I think that's what is called 'logical decisions’.
Never forget the past.... at any time it could be the present... That’s a gift.....in fact, sometimes the heart is primarily subject to the past's powerful emotions - though in those aware of it, CAN serve as a looking glass into the future's possibilities.
That's why it's so important to never let the mind become the master of our thoughts. The mind is a very POOR Master!
We must be our mind's Masters and as the non-dualists say: come to FULL STOP of the Mind when we feel anything that causes Resistance, and allow our true nature - 'the heart", which will bring us to a complete 'newness' for any moments to come beyond the present moment we are here 'NOW' experiencing!
This statement is true of those who are unaware, asleep, and unconscious. However, it ceases to be true the very moment the seed of Truth, present in every human being but unactuated in most, starts to sprout its new growth.
The most liberating moment in my own life was the very day I made the choice to stop being a victim and took 100% responsibility of my life. I have chosen the life I have; therefore, I can choose the life I want.
To embrace the intelligences of Open Mind, Open Heart, and Open Will, indeed three levels of deeper awareness.
Open Mind allows us to recognise our own taken for granted assumptions limiting assumptions and beliefs, often from our past and begin to hear and see things not evident before.
Open Heart enables us to feel beyond the mind, and
Open Will, that capacity to recognise what I/We must do, even when we don’t' quite know 'how' to yet.
All three are vital and necessary to support us in our journey our limiting horizons
Creating confidence after having made lots of painful experiences isn't easy. The ego and its power are manipulative, even on a very constant as stable base. However I, You, We, All's tool is the determined internalization of wonderful aspects of life!