Open, Full and Imperfect: What You Must Know About Your Heart

Written by Maya Talisman Frost


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Anyone suffering from any kind of illness, injury or decreased ability already knows this. I am guilty of ignoring my body onrepparttar most important level—recognizing its power over me. In my continuing effort to connect body, mind and spirit, I’ve forgotten thatrepparttar 115377 three don’t always share equal billing.

Empedocles, a philosopher and scientist who lived in Sicily inrepparttar 115378 400s BC, wasrepparttar 115379 first to state in any sort of medical way thatrepparttar 115380 heart wasrepparttar 115381 origin of human emotions. I guess we’re supposed to believe, based on current research, that this is completely inaccurate. Our emotions are actually connected to our brains.

But really, it just isn’t as satisfying to think of love as being a head thing. Our hearts seem more poetic, more romantic, more likely to be swept away byrepparttar 115382 sheer force of nature that is love. We understand what it means and how it feels to be brokenhearted. We feel an ache in our hearts in quite a literal way. A headache is nothing like a heartache.

We use a lot of language that calls attention to this link between our hearts and all that is good, true, beautiful, and just. Whether we’re listening to our heart, opening our heart, connecting to our heart, trusting our heart, or simply living to our heart’s content, we regard it asrepparttar 115383 seat ofrepparttar 115384 soul andrepparttar 115385 source of tremendous compassion and tenderness.

Women are supposed to have a pretty good handle on all this, and that’s why I believe that we haven’t really considered women as being susceptible to heart disease. We’re great at picking up onrepparttar 115386 importance of being aware of breast cancer, but when it comes torepparttar 115387 heart, we want to believe that we are somehow protected from what we have come to think of asrepparttar 115388 stressed-out man’s disease. Orrepparttar 115389 fat person’s disease. Orrepparttar 115390 don’t-pay-any-attention-to-your-health disease. We hope that by simply being aware of our emotions, our habits and their effect on our bodies that we’re somehow immune.

I guess what I’m trying to say is this: if you have a heart, then you are at risk. It’s that simple. It’s terribly important to do allrepparttar 115391 right things, but even then, you’ve still got this ticker that needs tending. You need to know your risks, and you know to know how to reduce them.

I’m not sure what I’m going to learn about my heart when all is said and done, but I’ve already learned an extremely valuable lesson. My heart may be open, it may be full of love, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect.

I’m hoping for some seriously good news for Valentine’s Day this year. I’ll be waiting, and wearing red.

Maya Talisman Frost is a mind masseuse. Her work has inspired thinkers in over 80 countries around the world. She serves up a unique blend of clarity, comfort and comic relief in her free weekly ezine, the Friday Mind Massage. To subscribe, visit http://www.massageyourmind.com.


Buying Drugs From Canada: Can It Last?

Written by Kirk A. Johnson


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Demand for Canadian prescription drugs is high, so what about supply. David McKay, head ofrepparttar Canadian International Pharmacy Association, will meet with U.S. governors at their upcoming summit on drug importation to ask for their help withrepparttar 115376 large pharmaceutical companies. The pharma giants have begun restricting supply to Canadian pharmacies in an effort to quellrepparttar 115377 flow south. Forrepparttar 115378 pharma giants, asrepparttar 115379 drugs flow south, so do their profits.

Canadian pharmacies have made a commitment to take care of Canadians first but there is a loud cry for their services acrossrepparttar 115380 border. Some critics accuse that it's all about money, and that Canadian online pharmacies are making a mint selling drugs to American citizens.

It was that same argument thatrepparttar 115381 Canadian Medical Association (CMA) used when deciding to go afterrepparttar 115382 doctors who are "chain-signing" prescriptions. When a prescription from an U.S. doctor comes to a pharmacy in Canada,repparttar 115383 Canadian doctor reviewsrepparttar 115384 patient's medical questionnaire along withrepparttar 115385 prescription received, and then writes out a new prescription forrepparttar 115386 drugs to be dispensed, according to Canadian law. The CMA says doctors should not sign prescriptions ifrepparttar 115387 patient has not been seen in a personal exam.

This type of professional peer pressure isrepparttar 115388 doctors lobby at stopping, or significantly slowingrepparttar 115389 process they feel hurtsrepparttar 115390 profession. So far 1 Manitoba doctor has been fined $10,000 for signing more than 9,000 prescriptions and 3 others accused of professional misconduct byrepparttar 115391 College of Physicians and surgeons.

Withrepparttar 115392 recent Medicare changes so slow in coming, and so slow in creating any change,repparttar 115393 need for aid from Canadian pharmacies will continue a good while longer. It is truly unfortunate that a service providing a "humanitarian effort", has more than its share of negative forces working against it. It begsrepparttar 115394 all-important question, "Can it last?" Only time will tell.



Kirk A. Johnson is the writer/publisher for the Online Pharmacy Digest http://www.onlinepharmacydigest.com . The premiere guide for consumers to the online pharmacy industry offers informative articles, current news, and web site reviews.


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