What is the Energy Field?

Rupert Sheldrake refers to an area of intelligence around each form which he calls morphogenic (or morphic) fields. In humans, animals, and plants - all living beings, in fact - this is what we refer to as the spirit or soul; the intelligence that is moulding the energy into shape and this is part of the Energy Field, the flow that connects every living being to All That Is.

Everything in the world is made up of energy. This has been proven by quantum physics - when the atom was split it was found to be made up of particles of energy that are constantly vibrating.

The speed of vibration of the energy determines how solid any given thing appears. Our bodies are made up of energy that is vibrating quite slowly, because to us they appear quite solid, but a rock is made up of energy that is vibrating much more slowly because it appears extremely solid. A material such as silk is made up of energy that is vibrating quite fast, so it appears light and floating.

What holds the energy in place so that it forms the appearance we see? Rupert Sheldrake refers to an area of intelligence around each form which he calls morphogenic (or morphic) fields. In humans, animals, and plants - all living beings, in fact - this is what we refer to as the spirit or soul; the intelligence that is moulding the energy into shape. With man-made articles such as a table or piece of clothing, it is the intention of the person making the article (or who made the machine making the article) that forms the morphogenic field that holds the energy in that particular form.

Around our bodies and permeating them (and around every other thing, including the rock) there is more energy that is vibrating at a much higher rate so that most of us cannot see it, but it can be picked up by Kirlian photography. This is known as the etheric body. Aura photographs will pick up another layer of energy that is vibrating even more rapidly. There are more layers of energy beyond that that are vibrating even faster and stretch out into infinity. As Einstein said: energy is all there is.

Anyone who works with energy finds that it is palpable; it can be gathered up and taken hold of as though it was some kind of filmy material. Filmy and light it may be but it is possible to take hold of a person's energy from, say, thirty yards away, and draw that person across the room towards you. Or gather energy into a large ball and push a person along with it.

There is at least one Chinese practitioner who uses this ability to take hold of energy as a form of martial arts, in which he is able to take hold of and twist the energy field of a person rushing at him with intent to attack and throw that person to the ground at a distance. He also uses it as a healing therapy, which is known as Bu qi.

Strictly, though (since energy is all there is), every therapy is energy therapy and this includes drugs and surgery. Cancer specialist Bernie Siegel (Love, Medicine & Miracles and Living, Loving & Healing) says that people who can look on chemotherapy as beneficial energy do not suffer adverse side effects from it.

A therapy such as BodyTalk [AnimalLinks is the animal version of BodyTalk] can be used to programme a person's/animal's body into accepting drugs as beneficial to it, so that there are no adverse side effects. The same can be done with things that the person or animal is allergic or sensitive to.

All physical disorders start first in the energy system, moving down into the etheric (which is the subtle body closest to and permeating the physical body) and then appearing on the physical level as symptoms of mental, emotional, or physical dis-ease. And this is so with animals as well, not just with humans.

Feeling around the energy system can disclose areas that feel thickened or sticky, areas where there seems to be little or no movement in the energy flow, areas where there are bulges or dips in the energy field, areas where there seems to be a difference in temperature (such as heat or coolness), and so on. Therapies that work in this way include Bio Energy Therapy (Energy Field Therapy, Bu qi), Healing Touch, and Therapeutic Touch, all of which work in similar ways to find such areas, remove blockages, rebalance the energy, and get the energy flowing freely.

The Meridian therapies, such as EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), work to remove problems in the energy field in a different way through working on acupoints and the subconscious.

Below is an approximation of the energy field of an animal. Although the animal depicted is an Irish wolfhound, the energy field would be the same for any animal (except minor differences in the horse and horse-type animals and herbivores):

Click Here for a larger diagram of the meridians and energy system of a dog/animal.

There are three energy webs (the lines coloured in green, brown, and purple) that join a number of energy centres (the circles which are the same colour as their webs).

There are energy centres in each paw which are linked to the Thoracic Exit and Heart Exit. The Heart Thymus governs the energy to the whole immune system. The Heart Exit centre has a parallel to the Heart chakra in humans.

The Back Spine centre has a parallel to the human Crown centre. There is no Pituitary centre in the horse (and similar animals and herbivores), but there is in all other animals.

The blue around the body denotes the etheric body, which actually permeates the physical body as well as moving outside of it. In a healthy animal it reaches about an inch beyond the skin; in a sick animal it is tight to the body. The area shown as pink is the mental/emotional body, and the others (gold and blues) are the spiritual bodies, which stretch into infinity.

Although it would appear that this energy system is different to the meridian energy flow used by acupuncture and other therapies, both systems work. This is because we each create our reality by our thoughts, beliefs, and feelings, rather than there being only one reality, and so reality is what we make it.

By Hilary Jupp