As a physician, every single cell in our body is literally like a miracle to me.
How it functions, replicates, repairs, lives, dies, replaces. The fact that our skin is self healing, our bones fuse back together, we breathe and our heart beats while we use our body to do other things all day long without even thinking about it…
… and the fact that all of it, almost every bit of it, comes from cosmic dust and stars — it’s all just so damn magical. We are wearing solid, tangible bodies — I love the term “earth suits” — and we run a life spark through that body that brings the elements of stardust to life.
Researchers estimate that we are approximately 97% stardust, formed over 13 billion years ago. Scientists used infrared spectrography to survey almost 200,000 stars and found that 97% of the same elements that make up human life make up the entire Milky Way galaxy.
So now I have taken to calling our incredibly human bodies star suits instead of earth suits.
“We are now able to map the abundance of all of the major elements found in the human body across hundreds of thousands of stars in our Milky Way,” said Jennifer Johnson, chair of the SDSS-III APOGEE survey and a professor at The Ohio State University, in a public statement on the research.
Can you think of anything more beautiful?
Could you be any more magnificent?
Remembering that you are the universe, coalescing into physical form, in a beautiful living earth suit of stars, and that you are breathing through it this very moment, and thinking a thought at this very moment, and your heart is beating in this very moment, aren’t you so impressed with your body?
You are having a conscious experience full of meaning and feeling and using it to interact with other star dust humans. It’s so beautiful. The two of you — holding entire galaxies within, forming your own unique universe that no other two bodies could ever replicate.
We all intuitively can feel that connecting with others boosts our health, right?
How much better do you feel after a warm hug from a friend, the comforting squeeze of a partner’s hand, or the joy of laughing around a dinner table with your children. Sharing space with a loved one for even one minute is enough to completely turn a bad day into a good one.
When our heart energy fields are overlapping, we can become attuned to other, and we can literally feel when we are resonant (or discordant) with others.
Connecting to others is so important that it actually helps provide anesthesia to pain… that’s how much physical closeness helps. Medical studies are just starting to reveal the healing power of physical touch:
- physical touch has the power to reduce pain
- physical touch has the power to prolong pain free intervals (even in critically ill patients)
- physical touch has the power to calm brain activity during distress
- physical touch has the power to lower heart rate and blood pressure
- physical touch has the power to calm respiratory rate
And all of these studies are just from touch the touch of a loved one. Connecting and attuning with each other, overlapping our heart energy fields with those that we love, creating our own unique galaxy from two star suits.
So when you fall in love, you are specifically overlapping your heart energy with your lovers heart energy. Your bodies naturally attune together. You grow in love as you grow in sync.
Energy matches, breath matches, you literally become one energy field, together. As you attune together, you feel connected. They become your favorite person, an extended part of yourself.
You feel complete. And the reason you feel complete is not from some source outside of you, but because you yourself — completely within — holds the entire universe in your physical body. Connecting your star suit with other star suits feels magical, precisely because that’s exactly what it is… magical.
It’s so magical for two star suits to connect their two universe-containing bodies together that I wanted to paint it for you, to remind you of the multitudes of stars you each carry, forming your own private and totally unique universe, together.
No other two star suits could exactly replicate the universe you form together. So here is what I painted:
1. The background:
First I sketched out two figures hugging and holding hands, and then I filled in those figures with dark indigo colors on a neutral beige, yellow and gold background:
2. Defining the base:
Then I added different luminescent colors to the bodies — greens and turquoise and even a little pink and purple star bursts throughout and defined the border of these start suits with some white lines… then added some grey and lavender colors to the background behind them as well to make the entire color scheme more cohesive:
3. Star Suits:
Then the fun part — using white paint and lots of different techniques including flicking a paintbrush for mini-stars, dotting larger stars on with the paintbrush handle, and using a fine detail brush to make star shine come out from some of the largest stars, I turned the figures into their own galaxies filled with stars:
4. Soul Energy:
Lastly, I used gold paint to create the heart field, the living pulsing energy coming out from each star suit, bringing these unlimited galaxies alive in a human form, with a beating heart and a body and mind and soul that connect to each other, bridging the two galaxies into one connected Universe:
If you are interested in this original canvas, or if you’d like professionally Giclee printed archival prints of this image, to remind you that you have an entire Universe within your own star suit you are wearing, you can find those here — it would also make a fabulous gift to another star suited human being that you love and feel magically connect to!
The Entire Universe Is Inside You
(canvas & prints available here)
To the glorious human star suit you are wearing!
xoxox, Laura Koniver MD