Health from the Heart

August Ayurveda

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This column is an eclectic mix of articles drawn from Ayurveda, mind-body medicine, yoga, spirituality, contemporary research, ancient Indian culture and timeless treasure of Vedic legacy.

Health from the Heart

Too many people only care about their heart after they have a heart attack. If they cared for it much before, they would have had better health. Research proves that a happy and healthy heart makes a healthier you. A recent one of them conducted by C Wrosch and MF Scheier at the Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, revealed that there was a direct link between your personality-type and the quality of life. Your heart, to a greater extent, makes you what you are.

An interesting observation made by the researchers was on the importance of optimism and goal adjustment as a first, yet major, step towards having a better and healthier life; a sentiment also echoed in Ayurveda. If you are an optimistic person, you certainly are a positive thinker; if you are a positive thinker, you tend to be happy; and if you are happy, you tend to be healthy. It all starts from the heart and seeps into the deeper levels of our conscious and subconscious mind. What your heart feels – even though we have discounting modern medical theories that heart feels nothing, and is no more than a fleshy form of a mechanized pump – is something your mind grasps. Feel good, and your mind grasps well. When it is that, it functions good as well.

External stimuli as laughter, humor and play are always exerting some form of positive attribute on your heart which, in turn, has a direct or indirect effect on the physical, mental, intellectual, emotional, spiritual dimensions of your health. More happier you are, or you try to be, better you would feel. Though, it is good to remember that happiness is not attainable, you have to master being happy. It is an art.

Most of us have a feeling that we will be happy when we are rich. Most of us may even swear by this notion, but riches are not a foolproof guarantee for being happy. The glory of mastering the art of happiness is when you actually have no reason to be happy. This, incidentally, is the time when you are more responsive to disease. Due to one reason or another, majority of us have no reason to be happy most of the time. At the same time it is this majority that drives the nations and their economies. As a result of this, we have all the reasons to be healthy. This is an effortless act: just find way to your health through the corridors of your heart. Stay healthy.

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