Grounding: An Energy Medicine Perspective

What is energy?

Energy is an unseen, moving, vital force, often referred to as Chi or Prana. The state of a person’s energies will determine much about their health and wellbeing.

In Eden Energy Medicine (EEM), created by Energy Medicine pioneer Donna Eden, the aim is to restore energies that have become blocked, disrupted or imbalanced in some way. Using simple Energy Medicine techniques, it is possible to activate our own healing energies and bring balance to nine energy systems, including the Meridians and Aura, or bio-field.

EEM is both a complement to a Western approach to health, addressing physical and emotional difficulties, as well as a complete system for self-help in it’s own right.

What does it mean to be grounded?

Grounding is something that impacts all of us, whether we realize it or not. In fact, many people often give the feedback, “I didn’t know I wasn’t grounded until I actually got grounded – and then I really knew the difference!”

If you think about an electrical device, in many countries it has a brown earth pin, which is there to send the excess electrical energy to the earth.

Human beings are exactly the same. We need to be grounded into the earth – except we don’t have that earth pin!

In energetic terms, being grounded means that we are able to both release excess energy into the earth as well as take up energy from the earth. If we aren’t energetically connected to the earth, a lack of grounding will result.

Thousands of years ago, it was easy for humans to ground because we all walked around barefoot. Cardiologist Dr. Stephen Sinatra explains about grounding,

“Grounding is literally putting your bare feet on the ground. When you do that, you’re in contact with the Earth, and mother Earth is endowed with electrons, and these electrons are literally absorbed through your feet. It’s like taking handfuls of antioxidants, but you’re getting it through your feet.”

What kinds of things might we experience when we are not grounded?

Feeling:

  • anxious
  • “spacey” or lightheaded
  • a general discomfort
  • disconnected or unable to relate to others or the environment
  • “stuck”

Or you:

  • are having trouble listening, learning or focusing
  • are having trouble walking or balancing
  • don’t feel emotionally supported
  • are picking up too much energy from others

One of the simplest and most effective ways to get grounded is to walk barefoot in nature. It’s fun and nurturing, too!

There are a wide range of EEM techniques that support a person to ground energetically.

One effective technique is to make anti-clockwise circles below your feet. Imagine a clock facing outwards from the soles of your feet. Use one or both hands to make anti-clockwise circles, at least 18 inches from the bottom of each foot (as you look at the sole of your foot, from below your body, you move anti-clockwise). Each circle should take approximately one second, however you can experiment with speed and see what feels most comfortable for you. Continue to make circles for one-three minutes for each foot.

Rachel Jacobson is an Eden Energy Medicine Clinical Practitioner (EEM-CP) and has been teaching EEM since 2015. She will be teaching a year long EEM Foundations Course in Manchester, starting April 2019. This is suitable for anyone who wishes to add to their skill set, or gain excellent knowledge for self-care and working with friends and family. It is also a prerequisite for those who wish to go on to become an EEM Practitioner.

For more information, contact Rachel by email: contact@racheljacobson.co.uk

What previous students have said:

Rachel is very enthusiastic about energy medicine and this came across in her presentations. She described things very clearly and in a way that is memorable. The meeting facility had a good energy and it was pleasant to learn there. She was also very thoughtful in accommodating different dietary requirements in the lunch she provided. All in all it was very enjoyable and informative!

I would like to share what a pleasure it was to have Rachel facilitate this workshop. Her energy shines through and her wealth of personal and professional experience made for a stimulating experience. Having a sit down lunch provided by Rachel, which was delicious, allowed for a greater sharing between the other attendees. I don’t have a single negative comment to make and I look forward to the next course. Two days post course and the Daily Energy Routine is having a really noteable effect on my energy levels.

Gratitude to you Rachel, what an amazing day, at a beautiful peaceful location, facilitated by your wise and compassionate self, and with such beautiful people. So many positive feelings to assimilate. I look forward to sharing with you all again.

Resonance and tuning forks

Appropriate music or sounds can help to restore the natural vibrations of a living being and therefore its health, as long as these vibrations resonate with the natural vibration of that being. Tuning forks create this healing opportunity.

Everything in the world functions at an optimal frequency and when a person is operating at optimal health, his or her “tones” are attuned with each other and aligned with the external world.

Any stress-related condition – an emotion, negative belief or event, or pathogen – can be labelled as an “invading-sound” or frequency that can disrupt the body’s natural frequencies or vibrations.

If the body or those parts of the body (including the energetic structures) are unable to attune to the “out-of-tune” frequency or to its personal frequency, the invading frequency “takes over” and eventually causes disease.

The beneficial use of tuning forks is based on sound waves as they pass through the body. They elicit responses within the body systems. These systems in turn react to sound waves and vibrations and are restored to a healthier and more harmonic place.

