Breathe
By Marilú Acosta
While an adult human heart beat between 60 and 100 beats per minute in 2019, during that same minute 35 people died from heart and vascular-related problems. These problems have been the leading cause of death worldwide for years. That is why since 2000, September 29 has been designated as World Heart Day, on the initiative of the World Heart Federation and the World Health Organization, seeking to make the world aware that cardiovascular diseases can be prevented, diagnosed in time, controlled and in some cases resolved. However, heart disease is also known as the silent killer.
It is said that there is a predetermined number of heartbeats established in our genetic code and/or in our soul and that this is the number of heartbeats we will live, whatever we do. It is also said that the higher the number of heartbeats, caused by exercise, the longer we live, but what if we are running out of our predetermined heartbeats? Although athletes have a heart rate of less than 60 beats per minute, at rest, so we would save heartbeats. No one is supposed to die of love, but how it hurts to live disheartened, being able to be described as moments in which we feel dead in life. Ancestral philosophies and apparently common sense dictate that the heart has a greater and more precise wisdom than the brain.
