Image: Artificial Heart Artery Prototypes
Strong Hearts Prevail
Our hearts are there to be felt.
That’s why there are so many songs written.
Healing hearts, breaking hearts and hearts of gold…
Heart Arteries supply blood to the heart.
I was asked to come up with concepts for weavings
using recycled Heart Artery material.
This was uniquely the year of my formal meditation
training, that took me to India for the 3rd time and the year Covid hit.
Turned out to be good timing (work wise),
to be there in training for 3 1/2 months, that would change my physiology and world.
Needless to say, the Weaving commission project was
lost in the heaviness Covid brought,
which also changed everyone’s world as we knew it.
At the time, I was questioning the mechanics of the practice of Vedic Meditation… and how would I teach it?
How would I explain the benefits?
Forever seeking the knowledge of what is
really happening each time we meditate.
What was noticed right away was that my physical
health improved.
I didn’t get the headaches that plagued
me for years.
Instead of compression that I felt in my heart and head
or a droopiness in my heart
(Weavings portray my sensations),
I recognized my mental potential became more clear.
I perceived more “aha moments.”
Connecting my feelings, by recognizing
what was really happening.
By releasing stress,
which is what we are doing each time we meditate,
it makes us more conscious.
Recognizing that those repetitive feelings of discomfort
are unsustainable and cause more stress.
A job, a relationship, diet, career…
When you meditate, it will be harder to maintain them
if they are causing you so much stress.
Because your heart simply isn’t in it.
We only have a certain amount of adaptation energy
to sustain something that is unsustainable.
Meditation gives you that platform
to recognize what is unsustainable.
Weaving pulls me into metaphoric connections
with what’s happening and how I’m feeling.
Meditation is the key to unharnessing the unsustainable.
Tap into your heart.
Learn to Meditate.
06.15.2025 Deck Talk available upon request info@fifthfloormeditation.com