September 29th - World Heart Day!
Today is World Heart Day!
2015 theme: Heart-healthy environments.
World Heart Day takes place on 29 September every year and is a chance for people across the globe to take part in the world's biggest intervention against cardiovascular disease (CVD). This World Heart Day, our focus is on creating healthy heart environments. By ensuring that everyone has the chance to make healthy heart choices wherever they live, work and play, World Heart Day encourages us all to reduce our cardiovascular risk, and promotes a heart-healthy planet for those around us. [Source].
Keeping our hearts as healthy as possible is very important.
In fact, the word 'heart' itself in English and many other languages can symbolise many things that are important.
For example: courage and determination, thoughts and feelings, importance and essence, love and compassion and possibly many more things. We can see these through various English phrases such as: Dont lose heart!, My heart goes out to those suffering, Have a heart!, Ive had a change of heart, Its the heart of the town!, and even I <3 you.
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" is also a common image we see that represents the word ‘heart, and often refers to love.
Across 7Cups, we can see many doing a wonderful job of spreading love to many of those within our community. Through supporting each other, allowing a safe space for us to share and vent, encouraging each other, sharing our kind thoughts about one another to each other, amongst many other things.
However, it can be challenging for many of us to include ourselves as recipients of those loving vibes we give to others.
Therefore, this days discussions on 7 Cups will focus on self-love!
Here are a few things you can get involved with on this day:
Discussion: Self-Love led by @Always25
Location: Listener Community Room
Time: 3pm EDT
Discussion: Self-Love led by @NewRomantic677 and @Ila
Location: Teen Listeners
Time: 3pm EDT
Discussion: Self-Love led by @Alicattt
Location: Guided Discussion Room (adult side)
Time: 6pm EDT
Discussion: Self-Love led by @MidniteAngel and @Ace13
Location: Guided Discussion Room (teen side)
Time: 8pm EDT
Feed Activity: I [heart]...
Information: Let us know what things you enjoy and love! Hashtag: #heart
Spread the Love: Community Shout Outs
Information: Give members and listeners a message of love and gratitude today!
In the spirit of this day, if you see others being kind, thoughtful, encouraging, supportive, or sharing something moving, heartfelt or just in need of comfort… why not give them a compassion heart, if in 1-on-1s or the chat rooms, or a forum upvote (+1)!
Hope you will be able to enjoy this day, and have great heart-to-heart conversations!
Did you know? Its also Invisible Illness Awareness Week. Learn more about that here.
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