Here are 5 ways you can help yourself achieve happiness and simultaneously boost your heart health from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective.
1. Wear red. Red is the color associated with the heart and can spark your heart’s impulses!
2. Eat red foods, especially tomatoes, Montgomery tart cherries, red bell peppers and red grapes. The lycopene in these foods help increase protection from heart disease
3. Meditate on happiness. I like to think of a scenario that makes me happy and then take that feeling and mentally “rub” it over my whole body from head to toe. I do this every night in bed before I go to sleep!
4. Take schizandra berries or goji berries
5. Balance work, family, and community.