With this in mind, energy medicine is also a multifaceted approach to health and well-being utilising many mediums for the transference of energy from one system to another, eg from lets say a crystal to a human, animal, plant. Lets take crystals. Different types of crystals resonate at different frequencies, these assist in bringing balance and harmony to whatever they come into contact with, for example a person, this is called coherence. For me this is the miraculous simplicity of healing - the coherence of frequency of crystal and person for transformation!

The Process of Transformation

So what is ‘transformation’? Lets take a deeper look at this phenomena with something that most people have had some experience of – weight! Sometime in our lives maybe we have experienced having weight concerns. Any physical presentation has required processes to take place to create the outcome, and these processes are generally habitual, created through repetition. They occur whether we are aware of these processes or not and are taking place constantly. If someone is going through motions/life in an unconscious mode, feelings, thoughts and actions take place to ‘create’ outcomes, but without awareness.

If someone has used food as a comfort or control in times of stress/distress then they are most likely to have created an unconscious reactive process that kicks in at the onset of any stressful experience. Lets say they are presented, without warning, with a situation that causes them to feel out of their depth? Immediately and generally without their awareness physiological processes take place: the hormone Cortisol, known as the ‘stress hormone’ is released from the adrenal cortex, it increases blood pressure and sugar levels and is also an immunosuppressive – meaning it depletes the immune system, and evokes the ‘fight or flight’ experience. This has an immediate effect on the physical heart as increased heart rate, and it also has an immediate effect on the energetic heart centre, our emotional centre, which is directly & intricately linked to the brain. The probability of a habitual response will occur, they will look to food to alleviate the uncomfortable feeling that has occurred to evoke feelings of safety. Thus increased intake of food may create increased weight gain, and then possibly feelings of guilt for the consequential behaviour, this may in turn create another bout of binge eating! The cycle goes round & round unconsciously strengthening the pathway. This is also the cycle for the eating disorder bulemia. This process is also true of positive emotional experiences and how they affect the brain function.

Below is a section from a study held at the HeartMath Institute

“The first two studies focus primarily on neurological interactions, demonstrating that the afferent signals the heart sends the brain during positive emotions can alter brain activity in several ways. In the first study, we find that cardiac coherence can drive entrainment between very low frequency brainwaves and heart rhythms, thus further expanding our understanding of the physiological entrainment mode described in the previous section. In the second study, we learn that coherent heart rhythms also lead to increased heart-brain synchronization. The implications of these findings are explored in the third study, which shows that in states of high heart rhythm coherence, individuals demonstrate significant improvements in cognitive performance.”
For further information of the research studies taking place go to:

http://www.heartmath.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=51&limit=1&limitstart=3

Which comes first, the heart/emotional response or the brain? Scientifically, research is finding that instantaneous responses first occur in our emotional energy then, in a split second a neuron response is fired within the brain which finds the strongest synaptic pathway related to the emotional response to produce a physiological reaction. This, over a period of time creates a behavioural response which in turn will create physical manifestation- physical structure alters!!!

So at a finer level, how does the brain ‘choose’ which response? Well maybe it doesn’t consciously ‘choose’, it is reactive so it searches for the strongest neural pathway and the synapse function is triggered. This impulse is converted to a physiological chemical process, which either excites or inhibits activity in the connecting neuron depending on the intensity. This determines the molecular event at the synapse. Any sustained behaviour creates a synaptic pathway, the more this pathway is used the stronger it becomes – the more ingrained the behaviour.

SYNAPSES FUNCTION IN THE FLOW OF INFORMATION: The creation of perceptions?

At the synapse, nerve impulses are converted to physiological chemical processes, which excite or inhibit activity in the connecting neuron depending on their strength (intensity) which determines the molecular events at the synapse (synaptic activity) eg sending a message to release the cortisol when the body registers fear. Depending on the occurrence of excitation or inhibition synapses are either strengthened or weakened. New synapses can be created. Established synapses can deteriorate, through limited use. As a result of this process of ‘synapse modification’ neural pathways is altered, behaviours change.

The relevance of this with the Laws of Intention & Attraction:-

Application to the Laws of Intention & Attraction

Alteration of neural pathways involves the physiological process of continuity of information from one part of the brain to another i.e. 'information flow'. Simply put, the more we think/focus on something, the more we attach to it and bring it into manifestation. The more ‘real’ the information focused on feels the stronger the information flow and the strengthening of neural pathways & the development of new synaptic activity. Is this how worry grows into anxiety, anxiety into fear and fear into incapacity through depression, OCD, agro phobia and probably many more conditions? On the other side of this, visualisation on positive life changes also generates change. We are beginning to create a new reality through conscious focus (Intention) on a vision.
If we then bring into this vision the feelings we expect to experience once this becomes our reality, we begin to generate a vibrational coherence (matching up) with the ‘frequency of particles’ that resonate with these feelings – like attracts like!!! Once these 2 separate frequencies interact with each other they create ‘interference’. In interference, at least two wave-like entities are combined and, depending on the relative phase between them, they can add constructively or subtract destructively. Once they have created this process of interference they are never separate, even if they are not in the same ‘space’. As an example, consider two waves perfectly correlated for all times, at any time, if the first wave changes, the second will change in the same way. If combined they can exhibit complete constructive interference at all times. It follows that they are perfectly coherent.

