Welcome to episode 275 of Live Happy Now. This is Paula Phelps, thanking you for choosing to spend your time with us again this week. I'd like you to take a moment to ask yourself one question today. Am I living in my heart or am I living in my head? If you're spending more time in your head than in your heart, today's show is

perfect for you. Sarah Blondin is an author and podcast host whose work has been translated into

several languages and is used in prison, recovery, and wellness programs. Her new book,

Heart-minded, How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love, tells us how we can get out of our heads and

into our hearts to find our true selves and learn how to discover and attain what it is we

truly need. Sarah, welcome to Live Happy Now. Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here,

Paula. I'm glad you could spend some time with us today because you

have a new book called Heart Minded that I think a lot of our listeners are going to love learning about.

So I think to start this out, can you explain what it means to be heart-minded?

It's essentially finding a way to live from the seat of the heart. And for everyone that can, you know, be a little

bit confusing, well, what does that really mean to live in the seat of the heart? And to me,

the heart is very much kind of our grounded center. And if you just kind of put your hand on

your heart and bow your head a little bit, notice there's kind of a difference in energetics

that kind of come up.

Your body softens, your being softens. There's a little more receptivity, a little more freedom,

openness, calmness. What I think is happening so often is we're living so much in the mind,

and the mind is kind of a very frenetic problem solving

place and it's always reaching for the future so becoming heart minded is essentially finding a way

to start living our lives from that different perspective with the hand on the heart and then once

we start living from the heart we actually ask the heart to start infusing the mind so that we

begin kind of seeing and breathing life through the lens of the heart. And how does that change

the way that we view life? A good example. With my little kids, if I'm scared, my first

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