Plastic Heart is a powerful metaphor in magical practice representing foreign emotional energy such as false love or unresolved wounds. Understanding and working with this enables practitioners to clear energetic blockages and promote emotional healing.
Understanding Plastic Heart
The Plastic Heart is a conceptual tool used in practical magic to symbolize foreign or intrusive emotional energies that sit within the personal aura or energetic field. As outlined in Kink Magic, it is a metaphor for false love, emotional wounds, or energies that do not genuinely belong to the individual. These energies can cause irritation, blockage, and emotional distress, much like a foreign body lodged within the flesh. #
How It Works
A Plastic Heart sits adjacent to the true heart chakra, acting as a foreign entity that irritates the energetic flesh around it. I describe it as an irritant that can be excised through energetic work, ritual, or intention. The process involves recognizing this false energy, visualizing its removal, and transforming it into something beneficial. This aligns with techniques in Kink Magic, where energetic boundaries are reinforced, and foreign energies are transmuted. #
Role in I’s Framework
Within my framework of practical magic, the Plastic Heart is a model for understanding emotional wounds and false loves that hinder authentic connection. It aligns with the idea that unresolved emotional trauma or false constructs can be energetically embedded, affecting one's capacity for genuine intimacy and self-love. Removing or transforming this foreign energy restores clarity and emotional integrity. #
Cross-Tradition Context
While the term Plastic Heart is specific, the concept resonates across traditions. Many energy healing modalities, from Chinese medicine to shamanic practices, recognize the necessity of removing foreign energies or entities to restore health. In ritual contexts, visualization and energetic cleansing can dislodge these 'foreign bodies'—a practice supported by my teachings on energetic hygiene. #
Practical Application
Practitioners can incorporate the Plastic Heart concept into daily energy hygiene routines. Use visualization to locate the foreign energy sitting next to your heart. Imagine a healing tool, like a sword or light, excising the Plastic Heart. Follow up with affirmations or rituals to reinforce emotional boundaries. This process can be part of a broader emotional cleansing or trauma work, especially when dealing with false love or heartbreak. Regularly working with this enhances emotional resilience and clarity. It also is a symbolic framework for understanding and releasing emotional wounds that may otherwise linger subconsciously. #
Additional Tips
- Combine visualization with breathwork to deepen the energetic removal. - Use affirmations of emotional sovereignty after excising the Plastic Heart. - Incorporate this into ritual work focused on love, healing, or clearing energetic blockages. The Plastic Heart is a versatile concept that helps practitioners identify and clear false emotional energies, fostering authentic connection and self-love, as emphasized in Kink Magic and I’s other writings. ---
It sat next to his heart, but just as with any foreign body, it rankled and irritated the (energetic) flesh around it.
— Taylor Ellwood, Kink Magic
Understanding the Plastic Heart enriches one’s approach to energetic hygiene and emotional healing. It connects with concepts like Aftercare and Ascension, offering a framework for clearing emotional wounds and fostering genuine self-awareness in practical magic practice.
Source books: Kink Magic