“Thinking hard about subtle energy seems to lessen its influence while just being seems to make its influence stronger.” Paul Pearsall, The Heart’s Code
I use the term “heart expansion” to describe the escalation of the kundalini heat and associated Heart opening above the normal ecstasy of the initiated heart. For me heart expansions last around 1-2 weeks and tend to coincide with new or full moons, at any month of the year. They are definitely more cosmically orchestrated rather than socio-stimulated, as you will notice other people going into altered states around the same time. To a large degree the movements of the sun, moon, seasons, the bodies within solar system and the space/earth weather influence our social dynamics as well.
The heart then the nervous system are the first things to form in a human embryo. At 5-9 days the heart begins to form and the foundations for the fetal brain, spinal cord, and entire nervous system are set in place. By 10 weeks the heart is completely developed—the organism is developed within the field of the heart. As the dissolution progresses one can assume that the heart muscle itself is relaxed and made more permeable to energy to the same degree that the neuromuscular- skeletal system is decontracted. The heart being a holographic representation of the entire neuromuscular-skeletal system. As the heart starts to experience this “new space” it would go through contractions and expansions which in effect feel like gravity warping and crushing.
“…about sixty to sixty-five percent of all the cells in the heart are neural cells which are precisely the same as in the brain, functioning in precisely the same way, monitoring and maintaining control of the entire mind/brain/body physical process as well as direct unmediated connections between the heart and the emotional, cognitive structures of the brain. Secondly, the heart is the major endocrine glandular structure of the body, which Roget found to be producing the hormones that profoundly affect the operations of body, brain, and mind. Thirdly, the heart produces two and a half watts of electrical energy at each pulsation, creating an electromagnetic field identical to the electromagnetic field around the earth. The electromagnetic field of the heart surrounds the body from a distance of twelve to twenty-five feet outward and encompasses power waves such as radio and light waves which comprise the principle source of information upon which the body and brain build our neural conception and perception of the world itself.” Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Joseph Chilton Pearce says that the EMF of the heart can be measured up to 15 feet from the body. Yet the “immeasurable” scalar-healing energy field emerging from the heart would perhaps also be formed in a torus shape (toroid is a doughnut- shaped object), but this field would be many times larger than the electromagnetic field itself. The metamorphic awakened heart is more sensitive and responsive to the vibratory condition of the body and environment and the bodymind is dismantled and rebuilt within this new greatly expanded and amplified heart field.
Heart expansion occurs along with intense love, bliss and weakness in the arms. The heart expansions and grounding are also associated with fatigue because the heart’s field becomes so huge seems like it pulls one into the ground. This grounding is actually caused by temporary parasympathetic dominance which inflates the blood vessels and lowers blood pressure. The grounding can be so severe that it is really difficult to put one foot in front of the other in order to walk. This fatigue is dealt with through grounding the entire spine by lying on one’s back on grass. Also by walking on grass, repolarizing around running water and in nature, eating greens and avoiding stimulants. Whatever aids grounding and repolarization will reduce the fatigue!
At this time one is intuitively called to spend as much time as possible outside under the open sky and in nature because the electromagnetics of this event need to occur in communion with the planetary field and nature’s energy fields. Being inside buildings at this time you will feel cut off for your true nature—the heart expansions will demand that you be outside. The metamorph proceeds when we are connected to the earth’s energy and the sun. You could say that we lose our soul in buildings. After the body has grounded, the heart now freed, sours out of the body as though painfully breaking through the chest. To relieve the pain of expansion one needs to thump the thymus gland on the sternum like an ape, and this relieves the pressure. The thymus gland under the sternum wakes up significantly; this could be part of the huge expansion and energetics of the chest that is felt during an awakening. I have yet to scientifically verify this, but I am sure that the thymus is retraining white blood cells in their transmutational function.
Entrainment represents the integration or harmonization of various oscillators, creating a blending of various rhythms. The amplified heart field and the associated heart-brain entrainment is probably the cause of the increase in ESP, insight, higher states of awareness and supersensoral abilities that are prevalent at this time. The amplified heart and the opening of new areas of the brain, or the new synergy of parts working in greater unison, leads to a melting of the former being and a surrender to the bliss of transmutation.
The morphic field around us that is generated at this time of transformation is probably the largest it will ever be in our lifetime. This maybe a major factor in outer body experiences and ESP. Extrasensory means that the senses are so amplified that it “seems” like ones consciousness is “out there.” Ones sense of self is so radically different during kundalini I call it “super-sensoral” or experiencing the supernal realm. There is such an unprecedented relaxation of heart, muscle and nervous system that one no longer feels confined to the body, and ones feeling self seems to extend beyond the body allowing us to “feel” others from a distance. I could never figure out if the remote sensing of special individuals in our home range was due to these supernal senses or whether it was due to the amplified precognition of our own timeline. Perhaps it is a bit of both, having celestial supersenses in both space and time.
