INTRODUCTION: Raise Your Voltage


The prevailing paradigm in Western science says that we are chemical, mechanical beings. But a new paradigm is beginning to emerge that suggests that we are fundamentally electromagnetic and vibrational. It suggests that we—and the cosmos that is our home—are made up of light and sound and waveforms across an unimaginably vast array of frequencies.

Like fish in water, we are swimming at all times in a vast ocean of energy. Look around you: Everything is energy! Everything you see is part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Not only light bulbs and computers and iPhones but planets, animals, stars, and entire galaxies—it’s all electrical. The page you’re reading, the chair you’re sitting in, the ground beneath your feet, the planet you live on, the sun that heats that planet are ultimately just electromagnetic energy vibrating at different frequencies—in other words, electricity. It’s all energy, frequency, and vibration. Every single thing in our observable universe is in constant motion on an atomic or subatomic level—even things like rocks that appear motionless. As the great physicist Richard Feynman says, “Everything jiggles,” or as I like to put it, “Everything jitterbugs,” thanks to the exchange of positive and negative forces that gives rise to this dance of energy.

There’s no such thing as a “noun” when we get right down to it, because everything is actually a process. (Interestingly, the Hopi language doesn’t contain any nouns, and it better reflects the essential fluidity of the world around us.) When vibrations come together, they start to sync up and resonate at the same frequency in a kind of spontaneous self-organization—which is described in physics as sympathetic resonance. This resonance may also form the basis of what we call consciousness, or intelligence, which science is increasingly revealing to be a fundamental property of energy and, therefore, all matter.

Despite the advances of quantum physics, bioelectricity, and other growing branches of science, it is squarely at the question of energy that we hit the dividing line between science and spirituality. There is no agreed-upon, standard definition of the energy referred to in energy medicine—specifically so-called subtle energy, the stuff that makes up our human energy field and, perhaps, in varying densities, all of life and the universe. Without a clear definition, and lacking tools sensitive enough to reliably measure subtle energy, it has been relegated to the domain of spirituality.

This divide between science and spirituality has troubled me since I began my journey into health and well-being in my teenage years. I like to think of myself as a bothist, and I practice what I call bothism: I choose to see things in both/and rather than either/or terms, shades of gray over black and white. When it comes to matters of science and spirit, we divide up into our ideological camps, a lot of words get thrown around, and a lot of confusion gets created. But really, what the heck are we all talking about? And is it possible that we’re actually just using different words to describe the same things? Could it be that what religion calls spirit and soul and science calls electricity are really one and the same? In this book, we are going to explore the idea that we are living in an electromagnetically connected universe and that, ultimately, it’s all one light, one electricity, one Source energy, one universal magnetic field, spinning itself into all the light we can and cannot see.

For many years in my sound therapy practice, I was treating people’s physical and mental problems by working in their energy fields, also known as the biofield. My skeptical, ever-curious mind quickly led me to a deep and long-running investigation of what the heck I was actually working with. What was clear was that when we refer to this invisible substance called energy in the context of energy medicine, we are speaking of electromagnetic energy as opposed to other kinds of energy (kinetic, thermal, chemical, and so on). So what is electromagnetism? Simply put, it’s the movement of charged electric particles and the magnetic fields that are generated from that electric charge. In other words, it’s the spectrum of visible and invisible light (or put another way, sound—but we’ll get back to that).

But when I started to dig deeper into my understanding of electricity, I came across an interesting problem. There was a lot of confusing and conflicting information. My friend Dr. Dean Radin, a pioneering parapsychologist with the Institute of Noetic Sciences, said to me, “Eileen, no one really understands electricity—and let me know if you find someone who actually does!” If you ask most people what electricity is, they will cite the standard definition that we all learned in school: electricity is the flow of electrons along a wire. According to some perspectives, electrons don’t exist at all! Another perspective points out that these alleged electrons actually don’t even move through a wire in a closed, alternating current circuit. They stay in one place and jiggle back and forth while the electric force moves bidirectionally in a field around the wire. I have come to understand that this simple omission of the field aspect of electric current is a big part of the problem with understanding it, as well as understanding the field of energy that moves around our own bodies.

