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Heart Chakra Meditation | Guided Meditation Practice The following is a dictation of the practice of a heart chakra meditation taught by Swami Sivajnanananda. This practice is designed to help open the heart chakra, stimulated emotional release and sensitizing the practitioner to the traits of love, compassion, and joy. This practice can be used by [...]
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from www.care2.com Meditate on the Heart The purpose of this exercise is to give you the experience of making your heart pure enough to witness spirit. Pure here doesn’t mean good and virtuous; it means free from impurity, with no value judgment intended. In the words of William Blake, we are cleansing the doors of [...]
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(Daily meditation reduces heart attack risk by about 50%..) from yogabasics.com This heart chakra meditation is a simple technique to release sadness and fear and to bring compassion and love into your life. Sit in a comfortable position, either cross-legged on the floor or in a chair. Sit up tall with the spine straight, the [...]
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Healing and the Heart Chakra When most people start studying the mind-body-spirit connection, they realize that the heart helps healing. Unconditional compassion, pure love: intuitively, we know that these vibrations can transform dis-ease into wholeness and bliss. We also sense that a “broken heart” can contribute to illness, and that extreme anger can cause a [...]
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From Life Extension Magazine May 2007 Vitamin D Helps Alleviate Heart Failure Heart failure—the heart’s inability to pump enough blood to meet the body’s requirements—is a leading cause of death in industrialized nations. Scientists believe that elevated levels of circulating pro-inflammatory cytokines may contribute to heart failure, and that vitamin D may offer heart-protective benefits [...]
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[This was the best summary article on factors related to heart attacks in winter months] Heart Health in Winter Lifeline Screening The holiday season is a time that usually gladdens our hearts as we gather with friends and family. But it’s also a time when our own hearts are under additional stress. During winter, the [...]
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MSNBC LiveScience staff 8/10/2010 Enjoy the heat this summer. Cold weather brings more than a chill to your bones, a new study suggests. It could also raise your risk of having a heart attack. The results show that each 1.8 degree Fahrenheit reduction in temperature on a single day is associated with around 200 additional [...]
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from Medical News Today Heart Attacks and Winter: Examining the Seasonal Trend 13 Dec 2004 According to results gathered by the Second National Registry of Myocardial Infarction (heart attacks), winter was the top season for heart attacks, followed by fall, then spring, then summer. The December issue of the Harvard Men’s Health Watch looks at [...]
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[This is one reason why gratefulness -- rather than entitlement -- is so important...] from the article: Konrath and her team found that people who scored higher on the exploitative aspects of narcissism showed higher levels of cortisol, while those who scored higher on the more positive aspects of narcissism did not. And the trend [...]
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[In the 60's, when meditation become more mainstream. the phrase I would often here is: "If you are too busy to meditate, you are too busy." -- And today the phrase I came across was, "It is important to meditate twenty minutes a day.... If you are too busy to meditate, meditate for an hour [...]
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Calcium supplements ‘double risk of heart attack’, study finds Doctors dispute results but advise people not to take supplements unless required for medical condition Calcium supplements can almost double the risk of a heart attack, according to new research, and should be “taken with caution” and only for medical reasons, such as to prevent bone [...]
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[As I have mentioned before, Carolyn Thomas's www.myheartsisters.org is the best heart blog on the Web -- she frequently deals with the the post-heart attack psychological world. Here is an excellent first person narrative of how the world changes after a heart attack.] from the article It means learning how to take naps, or just [...]
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["Heart Rate Variability, or HRV, is under-appreciated measure of heart health...] Greater Heart Rate Variability The term called “heart rate variability” means that minute-by-minute (or even second-by-second) your heart rate fluctuates depending on internal and external stimulus. If your resting heart rate is 60 beats per minute, it makes sense that your heart would beat [...]
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Personally, I like Carolyn Thomas’s blog the best. I find the website listed as #1, the American Heart Association website, to be very ordinary and not very engaging. Carolyn provides much more individualized and personally relevant information…. Top Ten Online Influencers about heart disease
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[The importance of Circadian rhythms are vastly underrated...] Intense Light Prevents, Treats Heart Attacks, Study Suggests ScienceDaily Apr. 25, 2012 — There are lots of ways physicians might treat a patient after a heart attack — certain resuscitation methods, aspirin, clot-busters and more. Now University of Colorado medical school researchers have found a new candidate: [...]
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[Ten years to develop the process? Maybe we could take some of the TSA money and instead put into the real terrorism of illness.] Scar Tissue Turned Into Heart Muscle Without Using Stem Cells ScienceDaily Apr. 26, 2012 Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have shown the ability to turn scar tissue that forms after [...]
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Art therapy can help those in chronic pain September 17, 2010 Denise Dador LOS ANGELES (KABC) — There’s more to the healing arts than just medicine. Numerous studies show how creative expression through music, writing or art work can break the cycle of chronic pain. The topic was discussed at the For Grace’s 3rd Annual [...]
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An important story to read: the misdiagnosis of (a woman’s) heart attack: Heartburn or a Heart Attack? When Carolyn Thomas went to the hospital for chest pain and nausea, doctors diagnosed acid reflux and sent her home — but she was really having a heart attack. Now this Canadian blogger is using her site to [...]
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Studies: Stem cells reverse heart damage (CNN) — On a June day in 2009, a 39-year-old man named Ken Milles lay on an exam table at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. A month earlier, he’d suffered a massive heart attack that destroyed nearly a third of his heart. “The most difficult part was the [...]
