The Art of Heart

 The art of heart! What thinketh Thee? That the title of our blog today is topsy turvy? Nope! I mean what I say, or write, for that matter. Yes, critics generally talk of the heart of/in, et al, art. Oh, yes, that is right, too, as i, a student of critical theory and literature, can vouch for. Good art has to have heart. For sure. Otherwise, it would be empty frippery. 

Anyways, that is not our theme today. We ARE indeed going to talk about the art of heart. That could mean a number of things. For one (and for once, too), not merely should  hospitals be state of the art. Hearts, too, should be so! Oh, no, wrong guess again! No, we are not referring to the heartlessness much on exhibition these days.

Rather, let us discuss the lack of healthy hearts these days. No, this statement has no symbolic underpinnings. The Heart Day, observed annually on September 29, has such awful data, proving that the heart disease, be it ischemic syncope or angina or be it the actual heart attack, is attacking the young. No longer is it merely an enemy of the senior citizens. The threshold has come down to forty-ish. 

Be it the heart ailments, be it the b.p. and diabetes (both of which are literally feeders for the heart trouble) are all life style diseases. Life as an eternal race, hence acute stress, poor eating and drinking habits, low quality of nutrition, air pollution, the list is endless that leads to arterial thickness/narrowness, and so on. The statin in most blood thinners, the alpha/beta blockers in the b.p. medicines, can indeed prove how medicine itself is danger(ously) poison(ous)!

Thus is needed the art of maintaining a healthy heart, and hence the title of our blog today. This art consists of maintaining not merely a healthy life style, but developing a proactive personality that protects the self at all layers of our existence. The need of the hour literally for all the age groups is the art of (maintaining a healthy every which way) heart!

Pratima@ Heart is where health is! Health is where heart is!