In a healthy individual a delicate balance is achieved between vasoconstriction by endothelin, calcitonin etc… on the one hand and vasodilators nitric oxide,
prostacyclin etc… on the other. These two modes of expansion and contraction constitute the kundalini path as it hyperboles from one extreme to the other…giving the expansion/contraction gravity warping effect. It is apparent that expansion phases where there is an influx of spirit, a relaxation and euphoria are associated with the circulation of vasodilators in the body. The dilation of the blood vessels lowers blood pressure and this increases fatigue—heart expansion and gravity expansion periods are always associated with fatigue and the urge to go to ground. Some of the agents that facilitate this vasodilation would be histamine, serotonin, acetylcholine, nitric oxide and even endorphins themselves. Studies found that arteries in an actively contracted state were dilated in a dose dependent manner by enkephalins and morphine, due perhaps to the presence of opiate receptors in the vessel walls. Another vasodilator is Adenosine, which plays an important role in biochemical processes, such as energy transfer—as adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and adenosine diphosphate (ADP)—as well as in signal transduction as cyclic adenosine monophosphate, cAMP. If energy production goes up in the mitochondrias during kundalini, Adenosine might be an important promoter of the expansion phase. When adenosine enters the circulation, it causes an increase in coronary vasodilatation.
In order to bring the body back to equilibrium after the expansion phase the sympathetic nervous system kicks in to bring about vasoconstriction. This contraction phase is associated with gravity crushing, panic, hypervigilance, desire for movement, and emotional stress. The agents of this phase include vasopressin, adrenaline, the catecholamines: epinephrine, norepinephrine and dopamine; antihistamines and caffeine. This serves to increase heart rate, blood pressure and raise blood glucose. Endothelin is a vasoconstricting peptide that plays a key part in vascular homeostasis. It is one of the strongest vasoconstrictors currently studied. Found in smooth muscle and endothelial cells and is instrumental in increasing the discharge of sodium through urine and the production of urine by the kidney. It also stimulates Nitric oxide (NO) release to redilate vessels and mediate vascular homeostasis. Overproduction of endothelin can cause lung artery hypertension. Prostacyclin is a prostaglandin produced in the walls of blood vessels that acts as a vasodilator and inhibits platelet aggregation. It is used in the treatment of primary pulmonary hypertension.
Prostaglandins are another important factor in the regulation of vascular homeostasis. Prostaglandins are a large group of fatty acids that regulate cellular processes, where they are produced. They are not stored but are produced as needed by cell membranes in virtually every body tissue. They may also act as messengers for hormones, in that the hormone binds to the cell, increasing the levels of prostaglandins, which activate a specific cell process. They participate in a wide range of body functions such as the contraction and relaxation of smooth muscle, the dilation and constriction of blood vessels, control of blood pressure, modulation of inflammation, glandular secretion and Ca movement. One such substance, which stimulates contraction of the uterus, is used clinically to induce labor. Prostaglandins also control the substances involved in the transmission of
nerve impulses, participate in the body’s defenses against infection, and regulate the rate of metabolism and cell growth in various tissues. Histamine stimulates prostaglandin release, which increases vascular permeability, producing a range of affects on brain function and metabolism. Several prostaglandins have been shown to induce fever, possibly by participating in the temperature-regulating mechanisms in the hypothalamus. The fact that aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have been shown to inhibit prostaglandin synthesis may account for their usefulness in reducing fever and inflammation.
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With the heart expansion of February 2007’s full moon, I realized I had not built up my body’s nutrient resources enough. Thus the monthly heart expansions were literally drawing amino acids (arginine, glutamine, taurine) and glucose out of my skeletal muscles in order to feed the heart expansion. And because my reserves are inadequate the rest of my frame goes into deprivation mode. Each heart expansion period would be accompanied with painfully weak arms, a sense of pain and weakness in the buttocks, fatigue and grounding.
I turned my awareness on the big-draw in my skeletal muscles and remembered that this has been happening every full moon now for 6 months or so at least. About 5 days prior to a heart expansion period there was a drain on nerve energy resulting in ticks and pulsations of muscles. Then 3 days prior to full moon I can feel the heart start to power up, with associated loss of strength from the arms and gluts. Plus I can feel what probably amounts to amino acids being removed from the skeletal muscles of the gluts, making them weak and sore. My theory is that the body was harvesting the amino acid glutamine and arginine (and possibly taurine) to convert to the neurotransmitter glutamate, glucose and nitric oxide in order to fuel the heart expansion around the full moon.
