Ecstasy makes Angèle's heart race

Angèle, a yoga teacher, is referred to a biodynamic therapist by her osteopath because she is suffering from severe cardiac symptoms. She has rosacea on her face, showing vascular disorders. These disorders arose after she first achieved satori, an experience of loving fulfillment practiced in yoga. Since then, whenever she wants to reconnect with this state, her heart starts to palpitate very fast. She feels she has become allergic to ecstasy.
Married, she frequently argues with her husband. Their relationship is very conflictual. Angèle finds herself in a painful dilemma. The possibility of reaching a state of ecstatic bliss is prevented by a bodily reaction of cardiac panic that puts her in danger.

The therapist massages the lumbar region, then the triceps, to draw energy from the lower back to the forearms and hands. The latissimus dorsi is a muscle that connects the lumbar region directly to the arms, allowing instinctual "gut" energy to circulate without overloading the heart. The therapist also insists on a finger massage, known as an exit massage, to open up the outward flow of energy. In this way, the therapist seeks to divert the upward flow of energy towards the heart by offering a bypass.

By the second session, Angèle felt less pressure on her face and noticed how much her cardiac symptoms had diminished. The therapist continues the massages for a few more sessions. Faced with relationship difficulties with her husband, Angèle had taken refuge in the transpersonal contact of spiritual love. This opens up a vertical energy pathway in the body between earth and heaven, which passes through the heart.

But the heart can't take on such a load if the sharing functions connected to it aren't open. Love fundamentally needs to radiate, and for that to happen, it needs to be able to pass through the arms. Strongly opening the vertical channel while the conflict in his love relationship prevented him from sharing this energy created an overload on the heart, almost to the point of a heart attack. The therapist's work was initially symptomatic, to reduce the cardiac load. He then opened up the possibility of working on her relationship difficulties.

Excerpt from the book "Biodynamic psychology. A therapy that gives a voice to the body". By François Lewin with Miriam Gablier. Le courrier du livre.