Sanctuary for Heart Magic

YOUR SPINE & ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE REVOLUTION OF YOUR HEART

Sources of inner information and energy

People often don’t automatically make the association between their spine & their heart. In fact most tend to think of the body as a bag of parts rather than as an interconnected organism. As we’ve become increasingly reductionist in our thinking we’ve lost the unity of the whole inside of a descriptive map of individual pieces. When we shift from the perspective of separate parts into a connective view of relationships within one, we zoom out to see a complexity that was previously veiled. The dynamics within reveal a self-organizing whole organism that is interrelated and communicating with every aspect of itself. This view is missing in our modern way of thinking about the body. Despite us being lost in a sea of parts and disconnected from holism, the body still operates underneath this organizational principle.

As we zoom out and more clearly see this organizational principle at play we may begin to be curious about it. What is it exactly? How does it work? What information or energy source is fueling this whole organism that we call our body? While we might try to will our body’s to behave differently often our attempts fail. This is because the energy source of our personal will tends to be fractional and incoherent. By incoherent I mean it doesn’t have the power of clarity and by fractional I mean the light of our will is bent, twisted or in some other way distorted, creating an insufficient energetic potency. To state this simply our consciousness is operating as if it is a dimmed or flickering lightbulb. Our experience of this is that things aren’t clear, we feel confused, lost, disconnected, powerless and not at ease. This creates tension patterns in our body.

When the energy source or information (ie. our consciousness) that fuels our body is dim it is because our perspective is shallow or too close in. We don’t have perspective of the whole & therefore we aren’t accessing the energy that is available from the perspective of the whole. How does this relate to your spine? Your spine is a conduit for consciousness. Think of it like your cosmic antenna to a vast, zoomed out perspective that is full of unlimited energy and information. As we have experiences of pain, hurt and suffering throughout our life the spinal cord bends, twists, and creates various torsional patterns to protect us from pain. Well beneficial in the short-term, over the long stretch these twists dim the intensity and coherency of the light of consciousness that can come through your body. As evidence of this think how bright and light a newborn baby is compared to a teenager, or a 40 year old or a 70 year old. While there are gradations of this, and some do maintain access to a considerable about of their light, for most the human experience has a significant toll on our inner energetic and informational resources.

UN-DEFENDING THE SPINE

Revealing the heart

Now that we have discussed the spine let’s talk about its relationship to the heart. The spine is the backbone of the heart. It both protects the heart and also gives the heart stability to fully express itself. How does it do this? First the protection piece. When we experience pain the spine collapses around the heart. The basic structural components of this look like the head jutting out in front the body, the shoulders rolling forward, flattening of the natural curvatures of the neck and low back and tucking our tailbone underneath us. Along with this there can be various “sub-patterns” of muscular tension along the spine and within the extremities that create additional layers of protection. These get created by and are dependent on our often unconscious interpretations of our life experiences. This is an intelligent design as we need protection when we feel pain and suffering. However if pain and suffering does not find resolution, which it is intended to find and what we call healing, then we will live in this state of heart protection for the duration of our lives.

Healing is the path of un-defending the spine so that the heart can breath and move through the body. The spine and the associated musculature along with visceral (organ) connections, collect and hold what we haven’t processed. Remember the spinal cord communicates with everything in the body, not just the bones and muscles, therefore patterning of protection can be stored anywhere within the body. From a structural perspective as we resolve pain and suffering within, the spine shifts how it holds itself. The torsions untwist, the curves find their accentuations and the muscles and organs relax. The head comes into alignment with the body. We start to sit and stand with less effort and more ease. Our breath feels deep and nourishing. Mental clarity shines through the clouds in our mind and the heart starts to reveal itself again. Feeling returns where we were once numb, checked out or disconnected.

There are layers to the heart’s revealing. At first the heart is able to simply sit in the center of the body, not overly protected and also not overtly expanded. There is more energy than when in the protected state, but not yet overflowing. There is a stronger sense of a personal self, but not a felt sense of interconnection with everything. It is the transition from collapse into self-confidence and personal power, which is a huge energetic shift for most people. Next the heart begins to stretch structurally and expand energetically coming forward of the head and belly areas. This starts the transition from head led living to heart led living. It doesn’t mean that the mind goes away, rather that the heart comes into primary position and personal will takes its cues from the heart. Here the flexibility and stability of the unbound spine support the heart to move more and more forward. As the the personal heart expands it reaches a collective heart field that is full of more energy and information than it has on its own. Here interconnectedness and inseparability is known.

Why do I make such a stink about the heart? The heart is the full expression of our light through form. It is the self-organizing principle unblocked or unrestricted. It’s energetic frequency being love, is the highest source of coherent light there is. It is limitless. With the heart informing and energizing the body we are in a high state of well-being where we can honestly hold all in love while simultaneously taking whatever actions we need to on the physical plane. Does this mean we never feel pain again? No. We will feel pain until there is no more learning left in it for us. However it does mean that we are connected to a powerful source of energy and information. We no longer feel disconnected, lost or that life is up to us alone. We can be whatever a moment requires of us to be, without taking anything personally or judging ourselves or others. We are free to be ourselves and therefore we are free, even with a body and all of the things it requires.

While the heart is always here, we aren’t always able to access it due to protective patterns within our spine. As we journey along our healing process, our nervous unwinds and with encouragement the heart becomes more and more known to us. This is the revolution of the heart.

Dr. Amanda Lalita Love, DC, MSAc, L.Ac

Network Spinal Chiropractor & Heart Coherence Specialist at the Sanctuary for Heart Magic, a Mentor for Heart-Led Healers at Soul Luminaries & the Writer of The Everyday Divine.