An Understanding of Consciousness
All consciousness is One consciousness. What we think of as 'our consciousness' is simply an individualized portion of that One, although it may not seem so because we've been given free will along with it. We can take it anywhere we want, or we can completely ignore it.
The intelligence of our hearts is not our emotions. Our emotions come from the past. Our thoughts and memories about our experiences, whether positive or negative, come from the past where our experiences happened. We often guide our lives by this storehouse of thoughts and memories. The trouble is that they are so many, and so powerfully influential, that we easily end up going forward in life, being guided by looking backward.
You are going to have emotions, and they have to be dealt with in some manner. You can stuff and deny them, thus letting them take it out on you as the body keeps the score. Or, you can process them, learn the lessons of them, and release them. Doing so doesn't change the past. It changes how you respond to the past, leaving you to face the future more clearly.
The intelligence of our hearts is a personalized, unbreakable extension of One Consciousness, or Universal Intelligence, which is only of the Now. It is intuitive knowledge. It's when you know something in the moment, not from your conscious memory. It's your heart sending a message to your brain. When the heart recognizes something which is within your perview, it sends a message to your brain which then begins setting things in motion for the fulfillment or enactment of that something. Synchronicity, an aspect of One consciousness, comes into play to assist in that fulfillment.
Through prayer and meditation we can become sensitive and attuned enough to be used by spirituality, as long as we're loving outwardly. If you're doing it for the selfish sensationalism of wanting to have those experiences, you are limiting yourself.
We may have a choice about whether to become involved in an event. We may have some indications about how an event may be handled. We may be left to figure it out entirely on our own, then be surprised by the synchronicity which occurs. Any of this may involve instantaneous decisions of a physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual nature.
Here's a mild example: An older woman approached a curb with a walker. Me, still in the early stages of recovery from a stroke, can't fully trust my left leg. Can I get to her in time to help her? I might fall on the way to her and become an additional inconvenience. I might get to her in time but fall while trying to help her, making her fall along with me and the whole thing gets much worse. Can I justify watching her difficulty but not helping her? Can I justify falling myself by saying at least I tried?
What if I help her, it all works out and I become a minor hero for a moment? And that is what happened. Can I count on that working the next time?
To anyone watching I simply went to help her as soon as I saw her. But in my head and heart there was a lot going on.