When you tap the tuning forks, you awaken the life energy of your cells and start them puffing, creating a centered, happy feeling inside. There are many wellbeing benefits of tuning forks; here are eight reasons to incorporate these tools into your holistic practices:

  1. Provides instantaneous, deep state of relaxation
  2. Improves mental clarity and brain functioning
  3. Increases your level of physical energy and mental concentration
  4. Relieves stress by drawing your body into a centered space
  5. Develops and refines your sonic abilities
  6. Enhances massage, acupressure, dream work and meditation
  7. Brings your nervous system into balance
  8. Integrates left and right brain thought patterns

Sound is frequently conjoined with chakra work to produce beneficial results.
There are two theories about sound and the chakra system:

Chakra Work:

Each musical note holds a vibration and creates unique results. There are many theories that fix certain tones to specific chakras. These vary from culture to culture with the belief that you can attune the chakras and balance the system.

Tones can both heal and harm. Off-tones – tones that don’t match the frequency of your body, a particular chakra, or physical organ – create dissonance/disease.

Beneficial tones blend with your core harmonic and keep you strong and help to enable healing.

Healing the chakras is designed to help each person recognise the naturally occurring rhythms of vibration within themselves to allow them to heal.

Learn how to effectively use tuning forks to balance the chakra system on part one of Emma Lane’s energy healing course. Find out more on the Integrative Health Education website. Or call +44 (0) 1924 242 851 to book.

The science behind sound therapy

The science of sound healing is complex. It starts with the understanding that each atom is constructed of electrons, protons, neutrons, and subatomic particles.

Electrons that move at over six hundred miles per second surround each atom. Motion creates frequency, which creates vibration, which in turn generates sound (whether audible or not).

Here is a step-by-step introduction to the science of sound healing:

  1. Sound information forms patterns out of matter. Therefore it must contain the information needed to form these patterns.
  2. Sound moves in waves, and in turn creates fields. Particular sounds are passed into, out of and through the body through molecules that act as transfer points for information.
  3. A molecule can literally take on the vibration of an initial pulse and pass this vibration on to its neighbours, which is why sound can shape and change the body and its fields.
  4. Water molecules, formed from crystals, will actually shape and reshape according to the vibration of a sound or the information coded into it – for better or worse.
  5. Sound waves are like a deep massage at an atomic and molecular level.
  6. Every organ, bone and tissue has its own frequency.
  7. Sound moves in waves, and in turn creates fields. Particular sounds are passed into, out of, and through the body through molecules, which act as transfer points for information.
  8. The sound waves of tuning forks vibrate and travel deeply into the body along energy pathways, affecting human physiology and reaching places not easily accessed.
  9. Their rich resonance and vibration connects with and supports the body’s natural frequencies, stimulates and balances the body’s physical and subtle energy field, and promotes wellness, deep inner harmony, and harmonic attunement.
  10. Certain notes or tones can be harmful. For example very low infrasonic frequencies can collapse internal organs; ultrasonic energy can decalcify and soften bones
  11. Sound can be healing. As shown by researcher Fabien Maman when sounding a tuning fork on a cancer cell and the cell dissolved.
  12. Water conducts sound four times faster than air so it can be a useful entrainment (joining of vibrations) tool – especially for our bodies, which are 70% water.
  13. Sound delivers healing vibrations faster than many other methods. It is frequently employed in chakra and auric field therapy.

Emma Lane will share more about the science behind energy healing in her 2-day workshop – Retune, Rebalance and Regenerate – The Art of Energy Healing. Book now.

The energy trinity – light, sound and vibration

Energy exists in three forms – light, sound and vibration. All life, including each cell of our bodies, has a vibrational frequency – it is the essence of all of life’s activities. From the tiniest grain of sand to the largest of stars, all matter has a unique frequency and vibration.

Each of our internal organs has its characteristic and unique sound, just as the heart beats, the brain, liver, stomach, kidneys and other organs have their own respective voices which combine to form a beautiful symphony within our bodies.

Through vibration, our bodies continuously shed old cells and create new ones,
this is a normal life process and utilises the natural healing power within all of us. People with a healthy vibration can heal themselves even when confronted with injury or illness.

If a particular organ has a problem and it begins to emit a discordant tone the rest of the organs in the body will then generate a harmonious healing symphony in an attempt to resolve the problem by helping the compromised organ regain its proper frequency.

However once the body’s harmonious voice is weakened or broken its healing power is compromised, thus illness can manifest.

Negative thoughts are the primary cause of this breakdown, leading to discordant notes amongst the body’s organs.

The healing role of tuning forks

The human being is like a musical instrument through which emotional, mental and spiritual life is expressed. Everything is vibrating – from the orbits of the planets to the movements of electrons. The body can be viewed as a manifestation of vibrational states.

Because the more powerful vibrations of one object can change the less powerful vibrations of another, the appropriate tuning forks and application can bring balance to discordant vibration in the human being. By restoring the inherent vibrational pattern, tuning forks can have amazing health benefits.

