Published: July 2019 (6 years ago) in issue Nº 359-360

What’s Moving in My Heart is Moving in your Heart

Feature story — Story by Emma

Emma

I consider myself as a smiling acroyogi who landed in Auroville in 2014 after stepping out of managing my international social responsibility business within the textile industry. Lately, my passion has been "growing with wild", realising our connectedness with nature, building a relationship with where we come from, and moving beyond the extractive economy.

I invite you to put both of your hands on your heart. You can do it now while reading. Hold it tight to feel into your heart, feel it pumping. Take a deep breath. What’s moving in your heart?

How we all are connected in our hearts

The sun enables all life on this planet. The plants that grow around us absorb the sunlight and convert it to food, through its photosynthesis. The plant also absorbs water and nutrition from the soil.

We harvest the plants and eat them. And then, what happens?

We have sunlight in our heart

Our bodies are a mirror image of the plants. Our metabolism releases the sunlight from the plant, it passes through channels in the small intestine into the bloodstream and through our body. It goes through our heart.

We have the water element in our heart

Imagine that you are holding a piece of watermelon. The watermelon is not a part of you, but when you eat it, it becomes a part of you.

Our bodies release water from the watermelon, it passes through the stomach, goes to the small intestine and from there into our blood and through our body. And now it’s circling through your heart. It will come out and go back to the environment again and then it won’t be you. It’s flowing in everybody’s heart.

What more?

We have the earth element in our heart

The plants are releasing oxygen that we inhale, we are releasing carbon dioxide that they inhale. We use the oxygen to break down the carbohydrates that the plants have created by photosynthesis.

By breathing in the opposite pattern with the plants, the nutrition from the soil can go into our bloodstream, through our body and heart.

The entire world is constantly passing through our heart

At some level, our heart knows the condition of the soil through the food that we eat, it knows the quality of the air and water. It knows how the food was grown, what chemicals that might have been used, how it was transported, the love or suffering involved.

The inside of our heart is in contact with the outer world in every heartbeat. No matter where you are or what you are doing, this is happening. It’s biological.

We are all connected in our hearts through the elements that we are dependent upon.

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