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Targeting the wealth of knowledge rising within the sector of strength medication, this detailed source explores mechanisms wherein brain and physique methods impression the body's therapeutic and function strength. content material attracts on a unprecedented variety of assets to discover theories of human power - from body structure and biophysics, to examples drawn from the geographical regions of "spontaneous healing," state-of-the-art athletic and inventive functionality, the martial arts, and numerous contemplative and non secular practices. offering new insights and theoretical versions, it bargains how you can follow those thoughts at once, virtually, and clinically.Provides an knowing of the character of power drugs through exploring technology and customary experienceExplains complicated clinical recommendations in ways in which are either shiny and straightforward to graspConnects summary theories with sensible applicationsAddresses technical aspect in a way that permits readers from assorted backgrounds and with assorted depths of expertise to decide on their very own point of accessIncludes targeted references with state-of-the-art examine and time-tested reports for the main good rounded standpoint at the subjectWritten through a well known and hugely revered writer during this advanced and rising box of research
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The biomagnetic fields produced by one person’s body should induce tiny currents in the tissues of a nearby person (Faraday’s Law of Induction, see p. 6). Considerable experimental evidence suggests that humans and other organisms possess a compass-like orientation or navigational sense. Many therapists report a magnetic-like sensation when they place their hands near an injured or diseased tissue. 10 − 5 The earth’s magnetic field is about a million times stronger than the heart’s biomagnetic field 10 − 6 = 1 microtesla (1022 Gauss) 10 − 8 The heart’s magnetic field is 5,000 times stronger than the field of the brain 10 − 9 = 1025 Gauss (1 nanotesla) Magnetocardiogram Cohen, 1967 Magnetoencephalograms Williamson and Kaufman, 1981 10 − 10 10 − 11 Delta Alpha Beta Magnetic induction (tesla) 10 − 7 = 1 milligauss 10 − 12 = 1 picotesla 10 − 13 Sensitivity limit of SQUID in a remote location Williamson and Kaufman, 1981 10 − 14 10 − 15 = 1 femtotesla Figure 1-4 Comparison of the strengths of various magnetic and biomagnetic fields.
Important work on this subject was reported in The Heart’s Code (Pearsall 1998). Research at the Institute for Heart Math (McCraty, Atkinson & Tomasino 2001; McCraty et al. 1998) has shown a relationship between emotional state and the frequency spectrum of the electrical signals from the heart. Feelings of love, caring, and compassion, or of frustration and anger, will affect the signals produced by the heart. These signals are conducted to every cell in the body and are radiated into the space around the body.
The more I knew, the less I understood; and I was afraid to finish my life with knowing everything and understanding nothing. Evidently something very basic was missing. I thought that in order to understand I had to go one level lower, to electrons, and—with graying hair—I began to muddle in quantum mechanics. So I finished up with electrons. But electrons are just electrons and have no life at all. Evidently on the way I lost life; it had run out between my fingers. I do not regret this wild-goose chase—because it made me wiser and I know, now, that all levels of organization are equally important and we have to know something about all of them if we want to approach life.
