Physics
What can physics tell us about how energy healing works? What is happening between a healer and healee?
Energy healers report they facilitate healing through a person’s biofields or a collective biofield. Living organisms produce many kinds of electrical, electromagnetic and light based activity, and some of this activity creates measurable fields in and around the body. Scientists often call these fields biofields, referring to the patterns of electrical signals, weak electromagnetic emissions and tiny flashes of light known as biophotons that arise from normal cellular and tissue processes. These patterns may help the body stay organized, communicate internally and guide healing and development. Researchers are studying whether these signals contain useful diagnostic information and how they might help cells coordinate with each other through processes such as bioelectric voltage patterns, mechanical signaling or biophotonic communication, and some studies suggest that cells can exchange information even without direct chemical contact. Altogether, this work offers a way of understanding the biofield as part of the body’s natural communication and regulation system.
Physics Perspectives on the Biofield
This review examines how electromagnetic signals, coherent biophoton emissions and quantum level interactions may contribute to a broader physical basis for the biofield. By linking these mechanisms to biological organization and regulation, the authors propose that subtle field based processes could help explain aspects of development, healing and responsiveness to energy based practices.
Quantum Pathways in Living Systems
This review traces how methods and ideas developed in quantum chemistry are being extended into biological contexts, showing that quantum-level phenomena such as tunneling, coherence and electron or spin dynamics may play a functional role in living systems. By exploring how life might harness quantum effects, the article supports the possibility that biological organization and regulation operate through physical processes beyond classical biochemistry.
Where Quantum Physics Meets Biology
Summary: This review explores compelling evidence that quantum-level processes, including electron or energy transfer, quantum tunneling and spin-dependent radical-pair reactions, play active roles in biological functions such as enzyme activity, smell (olfaction), photosynthesis and magnetoreception. By showing that quantum mechanisms may underlie key molecular and cellular behaviors, the paper expands the biological paradigm beyond classical chemistry and support
Hints of Quantum Behavior in the Brain
Summary: This study used an MRI technique that can pick up very subtle forms of brain activity and found heartbeat-timed signals that could not be explained by normal physiology or standard imaging effects. Because these signals only appeared when participants were awake, the authors suggest they may reflect an unusual form of brain activity that behaves differently from classical physics.
Possible Optical Biofield Dynamics
This study found that when many tryptophan molecules are arranged together in large protein structures, they can act collectively and release light in a stronger and more coordinated way than any single molecule could on its own. The findings raise the possibility that these assemblies could support an optical biofield capable of coordinating energy flow within the structure, suggesting a system that behaves as more than the sum of its parts.
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