#bengston healing method

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This study looks at interpersonal coupling or connectivity between healer and subject pairs using advanced signal processing approaches and instantaneous EEG phase coupling. Paired recordings of the healer and subject were done both with the subject at a distance and in the proximity of the healer. The EEG data were analyzed for cross-spectral coupling using the bispectrum, as well as the more traditional Fourier-based spectral analysis and EEG waveform analysis looking at phase. The healer's EEG data showed harmonic frequency coupling across the spectra, followed by between-individual EEG frequency entrainment effects, and then by instantaneous EEG phase locking. These results suggest the presence of a connection between the healer and subject. We observed the healer producing a pattern of harmonics, consistent with Schumann Resonances, with an entrainment of the subject's EEG by the healer's resonance standing waves, and with eventual phase coupling seen between the healer and subject-paired EEGs. We speculate that Schumann's resonance-based standing potential effect might serve as a connectivity mechanism underlying healing. 

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Background

Energized Water Study

Bill Bengston Margaret Nies

“For some time we have been looking into a variety of ways that healing can be “stored” and thus be made more “scalable” than more traditional one-on-one therapies.

Investigations to date have included experiments in storing healing intention using sophisticated EM equipment inside of a shielded Faraday cage. These have yielded very promising results, including the demonstration of reliable genomic changes in cancer in both in-vitro and in-vivo models. Published journal articles with these results can be found at bengstonresearch.com. We are currently amid investigating whether similar healing “storage” can be attained using high end audio equipment.

Previous work has also been suggestive that healing can be stored in materials, both organic and inorganic. On the organic side, experiments involving treated cell medium resulted in very significant changes in cancer cell growth in-vitro. And, after cancerous mice have been treated by healing, a simple transfusion of mice blood can apparently reproduce the healing effect in non-treated mice.

Inorganically, experiments have also been done with treated water. In one experiment, water was treated once/week, and that water was fed to cancerous mice, which resolved in the same pattern as if they had been treated by hands-on techniques.

In clinical applications, both treated cotton and water have been used to resolve a wide variety of conditions. Anecdotally, people have reported that the drinking of treated water has seemingly resolved leukemia and irritable bowel syndrome, to name but a few examples.

The application of treated cotton and water are interesting in addressing whether healing can be stored, but the simple application of either doesn’t address whether it can be made scalable.

Some months ago, we made acquaintance with some researchers and clinicians who suggested that a dilution and succussion process on a liquid can increase its potency from the original. Skeptical always, we began to experiment with this process, and found some results suggestive of continuing the investigation. Indeed, there appeared to be some relationship of potency to variation in both dilution and succussion.

Since we had previous experimental and clinical experience re-producing healing using treated water, we decided...”

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“This study is the third in a series of clinical social experiments designed to test the feasibility of transitioning “healing by intention” from its historically dominant one-on- one method of administration to one that potentially provides a scalable method for widespread dissemination.”

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Abstract

Introduction

Previously reported experiments suggest that aspects of the physical environment, in particular measures of negentropy (i.e., order) associated with the statistical outputs of truly random number generators, may be affected during periods of focused mental attention. The present study was designed to conceptually replicate those reports during energy medicine sessions.

Method

A custom-built “quantum noise generator” (QNG) was used to continuously record and digitize (at 1 KHz) 16 independent channels of random samples (i.e., noise) produced by electron tunneling and avalanche effects in Zener diodes. One metric was developed to quantify temporal dependencies in the noise samples aggregated across the 16 channels, and a second metric was formed that measured spatial dependencies among the 16 channels. The two metrics were combined into a single “spacetime” variable used to measure fluctuations in entropy during 110 half-hour energy medicine sessions. As a control, the same measure was examined in data recorded eight hours after each energy medicine session took place, when no one was in the laboratory.

Results

QNG data recorded during the half-hour sessions showed significant deviations from chance expectation, with a peak deviation observed at 24 minutes into the half-hour (z = 4.24, p < 0.00003, two-tail), and with deviations associated with p < 0.05 from 20 to 29 min, after correction for multiple comparisons. By comparison, data recorded eight hours after each session showed uniformly null results. This outcome is consistent with previously reported studies, suggesting that during periods of focused attention negentropic deviations emerge in random physical systems. Counterarguments to this interpretation are discussed, as well as recommendations for future studies.

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Dean Radin | Expanding the Scope of Mind-Matter Interaction Experiments

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Highlights

• Water may be used as a proxy for the human body in energy medicine studies.

