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What do you already know ? 

Outside experts and the teacher inside yourself.

Help!  Stress seems to be everywhere these days, in all parts of our lives. 

HeartmyHeart wants to help you reduce stress in many different places where it crops up.  In addition to Erin’s help as a survivor of heart disease, and mine regarding stress reduction, we’ll soon have new expert bloggers to advise on relationships, nutrition and staying organized.

It’s great to have outside experts to help you, and we hope you will take advantage of all we have to offer. I also hope that over time, you can start becoming your own teacher. 

Perhaps more often than we think, an internal check with our own wisdom can help us find answers. Sometimes those answers are complete and sometimes we need outside help.

As you may have noticed, my initial posts have been encouraging you to touch base with your heart (both physical and emotional), and to reflect about how you can reduce your stress. 

I’m getting ready to talk more specifically about the impacts that stress has on our hearts. Before I do that, I’d like to encourage you to first reflect on this question yourself: What does stress do to your heart? 

Think about whatever information you’ve gained from experts, family, friends and other sources.

Then check inside, feel into your body, and see what it tells you about how stress is affecting you. As the haiku I recently posted suggested, “Pause – breathe – wait –listen.”

From all these different sources, what do you already know? What do you think and feel that stress does to your heart?