Harmonyum includes multiple forms of treatment that can be given in person or from a distance.\u00a0 In-person treatments may be performed with or without physical contact (light-touch to no-touch).\u00a0 Distance sessions occur when the practitioner and recipient are not located in the same physical space during the treatment session.<\/span><\/p>\n In-person and distant healing may operate via different mechanisms.\u00a0 In-person healing may involve electromagnetic fields that diminish over distance by an inverse square law.\u00a0 These same electromagnetic fields are unlikely to be involved in healing across large distances.<\/span>1<\/span><\/sub><\/p>\n Electromagnetic fields generated by living systems are proposed to be part of \u201cBiofield physiology . . . an overarching descriptor for the electromagnetic, biophotonic, and other types of spatially-distributed fields that living systems generate and respond to as integral aspects of cellular, tissue, and whole organism self-regulation and organization.\u201d<\/span>2<\/span><\/p>\n Every region of the body generates biofields from electromagnetic and other sources of energy that can encode information and influence the action or state of cells and tissues capable of responding to these biofields.<\/span>2<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n The most well-known biofields in living systems are the endogenous electrical and magnetic fields generated by the heart and nervous system and characterized via electrocardiography (ECG), magnetocardiography (MCG), electroencephalography (EEG), and magnetoencephalography (MEG). <\/span>2<\/span><\/sup> The electrical fields of the heart are also reflected in heart rate (HR) and rhythm.<\/span>3<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n The therapeutic effects of several forms of complementary medicine are proposed to occur via influencing the function of an individual\u2019s biofields.\u00a0 This has most often been studied through HR and Heart rate variability (HRV).<\/span>4-7<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HRV is the variation in time between consecutive heart beats.\u00a0 HRV is an important tool for investigating the interplay of the parasympathetic and sympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system.\u00a0 Increased high frequency HRV is thought to reflect increased parasympathetic activity, and increased low frequency HRV is thought to reflect increased sympathetic activity.<\/span>8<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HRV is related to physical and psychological health.\u00a0 Decreased HRV is consistently seen in conditions with autonomic dysfunction such as neurological disorders, diabetes mellitus, chronic renal disease, heart disease, and cancer.<\/span>9,10<\/span><\/sup> It is also seen in individuals experiencing chronic stress due to physical or psychological conditions,<\/span>11<\/span><\/sup> and in chronic pain conditions.<\/span>1<\/sup>2<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The physiological mechanism(s) by which a practitioner might influence another\u2019s physiological state through biofield therapy in any form is unknown.\u00a0 It is postulated that biofield therapies facilitate their effects through practitioner repatterning of the recipient’s energy field, the transmission of universal life energy, and the collaboration of practitioner and recipient in the healing process.<\/span>13<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What are Biofields? Harmonyum includes multiple forms of treatment that can be given in person or from a distance.\u00a0 In-person treatments may be performed with or without physical contact (light-touch to no-touch).\u00a0 Distance sessions occur when the practitioner and recipient are not located in the same physical space during the treatment session. In-person and distant […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmonyumhealing.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmonyumhealing.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmonyumhealing.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmonyumhealing.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmonyumhealing.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harmonyumhealing.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmonyumhealing.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmonyumhealing.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmonyumhealing.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmonyumhealing.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Biofields in Humans<\/h3>\n
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) function as Biomarker<\/h3>\n