The term Biofield was chosen by a 1992 panel of scientists of National Institute Of Health (NIH) to describe the field of energy and information that surrounds the human body. Beverly Rubik , PH. D. ”The Biofield Hypothesis: Its Biophysical Basis and Role in Medicine”, describes the biofield as a complex, electromagnetic (EM) field that utilizes EM bioinformation for self regulation. This is an underlying light grid of speed of light communication that underlies the much slower chemical processes that gives rise to. As a regulator and mediator of biological interactions, the biofield appears intimately connected with information delivery within the organism. The biofield holds and conveys information that is vital for biocommunication and bioregulation.
The biofield or information associated with it stemming from multicellular activity, is also the basis of a decades old clinical tool most commonly in the form of ECG (the detector of electrical wave forms generated by activity of heart muscle cells) and EEG (the detector of wave forms reflecting electrical activity of neuronal pathways). While EEG and ECG are readily detected from the body surface, the heart’s magnetic field generated by moving electric charges associated with electrical activity can be recorded up to several feet from the body surface via a magnetocardiogram.
Nevertheless, many CAM practitioners continue to use terms from non Western explanatory models and medical systems to evoke a vital force of vital energy. For example Qi in Chinese medicine, Ki in Japanese medicine, Prana in Ayuverda and similar terms in many traditions of indigenous medicine, These descriptions of life energy originated from metaphysical considerations of the nature of conciousness and its interaction with mental, emotional, and physical systems were based on first person observations by adept spiritual practitioners. Most traditional healing practices maintain the belief that disease starts with an energetic imbalance such as a blockage or other irregularity in the energy flow through the body.
The term biofield fills the need for a unifying concept to bridge traditional and contemporary explanatory models of energy medicine and provides a common language for aspects of both clinical practice and scientific research that focus on energy fields of the body. The term biofield gave birth to an emerging field of study biofield science that aims to provide a scientific foundation for understanding the complex homeodynamic regulation of living systems.
Seen in this perspective, the human body is not only composed of physical, mechanical, and chemical components, but also has an oscillating electromagnetic aspect with each cell, organ and system contributing to a complex standing wave of many different frequencies that change over time not unlike a symphony. This is what accounts for the rapid and holistic effects of some complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies (acupuncture, homeopathy, bioelectric therapies, biofield therapies like healing touch, Reiki, soundhealing purport to work within this field. The main aspect in the modus operandi of these modalities is an interaction with the organism’s biofield and the result is an effect on homeodynamics, the organizing intelligence of the body that seeks up remote healing and maintain order and balance.
