Energy healed me — over the phone! Scientist explains how

Over the years, I have visited several energy therapists. They have used a variety of methods, from hands to acupuncture to tuning forks, to cure everything that was bothering me (and usually did). But the last time I couldn’t get to my practitioner’s office because of a strange pain, the pain was quelled with a phone call.

It was an irritating feeling that even I couldn’t bear (despite the fact that I’ve been writing about various forms of energy healing for years). So I wondered how therapists work using only thoughts and energy. Will it help improve someone’s health?

So I called Dr. Bruce Lipton, author of the books “The Biology of Beliefs” and “Natural Evolution.” Lipton is no whiny New Ager. Early in his career, he worked as a cell biologist and professor at the National Institutes of Health, Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin, and others. In fact, it was Lipton’s experience with scientific cloning of cells that convinced him that our view of healing was wrong. When he divided genetically identical stem cells into three petri dishes, he said the cells in each dish grew to be completely different from the other, even though they were all genetically the same. says. This began Lipton’s lifelong quest to understand the role that the environment and other factors play in cell repair and growth.

Here are excerpts from our interesting conversation.

Q: Is it possible to explain energy healing scientifically?

Bruce Lipton: absolutely. Quantum physics has a concept called “entanglement,” which is when one energy source becomes entangled with another and interferes with each other. This intervention can be positive and harmonious, like energy healing, or it can be negative.

Physicist Amit Goswami published a paper in a physics journal showing that entanglement affects people. He had them meditate together and then separated them into two rooms where they could neither see nor hear each other. When a person shined a light into his eyes, it caused a certain frequency to fire in his brain. Amazingly, at the same moment, the other person’s brain was also activated, even if they did not see the light. This proves that we intuitively knew that people’s energies can influence each other.

Q: Are there any examples of connections with other things?

Bruce Lipton: of course. If you put a pendulum clock on the wall and start everything at different times, after a while all the pendulums will swing in sync. The same thing happens to heart cells in a petri dish. Heart cells begin to beat in a regular rhythm even when they are not in contact with each other.

Q: So what exactly happens during an energy healing session?

Bruce Lipton: What Goswami’s research has proven is that when two people are intertwined, one follows the energy of the other. If one of them is a healer whose cells are vibrating at a higher level, the client’s cells become intertwined and their energy increases. That’s why the old saying “the doctor heals himself” is so important, even if most people don’t understand it. If the physician’s energy is to influence, or “synchronize” in scientific terms, the patient’s energy, then the physician’s energy must be higher. .

Q: What causes a person’s energy to drop in the first place?

Bruce Lipton: This is where the environment comes into play. This means not only diet, exercise, and stress, of course, but also your sense of optimism, or lack thereof. Each of our cells is a living organism, and the main influence on them is blood. When you open your eyes in the morning and see your beautiful partner in front of you, that recognition releases oxytocin, dopamine, and growth hormone, all of which promote cell growth and health. However, if you see a saber-toothed cat, stress hormones such as cortisol, histamine, and noradrenaline will be released. These chemicals switch cells into a protective mode. You don’t even have to look at these things. When I worry or fear, my blood fills with the same harmful chemicals. People need to realize that their thoughts are more important than their genes because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls our genes.

Q: Does this mean that if we want to sustain healing, we need to change our environment, including our thoughts?

Bruce Lipton: yes. When your environment continues to drain you of energy, it’s like having a leak in your bank account, and all the money you put into it, such as seeing an energy healer, is draining away. The environment, including harmful beliefs, needs to be changed before the energy remains high.

Q: Do people’s expectations of healers affect whether they improve or not?

Bruce Lipton: absolutely. Cells do not directly perceive their environment. They accept as truth what their brain tells them. This is why the placebo effect is so powerful for all types of healing. When the brain expects a treatment to be effective, it pumps chemicals into the bloodstream that promote healing. And the reverse is equally true and just as powerful. Even when your brain predicts that a treatment won’t work, it actually doesn’t. It’s called the “nocebo effect.”

I once developed Bell’s palsy, which is facial paralysis. One morning, I put my coffee cup to my lips and the coffee started running down my shirt. The standard treatment is medication, but I was determined to be cured in a week without medication. I went to an acupuncturist and a chiropractor, both of whom are types of energy healers. It was gone after 7 days. If I hadn’t aimed for a week, I could have solved it much faster.

Q: What about distance healing? It’s a difficult concept for people to understand, myself included.

Bruce Lipton: Although strange, it works well because the energy is not limited to a set spatial distance.

Meryl David Landau is the author of Downward Dog, Upward Fog, a new spiritual women’s novel recommended by the Yoga Journal Buzz blog and the Science of Mind national newsletter. ForeWord Reviews calls the novel “an inspirational gem that will appeal to introspective, evolving women.” Read an excerpt at www.DownwardDogUpwardFog.com. Meryl has also written for Oprah’s Girlfriend Magazine, Whole Girlfriend’s Living, Reader’s Girlfriend’s Digest, and other national magazines.

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