 I see you have an ‘Energy Healer’ page on your site. What does energy healing
have to do with science? I thought it was just some eastern religious myth based
on some ancient religious belief.
It has long been known that activities of cells and tissues generate electrical fields that can be detected on the skin's surface. Anyone who’s seen a lie-detector machine in action knows that the galvanic skin responses are one of the key factors in estimating your emotional response and in determining if you are lying or not. But the laws of physics require that any electrical current generates a corresponding magnetic field in the surrounding space, hence "electromagnetic". Since these fields were too tiny to detect, biologists assumed they could have no physiological significance. This picture began to change in 1963. Gerhard Baule and Richard McFee of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Syracuse University in NY detected the biomagnetic field projected from the human heart. In 1970, David Cohen of MIT, using a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) magnetometer, confirmed the heart measurements. By 1972, Cohen had improved the sensitivity of his instrument, enabling him to measure magnetic fields around the head produced by brain activities. It has since been discovered that all tissues and organs produce specific magnetic pulsations, which have come to be known as biomagnetic fields. The traditional electrical recordings, such as the electrocardiogram (EKG) and electroencephalogram (EEG), are now being complemented by biomagnetic recordings, called magnetocardiograms (MCG) and magnetoencephalograms (MEG).
In the 1920’s and 1930’s, a distinguished researcher at Yale University School of Medicine, named Harold Saxon Burr, suggested that diseases could be detected in the energy field of the body before physical symptoms appear. Moreover, Burr was convinced that diseases could be prevented by altering the energy field. These concepts were ahead of their time, but are now being confirmed in medical research laboratories around the world. Scientists are using SQUID instruments to map the ways diseases alter biomagnetic fields around the body. Others are applying pulsating magnetic fields to stimulate healing. In 2002, research teams at Democritus University in Greece published a paper on external magnetic stimulation on Parkinson's patients. Not only were the patients’ symptoms alleviated, but their MEG results changed toward more normal results after they had been subjected to electromagnetic treatments.
In the early 1980’s, Dr. John Zimmerman began a series of important studies on therapeutic touch, using a SQUID magnetometer at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver. Zimmerman discovered that a huge pulsating biomagnetic field emanated from the hands of a practitioner. The frequency of the pulsations is not steady, but "sweeps" up and down. The biomagnetic pulsations from the hands are in the same frequency range as brain waves and scientific studies of the frequencies necessary for healing indicate that they naturally sweep back and forth through the full range of therapeutic frequencies. Thus they are able to stimulate healing in any part of the body.
Confirmation of Zimmerman’s findings came in 1992, when Seto and colleagues, in Japan, studied practitioners of various martial arts and other healing methods. The "Qi emission" from the hands was shown to be so strong that they were able to detect it with a simple magnetometer. Since then, a number of studies of QiGong practitioners have extended these investigations to the sound, light, and thermal fields emitted by healers. What is particularly interesting is that the pulsation frequency varies from moment to moment. Moreover, medical researchers developing pulsating magnetic field therapies are finding that these same frequencies are effective for ‘jump starting’ healing in a variety of soft and hard tissues, even in patients unhealed for as long as 40 years. Specific requencies stimulate the growth of nerves, bones, skin, capillaries, and ligaments.
However, "brain waves" are not confined to the brain, but actually spread throughout the body via the perineural system, which are the connective tissue sheathes surrounding all of the nerves. Dr. Robert O. Becker has described how this system, more than any other, regulates injury repair processes throughout the body. Hence the entire nervous system acts as an "antenna" for projecting the biomagnetic pulsations that begin in the brain, specifically in the thalamus.
Moreover, waves that begin as relatively weak pulsations in the brain appear to gather strength as they flow along the peripheral nerves and into the hands. The mechanism of this amplification probably involves the perineural system and the other connective tissue systems that are intimately associated with it.
But the brain is not the only source of energy fields, as described in the The HeartMath Solution. The electromagnetic field of the heart, possessing its own peripheral nervous system, is five thousand times stronger than that produced by the brain. The heart's field permeates every cell in the body and continues, radiating outward, having been detected up to ten feet away from the subject.
Scientists have also found that the electrical information patterns generated by the heart (similar to the information in the electromagnetic broadcast of a cell phone) can be detected in a subject's brainwaves utilizing an EEG. Gary Schwartz at the University of Arizona found that complex patterns of cardiac activity in the brain waves could not be fully explained by neurological or other established communication pathways. The only alternative was a direct interaction with the energy field, given off by the heart itself. They believe that this may be a method of communication used throughout the body.
As more and more research is conducted, scientists are finding that this electromagnetic energy field which is produced by the body is more and more critical to our well being. From research on schizophrenia to epilepsy, in disease treatment, diagnosis and prevention, science is continuing to uncover what many ancient beliefs have already claimed: That by manipulating and controlling our energy field, we can bring health and well being to ourselves.
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