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The Human Biofield

The Human Biofield

Chiropractic Newsletter

Well-Being


In 1994, a panel of scientists at the National Institute of Health chose the word “biofield” to describe the field of energy and information that surrounds and interpenetrates the human body. The biofield is composed of both measurable electromagnetic energy and hypothetical subtle energy, or chi. This structure is also referred to as the “human energy field” or “aura.”

While western science has yet to describe and measure this energy, other cultures, especially ancient Indian or Vedic cultures, describe it extensively. The term chakra (“wheel” in Sanskrit) refers to spinning energy vortices that are seen as structures in the body’s subtle energy anatomy. Not coincidentally, within the body at each chakra location there are corresponding large clusters of nerves, or plexuses.

One way of understanding subtle energy is through analogy: Subtle energy is to electromagnetism as water vapor is to water. Just as we do not measure water vapor with the tools we use to measure water, we can’t measure subtle energy with the same tools we’d use to measure electricity. Subtle energy is higher, finer, and more diffuse; it follows slightly different laws.

Another word for this energy is bioplasma. Biopla