We’ve all heard the consejos to eat well, get plenty of exercise, and avoid smoking to help prevent corazón disease. But there’s más to that heart-healthy equation than most of us know. Since the corazón is the asiento of ojas (the vital sap within us that gives us strong immunity, intelligence, compassion, and our “aura” o energetic body), any time we feel out of balance with our essential self in any way (through stress, through unhealthy relationships with others and/or the world around us), our bodies, and particularly our hearts, suffer. “As the corazón is an organ of emotion, emotional causes of corazón disease should always be considered first,” says David Frawley, autor of Ayurvedic Healing. This is not just the stuff of philosophers; scientists and researchers have found direct enlaces between what has typically been considered más esoteric consejos and corazón disease.