
So What is An Energy Field?
The following excerpts are from Cyndi Dale’s the Subtle Body, An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy, published by Sounds True, Boulder, Colorado 2009, p. 95
There are many different kinds of fields. In energy medicine, these are formally known by two terms: veritable, which can be measured, and putative or subtle, which cannot be measured.
The veritable or measurable energy fields are physical in nature and include sound and electromagnetic forces, such as visible light, magnetism, monochromatic radiation, and rays from the electromagnetic spectrum. Our body produces or is affected by all these energies.
Putative energy fields are also called biofields or subtle fields. Both of the latter terms will be used in this section. These fields explain the presence of vital life energy, such as the chi or prana of the Oriental and Hindu cultures. These energy fields are not separate from the mechanical or measurable fields, rather, they occupy a space and run at frequencies that cannot be perceived except through their effects. They are connected into the body by the meridians, the nadis, and the chakras, which are able to convert the fast-moviong frequencies (chi and prana) into the slower and mechanical fields and forces (electricity, magnetism, and sound, among others). The energy channels and bodies are therefore “antennae” that receive and send information via the fields and transform this information so it can be used by the body.
The human body is affected by and creates both types of energy fields. The heart, for instance, serves as the human electrical center. Its electrical activity shapes the formation of the biofields that surround the body because it emits thousands of times more electricity and magnetism that do the other organs. But human and personal biofields also interconnect with greater fields that work in two directions: they receive and draw energy from us and also provide enregy to us. Because we are actually composed of fields – as is the world- we have to see ourselves as interconnected rather than self-sustaining, constantly involved in the flux of becoming something new even as we shape and reshape the world.


