The Human Energy Field, sometimes called the Aura, is a complex combination of overlapping energy patterns which define the unique spiritual, mental, emotional and physical makeup of an individual. A person's Human Energy Field (HEF) is that part of the Universal Energy Field (UEF) associated with that specific individual. There are three basic ways of describing the HEF: in terms of energy meridians, chakras and energy bodies. Each is discussed below as it applies to energy-based healing techniques.
Energy Meridians
Energy Meridians are the internal energy pathways throughout the physical body which energetically connect a person’s organs and their many subsystems (e.g., circulatory, endocrine, nervous, digestive, etc.). These energy meridians and specific points on these meridians are used in healing modalities such as acupuncture and acupressure. Knowledge of these meridians is not necessary for the healing techniques available at Evergreen Healing Arts Center, other than to realize that there is an internal energy transmission system within the human body which allows the flow of life-force energy throughout the body.
Energy Bodies
The five-layer Energy Body system is the third way of describing the Human Energy Field. Note that the physical body is counted as an energy body since all matter is ultimately made up of energy. Also of importance is the fact that the higher subtle energy bodies overlap and interpenetrate the complete physical body. In much the same way as many different TV signals exist around us in the same space simultaneously and can be individually identified by a specific frequency, the overlapping subtle energy bodies (which are also defined by different frequencies) also penetrate into the same space as our physical body. So when an energy practitioner places his or her hands on the client, the healing energies are sent not only to the physical body, but also to each higher energetic body. Thus, with the proper healing frequencies channeled through the practitioner, healing can occur on not only the physical level, but also in the etheric, emotional, mental and spiritual energy bodies of the client.
The Physical Energy Body. At first, it may seem unusual to consider that the physical body is an energy body, but that is exactly what it appears to be. And as we explore and become more accustomed to this new paradigm, we are able not only to see the physical body in a greater, more meaningful context, but also we begin to understand the role of disease and the nature of healing. The physical body is the densest form of energy that our consciousness uses to explore its environment and interact with others. By the densest form, it is meant that the vibrational patterns of the physical body are of a frequency low enough to be seen by our eyes (they are within the spectrum of visible light), heard by our ears (about 30 to 15,000 Hertz), and experienced with the senses of touch, taste and smell which are within the "frequency capability" of our physical body.
But there are many octaves, frequencies, and vibrations beyond the capability of our physical senses. Beyond what we can see as visible light are the higher frequencies of ultraviolet, x-ray, and cosmic radiation. We are beginning to understand that what we can physically sense is only a small portion of the vibrational energies around us. And if we look within our physical bodies at our atoms, molecules and cells, again we find patterns of vibrating energy that we have traditionally called "matter".
We need to become aware that our physical body is really a field of vibrating energy that has coalesced from higher less dense octaves. But we also need to remember that as vibrating fields interact with each other, one field can affect another field through the phenomenon of sympathetic vibration. If a violin player produces a note an octave above Middle C, and a second violin lying nearby on a table has a string which is tuned to Middle C, the second violin string tuned to Middle C will sympathetically begin to vibrate as well. So as we also begin to understand that there are several vibrational fields of energy around our physical body, it becomes easier to understand how one field affects another through this principle. And this is the key to understanding how energy-based healing techniques can achieve such visible and profound results in the physical body.
The Etheric Energy Body. The etheric body is the first energy body in frequency above the physical body. It exists within the physical body, and extends outward about an inch outside the skin of the physical body. Its purpose is to form an energy template or matrix for the development, maintenance and repair of the physical body. The etheric body contains a vibrational energy counterpart for each organ, blood vessel and bone found in the physical body. Indeed, the etheric body contains the energetic blueprint for the pathways that guide the location and development of every cell of the physical body. Our physical bodies exist only because of the vital (etheric) field behind them. This etheric field exists prior to, not a result of, the physical body.
Since the etheric body is the physical body's blueprint, the two are very closely related. The energetic vibrations of the etheric body determine the pattern for not only the physical tissues and organs, but also the state of health of those tissues and organs. If the vibrations are not clear and pure, this disharmony will be reflected in the physical body as disharmonious function -- what we call "disease".
Conversely, traumas to the physical body (e.g., broken bones, burns, incisions and scars) will in time be reflected into the etheric body unless there is some interceding process that either prevents this reflection into the etheric body or which restores the original vibrational pattern which existed prior to the trauma. The ability to work with a client's vibrating energy fields is precisely what forms the basis for rapid and effective energy-based physical healings.
