Each person in a certain situation is faced with a choice between the rationality of behavior and inner feelings. If feelings make our life rich bright colors, then the mind explains a lot, allows you not to make rash decisions. There are many examples in the literature of how heroes in one situation are guided by feelings, and in another - by reason.
The choice of Pyotr Grinev, the hero of the novel by A. S. Pushkin " Captain's daughter", who, in the name of love for Masha Mironova, had to turn to Pugachev for help. In the relationship of heroes representing different socio-political forces, humanity wins. Pugachev saves Masha Mironova from the obsessive claims of Shvabrin.
Also in my essay, I want to turn to creativity American writer O. Henry, who believes that in moments higher voltage, a fracture can manifest the purest and best properties of human nature, therefore it literary heroes, guided by a conscious decision, at the same time demonstrate the strength true love. For example, in the story "Gifts of the Magi" we are talking about how two loving people sacrifice the most precious thing they have. Della and Jim, the characters of the story, experience a conflict, the essence of which lies in the contrast between the desired and the actual. The miraculous is born not from fabulous transformations, but from the richness of human relationships. O. Henry highly appreciates these relationships, the ability to love, considering this ability to be the greatest miracle of modern reality. Jim and Della are poor, but they have great wealth - they love each other, their feeling is mutual and deep. They create their own happiness, and, as O. Henry wants to show, being happy is not so difficult - you just need to love and bring joy to another person. The actions of the heroes of the story are seemingly simple (she cuts off and sells her hair, and he sells his favorite watch), but they contain a huge philosophical meaning, which O. Henry reveals through the parable of the gifts of the Magi: “The Magi, those who brought gifts to the baby in the manger, were, as you know, wise, surprisingly wise people. It was they who started the fashion to make Christmas gifts. And since they were wise, their gifts were wise, perhaps even with the stipulated right of exchange in case of unsuitability. And here I was telling you an unremarkable story about two stupid children from an eight-dollar apartment who, in the most unwise way, sacrificed their greatest treasures for each other. But let it be said for the edification of the wise of our day, that of all the givers these two were the wisest. Of all those who offer and receive gifts, only those like them are truly wise. Anywhere and everywhere. They are the Magi."
Reading the works of Russian and world fiction, you understand that it is not always important to understand what you were guided by when making a decision: reason or feeling, the main thing is that your decision be moral, humane.
the Huffington PostDecember 5, 2016.In April 2008, I spent two weeks in India, following a meditation guru from city to city.
This was my fourth trip to India, but I consider it the first because it was the real one. Three trips before this one were too touristy. Two of them were devoted to lectures. I stayed at best hotels. They had warm water and excellent service. My third visit to India was timed to coincide with Kumbh Mela - a holiday in which Hindus make a mass pilgrimage on the Ganges River. This event occurs once every 144 years. Sadhus descend from their caves in the Himalayas. For me, this experience turned out to be very interesting, because you don’t see this every day.
This time it was different. I slept in the ashram. On the way from city to city, I got stuck in terrible traffic jams. I ate with Indians on the floor and meditated there. I was 71 and it wasn't easy. But the guru was even older (he was 80-something years old) and behaved well. So who am I to complain?
What does it mean to "listen to your heart"? How to know when, which thoughts come from the mind, and which from the heart? Thoughts are just thoughts, right?
No, there is a difference. You can argue with thoughts that come from the mind. You can suffer and argue with yourself. But when the heart speaks, there is no doubt. No discussion. There is no "Why?" or "Why not?" You gain peace of mind. You are at peace with yourself. When answering the question "Why?", you say "Because", and that is enough.
This led me to the following conclusion: when you think with your heart and it does not give you an answer, it means that you are not ready to make a decision. This is the case when it is better not to rush.
I drew an interesting conclusion from this: when you decide with your heart, you cannot be wrong.
When a person processes information to the best of his ability, the first person to respond to a new situation will be (P). The instinct of self-preservation will force him to act. Then activated left hemisphere brain, (A): "Let's think about it." After that, it gets involved right hemisphere, (E), resulting in new ideas, while (I), the heart, screams: "Hey, listen to me too!".
In other words, you instinctively want to do one thing, (P), but you feel (A) that this decision may not be wise, so new ideas come to your mind (E), and you constantly wonder: “Do I agree with this decision?”, (I). All these voices are playing in your head at the same time. It is like a committee meeting where all the representatives different styles competing for attention, where there is a complete mess. Thus, it is not surprising that while solving a huge problem, you feel physically and emotionally exhausted. Your body hurts.
There is a difference between how information is processed (P), (A), (E) and (I): with the help of instincts, brain, "gut" or heart.
As you go through stages (P), (A) and (E) you try to manage the process as best you can: you debate with your inner feelings, you challenge your instincts, you argue with yourself. You are talking to different parts of your body. You do not agree with them. You may even be angry with them. It seems that you are in the center, and they are on the outskirts.