The more we ‘see’ this vision in our minds eye and fully attaching the feeling we expect to experience when living this reality, the more cohering particles of energy attach to the vision, creating a denser and denser image until it so ‘heavy’ with energy it manifests as matter, it becomes our reality! The important aspect here is feelings, why? Because feelings give movement to, they propel the act of creation. Feelings underlie our desires, desires intensify our vibration and with this intensity we activate the principle of magnetic attraction, which can do nothing but draw the desire to us!

This effect occurs in exactly the same way whether we allow our mind to run off into a ‘fantasy’ of something negative, or if we place our attention on a positive/life enhancing behaviour/outcome, it grows! Where ever we place our focus, whether consciously or unconsciously is fed. Sadly most people are creating from unconscious internal dialogue that is self-limiting, placing conscious intention on specific outcomes gives us the power to literally change the very being of who we are!

Changing our Experience of Reality

So how can we change our reality????? We have to first develop an awareness of and connection to our true feelings. Our motivating feelings can be triggered by external events that evoke memories, and internal dialogue. Generally this internal dialogue is historical feedback of experiences we had during our formative years, it seems the strongest are those that were reinforced. Once we are able to develop awareness, we are then in a position to choose to change reactive feelings & internal dialogue - becoming a master of action not a victim of re-action! Remember feelings give movement to; they propel the act of creation. Read the word again, RE – ACTION: - to re-enact a previous behaviour/experience – so why not choose to re – enact positive life affirming feelings and behaviours that will create the events/outcomes we say we desire? Maybe it is because it takes less energy not to act and it seems to be easier to believe life happens to us, which gives us many fold reasons why we ‘CAN’T’ change our lives!!! Now we require the quality of persistence and repetition to create an new ingrained habit to alter neural pathways.

The alteration of neural pathways involves the physiological process of continuity of information from one part of the brain to another i.e. 'information flow'. Information flow is a function of the propagation of nerve impulses along the neurons and their transmission from one neuron to another across the gaps that separate them, the synaptic clefts. The effectiveness of synapses to initiate or 'fire' the development of new signals on connecting neurons involves a series of complex molecular events which depend on nerve impulses which are strong enough to increase the potency of other synapses so that their influence enhances the creation of new synapses and new pathways which equal new thoughts, behaviours & outcomes. When this stimuli is not strong enough then synapses atrophy, the formation of new synapses depends on stimulation through activity. Changes in neural pathways and the creation of new ones constitute the biological basis for 'learning' and the retention of learning or 'memory'.

There is a theory that any habit is formed through consistent behaviour of 21 days, this applies to negative and positive habits, and there is no discrimination! So we need to practice our visualisation with a strong connection to our feelings for 21 days to propel the creation of new circuitry.

A new study in the Oct. 20 issue of Nature, led by Ann Graybiel of MIT's McGovern Institute, now shows why. “Important neural activity patterns in a specific region of the brain change when habits are formed, change again when habits are broken, but quickly re-emerge when something rekindles an extinguished habit -- routines that originally took great effort to learn”.
"We knew that neurons can change their firing patterns when habits are learned, but it is startling to find that these patterns reverse when the habit is lost, only to recur again as soon as something kicks off the habit again," said Graybiel, who is also the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Neuroscience in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS).

Conscious Living

People who live their lives consciously over long periods of time can begin to experience very subtle changes in their body’s physiology. The development of such a heightened state of consciousness, this immediacy, allows them to make conscious behavioural choices that can halt or even reverse detrimental processes occurring – breathing being one of them. Altering our breathing consciously affects almost instantly our physiological processes, the chemical reactions within the body and the impact these have on the body. By altering breathe, we alter health!

Lets not forget how changes in our own energy field, and the development of awareness can have a profound impact on all those we come into contact with. Our bio-electromagnetic field is always interplaying with those of all living things, which is why there are some people, places or things eg types of music we love to be around and there are other people, places or things we don’t want to be around or feel not so good after being in contact with.

The Institute of HeartMath in one of their research articles - The Energetic Heart explains the bio-electromagnetic interactions within and between people. It explains how when you’re not consciously communicating with others, your physiological systems are interacting in subtle and surprising ways? Or that the electromagnetic signal produced by your heart is registered in the brain waves of people around you? Or that your physiological responses sync up with your mate's during empathetic interactions? It looks into and explains why the heart's electromagnetic field is believed to act as a central synchronizing signal within the body, an important carrier of emotional information and a key mediator of energetic interactions between people.

The Institute of HeartMath and others' explores research on bio-electromagnetic interactions and how living and acting from a coherent heart state can affect those around us. Go to www.heartmath.org