Embracing a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle, this month’s theme, involves much more than diet, exercise, and oral and physical health—it involves mental and emotional healing. What is happening on the screen of life and adapting to this rapidly changing outer landscape can cause anxiety and insecurity in various forms. Healthy diet and oral and physical habits are key players, but only the Heart itself can be called the seat of consciousnesss—a place of revival and renewal accessed in one’s private space.

 

A happy Heart is the best medicine. In this month’s article, Treating the Heart with Love, Mimi Guarneri shares holistic cardiology and a long overdue breakthrough in understanding the need for heart-based consciousness. Listening. Love. Sounds simple; difficult yet profound when properly executed.

 

Growing Hydroponic Produce at Home shares some valuable tips for beginning the venture, both cost-effective and simple. Awesome for singles and small-spacers.

 

Often times, a bond too powerful to understand, pets fulfill a need within us for acceptance/unconditional Love upon which most humans thrive. No judgment. Just smooshy Love. In Love on a Leash, Dr. Ruth Roberts covers the multi-mutual bennies of walking the dog—going well beyond physical into the heart-based emotional health realm. Especially informing is her take on communicating nonverbally, helping us hone this latent, most valuable lost art.

 

As always, with an open heart and mind, may you thrive.