by Samantha Lotti | Jun 22, 2013 | Biodynamic Thought, Body-Mind Connection, Perception and Perspective
There’s no one who hasn’t experienced the richness of their own blood when bleeding from a cut. To some people the sight of blood is gross or scary, to some fascinating and beautiful. The fact that we bleed when cut means we’re healthy, it means the heart, in...
by Samantha Lotti | Mar 19, 2013 | Biodynamic Thought, Perception and Perspective
At five weeks the embryo is 5-7 mm long (about the size of a dry lentil). It is budding upper and lower limbs. Its heart is large and rapidly growing in size. By week seven the heart is enormous. Using an adult body as a reference, the heart stretches from the bottom...
by Samantha Lotti | Mar 13, 2013 | Perception and Perspective, Alternative Definitions, Biodynamic Thought
The anatomical heart has a natural tendency to dilate (expand). If it weren’t contained by the pericardium (the sac surrounding the heart), it would expand into the whole chest cavity. This might explain that sense of openness that we feel when our heart gets...