With a heart, (I), it's different. You don't argue with him, you listen to him. It's like exposing yourself to something much bigger and stronger than you. You are no longer the center. Here is the phrase you say: "My heart tells me ...". Compare it to what you might say when you rely on reason: "I need to think it over." Prolonged thinking means that you are arguing with yourself.
And now the strangest thing: let's say that "somewhere out there" there is a cosmic, universal, main repository of information. Not only information or knowledge is stored there, the highest wisdom is collected there, which is based on values and absolute truth. It is an infinite constant energy that has consciousness (I call it God). To connect with this cosmic energy, you need to open your heart, listen to it. The heart is like a road that connects you to.
How can you hear your heart? Through meditation, not through prayer. Prayers are like trying to manipulate God, we ask and beg him to do something. If God does not hear our prayer, we may feel deceived, betrayed, and frustrated.
When you pray, you are talking to. In meditation you listen to God. When you pray, you make requests. You may be doing this humbly, but it doesn't matter how beautifully your requests are packaged, how much you offer to "pay" for them, and what sacrifices you are willing to make. The whole process is like making a purchase. When you meditate, you listen to God and he tells you what he expects from you. That's the difference.
Listen to your heart, it's true. Listen to your heart and you will never feel like you made a mistake by making the wrong decision. If your heart is not ready to make a decision, then you are not ready either.
How to make a choice in this case?
How to make a decision? I propose an optimal, less traveled path. This is the one I recommended for organizations in my book. Start with (I), start with your heart. Ask him what would be the best thing to do. Then come up with some ideas to help you make it happen (E), but never go against your heart. Then check if those ideas make sense (A) and finally get ready to act (P) but first get back to the heart and make sure you're at peace with it.
If more people started with their heart instead of their penis, (P), perhaps the world would be fewer wars, divorces and crimes. Perhaps we should give meditation lessons in prisons. Scientific research transcendental meditation showed that if a certain percentage of people in a community meditate, less crime.
Practitioners say that the mind is a terrorist. It often terrorizes our body, causing us to do things that harm us. I once saw a bumper sticker on a car that said, "Don't always believe what you think." For me, this is a very deep revelation, because we Jews do not just revere reason, we worship it. Our Talmudic mind often complicates minor issues. We try too hard and over-complicate the decision-making process, sometimes to the point that we cannot solve the problem. We don't always know how to listen to our instincts. Perhaps in order to survive two thousand years of persecution, we opened only to each other, shutting ourselves off from everyone.
Just my thoughts
Ichak Kalderon Adizes
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Thesis Sometimes there are situations when a person acts at the behest of the heart contrary to the voice of reason. For example, this happens when we are driven by compassion. Helping someone, sometimes you have to break the rules. The voice of mercy is stronger than the arguments of reason. Arguments Many writers have addressed the topic of honor. So, So, in the story of V. Rasputin "French Lessons" it is said about the teacher Lidia Mikhailovna, who could not remain indifferent to the plight of her student. The boy was starving and, in order to get money for a glass of milk, he played gambling games. Lidia Mikhailovna tried to invite him to the table and even sent him a parcel with food, but the hero rejected her help. Then she decided to take extreme measures: she herself began to play with him for money. Of course, the voice of reason could not help but tell her that she was violating ethical standards relationship between a teacher and a student, transgresses the boundaries of what is permitted, that she will be fired for this. But the feeling of compassion prevailed, and Lidia Mikhailovna violated the generally accepted rules of the teacher's behavior in order to help the child. The writer wants to convey to us the idea that “good feelings” are more important than reasonable norms. A. Aleksin tells about the same in the story “In the meantime, somewhere ...” Main character Sergey Emelyanov, accidentally reading a letter addressed to his father, learns about the existence of ex-wife. The woman asks for help. It would seem that Sergei has nothing to do in her house, and his mind tells him to simply return her letter to her and leave. But sympathy for the grief of this woman, once abandoned by her husband, and now by her adopted son, makes him neglect the arguments of reason. Serezha decides to constantly visit Nina Georgievna, help her in everything, save her from the most terrible misfortune - loneliness. And when his father invites him to go on vacation to the sea, the hero refuses. Yes, of course, a trip to the sea promises to be exciting. Yes, you can write to Nina Georgievna and convince her that she should go to the camp with the guys, where she will be fine. Yes, you can promise to come to her for winter holidays. All this is quite reasonable. But a sense of compassion and responsibility takes precedence in him over these considerations. After all, he promised Nina Georgievna to be with her and cannot become her new loss. Sergei is going to hand over a ticket to the sea. The author shows that sometimes unreasonable actions dictated by a sense of mercy can help a person. In B. Ekimov's story "Night of Healing", the author tells about the boy Borka, who comes to his grandmother for vacation. The old woman often sees wartime nightmares in her dreams, and this makes her scream at night. The mother gives the hero reasonable advice: “She will only start talking in the evening, and you shout:“ Be silent! She stops. We tried". Borka is going to do just that, but the unexpected happens: “the boy’s heart was flooded with pity and pain,” as soon as he heard the groans of his grandmother. He can no longer follow reasonable advice, he is dominated by a feeling of compassion. Borka soothes the grandmother until she falls asleep peacefully. He is willing to do this every night so that healing can come to her. The author wants to convey to us the idea of the need to listen to the voice of the heart, to act in accordance with good feelings.Remember how often you heard such phrases: “I immediately felt something was wrong”, “I immediately understood”, “My heart told me”, “Everything shrank inside”, and so on.
