Heart Medicine

In this powerful guided meditation session, you’ll delve deep into your heart chakra - the chakra associated with love, compassion, and connections to those around us. With the soothing voice of the narrator, you’ll be able to unlock, channel, and balance this essential chakra to boost your ability to connect with others.

Be empowered for a healthier, happier you with a personal physician at your side. Living with a chronic illness can feel like a constant battle. This audiobook is designed to equip you with the tools you need to overcome the symptoms of pain, fatigue, shortness of breath, anxiety, and stress while effectively managing and reversing the diseases that cause them. By encouraging you to create personal healthy living goals and then providing valuable tools to help you achieve them, this guide will give you the confidence you need to take control of your health.

Our world is chaotic and often feels dark and devoid of hope. And it’s not just the headlines we see every day. Our relationships are broken. A loved one’s health is failing. We’re disoriented and restless and wrestling with fear. These things are the reality of living in a fallen world. But our God is over that world. He is present in the midst of the daily ache of life. He loves us in the midst of that ache. In a series of 11 letters, Rebecca Reynolds writes to the lonely, the weary, the restless, and afraid and provides perspective and hope to find where God is in the midst of it.

In a society where fear has spread like wildfire, the surge in stress-induced illnesses should come as no surprise. To achieve harmonious health, we need to bring the mind and body to a less reactive state, where the stress cascade won’t be initiated. Dr. Evelyne Leone guides us to the health threshold—the unshakable balance in body, mind, and spirit—with Into the Heart of Health.

Having a hard time getting a good night’s sleep? Tired of random thoughts and external stimuli keeping you up after your bedtime? Calm yourself with these guided affirmations aimed to bring tranquility.

Understanding Cholesterol: The Complete Guide to Heart Health is a comprehensive and practical guide designed to help you take control of your cholesterol levels and protect your heart. Cholesterol is a crucial substance in the body, but when levels are out of balance, it can lead to serious health risks like heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular conditions. This book provides clear, evidence-based information on everything you need to know about cholesterol—from its role in the body and the factors that affect it, to the best strategies for managing it effectively.

In Healing Politics, El-Sayed traces the life of a young idealist, weaving together powerful personal stories and fascinating forays into history and science. Marrying his unique perspective with the science of epidemiology, El-Sayed diagnoses an underlying epidemic afflicting our country, an epidemic of insecurity. And to heal the rifts this epidemic has created, he lays out a new direction for the progressive movement. This is a bold, personal, and compellingly original book from a prominent young leader.

Halfway through her 35-year bout with atrial fibrillation, Rosalie Ungar, at 62, has a heart attack while giving a presentation on heart-healthy foods. Told from the perspective of the patient, In a Heartbeat traverses the ups and downs of living and thriving with an irregular heart rhythm. Determined to question, challenge, and negotiate doctors' orders, Rosalie navigates changes in technology, pharmacology, and physicians' recommendations with a sharp wit and a tenacity for self-education.

Dare to Care is a book about the magic of medicine and life. Patients long for caring and connection when they are ill, and the doctors who come to this profession full of care and compassion often leave feeling drained and diluted as human beings because they forget who they are. In this audiobook, you will be reminded that essential harmony and well-being is your natural state, and what you have been looking for in any doctor you have sought. It offers an invitation to join a new bandwidth of caring, intuition, holism, and love, to ride the waves of living beyond the norm.

The Trauma Tapping Technique is an approach backed by evidence for those suffering from emotional trauma, as well as for first responders and humanitarian outreachers who risk being traumatized by proximity. It is based upon the authors’ experiences of working with survivors of armed conflict, genocide, pandemic and natural disasters over 10 years in 30 countries.

It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn’t the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult it can be to replicate one of nature’s greatest creations. Part investigative journalism, part medical mystery, Ticker is a dazzling story of modern innovation, recounting 50 years of false starts, abysmal failures, and miraculous triumphs.

When Lerita Coleman, a 41-year-old single African-American psychology professor, learns she has only 18 months to live without a heart transplant, anxiety overwhelmed her. The daunting challenge of medical procedures, medications, and the unknowns of losing an organ that symbolized her core being haunted her. In desperation, she turned to her diseased heart for guidance about whether to live or die. What emerges are a series of remarkably wise and witty conversations with her old heart and the one she ultimately received during a transplant in 1995.

Stuart Jamieson's story is the story of four decades of advances in heart surgery. Taut, elegantly crafted, and ever-attentive to the patients for whom he was the last best chance, Close to the Sun is an adventurous, riveting account based on the experience of over 40,000 heart surgeries, where everything was on the line every moment in the O.R.

What if I told you that the number one thing you should teach your kids was mindfulness? People from all walks of life have been drawn to the practice of mindfulness. Those who use mindfulness undoubtedly note its benefits on their overall well-being. However, most people do not discover these practices until adulthood. Which leaves us to wonder...what would happen if we put these tools in the hands of all children?

In Warm Hearts: A Nurse's Recipe for a Successful and Fulfilling Career, author and registered nurse Patrice M Foster draws on years of experience as a nurse and caregiver to offer proven methods that RNs can use to prevent the natural tendency to become heartless and business-like over time.

It is all about unconditional love - which is a real force - not just an abstract thought process. You can learn to open your heart chakra through exercises provided in this book and other “Heart Rose” meditation exercises. Having a real open heart experience will help build you connection to others and strengthen you immune system.

Provider burnout is rampant due to bureaucratic overload, long work hours, and the lack of community, respect, and autonomy at work. But these issues can be addressed without significant expense or a major system overhaul. Dr. John McB. Hodgson’s approach to healthcare change re-empowers healthcare providers to do what they love to do—care for patients, solve problems, and influence the delivery system.

How many times have you found yourself annoyed or irritated with another person? The negative emotions associated with disliking, or even hating someone can wreak havoc on your own emotional well-being. Feelings of anger, resentment, irritation, pain, and sadness can keep you at arm's length from a positive mood until those feelings subside - only to return again later if left unresolved.

I am overjoyed that you and "Stories and Meditations" have crossed paths. It is directly from my Heart to Yours. My intention is that these stories and meditations change your day, your heart, your mind... your life! Please feel free to mix and match... see which recording your heart needs in any given moment. Whether you are having a blue day or are dating a snake, these stories and meditations will lift your Spirits and touch your Soul!

What if we could plan not to have a heart attack? As a cardiologist, I have not yet met a patient who expected to have a problem. Yet, what if we could be forewarned about, or prepared for, a potential problem with our coronary arteries? What if we were able to put in place preventative measures that may avert a problem?