ABSTRACT
Every cell in our body is bathed in an external and internal environment of uctuating invisible magnetic forces.1 It has become increasingly apparent that uctuations in magnetic elds can affect virtually every circuit in biological systems to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the particular biological system and the properties of the magnetic uctuations.1,2 One of the primary ways that signals and messages are encoded and transmitted in physiological systems is in the language of patterns. In the nervous system it is well established that information is encoded in the time intervals
between action potentials or patterns of electrical activity. This also applies to humoral communications. Several studies have revealed that biologically relevant information is encoded in the time interval between hormonal pulses.3-5 As the heart secretes a number of different hormones with each contraction, there is a hormonal pulse pattern that correlates with heart rhythms. In addition to the encoding of information in the space between nerve impulses and in the intervals between hormonal pulses, it is likely that information is also encoded in the inter beat intervals of the pressure and electromagnetic waves produced by the heart. This supports Karl Pribram’s proposal that low-frequency oscillations generated by the heart and body in the form of afferent neural, hormonal, and electrical patterns are the carriers of emotional information and that the higher frequency oscillations found
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................... 125 Biological Patterns Encode Information .............................................................................................................................. 125 Detecting Bioelectromagnetic Patterns Using Signal Averaging ......................................................................................... 126 The Heartbeat Evoked Potential ........................................................................................................................................... 126
The Heart’s Role in Emotion .................................................................................................................................................... 127 Heart Rate Variability Patterns ............................................................................................................................................. 127
Coherence ................................................................................................................................................................................. 127 Physiological Coherence ...................................................................................................................................................... 127 Global Coherence ................................................................................................................................................................. 128 Resonance ............................................................................................................................................................................ 128 Coherence at the Social and Global Levels .......................................................................................................................... 129 Benets of Coherence .......................................................................................................................................................... 129 Increasing Coherence ........................................................................................................................................................... 130 Heart Rhythm Coherence Feedback ..................................................................................................................................... 130
Biomagnetic Communication ................................................................................................................................................... 130 Biomagnetic Information Patterns ....................................................................................................................................... 130 Biomagnetic Communication between People .....................................................................................................................131 Physiological Linkage and Empathy .....................................................................................................................................131 Energetic Communication .................................................................................................................................................... 132 The Electricity of Touch ....................................................................................................................................................... 132 Heart-Brain Synchronization during Nonphysical Contact ................................................................................................. 133 Energetic Sensitivity and Empathy ...................................................................................................................................... 134 Heart Rhythm Synchronization between People .................................................................................................................. 135 Biomagnetic Communication between People and Animals ............................................................................................... 136
Conclusions and Implications for Clinical Practice .................................................................................................................. 138 References ................................................................................................................................................................................. 138
in the electroencephalogram (EEG) reect the conscious perception and labeling of feelings and emotions.6 It is quite possible that these same rhythmic patterns can also transmit emotional information via the electromagnetic eld into the environment, which can be detected by others and processed in the same manner as internally generated signals.
