You want to lose weight. You want to quit smoking or exercise more, but your habits are keeping you from making these changes. Is it possible to get different results and not make changes in life style habits.

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Modern life is filled with stress. Lifting our heart can be a way to reduce damaging stress. Lifting means opening and expanding. You can indeed lift your heart with these simple steps.

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An old saying used to be, “No one ever died of a broken heart.”   Now medical science has proven this to be untrue.  You can indeed suffer a serious heart problem because of a broken heart.  In fact, a broken heart can be lethal!
In the last 10 years medical research has discovered a new illness [...]

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What motivates you? I know what motivates me. And sometimes its easy to be motivated to make changes in your health lifestyle. Other times it is difficult.
What am I talking about? I’m talking about doing the things your body needs to be healthy. Why is it so difficult [...]

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Hearts are made to soar.  They are destined to fly.  Do you know what I mean?
A few years ago, I saw woman in my cardiology practice (identity changed but a true story)  who was caught in an incredible rut.  Fear dominated her life.  She was afraid to move past what she agreed was a limited [...]

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Patience is a virtue. We’ve all heard this phrase. Many people say it in response to some difficulty or troubling event. But patience is more than just a virtue, it is a powerful medicinal for healing the heart.

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Sugar is bad for your heart health.
Ah, this should come as no surprise.  We’ve all been told this.  But a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA 2010;303:1490-1497.)  confirms what we all knew deep down.  Sugar isn’t good for you.
A lot of sugar is very bad for you.  If you eat [...]

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Just back from vacationing in Florida.  We left Michigan’s cold weather for a few days in the sunny confines of Orlando.  Vacations are like a medicine.  They can be a real medicine for the heart.
We often think that medicine is a pill that we take, but medicine- something that can improve the body’s health can [...]

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Our hearts need nourishment. They need to receive the proper ingredients for becoming well. We need to follow the proper diet but we also need to give ourselves what we need emotionally and spiritually.

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Our heart holds the key. It holds the key to health, particularly emotional and psychological health.

Our heart also knows the answers to what we need. Many people have written about this phenomenon- that the heart has a great intelligence.

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