EFFECT OF LISTENTING TO MUSIC AND FOCUSED MEDITATION ON
THE HUMAN ENERGY FIELD AS MEASURED BY THE GDV AND THE
PROFILE OF MOOD STATES (POMS)
SUZANNE SITES GIBSON, PhD, LCSW
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of music and focused
meditation on the human energy field as measured by the GDV and Profile of Mood States (POMS). The results indicate that both interventions had a significant palliative effect on the GDV physiological measures and the POMS psychological measures. The GDV data indicates a strengthening of the human energy field in area and brightness and the POMS data demonstrates a significantly improved mood state.
The results suggest that listening to music and focused meditation are useful self care tools for strengthening the human energy field and improving mood state —qualities associated with a healing environment. GDV energy field imaging quantifies and makes the energy field visible.
KEY WORDS: GDV, HUMAN ENERGY FIELD, POMS, MUSIC, FOCUSED MEDITATION
INTRODUCTION
The effect of listening to music on the body’s physiology is well noted in the
literature: facilitated a state of well-being necessitating 50% less of the
recommended dose of sedatives needed to perform painful operations; [1] mproved oxygen saturation levels, increased weight gain and shortened hospital stay for infants [2]; assisted premature infants in developing the essential neurological skill of sucking; [3] increased dehydroepiandrosterone-to-cortisol ratios, increased natural
killer cell activity, and increased lymphocyte-activated killer cell activity [4];
increased range of movement in legs, arms, hips and spine [5]; increased endorphin levels which allowed the body to create its own anesthetic [6]; increased levels of interleukin-1 (IL-1) in the blood [7]; increased movement in chronic, mostly Parkinsonian, patients with limbs frozen for forty years began to feed themselves to the beat of music [8]; significant increase in salivary IgA [9]; induced sleep, gave pain relief, calmed cocaine infants, and eased breathing for infants on respirators;
[10] produced measurable effects on the heartbeat and breath—two basic life elements; [11] ability of music to act as a bridge between states of consciousness [12].
The physiological effect of guided imagery on the body is well noted in the
literature. [13,14] Focused meditation, in this study, is a form of guided imagery where the subject imagines his energy field enlarging and growing more luminous after viewing the GDV aura image of his own energy field.
Research indicates that guided imagery can: change physiological processes and increase survival rate of cancer patients –innovative work of radiation oncologist and psychotherapist team of O. Carl and Stephanie Simonton; [15] generate a physiological response in the muscle involved in the visualization; [16] increase a specific kind of white blood cells, either neutrophil or T-cells depending on the type imagined to increase,
indicating that imagery can achieve highly specific results; [17] improve athletic performance levels as demonstrated by the Soviet 1980 Winter Olympic sports team used visualization to increase performance levels—team mates who visualized outperformed those who did not; [18] manifest the desired outcome of imaging, biofeedback process developed by Elmer and Alyce Green at the Menninger Clinic—alter brainwaves and lower blood pressure (1960s); [19,20] reduce depression andraise beta-endorphin levels after six weeks of guided imagery and music; [21]
shorten hospital stay and decrease blood loss post surgery with Belleruth Naperstek’s guided imagery scripts– establishing solid quantitative data on the efficacy of guided imagery on physiological processes; [22] balance brain hemispheres–French researcher Gerard Renoux, of the University of Tours; [23] provide a level of comfort that is both healing and centering when the profound power of sacred imagery is utilized according to author Caroline Myss [24].
THE HUMAN ENERGY FIELD
The human energy field (HEF) is described by clairvoyants as a cloud of
multicolored light, a colorful mist, which surrounds and emanates from the body and is usually not discerned by most people. Webster defines an aura as “an invisible emanation or vapor” or a particular atmosphere or quality that seems to arise from or
emanate and surround a person or thing [25]. It is a vibrational field unique to each person and is thought to contain information concerning the health of the physical body, and reflects a person’s well being [26,27].
The HEF has been described and studied in art and literature throughout history.
Ninety- seven different cultures have a word for this phenomena of light emanating from the body [28].
Pythagoras perceived the HEF and was the first to record it in western literature about 500 BC [29]. This idea had been known worldwide for thousands of years, most notably by the eastern traditions where the energy was called Prana in the Vedic texts and Chi in the Taoist texts. Written description of the aura occurs in biblical accounts in both the Old and New Testament [30]. The HEF in the form of light emanating from the heads of holy people has been portrayed world wide in the art of European painters and in Russian icons dating from the 6th century.
In the 16th century Paracelsus described the aura:
‘The vital force is not enclosed in man, but radiates round him like a luminous sphere, and it may be made to act at a distance. In these semi-natural rays the imagination of man may produce healthy or morbid effects. It may poison the essence of life and cause diseases, or it may purify it after it has been made impure, and restore the health.”[31]
A few of the eminent scientists studying the energy field in more modern times include Austrian physician Franz Mesmer (1734-1815) [32], German scientist Baron Karl von Reichenbach (1788- 1869) [33], English physician Walter Kilner in England (1847-1920) [34] British parapsychologist C.W.Leadbeater [35], researcher Dr. Harold Saxon Burr at Yale University [36], Dr. Leonard Ravitz at William and Mary University [37] American seer Edgar Cayce [38], researcher Dr. Valerie Hunt at UCLA [39,40], clairvoyant Rev. Rosalyn Bruyere [41], American clairvoyant Dora van Gelder Kunz [42], neuropsychiatrist Dr. Shafica Karagulla [43], American physicist and healer Barbara Brennan [44], and philosopher and psychologist Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama [45].
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