What Is Energy Medicine?

How many times have you bumped your elbow, your “funny bone” and felt it tingle in the tips of your toes? In the field of bioelectronics, this phenomenon is an example of the ECM, the extracellular matrix continuum of the human body, at work. The ECM is composed of connective tissues and cytoskeletons of all cells throughout the body that generate bioelectronic signals between every part of the body in one, big semiconductor network. Scientists such as Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Robert O. Becker, Herbert Frohlich and Donald Ingber, employed the theories of quantum physics and mechanics and found that this living matrix sets up vibrations that move through the body and are radiated into the environment. According to James Oshman in his book, Energy Medicine, The Scientific Basis, “These vibrations occur at many different frequencies and are not subtle phenomena: they are large or even gigantic in scale and their effects are not trivial.” 1 Energy medicine is the manipulation and balancing of these vibratory circuits thereby influencing the body’s systemic defense and repair mechanisms in ways that promote healing, health and wellness.

But why does your whole body tingle when you jar your funny bone? Donald Ingber coined the term, ‘tensegrity’ to explain the theory of interconnectedness that causes this to happen – a theory that is the foundation of energy medicine. ‘Tensegrity’ is defined as simultaneously a structural, mechanical and vibratory system, “allowing for specific transfer of information through the cell (and throughout the organism) by direct transmission of vibrational chemomechanical energy through harmonic wave motion.”2 Picture a body-wide three-layer grid of fascia tissue, muscle tissues and cells, all set to chime sequentially the minute the brain sends a signal. The signal gets sent and one chime vibrationally strikes the second, which strikes the third - all in a nanosecond. Hence, the funky feeling all the way down your body as you vigorously rub your elbow.

A fundamental law of physics is that energy cannot be created or destroyed only converted from one form to another. Vibrational energy can be emotionally, physically or mentally induced. Depending on the quality, it can be converted to damage and stored in the various connective tissue systems resulting in imbalance and disease (chronic or acute) or it can be converted to supportive energy or medicine. Energy medicine is used to help the body deliver new supportive vibratory energy, new information, to this connective matrix which, in turn, energetically releases stored toxins and revitalizes areas of the body that have ceased to function optimally.

For centuries, eastern medical systems have understood this relationship and interconnectedness and have employed various healing modalities such as hands-on-healing, shiatsu, acupuncture, ayurveda, homeopathy and qi gong to promote wellness. The Indian ayurvedic system uses the terms “chakras” or energy centers within the body and the “auric system” emanating outside of the physical body. The auric system is comprised of multiple layers of energy, the densest being closet to the physical body and extending outward in finer and subtler layers. Similarly, in Chinese medicine, meridians inside the body indicate heightened electrical pathways which are accessed through acupuncture points on the surface of the skin. When energy therapists use their hands, voices, acupuncture needles, musical tones and other methods, waves of healing energy medicine are sent through the layers of the auric system and chakras, into the ECM where its converted to information. This washes through the tensegrous network, affecting and balancing the various systems of the body in need of repair and rejuvenation.

In sports medicine, machines that send a pulsating electromagnetic field to injured tissues are used routinely to hasten the healing process. Going to an energy therapist, Shiatsu practitioner, Healing Touch practitioner, Reiki practitioner, RoHun therapist or acupuncturist to help the healing process is exactly the same principle. All use different methods of encouraging delivery of supportive vibratory energy to that living matrix, that is the human body, which is absorbed as information and converted to signals through the “tensegrous semiconducting living matrix continuum.” 3 Energy medicine is medicinal because it actively promotes healing and alleviates disease. An intrinsic value of energy medicine is that imbalances in the ECM are apparent vibrationally before they manifest as physical illness or dis-ease. Therefore, energy medicine is preventative rather than “problem-oriented” although, of course, energy medicine is beneficial for illness and disease, too. It is also non-invasive and less costly than western allopathic treatments or procedures.

1 Oschman, Energy Medicine, The Scientific Basis, 2000, p. 62
2 Ibid, p. 67
3 Ibid, p. 236

About the author:

Lucrezia Mangione invites you to cultivate optimum health through bio-energy and energy medicine. As a bio-energy and somatic therapist, she helps individuals and groups, like you, to access, reconnect and consciously restore balance to your human body’s energetic matrix for self healing. Join her mailing list and learn more by visiting www.HandcraftedHealth.org where whole body health is a creative journey handcrafted by you.
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