But there are other problems as well. For one thing, electricity isn’t just confined to flowing along the wires that power our phones and computers and other modern technologies. It is actually everywhere around us and present in many things that we often don’t realize, such as the air, the sun, the solar wind, lightning, the ground under our feet, the bacteria in our guts, and actually our entire bodies, as we will see.

Another omission in our understanding of electricity comes from the idea that electromagnetic waves do not require a medium to propagate through. Light, we are told, travels through the empty vacuum of space. But this was not always believed to be the case. Early explorers of electricity, including Nikola Tesla, understood electricity, or light, as the movement of energy through the aether—the all-pervasive “luminiferous ocean of clear light” that these waves traveled through. I have come to see that it is the removal of this unified field of pure potential (which we will explore in much greater depth) that seems to be a big source of the confusion about the nature of electricity and its omnipresence in our natural environment.

Imagine trying to study waves in the ocean without acknowledging the water that the waves are moving through! In our exploration of electricity, we are going to bring two new states of matter into the equation—plasma and aether—which will help give us a better understanding of the nature of our bodies, minds, and the world around us and ultimately lead to a greater sense of (literal) empowerment.

What we call voltage is the force that makes electric currents move, also called the electromotive force. The higher the voltage, the stronger the current. In your body, stronger voltage means more energy running through your wires and a brighter inner light. When the amount of voltage flowing through our system drops, we have less energy available to power all the processes in our bodies. Disease and loss of vitality are the eventual results of a low-voltage state.

ELECTRIC BODY, ELECTRIC HEALTH

While scientists have been studying human bioelectricity for over one hundred years, the new technologies and discoveries of the past decade have brought a much fuller picture of our electric bodies to light. Every month, it seems, more studies are published that support and validate the experiential work I’ve been doing on the body’s electromagnetic system—what a team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health in 1994 deemed the “biofield.”

Just a few months ago, I was a participant in a first-of-its-kind online summit called the Body Electric, where I gave a presentation on how sound affects our electric health, alongside thirty-six other pioneers who are also considering and working with our electrical nature from other angles. It was thrilling to witness a new way of looking at not just our health but also the world around us, emerging as more and more people begin to “think electrically.”

What I have discovered, and what forms the main premise of this book, is that taking care of your electric health is a much easier, more efficient, and even more fun way of approaching health than the standard chemical-mechanical approach. It is more efficient because our electric body is primary and causal, so working on this level allows us to get right to the root of things. It is the blueprint for our physiology and the template that gives rise to what is occurring in the body. When we get issues sorted out of our electrical systems—primarily resistance and distortion manifesting as pain, uncomfortable emotions, and bad habits—the issues in the physical body take care of themselves. It’s an elegant, backdoor kind of solution to what ails us.

In this book, we will talk a lot about how to improve our electric health by raising our voltage. When our voltage is high, we have sufficient “juice” across our cell membranes to keep operations running smoothly and allow us to conduct greater amounts of electrical charge. In a battery, voltage refers to the difference in electric potential (in other words, the difference in electric charge) between the positive and negative terminals. Raising voltage means increasing the electric charge between the positive and negative battery terminals, which makes the battery more powerful. Think about it: A light bulb with a higher voltage shines a brighter light because it has a greater electric potential.

This is essentially what’s going on inside your own electrical system. Your body is literally a battery. You are full of salt water, which conducts electricity. All your cell membranes carry a charge. Every organ and system in your body has its own electromagnetic field. I have a little device called an energy rod, which is a clear tube with electrodes at either end, and when you hold both electrodes, you complete the circuit and the lights light up and it buzzes. This is a very useful tool for showing people that they are in fact conductors and generators of electricity and that you need a closed circuit for the energy to flow through. It is fun to use in a circle of people holding hands—if one person releases their grip from the person next to them, the circuit gets broken, and the lights and noise stop.