Emma Lane introduces the use of tuning forks in Retune, Rebalance and Regenerate – The Art of Energy Healing. During the first workshop, vibrational healing techniques and skills will be taught; these will include effective use of tuning forks. Want to know more? Follow this link for information about this course.

All of life is made of information and vibration

The terms energy medicine, energetic healing, bio field healing, bio energetic healing, chakra healing, aura healing, energy work, meridian-based healing, energy anatomy, vibrational medicine, subtle energy healing and dozens of other similar labels simply refer to practices relating to a certain vibrational or frequency-based level of energy.

Most of us have experienced the benefits of x-rays, MRI, electro-cardiograms and other testing devices. These practices all employ energy and make energetic changes in the body. Surgery can be seen as an energetic manoeuvre in that tearing tissue disturbs the body’s vibrational field. Adding a device like a pacemaker provides new information, aiding heart function and assuring that it vibrates correctly instead of skipping beats.

Prescription drugs work energetically altering vibration through chemical information that instructs cellular behaviour. Biological fields are not just bi-products of physiological processes; they are part of the mechanism by which the body communicates with itself.

A few decades ago these energy fields were considered non-existent by academic medicine. Research on this topic is now underway, in medical and academic research centres around the world. We are now documenting the presence of such fields and researchers are starting to understand how energy fields are generated and how they are altered by disease and disorder.

Electromagnetic medicine is beginning to revive but with far more sophisticated science to support it.

For example, research from scientists like Axon Burr, Bergsmann, Woolley Hart, Sullivan and Brewitt published over the last decade has shown that diseased states can be detected by measuring changes in the electrical conductance of tissue, making possible early diagnosis and treatments.

In 1985, Sullivan and colleagues reported that patients with lung cancer (confirmed by chest x-rays) had 30% lower electrical conductances at lung points. Other research summarized by Brewitt (1996, 1999) showed the cellular basis for these effects. Specifically, viral and bacterial infections, as well as cancer, affect the ionic and water content and pH of the extracellular fluids, and thereby affect the cell membrane potentials and tissue conductances.*

Energy fields can be detected a distance from the body and scientists are now able to explain how these fields are generated and why they become distorted when pathology is present. Why living systems are so sensitive to these fields and how fields can be used for healing is also now the subject of scientific investigation.

In just a few decades scientist have gone from the conviction that there is no such thing as energy fields in and around the human body, to an absolute certainty that they exist. To date, medical interest has focused on the magnetic fields around the body that are now referred to as biomagnetic fields.

Interest in biomagnetism has spread widely in the biomedical research community. At a fundamental level we still do not know exactly what electricity and magnetism really are.

The electron is a basic unit and has properties such as charge, mass and gravity. A deeper explanation as to how these properties arise is missing at this time.

In the past we could define an individual as that which lies within the skin, but it is a fact of physics that energy fields have no such boundaries. The biomagnetic field of the heart extends indefinitely into space even though its strength diminishes with distance.

If you are interesting in the science of energy healing, look out for the third blog in this series which looks at light, sound and vibration along with the healing role of tuning forks.

*References
Bergamann O, Woolley-Hart A 1973 Differences in electrical skin conductivity between acupuncture points and adjacent skin areas. American Journal of Acupuncture 1:27-32.
Brewitt B 1996 Quantitative analysis of electrical skin conductance in diagnosis: historical and current views of bioelectric medicine. Journal of Naturopathic Medicine 6(1): 66-75
Sullivan S G, Eggleston WW, Martinoff JT, Kroenig RJ 1985 Evoked electrical conductivity on the lung acupuncture points in healthy individuals and confirmed lung cancer patients. American Journal of Acupuncture 13(3) 261-266

The energy of everything

Everything is made of energy – molecules, pathogens, prescription medications and even emotions.

Each and every cell pulses electrically and the body itself emits electromagnetic fields. In fact the human body is a complex energetic system composed of hundreds of energetic sub-systems.

Disease is caused by energetic imbalances; therefore health can be restored or established with the help of balancing ones energies.

We cannot see all the energies that keep the body healthy, however those we can see are called physical or measurable energies, those that we can’t yet perceive are called subtle energies.

Subtle doesn’t mean delicate, in fact science is beginning to suggest that the subtle, and as yet immeasurable energy within the body actually directs the measurable energy and contributes to forming our physical framework.

Everything in the world is made of energy, which can be defined most simply as information that vibrates. This energy, this chi of life, may express itself as patterns, sound, tissue and thought, but it is all energy.

Everything vibrates at its own unique speed. For example, a brain cell moves differently than a hair cell but like-minded organisms vibrate in similar ways, each individual unit differs slightly from its sibling group.

Vibration is produced in the form of amplitude and frequency. These oscillations generate more energy and carry information that can be stored or applied.

The information, as well as the vibrating oscillations, can also change depending on the nature of a particular interaction.

This is just a very brief introduction to the principles of energy within the body. Read the other blogs in this series to learn more about energy medicine, energetic healing and sound healing.

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