The Body’s Energies

We have several energy fields in our body, working together to control our fundamental biological processes. These include a biofield surrounding the body, local fields that are concentrated in specific areas of the body, and pathways that regulate the flow of energy within the body.

Flower essences work in partnership with these energy systems, helping to restore our body to homeostasis, bringing back balance to our mind and body.

These fields correspond with energy systems that you may be familiar with, ones that have been described throughout the healing traditions of many other cultures.

The biofields are also known as our Aura, the local fields are known as our Chakras, and the energy pathways are known as the Meridians.

The Biofield

The biofield is an energy field that surrounds our body and was first measured scientifically in Harold Burr’s laboratory, as well as being demonstrated in a number of research programs throughout the years. The electromagnetic properties of the biofield have been registered using sensitive magnetometers, such as the superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). The biofield corresponds with the notion of an Aura surrounding our body, seen throughout numerous healing traditions and spiritual practices and artwork.

Scientists who have investigated the biofield, suggest that it holds information about an organism and transmits this information throughout the organism. The biofield is comprised of an very weak but yet measurable electromagnetic field that has it’s own waveform, intensity, polarity, and modulation patterns. These surround all living systems.

Some investigators think that the biofield is an accumulation of the combined electromagnetic fields of the body’s ions, molecules, cells, tissue, and organs, forming a “very complex standing wave”, a result of many electromagnetic frequencies coming together. This wave is understood to play an important role in the integration of all the body’s energy systems, working to keep everything in balance.

Despite the electrical charge of the biofield being too weak to directly impact cellular structures, it was found in a surprising discovery that tiny currents were more effective than larger currents in stimulating tissue regeneration. Energy interventions that create even the smallest fluctuations in the biofield may work by sending signals to the body’s regulatory mechanisms, rather than directly acting on the physical structure of the body.

The speed and efficiency of the biofield in distributing information with its electromagnetic properties, is thought to account for the rapid, holistic effects reported by energy medicine practitioners, such as Eat More Flowers, as we work with Flower Essences, a type of energetic or vibrational medicine.

Local Fields

Local energy fields are concentrated within particular areas of the body. Valerie Hunt at the University of California Los Angeles’ Energy Fields Laboratory demonstrated that specific regions of the skin produced very rapid electrical oscillations (up to 1600 cycles per second, as compared to 0-100 cycles per second in the brain, 225 in the muscles, and 250 in the heart) and that these local energy areas corresponded with the ancient descriptions of the body’s chakras.

The Chakras are vortexes of biophysical energy. They are often a focus in the practice of yoga and in a variety of healing modalities.

Spectrogram analysis and Polycontrast Interference Photography have revealed distinct frequency ranges or colours that are associated with specific chakras. In another investigation, advanced meditators consciously projected energy through a chakra. This resulted in the electrical fields emanating from that chakra to strengthen and multiply.

These energy fields spiral above specific areas of the body, as well as interacting with the biofield. This is consistent with the way energy practitioners have described the relationship between our Chakras and our Aura.

There are many physiological, psychological, and spiritual functions that have been attributed to the chakras.

At the physiological level, the chakras envelop the closest organs with their energies, therefore influencing the health of those organs. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the equilibrium in a chakra’s energies not only relates with and has influence over the health of the organs located in the chakra’s field, but that imbalances in the chakra’s energies precede (and can therefore help us predict) the onset of disease.

At the psychological level, the chakras are believed to hold our experiences, with each chakra associated with a distinct developmental theme. This could be survival, creativity, love, or identity. This suggests a comprising of a sort of memory system that parallels neural memory.

Spiritual functions related to the chakras relate to the way they are attuned to metaphysical constructs such as “ancestral memories”, “past lives”, and “archetypes”.

Energy Pathways

A third overarching energy system that regulates the flow of specific energies within the body, is the energy pathways, referred to as meridians in traditional Chinese medicine and a variety of other healing traditions.

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 1998 using functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed that stimulating an acupuncture point in the toe (each acupuncture point is believed to sit on the line of and regulate the energy in a particular meridian) activated the exact areas of the brain that would be predicted by acupuncture theory, despite no known anatomical pathways connecting the toe to that brain region.

A special camera that registers biophotons in the spectral range of 200-800 nm shows that when the meridians are stimulated, they generate light along channels that are identical to the descriptions of meridians found in the texts of traditional Chinese medicine.

It is proposed that the meridian system may be a distinct energy system that functions alongside our circulatory, lymphatic and nervous systems. That they are capable of reading, coding, and transmitting information from one part of the body to another and providing an underlying template for the physical body.

It is thought that it operates on a distinct energetic spectrum that moves more like an energy wave than a tube or vessel. This supports the idea that this energy system impacts biological processes and suggests that disruption in a meridian pathway may result in disease around those specific organs connected by that meridian. The meridian whose energies are disrupted can then be treated for therapeutic benefit.

Explore the Eat More Flowers range of flower essences to begin your journey in working with your energy fields. Flower essences work gently on our energy fields to restore balance and bring a sense of coming home to our body and ourselves.

Reference: Six Pillars of Energy Medicine: Clinical Strengths of a Complementary Paradigm, written by David Feinstein, PhD; Donna Eden. Jan/Feb 2008.