When we recognize our biological systems as rechargeable batteries, we start to think in simple terms of charging versus discharging: Where is your battery meter? What depletes you, and what replenishes you? Where does the meter need to be for you to function optimally? It’s easy to tune in to where your battery is; most people know the answer immediately. And most people become aware very quickly that they’re discharging far more than they’re recharging. Let’s check in right now: Ask yourself, on a scale of one to one hundred, where is your personal battery meter? Where would you like it to be?

Have you ever noticed when your phone gets down below 40 percent, the power seems to drop faster? It is the same with our health. There is a point we don’t want to dip below because the downhill slope gets faster.

I like to keep myself topped off with close to 100 percent energy, because my performance is best when my energy is high. When my battery starts to drop, I lose focus and effectiveness. I’m not getting good gas mileage, and I’m no longer delivering the output I need to deliver. But when my batteries are charged, my body is strong and healthy, I can get my work done, I can keep my house clean, I can stay resilient in the face of daily stressors, I can take care of my health.

I’ve worked with thousands of people with chronic illness over the years, and I have come to have a somewhat different perspective on the current epidemic of diseases like Epstein-Barr, Lyme disease, Crohn’s, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, and so on. I’m asking that you rethink all of that. The bottom line is a low battery. Voltage is low as a consequence of too much resistance blocking the natural, healthy flow of energy in the system. We become like a flashlight with a weak battery and a dim light, without the energy necessary to renew and replenish ourselves.

Having had my hands and forks in the energy fields of thousands of people, I have observed that all these diseases are characterized by low voltage and are the result of insufficient battery power. It’s just a lack of energy, of juice. You’ve discharged and given away more than you’ve recharged and received. Your cells need a certain amount of electrical charge across their membranes to regenerate themselves. When our bodies have sufficient energy running through them, they fix themselves. When the flow of energy is blocked, our bodies don’t have the resources necessary to repair themselves and to return to a natural energy-conserving state of homeostasis. When we return to a state of higher charge, the body’s natural healing intelligence directs that energy to where it’s needed.

Voltage as pH

I had been studying electricity and the biofield for many years when I discovered the work of Dr. Jerry Tennant. In Tennant’s work, I first encountered the idea that low pH is the same as low voltage. The “pH as voltage” equation was the keystone that really clicked everything into place for me. When you’re looking at health from a chemical perspective, there’s only so much you can do to change your pH: You can eat green vegetables, you can detox and cleanse, you can take supplements. But when you look at it from an electromagnetic perspective, there are so many things you can do to raise your voltage (we will get into these later in the book).

This means that being religious about eating clean and taking handfuls of supplements isn’t the only way to stay healthy and prevent disease. When we look at it from an electrical perspective, we have all these new tools for getting healthy and solving our problems. This is particularly exciting to me as someone who has never been a fan of eating mountains of vegetables.

Dr. Tennant, an ophthalmologist who is also a board-certified practitioner of homeopathic and alternative medicine and author of the book Healing Is Voltage, argues that the most critical aspect of healing is the body’s ability to make new cells that are able to do their job properly. When our cells go to reproduce themselves, we want the vibrational blueprint to be clear so that they know what they’re supposed to be doing and how to do it.

Tennant explains that pH, or voltage, plays a key role in cell regeneration. Over the course of our lives, we’re constantly putting wear and tear on our systems, and the way we regenerate ourselves is by making new cells. We’re doing this all the time: The lining in your gut is only three weeks old, your skin is six weeks old, and your nervous system is eight months old. We keep ourselves healthy and heal wounds and diseases, first and foremost by making new cells—and it’s when we lose this ability that disease and premature aging occur. If our bodies don’t have the energy to make new cells, diseased organs won’t be able to heal and regenerate themselves. When voltage drops, entropy begins to take place in our bodies due to insufficient juice available to keep everything functioning properly.

