelings to see smile in our loved ones' faces

Sandhya, could you please elaborate as I don't see any valid reason as to how happiness of our dear ones would stop us from doing something. I do understand it may delay the activity sometimes, as there may be an immediate responsibility you may need to cater, but how can it stop you from doing something?

happiness of our dear ones....
very often we neglect our thoughts and feelings to see smile in our loved ones' faces

Sandhya, could you please elaborate as I don't see any valid reason as to how happiness of our dear ones would stop us from doing something. I do understand it may delay the activity sometimes, as there may be an immediate responsibility you may need to cater, but how can it stop you from doing something?

if we listen to our heart only, we can do 1000 things according to our desire.

as I am married, before doing something according to desire, i will think first, "will my hubby like it?"
before marriage, we think about parents
am i right or not?

The question is self explanatory. So tell me what is your excuse to not do what you want to do. Please don't tell me that you always follow your heart. No single person on the planet can say that.

I ask you this because, we at subconscious level choose to ignore this question as bringing this up would disturb our inner peace. But I would really want you to think of it, as most problems can be solved with little effort, you just have to know what's stopping you really.


Okk, I will start with myself. My excuse of not following my heart or to do something new is :

1. Laziness

2. Lack of self belief (sometimes)


These are my primary two reasons. I plan to overcome them by doing something new for atleast an hour even if I don't like the activity.


What's you excuse and have you thought as to how would you overcome them?

I'm an exception. Because I'm absolutely confident of my confidence levels. Owing to this reason, my heart leads me like a beacon of light.

I am one of them who always follow my heart (Do not say - I am only of my kind)
Perhaps that is one of the reasons, I am not popular person. I follow my heart and act accordingly.

Our subconscious mind is very very fast. It thinks thousands of things in seconds. We are trained from our childhood in a certain way. We learned mostly from our parents each and every activities, others from outside world. All our thinking are reflecting through our earlier trained subconscious level. We can change our thoughts consciously by various techniques, tricks, meditation and exercises. But one should be patient and dedicated to change himself/herself.
Meditation is one of the best tool for self improvement. Simply close your eyes and be with your breath at least ten minutes morning and evening and you've done.

happiness of our dear ones....
very often we neglect our thoughts and feelings to see smile in our loved ones' faces

Sandhya, could you please elaborate as I don't see any valid reason as to how happiness of our dear ones would stop us from doing something. I do understand it may delay the activity sometimes, as there may be an immediate responsibility you may need to cater, but how can it stop you from doing something?

if we listen to our heart only, we can do 1000 things according to our desire.

as I am married, before doing something according to desire, i will think first, "will my hubby like it?"
before marriage, we think about parents
am i right or not?

I understand that before marriage we think of parents and after marriage we think of our partners.

But if there is something you want to do, I am sure it will be easy to find a way to convince them. Most of time we assume that they would feel bad, and so we don't even explain them why you want to do this.

Also, it is necessary to address their fear. Our loved ones stop us from doing something 'coz knowingly or unknowingly they think that we would not be able to handle the failure or doing a certain activity would change you. If you address these fears, 99% of the time, they would let you do what you want to do.

The question is self explanatory. So tell me what is your excuse to not do what you want to do. Please don't tell me that you always follow your heart. No single person on the planet can say that.

I ask you this because, we at subconscious level choose to ignore this question as bringing this up would disturb our inner peace. But I would really want you to think of it, as most problems can be solved with little effort, you just have to know what's stopping you really.


Okk, I will start with myself. My excuse of not following my heart or to do something new is :

1. Laziness

2. Lack of self belief (sometimes)


These are my primary two reasons. I plan to overcome them by doing something new for atleast an hour even if I don't like the activity.


What's you excuse and have you thought as to how would you overcome them?

I'm an exception. Because I'm absolutely confident of my confidence levels. Owing to this reason, my heart leads me like a beacon of light.

Than you need to self analyze more and I am sure you would come up with an incident where your heart told you to do something and you did not do it.

Micro analyze, believe me there is no exception to this.

The question is self explanatory. So tell me what is your excuse to not do what you want to do. Please don't tell me that you always follow your heart. No single person on the planet can say that.

I ask you this because, we at subconscious level choose to ignore this question as bringing this up would disturb our inner peace. But I would really want you to think of it, as most problems can be solved with little effort, you just have to know what's stopping you really.


Okk, I will start with myself. My excuse of not following my heart or to do something new is :

1. Laziness

2. Lack of self belief (sometimes)


These are my primary two reasons. I plan to overcome them by doing something new for atleast an hour even if I don't like the activity.


What's you excuse and have you thought as to how would you overcome them?

I'm an exception. Because I'm absolutely confident of my confidence levels. Owing to this reason, my heart leads me like a beacon of light.

Than you need to self analyze more and I am sure you would come up with an incident where your heart told you to do something and you did not do it.

Micro analyze, believe me there is no exception to this.

Self analysis is there and will be there always. From to time i jot down the findings for sure and do accordingly.

The reason (excuse) for not following the heart is the brains working behind. There are times when the decision taken by the brain is more practical and necessary than following the heart. We cannot say that it can be laziness every time. :whistle:

We are all born free but everywhere we are in chains- chains of family, society, law, customs, inhibitions. We cannot do all we would love to.

I am one of them who always follow my heart (Do not say - I am only of my kind)
Perhaps that is one of the reasons, I am not popular person. I follow my heart and act accordingly.

Lol, I just lost a 800 words reply due to internet failure.

Anyways, will try to sum it up.


