February is National Heart Month. I've always known that, but never really thought too much about it. I know about all the recommendations set forth by the American Heart Association for better heart health.
- Don't smoke
- Keep your weight down
- Exercise more
- Manage stress
- Eat a healthy diet
What about our spiritual heart? There are many attitudes, emotions and conditions of the heart that can kill our spiritual lives. Bitterness, unforgiveness, fear and anger can all chip away at our "heart" health.
Those things ruin relationships, stifle gifts and talents and dash our dreams. We use negativity to build walls around us - trying to protect our hearts from any more pain.
When we won't let go, allow healing, or forgive, we damage the best part of us. We will never reach our full potential - live our destiny - when we are closed in the walls of our own making. Looking through the keyhole of our prison door is no way to live.
So as we adopt better habits for the health of our physical heart, shouldn't we do the same for our other heart?
- Lose the weight of negative emotions
- Partake of the nourishment of God's word
- Exercise your gifts and share them with others
- Manage your thoughts - determine to throw out the negative ones
- Don't smoke
Okay so the last one is just good advice.
What do you give more attention - your physical heart or your spiritual heart?
Stay well....
Since I don't exercise as much as I should, and eat too much chocolate, I must say my spiritual heart, Jan.
ReplyDeleteBut I know I can lose more of those negative emotions. I get so worked up over little things; I'm the original mountain from molehill lady! Then I think, "This is so not worth all the energy I'm giving it!"
Thanks for the reminder to take care of both of my hearts!