Here’s where pH comes into play: The body is designed to maintain an optimal balance of acidity and alkalinity, and an optimum voltage of roughly -50 mV (millivolts). Our cells function optimally in a moderately alkaline state, at a pH of between 7.35 and 7.45, and with a cell voltage of -25 mV across our membranes. When a cell is in distress or deteriorating in some way, it needs the body’s voltage to be at an optimal level of -50 mV in order for healing to occur, according to Tennant. Also according to Tennant, cells are designed to run at -25 mV (pH of 7.45), but they need -50 mV to make a new cell.

When pH/voltage drops below that, molecules known as free radicals start to proliferate. Free radicals are unstable atoms lacking an electron. They arise in low-voltage environments where there isn’t enough abundant electrical energy to spread around, and in turn, they create more acidity/low voltage. All toxins are electron stealers, also known as free radicals. Tennant uses the term electron stealers because these molecules are missing electrons and are looking to snatch them up from anywhere they can get them—which ends up being our cells! (An antioxidant, on the other hand, is a molecule that has excess electrons to give away, which is why they are so good for us.) We need electrons for our cells to be able to do their work. When a cell’s electrons are stolen, the cell is damaged or destroyed. New studies have shown that cancer cells proliferate, in part, by stealing electricity from the cells around them, which causes further disease and decline.

So when people say that disease occurs in an acidic state, another way to look at this is electrically: What they’re really saying is that disease occurs in a low-voltage state where the body becomes weak and electron stealers are running the show, and entropy, dissolution, and poor health are the result.

Tennant, like myself, has observed that the majority of disease begins as an emotional event. Emotions are stored in and around the body as magnetic fields and also as corresponding molecules that have hidden themselves in various places in the body. If you have a bunch of old suppressed emotions that are stored in one of your organs and in some part of your biofield, that’s going to create resistance and tension and make it more difficult for electrical flow to pass through. If we want to get healthy, from an electrical perspective, the first order of business is to open an inquiry into the vibrational backlog of emotions that is clogging up our circuits and blocking the natural flow of energy that keeps us healthy and vital.

Emotions and Electric Health

You’ll be discovering throughout this book why emotions are the key to electric health. It’s often our emotions that kill us—or rather, it’s the stress of mismanaged and repressed emotions. In Biofield Tuning, we don’t look at any emotions as negative or bad. They’re all welcome guests that deserve a say in our lives. This is the single greatest trick to having high voltage: to not judge or suppress any of your emotions but rather to seek to manage them appropriately. It’s about learning to understand and master your emotions and allow them to flow through you.

All energy is electromagnetic, it’s movement in our being. When we learn to flow with the movement of our emotions, to move with our natural inclinations toward what feels best and appropriate, then we learn to master conservation of energy, which enables us to keep our batteries consistently high. This is not necessarily easy to do. Most of us have been taught to suppress rather than express our feelings and emotions, and there are limitless means of suppression that our culture provides.

In my observation, this is where many health-conscious people are right now: We’re eating the right things, we’re drinking the celery juice, we’re going to yoga, we’re meditating, we’re following the self-care rules. But we still feel like crap because we’re not paying attention to our emotional health. I spent many years trying this supplement and that supplement and honestly can’t say that I ever found anything that made a noticeable difference. I’m not saying that supplements are useless; however, I will say that they were useless for me. I spent a lot of money and piled up a whole bunch of plastic bottles that I then ended up throwing away. I have a friend who has hundreds of supplement bottles in her kitchen cabinets, and none of them have solved her problems, because her problems are rooted in unhealed emotional wounds. They are electromagnetic in nature, and that cannot be fixed with a pill—a chemical solution.

My students and clients consistently say this: “As soon as I started addressing the emotion part of the equation, I started to solve my problems. I started to have more energy. I started to feel better. I started to not be sick anymore.” If you’ve been doing all the right things but you’re not where you want to be in your life, this is the next step of the journey: to really understand the emotional territory of your body—which is your electromagnetic body—and to work with it.

I recently heard from a woman who stumbled upon Biofield Tuning after seeing the best doctors in the world and doing “absolutely everything” in her power (infrared saunas, juicing, vitamin IVs, acupuncture, and on and on) in an attempt to recover from a serious toxic mold exposure. A Biofield Tuning practitioner whom she worked with helped her to understand that while she had been working from the outside in to get healthy through lots of external interventions, to get back to optimal health, she needed to work from the inside out—healing and releasing her suppressed emotions, working through old traumas and the blocked energy that was the result of those stuck emotions and frozen traumas, so that her body had the inner resources available to heal itself.

