We’ve all heard the payo to eat well, get plenty of exercise, and avoid smoking to help prevent puso disease. But there’s madami to that heart-healthy equation than most of us know. Since the puso is the upuan of ojas (the vital sap within us that gives us strong immunity, intelligence, compassion, and our “aura” or 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 puso is an organ of emotion, emotional causes of puso disease should always be considered first,” says David Frawley, may-akda of Ayurvedic Healing. This is not just the stuff of philosophers; scientists and researchers have found direct iugnay between what has typically been considered madami esoteric payo and puso disease.