I ask, “Are you discounting the intellect?”

Zohar answers, “I am not discounting or placing into subservience the intellectual mind to the heartmind. They are two entirely different things even though they are closely integrated. In the ideal, in you as a Star Seed these two faculties must be balanced. Think of a problem that has some emotional content. Put your right hand to your head. Cover your forehead with your hand. Think of your problem intensely. Roll it over and think of its many permutations and aspects.

“Now, try to clear your mind of the details of the problem and think only of its general outline. Move your hand to your heart. Place it there and try to clear your mind. Empty the intellect and focus your energy toward your heart. Try to feel the emotional aspect of the problem. Try to experience the emotional turmoil that arises from the problem.

“It will take some practice, but in time your heart will come up with a solution out of left field, out of somewhere you didn’t think of looking, to give you a solution. It will arise in the intellect as a flash of intuition. It can be distinguished by its source from love and life affirming content. It will be love, and life, and goodness, and it will break the emotional paradigm that you held around the problem. It will challenge the implicit assumptions that were made by your intellect that you didn’t even know existed.

“Sometimes we have a visceral reaction to a person and dislike them immediately without any cause. That is your heartmind reading the person’s energy and informing your intellect of possible danger. Likewise, you can feel an immediate affinity. This is the heartmind once again informing you of something good. Sometimes, we are faced with doing something that we really don’t want to do, or not doing something our emotions tell us that we should be doing. We feel bad about it, but there doesn’t seem to be a logical reason for this feeling. Once again, this is the heartmind in action.

“When you use your heartmind you can process emotional content which the intellect is not so good at analyzing. If you try to go against your heartmind, like you try to do something that the heartmind is objecting to, then you will feel the conflict between the heartmind and the intellect as high anxiety.

“The heartmind thinks differently. It processes emotional content that often arises with paradigm shifting insights for the intellect to then operate upon and then, take action as needed. The intellect can initiate action having first been informed by the heartmind. Often the solutions are achingly simple. When you make a decision that is in congruence with the heartmind then your emotional self will fall back into balance and you will no longer feel anxiety.”