Getting a Hope For Your Broken Heart
Our hearts can be disfigured. They can be suffering and stressed. Our hearts can be squeezed and distressed emotionally and psychologically to such a degree that finally they begin to whither under the stress. They crack or even break. The experience of getting a "Broken Heart" is real.
Losing a loved one, suffering with job woes, or having our lives broken with a horrible divorce are just some of the catalysts that can create severe trauma to our hearts.
The psychotherapist and author, Thomas Moore writes that "at one time or another, most people go through a period of sadness, trial, loss, frustration, or failure that is so disturbing and long-lasting that it can be called a dark night of the soul."
Unfortunately, hearts living through darkness and turmoil, hearts that are "broken" don't just suffer emotionally. Medical research has clearly shown that deep grief, sadness, and other painful experiences can cause actual heart disease.
In the 1970's medical researchers from the Mayo Clinic discovered that what we think and feel has a direct bearing on having a healthy heart. In a research study of over 170 people they demonstrated that people suffering with serious sorrow or severe ire can literally "drop dead" from something predicted Sudden Cardiac Death. You can indeed die from a "broken heart."
Yet, just as emotional pain and trauma can wind us tighter and tighter and ultimately create heart disease- the troublesome cords that bind us can also be loosened. We can learn to unravel the emotional heartache that is creating illness. We can learn to heal our broken hearts.
One important first step for heart healing is to recognize that our "dark nights" of broken heartedness can be a path to deeper meaning, perhaps even spiritual awakening. If we tune into this idea that our misfortunes may in fact teach us something about ourselves, something vital to our overall growth as a human being, then some of the painful "sting" of our heart's aching can be lifted.
Losing a loved one, suffering with job woes, or having our lives broken with a horrible divorce are just some of the catalysts that can create severe trauma to our hearts.
The psychotherapist and author, Thomas Moore writes that "at one time or another, most people go through a period of sadness, trial, loss, frustration, or failure that is so disturbing and long-lasting that it can be called a dark night of the soul."
Unfortunately, hearts living through darkness and turmoil, hearts that are "broken" don't just suffer emotionally. Medical research has clearly shown that deep grief, sadness, and other painful experiences can cause actual heart disease.
In the 1970's medical researchers from the Mayo Clinic discovered that what we think and feel has a direct bearing on having a healthy heart. In a research study of over 170 people they demonstrated that people suffering with serious sorrow or severe ire can literally "drop dead" from something predicted Sudden Cardiac Death. You can indeed die from a "broken heart."
Yet, just as emotional pain and trauma can wind us tighter and tighter and ultimately create heart disease- the troublesome cords that bind us can also be loosened. We can learn to unravel the emotional heartache that is creating illness. We can learn to heal our broken hearts.
One important first step for heart healing is to recognize that our "dark nights" of broken heartedness can be a path to deeper meaning, perhaps even spiritual awakening. If we tune into this idea that our misfortunes may in fact teach us something about ourselves, something vital to our overall growth as a human being, then some of the painful "sting" of our heart's aching can be lifted.
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