An illness can appear in the energy field weeks and even months before it appears in the physical body. In his book, Vibrational Medicine, Dr. Richard Gerber, a Detroit physician, notes that "The etheric body is a holographic energy template that guides the growth and development of the physical body."
The following description of the etheric and higher subtle energy bodies surrounding the physical body are taken from Barbara Brennan's book, Hands of Light. To her, the etheric body appears as a grid of tiny energy lines which has the overall structure and shape of the physical body. This matrix extends from 1/4" to 2 inches beyond the physical body. It is upon this etheric grid or matrix that the cells and tissues of the body develop and are anchored. The etheric body appears as a light blue or gray matrix of lines of light that constantly pulsate or scintillate at a rate of from 15-20 cycles per minute.
The Emotional Energy Body. The emotional body contains the emotional patterns, feelings, and vibrations that determine our personality, and also how we feel about ourselves and interact with others. If we are constantly angry, always feel helpless, or are consistently fearful, these patterns or vibrations get locked in our emotional energy field and become a part of our personality. This determines to a very large degree how we interact with others on personal, social, and cultural levels.
The emotional body generally follows the shape of the physical and etheric bodies, but is somewhat more amorphous and fluid, and extends from one to about three inches outside the physical body. It contains energy "blobs" of all colors of the rainbow, depending on the specific feeling or emotion. Highly charged feelings such as love, hate, joy, and anger are associated with energy blobs that are bright and clear, while confused feelings are darker and muddier.
The Mental Energy Body. The mental body contains the structure and patterns of all the thoughts and belief systems that we consider as true. And there is a very strong connection between the mental and emotional bodies. Although a thought or idea can in itself be very powerful, our reactions to those thoughts carry even more energy, and different people will react differently to the same thought.
For example, consider the thought form "If you are not a Catholic (or Protestant, or Muslim, or Jew, or whatever), you can not go to Heaven." One person might hear that thought or idea, think it was silly, and give it absolutely no energy. But another person might become very passionate, depending on his greater belief systems, and argue strongly either for or against the truth of that statement. His emotional body would then record the intensity of the reaction to the thought stored in the mental body. However, the person who thought the statement was silly in the first place would not have any resonance with it, and no energetic pattern would be stored in either the mental or emotional bodies.
The mental body usually appears as yellow light radiating around the entire body from head to toe, and extends from three to eight inches beyond the physical body. Within this area, individual thought forms appear as small blobs of light of varying form and intensity.
The Spiritual Energy Body. The spiritual body (i.e., all vibrational patterns in octaves higher than the mental body) contains all the information related to our experiences, and reflects our gestalt consciousness of all that has been learned and experienced. It contains our higher intentions, our sense of what is right and wrong ("conscience"), and our desires to increase our awareness of our purpose, place and mission for this lifetime.
These five energy bodies make up one's Human Energy Field, or aura. Its outer shape appears roughly egg-shaped and extends out to perhaps 1½ to two feet beyond the physical body; however, this shape can be extended even further out or contracted closer to the physical body depending on the situation the person is experiencing. For example, when a person is feeling emotions of unconditional love, the aura may expand to several feet and radiate bright hues of gold or white. But if the same person is feeling threatened physically or emotionally, the entire aura may collapse to a much denser pattern within only a few inches of the body.
THE KIRLIAN EFFECT and KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY
The Photograph of Human Energy Body
The Kirlian effect is : "the transformation of the non electrical properties of an object or a body into electrical properties with the transfer of charge from the object or the body to a photographic emulsion".
Kirlian photography is a method that uses a device that can establish energy health assessments and measure the energy of an organism. It is the energy that appears on Kirlian photography as well as the state of intercellular vibratory communication, a complete image of the energies that run through the human organism or a physical body.
The basic equipment used by S. Kirlian is very simple : a coil (Teslo) connected to a metal plate and isolated by special plate. A sheet of light-sensitive paper is placed between the subject and the machine. The photograph is then taken. The Kirlian machine then emits a high-tension, high-frequency electric field.
Semyon Kirlian and his wife performed an advanced research that emerged on the worldwide recognition of the Kirlian effect.
