2.5 Billion Vibrations, the Musical Scale of the Heart Was 'G' | A Story About How Interesting It Was to Look at the Body Through Both Western and Eastern Medicine
There is almost nothing in this world that does not vibrate.
Humans, buildings, the ground, and the air.
Not just things with form, but also sound, heat, and heartbeats.
They are constantly moving while shaking.
I have long been strongly drawn to such 'vibrations'.
📖 Books costing tens of thousands of yen and invisible readers
I once became interested in German vibrational medicine.
Vibrational medicine seems to be an idea that attempts to reinterpret the concepts of meridians and acupoints in Eastern medicine using the term 'frequency' used in Western physics.
The related books cost tens of thousands of yen.
Even so, I bought them without hesitation.
I ran OCR on them and read them one page at a time with a screen reader.
I think it is a field where it is hard to say that scientific evaluation is established.
Even so, I was strongly drawn to the idea itself.
Perhaps that is because, for me, who cannot see, 'vibration' is not just a metaphor.
I feel the vibration of the air.
The texture of the air is different on cloudy days and sunny days.
There are days when the sound of my white cane hitting the ground spreads radially.
There are also days when it extends straight ahead.
When there is nothing unnecessary around, the vibration of the sound reaches far.
For me, who cannot see, vibration is a language for knowing the world.
That is why I found a perspective that considers the body as something that 'vibrates' to be somewhat convincing.
⚕️ Medicine that measures and medicine that balances
Western medicine measures the body.
Pulse, electrocardiogram, blood pressure, respiratory rate.
It turns them into numbers, tracks changes, and finds abnormalities.
On the other hand, Eastern medicine balances the body.
The flow of qi and blood, cold and heat, tension and stagnation.
It looks at changes that have not yet become words.
Rather than which one is correct, I think the angle from which they are viewed is different.
What Western medicine perceives as pulsation, Eastern medicine viewed as resonance.
When you think about it that way, even the same body suddenly gains depth.
💓 2.5 billion times, it never stops
For example, the heart.
From the perspective of Western medicine, the heart is an organ that continues to beat without rest.
It follows electrical signals, repeatedly contracting and expanding to send blood throughout the body.
It is so taken for granted that we often forget, but this alone is truly amazing.
Suppose it beats 60 times per minute.
That is 3,600 times in an hour.
86,400 times in a day.
Approximately 31.5 million times in a year.
If you live to be 80, that comes to about 2.5 billion times.
2.5 billion times.
Without a break, without stopping.
From the moment we are born until the very last beat, the heart works silently and continuously.
We don't even usually notice such a diligent organ.
🎵 The heart's sound is 'G'
However, from the perspective of Eastern medicine, the heart is not just a pump.
The Five Elements theory includes the concept of the 'Five Tones,' where sounds correspond to organs.
The liver is E.
The heart is G.
The spleen is C.
The lungs are D.
The kidneys are A.
It might be a stretch to map them directly onto modern musical scales.
However, 'G' is assigned to the heart.
The heart belongs to 'Fire,' and its sound is 'G'.
When I learned this, it made strange sense to me.
The heart is not a quiet organ.
It is always sounding.
It is always vibrating.
It is always at the center of the body, continuing to announce its existence.
In the language of Western medicine, it is a pulsation.
In the language of Eastern medicine, it is a resonance.
It is interesting that even though the terminology differs, both view the heart as something that 'never stops'.
What if we thought of those 2.5 billion heartbeats as a sound?
The longest 'G' note in the world has been ringing for 80 years.
When I think of it that way, the heart is not just an organ that pumps blood.
It starts to feel like an instrument supporting the person I am from the inside.
Last time, I wrote about the 'shape' of the heart.
This time, I wrote about the 'tremor' of the heart.
Forms are visible.
But vibrations are invisible.
They are invisible, yet they are certainly there.
Without stopping, they are resonating inside the body again today.
A video created by an invisible video creator
This is a video that uses AI to visualize what one might see if there were eyes at the tip of a white cane, capturing the sense of security in following tactile paving and the anxiety of the moment it breaks off. You can experience the 'vibration as a language to know the world' that I wrote about in the article through this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kRf-MucXY8
📎 If you have time, I would be happy if you could also take a look at these articles.
Last time, I wrote about the 'form' of the heart. Please enjoy this along with the 'tremor' of this time.
The heart shape is not the shape of the heart | A story about how interesting it was to look at the body through both Western and Eastern medicine
This is a story about looking at the 'axis' in the center of the body from both Western and Eastern perspectives.
This is the episode where I interpreted the 'Qi' of Eastern medicine through Dragon Ball. If you are interested in the Five Elements, please check this out as well.
Give me your energy I noticed it when I heard it with my ears A story about Eastern medicine and Dragon Ball
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