The Science: Quantum Physics

“According to quantum physics, we are part of a vast, invisible field of energy, which contains all possible realities and responds to our thoughts and our feelings. Think about it―every physical thing in our life is not solid matter but rather, fields of energy or frequency patterns of information. Every human being, along with every material thing in the Universe, broadcast a distinct energy pattern, and this energy carries information. Quantum Entanglement Theory states that all humans and the quantum field are interconnected.”  http://www.thehealersjournal.com/2013/05/05/quantum-physics-explain-how-everything-is-made-of-energy/

In energy healing , the practitioner is directing the spiritually guided universal life force to  the client.  There are many types of energy healing. Increasing the amount of energy coming into your body, mind, and spirit through a skilled practitioner can and often does facilitate healing of the “whole” self.

Newtonian Law: Mind has no control over matter.

Descartes proposed that while the study of matter (or the atoms that make up our physical bodies and everything in the universe) belongs to the realm of science, our minds and everything unseen falls under the domain of religion. Isaac Newton, the most famous physicist in history, then crystallised this thinking by proving that all atoms are made of solid stuff. The Newtonian universe was like a machine governed by a set of laws. In it, we could determine, calculate, and predict everything.

Energy is an outside force, separate to matter, which can only change the physical state of matter when applied to it. Our minds have no control over events.

Quantum Physics: Energy and matter are related.

Einstein then undermined the entire foundation of Newton’s work and ushered in the new era of quantum physics by declaring that time and space were relative—not absolute, as scientists had believed before the introduction of his theory of relativity. Thus, energy and matter were related and interchangeable.

Other scientists—like Planck, Bohr, and Heisenberg—used newer technology to study the workings of the subatomic world. It was the birth of quantum physics—the study of matter and energy at nanoscopic levels.They found that quanta (the smallest form of energy) atoms, which form molecules, which form objects; everything seen is made up of these quanta particles. However, these quanta particles do not behave according to the principles of Newtonian physics, making them a series of probabilities.These scientists then observed that light was the force holding all the quanta particles, atoms, and molecules together—that all forms of matter are made up of solidified light. This light behaves both like a wave, when bending around a corner, and like a particle, when travelling in a straight line.

At the subatomic level, atoms are not solid, but rather 99 percent energy or particles. Nothing is fixed or solid. Matter appears as a wave of probability in one moment, as a solid particle the next, and then disappears into nothing and reappears at another location. The universe was no longer fixed, but movable swirls of energy instead. Events were now controllable and changeable.

Observer Effect: Our thoughts do matter.

Electrons exist simultaneously in an infinite array of possibilities and probabilities in an invisible field of energy. Only when an observer focuses attention on any one location of any one electron, does that electron appear.

A particle can only manifest in reality in space and time when we observe it. At the subatomic level, energy responds to our mindful attention and becomes matter. We can influence an event insofar as our thoughts can influence the movement of energy.

The Quantum Field: We are all interconnected.

The “quantum field” holds all probabilities, which we then collapse into reality through our thoughts (consciousness), feelings, and state of being. The quantum field consists of invisible potential energy that can organise itself from energy, to subatomic particles, to atoms, to molecules, and on up the line to everything.

Everything—humans, stars, galaxies—is connected to this invisible energy in a place beyond space and time. This concept is known as quantum entanglement. According to this theory, when two particles are linked in some way, they will always remain so. The universe, our thoughts, and everything else is interconnected.

Law of Attraction: Our energetic being must match the potential.

The law of attraction states that when we change our electromagnetic signature (the unique, identifiable energy we radiate) to match one that already exists in the quantum field, our body will be drawn to that occurrence. The quantum field responds not to what we want, or to our thoughts alone, but to who we are. Our thoughts send an electrical signal out into the field. The feelings we generate magnetically draw events back to us.

How we think and how we feel co-produce a state of being, which generates an electromagnetic signature, which in turn influences everything in our world. If our intentions and desires haven’t produced consistent results, we’ve probably been sending an incoherent, mixed message into the field. We’re thinking one way and feeling another way. And when the mind is in opposition to the body (or vice versa), the field won’t respond in any consistent way.

Synchronicity: Signs from the universe.

When small coincidences start occurring, such as a friend calling just when we are thinking of them intently, or starting a diet and exercise plan only to find ourselves sitting next to a personal trainer on the plane, these are called synchronicities. Carl Jung coined the term. Synchronicities are signs and directions thrown our way by the universe when we are vibrating at the same level and have faith that the universe will respond to our electrical charge or thought.

