“The real voyage of discovery,” wrote Marcel Proust, the French novelist-essayist, “consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” This bids fair to three innovatively alluring medical possibilities: how we think, or feel, love, and find meaning in our life. New research suggests that the human heart thinks and cells remember — what’s more, the two processes are related to yet another mysterious, and extraordinarily powerful, prudent energy with properties unlike any other known potential. These are amazing insights. However, one thing is certain: science is ‘delving-into’ distilling ancient wisdom — the energy of human spirit and coded information that already exists in our soul.
As the late psychoneuroimmunologist, Paul Pearsall, PhD, emphasised, such landmark research findings on our cellular memory and the power of heart’s energy exemplify an ‘old-new’ covenant. That when we unlock the heart’s code, comprehending human consciousness and healing, and also creating a new model for living — a template that leads to better health, happiness and self-knowledge — becomes plausible. While it is agreed that the heart not only thinks, remembers, interacts, and also regulates immunity, while storing information that constantly vibrates through our body, there is also yet another fascinating facet — a novel precept, to be precise. One that leads to a fresh premise — the science behind energy cardiology, a captivating, also expanding, field that is uncovering one of the most enthralling of medical, social, and spiritual discoveries of our time. “The heart,” as Pearsall put it, “is more than just a pump; it orchestrates a cellular symphony like Mozart — the sum and substance of our being.”
The heart is increasingly being defined as the seat of our mind and our altruistic soul — of wisdom personified, not just by way of spiritual parameters, but also beyond clinical observation and empirical science. This is, indeed, the profound foundation for energy cardiology, or ‘L-energy,’ the new paradigm, that takes us ahead of current medical science’s quantifiable understanding of electrocardiography [ECG] and echocardiography [heart ultrasound]. Medicine, as Pearsall observed, has been wary of taking the logic of the exact physics of ECGs to their inescapable destination. In other words, energy cardiology underlines that the heart’s biophysical energy, or information, travels throughout the body and reaches the outside. Heart sounds travel likewise. The question is: what happens to all this fathomable energy and information once it reaches the skin? The answer is simple: they leave the body and go into space.
This is a whole, new revolution in our thinking. It suggests that the heart is the ‘sun,’ the pulsating, energetic centre of our biophysical ‘solar’ system, while the brain is the ‘earth,’ the vital planet in our biophysical assemblage. Energy cardiology proposes that healing is ultimately a matter of the heart, not the head, or mind, alone. “The mind is all body.” This explains that it makes sense to tune into another realm far beyond that with which the brain is more comfortable with — the domain of the adept L-energy dancing between all systems. This is simply because — from the first miracle of the beginning of life to the final miracle of transcendence beyond life — you’ve your own spiritual recording chamber resonating in the core of your being.
There’s a protein called lysine demethylase 8 [KDM8] in a healthy heart. It helps to maintain metabolism, or balanced energy use, by curbing TBX15, a protein that decreases energy production. In a study published in Nature Cardiovascular Research [February 13, 2023], a research team analysed a large dataset on gene expression — the process through which DNA is converted to proteins in our heart, at a later stage of heart failure. They found that KDM8 was less active. This allowed TBX15 to be highly expressed, leading to changes in metabolism. The study also found that TBX15 was expressed at its highest levels in hearts where energy production genes were most intensely stifled. As the study’s lead author Paul Delgado-Olguín, PhD, observed, “It may be possible to alter certain metabolic pathways to prevent heart failure before damage to the heart begins.”
It is rightly said that every beat of our heart shapes memory that will forever be our legacy, alongside the infinite echoes of our soul that resonate long after our body and brain have ceased to serve our soul’s needs. As Pearsall dexterously epitomised, “Take plenty of time to sense the subtle code tapping in your heart and the other hearts around you. You will have the wondrous privilege of being a participant observer of the forging of your soul.”
— First published in India First
