What Can Numbers Tell Us About the Heart?

A meditation on counting heartbeats

Photo by Oladimeji Ajegbile (available under Pexels license)

I would like to take you through a brief exercise. My aim is to leave you with a visceral understanding of how numbers work, when they are working at their best.

My experience, however, has been that for most readers, numbers trigger an ingrained trauma response. Some flee outright. Others retreat mentally…