The Human Energy Field

What was once purely science fiction or subjective religious belief has now been scientifically documented and artistically rendered - a field of energy extending beyond the visually-observable human form approximately 18 inches to 3 feet, depending on what aspects of it are being measured. Meet your Human Energy Field^1,2,3.

When we clear our Energy Field areas where it may have congealed or become blocked flow more freely again. We feel lighter and think more clearly, with less agitation. We feel more serene, sometimes. Other times we feel our sadness and grief more acutely, if they are present and we had numbed ourselves to them. 

To keep our fields fresh and flowing we intuitively use the wellbeing practices of regular exercise and a wholesome diet. As well, many people like to meditate, chant, engage in breathwork and other mind-management techniques to keep agitated thoughts or stagnant emotions from clogging up our space. And we can ask energy medicine healers to help us clear stale or unmoving energies, as well. Energy healers are simply people who can hold a steady vibration of health for themselves strongly enough to extend it to others in an 'entrainment' of vibrations. It can be a great boon to recovering mental, emotional and physical health.

Regardless of religious or atheistic contexts, Energy Medicine Healing has found modern acceptance among many in the scientific community from nurses' effective use of Reiki and Non-Contact Therapeutic Touch in 21st century hospitals to relieve pain and hasten healing outcomes.

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¹The Human Energy Field in Relation to Science, Consciousness, and Health, by Gloria Alvino.

^{http://www.vxm.com/21R.43.html}  [Excellent Historical Summary]

²From IHM website:

"Taken together, the results of these studies demonstrate that intentionally altering one’s emotional state through heart focus modifies afferent neurological input from the heart to the brain. The data suggest that as people experience sincere positive feeling states, in which the heart’s rhythms become more coherent, the changed information flow from the heart to the brain may act to modify cortical function and influence performance. These findings may also help explain the significant shifts in perception, increased mental clarity and heightened intuitive awareness many individuals have reported when practicing the HeartMath techniques.

The final two studies in this section are concerned with energetic communication by the heart, which we also refer to as cardioelectromagnetic communication. The heart is the most powerful generator of electromagnetic energy in the human body, producing the largest rhythmic electromagnetic field of any of the body’s organs. The heart’s electrical field is about 60 times greater in amplitude than the electrical activity generated by the brain. This field, measured in the form of an electrocardiogram (ECG), can be detected anywhere on the surface of the body. Furthermore, the magnetic field produced by the heart is more than 5,000 times greater in strength than the field generated by the brain, and can be detected a number of feet away from the body, in all directions, using SQUID-based magnetometers (Figure 12). Prompted by our findings that the cardiac field is modulated by different emotional states (described in the previous section), we performed several studies to investigate the possibility that the electromagnetic field generated by the heart may transmit information that can be received by others.

The Heart’s Electromagnetic Field

Figure 12. The heart’s electromagnetic field--by far the most powerful rhythmic field produced by the human body--not only envelops every cell of the body but also extends out in all directions into the space around us. The cardiac field can be measured several feet away from the body by sensitive devices. Research conducted at IHM suggests that the heart’s field is an important carrier of information."

³From DB's website:

"Human healers
Varieties of approaches for human assessments and manipulations of bioenergies have been developed and popularized for helping people heal physical and psychological problems. Some of the major methodologies include Therapeutic Touch (TT), Healing Touch International (HTI), Reiki and Johrei. Assessments are most commonly made by healers through sensations experienced when they pass their hands through the bioenergy fields of the healees. Some healers have visual perceptions of bioenergy fields and can assess healee’s states by the color and shape of healees’ fields.

There are now hundreds of published research studies for these modalities, particularly TT and HTI, which are largely practiced by nurses (DB, 2001a; 2001b; web ref. 2). Significant effects of healing have been demonstrated for anxiety, pain and other problems."