Heartful or Mindful

Exploring the key to a contented life and why both are good but the one is the key. Mindfulness is a useful skill connected to our discriminating intellect or Budhi in Sanskrit. Whereas heartfullness ia about Manas or hearts intuitive cosmic intelligence. It can and often overrules our mind. It can overrule our senses if it chooses so while our minds can't. So the key to realize heartfulness overrules mindfulness. Key to life of baance is to use our intellect for a heartfull dialogue with ourselves on overcoming temptations and challenges. Our hearts are powerful than our minds as they give us will, mind the knowledge and limbs the action.

So being heartfull give us an insurmountable will power to initiate and to which intellect or resources will be secondary and supportive.

Mindful is useful in day to day interactions and living. But heartfulness is for tackling issues as big as life or beyond life on issues change impacting beyond us - community, nation and world. It is also about connecting with the world at large, we are part of a bigger whole - best described by Vedic Mantra Puran Masah Pura Midam from Isho Upnishad.