Embodiment · “Being Precedes Having”
Dropping into the Heart
Shift attention into the ‘field of the heart’ and into a relaxed, playful, non-analytical state — Bartlett’s claimed precondition for any Matrix Energetics work: the ‘drop’ into wonder where you stop trying to make anything happen.
Dropping into the heart in 5 lines: Put attention in your chest and “drop into the field of your heart.” Stop thinking, soften, get playful and curious like a child. Let go of any agenda — soft intent is enough. From this relaxed, open state you do the rest of the work. The state is real (parasympathetic, expectant); the “healing field” claim is metaphor, not physics.
What it is
Before any Two-Point or “wave” work, Richard Bartlett teaches a state shift he calls dropping into the field of the heart: moving attention out of the analytical head and into a soft, warm, heart-centred, playful state in which you stop trying to fix or change anything.
He frames it as the precondition for everything else in Matrix Energetics — you cannot, in his telling, “emanate the wave” from effort or analysis; you have to first drop into wonder and let-go.
It overlaps with what he and others loosely call a “two-hearted” or open-hearted state, and functionally it is a relaxed, parasympathetic, low-demand mode.
The Method
As Bartlett describes it (in Matrix Energetics, 2007, the Field of the Heart teachings, and seminars):
- Place attention in the heart. Put your awareness into the heart space / centre of the chest — “drop into the field of your heart.”
- Soften and stop thinking. Deliberately come out of analysis: in his words, “you have to stop thinking.” Let effort drain away.
- Become playful and curious. Adopt a light, childlike stance — he talks about learning “how to play like children” and a “freewheeling, playful” attitude. Wonder, not seriousness.
- Go neutral, drop the agenda. Release the need for a result: “when you’re not trying to make something happen,” and “a soft intent is enough.” He describes people sometimes feeling “a release of joy and they don’t know why.”
- Stay there. This open, low-effort heart state is the ground you then do a Two-Point from — not a one-off step you leave behind. (Faithful summary of the state as taught, with short attributed quotes — not a reproduction of copyrighted material.)
Source & Lineage
Richard Bartlett, chiropractor and naturopath, made “the field of the heart” increasingly central to Matrix Energetics over time, especially in his Field of the Heart material and later talks.
The “drop into the heart” idea echoes long traditions of heart-centred contemplation and resonates with measured heart-focused practices — but it is distinct from them. Contrast it with HeartMath’s Heart Coherence, which is a metered, biofeedback-validated heart-focused-breathing protocol; Bartlett’s “drop” is looser, playful, and framed around a claimed transformational field rather than HRV. Compare also Mingyur/Chia-style “inner smile” warmth practices in the library.
Common refinements
Trying to “achieve” the heart space. Striving for it reinstates the effort it’s meant to release. Lighter is better.
- Over-claiming the joy/warmth. A wave of warmth or unexplained joy is a pleasant relaxation response, not proof of a field.
- Skipping it. In Bartlett’s system the “drop” is the point; rushing to the Two-Point from a tense, analytical head is the most common error.
- Refinement: treat it on its own merits as a 60-second reset — heart focus, soften, get playful — independent of any metaphysical claims.