We know that fear and distress can cause all sorts of damage to the heart.
And now we know that it's fair to say that the heart is a biomechanical pump, but we have to pay attention to our emotional lives in dealing with the health of this pump. One of the reasons it took so long, the heart had an almost supernatural quality that creates all these taboos around trying to manipulate or fix it. And then beginning in the late renaissance and going into the modern age, the heart was transformed into a machine that could be manipulated. That was a fairly common idea in the ancient world. I think that one of the ideas that I try to develop in the book is that the heart was always considered the seat of the soul and the source of the emotions.
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