The existence of a field of subtle energy that surrounds the human body has been known for thousands of years. In the past few years, scientists have started to express interest in this phenomenon. Thanks to "Aura" photography, we know now that every living being is surrounded by a field of electromagnetic energy.
Our aura can bring information about our qualities, our abilities, our thoughts, our feelings, our problems. The aura can be modified by external factors like the quality of the environment, the air we breathe, the persons that surround us, a tense or harmonious atmosphere.
The interpretation of the colors of the aura brings vital information. It allows better knowledge of oneself. Its colors reveal our affects, the state of our health, our mood ; they express who we are.
A therapist can analyze the photograph and draw useful conclusions. No present technique other than Kirlian photography can assess the energy of individual globally and in real time. Three to six months later, one can have a new photographic assessment and compare it to the first one in order to judge the progress or the degradation of their energy.
Introduction to Kirlian Photography
Kirlian photography is a way of representing the energy of the body in visual form. Since discovered by inventors Semyon and Valentina Kirlian in 1939, the technique has been researched and refined by independent labs and health practitioners throughout the globe.
What is being recorded?
All living creatures generate and emit radiations. Photons of light, electromagnetic frequencies, heat, sound, and scent are all emitted from our bodies in direct relationship to our internal states. This wonderful and subtle system of exchange contains a wealth of information.
Kirlian photography introduces a high frequency, high voltage, ultra low current to the object being photographed. In traveling through and reacting with our complex systems, this influx of electrical energy amplifies and makes visible the bodies biological and energetic exchange. The camera and the subject interact to produce a corona of multifrequency energy waves- from low infrared to well past the visible spectrum.
How is Kirlian Photography useful in the health profession?
The photographs can be used for dramatic before and after photos to illustrate the effectiveness of treatments, or to monitor changes over time. The information revealed by the images can be interpreted and used as a diagnostic tool. Using diagnostic systems developed by Peter Mandel and Dr. Korotkov, it is possible to detect very early signs of disease and energy blockages. Many have found that Kirlian photographs meet their needs in ways no other tool can.
Kirlian photography has been extensively studied in reputable labs and has shown not only consistent correlation with emotional and physical states, (including the presence of disease) but remarkable information not shown with other methods.
What Parts of the Body are Photographed?
For humans photographs are usually taken of the fingertips or hands. As the acupuncture organ meridians end in the fingertips, energy blockages or excesses will show up as empty spaces or flares. Using a diagnostic system developed by Peter Mandel and Dr. Konstantin Korotkov, a great deal of information about the psycho-physical body can be learned. Tens of thousands of case studies have been in examined in the development of the fingertip diagnostic technique.
Summary of Kirlian Photographic System
What is Kirlian Photography
Kirlian Photography is a process that uses high frequencies and electron streams to take a picture of invisible radiating energy fields that surrounds all living things.
The Kirlian camera is a unique tool for research, experimentation and fun to understand life energy flow. The Camera, is a "USER FRIENDLY", HIGH/TECH design. This highly effective camera produces Brilliant, High Resolution Kirlian Photographs on instant Polaroid Black & White or Color films.
This Kirlian Camera is reliable, very dependable and the best known on the market for producing such High Quality, instant Kirlian Photographs!
How Kirlian Photography can be useful
When you want dramatic before and after photos, to illustrate the effectiveness of treatments, or want useful information about the bodies energetic and physical state, Kirlian photographs can meet your needs in ways no other tool can. With practice and training the subtle cues of bio-energy photography become apparent.
Kirlian photography has been extensively studied in reputable labs and has shown not only consistent correlation with emotional and physical states, in any life energy sources, state of the energy meridians flow through them, but remarkable information not empirically shown with other methods
Observation you can make with Kirlian Photography
• Graphically illustrate the difference in presents of Life energy level before and after acupuncture, massage, raiky, Qi Ging, exercise, polarity, or any other body work.
• Monitor progression of bio-energy change over a period of time.
• Observe energy balance between upper/lower, left/right parts of the body.
• Visually monitor meridian activity.
• Observe the energy flow (or lack of it) between people.
• Monitor the flow of bio-energy in energy meridians (blocked or open meridians).
• Make the connection between mind and body obvious to yourself and your clients.
• Observe ones ability to consciously affect energy and record it on a film.
• Observe presence of life energy in leaves, insects, flowers, seeds, anything containing life energy.