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February 2016 | Read this issue and more at www.healthandwellnessmagazine.net |
Hearts Need Goals
Have you set any for 2016?
By Sonia Gregory
“How many hearts do you have?”
I’ve heard new parents comment
that with the birth of each child,
they seem to grow another heart. Or
maybe just the one they have gets
bigger, in a good way. It’s good when
our figurative heart enlarges; who
doesn’t want to be a big-hearted person or to have someone to call their
best friend?
Yes, our heart is more than an
organ in our chest pumping our
blood. It’s been called the seat of
emotion or the center of our true
self. In healthy holistic living, we
would call it an integral part of our
body-mind-spirit connection.
What motivates you to make the
choices you do in life? Many would
answer easily: It’s their heart. During
Heart Healthy Month, it’s good to
think about how we could get in better touch with our heartfelt motivations to make good choices, maybe
even starting some new habits. Last
month was a good time to make
some health resolutions. Now’s a
good time to think about how to
keep them.
What are your goals? Who do you
love and what do you care about?
Most of us agree we’d like to be
around a long time with the ones we
love and have a high quality of life.
Choices we make on a daily basis
have bo [