Healing Science

To quote a famous Psychologist:
 
'Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.'
  Jean Piaget
 
I have a science background myself and understand how hard it can be to relate to and accept less conventional approaches to health. I have tried below to give a summary of some of the key studies and theories that currently offer an explanation for what healing is and how it works.
 
Anecdotal Experience
This is my personal story of a healing experience that is proof for me that healing is more than placebo. I decided to see a physio' for help with an old muscle injury. Part-way through the session she stopped,. I assumed this was just to give her hands and my muscles a rest but then I felt a small point of heat in the muscle, and this grew more intense until it got to the point of almost being unbearably hot. At that point I knew that this was not 'normal' physiotherapy and there was something very odd happening. I asked 'what on earth was that?!!!' and she replied 'Reiki'. I had never heard of Reiki, so this experience was not rooted in placebo, ritual, or expectation. That was enough to convince me that 'there is something in this' .

Quantum Physics
Keeping it simple; particles behave in very strange ways. From a healing perspective, my favourite feature is 'spooky action at a distance' - a term coined by Einstein to explain that if you take two photons split from the same atom, no matter how far apart they are from each other, the action exerted on one photon will also influence the other. We are all connected in ways that we can only begin to imagine. The ongoing experiments at CERN will hopefully shed more light on the complex and mysterious world of quantum behaviour.

Harold Saxton Burr
Most of the theory around the technicalities of healing relate to electromagentics. One of the early (1935) founders of this research was Burr (a professor at Yale School of medicine) who proved that electrical fields that could be measured for all physiological processes. He was able to map out voltage changes that occured during ovulation, and later discovered that voltage changes in mice could be found days before the appearance of tumours. Work more recently in the 1990's has found that viral and bacterial infections, and cancer, affect the extracellular fluids (water, ionic, and PH balance) which hence affects membrane potentials and thus conductance changes. This type of work establishes the existence of bioenergy fields and whilst still not mainstream, has the potential in future to offer non-invasive diagnostics and tests for all manner of disease. Quite how a healer is able to access these fields and work with them is less clear, but I am hopeful that in time we will also understand this.

The 'Living Matrix'
Cell structure research has shown that cytoplasm holds (amongst other things), many filaments that act as a matrix type of structure. These reach both into the nucleus, and out of the cell membrane to adjacent cells. This creates a 'living matrix' whereby all cells are connected not just by the movement of eg salts across a membrane, but in a much more direct and fundamental way. (Oschmann 1994). More recent work is showing that cells have their own intelligence, not just the brain.

Links to ongoing studies
NFSH/Healing Trust: www.nfsh.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=51&Itemid=111
Institute of Noetic Science: www.noetic.org/
Beverly Rubik: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/stuck/200908/third-eye-science
Kryon on DNA (channelled): http://www.kryon.com/k_channel10_melbourne_1.html