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From the Ted Talk by Sandeep Jauhar: How your emotions change the shape of your heart

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Today, the care of the heart has become less the province of philosophers, who dwell upon the heart's metaphorical miaengns, and more the domain of doctors like me, wielding teocnohgeils that even a century ago, because of the heart's exalted satuts in human culture, were considered taboo. In the process, the heart has been transformed from an almost supernatural object ibmued with metaphor and mnaieng into a mahnice that can be manipulated and controlled. But this is the key point: these manipulations, we now understand, must be complemented by attention to the emotional life that the heart, for thousands of years, was believed to contain.

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Today, the care of the heart has become less the province of philosophers, who dwell upon the heart's metaphorical ________, and more the domain of doctors like me, wielding ____________ that even a century ago, because of the heart's exalted ______ in human culture, were considered taboo. In the process, the heart has been transformed from an almost supernatural object ______ with metaphor and _______ into a _______ that can be manipulated and controlled. But this is the key point: these manipulations, we now understand, must be complemented by attention to the emotional life that the heart, for thousands of years, was believed to contain.

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  1. meaning
  2. meanings
  3. technologies
  4. status
  5. imbued
  6. machine

Original Text


Today, the care of the heart has become less the province of philosophers, who dwell upon the heart's metaphorical meanings, and more the domain of doctors like me, wielding technologies that even a century ago, because of the heart's exalted status in human culture, were considered taboo. In the process, the heart has been transformed from an almost supernatural object imbued with metaphor and meaning into a machine that can be manipulated and controlled. But this is the key point: these manipulations, we now understand, must be complemented by attention to the emotional life that the heart, for thousands of years, was believed to contain.

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intensive lifestyle 2
stress management 2
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