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Did you know that high levels of stress can affect your body in manMeditationy ways?

For instance, stress can contribute to damage and clots in the heart that keep your blood from flowing properly. This can lead to heart disease and increase your risk for heart attacks.

Things you can do to Start a Daily Spiritual Practice:Prayer

• You can pray or meditate using your own words or read prayers or poems written by others. You may also consider joining a prayer or meditation group at a local house of worship, or yoga center.

Did you know that illnesses like heart disease, diabetes and asthma are more common Harlem than anywhere else in NYC? This may be because these illnesses are tied to stress, which is hard on your body. Here you can learn about the many ways stress can affect your body.

The Bikram Yoga East Harlem TeamBefore becoming a yoga instructor, Harlemite Stephanie Pope Caffey was a dancer in New York City and Los Angeles.  In this article, she tells us how she started practicing Bikram yoga.

Yoga is a great way to reduce stress! In this article, Stephanie Pope Caffey, co-owner of Bikram Yoga East Harlem, explains how yoga can reduce stress. She also shares easy ways for you to use the practice.

Dr. McGregor, MD, discusses how people of faith can work with their doctors to get treatment that goes along with their beliefs.

Q: How can medicine and faith work together to heal patients?

Dr. McGregor, an internist and lung specialist who has been living in Washington Heights and practicing medicine there since he finished Harvard Medical School years ago, tells us how he was able to help his patient come up with different options for treating her high blood pressure.