How your emotions change the shape of your heart | Sandeep Jauhar

TED Talks Daily

TED

Creativity, Ted Podcast, Ted Talks Daily, Business, Design, Inspiration, Society & Culture, Science, Technology, Education, Tech Demo, Ted Talks, Ted, Entertainment, Tedtalks

4.1 • 11.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

"A record of our emotional life is written on our hearts," says cardiologist and author Sandeep Jauhar. In a stunning talk, he explores the mysterious ways our emotions impact the health of our hearts -- causing them to change shape in response to grief or fear, to literally break in response to emotional heartbreak -- and calls for a shift in how we care for our most vital organ.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh. You're listening to TED Talks Daily. When we say we're heartbroken or our hearts are full, are those metaphors or something more real? Today, in a fascinating archive talk from TED Summit 2019, physician and author Sandeep Jihar shows us, no, the heart isn't just a symbol for our emotions.
0:22.2	We'll learn how our emotional lives are actually written into our cardiac activity.
0:27.5	And knowing this gives us a guide to better care for our hearts, too.
0:34.0	No other organ, perhaps no other object in human life, is as imbued with metaphor and meaning as the human heart.
0:44.4	Over the course of history, the heart has been a symbol of our emotional lives.
0:49.6	It was considered by many to be the seat of the soul, the repository of the emotions. The very word
0:57.2	emotion stems in part from the French verb enmouveau, meaning to stir up, and perhaps it's only
1:06.2	logical that emotions would be linked to an organ characterized by its agitated movement.
1:12.6	But what is this link? Is it real or purely metaphorical?
1:18.3	As a heart specialist, I'm here today to tell you that this link is very real.
1:26.6	Emotions you will learn can and do have a direct physical effect on the
1:33.1	human heart. But before we get into this, let's talk a bit about the metaphorical heart.
1:39.8	The symbolism of the emotional heart endures even today.
1:49.0	If we ask people which image they most associate with love,
1:53.8	there's no question that the Valentine heart would top the list.
1:58.8	The heart shape called a cardioid is common in nature.
2:04.1	It's found in the leaves, flowers, and seeds of many plants,
2:10.6	including sylphium, which was used for birth control in the Middle Ages, and perhaps is the reason why the heart became associated with sex and romantic love.
2:16.7	Whatever the reason, hearts began to appear in paintings of lovers
2:20.9	in the 13th century. Over time, the pictures came to be colored red, the color of blood,
2:29.2	a symbol of passion. In the Roman Catholic Church, the heart shape became known as the sacred heart of Jesus,
2:37.8	adorned with thorns and emitting ethereal light, it became an insignia of monastic love.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from TED, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of TED and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.