Navigating the Edge of Possibility

By Nadya Bell, RMT, CMRP

I want to remember with you that possibility is the gift of uncertainty. What are we? Where are we going? Our bodies and fields remember, resonate, and, through the nose and heart, we chart the edge of the unknown.

The two sides of the human forehead - the frontal bone - connect in the metopic suture in the first year of life. Humans begin in total openness, perceiving all and nothing. From there, we learn to modulate our mental focus from the big picture down to observe the small.

In my own process of healing, I have come to experience the eyes as instruments of focus—capable of shifting between big-picture orientation and fine detail. The nose, particularly through the ethmoid, feels like a gyroscope of orientation, tuning rotation and translation, helping situate us in space.

Hugh Milne, in The Heart of Listening, described the ethmoid as loving to tumble and roll, and the entire cranium as relying on the heart’s true alignment. That relationship — between orientation and meaning, between direction and feeling — has become a central thread in both my personal work and my clinical practice.

I have always felt my way through the body first. The first time I ever held the MatrixMag, the concentric, alternating-polarity magnets we use in Matrix Repatterning, I felt like I was holding a swirling, toroidal beehive of energy.

Deeply immersed in this mystery for six years now, I have been learning to see the patterns through healing my own body and watching others transform. Testing the connections between field and function, and reading the story of the fixed and fluid aspects of our form. 

And yet, when we bring magnets into a treatment, we are often asked the question: what are they actually doing?

I don’t know. Not completely. But we are not without clues.

I can tell you what the magnets could be doing, if we properly understand and align the field parameters between a novel device and the constant flux that is the human body.

From a scientific perspective, electromagnetic interventions do not “push” tissue in any mechanical sense. Instead, they appear to perturb bioelectric and fluid systems, initiating cascades of change that propagate through the body’s nonlinear physiology.

Clinically, this often presents as a sense of the tissue “opening,” which may reflect shifts in tone, fluid dynamics, and cellular signaling that allow previously stalled processes to reinitiate.

Biological systems are already electrically active. Cells maintain membrane potentials, ions move constantly across gradients, and signaling pathways rely heavily on charge dynamics. Therapeutic fields are not acting on inert matter—they are interacting with systems that are already defined by electrical activity.

One of the most important entry points into this complexity is ion behavior, particularly calcium. This is where the focus gets really small, beginning with the biophysics of the Larmor frequency of bound ions in the cellular membrane. 

Calcium ions play a central role in contraction, secretion, and repair processes . When exposed to magnetic fields, ions can change their trajectories, sometimes exhibiting resonance-like behaviors where specific frequencies produce disproportionate effects. These “windows” of responsiveness suggest that the initial state of the system matters as much as the applied field itself.

This becomes even more interesting when we consider the Lorentz force. A similar principle to magnetic induction used in generators, but on a much different scale.

Moving charged particles in a magnetic field experience a perpendicular force, subtly altering their paths.

In conductive biological fluids like blood, this can lead to small charge separations—known as the Hall effect—which in turn slightly reshape local electric fields and ion distributions. 

Layered onto this is magnetohydrodynamics: the interaction between fluid flow and electromagnetic forces. Like pouring food colouring into a swimming pool, the path depends on pre-existing currents.

Blood flow, modeled using Navier–Stokes equations coupled with electromagnetic terms, suggests that magnetic fields may influence velocity, viscosity, and transport dynamics. These effects are not uniform—they vary across space and time, depending on vessel geometry and pulsatile flow.

None of these mechanisms are large in isolation, but biology is not linear.

Small perturbations—tiny shifts in ion movement or membrane voltage—can be amplified through feedback loops. The nonlinear response reality is that weak physical forces can couple into sensitive systems, influencing reaction kinetics, cellular behavior, and downstream signaling pathways. What begins as a subtle electrical shift may cascade into changes in muscle tone, blood flow, or metabolic activity.

This helps explain a clinical reality many practitioners recognize: the same input can produce very different outcomes depending on the person, the timing, and the state of their system.

But this is all theory, the focus of the mind attempting to fathom the possibility of our experience.  

We examine the body’s response patterns with the MatrixMag’s field. Our influence is a series of propagating pulses, and the timing of intervention is important.

After calibration at centre, the response of the confluence of bioelectric, mechanical and fluid patterns allows us to see where and at what level the body is open to change. The point at which the body shifts is like imagining what we could be, and remembering who we have always been at the same time.

You never know what might happen. The possibilities are only limited by how deeply you can accept uncertainty.

Are we on the right path? I believe so, if we keep our nose tuned to the heart.

The relationship between the heart and the mind, or at least the sense of direction of our consciousness, is similar to a sailor navigating open seas. A steady focus can bring one home over stormy waters. 

But a clear and calm ocean allows the sailor to calibrate his navigation instruments. 

Full, open, clear, and strong. Aim with the heart.