Often such phrases are said after:
something bad happened
- you made the wrong choice,
- it's already been done
You didn't listen to that very heart.
Have you ever wondered where these clues come from? Who tells us and why? Why are we given premonition and intuition? And the last, but, in my opinion, the most important question Why don't we hear and listen to these important cues?
Our body helps us to live in this world! And together with the soul, it ensures the correct presentation of information. Sometimes these are illnesses, ailments, sometimes just premonitions, and sometimes joy. So, if you are joyful, then you are on the right track! If in doubt, turn around.
If the heart hurts, these are accumulated unforgiven grievances that cannot be healed with pills, only forgiveness and letting go. This is our body telling us that we carry with us unnecessary, long-forgotten grievances.
If the stomach hurts, it is, as a rule, malnutrition and an irrational attitude towards oneself and one's health. And pain warns us to pay attention to our diet and our health.
Excess weight is protection from environment, self-rejection, malnutrition and extreme inattention to oneself.
And if the soul hurts, then this is a lack of love, low self-esteem and even self-hatred. Humiliation of yourself and your dignity. Decreased confidence and lack of inner core, own goals and outlook on life.
Our body is our indicator and guide to the world of happy and wonderful life.
AND OUR OBJECTIVE IS TO LEARN TO LISTEN TO YOURSELF!
THIS IS A VERY STRONG SKILL THAT A HUMAN IS ABLE TO HAVE. A WOMAN'S INTUITION, AS KNOWN, IS STRONGER THAN A MAN'S.
Listen to your heart, not your mind! Why is it so important to listen to the heart, and not be coldly calculating in reasonable thoughts?
As Louise Jones writes: “The role of the mind is to study and analyze. The role of the heart is to choose and execute. Hearts unite, minds divide.
Only the heart can love, and love is much stronger than logic!
It is love that rules the world, and only real human relationships have value!
Well said Helen Keller: "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen and heard... they are felt with the heart...".
Pascal echoes it similarly: « .
For example, it’s easier and more joyful for me to give in precisely to my premonitions, my heart, and not to the arguments of reason, because then I will say to myself a hundred times: “After all, I felt that I needed to do it differently, but I didn’t do it ... and now what? !
And after the decision, come what may... And you know, such decisions always bring excellent results. Here is what Ray Bradbury writes about this: “If we listen to the voice of reason, we will never have love relationships. We will never have friends. We will never do any business because we will decide: "It will not work." Or "She will hurt me." Or “I fell in love unsuccessfully a couple of times, and therefore ...” . All this is nonsense. You must not miss life. Jump off the cliff every time and grow wings as you fly down."
Of course, it’s not worth jumping into the pool with your head. Most perfect option– when both heart and mind agree with your choice. And in order to meet such situations more often, it is worth listening to the heart, being very attentive to the voice of reason and distinguishing information: WHERE the mind speaks in order to help and suggest, and WHERE in order to dissuade you not to do what you have never done, just because he is afraid . Reason is given to us to protect us, to keep us safe. Habitual affairs, a stagnant swamp - this is favorite state mind.
But if you are a person who knows how to think correctly, a person who is responsible for his life, then learn to control your mind and make sure that his thoughts benefit you, and do not stop you halfway.
And finally - an excerpt from the parable "Mind or Heart ?!":
One day the Heart said quietly to the Mind:
- I think I'm starting to understand what the catch is ... In fact, I always did what you wanted.
The mind looked at the Heart from under its brows:
“Because by doing your own thing, you were losing me.
“When I did my own thing, I was alive!” Doing as you tell me, I die...
- Well, well, tell me: who needs a heart devoid of reason?
Who needs a mind without a heart...
The mind only smiled coldly in response:
- Calm down. I'll definitely come up with something. And no one will ever notice.
I beg you, do not give up the whisper of your heart!