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“Heavy” Drinking Increases Risk After Heart Attack Even moderately heavy drinking is bad after myocardial infarction By Richard N. Fogoros, M.D. Updated July 04, 2007 Several studies have indicated that light usage of alcohol (one or two drinks per day) may help protect against cardiac disease. However, because alcohol causes so many medical problems, and [...]
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February 2, 2011 CNN Health Mind-body: Psychotherapy helps your heart Dr. Charles Raison, CNNHealth’s Mental Health expert and an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University, writes regularly on the mind-body connection for better health. God forbid, but suppose you’ve just had a heart attack. You’re about to leave the hospital. You’re [...]
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Midday Napping Slows Heart Disease Carole Bullock February 14, 2007 — What could be some of the most welcome heart-healthy advice in a long time comes from Greek researchers who say daytime napping — taking a siesta — may add years to your life. Appearing in the February 12 issue of the Archives of Internal [...]
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Risk Factors For Heart Disease Increased By Fructose Consumption 29 Jul 2011 Medical News Today A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) found that adults who consumed high fructose corn syrup for two weeks as 25 percent of their daily calorie requirement had increased blood [...]
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This idea will allegedly detect irregular heartbeats and slow the car down. Uh, there are many, many folks out there with irregular heartbeats who aren’t having heart attack. Why not just sell a car that comes with a cardiologist on-board? Toyota’s new steering wheel could prevent heart attacks Contact sensors are located at the “10 [...]
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Los Angeles Times February 7, 2011 Stem cells for broken hearts Early work on bone marrow cells to heal fragile hearts showed only modest effects. But new research looks at different types of stem cells. ‘We’re trying to tear pages out of nature’s playbook,’ says a Chicago cardiologist. It’s one of the most vexing problems [...]
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More good news about the potentials of stem cell treatment…. the research and clinical application is frustratingly slow for those of us for whom it might reverse heart problems… from the article: Treated patients were also able to tolerate an exercise test for twice as long – 139 seconds versus 69. Stem cell therapy for [...]
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So much affects the heart….. COURTNEY HUTCHISON, ABC News Medical Unit July 4, 2011 Chantix: Quit Smoking, But Risk Your Heart? On the heels of the FDA’s admission that Chantix, Pfizer’s smoking cessation drug, may aggravate heart problems in those with cardiovascular disease, new research suggests that they’re not the only ones at risk. Chantix [...]
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Perhaps the phrase “He had the heart of a snake” is not quite what it seems.. from the article: If we are able to understand the genetic cues involved in rapid python heart muscle increases and decreases, that to be says there is the potential to develop therapeutics for humans. Snake Genome Suggests Treatments for [...]
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It is rare to supplements such as hawthorne to get support from research… Hard to argue with the Cochrane Review… By the way, what brilliant diagnostician came up with the term “Heart Failure”? Just the diagnosis made me depressed, when in reality my heart had successfully survived a heart attack… Can we change this term [...]
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Nice to see the research caveats in the article– that nurses may not be representative of the population, and that coffee may be a problem for slow metabolizers. from the article: What this study shows is that, in a general population, there’s no obvious harm, or benefit, to consuming coffee after a heart attack. Deaths [...]
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Ten years to wait for this research to come to fruition? How about taking some of the billions from the money from the TSA/airport security and putting it to heart research. People apparently fear terrorism more than heart attacks…. Guess which one is more likely, by about 10,000 to one odds, if not more…. from [...]
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It has been a continuing theme of this Heartcurrents blog that psychology is often left out treatment for heart disease and heart issues. “Mindfulness meditation” has been gaining traction in psychotherapy as a means of reducing stress, anxiety, and depression — issues that always need to be dealt with for anyone who has experienced a [...]
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from the article: The addition of stents did not improve the ability of optimal drug therapy to prevent heart attacks and death in patients with stable CAD. When Should Stents Be Used in Coronary Artery Disease? COURAGE Study Challenges Use of Stents in Stable CAD Patients Richard N. Fogoros, M.D Updated May 23, 2011 If [...]
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from the article: The results are part of a string of studies that suggest that what doctors thought they knew about cholesterol may be wrong… . New York Times Study Questions Treatment Used in Heart Disease GARDINER HARRIS May 26, 2011 WASHINGTON — Lowering bad cholesterol levels reduces heart attack risks, and researchers have long [...]
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Disclaimer: Intense exercise increases the immediate risk of a heart attack. In the long run, both regular and intense exercise decreases the risk of a heart attack, Research is suggesting that high intensity interval training — what runners for years have called “fartleks” (which means “speed play” in Swedish) — is the most efficient way [...]
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From the article: More body fat doesn’t always mean greater heart risk. It’s where you carry the extra pounds. Patients with bulging waistlines, as measured by either waist circumference or waist-to-hip ratio, had a higher risk of death. They were 1.7 times as likely to die during the follow-up period as those with normal waist [...]
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From the article: Patients who begin an exercise program one week after their heart attack were found to have the best heart performance. For those who waited to begin their exercise rehabilitation program, the results showed that “for every week that a patient delayed his or her exercise treatment, he or she would have to [...]
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The Rose Bower from the “Legend of Briar Rose” by Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1890 Buscot Park, Oxfordshire Heart Attacks in the Morning Are More Severe
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Conclusion: Eat both Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Health & Prevention Two Sources of Omega-3 Benefit the Heart – In Different Ways In a small study supported by the California Walnut Commission, diets containing walnuts or fish both derived cardiovascular benefit – although each diet had a different effect on lipid parameters. Twenty-five adults with [...]
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