Welcome to the “Heads and Hearts series. We live life deeper than physical reality as we are more than the sum of our physical parts.  More than just the biochemical synthesis of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and minerals, we are thinking and feeling beings.  We possess heads that think, remember, reason, and choose.  We have hearts, or spirits, that feel and sense beyond the physical.  Theologians and philosophers debate over the exact components and labels for these portions of our being, but cannot deny that we have both physical and spiritual contributions to our total being.  Some have well described mankind as embodied souls. 

              This aspect of being embodied souls arises from being created in the image of God.  We do more than process knowledge and more than practice with our hands, feet, and mouths.  We consider truths, actions of ourselves and of others, and in doing so we weigh things not just with logic, but with logic and emotions.  God’s breath ins within us and if born again, His spirit dwells within. 

              Our thinking and feeling move us.  Physically, the neurologic functions of our brain determine what we do.  From the nerves and their connections, we derive awareness of reality through the senses as processed by our minds.  From the same, we determine beliefs about that reality with minds making sense of reality organizing our sense’s reports.  From the same, we determine emotional responses in relation to our values and in relation to effects of reality on us. Still there is something beyond computations and chemicals as we are alive and conscious. 

               We can know truth and practice truth yet betray truth with our thoughts and feelings.  The “Docsy”/”Doxy” provides a foundation for beliefs, laws of reality, and the oughts of morality.  The “Prac-sy”/”Praxy” reflects the interplay between the “Docsy” working out what lives in one’s head and heart, pushing our pracsy through the will.  “Prac-sy” will reflect head and heart but may be distorted when the head is mistaken or when the heart is driven against head and “Doc-sy”. 

              We may have broken thoughts or broken feelings.  As we work through this series on “Heads and Hearts” we will work through:

• How head and heart interact
• Examples of broken hearts and bent minds
• How social media influences
• How our beliefs affect thoughts and feelings
• How our values affect thoughts and feelings
• How a history of trauma influences life
• Why we are broken in the modern world
• God’s original intent for thoughts and feelings
• And More

Next in this series … Interplay Between Heads and Hearts