Follow Your Heart

{15 minutes}

Follow Your Heart

The way humans are designed is for the heart to be directing the brain.

In this excerpt from our conversation with Ilarion 'Kuuyux' Merculieff, Ilarion explains the importance of changing our consciousness from the mind to the heart, and how to go about doing this. Speaking from an Indigenous perspective, Ilarion explains both how difficult this is, and how to begin doing it.

Related Practices:

See Becoming a Real Human Being. With respect to the meditative aspects of this, see Quieting the Mind. See Setting Down Thinking. See Sit Spot. See Build a Circle. With respect to non-cognitive ways of knowing, see Ways of Knowing. For addressing the emotional aspects of this, see Release Fear. See Emotional Yoga. See Feeding your Confidence. See Feel Your Feelings. See Working with Betrayal and Other Experiences we Don't Want to Feel. See Healing Neglect. See Self-Compassion.

Who taught us this?

Ilarion 'Kuuyux' Merculieff is a wisdom keeper. His name means 'a bridge between ancient culture and modernity.' Ilarion translates between Indigenous Elders and the modern world. He is the author of Wisdom Keeper: One Man's Journey to Honor the Untold Story of the Unangan People. He is the President of the Global Center for Indigenous Leadership & Lifeways, and the Convener of Wisdom Weavers of the World.

Who taught us this?

Ilarion 'Kuuyux' Merculieff is a wisdom keeper. His name means 'a bridge between ancient culture and modernity.' Ilarion translates between Indigenous Elders and the modern world. He is the author of Wisdom Keeper: One Man's Journey to Honor the Untold Story of the Unangan People. He is the President of the Global Center for Indigenous Leadership & Lifeways, and the Convener of Wisdom Weavers of the World.

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