How a Simple Mindset Shift Can Reduce the Risk of Heart Disease and Improve Overall Health | Dr. Tara Narula
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
A smarter way to think about disease prevention.
Dr. Tara Narula is a board-certified cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan and Chief Medical Correspondent for ABC News. Her new book is The Healing Power of Resilience: A New Prescription for Health and Well-Being.
In this episode we talk about:
- What resilience really is, why most of us already have it, and how it can be strengthened
- The overlooked link between mental health, physical health, and recovery from illness
- Why mindset and acceptance matter as much as medical treatment when facing health challenges
- How resilience applies to major life changes, trauma, and chronic disease.
- Practical psychological tools for working with anxiety, fear, and repetitive thought patterns
- Why flexible thinking matters
- How to adapt when life doesn't go according to plan
- How beliefs, mindset, and the mind–body connection shape stress, healing, and resilience
- Why movement, sleep, and facing fear are essential ingredients in building real resilience
- How reframing identity can help people move forward after illness, trauma, or loss
- Why connection, love, and small acts of kindness are powerful and underused medicine
- How hope, faith, and purpose shape resilience, healing, and long-term health
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:18.4 | Hey, hey, everybody, how we doing? Speaking as a lifelong hypochondriac, I found this conversation to be extremely helpful. |
| 0:26.7 | I don't know if this is true for you, but I spent a lot of time dreaming up horrible health |
| 0:32.2 | scenarios and then marinating and anxiety. |
| 0:35.6 | But I learned a ton in this interview about how one of the most |
| 0:38.8 | effective things you can do to protect yourself from heart disease and other health conditions |
| 0:43.5 | is to shift your mindset, specifically to shift your mindset toward resilience. I'll let my guest |
| 0:51.2 | today provide a detailed definition of that term resilience. |
| 0:55.0 | She's also going to provide a detailed cookbook for training in resilience. |
| 0:59.9 | Said guest is Dr. Tara Nerula. |
| 1:02.4 | She's a board certified cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. |
| 1:06.4 | She's also the chief medical correspondent for my alma mater ABC News. She's got a new book called |
| 1:12.9 | The Healing Power of Resilience. In this conversation, we talk about what resilience really is, |
| 1:18.7 | why most of us already have it, and how it can be strengthened, and the overlooked link between |
| 1:25.0 | mental health, physical health, and recovery from illness, |
| 1:28.8 | why mindset matters as much as medical treatment when you're facing health challenges, |
| 1:33.3 | how resilience applies to major life changes, trauma, and chronic disease, practical, psychological |
| 1:39.4 | tools for working with anxiety, fear, and repetitive thought patterns, why flexible thinking matters, |
| 1:45.6 | how to adapt when life does not go according to plan, how beliefs and the mind-body connection |
| 1:51.3 | shape stress, healing, and resilience, why movement, sleep, and facing fear are essential ingredients |
| 1:57.3 | in building resilience, and much more. One great way to practice resilience and reduce |
| 2:04.7 | rumination is meditation. And I've got a new meditation app that you might want to check out. |
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