Star Trek: Science Fiction or Real?
Most of us are familiar with the concept that the body is an energy field. We can recall when Captain Kirk transformed his matter field into energy waves and beamed himself up to the starship Enterprise only to reappear again into his matter field body.
And when I talk to my patients about the energy field body, they intuitively understand that, yes, there is an energy body that is mine as well.
But what's the big deal? So I'm an energy body. Because if we accept this fact then the energy science medical sciences are valid ways of healing. There is sound foundation on the fact that there are disciplines that can heal us using different model.
The History of the Energy Sciences of Medicine
There are two scientific traditions of healing that treat the body as an energy field. Ayurveda, which is part of the Yoga tradition of India, and the Traditional Oriental Medicine discipline both built powerful healing systems around the concept of the body as an energy field. And with these traditions comes a vocabulary to help us discuss and understand the body in a different way than the way we currently see the body.
Currently in the matter field tradition, the evaluation and assessment of success in healing is done by measurment or quantitatively. If our blood count is low, we give iron and the blood count is measured as higher and we achieve success.
In the energy sciences of healing the evaluation and assessment of the energy field is done qualtitatively. And success in healing is determined by balance. The body is neither too hot or too cold, neither too heavy or too light, neither too dry or too oily.
In the accompanying table we can see how the two disciplines are different in how they do their scinece. It demonstrates through their differences how it becomes difficult to compare them using each other's science. That is, doing an matter science study evaluating an energy science question may be flawed. The scientific problings sometimes don't work very well. The key however is to understand and appreciate the inherent dissimilarities of the two sciences so that we can use them effectively when we need them.
Nutrition: A Platform To Understand Differences
Nutrition is one way we can quickly sample the value of the energy science tradition. Nutrition is one of the three traditional pillars of healing in the energy science of Ayurveda, and the focus of my work as a physician. I have personally seen transformations in healing with this simple approach to nutrition that have healed conditions that could not be solved by traditional or matter field approaches.
And nutrition is not only the way to treat disease but is the basis for prevention of disease and wellness. When we knowingly take in foods that resonate with our physiologies we automatically begin to experience balance and wellness. The value of the energy sciences to us is that the solutions to many health problems can occur by regaining balance. Stay tuned and I'll show you how in subsequent blog posts that are distilled from my book Foods Heal with the accompanying website.
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