A Reality without Senses: Be present.

The quantum field is a multidimensional reality that exists beyond our senses, beyond time, beyond space, and beyond our bodies. To be able to create and match the probabilities, we must be in the present; we must actually shift our thoughts away from our physical environment.

Change your thoughts, change your life.

The new science of quantum physics paves the way for us to create meaningful change in our lives. When we change our thoughts, making them focused and coherent, and let our feelings and actions match them—then we can change our behaviour and our life.

We are connected to a universal intelligence. We are interconnected with everything. However, our past and patterns have such a strong hold on our present thinking that we lose faith in ourselves and this intelligence. We lose that connection.

When we change our thoughts based on our new perceptions, we change our actions. And thus, we change our experience itself—our reality.

The Science Behind Distance Healing

People often look for the scientific understanding of how absent healing works. Indeed, there have been many studies on the effects of remote energy healing but they are inconclusive. Some conclude it does work and others don’t. The difficulty is perhaps in the way science likes to measure in a pre-conceived framework that suits Newtonian physics. Years ago we would have said that other energy frequencies we can’t see such as electricity and wifi were too unbelievable. Now we know them to be real.

So how does reiki distance healing work? Some people like to talk about Quantum Theory when explaining how distant reiki works. Whilst things like Quantum Entanglement suggest it is possible, it still is not proof of how it can work. Perhaps when science understands how Quantum Theory can work on other things we will know for sure.

However, everything is made up of energy on the molecular level. We are made of energy – tables, cars, trees, phones, food – everything is merely energy vibrating at different frequencies. Even our thoughts are energy and have the capacity for entanglement with other energy. What science has now discovered is that everything is connected in an entangled way. From the earliest moments of ‘The Big Bang’, all matter has been entangled. A split second after the big bang everything that is today, and will be in the future was the size of a marble. Think about that for a moment! This would suggest everything is somehow connected. Matter and energy are the same so with this in mind you can see the healer and healee are all connected by one-ness.

Of course, this goes against normal scientific theory that the radiation of energy becomes weaker the further it travels from the energy source. There are several phenomena in physics that could mediate healing at a distance. For example, scalar waves have the extraordinary property of affecting the structure of space everywhere, instantaneously. Scalar waves, therefore, do not have a velocity as such, and their effects do not diminish with distance. – http://www.reikipathway.com/id25.html

Michael Talbot writes in the book ‘Holographic Universe, “In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century.”

“Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn’t matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart.”

This experiment was duplicated in 1997 by Nicolas Gisan who concluded that some particles appeared to be communicating at the mind-boggling speed of 20,000 times the speed of light! Another theory is that the particles were not actually sending signals to each other, rather they were not separate at all. It’s just an illusion.

Another interesting study was when Cardiologist Randolph Byrd conducted a rigidly designed randomized, double-blind experiment in 1988 to determine the effects of prayer on patients in the Coronary Care Unit at San Francisco General Hospital over a ten month period. A computer made the random assignments of which of the 383 newly admitted patients involved in this study would be prayed for, and which would not.

The statistically significant findings of this study were that prayed-for patients were five times less likely to require antibiotics, three times less likely to develop pulmonary edemas and none of the prayed-for patients required endotracheal intubation whereas twelve of the non-prayed-for patients required this procedure.

The Human Energy Field (Biofield / Electromagnetic Field)

It is worth touching on the human energy field that scientists have discovered only fairly recently. It is basically an energy field around the human body that it turns out is very important to us.

The first human energy field to be discovered was the field of the heart. This research led to the electrocardiogram over a century ago. A few years later scientists measured the electrical fields of the brain, resulting in the medical field of electroencephalography. This research discovered that organs such as the heart and brain produce bioelectric fields that travel through the tissues of the body. Now what’s particularly interesting is that Ampère’s Law says when currents flow through conductors such as wires or living tissues, magnetic fields must be produced in the surrounding space. This supports the notion of our body’s external energy field, sometimes called the aura.

Despite recent research shedding light on distant healing intention, more still needs to be explored in this field. Scientific evidence of quantum non-locality demonstrating the existence of an effect at a distance and the evidence of a quantum coherence in living systems offer reliable premises for a possible explanation and hopefully with further work we can discover more about it.