The Heart Issue
“Where ever you go, go with all your heart.”
— Confucius
GREETINGS AND HAPPY VALENTINE’ S DAY…
Welcome to February. Isn’t it wonderful to have an entire month dedicated to LOVE?
Personally, I think this is a wonderful idea considering all the other things we see happening in the world at the moment.
To pay tribute to this wonderful month, which is also my birthday month, I have decided to dedicate this month’s issue to the Heart.
The Heart is the physical home of love. Therefore, to cultivate more love in our lives it is so important to take care of the heart as well.
In this issue you will find some basics on How the Heart Functions and Cardiovascular Health. Everyone knows the importance of Aerobic Exercise. But did you know there is an entire school of Yoga that celebrates the Heart Chakra, called Anusara Yoga? I have also focused the plants and herbs of the month on herbs that have a notorious history for healing the heart both physically and emotionally:
Essential Oil of the Month – Rose
Flower Essence of the Month – Bleeding Heart
There is also a section on Heart Healthy Foods and Healthy Heart Recipes.
“The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand”
— Robert Valett
Have fun learning about the physical foods and medicines for the heart. But don’t forget that nothing nourishes the heart more than love.
“I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame of that heats our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other.”
— Elizabeth Kubler Ross
In English, we tend to use love to describe many forms of adoration. In some other languages, there are multiple words to describe love for different things and people. The ancient Greeks had 3 words for love: Eros, Philia, and Agape.
Eros is the romantic love, Philia is the love of friends and family, and Agape is the spiritual/universal love. I don’t think is it necessary to be in a romantic relationship to celebrate love. We can all cultivate love by sharing ourselves with other people and nurturing our own self-love. At a certain point there will be a need to expand beyond ourselves and share that with others. This is what I consider to be love.
Perfect love is rare indeed – for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
— Leo Buscaglia
With love in mind, please consider supporting these organizations helping the citizens of Haiti.
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