More about Energy Medicine
Everything that exists does so due to energy and vibration. All that surrounds us, visible and invisible, including living bodies, plants, thoughts, feelings, stones, sounds, and colors, are expressions of vibrations of varying wavelengths and frequencies. When spiritual or material entities are infused with energy, their vibration frequency changes, altering their state.
Dr. Valerie Hunt, an emeritus professor at the UCLA Department of Physiological Science, discovered during the mapping of energy fields that each person has a unique resting pattern she refers to as a 'Signature Field.' Every thought and feeling carries its own frequencies, and each organ also has its own frequency corresponding to thoughts and feelings of the same frequency.
In the human body, all these vibrations form a unique whole.
When they are in harmony, the individual feels active, healthy, and comfortable. Disharmony, on the other hand, leads to feeling out of tune, ill, unhappy, and passive. Targeted vibrations can uplift and harmonize disturbed vibrations, achievable through various forms of energy medicine therapies.
Fundamentally, the healing power of our own thoughts and feelings is essential for healing. With energy medicine and energy psychology, the healing forces can be activated on all levels within each individual.
Excerpt from the book "Energy Medicine" by Christina L. Ross
EM is based on the idea that humans are capable of influencing subtle forms of energy using their hands, intentions, or meditation. By focusing on these subtle energies, EM practitioners can feel vibration frequencies with their hands and align the biofield through healing treatments [117].
EM is a collective term for practices such as acupuncture, Alexander Technique, Bowen Technique, chakra balancing, craniosacral therapy, Eden Energy Medicine, energy psychology, Feldenkrais, Healing Touch (HT), Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Techniques (NAET), polarity therapy (PT), Reiki, Rolfing, Therapeutic Touch (TT), Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Trager approach, and yoga, among others.
EM is based on the understanding that a therapist, rather than a device, is able to facilitate healing by balancing disturbances in a patient's energy field [and effecting]. Therapists can generate subtle low-frequency (sub-ELF) fields (0.3-30 Hz) from their hands through meditation and intention [118, 119].
This subtle energy draws the patient's biofield and triggers a healing effect. Guidance on body movement is also used to shift energetic imbalances. Treatments are conducted in an integrative and holistic manner. The concept of holism in medicine dates back to 460 BC when Hippocrates, the father of medicine, advocated the idea that every aspect of our body and mind is interconnected [120]. Influencing the holistic field enables healing of the entire being – body, mind, and soul.
The hands of EM practitioners generate coherent electromagnetic fields that influence the human biofield in various ways. A device called Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) is a magnetometer used to detect very weak biomagnetic fields. The SQUID has detected frequencies emanating from the hands of healers/practitioners in the range of 0.3 to 30 Hz (sub-ELF EMF) [121].
The signal emitted by a therapist is not uniform or constant but moves through the sub-ELF EMF range with an average range of about 7-8 Hz. EM techniques are able to achieve healing outcomes because they directly affect mechanical vibrations in the membrane and cytoskeleton of human cells as well as the biofield in general.
Several research studies have found that the cell vibration limit is only 30 Hz [122-126], which is in the same frequency range emitted by the hands of EM practitioners.
This suggests a subtle resonance involved in the healing process. An interesting feature of energy emission from a living organism is that it remains reasonably organized in its fields. It tends to remain stable and not disperse randomly [127]. Biofield vibrations act like tuning forks, functioning both as senders and receivers of vibrations from their environment. When we are healthy, they resonate at specific harmonic frequencies. When we are unhealthy, our cells and biofield resonate in a non-coherent kind of noise.
Dr. Valerie Hunt has been researching in this field for over 40 years. She was the first to investigate the relationship between changes in bioenergy fields and human health.
Dr. V. Hunt found that every person has a unique resting pattern she refers to as a "Signature Field." "The signature field of a healthy person consists of balanced, coherent energy patterns spanning the entire frequency spectrum (4-20 micrometer wavelength [128]). This coherence appears in a graph as smooth, gentle, flat waves evenly distributed across the frequency spectrum." There are two types of patterns in the signature fields of people who have (or will soon develop) a disease: deficient patterns and hyperactive patterns. They appear in the diagrams as thick, jagged waves concentrated in the high or low-frequency ranges (Figure 2).
Deficiency diseases like cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome have, as Dr. V. Hunt calls them, "anti-coherent" patterns in the high-frequency ranges, with almost no energy in the lower frequencies. Hyperactive diseases like colitis, hypertension, and skin problems show anti-coherent patterns in the low frequencies, with missing vibrations in the high frequencies [129].
The sub-ELF EMF frequency emitted by the hands of EM practitioners is able to restore incoherent frequencies to a healthy state.
The application of EM, whether through a medical device (PEMF) or through the hands of a therapist, is a viable alternative or complement to conventional medicine. Free-flowing energy throughout the body eliminates physical health problems stemming from pain, disease, and structural dysfunctions [130].
EM significantly increases energy levels even in the absence of a specific problem [131]. It is used for both prevention and healing.
Eden Energy Medicine
Eden Energy Medicine activates the body's natural healing ability by restoring weak or disturbed energy. Eden EM utilizes techniques from acupuncture, yoga, kinesiology, and Qi Gong. Energy is rebalanced by tapping, massaging, squeezing, twisting, or connecting specific energy points (acupuncture points) on the skin; by guiding or swirling the hand along specific energy pathways on the skin; through exercises or body postures targeting specific energetic effects; by using the mind to move specific energies; and/or by surrounding an area with healing energies. There is qualitative evidence that Eden EM relieves pain, stimulates immune function, alleviates headaches, reduces stress, enhances memory, stimulates digestion, relieves arthritis, neck, shoulder, and back pain [145].
Energy Psychology (EP)
Energy Psychology (EP) deals with the relationship between energy systems, emotions, cognitive behavior, and health [146]. EP uses imagery, storytelling, and overexcitation related to traumatic memories or threatening situations to dissolve traumatic memories [147].
When the brain processes traumatic memories, the new association is retained and overexcitement is reduced.
This results in treatment outcomes requiring less time, fewer repetitions, and greater efficacy. With these techniques, the likelihood of retraumatization is lower [147].
EP treatments heal mental/emotional/spiritual issues through the biofield. The biofield is connected through consciousness, thought processes, and mind, encompassing the electrical activity of the nervous system, heart, meridians, biophotons (energy field particles), and chakras.
Reiki
Reiki is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist practice where practitioners serve as conduits of life energy (Chi). Reiki is used to reduce stress, improve health and quality of life, and promote mental clarity. Reiki practitioners apply 12 to 15 specific hand positions, each held for several minutes on the clothed body of the patient. Sessions last 30-90 minutes, and the number of treatments may vary. Official scientific evidence has shown that Reiki improves quality of life and relieves pain when used alongside standard medications [156]. Reiki has also been reported to reduce stress and improve the mental well-being of patients with heart rate variability (HeartMath Institute) [157] and improve pain management issues [158].
Summary
The growth, expansion of consciousness, and maintenance of optimal tissue and organ vibration patterns provide the best conditions for good health. Current biomedical interventions ultimately aim to restore the body's optimal vibration patterns. To achieve this goal, it is essential to understand key aspects of the immune response in terms of cellular communication as well as biochemical, bioelectric, and bioelectromagnetic processes and to develop technologies that facilitate the body's use of this information during the repair and regeneration processes.
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