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We’ve all heard the advice to eat well, get plenty of exercise, and avoid smoking to help prevent hart-, hart disease. But there’s meer to that heart-healthy equation than most of us know. Since the hart-, hart is the zitplaats, stoel of ojas (the vital sap within us that gives us strong immunity, intelligence, compassion, and our “aura” of energetic body), any time we feel out of balance with our essential self in any way (through stress, through unhealthy relationships with others and/or the world around us), our bodies, and particularly our hearts, suffer. “As the hart-, hart is an organ of emotion, emotional causes of hart-, hart disease should always be considered first,” says David Frawley, auteur of Ayurvedic Healing. This is not just the stuff of philosophers; scientists and researchers have found direct linken between what has typically been considered meer esoteric advice and hart-, hart disease.