He struck it with a clumsy blow and cut off a finger instead of its head.

"I led with my heart instead of my head and thought it would be all right."

"Possibly we should have gone with our heart instead of our head."

The dental chair, instead of the patient's head, can be tilted way back.

But at the last moment I flinched, and took the impact on my back instead of my head.

"Because you're thinking with your balls instead of your head."

As she later wrote, "I chose to follow my heart instead of my head".

She was thinking with her heart instead of her head.

"Some people do things with their heart instead of their head."

He thinks with his political ambitions instead of his head.