INTERPERSONAL HEART-BRAIN REGISTRATION AND THE PERCEPTION OF PARENTAL LOVE: A 42 YEAR FOLLOW-UP OF THE HARVARD MASTERY OF STRESS STUDY

A dynamical energy systems approach to cardiac energy predicts that the registration of cardiac energy can occur between individuals, and that the degree of registration may be greater in persons who are more open to interpersonal information. As part of a 42 year follow-up to the Harvard Mastery of Stress study, 19 channels of EEG and the ECG were recorded during a 2 minute eyes closed resting baseline from 20 Harvard graduates currently in their 60's and from an experimenter who sat 3 feet in front of the subjects. Cardiac synchronized energy patterns were calculated in the subjects' EEGs separately triggered by the subjects' ECG and the experimenter's ECG. When the subjects' own ECG was used as the trigger, significant evidence of the subjects' ECG in the subjects' EEG was found, primarily in the posterior regions. When the experimenter's ECG was used as the trigger, significant evidence of the experimenter's ECG in the subjects' EEG was found, primarily in anterior regions, in subjects who rated themselves in college as having been raised by loving parents. These subjects were also significantly healthier in late adulthood than subjects who rated their parents "low in loving." Implications for theory and research in energy medicine are considered

INTERPERSONAL HAND-ENERGY REGISTRATION: EVIDENCE FOR IMPLICIT PERFORMANCE AND PERCEPTION

Treatments such as Non-Contact Therapeutic Touch are based on the hypothesis that the hands can send and receive energy and information. From a dynamical energy systems perspective, the hands can be viewed as rich generators of complex patterns of biophysical energy and information, including electrostatic movement effects, electromagnetic potentials (muscular, cardiac, skin potentials, etc.), and temperature (e.g. infrared). Two experiments (n = 20 and n = 41) were conducted to determine whether blindfolded subjects could detect the presence of an menter's hand placed a few inches above one of their hands. A 2 x 2 within subject counterbalanced design (left and right subject's hands by left and right experimenter's hands) was employed. The average correct detections was 66% (chance = 50%, P < .00001). Subject's average estimate of their performance was 54%. Poor and low performance subjects correctly estimated their actual performance, whereas medium and high performance subjects seriously underestimated their performance. However, even for subjects who performed at or below chance, their ratings of confidence per trial were significantly higher for correct versus incorrect trials, suggesting that they had implicit perception of hand-energy. Subjects who spontaneously reported some awareness of temperature (but not tingling or pressure) reported higher overall estimates of performance. Implications for future research on interpersonal hand-energy registration are considered

El desafío de una medicina: teorías de la salud y ocho “Hipótesis del Mundo”

Los autores abordan el desafío de integrar la medicina convencional, la medicina psicosomática, y la medicina alternativa, necesario, según señalan, no sólo por razones clínicas  y económicas, sino por el desafío de crear una teoría comprehensiva que integre la riqueza de datos aparentemente disparatados y teorías de la salud y la enfermedad en un todo organizado. Se trata de llegar a una medicina integrada. En este trabajo los autores identifican ocho visiones fundacionales sobre la naturaleza, cada una de las cuales genera hipótesis diferentes acerca de la naturaleza y de la medicina, y han conducido a tres diferentes conceptos de medicina. El artículo aborda cómo el conocimiento de tales hipótesis puede alcanzar el objetivo de integrar la medicina.Les auteurs abordent le défi d’intégrer la médecine conventionnelle, la médecine psychosomatique et la médecine alternative, nécessaire, soulignent-ils, non seulement pour des raisons cliniques et économiques, mais aussi quant au défi de créer une théorie compréhensive qui intègre la richesse de données apparemment disparates et les théories de la santé et de la maladie dans un tout organisé. Il s’agit de parvenir à une médecine intégrée. Dans ce travail les auteurs identifient huit visions constitutives sur la nature, chacune d’entre elles générant différentes hypothèses sur la nature et la médecine, et qui ont conduit à trois concepts distincts de médecine. L’article traite de la manière dont la connaissance de telles hypothèses peut atteindre l’objectif d’intégrer la médecine.The authors address the challenge of integrating conventional medicine, psychosomatic medicine and alternative medicine; necessary, as they say, not only for clinical and economic reasons, but for the challenge of creating a comprehensive theory that integrates the richness of data seemingly disparate and theories of health and disease in an organized whole. It is about reaching an integrated medicine. In this paper the authors identify eight founding visions of nature, each of which generates different hypotheses about nature and medicine, and that have led to three different concepts of medicine. The article discusses how the knowledge of these hypotheses can help to the goal of integrating medicine

El desafío de una medicina: teorías de la salud y ocho “Hipótesis del Mundo”

Los autores abordan el desafío de integrar la medicina convencional, la medicina psicosomática, y la medicina alternativa, necesario, según señalan, no sólo por razones clínicas  y económicas, sino por el desafío de crear una teoría comprehensiva que integre la riqueza de datos aparentemente disparatados y teorías de la salud y la enfermedad en un todo organizado. Se trata de llegar a una medicina integrada. En este trabajo los autores identifican ocho visiones fundacionales sobre la naturaleza, cada una de las cuales genera hipótesis diferentes acerca de la naturaleza y de la medicina, y han conducido a tres diferentes conceptos de medicina. El artículo aborda cómo el conocimiento de tales hipótesis puede alcanzar el objetivo de integrar la medicina.Les auteurs abordent le défi d’intégrer la médecine conventionnelle, la médecine psychosomatique et la médecine alternative, nécessaire, soulignent-ils, non seulement pour des raisons cliniques et économiques, mais aussi quant au défi de créer une théorie compréhensive qui intègre la richesse de données apparemment disparates et les théories de la santé et de la maladie dans un tout organisé. Il s’agit de parvenir à une médecine intégrée. Dans ce travail les auteurs identifient huit visions constitutives sur la nature, chacune d’entre elles générant différentes hypothèses sur la nature et la médecine, et qui ont conduit à trois concepts distincts de médecine. L’article traite de la manière dont la connaissance de telles hypothèses peut atteindre l’objectif d’intégrer la médecine.The authors address the challenge of integrating conventional medicine, psychosomatic medicine and alternative medicine; necessary, as they say, not only for clinical and economic reasons, but for the challenge of creating a comprehensive theory that integrates the richness of data seemingly disparate and theories of health and disease in an organized whole. It is about reaching an integrated medicine. In this paper the authors identify eight founding visions of nature, each of which generates different hypotheses about nature and medicine, and that have led to three different concepts of medicine. The article discusses how the knowledge of these hypotheses can help to the goal of integrating medicine

JNDS, Volume 20, Number 3

Study evaluating whether changes following heart transplant surgery parallel the history of the donors, based on the systemic memory hypothesis which predicts that all dynamical systems that contain recurrent feedback loops store information and energy to various degrees