title: The heart field effect: Synchronization of healer-subject heart rates in energy therapy.
abstract: Recent health research has focused on subtle energy and vibrational frequency as key components of health and healing. In particular, intentional direction of bioenergy is receiving increasing scientific attention. This study investigates the effect of the healer's electromagnetic (EM) heart field upon subjects during energy healing as measured by synchronization of heart rates and scores on a Subjective Units of Distress (SUD) scale and a Profile of Mood States (POMS) inventory. A nonequivalent pretest-posttest design was used based on heart rate comparisons between healer and subject and correlated with pre-and posttest SUD and POMS scores. Subjects included those who sat within the 3- to 4-foot "strong" range of the independent variable, the healer's heart field, while performing self-application of WHEE (the wholistic hybrid derived from EMDR [eye movement desensitization and reprocessing], and EFT [emotional freedom technique]), a meridian-based tapping technique (n=50); and those who performed the same process beyond the 15- to 18-foot range of the healer's EM heart field (n=41). The dependent variables were heart rate, SUD, and POMS inventory. All subjects completed these measures within 1 hour. Study results showed statistically significant heart-rate synchronization with the intervention population. In addition, SUD and POMS scores demonstrated considerably more improvement than in the control population, indicating additional benefit beyond the meridian-based therapies, such as WHEE, alone. Additional findings and future research recommendations are presented in this article.
authors.forename: Christine Caldwell
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Bair
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D004644:Emotions; D057169:Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D016740:Meridians; D008875:Middle Aged; D019222:Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical; D026441:Mind-Body Therapies; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D013312:Stress, Physiological; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D055815:Young Adult