An Integrated Strategy that Supports Behavioral Modification while Optimizing Lifestyle Choices is Essential to Reverse the Rising Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease

Patients and their physicians often treat the signs and symptoms of heart disease as they develop. However, heart disease is a slow process that develops over decades and can be prevented. Coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, obesity and diabetes account for the majority of heart disease. Current risk stratification is used to identify risk for disease and can help guide individuals to pursue healthier lifestyle choices. However, these disease states are the result of chronic exposure of the blood vessels to excessive insults. These insults come in many forms including physical forces such as pressure, biochemical forces and electromagnetic forces. The latter two forces are products of our thoughts, emotions, beliefs, exposures and experiences.

It is well known that the chronic emotional unease that includes anger, shame, guilt and doubt activate the sympathetic nervous system leading to excessive stress on the cardiovascular system. If this unease is not relieved then heart disease will develop. Therefore, health is best preserved when the systems of the body are acting in harmony and stresses are neutralized, otherwise known as a state of coherence. To achieve this resilient state of coherence, individuals need to find balance in their life allowing there autonomic nervous system to function in a more harmonious way along with the immune, endocrine, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems. If cardiovascular disease is the tip of the iceberg, then the base is made up of mental and emotional states, adverse life events or trauma, unhealthy relationships and discordant energy states within the body.

Our integrated cardiology program embraces all aspects of an individual’s being including their physical body, emotional and mental body, and spiritual body. Modern medicine has abandoned the exploration of the individual’s soul and spirit. Yet, much of the knowledge of the ancient wisdom traditions is being validated with modern scientific methodology. Two such examples are the now widely recognized health benefits of meditation and the expanding understanding of the hearts electromagnetic fields which are able to influence both emotions and the physical response to emotions. The fact that we can change our biology through our thoughts, beliefs and emotional responses is fundamental to the healing processes of many ancient healers.

We are Complex Organisms with Widely Variable Individual Exposures and Experiences that Dictate our Biology

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