You start dying slowlyif you do not travel,if you do not read,If you do not listen to the sounds of life,If you do not appreciate yourself. You start dying slowlyWhen you kill your self-esteem;When you do not let others help you. You start dying slowlyIf you become a slave of your habits,Walking everyday on the…
ekla chalo re (walk alone) – rabindranath tagore
If they answer not to your call walk aloneIf they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,O thou unlucky one,Open your mind and speak out alone.If they turn away, and desert you when crossing the wilderness,O thou unlucky one,Trample the thorns under thy tread,And along the blood-lined track travel alone.If they shut doors and…
the best – lao tzu
The best, like water,Benefit all and do not compete.They dwell in lowly spots that everyone else scorns.Putting others before themselves,They find themselves in the foremost placeAnd come very near to The Tao.In their dwelling, they love the Earth;In their heart, they love what is deep;In personal relationships, they love kindness;In their words, they love truth.In…
meditation – jerry seinfeld
Meditation has been shown to decrease symptoms and burden of atrial fibrillation. I practice it daily and also recommend it to my patients. I started meditation at age 7 and had been practicing intermittently until about 5 years ago when I saw this Jerry Seinfeld video. After this I started practicing daily. If you are…
yoga and atrial fibrillation
Dr. DJ Lakkiredy published an excellent study on the effects of yoga (+meditation) on atrial fibrillation:
sleep hygeine
Too many patients ask me for a “sleeping pill”. These drugs are habit forming and over time lose their effectiveness. They also lead to poor sleep quality, drowsiness in the morning, amnesia etc. Others try self medicating with alcohol, marijuana or other over the counter “sleeping aids” like diphenhydramine (Benadryl). “Sleep hygeine” is the best…
sleep well or die
Lack of sleep has been correlated with disease and death. It seems sleep deprivation modulates the autonomic tone and therefore leads to increase in risk of cardiac arrhythmias. The next study is quite interesting – either too much (>8 h per night) or too little (<7 h per night) of sleep increases mortality. It starts…
obesity and AFIB
Atrial fibrillation has a strong correlation with obesity. A study from Australia showed that if obese patients lost 10% of their weight, they had better outcomes. Another study shows the same. REVERSE-AF was a large, well publicised study with similar results. It seems that a lot of these studies come from Australia, where patients have…
dog walking in boulder
Boulder, Colorado is a great place to walk. In the 1960s, several forward thinking people established a greenbelt around Boulder – also called Open Space. Boulder is a great place to walk your dog off leash if you are a Boulder resident and have a “voice and sight” tag for your dog. Here are some…
street photography in france 2018
France is a great place to photograph people. 2 reasons – first the people are very colorful and often fashionable, the second and more important reason – I don’t speak French. I would just gesture and ask them if I could “make a portrait” (as Eric Kim says) of them. If they cussed me out,…