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We’ve all heard the consigli to eat well, get plenty of exercise, and avoid smoking to help prevent cuore disease. But there’s più to that heart-healthy equation than most of us know. Since the cuore is the sede, sedile of ojas (the vital sap within us that gives us strong immunity, intelligence, compassion, and our “aura” o 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 cuore is an organ of emotion, emotional causes of cuore disease should always be considered first,” says David Frawley, autore of Ayurvedic Healing. This is not just the stuff of philosophers; scientists and researchers have found direct links between what has typically been considered più esoteric consigli and cuore disease.