Her first tuning sessions triggered a significant emotional release and had the immediate result of making her feel lighter and more energized. As she continued the work, she found that physical pain, as well as fears and anxieties that she had carried for years, simply dissolved. As she stepped into the fullness of who she was, unburdened by the emotional blocks that had stymied her for so long, and with newfound vitality, her impact as a speaker and author also increased.

I am going to talk a lot about Biofield Tuning not to sell you on how great it is (like most approaches, it has its limitations) but because it is the framework I have been operating in that has revealed to me the bigger picture of what I am sharing. When you start managing your emotions better because you understand how they operate in your biofield, you free up huge amounts of energy. While this sounds simple, it is going to take some pages to spell out the finer details of how this works.

Use Your Mind Wisely

In my own life, it wasn’t until I started feeling and expressing the things I hadn’t been letting myself feel, or didn’t even know were buried there, that I started having more energy and being able to solve the problems in my life. It wasn’t until I discovered that it was also the things that I was believing and saying about myself that were having the greatest impact on my well-being and energy levels—and started to change those things—that my life started to go in the direction I wanted it to.

The truth is that our minds can make us sick and they can make us well. The stories we tell ourselves are stronger than any supplement. If you keep saying, “I have this disorder,” “I’m broke,” “I don’t have time,” “I’m not creative,” and if you are telling yourself that the solution is in something outside of you, you are giving your power away. Your mind created the problem, and your mind can solve the problem.

I had a student in my class a while back who said she had Hashimoto’s disease, and I gave her a hard time about that statement. “Who is Hashimoto?” I demanded playfully. “And why do you have his disease?” It made her question what it was she was saying and believing about herself. She went on to turn her whole health situation around by taking control of her story. I barely recognized her the next time I saw her. She looked like a completely different person. When we change our tune about ourselves and our lives, our bodies also change.

In certain aboriginal cultures, the elders said that if something wasn’t working in your life, it meant that you needed a new story. They believed that you could heal your sickness by getting rid of a bad story and replacing it with a better one. These cultures conceived of the mind as being constructed by all the stories we tell ourselves and others, and I think they were onto something.

One of the biggest things I have learned in my work is how people misuse their mental power in a way that does not serve them—expending their mental energy in stories of victimhood, lack and limitation, or in a vicious inner critic or inner taskmaster. This book will help teach you to use your mind more wisely. My ultimate goal is to help you realize that you can rewire your energetic patterns using your mind alone. In fact, your own mind and intention are the most powerful tools you have for working with your energy system. You are a magnetic being, and you have the ability to impact your magnetic field through the use of your mind.

Here is an example of how I recently applied this process: I am a sensitive person, and one of the things that used to slay me was chemical scents. I couldn’t even walk down the detergent aisle of the grocery store. If someone with a heavy perfume sat next to me on a bus or a plane, I actually had to move or I would suffer for the whole journey. One day, it occurred to me that I was playing the role of a victim in these situations and telling myself a story that the offending smells were stronger than I was. So I used my mind to create a different story. I have this big alpaca-wool hat that wicks away snow and cold from my head and does a fabulous job of keeping me warm and snow-free during vicious Vermont winters. I decided to imagine that I had “plasma fur” around my body that could wick away molecules of scent before they even reached me. And it worked! Just imagining that I had an energetic defense allowed me to stride down the detergent aisle unbothered. Ever since I changed my mind about this story, I haven’t had a problem. Consider where you are making yourself a victim, when the solution might be as easy as changing your story. Give it a try and see what you notice!

