The heart speaks

“In the second century, the physician Galen spoke of the heart’s unusual physical properties, that as an organ, it is ‘hard flesh, not easily injured. In hardness, tension, general strength and resistance, the fibres of the heart far surpass all others’.
Leonardo da Vinci, who drew illustrations of the heart during the Renaissance, also noted that ‘the heart is of such density that fire can scarcely damage it’.
Yet as the seat of our deepest feelings, the heart is, as we know, all too sensitive, registering through pains, pangs, flutters and skips the thousand varieties of sufferings that Buddhists claim humans experience - from anger, jealousy and fear to terror, shame, and all too often, sadness...”

This article, written by Dr Mimi Guameri goes on to discuss the impact depression and/or positive or negative mental attitudes can have on whether people are both likely to experience or recover from a heart attack.

The heart speaks is extracted courtesy of the book THE HEART SPEAKS: A CARDIOLOGIST REVEALS THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF HEALING by Dr Mimi Guameri, Fusion Press.

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