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Phytobiophysics these traumas as structural disorders in the skeleton and in the way we breathe. The mental journey has a direct relationship with oxygen and our body’s use of oxygen. The Emotional Journey The emotional journey is the journey of our senses and the journey that gives our lives purpose. This is the journey of loving, giving, creation and maturity, the journey of loving relationships that are of paramount importance in our lives. When we are hurt on the emotional journey this will manifest as functional disorders. The Physical Journey The physical journey is the journey of now, today and is to do with daily routine. Getting up in the morning, how we slept the night before, whether we are happy or angry, whether someone has hurt us right this very moment. The physical journey is about the digestive system, assimilation and the utilisation of nutrients. The physical journey is about growth, breathing, the heart beat, digestion, elimination and living. We travel on all the journeys at all times throughout our lives. Every emotion and experience that we feel during our lives has a subtle yet profound reflexive action on the four valves of the heart. Relationships are of paramount importance in our lives, the way we relate to our loved ones is an exceedingly important aspect as to whether we are well. The location of the block is decreed by the relationship of the social breakdown within the family. The depth of the block or the plane upon which it manifests is influenced by the degree of trauma. •Those of us who live in isolation from our loved ones frequently fall ill. •Those of us who are saddened and embittered by the circumstance of our lives frequently fall ill. •Those of us who get stopped and held back on our journey of life and are not able to overcome these circumstances frequently fall ill. It is not until we really start to understand these serious tragedies and traumas that occur in our lives and come to terms with them and are then able to forgive and forget and move on, that we recover from illnesses. Father My Father I Father Fatherhood Youth My Youth My Son I Youth Brother 40 1 3 2 4 Mother My Mother I Mother Motherhood Baby My Baby My Daughter I Baby Sister YOGALife I Summer 2010 Heart Blockages Wherever there is a block in one of the chambers of the heart, there will be corres - ponding physical reflex blocks throughout the body. The Physical Correspondence of Negativity Plane Negativity Effect Spiritual Death /desertion/betrayal/shock Structural degeneration Mental Sexual/verbal aggression/neglect Structural chronicity Emotional Grief/heartache/sadness/ heartbreak Functional degeneration Physical Bereavement/victimisation/suppression Functional chronicity The Heart is the fulcrum of the body All energy travels through the heart For each one of us to be in harmony with our soul, emotions, the environment and our relationships, we need to travel freely on our journey through life. Each stage of our journey creates different responsibilities and commitments. We relate to friends and loved ones in our lives in different ways at different times, hence a person will relate differently according to the relationship with the people in their environ - ment. A healthy man will behave in a protective way towards his child but passionately towards his wife, lovingly towards his mother and respectfully towards his father. He will treat strangers differently from his close family. Furthermore, when a trauma affects a close family member, the pain will be far greater than if it were a stranger. As the blood flows freely through our hearts and bodies so also should our relationships and emotions flow freely through our lives. The four chambers of the heart are physical structures of the human body and correspond to the four quarters of the body. Each chamber is separated by a valve that gives its name to the individual constitution. Constitution is dependent on inheritance, environment, evolution, occurrence, experience, accident and trauma. Negative experiences could be classified as keys which turn the lock in the gateways, the valves of the heart.. When the gateways are locked we are trapped in the chamber and behave accordingly and fall ill accordingly. The four basic constitutions of humanity are named after the heart valves. The Tri-Cuspid Constitution is the father figure. Leader, Strong and Noble. Negativity manifests emotionally as aggression, domination and physical cruelty. The Pulmonary Constitution is the youth. Tall, Vital and Slender. Negativity manifests emotionally as loss of self worth, aloof, cold withdrawal and sarcasm. The Mitral Constitution is the mother earth. Warm, Loving and Bountiful. Negativity manifests emotionally as destructive, oppressive smothering and nagging. The Aortic Constitution is the baby. Perfect, Rounded, Creation of Life. Negativity manifests emotionally as victimisation, bereavement grief, and theft. The Five Senses The five senses, touch, taste, sight, hearing and smell connect each one of us to life. Through the senses, we ex - perience emotions that have a profound effect on our souls and manifest as subtle changes in the function of the body. Since function governs structure, changes in mood and emotion will also have an effect on the physical structure of the body. The more profound the emotion, the deeper the change in function and structure. Hence, emotions may be positive and create harmony and healing or negative and create disharmony (disease) and destruction. Trauma and tragedy create wounds that leave scars