• Spectroscopic analysis of water in proximity to the act of energy healing showed a statistically significant change in hydrogen-oxygen bonds.

• The molecular structure of distilled water changed in this study, but commercial bottled water (Fiji brand) did not.

Abstract

Previously reported experiments suggest that healing intention focused toward water, or merely taking place in the vicinity of water, affects the hydrogen-oxygen (HO) covalent bonds. This claim was explored in the context of a clinical energy medicine pilot study involving 17 practitioners and 190 participants. In a “direct” test, samples of water were directly treated by the practitioners; in an “indirect” test, aliquots attached to lanyards were worn by practitioners and participants as they were engaged in healing sessions. Samples of laboratory-grade distilled water and Fiji brand water were used in the tests, and the water was analyzed using an Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer equipped with a liquid nitrogen-cooled detector. The comparison of interest was the ensemble average spectrum recorded during pre- vs. post-intentional healing periods in the primary infrared absorption portion of the water spectrum.

The analyses indicated that distilled water directly treated by the practitioners resulted in a change in the HO bond at the wavenumber 3200 cm−1 (p < 0.03, two-tailed). No effect was observed with the Fiji water. The distilled water in aliquots worn by practitioners also resulted in a significant change at the same wavenumber (p = 0.0004, two-tailed). No effects were observed in Fiji water aliquots worn by practitioners or participants, or in distilled water worn by participants.

This study contributes to previously reported observations suggesting that the structure of water reacts in an anomalous way to healing intentions. Such effects appear to involve some form of energetic influence, but that is not yet well established. Nor is it certain that the observed effect can only be due to intention; it is conceivable, for example, that an unidentified environmental factor may have been responsible for the observed comparisons. However, given similar results observed in several experiments so far, including the present study, further research seems warranted.

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Abstract

It is widely accepted that synaptic transmissions and gap junctions are the major governing mechanisms for signal traveling in the neural system. Yet, a group of neural waves, either physiological or pathological, share the same speed of ∼0.1 m/s without synaptic transmission or gap junctions, and this speed is not consistent with axonal conduction or ionic diffusion. The only explanation left is an electrical field effect. We tested the hypothesis that endogenous electric fields are sufficient to explain the propagation with in silico and in vitro experiments. Simulation results show that field effects alone can indeed mediate propagation across layers of neurons with speeds of 0.12 ± 0.09 m/s with pathological kinetics, and 0.11 ± 0.03 m/s with physiologic kinetics, both generating weak field amplitudes of ∼2–6 mV/mm. Further, the model predicted that propagation speed values are inversely proportional to the cell-to-cell distances, but do not significantly change with extracellular resistivity, membrane capacitance, or membrane resistance. In vitro recordings in mice hippocampi produced similar speeds (0.10 ± 0.03 m/s) and field amplitudes (2.5–5 mV/mm), and by applying a blocking field, the propagation speed was greatly reduced. Finally, osmolarity experiments confirmed the model's prediction that cell-to-cell distance inversely affects propagation speed. Together, these results show that despite their weak amplitude, electric fields can be solely responsible for spike propagation at ∼0.1 m/s. This phenomenon could be important to explain the slow propagation of epileptic activity and other normal propagations at similar speeds.

SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT 

Neural activity (waves or spikes) can propagate using well documented mechanisms such as synaptic transmission, gap junctions, or diffusion. However, the purpose of this paper is to provide an explanation for experimental data showing that neural signals can propagate by means other than synaptic transmission, gap junction, or diffusion. The results indicate that electric fields (ephaptic effects) are capable of mediating propagation of self-regenerating neural waves. This novel mechanism coupling cell-by-volume conduction could be involved in other types of propagating neural signals, such as slow-wave sleep, sharp hippocampal waves, theta waves, or seizures.

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Abstract 

Energy healing, or healing with intent, is a complementary and alternative medicine therapy reported to be beneficial with a wide variety of conditions. We are developing a delivery technology for a method previously tested in mouse models with solid tumors (the Bengston method) independent of the presence of a healer. The goal of this study was to assess whether stored or recorded energy has an impact on breast cancer cells in vitro, using energy-charged cotton and electromagnetic recording of healers practicing the method. Expression of genes involved in cancer and inflammation pathways was measured by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). Treatment of cells using energy-charged cotton resulted in statistically significant changes <1.5-fold. In cells exposed to an electromagnetic recording, 37 genes of 167 tested showed a >1.5-fold change when compared to the control, and 68 genes showing statistically significant fold changes. Two genes, ATP citrate lyase (ACLY) and interleukin 1b (IL-1b), were consistently downregulated at 4 and 24 hours of exposure to the recording, respectively, in 3 independent experiments. Both ACLY and IL-1b were also downregulated in cells exposed to a hands-on delivery of the method, suggesting these 2 genes as potential markers of the healing method.

