Lung & Heart Health

Full content posted January 20, 2026

I'll provide more updates as I go along. My doctor (GP) is very good. If she felt I was in "imminent danger" she would have told me to go to the ER immediately. I wanted to post this so people who are caregivers can learn more about the metaphysical component of health as it relates to the lungs. As Michael said: YOU ARE ALLOWED TO BREATHE. I'll ask Michael more about my heart health in an upcoming session.

From a Private Live Chat on November 28, 2025:

Maureen: 

I was getting a chest X-ray for my heart* and, surprisingly, two nodules in my upper left lung showed up. I asked my doctor if it was cancer. She said she didn’t know, that it could be inflammation. She said we could either wait 6 months and do another X-ray or do a CT scan, now, to get more information. My CT scan is scheduled for December 13th. I’m feeling helpless and don’t know what to do.

(Some background on my heart* tests. I’ve had shortness of breath and asked the doctor on November 20 2025 if we could do some tests. She agreed. Here's what you said to me about a dream I had with Diane on April 17, 2024: "The electrocardiogram may simply be symbolic in that the entire dream was a checking in on the "heart of the matter," or it may be some level of indication that your own heart should be checked in waking state. It is not uncommon for a loved one who has passed to help their loved ones who remain alive to manage their most pressing health uncertainties." Depending on what the results of my echocardiogram and other tests are, I’ll speak with you about that in another session.)

Can you help steer me to what I can do to help myself heal with my lungs? Would it be better to ask you again once they’ve ascertained exactly what it is? What is the metaphysical component or the underlying “issues” to two nodules showing up in my upper left lung?

If it is inflammation (or maybe even cancer) it could be caused or exacerbated by vaping cannabis throughout the night to sleep. Interestingly, on the day of my X-ray, and then my doctor calling, I got an email from my cannabis company telling me about a new product that may help.

MediPharm’s Rapid Inhalers are designed for accuracy, consistency, and a smooth, smoke-free experience. They work like an asthma inhaler. So, no heat, smoke, or vapour. I spoke with my medical cannabis contact and she said that there is some oil (minimal) that may pass to the lungs but it does look as though this would be better than the smoke/vapour from a cannabis vapourizer. I ordered the “Shake & Puff Rapid CBN:THC Nighttime Inhaler” to try it out. Do you see this as a helpful product for me? 

MEntity: 

We have assessed and have compiled a response.

First, there are three layers to your question today. Physical choices, psychological stance, and metaphysical meaning behind the symptoms. Let us address each:

The decision to get the CT scan now is the choice for more information, which is a choice for empowerment. Waiting 6 months would only feed into helplessness. Your instinct to proceed now is valid and wise.

The choice regarding the rapid cbn:thc inhaler is also a helpful shift. It reduces or eliminates the thermal and particulate irritation that vaping brings to the upper lobes of the lungs. From our view, this is another meaningful improvement. It is not a cure by itself, but significantly reduces additional irritation and allows the lung tissue to stabilize.

We do not see harm in exploring this product, only potential help.

The helplessness you feel is important to note as not meaning a signal danger. It is your experience of disorientation.

You are looking into a void of uncertainty with no story attached to it, yet. When there is no story, the body can fill the gap with fear. So helplessness is not the truth, but a state of processing. It is important to note that you are doing all that you can within your power:

You sought answers. You advocated for testing. You adjusted your habits to reduce harm. You are asking for support.

This is how helplessness shifts into empowerment and navigation forward.

Regarding the metaphysical meaning, the lungs tend to represent themes of grief, capacity for allowing life in, letting life breathe (without controlling it), and unprocessed emotional constrictions.

With the two nodules in the upper left lung, it may point to an accumulation of crystallized stress, so to speak, around personalized grief, meaning grief that is tied directly to your own identity, history, and sense of self, holding your breath (both literally and figuratively), and over-management of your internal world without matching with a release of pressure.

You have been living through long chapters of carrying more than you allow to be shared, and your body has been quietly compressing that emotional weight into "tidy corners" so that you can keep functioning. The upper left lung is often seen by us as the "caretaker's lung" as it holds what the heart cannot yet process.

Maureen: Now I'm crying

MEntity: 

This does not mean you have CAUSED illness. It simply means your body is collaborating with you, telling you where your attention wants to go next.

If these nodules are inflammatory, they correlate strongly with the irritation from self-silencing or more likely, from excessive vigilance.

If they are neoplastic (which we cannot see as a high probability at the moment), these would represent over-organization of emotional tensions, with the body trying to make structure out of this unrelieved pressure.

In either case, the message would be similar:

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO BREATHE.

You need not wait for results to begin supporting your self and your lungs. Try adding a daily conscious exhale. Lungs heal more through exhalation than through inhalation. Spend one minute, twice a day, simply exhaling slowing with intention. This can help your body learn to release tension rather than store more of it.

Try reassuring your body, out loud if possible. Something along the lines of "I am listening, we are safe, we are allowed to rest." This can help create psychological shifts.

Reducing irritation is also meaningful wherever feasible. The inhaler is in keeping with this.

Try inviting grief up without demanding any narrative. By this we mean that grief need not always have a story first. Let yourself cry, soften, even shake as it needs to do so. No explanation.

And of course, some gentle movements, such as slow walking, swaying to beautiful moving music, anything to mobilize lymphatic flow in the chest.

