Daily Gratitude: I have so much difficulty making this trip. It’s not only the longest for me but it’s also the hardest.

The strange thing is that there are so many life connections in that 16 inches. Some of us work very hard to put up roadblocks and others work to create effective road blocks. It’s like trying to make it over a mountain pass with avalanches every step of the way.

The brain is all powerful and it seems to rule everything and in many ways it does. But in order to be so mighty, it has to receive oxygen and nutrients. And how does it do that? Via the heart. Perhaps we could spend some time reminding the haughty brain that it would just be a pile of mush if the heart isn’t working right or isn’t doing its job.

It’s like life. We need each other to be the most effective and efficient people. Taking baby steps to allow these two primary organs to communicate and love one another is crucial to healthy living. One way to look at it and help you visualize the connection developing is to think of the spinal cord and all the nerves that come off of it connecting the brain to the rest of the body, including the heart. So there is an open path. I used to sneak up and down the back stairs (did anyone else have back stairs?). That got me from my room to the kitchen and that’s exactly where I wanted to go.

See if you can visualize a young child (or maybe just yourself) scrambling up and down those back stairs (the spinal cord) bringing secret messages from one organ to the other. Make the visualization a game. Once enough secret messages have been delivered, each organ can come out of hiding and greet each other like armies or spies can do when the war is over. And now they understand each other better because they have all the messages n

Work on this a little bit every day and see if you can create a truce, an armistice between your thoughts and your emotions. You’ll be glad you did.