Heart And Soul

Heart and soul, I fell in love with you,
lost control, the way a fool would do,
Gladly...
Because you held me tight,
And stole a kiss in the night..

Heart and soul, I begged to be adored,
Lost control, and tumbled overboard,
Gladly...
That magic night we kissed,
There in the moon mist.

Oh! but your lips were thrilling, much too thrilling,
Never before were mine so strangely willing.

But now I see, what one embrace can do,
Look at me, it's got me loving you,
Madly...
That little kiss you stole,
Held all my heart and soul.

I think that most everyone knows the piano melody of the song "Heart and Soul", but I never realized it actually had lyrics, so I thought I would share them with you. The music was written by Hoagy Carmichael, and the above lyrics were written by Frank Loesser in 1938. I love this song, and, in fact, it's the only thing on the piano I know how to play, and, believe it or not, I know both parts so if you're more comfortable on the left; I can take the right, or vice versa. The title of this song is what has been on my mind lately, including going back to the posting that precedes this one.

Our hearts and souls tell us so much, but how often do we truly listen?

How often are we to repeat the same lessons over and over until something solidifies into a some magical or mystical chrystalline clarity?

How many lives must we lead, how many cycles must we fully ride in this particular given life?

If you know that something resonates with your heart and soul, then why do you fight it, ignore it or refuse to fully embrace it? Do you do those things? Maybe you're a lucky one that always wraps your arms lovingly around everything that life puts in your path.

Consider these words from an interview with Joseph Chilton Pearce by Chris Mercogliano and Kim Debus (click on the title of the post for the full interview):

"Quite literally, in other words, there is a "brain" in the heart, whose ganglia are linked to every major organ in the body, to the entire muscle spindle system that uniquely enables humans to express their emotions. About half of the heart's neural cells are involved in translating information sent to it from all over the body so that it can keep the body working as one harmonious whole. And the other half make up a very large, unmediated neural connection with the emotional brain in our head and carry on a twenty-four-hour-a-day dialogue between the heart and the brain that we are not even aware of."

Simply put, your heart is an amazing communicator and feels emotion. The soul is a matter for debate, but if you're here now, reading this, then you're either in a place that you expect that sort of talk, or you're lost, and I graciously welcome you.

So if you hurt, or your "heart hurts" or your "soul hurts", as many of us have said, then we have to ask ourselves if we listen fully to the communication that our heart and soul are giving to us. And so by contrast, when your heart and soul feel great, then we need to be listening just as intently during those times as well. Esther Hicks, through Abraham, talks about the emotions being a guidance system. Our hearts and souls are always speaking if you buy into the words of Mr. Pearce, but how often do we allow ourselves the quitetude to listen? Sometimes, if we continually fail to listen, they seem to yell, and there is no mistaking it when they do. In the good times, you sing, you dance for what others perceive to be no reason, you beam. Sometimes they yell in the bad times and you fall to floor, you sob, and I mean the heaving sort of sobbing, you scream out almost uncontrollably.

In those times, what just happened in your life? If you change something in your life, ask yourself, "Does this feel good to my heart and soul?" If things are the same in your life, then ask yourself, "Does this current situation feel good to my heart and soul?" Sometimes in this life we meet people, experience things and situations that blow our minds in ways that are good, and sometimes in ways in which we find ourselves lost and confused after the fact.

I believe we have been here doing this, the human experience, for longer than our human mind can conceive. This is not the first go around. If you find something you love and cherish, hold on to it in a healthy way. If something feels destined, meant, or immediately like a long lost friend, then I believe that it is. If, on the other hand, someone, something immediately feels off, then there is a reason. Our hearts and souls are smarter than we are many times. Our minds get full of chatter and noise and distraction. Our hearts and souls feel the truth. So what do you feel? Is it in alignment with your truth?

Heart and soul. There is no higher guidance system for the human body. Are you listening? Or do you let others influence what you follow instead? Do you let fear dictate and have precedence over your heart and soul? If you feel it to be true in your heart and soul, then KNOW it in your head! Don't let anyone or anything else stand in the way of your truth. No one, and I mean no one knows what your heart and soul know. There is no reason, there is no excuse, there is only you. You choose to follow your heart. Not your friends, family, peers, only you can say yes to your heart and soul. So, please, follow your heart and soul. Listen. They are speaking to you even now. Will you acknowledge their insight, or will you continue without heeding their wisdom? It's your heart and soul that are awaiting your enlightenment, not the other way around.

Well, hopefully more days than not, you will be able to find me at the piano listening to my heart and soul. You already know what song we will play when you get there. Just so I'm prepared, did you prefer the right or the left?