March 2007 was a very parasympathetic opening moon...it didn’t suck the nutrients from my skeletal muscles so that meant the nutrient saturation with my smoothies worked. However it blew my cardio system so wide open I had to spend a day in bed, and have been on go-slow for 5 days. It made me realize I now need to really build up the strength of my cardiovascular system with aerobics (running) in order to withstand the fluxes and flows of the cosmos. A silicon rich diet is important to endure heart expansions also both in improving nerve transmission and increasing the elasticity and tone of the blood vessels. I also find catnip tea useful for helping the mind to surrender, for psychological resistance to the expansion will create a tension differential.
By the late July heart expansion I had saturated my reserves through nutrient dense greens and superfood smoothies, so I only felt a little sleepiness rather than fatigue with the heart expansion. There was no sense of “drawing” of nutrients from the skeletal muscle. However, because the increased nutrition allows the heart to sore higher, I found I needed to moan, groan and use panting breath to accommodate the largeness of the heart. (A reminder that lying on the earth will help you to endure the times when the heart is most intensely blown open.)
During the peak we tend to flip from one mode to its opposite, but after many years there is not such an obvious flip into contraction after opening, for you barely notice any descent within the background of permanent ecstasy and heart expansion. I found that in the latter stages of the alchemy I do not go into sympathetic drive for crucial scary or stimulating events, but into parasympathetic. Parasympathetic overdrive involves: grounding, expanded blood vessels, great weakness in the legs, slowness in moving and the heart feels like it is falling into the ground. This happens automatically and the state will persist in directly in relation to the subconscious charge generated by the stimulating or provocative event or cosmic influences (such as an eclipse, new moon and equinox occurring simultaneously).
This second half of 2007 I am going through mourning heart expansions... where the heart is dropping into the enteric brain (solar plexus). It is delicious but laced with deep sadness of helplessness over our current human predicament. In the evening the expansion lifts to a more of the ecstatic side of the equation. At night in bed my heart wanted to soar open to new heights, but each time it flexed the guy downstairs would snore loudly. The opening heart loves whatever is there. If there is grief, anger or fear there, the expanding heart melts sweetly into that. The Heart (solar heart expansion) moves down into the solar plexus in the last few months of the year coming up to winter solstice and the enteric brain tells it like it is. The emotional solar plexus brain doesn’t confabulate reality as the head can do, but presents us with the raw reality of our inner existence.
Females tend to get weepy and whiney toward the end of a heart expansion period. Heart expansions tend to blow your expansion adaptive functioning so loss of left-brain faculties does produce depression. But there must be some specific chemistry with the aftermath of excessive heart opening, perhaps to do with serotonin levels, the loss of dopamine and maybe reduction in norepinephrine…and perhaps after the long exposure to endorphins (amrita) a tolerance point is reached and the neuron reuptake mechanism is overwhelmed with neurochemicals which creates a temporary neurotoxicity. And this produces the lack of brain function and the whining. Why females whine more than males I don’t know. Males must have different dopamine wiring, or be more efficient at clearing their brain chemicals. Or perhaps they don’t have heart expansions to quite the heart rendering level due to less oxytocin. If large amounts of oxytocin are released during heart expansion, as it is in childbirth, then any deprivation of cuddling and intimacy is going to show up as a pretty major depression. I notice the parasympathetically expanded heart does tie so intimately into the social arm wiring, that it is literally painful not to hug someone. Or it could be that it is the serum estrogen and testosterone levels which determine whether one whines after a heart expansion or not. Opening is hard work, perhaps that is it, perhaps we just don’t like to be opened beyond our comfort level when our adaptive faculties have gone offline. Anyway the moral of the story is that to follow your cycles in association with the annual/monthly moon/sun cycles and prepare for heart expansions. To maintain meta-adaptation and higher testosterone we need to be cardio-aerobically fit. Then the exhaustive/
depressive downside of a heart expansion will not be so extreme. You may not be able to run during a heart expansion, but run on those days that your heart is more normal, in order to condition both the heart itself and the brain toward more yang chemistry and mastery.
As the Solar Heart grows, during a peak heart expansion you might notice waves of intense physical heat coming off your heart…along with full-body heating. Simultaneous with this heart-wave heat I also had intense heat arising from my shoulder joints. That day I ate some cooked peanuts and the next morning my shoulder joints were painful. So I recommend you stay clear away from cooked, processed or damaged fats during the extreme heating periods of heart expansions, or active kundalini in general. For these fats just add to the oxidative load and contribute to inflammation—not transformation. As a general rule the hotter the kundalini heat we are experiencing, the more careful we have to be to not include cooked carbohydrates or transfats in our diet, and to increase our antioxidant intake.
“Inner harmony requires a person to think with the heart as well as to feel with the brain.” Maria Szepes, The Magic of Everyday Life