The Quantum Body

In previous posts, we’ve touched on some of the problems in the dominant Western medical model. Spectacular at emergency response, conventional medicine is much less successful with chronic conditions and serious diseases (see http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...). According to leading-edge scientists like former medical school teacher Dr. Bruce Lipton (1), the essential problem is that the dominant medical model derives from a scientific foundation that is over eighty years out of date.

The Quantum Body
Quantum physics tells us that consciousness – how we perceive, how we believe, and how we think about the world and ourselves - directly and irrefutably affects the outer world. Regardless of how our senses perceive the universe, we inhabit an infinite, interconnected sea of energy and potential that is responsive to our thoughts and emotions.

Modern physics shows that the body, like everything else, is not a machine, but fundamentally an ever-changing pattern of flowing energy.

Of course, the connection between energy patterns and health was made thousands of years ago, perhaps most notably in China. Practices like acupuncture and QiGong were developed to smooth and strengthen the body’s energy channels, and these ancient systems are still producing spectacular results.

In the past twenty years, there has been an explosion of new healing techniques based on the quantum model of the body. Often the results surpass what we used to believe was possible. The physical changes produced by these approaches – like those created by the ancient practices of acupuncture and QiGong - have no explanation in the conventional Western medical model on which most of our society relies.

Faith Healing?
Practitioners of the new systems are quick to point out that what they do is not faith healing. Although scientists may eventually prove that the same physical and conscious elements are involved, there are three primary differences between traditional faith healing and the new energy healing systems.
• No particular religious belief of either practitioner or patient is necessary for healing.
• It isn’t necessary for the patient to believe in the healing system for it to work.
• The new practitioners don’t consider themselves to have special gifts. Most see healing as a natural human ability that can be taught to anyone, including children.

In the next post we’ll look at the first of many new healing modalities, what they are and what they can accomplish.

(1) See Lipton, B. H. PhD.,The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles, 2008.