This is episode 1,556.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for giving yourself permission to slow down.

When you slow down, you have the chance to connect to the best part of yourself, your best qualities.

And as you get ready to settle yourself in to meditate today, you will be guided in a meditation for gratitude.

This is the final episode of our seven-part series on your heart health.

Heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in many industrialized,

westernized countries such as the United States where I live.

And heart disease can be alleviated by reducing your stress.

As we've explored this series on heart health, you've discovered the town of Roseto in

Pennsylvania where we started off this series talking about how researchers there wondered

why prior to the 1970s, this town did not have anyone who had

died from heart attack. And there was no crime there. People were very happy. They were very

interconnected with their community. And in the 1970s,

when this community began to branch off into suburbs and people began to have more independence

from each other and not have to rely on each other so much and distance themselves from one another,

Rosetto experienced its first heart attack. And very soon after, the statistics from Rosetto

for heart disease and cancer and other major leading killers in the world to this day had invaded

Rosetta as well. So the researchers determined that what kept Rosetta healthy was that it was people nurturing people.

And if you live in a community where you feel very nurtured, you are so fortunate.

And sadly, it's so rare to see that.

Especially if you live in a transient type of culture.

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