“Experiments related herein show that genomic changes can be induced in cultured transformed cells directly by contact with a healer and by the exposure to a recording of this energy. The genes demonstrating energy-induced changes under both conditions (ACLY, IL-1b) have been shown to play a role in cancer and/or the body’s response to cancer. There is little doubt but that some biological response has been stimulated by both the healer and the recording of healing energy. The consequences of that genomics effect, and the careful evaluation of the several components to induce them, require further study. Multiple questions need to be addressed, such as exposure time of subjects to energy recordings, the composition of the recording itself, what equipment can best capture the healer’s input, and so on. Efforts to find answers to these questions are underway. 

In summary, the following suggestive conclusions may be drawn from our results: 

1. Reproducible biologic changes have been induced by healing energy, whether by direct hands-on healing or using a recording of healing activity. 

2. Healing intention can be captured and released, thereby potentially allowing the phenomenon to be more widely disseminated. 

3. Hands-on delivery of the healing intention is stronger than with the recording used in this study, suggesting the possibility that the recording did not fully capture the healing potential.”

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6gtqtjvxk1rld71/2018%20genetics%20fx%20healing.pdf?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR3nw1p-FMgOwTFg-NktJ5eiIuH3LfRQKfwyqwDPJDFm5ouqP7BnTj-XEqE

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Abstract

The experimental conditions by which electromagnetic signals (EMS) of low frequency can be emitted by diluted aqueous solutions of some bacterial and viral DNAs are described. That the recorded EMS and nanostructures induced in water carry the DNA information (sequence) is shown by retrieval of that same DNA by classical PCR amplification using the TAQ polymerase, including both primers and nucleotides. Moreover, such a transduction process has also been observed in living human cells exposed to EMS irradiation. These experiments suggest that coherent long-range molecular interaction must be present in water to observe the above-mentioned features. The quantum field theory analysis of the phenomenon is presented in this article.

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Anomalous Magnetic Field Activity During a Bioenergy Healing Experiment

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Abstract

Energy healing is a therapy said to manipulate and balance the flow of “energies” in the body. One such technique, the Bengston Healing Method (BHM), has shown some success in healing malignant tumors in animals and humans, but the mechanism of action and factors influencing therapeutic success of this method are poorly understood. In this study, we tested in vivo the antitumor potential of magnetic signals recorded during BHM healing. Balb/c mice engrafted with 4T1 breast cancer cells were exposed to this recording for 4 h/d on a weekly or daily basis for 28 days; control mice were not exposed at all. Tumors showed a trend to grow slower in the treatment versus control group during the fourth week of treatment. Elevated leukocyte counts, associated with an increase in blood levels of granulocyte–macrophage colony stimulating factor and interleukin-6, were observed in tumor-bearing mice exposed to the BHM recording but not in healthy animals exposed to the recording. This suggests that exposure to a recording of BHM may induce a biological response in tumor-bearing mice, but limited effects on tumor growth when observed within the predefined end point of 28 days. Studies involving longer end points are recommended to observe the progression of tumor growth.

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Experiments related herein show that genomic changes can be induced in cultured transformed cells directly by contact with a healer and by the exposure to a recording of this energy. The genes demonstrating energy-induced changes under both conditions (ACLY, IL-1b) have been shown to play a role in cancer and/or the body’s response to cancer. There is little doubt but that some biological response has been stimulated by both the healer and the recording of healing energy. The consequences of that genomics effect, and the careful evaluation of the several components to induce them, require further study...   In summary, the following suggestive conclusions may be drawn from our results: 1. Reproducible biologic changes have been induced by healing energy, whether by direct hands-on healing or using a recording of healing activity. 2. Healing intention can be captured and released, thereby potentially allowing the phenomenon to be more widely disseminated. 3. Hands-on delivery of the healing intention is stronger than with the recording used in this study, suggesting the possibility that the recording did not fully capture the healing potential.

Transcriptional Changes in Cancer Cells Induced by Exposure to a Healing Method Sarah Beseme, William Bengston, Dean Radin,Michael Turner, and John McMichael (2018)

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Reiki Distance Healing

Reiki Distance Healing

What is Reiki?

