Heart Medicine

In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from death. When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way the surgeons walked away. As he soon understood, this detachment is a crucial survival strategy in a profession where death is only a heartbeat away. In Open Heart, Westaby reflects on over 11,000 surgeries, showing us why the procedures have never become routine and will never be.

Here’s how to do away with negativity and move forward from painful emotions. How do you get rid of your emotional pain, anxiety, and negative self-talk? Is it by suppressing them...or maybe trying not to think about them? If so, denying what you really feel is harmful and will only make your feelings worse deep within. Or maybe you’re using willpower to change your situation? This only results in short-term victories...leaving you back at square one and feeling lonely, stressed, and anxious.

Worried about your ever increasing blood pressure? Looking for ways to lower and maintain your blood pressure? Fed up with depending on medications to improve your health? Not sure how to reduce your stress levels and body weight in order to lower your blood pressure? Combining various natural remedies is the solution.

Do you desire to be an all-loving compassionate person who develops habits of positive thinking towards yourself and other people? Have you ever wanted to fulfill your potential? This collection is designed to help you become the person you know you really are inside. A person who is enlightened, inspired, and filled with love.

In countless moments, opportunities arise for us to either judge or support ourselves, to envy another's joy or to celebrate with them, to turn away from others or to connect. Embracing Your Boundless Heart opens the way for us to amplify love in ourselves and with our families, coworkers, communities, and even those we struggle with the most.

For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart—not the brain—was believed to be the location of intelligence, memory, emotion, and the soul. Over time, views on the purpose of the heart have transformed. Modern medicine and science dismissed what was once the king of the organs as a mere blood pump subservient to the brain, yet the heart remains a potent symbol of love and health and an important part of our cultural iconography.

Spring Washam is a founder of the East Bay Meditation Center, the most diverse and accessible meditation center in the United States. In A Fierce Heart, she shares her contemporary, unique interpretation of the Buddha's 2,500-year-old teachings that get to the heart of mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion. Woven throughout the book are stories from her life, family, and community, along with soulful and unexpected stories of compassion in action from all over the world.

At one time heart disease was a death sentence. By the middle of the 20th century, it was killing millions, and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier. On September 7, 1895, Ludwig Rehn successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time.

Andy Beal suffered a massive stroke and heart attack at the age of 44. The entire right side of his body was paralyzed. He had trouble thinking, talking, and answering the simplest of questions. Just two days later, Beal walked out of the hospital in what doctors call a "remarkable recovery". That remarkable recovery was in part due to the heart health improvements Andy Beal made just eight months earlier.

This riveting collection of true stories from Dr. Martina Scholtens is filled with hope and humor, and together make up a deeply moving portrait of how one doctor attempts to provide quality care and advocacy for patients while remaining culturally sensitive, even as she wrestles with guilt, awareness of her own privilege, the faith she was raised with, and vicarious trauma after hearing countless stories of suffering. Based on her experiences, Scholtens’ writing explores the transformative moments in which a doctor-patient relationship becomes a human-human connection.

In State of the Heart, the journey to rid the world of heart disease is shown to be reflective of the journey of medical science at large. We are learning not only that women have as much heart disease as men, but that the type of heart disease women experience is diametrically different from that in men. We are learning that heart disease and cancer may have more in common than we could have imagined. And we are learning how human evolution itself may have led to the epidemic of heart disease

In Deep Listening, Pransky presents her signature Calm Body, Clear Mind, Open Heart program - a 10-step journey of self-exploration that she's taught around the world. It centers on the science of Deep Listening, which allows us to pause and truly hear - often for the first time - what both our bodies and our minds are telling us. It kickstarts our relaxation response, calming muscular tension and setting the whole body up for deep healing, growth, and repair. It's a new frontier in integrative wellness - the new mindfulness.

The way we talk to ourselves is often unkind and filled with self-judgments. These overly harsh self-criticisms can make us feel unworthy and incomplete. What if what you really need is not higher standards for yourself, but greater self-compassion? In Living with Your Heart Wide Open, you'll discover how mindfulness and self-compassion can free you from the thoughts and beliefs that create feelings of inadequacy.

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.

A somatic training program to open your heart to the world. There is no more powerful vehicle for knowing yourself and others than the human heart. For it is through the opening of the heart that we touch our own deepest experience, and come to connect with each other. In Awakening the Heart, Volume 2, Dr. Reggie Ray presents an in-depth somatic training curriculum designed to help us dismantle the walls around our hearts and dwell in bodhicitta (literally "awakened heart-mind").

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.

Learn how to process your own grief - as well as family, community, and global grief - with this fierce and openhearted guide to healing in an unjust world.

Table of Contents: My Personal Journey; 1. Herbs that help your heart; 2. Power of Pomegranate; 3. Chelation Therapy, how it works, where to seek help; 4. Magnetized Water, history, how to make it at home; 5. Heart Health and Water; 6. Nitric Oxide and how it can help your circulation; 7. Lack of sleep can affect your heart health; 8. Let us Toast to our healthy heart; 9. Amazing five Tibetan Rites-Heart Healthy exercise; 10. Latest medical tests that can help you

Fall asleep with Christian Affirmations for Sleep in Holy Spirit. Affirmations, declarations, and meditations transform your thoughts, mind, and life. Listen to these affirmations every night and see how you will start to sleep better and feel the holy spirit’s constant presence in your life. Release anxiety, stress, and fear with the word of God.

If you sense that there's room for improvement in your life, health, relationships ,or business, this book provides practical steps and tools to create positive change. Through self-inquiry and real-life examples, you discover a profound understanding of root causes which are hindering your progress.