There is one particularly universal story that is at the kernel of almost every dysfunction and problem in our lives: I’m not worthy. But that’s just a story! It’s just words and dissonant waveforms. We want to scrub this and other unbeneficial mental constructs to get back to what I call our factory settings: the perfect and harmonious expression of our DNA. When I first started this work, I was astounded to discover that underneath every person’s noise was a perfect harmonic signal. There was this rainbow, brilliant song under all the surface-level static. There’s a part of us that is not out of sync with the universe but actually quite in sync—beautifully, pleasingly, even jaw-droppingly in sync. We are essentially just stewarding a collection of molecules of creation. You’re not part of nature, you are nature. The riotous abundance of nature is who you are. The problem is that we can’t recognize it because we’re so stuck in what Eckhart Tolle calls our pain body—the aspect of the self born of the wounds and traumas of a lifetime, as well as the traumas of our ancestors. But no matter how much noise is blocking the signal, I have yet to work on anyone who does not have this underlying template of harmonic perfection.

I love the way Dr. Zach Bush, a triple-board-certified American M.D., describes health as being “fully connected to nature”: being in resonance with the essential harmony of that from which we came and to which we shall return. To get back to that place, we’ll be going through a process of deconstructing the powerful subconscious programming that makes us feel unworthy, guilty, and “not enough.” We’re going to deprogram the old stories and beliefs that your mental hard drive has gotten gunked up with, removing the mind viruses that are creating static in the signal and distortion in the field. We’ll be bashing through the concepts we’ve blindly adopted because we don’t realize there’s another way of looking at things—including questioning notions of “spirituality” that have disembodied and disempowered us. That means digging into the patterns we formed based on our childhoods, our families, our educational and social programming that get us stuck in these lobster pots that we can’t get out of.

Raise Your Voltage, Not Your Vibration

An important caveat before we continue: When I talk about raising your voltage, I am talking about something quite different from the popular notion of “raising your vibration.”

I prefer not to use the language of “raising vibration.” As an explorer of sound, I spend a lot of my time and energy thinking about frequency and vibration. I also spend a lot of time listening closely to people’s words—to what they say and the tone of their voice when they’re saying it. When I hear people talk about raising their vibrations, what they tend to be referring to is this idea of “ascension.” It’s the idea that we want to somehow rise above anything ugly, bad, or wrong in ourselves and/or the world around us. We don’t want to feel hate or shame, we just want to feel love and good vibes. When we focus our energies on trying to raise our vibrations, what we’re doing, perhaps unwittingly, is creating this internal movement of going up and out—out of the body, off the ground, floating up into the cosmos.

Is that really what we want to be doing? People who have experienced trauma tend to cope by disconnecting from their bodies. There’s a sense of, This world is so unpleasant and the pain too much, and I just want to go up, up, and away. Psychologists call it dissociation, and shamans call it soul loss. This is the direction we’re going when we approach our own healing and growth as a process of raising our vibrations. I’ve often observed how this way of thinking feeds into spiritual bypassing (or as I call it, purple-washing) and point-on-the-horizon thinking. In truth, what we really want to be doing is descending—occupying our miraculous and amazing bodies, drawing energy into ourselves from the earth, really committing to being where we are, here and now.

We need to strengthen and be present in our lower energy centers, not just the higher ones that many people tend to focus on when it comes to mindfulness and spirituality. This is where all the juiciness is! We want every part of us to be groovy. We’re also going to explore the idea of centering our awareness around our navels and radiating out from our solar plexuses in every direction. As we become lighter and brighter, we become more radiant from the very core of our beings. That’s not a high or low thing, that’s just a stronger-in-every-direction thing!

On Spaceship Earth, there are no passengers—there is only crew, and we need everyone on board to be sharing their gifts and abilities for the benefit of the whole. We don’t need more people with high vibrations and heads in the clouds who aren’t picking up the trash in their own neighborhoods. We’re in an all-hands-on-deck situation in our world today. We need people here on planet Earth, raising their energy levels and going out and making a difference in the way their souls are directing them to.

