Live Large. Why Your Heart Health is Key.
Dear Friend,
Your heart health is key to your overall health because your heart pumps nutrient-rich, oxygenated blood to every part of your body to keep everything running smoothly.
The American Heart Association has published a Life’s Essential 8 covering behaviours and factors involved in maintaining a healthy heart. These are:
Be More Active
Quit Tobacco
Get Healthy Sleep
Manage Weight
Control Cholesterol
Manage Blood Sugar
Manage Blood Pressure
This is all good advice but it’s missing something. The heart is not just an organ with four chambers that beats in rhythm.
On a subtler level, your heart is the sum total of all your hopes and fears; the one’s you love; your bad experiences and everything in between.
Evidence for this is a phenomenon noted in the medical literature, of heart transplant patients acquiring some of the personality traits of their donor.
While science proposes the hypothesis of cellular memory to explain it, the simple explanation in yoga is that your heart has a unique aura around it which is a map of your personality.
A patient with a heart transplant has imported some of the aura of the donor.
So to look after your heart with yoga, you can improve the aura around it by improving the flow of vibes (love) in and around your heart chakra.
This involves keeping your heart chakra open.
There are a number of ways of keeping your heart chakra open: breathe easy, love more and be thoughtless (zen). More below.
Also below: Getting the benefits of Mangala Ashtakam; and, a remedy for financial insecurity.
Best wishes
P.
PS.
Moon Calendar (at end) this coming week: Mon. 20th July - Saptami ( Your advantage); Tue. 21st - Durgashtami (Let your heart guide you); Wed. 22nd - Navami (Victory); Fri. 24th - Shayani Ekadashi ( Relax).