Reiki is a form of energy healing. For more about the benefits of Reiki, see below under Sources/Resources. Suffice to say that Reiki is effective at helping with stress, anxiety, and pain, among other things. These benefits are available with Reiki distance healing.

Why Distance Healing?

There are as many reasons to choose a distance healing as there are situations where it is impossible for the practitioner and the client to be together in the same room. And, sometimes, it’s just more convenient. Have you enjoyed Reiki here at CCHW? How nice would it be in the comfort of home, where you can fall asleep for the night right after?

How Does Distance Healing Work?

Over the years there has been research into whether, and how, distant healing works. The theory that living creatures share an energetic bond by which they can influence each other’s health is referred to as resonant bonding, a theory which has been elaborated by William Bengston. For additional information about distant healing, see below under Sources/Resources.

Learning Reiki, “Receiving” Reiki

The form of Reiki that we teach and practice at CCHW is taught by Frans Stiene and the International House of Reiki. You can choose to learn Reiki as a personal practice, a way to enhance your own health and well-being, or you might choose to become a Reiki practitioner or teacher. Whatever your reasons for practicing Reiki, it will help you connect with yourself. As you practice, you start to view the world and your part in it differently. This opens the way for a calmer, more balanced and centered experience of life’s ups and downs. If you choose to receive Reiki as a distant healing, please refer to this article by Frans Steine. It captures the idea that there is no “sending” or “receiving,” which aligns with Bengston’s theory of resonant bonding mentioned above.

Sources/Resources

About Reiki and Its Benefits

What is Reiki?

Healing Research by William Lee Rand

Effect of Reiki therapy on pain and anxiety in adults: an in-depth literature review of randomized trials with effect size calculations.

The effect of reiki on pain: A meta-analysis.

Reiki Really Works: A Groundbreaking Scientific Study

Distant Healing

Distance Healing – In our Heart by Frans Steine

Distant Healing Intention Therapies: An Overview of the Scientific Evidence

Resonance, Placebo Effects, and Type II Errors: Some Implications from Healing Research for Experimental Methods – (Discusses theory of resonant bonding)

William Bengston and Energy Healing 

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Acupuncture for Migraine Prevention

Acupuncture for Migraine Prevention

  There are many different types of migraines and just as many types of treatments ranging from over the counter medication, prescription pain relievers, or even Botox. Migraines affect approximately 18% of women and 5% of men in the United States.  They can be debilitating and effect quality of life.

Unfortunately, many of the common treatment options were not designed with the intention of preventing the migraine attacks. This is where acupuncture can be an invaluable treatment option.

What is acupuncture?

Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine are thousands of years old.  It systematically looks at the body as a whole. An acupuncturist considers every symptom, and categorizing them into patterns. By utilizing thin needles, about the width of a cat whisker, and inserting them into the skin at specific acupuncture points an acupuncturist can increase blood flow, influence nerves, and calm the mind.  Thus, balance the body and treat the root cause as opposed to just the symptom.

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, migraines can be caused by a number of different types of patterns. Including: stagnation (where there is a blockage of the smooth flow of energy), deficiency (where the body is deficient in Qi, blood, or yin), excess (where excess yang energy rises to the head). Migraines can be caused by one or more of these patterns. It is up to your highly trained acupuncturist to determine what your best course of treatment should be.

  Meta-analysis of Migraine Studies

A meta-analysis, published in 2009, looked at 22 trials with 4419 subjects addressing the effectiveness of acupuncture for migraine prevention. Six trials showed that after 3-4 months, acupuncture was superior to basic acute care. Fourteen trials compared  “true” to “sham” acupuncture. The pooled analysis failed to demonstrate a statistically significant superiority of true acupuncture, but both groups showed fewer headaches than before treatment.   Four trials compared acupuncture to proven migraine preventive medication.  The group using the prophylactic drugs were shown to have more adverse effects then the acupuncture group.

For those that are looking for a natural, long lasting, cost-effective alternative to long term use of medications or neurotoxins (Botox) consider trying acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine for the treatment of migraines.

Calandra Center for Health & Wellness is located in Chicago’s South Loop and Arlington Heights Illinois. We offer a wide variety of treatment options for migraines including acupuncture, reiki, and Bengston Energy Healing Method.

Call or email us today for your complementary 15 minute phone consultation.

  Reference: Da Silva, A. N. (2015), Acupuncture for Migraine Prevention. Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 55: 470–473. doi: 10.1111/head.12525

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