And if you’ll indulge my inner syntax nerd for just a moment—this hierarchy of high and low vibration is also just incorrect language! When did we decide that higher vibrations are somehow preferable to lower ones? The whole range of frequencies is a part of creation. There are frequencies in the known universe that are unimaginably low. They’re light-years across from crest to trough. Why wouldn’t you want to associate with those? As far as brain wave frequency goes, the lower the frequency, the more peaceful you are. Monks deep in meditation have extremely low brain wave frequencies, and it’s certainly not because they have bad vibes!

When we talk about “low vibrations,” what we’re really talking about, I think, is a lack of coherence. This is a word we’ll be coming back to again and again throughout this book, as it is key to understanding the workings of our electromagnetic bodies. What we’re describing as low or bad vibrations is really just a chaotic and discordant vibration. It’s noise in the signal, an inner symphony that’s playing out of tune. From a sound healing perspective, what we want is to clarify and cohere and tune our vibrations. That’s what my work is all about: getting the static out of the signal and finding that sweet spot of our own tonal expression.

Sound, as you’ll discover, is an invaluable tool in this work: singing, humming, chanting, repeating affirmations, mantras, toning, listening to music. I have often observed a disconnect in our understanding of sound and the electromagnetic body. Many students have asked me why I am talking about electricity so much when my work seems to focus on sound. As you will learn, there’s really no separating sound from electricity. Light and sound are both just waves vibrating at different frequencies. Without getting down and dirty into some very complicated (and still poorly understood) physics, the basic idea is very simple: Everything is electric, including your body, and sound directly influences electricity. Sound is nothing more than vibration; it’s all part of the electromagnetic spectrum, vibrating at different rates, or frequencies. Vibrations affect vibrations.

What I discovered with my tuning forks is that I could use a vibrating tuning fork as both a magnet and a metronome to modulate and manipulate the rhythms, patterns, and flows of the body’s electrical system. This has a direct impact on not just the nervous system but the entire body, because the entire body is transmitting electrical signals. Think about how energized you feel when you’re listening to a song that makes you want to get up and dance: that’s sound adding energy to your electric body, getting you all pumped up! Sound is constantly affecting how we feel, whether it is the soothing sounds of nature or the cacophony of Times Square.

While I will be providing some sound-based tools, this is not a book about sound healing. If you’re interested in learning more about the nature of sound and how it can be used therapeutically, I refer you to my book Tuning the Human Biofield, which discusses this in detail.

Effective Problem-Solving: The Key to Good Health

The reason why my practice became successful and the reason why I have been able to move along in the game of life is because I’ve figured out a hack for solving problems. Thinking electrically is a hack that allows you to level up significantly, because you get to add additional states of matter—plasma and aether—and additional forces of nature—syntropy and levity—to the way you look at, think about, and solve problems. You can solve problems better and faster once you have all these extra tools.

I understand the lobster pots that we unwittingly get ourselves stuck in. I’m a clever lobster, and I figured out how to get out of a lot of pots—an eating disorder, food addiction, chronic pain, digestive woes, financial troubles, marriage troubles, and more besides! But it wasn’t through conventional thinking, and it wasn’t with conventional self-help. I got them sorted, mostly, through thinking electrically and learning to deal with my emotions.

Sometimes all it takes is looking at things from a different perspective to realize: Holy crap, solving that problem was easier than I’d thought. You realize that when your body has enough energy, it has the natural intelligence to direct that energy to the places that need healing. You realize that you have the inner resources to work through whatever challenges you’re facing in your life. You have resiliency. You have adaptability. You have clarity. When you increase the signal-to-noise ratio of your electromagnetic body, you’re able to hear and act on the voice of inner guidance. You start creating different results in your life without having to muscle your way through things. If your signal is clear enough and your voltage is high enough, your body and life come into a state of flow.

In addition to the information and tools for electric health, including sound, that we’ll be exploring throughout the book, there’s a basic framework I like to use for solving problems. You can apply this to any of the challenges in your body, mind, emotions, or life, or anything you encounter as you’re moving through this book.

