When the future hinges on the next words that are said,

Don't let logic interfere,

Beleive your heart instead.

Philip Robinson ( Author)

[hillbunnyb]

ooooh that's a heavy one timeO, oooooow.

Yeah, sometimes we think too much.

Though I love and have used the concept I from experiencing running on logic and running on the heart that for me logic is better. For example -

going with the heart I was in denial of my having DID for 20 years. The end result - my child ended up in foster care because I kept reacting from the heart of wanting to kill myself.

Siding with logic I stayed open minded when I had to enter therapy even though I had a pst history of abuse and bad experiences with the mental health system (being hospitalized in a mental health unit and being raped by an orderly one of the three times I was at that same facility.

By remaining logically open minded though my heart was saying ******** my way though this just to get my child back, I was able to get to know a fantastic therapist who ended up after the therapy was gong with her is now my friend.

Not only did I meet a new friend by not following my heart and remaining on logic I was able to put aside my denial though it was still there it no longer prevented me in learning about the truth of what DID is and how to heal from it.

By not doing things from the heart but on logic I was able to find so many resorses and ideas that are already in my every day daily life that can be used as a therapy tool for healing from DID instead of my having to leave my home and state and child to enter a facility in another state that teaches people what DID is and how to heal from it.

By remaining running on logic, even though I had many past experiences with the horror stories of mental health care I was able to utilize the resorces that I would have pushed away such as parenting classes, depression management classes, Anger management classes my child was returned home.

though my heart says fight and bring my child back home again I remain thinking from logic - by his remaining in the care of the foster care system and residential treatment facilitys now there are more resourses and help available and open to him then I can give him financially and mentally that will enable him to take care of and heal from schitophrenia now so that as an adult he will be able to live a happy productive life without having to slip into over 20 plus years of therapy, medications and involuntary commitments.

By remaining thinking on logic and not from the heart I am able to see that I was in an abusive relationship called Domestic Violence and had he been 12 or older he would have been arrested for assault and vandalism, and being a danger to himself and others, and so instead of recieving the help he isnow reciving he would have been right now still doing prison time.

Now given the choice between logic and the heart - logic wins every time. By doing so I am learning how to take care of myself, stand up for myself, be and have the type of life that I know is out there somewhere for me - one of happyness and free from the effects of child sexual abuse and Dissociative Identity Disorder.

[(JD)]

[jagster]

I like that saying. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[Danialla]

That is a very nice quote and applicable in most of our day to day living.

But Myself is also correct. We need to be able to function from our rational(logic) mind instead of our emotional (heart) mind when the need arises.......sometimes that is very difficult for some of us ::waving hand::, like me.

Thank you for the quote.

I do my living with my heart.

[(JD)]

<font color="pink">[b] yes, and with disordered minds, often what appears rational and logical, is not