No, I’m not talking philisophically. I mean really hold a heart in your hands. A heart that was once beating and supplying blood to the rest of the body. It’s unbelievable.
For the first time, I saw just how perfect the heart really is. It’s so ingeneiously created – everything is there for a reason! I followed the path the blood takes and finally really understood how it works. I saw the remnants leftover from our time spent as embryos. Life is about transition after transition, build-up and degradation, formation and re-direction. It’s so beautiful!
And then, I also saw the kind of work that can be done on a human heart to correct defects or parts gone wrong. New arteries were put in place of others, making sure that blood would continue to supply portions of the heart that were failing. I saw a pacemaker attached – how do they do it? And I saw what an unhealthy, failing heart looks like – large and overworked. And (this was the part that had the most impact on me), full of plaque. I don’t know how any of you think of plaque, but I’d see it on TV or in pictures and think, “It looks like squishy stuff that’s blocking a portion of the vessel.” It’s actually plaque, people. It’s actually very hard, almost like stone. It definitely gave me a new outlook on my own habits.
Healthy eating, exercise, and low stress? No kidding.
Now. How to work on those….
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