Maureen: Would Tai Chi help? along with breathing

MEntity: You can ask more questions after your results, but you need not wait to begin healing. Everything we mentioned is part of your healing path whether the nodules are inflammation, benign clusters, or something requiring treatment. The meaning would not really change with final diagnosis. Only strategy may change.

Maureen: Thank you. I've started to exhale.

MEntity: 

As for Tai Chi, this can be one of the most effective ways to heal these themes involved with lung imbalance. The combination of breath and movement is powerful, as lungs respond well when breath is paired with gentle rhythmic motion, and Tai Chi naturally trains the body to exhale slowly, release tension, and restore spaciousness in the chest. The upper left lung, in particular, would benefit from movement that "wrings," "sweeps," and "widens" the chest without force, and Tai Chi accomplishes this with compassion. It does not push grief out, but lets it move. It can help with your nervous system regulation, and strengthen the lymphatic flow in the chest. Tai Chi naturally helps to clear congestion, inflammatory debris, and stress residue.

All beginner forms and short routines would be helpful.

Maureen: So glad I came back to Tai Chi.

MEntity: It is safe, elegant, and deeply supportive.

Maureen: Thank you

MEntity: We will conclude here for today, but we are here. Good day to you, Maureen. Your efforts to care for others and yourself is not a curse or something punishable. It simply comes with some stresses that can cause challenges. The caring is what matters. Everyone will die one day, but not everyone cares. Goodbye, for now.

Maureen: Thank you. Goodbye, for now.

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December 30, 2025 update and comments:

Lung Health:

• I immediately stopped using cannabis for sleep
• I am practicing breathing more regularly and doing Tai Chi at home (we had a Christmas break) as Michael suggested
• I had a CT Scan on December 13, 2025. They found 6mm of inflammation. Another CT Scan has been scheduled for 6 months on June 13, 2026

Heart Health:

• On December 23, 2025 I had an echocardiogram, Persantine stress test, and was given a HOLTER to wear for 48 hours.
• My doctor called me on January 30, 2025: The echocardiogram showed heart pumping: reduced function and lower ejection fraction. I'm now seeing a cardiologist on January 14, 2026. My doctor (GP) said if I see worsened symptoms I should go to the ER.
• My doctor (GP) hasn't received the results yet for the stress test and the HOLTER.

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UPDATE: From a Private Live Chat on January 9, 2026:

Maureen: 

From my heart tests, the two things I know so far is: 1) heart pumping: reduced function and 2) lower ejection fraction. I’ll know more after I see a cardiologist next week.

Questions: I would like to know, what is the metaphysical component or the underlying heart issues for me? You had said to me that the Heart Chakra was my Energy Hub. Is there any chakric connection or is this just physiological?

MEntity: 

First, it is important to state that this condition is real and physiological, so your work with medical professionals is important. Our more metaphysical perspective cannot replace the care, but can lend context.

It is true that your Heart Chakra is your primary Energy Hub, but this does not mean that the condition is caused by emotional failures, imbalance, or some kind of spiritual blockage in the way that such metaphysical perspectives are often presented or thought to mean. None of this is punishment or failure.

For you, the heart functions as a distribution center.

Your system has long been oriented toward circulating emotional presence outward without sufficient reciprocal circulation inward. You are quite highly practiced at sustaining connection, holding space, and stabilizing others, even without them realizing it, and even when no one asked you to do so. This has always been done with sincerity and compassion, not from resentment or pressure, but it has still been a matter of output without adequate return.

Over time, this creates a pattern of reduced flow.

When this pattern persists, the body can mirror it in a very literal way, like reduced pumping efficiency, reduced ejection, reduced sense of internal replenishment, all in correspondence to this slowing of flow.

The heart chakra, itself, is not damaged or blocked or collapsed. In fact, it is unusually strong, so the issue has never been capacity, but more likely it is a matter of permission.

Permission to receive without justification, or rest without vigilance, or be held without managing all of the holding. Without permission, your heart has functioned more like an engine than a sanctuary.

The issues are showing up now because your life has entered a phase where your system can no longer afford to subsidize others at the expense of internal instability. The body intervenes when the psyche has normalized an unsustainable generosity.

This does not mean you "give too much love", but more that you did not require enough nourishment in return.

We must be clear that this condition would not have been prevented by "positive thinking," or better boundaries alone, or some kind of earlier spiritual insight, but is the result of a long arc of adaptation, not a mistake.

So the goal now would be NOT to "fix your heart," but to simply change its job description, if you will.

Your healing arc would include reducing emotional output as your default, increasing more passive reception of support, even if imperfect support, and allowing others to show up for you even in their incomplete, clumsy, or limited ways and especially without feeling you must compensate for them.

In other words, it is okay for your heart to beat FOR YOU. Not just through you.

Maureen: Thank you

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UPDATE on January 20, 2026: I met with my cardiologist on January 14, 2026. He reviewed all the test results and went through my history. My resting heart rate is 97. The normal range is 60 - 100. My heart is pumping at a 1) reduced function and 2) lower ejection fraction. He said I may be at the beginning phase of heart failure or it could stabilize here. He ordered another blood test (NT-proBNP) that checks for peptides in the blood. I got the results on January 20, 2026. They show, conclusively, that my heart is in the normal range which means I'm not in heart failure. Yay!! We will be keeping an eye on this with more tests in 6 months. I'll see my cardiologist again in July 2026.