Each week, our intentions and mentality will sew the very fabric from which our cloth will be cut. Those of you that will dedicate your time to training your mind and heart to be strong will soon reap the benefits of watching your body follow the very strengths you built upon. This is part of the reason why consistent exercise and healthy eating habits come to reflect in your physique. The true measure of an individual is determined by what you can’t measure – the intangibles. Anyone can measure weight, height, physical strength and speed, but you cannot measure commitment, persistence, or instinctive power of the muscle in your chest – your heart.
Choosing to understand that beautiful things come together one stitch at a time; knowing what you want to achieve; and knowing what you’re willing to endure and sacrifice in order to get it can become like an exercise for our instinctive resilience. This type of resilience is also present within our heart. For example, in 1983 the heart became classified as an endocrine gland when a hormone produced and released by the heart called atrial natriuretic peptide, also known as ANP, was isolated. This hormone exerts its effect on our blood vessels, kidneys, adrenal glands, and on a large number of regulatory regions in the brain while helping to keep our blood volume levels in check. An example of this hormone’s effects is illustrated during congestive heart failure: the heart’s inability to pump blood forward causes blood volume overload in the heart. When the atria of the heart stretch due to this rise in blood volume, our heart instinctively releases ANP which allows the body to reduce its expanded extracellular fluid volume by increasing renal sodium excretion… Meaning you pee out the excess fluid in attempt to compensate for the volume overload.
As we begin this week, let’s make the intentions to mirror this instinctive resilience that is sown within us! Happy Monday!
Written by Student Doctor: Navpreet Singh Badesha © 02/05/2018 All Rights Reserved.
Inspired by: Relentless by Tim Singh Grover
This is the focus of 50 scientific studies funded through The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, headed by Stephen G. Post, PhD, a professor of bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School:
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