Heart Disease- Body, Mind & Spirit

With the physical heart, we love to dream, feel heartache, love, die.

With the physical heart, the vessels can be regenerated, rerouted to create a path for healthy blood flow and heal the areas that need repair.

https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/coronary_ad.htm

Our physical heart has divided chambers to improve the efficiency of blood flow to our organs.

With the Spiritual heart we: "Believe" and it's with our whole heart we are called to Love God.

For the spiritual heart, God has promised this in Ezekiel 36:26

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone (hardness, unwillingness to change, even for our good) out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh (softness, pliability, willingness to change by God’s grace, to be better and to love ourselves and others as God loves us).

*This is an excerpted article on the importance of balance in the battle against Heart Disease

HEART HEALTH – BODY, MIND, and SPIRIT 

Dr. Kara Davis is a board-certified physician of internal medicine and a pastor’s wife. 
The chance of losing your life to heart disease is 1 in 5. That’s greater than the chance of dying in a plane crash or a getting struck by lightning. According to studies, in the U.S., heart disease ends 600,000 lives each year and is the #1 cause of death. Dr. Kara Davis is a board-certified physician of internal medicine and a pastor’s wife. On many levels, she has seen how good and bad choices can affect overall heart health – spirit, mind and body. Our physical health is intricately linked to our spiritual, mental and emotional health. Dr. Kara says, “A positive or negative attitude has a strong influence on heart health. In scores of studies examining the impact…all the research that identifies a connection between a pessimistic disposition and coronary illness – the data is far too extensive.”
In Proverbs 4:20-23 (NIV), King Solomon tells his son to guard his heart, for it is the wellspring of life. Solomon was primarily talking about the figurative heart – the “soul” or “spirit.” However, he points an additional blessing, noting that wisdom will impart “health to a man’s whole body.” Dr. Kara says just as God’s Word blesses our spirit, soul, and body – we must look at the concept of wholeness the way God sees it. Often we tend to look at ourselves as separate parts that fit together to make one unit, like a jigsaw puzzle. With that mindset, we approach our health in a disjointed way. We are created by these separate parts that are inseparable. What affects one part of our being (spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical) will affect our whole being.