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Learning Open Heartedness: Insights From a Cardiologist 
by Dr. Kirk Laman


Our hearts want to find greater love.  As a cardiologist, with a special interest in heart disease prevention, I have witnessed this time and again.  Much of what ails people- physical illness, relationship issues, and even the inner crying of the soul begins in the heart.

In the past twenty years medical science has been documented that when people begin to learn to live with an “Open Heart,” it can have a profound affect on their health.  What do we mean by having an “open heart?” 

When our hearts are “open” we are willing to give and receive love.  We give ourselves permission to get close to people, to become intimate.   In addition we allow ourselves to feel, all of our emotions- pain, sadness, joy- everything.  In a sense “Learning Open Heartedness” lets us learn to be ourselves.  It gets us in touch with what is rolling beneath the surface of the ocean of our heart.  As we begin to touch and open and bring love to this deeper part of ourselves then the healing can begin.  Not just emotional healing, but even true physical healing can occur when we begin to live with an open heart.

The respected cardiologist, Dean Ornish, M.D. has shown this quite clearly.  In his book, “Love and Survival,” Dr. Ornish has shown that a direct relationship exists between a person’s contact with friends, relatives, marriage, and community membership and how long they live.

Amazingly, such interactions of the heart were more powerful predictors of how long a person would live than many of the things we normally think of as being important.

An example of this can be seen in one of my own patients.  I saw a woman a few months back who was in her early sixties.  Jane came to me complaining of unbearable chest pain that wouldn’t go away.  It made her very fearful and extremely anxious. 

After a careful cardiac evaluation, I determined that she didn’t have actual physical heart disease.    What became clear over the next few visits was that the deep sadness she carried over her husband’s recent death was playing a major role in her chest pain.  She had the feeling that she would never know love again.  Hopelessness and deep grief I felt was causing her pain. 

One treatment for this type of emotional “heart ache” can be prayer or what can be called spiritual healing.  Jane needed to flood her heart with love and allow it to wash away her fear and sadness.  

One process for turning deeper to love is a meditative technique called, Practicing Remembrance.  It is the process of using sound and breath with a sacred name for God to open the heart to love. 

Over the course of a few months as she began Practicing Remembrance, her symptoms began to improve.  Amazingly, her chest pain completely resolved.   Much of her sadness lifted, and she had a heightened sense of becoming alive.  She was healed. 

Her story is not unique.  Many, many people who use spiritual healing techniques find that they get better.  If they aren’t completely well physically, they gain inner peace and contentment.

“Learning Open Heartedness” is more than an idea.  It is in many ways a door- a door to the deeper parts of our heart that contains the peace and hope that we need. 

Is your heart crying?  Do you have an illness or an ailment of the heart?  Know that you can be helped.  You can be healed.  The medicine is an open heart.

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Kirk Laman, D.O.  is a board certified, cardiologist interested in heart disease prevention.   He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University.  He offers a free monthly newsletter on his website called “Mending Hearts”:  www.drlaman.com  His book, “How to Heal Your Broken Heart, ” is also for purchased at www.HealingYourBrokenHeart.com

 

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