on the soul. These scars leave their mark, which appear as craters. The degree of trauma will determine the depth of the crater and the level of disharmony. Negative emotions create visible physical distortion that manifests as signs in the face and eyes. Facial expressions are controlled by the twelve pairs of cranial nerves. The cranial nerves are the guardians of the organs of the five senses. Since we experience emotions through the senses, these changes in emotion reflect as facial expressions, wrinkles and distortion. Emotions affect the nervous system and trauma reflects as lesion marks in the iris. Iridology is the analytical science of interpretation of these visible lesions. Iridology shows that every experience creates a visible lesion in the iris that may be interpreted as a physical disorder. It is possible to relate these subtle changes as imbalances that occur in the function of the heart and have a distinct effect on the valves of the heart. The four chambers of the heart relate to the four quarters of the body. So… as we are wounded by negative emotions during our journey through life, so, also, is the Lotus of the inner heart wounded. The heart is the fulcrum of the energy flow through the body. Every experience, every emotion and all of life’s daily expectations and occurrences have a subtle yet profound effect on the heart-beat and the flow of blood through the heart. The four chambers of the heart relate to the four quarters of the body and the four magnetic poles of the earth. The four valves of the heart are the gateways through the chambers. The function of the valves is impaired by negative emotions, which leads to creating patterns of disease and tendencies to inherent disorders. A childhood wound may damage on a spiritual level. This manifests as a deep lesion that has a long-term disturbing effect on a specific valve of the heart and therefore all the corresponding organs. Positive emotions create healing on all levels of our journey and as we travel through life we have a choice to recover from tragedy through love and understanding or we may take the negative attitude to further trauma and disease. The journey to recovery is an individual journey and yet there is a pattern to life on all levels of consciousness. The journey to recovery is a journey of choice. Life is Energy-Light is Energy Each level and meridian of the human body vibrates on a specific colour frequency. Light is the visible part of a very wide spectrum of energy. It is that part of the electromagnetic spectrum to which the human eye is sensitive and that part of the energy field that sustains life as we know it. Within its narrow part of the spectrum, light varies in colour, depending on frequency and wavelength. Colour radiates from the comparatively low frequency of infra-red to red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet and ultraviolet. Light is measured in Angstroms. This is a unit of length used to measure one hundred millionth (10 – 8) of a centimetre of a radiation wavelength. The Angstrom is one tenth of a nanometre (10A=1nm). White light splits into the rainbow: Ultra Violet 380 nm, Violet 423 nm, Indigo 449 nm, Blue 475 nm, Green 512 nm, Yellow 573 nm, Orange 607 nm, Red 680 nm, Infra Red 780 nm. The shorter the wavelengths of colour the higher the Phytobiophysics frequency and therefore the penetration potential is increased. It is for this reason that colours which fall in the high frequency range of sky colours such as ultraviolet, violet and indigo are effective in the treatment of spiritual, emotional and nervous system disorders. Whilst low frequency earth colours such as yellow, orange and red are more effective for the treatment of the physical body. In 1666, Isaac Newton showed that white light could be split into different colours by passing it through a glass prism. The rainbow occurs because each colour wavelength is refracted at a different angle. A rainbow is a spectrum of light produced by the natural prism of raindrops in the atmosphere. Colour results from the absence or the absorption of other wavelengths. A red object appears red because other colours are absorbed and only red is reflected. Every chemical element and every substance on the planet has its own characteristic pattern of energy frequency that can be related to the colour-band. It is possible to relate the vibration of each flower to a colour vibration. The part of the colour wavelength that can be perceived by the naked eye vibrates between 420 to 680 nanometres however, despite the fact that we cannot see all the colour frequencies we still feel them and these frequencies play a vital role in the harmony of life. The electro-magnetic frequencies that are close to colour on either end of the colour spectrum are ultra - violet and infra-red. At the ends of the colour spectrum, colour fades into invisibility. Light energy comes from the sun and the sunlight that the moon reflects. Light is vital for the survival of the life force. Without light, life cannot be sustained. Colours play a valuable role in healing, energizing and harmonizing the different levels and meridians of the body. White light enters the body through the eyes and via the melanin in the skin to the pineal gland. The pineal gland acts as a prism, splitting the light into the different frequencies of colour. The resonances of the different colours balance the energy on each chakra or level. The rainbow travels through the body, from the hot, low frequencies of infra-red and red which relate to the earth, base chakra to the cool, high frequencies of ultraviolet and violet, which relate to the crown chakra of the mind and soul and the brain. Every cell in the body vibrates on a frequency that is ordered and in harmony with the whole. Each species of cell in the body vibrates on a different frequency but the homeostatic current produced by a healthy body is a constant flow of 5.4 micro amps. Health disturbances create an interference with this flow. It is therefore possible to accurately measure disturbances in the flow of energy through the acupuncture points by using a galvanometer calibrated in micro amps. Each level of the body vibrates on a specific energy frequency which can be measured as colour. Diana Mossop created Phytobiophysics, based on vibrational medicine and the healing qualities of plants and flowers. She created a whole array of floral essences.In her workshops, you will become acquainted with the properties of flowers and plants and learn to use them for healing. YOGALife I Summer 2010 41
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