Common sense often drowns out the whisper of the soul. The mind always tries to PROVE its case, while the soul tries to SHIMMONLY object, but the mind INSISTS on its own, relying on "sound reasoning". But the soul does not think, it feels and knows! So learn to listen to yourself! And when you really want to do something, you want it with all your heart, do it, no matter what the cost! Just take it and do it.
I would also like to add that in order to learn to listen to yourself, you just need to start listening. First, start listening to your soul, every day there can be several different sensations in it, work through them, remove aching and pulling sensations. Then, with a long workout, learn to hear the weakest prompts. And as you listen to them more and more, they will come to you more and more often.
Then you can build your life on feelings and act as your heart tells you.
People are driven by different impulses. Sometimes they are driven by sympathy, a warm attitude, and they forget about the voice of reason. You can divide humanity into two halves. Some people constantly analyze their behavior, they are used to thinking through every step. Such individuals are practically not amenable to deception. However, it is extremely difficult for them to arrange their personal lives. Because from the moment they meet a potential soulmate, they begin to look for benefits and try to derive a formula perfect match. Therefore, noticing such a mindset, others move away from them.
Others are completely subject to the call of feelings. During love, it is difficult to notice even the most obvious realities. Therefore, they are often deceived and suffer greatly from this.
The complexity of the relationship between representatives of different sexes is that on different stages relations, a man and a woman use a reasonable approach too much, or vice versa, they trust the choice of a course of action to the heart.
The presence of fiery feelings, of course, distinguishes humanity from the animal world, but without iron logic and some calculation it is impossible to build a cloudless future.
There are many examples of people suffering because of their feelings. They are vividly described in Russian and world literature. An example is the work of Leo Tolstoy "Anna Karenina". If main character she would not fall in love recklessly, but would trust the voice of reason, she would remain alive, and the children would not have to experience the death of their mother.
Both reason and feelings must be present in consciousness in approximately equal proportions, then there is a chance for absolute happiness. Therefore, one should not refuse in some situations the wise advice of older and more intelligent mentors and relatives. Exists folk wisdom: "A smart person learns from the mistakes of others, and a fool learns from his own." If you draw the correct conclusion from this expression, you can humble the impulses of your feelings in some cases, which can adversely affect fate.
Although sometimes it is very difficult to make an effort on yourself. Especially if sympathy for a person overwhelms. Some feats and self-sacrifices are made from Great love to faith, country, own duty. If the armies used only cold calculation, they would hardly raise their banners over the conquered heights. It is not known how the Great Patriotic War if not for the love of the Russian people for their land, relatives and friends.
Composition 2 option
Mind or feelings? Or maybe something else? Can reason be combined with feelings? This is the question every person asks himself. When you are faced with two opposites, one side screams, choose the mind, the other screams that you can’t go anywhere without feelings. And you don't know where to go and what to choose.
The mind is a necessary thing in life, thanks to it we can think about the future, make our plans and achieve our goals. Thanks to our mind, we become more successful, but it is the feelings that make people out of us. Feelings are not inherent in everyone and they are different, both positive and negative, but it is they that make us do unimaginable things.
Sometimes, thanks to feelings, people perform such unrealistic actions that it took years to achieve this with the help of reason. So what to choose? Everyone chooses for himself, having chosen the mind, a person will follow one path and, perhaps, be happy, choosing feelings, a completely different road promises a person. No one can predict in advance whether it will be good for him from the chosen path or not, we can draw conclusions only at the end. As to the question whether the mind and the senses can cooperate with each other, I think they can. People can love each other, but understand that in order to create a family, they need money, and for this they need to work or study. Here in this case, the mind and feelings act together.
It seems to me that these two concepts only start working together when you grow up. As long as a person is small, he has to choose between two roads, little man it is very difficult to find points of contact between reason and feeling. Thus, a person always faces a choice, every day he has to fight with it, because sometimes the mind can help in difficult situation, and sometimes feelings are pulled out of a position where the mind would be powerless.
Brief essay
Many believe that the mind and feelings are two things that are completely incompatible with each other. But to me, they are two parts of the same whole. There are no feelings without reason and vice versa. Everything we feel, we think about, and sometimes when we think, feelings appear. These are two parts that create an idyll. If at least one of the components is missing, then all actions will be in vain.
For example, when people fall in love, they must turn on their mind, since it is he who can evaluate the whole situation and tell the person whether he made the right choice.
The mind helps not to make mistakes in serious situations, and feelings are sometimes able to intuitively suggest the right path, even if it seems unrealistic. Mastering the two components of one whole is not as easy as it sounds. On life path you will have to face considerable difficulties until you yourself learn to control and find the right facet of these components. Of course, life is not perfect and sometimes it is necessary to turn off one thing.
You can't always balance. Sometimes you need to trust your feelings and make a leap forward, this will be an opportunity to feel life in all its colors, regardless of whether the choice is right or not.
Composition on the topic Reason and feelings with arguments.
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