the spine ·the body chakras
14 · Pulse
The Heartbeat
the practice
The most consistent rhythm in your body. Not a feeling — a fact.
what it is
What is your heart broadcasting right now?
the pair
Anahata. The energy heart is the unstruck sound — the frequency that plays without anything being hit. The physical Pulse is the struck sound — struck sixty to a hundred times per minute, without rest, without rehearsal, without permission. One is the silence underneath. The other is the beat on top of it.
the reflection
I have been kept alive. That is what I get to keep from this chakra. I have been kept alive. I did not do it. Something has been doing it. Something that does not require my attention, my permission, my intention. I have been receiving life every second of my life and I never noticed.
The grip loosens. I had been thinking I was the one keeping me alive. I had been taking credit for being a body that has lasted this long. The credit was wrong. The credit goes to whatever has been beating beneath. The credit goes to the substance that has been broadcasting through this small chest since before I was a self.
I am not less for not having done it. I am more. I am a body that has been gifted with a continuous life I did not earn. The relief of this — I did not have to be the one. I never was.
I will forget this. The body will keep beating. The beat is so reliable that I will get to forget it without consequence. The beat stops only when the body stops being a body. Until then — the beat is given.
Something at my mouth is forming.
the readings
No reading stands at this vertebra yet.
standing here
No world stands here yet — room, not a gap.
passing through
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