You have probably heard about the Golden Ratio (in math it’s known as Phi) before — it is a pervasive pattern in both nature as well as in the natural design of our human anatomy.
Even if you didn’t know it was called the Golden Ratio, you’ve probably seen figures like this one — first described by Leonardo da Vinci — that show our body’s torso proportions, limb proportions, facial proportions, finger and toe proportions, external ear proportions, etc… are all designed according to this beautiful, reproducible mathematic principle:
This ratio is a common theme in nature as well.
Just walk outside your front door and you will find that leaves, seeds, branches, shells, weather patterns and more create a beautiful spiraling pattern that echoes the proportions of the Golden Ratio.
The Golden Ratio is so much a part of nature it even found it’s way into two of the grounding films that I contributed to. In one of them (The Grounded) I interviewed astronaut Charlie Duke. He told me that the same reproducible, predictable mathematical principles that allowed him to safely land on the moon 230,000+ miles away, and then safely land back on earth, were what allowed him to see God’s hand in the creation of our universe. To him, it was proof of a Divine Architect who put these principles into play.
You can watch The Grounded for free right here.
And you can watch the sequel, Heal For Free — which also gives beautiful examples of the Golden Ratio in nature — right here right now.
But what you may not know is this: the golden ratio is not just a visually pleasing ratio for our external viewing pleasure, making beautiful spirals and other eye pleasing proportions, but it’s also found internally throughout the body and is in fact a healing ratio.
It’s true, the interior anatomy of our human body relies heavily on the golden ratio as well, with many physicians (including myself) that feel that the golden ratio is not just the ideal pattern for many of the organ systems of our bodies, but actually may be used to help treat illness and disease, once we understand it more.
Here are some fantastic medical studies that you might be interested in:
- The Golden Ratio in the structure of our cardiovascular system, including the heart: published in The International Journal of Cardiology, here.
- the Golden Ratio may help with regulating and even healing our cardiovascular system: published in The International Journal of Cardiology here.
- Golden ratio possibly helpful with diagnosis and treatment of heart disease: published in The International Journal of Cardiology here.
- The Golden ratio of our actual heartbeat: published in The International Journal of Cardiology here.
- The Golden ratio of our nasal cavity: published in the Ear, Nose and Throat Journal here.
- The Golden ratio of our skull: published in The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery here.
- The Golden ratio in our lungs: published in Chest Journal here.
- The Golden ratio in our limbs, fingers, and in designing how we walk: published in Neuroscience Letters here.
- The Golden Ratio possible help in improving gait disorders, like Parkinson’s disease: published in Sensors, here.
- The Golden Ratio design of our DNA: published in Interdisciplinary Sciences here.
This healing spiraling pattern is so pervasive throughout our existence that it forms the very pattern of our genetic code, our DNA.
In fact, you can pan down all the way into our cell nucleus and look at the Golden Ratio in our DNA, and you can pan out all the way out to the formation of solar systems and galaxies, and yep, the Golden Ratio awaits:
As a physician, our entire body is literally like a miracle to me… and the fact that all of it, almost every bit of it, comes from this gorgeous sacred geometric spiral of cosmic dust and stars — it’s so damn magical.
We are wearing solid, tangible bodies — I call them star suits now — 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.
Our heartbeat is pure soul energy moving through a physical muscle, strong enough that it makes it actually move — creating a beat. Our heartbeat is our unique soul music running through our star suits — run a life spark through that body that brings the elements of stardust to life.
Could you be any more magnificent?
Can you think of anything more beautiful?
Remembering that you are the universe, manifesting in physical form, in a beautiful living earth suit of stars, and that your heart is beating right in this very moment… aren’t you so impressed with yourself?
Not only is your soul running its energy through the entire magical star suit you are wearing, but it is creating a rhythmic song that you can literally hear. As a physician I could use a stethoscope to hear the heart beating more clearly, but you don’t even need that. A heartbeat was the first sound you heard as your life began to take form, as that star suit was developing. And everyone you’ve ever hugged, anyone you’ve ever loved, you could hear their heart beating if you just laid your ear on their chest.
And that heartbeat forms a golden ration, the diastolic phase (when. your heart muscle relaxes) and systolic phase (when your heart muscle contracts) which creates the heartbeat pattern approximates the mathematical golden ratio.
You can read about how the beat of a healthy heart closely adheres to the golden ratio, and how the further the pattern deviates from the golden ratio the less healthy the heart is functioning, in medical articles like these:
- The “Golden” Pulse (European Heart Journal)
- The Golden Ratio Beating In Our Heart (International Journal of Cardiology)
- The Golden Ratio In Congestive Heart Failure (Cardiology Journal)
- Golden Ratio and The Heart (International Journal Of Cardiology)
- The Human Heart: Application of The Golden Ratio (International Journal of Cardiology)
- The Golden Ratio: Regulator Of Our Cardiovascular System? (International Journal of Cardiology)
Our soul energy has the ability to play a golden ration beat out of a tangible solid object — a lump of heart muscle. How does this happen? How can the soul be captured, maintained, living, functioning within our physical bodies?
It is unbelievably amazing to me.
What does the golden ratio of my soul sound like?
What would the golden ratio of my soul look like?
In meditating on it, I had a wonderful visual image of my heartbeat releasing bursts of color into the universe — back into the stars from which my heart was initially made. So I painted it.
I painted a background of stars, with a colorful energy pattern — your heartbeat — the golden ration playing out across time and space.
A full circle of life, in energy. Formed from the stars, played through my body in an audible golden ration rhythm, then released in pure energy back to the stars again. And again and again.
The timeline of a life — a burst of colors and sounds and wonderment, playing beat by beat by beat from the first heartbeat to the last, all in a golden ratio.
Gorgeous and one of a kind and never to be reproduced in exactly the same way — after all, different star dust makes up your heart. Different soul energy runs through your heart muscle to make up your heartbeat.
Your heartbeat energy and my heartbeat energy are not the same, nor are any of the billions of other hearts beating on this planet, nor the hundred billion or so that have come before nor the billions that will arrive.
Each of us playing our unique heartbeat, our unique soul music, here like a magical flash and gone just as quickly, yet completely and fantastically ours and ours alone.
Any time you need a reminder that you are completely magnificent, place your hand on over your heart, feel the beating and close your eyes and imagine the energy, the colors, the warmth, the heat, the light, the heart field you are emanating out right now.
In fact, take one breath right now and do it. Place your hand over your heart, close your eyes, and breathe.
If you want a visual reminder of that, you may want this painting hanging somewhere you will see it every day, maybe your bathroom or dressing area or in your kitchen or by your front door, so that when you step out into the world you remember that you contribute your own radiant energy, in the form of a heart song, with you. Maybe in your office, so when you are at work you remember you are actually a miracle. Maybe in your child’s room, so you remember to hold them close and listen to the miracle of their heartbeat as often as you can.
Find it here: Living Stardust (original canvas)
Every beat is magic. Every beat is a miracle. Every beat is unrepeatable. For this reason I am not making prints of this artwork, it is an original canvas painting and is one of a kind. Just like you.
To our beautifully designed star suit bodies!
xoxo,
Laura Koniver MD
