REMOTE GROUP CRANIOSACRAL ENERGY SESSION - 21ST FEB 2019 - HEART FOUR

FOCUS BLOOD CIRCULATION
I'd like to start this next session by focus on our blood circulation itself, the structures involved, heart, lungs and blood vessels, and on what actually moves our blood around. I've been re-reading Dr Thomas Cowan's brilliant book, "Human Heart, Cosmic Heart" again and I can't recommend it highly enough whether you're just interested in how our bodies work or whether you have a heart condition yourself - he's brilliant on treating heart disease.

REMOTE SESSION 7th FEBRUARY - HEART TWO

CRANIAL CONNECTIONS
One way that CranioSacral Therapy can help our physical hearts is through assisting the function of one if its controllers, the pair of vagus nerves. If you’re holding tension in your neck at the cranial base, and many people are, this can restrict those nerves. So we’ll start with a releasing technique for this area. Is there some life stress making you tense here? Maybe there's some way you can cope with that better in everyday life.

"Earth Heart," by DLynneS - more here

REMOTE GROUP SESSIONS - JAN/FEB - HEART

After the Spleen in the meridian cycle comes the Heart. I'm going to focus here for the sessions from 31st January through to 28th February, just from my first explorations it's looking like we have an amazing journey ahead...
What do you think of first when you hear the word "heart"? Emotions, personal traits, love, courage, strength? or maybe you're more aware of the physical blood circulation work it does for you. We're going to be exploring all its connections from the point of view of Traditional Chinese Medicine, everything we've discovered using microscopes and scanners, and also some very out-there ideas - I'm hoping we'll even get some insight into how our hearts might evolve as humankind evolves. Here's a couple of ideas for starters...

THE HEART IS NOT A PUMP
This isn't an idea that's filtered down to our Anatomy and Physiology books just yet, but it's a fascinating one to look into. Check out Dr Thomas Cowan's book, "Human Heart, Cosmic Heart", for a thorough exploration. There's an article by the author here. Our blood circulation may rely as much on a hydrophilic action of the capillaries, and the heart may be a vortex generator as much as anything else.

Here's a link to the work of Frank Chester, who devised a seven-faced form, the chestahedron, which mimics the heart and generates a vortex. In Frank's words, "The heart is not a pump, but an organ in which etheric space is created, so that the blood is sucked into the heart rather than pumped”. Do have a look at that site, there's many great ideas there, we'll be exploring all that much more over the next few weeks.

A FIFTH CHAMBER?
An idea that resonates with me a lot is that we may be developing a fifth heart chamber as part of our human evolution, a chamber that enhances our perception of and ability to work with energy fields. That's definitely something to focus on in one of these sessions.
MUSIC OF THE HEART
And how is it that a few pieces of wood gathered together into an instrument 300 years ago can give such a resonance to a piece of music, maybe a violin concerto, that it can pierce right through you?