Five Steps to Solving Any Problem

1. Identify the problem. Clearly recognize, label, and state to yourself what the problem is.

2. Believe that it’s possible to solve the problem. This is where we often get hung up. I’ll get someone to identify a problem that they haven’t been able to solve, and I’ll say, “Repeat after me: I believe it’s possible to solve this problem.” When they say that, tension immediately arises in their bodies—revealing all these subconscious places where they don’t believe it’s possible, which is the biggest reason why they’re not solving the problem. You have to get every part of your being on board so that when you say, I believe it’s possible to solve this problem, the truth of that statement resonates in your body.

3. Desire it with all your heart. You have to be absolutely determined to see this through and solve the problem. Stay connected to the feeling of that desire and the why behind it.

4. Believe that the resources you need to solve the problem are at hand. Because you believe that those resources are available to you, you are able to locate them.

5. Implement those resources to solve the problem. Then move on to the next problem!

Throughout the book, whenever you confront a stuck emotion or some old story or programming that you’ve been stuck in, you can implement this framework to help you work through it. It really works! I did this with my kids all the time when they were growing up. They’d come to me and say, “Mom, I have this problem.” I’d say to them, “Well, you’re a resourceful person. [I believed in them.] Go figure it out.” I would have them go off and track down the resources to solve the problem and then come back and report their findings.

Effective problem-solving is a big key to getting and staying healthy. If you’ve got a problem, don’t just thrash around in it. Don’t cry over spilled milk. Be solution-oriented. Figure out a way out of whatever lobster pot you’re presently stuck in. Let’s just agree right now not to kerfuffle. Kerfuffles lead to a tangled energy field, which attracts and manifests further kerfuffles—it’s a vicious cycle that’s totally avoidable!

Instead of getting lost in big goals and dreams that feel unattainable, work where you are with what you have. It’s tempting to sit around and wish for some kind of quantum leap from point A to point Z, but that’s not how the video game of life works. You have to move through each room of each level, and you have to solve the problems as you go to level up. You can’t just jump ahead to the good stuff. Know that you have what you need around you right now within the constraints of whatever situation you’re in.

JOURNEY OF THE BOOK

Part I, “Thinking Electrically,” explores the science of your electric body and the electric universe you live in. We’re going to look at the relationship between the electromagnetic energy that powers your human body and travels between the synapses in your brain, the energy that you see in a lightning strike, the energy that powers iPhones and AI, and the energy that powers stars and galaxies. Are they all somehow connected? What we’ll begin to discover is that it’s all one energy, one electricity, one light. Using the framework of plasma and aether—additional states of matter—we will explore the light within and the light without.

I also share my own story of discovering the biofield and creating Biofield Tuning. I will present my observation of what energy is and how it’s working in the body and in the energy field that surrounds the body, as well as in nature. I’m not making any new scientific claims here—many experts in different fields are talking about the same things using their own language. We’re just using different words and coming from different angles of approach. We’ll gain insight into the electric nature of our biofields—which I have come to see as what we call our minds—and how we can start to understand how to better manage the electromagnetic waves of emotions and feelings as they flow through us.

Part II, “Your Biofield Anatomy,” offers practical wisdom and tools for working with each of the main energy centers and zones of your biofield. We’ll go through each of the major zones in our bodies, exploring their healthy and imbalanced expression, as well as the common energetic patterns and emotional blockages that I have found to be housed there. Using the Biofield Anatomy Map as our guide, we’ll walk through the core emotions of each zone, how they get triggered, and what I’ve found to be healthy and appropriate ways to manage those emotions. I will share tools that I use with my students and clients to help shift the energy from resistance to flow, from noisy to calm, from chaotic to coherent.

This model of the human body and energy system is different from what you may have encountered before, though it shares many features in common with other systems of healing. I do not claim that this framework is carved in stone, only that the observations of the biofield anatomy have proved consistent and reliable. Thousands of other people have worked with this model and map of the energy system and have had similar observations and experiences. I can’t say with any certainty that emotions and thought patterns I have mapped in different parts of the biofield are objectively there (future research will allow us to test this); however, I can say that this model has proved useful for myself, my students, and my clients in understanding what ails us—and will hopefully be useful to you!


Copyright © 2021 by Eileen Day McKusick.