Like I said in my previous post, it is not possible at all. Consider the following scenario:

You are at a party and your friends ask you to smoke. They want you also to be the part of the group and try for the first time. Your heart says, one cigarette is no biggie, lets try. But you know it is bad and your parents have forbidden you to smoke. WIll you still smoke (I know many will, but there are also few who won't)

Now consider this. Your heart tells you, lets go to disco tonight. You are all set. As soon as you leave, your parents call you that you have to go to station to receive guests. Would you still go to the disco.


Suppose you always wanted to write a book. And you did write it. Now your heart tells you, lets try to get it published. Most authgors would not heed to this call from heart for fear of rejection. And some authors would stop trying after few rejections. Remember, your heart told you to keep trying.


Also, "I always follow my heart" is a myth. We live in a society and as such we always have to act within reason.

One more myth is that our heart is always right. If that were true, we would not be needing guidance or advice then would we?

Follow your heart is a poetic sentence and it's true meaning translate to "Act on the knowledge you have/receive"

Basically it tells you to remove self doubt. If you have the knowledge and skill to be a writer, follow your heart would mean to act on the knowledge you have till you are successful.

The reason (excuse) for not following the heart is the brains working behind. There are times when the decision taken by the brain is more practical and necessary than following the heart. We cannot say that it can be laziness every time. :whistle:

Lol, laziness was my reason of not getting things done sometimes (Do note that I am an experimentalist and do try a lot of new things but with I know at my productivity level I could try more)


I am asking of your excuses.

Thank God, we lost that 800 word article :P :ohmy: :laugh: :laugh: :blink: :woohoo: :silly: :silly:

Thank God, we lost that 800 word article :P :ohmy: :laugh: :laugh: :blink: :woohoo: :silly: :silly:

Considering the replies here, I think my next reply would be around 1600 words ;)

Thank God, we lost that 800 word article :P :ohmy: :laugh: :laugh: :blink: :woohoo: :silly: :silly:

Considering the replies here, I think my next reply would be around 1600 words ;)

then submit as an article with title, "Always follow your heart". As it's Valentine time, it's sure it will get a lot of clicks :woohoo: :woohoo:

sometimes I do not follow my heart, because since childhood my mind is trained so.

sometimes I do not follow my heart, because since childhood my mind is trained so.

what's that special training? :silly:

I am one of them who always follow my heart (Do not say - I am only of my kind)
Perhaps that is one of the reasons, I am not popular person. I follow my heart and act accordingly.

Lol, I just lost a 800 words reply due to internet failure.

Anyways, will try to sum it up.


Like I said in my previous post, it is not possible at all. Consider the following scenario:

You are at a party and your friends ask you to smoke. They want you also to be the part of the group and try for the first time. Your heart says, one cigarette is no biggie, lets try. But you know it is bad and your parents have forbidden you to smoke. WIll you still smoke (I know many will, but there are also few who won't)

Now consider this. Your heart tells you, lets go to disco tonight. You are all set. As soon as you leave, your parents call you that you have to go to station to receive guests. Would you still go to the disco.


Suppose you always wanted to write a book. And you did write it. Now your heart tells you, lets try to get it published. Most authgors would not heed to this call from heart for fear of rejection. And some authors would stop trying after few rejections. Remember, your heart told you to keep trying.


Also, "I always follow my heart" is a myth. We live in a society and as such we always have to act within reason.

One more myth is that our heart is always right. If that were true, we would not be needing guidance or advice then would we?

Follow your heart is a poetic sentence and it's true meaning translate to "Act on the knowledge you have/receive"

Basically it tells you to remove self doubt. If you have the knowledge and skill to be a writer, follow your heart would mean to act on the knowledge you have till you are successful.

Whether it's a poetic sentence or prose sentence, what all i know is:My heart never misguided me. If at all any instances of failures are there they are due to not heeding my heart.
By the bye, I'm pleased to say that all the above instances i too encountered in my life at some time or other and I strictly followed the diktats of my heart.
My observation is, the process of following the heart is not for weak hearted.

I am one of them who always follow my heart (Do not say - I am only of my kind)
Perhaps that is one of the reasons, I am not popular person. I follow my heart and act accordingly.

Lol, I just lost a 800 words reply due to internet failure.

Anyways, will try to sum it up.


Like I said in my previous post, it is not possible at all. Consider the following scenario:

You are at a party and your friends ask you to smoke. They want you also to be the part of the group and try for the first time. Your heart says, one cigarette is no biggie, lets try. But you know it is bad and your parents have forbidden you to smoke. WIll you still smoke (I know many will, but there are also few who won't)

Now consider this. Your heart tells you, lets go to disco tonight. You are all set. As soon as you leave, your parents call you that you have to go to station to receive guests. Would you still go to the disco.


Suppose you always wanted to write a book. And you did write it. Now your heart tells you, lets try to get it published. Most authgors would not heed to this call from heart for fear of rejection. And some authors would stop trying after few rejections. Remember, your heart told you to keep trying.


Also, "I always follow my heart" is a myth. We live in a society and as such we always have to act within reason.

One more myth is that our heart is always right. If that were true, we would not be needing guidance or advice then would we?

Follow your heart is a poetic sentence and it's true meaning translate to "Act on the knowledge you have/receive"

Basically it tells you to remove self doubt. If you have the knowledge and skill to be a writer, follow your heart would mean to act on the knowledge you have till you are successful.

I wish you knew me better than you do. I would not- I repeat I would not do any thing unless my heart permits me- come what may

For me follow your heart stands for - do what you think is best for you and your loved ones..