Dr. Leonard Ravitz a student and colleague of Burr’s carried on his work. In 1959, Dr. Ravitz then at at William and Mary University showed that the Human Energy Field or (L-field) is affected by a person's mental and psychological changes. He introduced the idea that there is a field associated with the thoughts of an organism which was dubbed the thought field or T-field He suggested that variation of this thought field caused psychosomatic symptoms.
I suppose I ought to backtrack and explain something that most of you probably already know. And that is that in physics a field is described as being a region throughout which two bodies separated by space can exert a force on each other without any direct or indirect contact save their mutual participation in the field under which or within which they operate, and show an immediate affect. Not taking into account the theory of a field in such an instance, would not be in accord with the theory of modern scientific theories such as the theory of relativity, specifically, the theory of general relativity as opposed to special relativity, as well as many other accepted scientific theories. The L field is the matrix, or medium through which forces are transmitted. It is also a vehicle for transmitting forces within it‘s sphere . Every known force in the world such as electric, nuclear magnetic has a field of it’s own. The body can only be affected by the influence of forces inherent within it’s own biology.
Of particular interest to me as a hypnotist was the way Dr. Ravitz used hypnosis in his work with patients as he focused on the link between the thought field and life field of humans and how each affected the other. His work is one of the few in that time in medicine and psychiatry validating the changes hypnosis could bring about in any aspect of an individuals life. Hypnosis primarily depends on suggestion; the introduction of new thoughts into a person’s consciousness through an induction into relaxation and facilitating an almost meditative state whereby the editorializing conscious mind is subdued ((but never completely silenced) and the subconscious mind is engaged into collaborating with all aspects of the patient or client’s persona for desired changes or improvements.
Ravitz concluded that changes in the T - field (thought field), such as changes in a person’s mental and emotional state while responding to verbal or mentally self directed suggestion distinctly influence a person’s L- field (Life field). Through his use of a galvanometer he was able to view visually the distinct changes in the electric patterns recorded of a brain’s activity during the hypnotic experience. In time he arrived at the conclusion that that emotions, and external stimuli (people events etc), and the thoughts we have about them, and the words with which we explain these emotions and external stimuli to ourselves (internally) and to others in conversation have a distinct and very real influence on our bodies and our lives.
Dr. Leonard Burr asserted that “Wherever there is life, there are electrical properties.”
He described the Life field as the organizing field for the physical body , asserting that the L- field was in place before the physical body began to organize itself , it's atoms and molecules into it’s intended pattern or mold. It can be deducted through the works of Dr. Burr and Dr. Ravitz that the material body and the electromagnetic Life field both have a brain but the brains differ greatly. The brain of the L-field has a managing property in directing the structure of the body, maintaining growth and healing. It also has an influence on the brain of the material body, conducting it to conform to it's greater influence
Called chi by the Chinese, ki by the Japanese, and having several words in Hawaiian to describe it; mana or ho’mana, wai, halau, and ki, the life force is something long recognized and understood by many schools of thought, throughout many continents. It has been described in a multitude of and ancient writings as well as in the scientific writings of the researchers I have written about . It is nothing new, and it is no secret.
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