| Energy Medicine was known and practiced by | | | | smaller building blocks, you reach a stage at |
| almost all the ancient great civilizations | | | | which you can go no further because matter |
| and isnow being newly rediscovered by the | | | | dissolves into energy. Medicine, as it stands |
| West. Biomedical research is now moving in | | | | today is light years behind physics. |
| the direction of a new model for the human | | | | |
| body, the Energy field model. This is the | | | | In Ayurvedic Medicine, there is the concept |
| same model that the ancient civilizations of | | | | of the three doshas - pitta, vata and kapha. |
| China and India based their philosophy and | | | | These are thought to lie at the energy-matter |
| their medical systems upon. (The Ayurvedic | | | | interface or the mind-body junction. Mind is |
| and Yogic systems, the Acupuncture meridians | | | | considered to be in the realm of energy. That |
| etc.) This new model moves away from the | | | | is why the mind can effect a powerful impact |
| premise that life came from chemical soup | | | | on the individual person's health. |
| towards the concept that life came from | | | | |
| electrical charges of energy i.e. physics | | | | This flow of energy can be impacted |
| rather than chemistry. At the basis of | | | | negatively or even blocked, in many ways. |
| chemistry we find energy, electromagnetic or | | | | Toxins like pesticides, plastics, chemicals |
| other forms of energy. | | | | can block its flow. So can negative emotions |
| | | | as well as negative thought patterns. A cut |
| One of the basic premises of these energy | | | | made across acupuncture meridian can impede |
| based medical systems is that there is a | | | | the flow of energy through the meridian. |
| circulation of energy in the body that | | | | There are several other ways, too numerous to |
| follows an orderly path along the meridians. | | | | mention in this article that the flow of |
| This energy is known as chi or prana. We | | | | energy can be blocked. |
| already have proof of the existence of | | | | |
| electrical fields' e.g. EKG, EEG etc. | | | | The methods of treatment at the vibrational |
| | | | level are also too numerous to mention them |
| In addition to the circulation of energy, | | | | all. Homeopathy, Ayurvedic and Chinese herbs, |
| there is a force field of energy in and | | | | Sound, Light and Color therapy, Meditation |
| around a human body similar to the field | | | | and Yoga are just a few. In fact, electrical |
| around a magnet. This field can be impacted | | | | healing is now going mainstream. Several |
| positively or negatively and it can be seen | | | | articles have been published on the use of |
| by certain sensitive individuals. It is also | | | | pulsed electromagnetic fields in accelerating |
| known as the aura. It generally extends a | | | | bone healing in fractures. |
| little beyond the body hence the term "Don't | | | | |
| invade my space", if someone stands a little | | | | The basic principle on which most of the |
| too close for comfort. | | | | energy healing systems work is the principle |
| | | | of harmonics. We all know, from our school |
| Then, there are the chakras. These are | | | | level physics that if you line up a set of |
| whirling vortexes of energy, situated along | | | | tuning forks and then strike one, soon all of |
| the spinal column. These are not physical but | | | | them will be vibrating at the same frequency. |
| energetic in nature and they act as step down | | | | To further understand this we need to look at |
| transformers. They step down the higher finer | | | | another concept of energy medicine that is |
| vibrations down to the physical level and | | | | "disease first occurs at the vibrational |
| these are believed to produce their effects | | | | level". Not at the cellular or even DNA but |
| at the level of the meridians, the mind and | | | | beyond that at the level of this energy flow |
| also at the hormonal level. | | | | or force field that I mentioned earlier and |
| | | | so the cell or tissue or organ will first |
| Another basic premise or concept of Energy | | | | begin to vibrate at a "sick frequency" before |
| Medical systems is that - this energy is not | | | | any disease has appeared or can be detected |
| a mindless or as we say in medicine, | | | | by chemical or radiological means. |
| subtentorial, kind of energy. Rather it has | | | | Conversely, a diseased organ or tissue etc |
| "intelligence". | | | | can be treated (provided the illness is not |
| | | | far advanced) by introducing the "well" |
| It knows what is wrong and will attempt to | | | | vibration and soon per the principle of |
| correct it. Also, it is possible to | | | | harmonics, the organ will take up the healing |
| communicate with this inner intelligence to | | | | vibration and return to health. So homeopathy |
| find out what is wrong and what can be done | | | | for example will work as an all or none |
| to correct it. | | | | phenomenon. Either the "remedy" as it is |
| | | | called will work, if it is the right |
| In physics, it is very well known that as you | | | | vibration or it will do nothing at all. |
| attempt to cut matter into smaller and | | | | |