10 Signs Of A Healthy Heart | Community Insight
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One of the common topics of the Internet is ‘how to be happy’. And one of the keys to a happy life is a healthy heart.
But I want to do something a little different today. I want YOU to fill in the blanks. I’ve laid out the framework for some of the key signs of a healthy heart and I want you guys to share your insight on the subject. Try to pick one that hasn’t been been commented on or, if they all have, one that has had the least attention.
This is an opportunity for you to give us a little insight from your own perspective.
And if you like what someone says, be sure to check out their blog so you can read more of their offerings!
1: Generosity
2: Enthusiasm
3: Optimism
4: Vision
5: Drive
6: Clarity
7: Perception
8: Empathy/Understanding
9: Patience
10: Love
This will be the last post until Monday, so take your time and pick something that you really connect with.
Important update:
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Ok, I’d love to comment on 3. Optimism
Being optimistic is often a little under-rated in terms of “things that will make you happy”, but I absolutely can’t stand being around people who are sad-sacks, or permanent pessimists! When people are like that at work I do my best not to associate with them…
Being optimistic is not only great for your own drive, motivation and “happy heart”, but it also gives people around you a boost and inspires others.
And if you’re not in the mood to be optimistic? Learn to recognise when you feel that way, and deliberately turn those thoughts around – remember the positives that can come from you being positive.
CLARITY: Seeing clearly is important. It allows you to not only see what’s in front of you, but what might cross your path in the near and far future. Without it, your decisions are built with faulty wiring.
Eric, I like this, and how you presented it with the suggestion at the bottom. No doubt, you’re a good blogger.
Enthusiasm:
I always like to have a “we can do it” attitude or be around people that have that attitude. It gives me motivation to forge ahead!
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These are great so far guys! I really appreciate you taking the time to share you insight.
@Ross: “Learn to recognize when you feel that way, and deliberately turn those thoughts around – remember the positives that can come from you being positive.”
This is really great advice.
@Sean (Writer Dad): This was one that stuck out for me because I think it is often overlooked. I like the way you present/describe it.
Thanks for the wonderful compliment! The feelings mutual.
@BloggerNewbie: We are certainly affected by the company we keep. Being around enthusiastic people does tend to run off. Well said.
I love Empathy/Understanding.
We can truly prevent so much of our heartache if we just try to understand and empathize with people. When we disagree with someone, just trying to see their point of view will really prevent all that negative energy from eating into us. Empathizing with any human being is really great for the heart. It has a way of really making our hearts larger. Empathizing is such a humbling experience – understanding another person’s problems really helps us appreciate our own lives a lot more!
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Patience. My kids are the ones who taught me much about patience. Never hurry life. Slow down. Smell the roses. Always present. Be joyful.
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Hi Eric – I’m picking generosity. When we give, of ourselves, or of our time, we’re concentrating our efforts on others. By doing so, we often forget about our own problems and worries. When this happens, we relax, we get “warm fuzzies”, and we are experiencing less stress. We all know how stress is bad for our hearts, so by spending time by being generous, we leave the experience feeling good about ourselves, and are often tagged as a warm hearted individual.
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@Maya: “We can truly prevent so much of our heartache if we just try to understand and empathize with people.”
There’s no doubt the world would be a better place if others could master this trait/habit.
@Evelyn: We can learn so much from children and their fresh/simplistic way of seeing the world around them. Great point!
@Barbara: “When we give, of ourselves, or of our time, we’re concentrating our efforts on others. By doing so, we often forget about our own problems and worries. When this happens, we relax, we get “warm fuzzies”, and we are experiencing less stress.”
This is so true. And the greatest thing is when you are worried about something, but get caught up in helping someone else with their problems. When you come back to your own issue, you find it resolved itself.
BTW, you certainly practice what you preach. Good for you!
I’ll go with “meaning”. A healthy heart wants to make a contribution to the world, however small, and wants work that is engaging and utilizes its unique talent and skills to serve others.
Great post..
To me..i think Love is the most important sign of a healthy heart,,
beacuase the heart which ables to love is able to have understanding, calrity and optimisim…and all the list.
However, as love is capable to make the heart healthy..it is capable to do the opposite..
here only, true love domenstrates..it is true love which is capable to gurantee us with HEALTHY HEART.
Thanks for sharing us this wonderful post
Regard, Rema
I have just written an article on my new blog about peace. I think another key for healthy heart is peace. Experience perfect peace is not about situations that you are in, being at peace is a state of being. Though things are tough, it is still possible to have peace.
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@Marelisa: “…and wants work that is engaging and utilizes its unique talent and skills to serve others.”
Anyone who works can relate to this one. Thanks for putting it so eloquently.
@Rema: I’m glad you enjoyed the post. Thanks for taking full advantage of the opportunity to share you thoughts with us. There’s no doubt that a heart full of love, true love as you put it, is necessary to allow for the other traits listed.
@nabi: “Experience perfect peace is not about situations that you are in, being at peace is a state of being.”
This is very true. If we always relied on our circumstances to be at peace, we would ride a roller coaster every single day, which is what many of us unfortunately do. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Eric.
I go for empathy and I include self-empathy. Being able to sense & feel how another person might be feeling can open our hearts to the rich intricacy of human experience. We can be empathic without agreeing with a point of view so empathy is one place where we can always connect with another human being.
Self-empathy is a em-power-full process. It is one that often comes last on our list of personal development “must do’s” and yet it has such tremendous power to support, nuture and strengthen our spirit and resiliency.
Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new, fresh way and move on. By move on I do not mean forget, repress, leave behind. But rather, to find meaning, to remember the specialness of what we are, to be with ourselves in a way that engenders growth rather than self-hatred or self-forgetting.
With self-empathy, practiced with compassion and Presence we can move beyond guilt, shame, anger to healing. We can move beyond right and wrong to what needs or values we were meeting and an awareness of other needs that we may have liked to give more attention to or acted in more harmony with. When we hear internal self-criticism we are really saying “I am not acting in harmony with my own needs or values” and this is an opportunity to celebrate this awareness and self connection.
Finally, I love empathy because we can “learn” to bring it into our lives – so we don’t need to be “born” empathic as we can “develop” empathy.
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@leona: “We can be empathic without agreeing with a point of view so empathy is one place where we can always connect with another human being.”
This is a great point and a great way to look at it. Without feeling the pressure to agree, we are more open to support the other person freely.
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