What is Biofield Tuning?

Before we get into an explanation of what Biofield Tuning is, a bit of backstory is needed. The word Biofield is the name given to the field of electromagnetic energy and information that surrounds and interpenetrates the human body. The term was coined in 1994 by a panel of National Institute for Health scientists to give a scientific name to what has previously been called the human energy field or aura. The term Biofield refers to our body’s electrical system in its entirety — both the electric current that runs through our bodies, and the magnetic field that surrounds it. The biofield consists of bioplasma, a living electromagnetic field roughly 5-6 feet around us in all directions, which serves as a type of energetic blueprint. 

The human Biofield extends to the left and right, front and back of our bodies. It also extends approximately 2 to 3 feet above the top of our heads and 2 to 3 feet below the bottom of our feet. There is a close relationship between unencumbered flow of energy through the biofield and our physical and emotional health. Energy in the biofield tends to flow along established pathways. Your biofield is essentially a map of your mind and every single human being on the planet has a Biofield. This field carries the information of every cell in the body, and it engages in bidirectional information transfer with people, plants, animals, and energies in our environment.

Your biofield, like your brain, is compartmentalized, with different emotional experiences stored in different stratospheric locations. Just like the brain is compartmentalized and different areas are responsible for different things, so are our energy fields. This living electromagnetic field holds information related to your emotional history, thought patterns, memories and physical and emotional traumas, and it sets the template for your physiology.  In your biofield is a record of everything you’ve ever experienced—and even what your ancestors experienced. It’s all encoded in standing wave format in the body’s electromagnetic field.

At the edge of the human biofield is a double-layer plasma membrane which forms a protective outer boundary. It creates the dynamic standing waves that hold information in a person’s field. Every cell and organ in the body has its own energy field in addition to being part of the greater field of the human body. On the atomic level, the field appears to be composed of free electrons, ions, and protons operating in a balanced polarity of positive and negatively charged particles. These particles spin around each other in what’s known as a torsion force, which is a spiraling, twisting motion, bound by the plasma membrane at the outer edge of the field. The shape of the biofield is a torus , or donut-like shape, with a central channel of energy that circles around the outer boundary.

Research using biophoton imaging devices shows that when an organism (a body) is under stress, it emits more biophotons–a leaking of life force that seems to result in a loss of order and integrity through the system. Stress or illness can cause an excessive leaking of noncoherent light out of the body and into the biofield — we literally leak out light as a result of stress and trauma. We lose our sparkle. This is a real scientific description of how the light in our eyes and the brightness in our being goes dim as a result of stress, trauma and physical injury. Studies comparing biophoton activity in different research subjects have shown that while meditating monks give off very little light, people under stress are emitting large amounts of light out of their bodies and into the field around them.

Biotuning follows the hypothesis that biophotons become trapped in areas of distortion and resistance in the standing waves of our biofield, stopping energy and light from flowing freely through our system. We’ve leaked these photons during periods of our lives when we were under physical or emotional stress. Rather than being lost and gone forever, the light and energy we lost during those turbulent times appears to stay within our own biofield, and can actually be returned it to its rightful place in the body.

There is, however, a universal challenge that practitioners who provide Biofield Tuning services face: even though Biofield Tuning itself is based in science, the work is hard to explain, and often it’s difficult to believe. One of the things that makes Biofield Tuning challenging to explain is that it encompasses two additional states of matter beyond solid, liquid, and gas. These two additional states of matter are plasma—the fourth state of matter that is widely proven and scientifically accepted—and a hypothetical fifth state of matter, aether, that has been the subject of scientific debate for centuries. While its existence is as yet unproven, aether has been consistently referenced in ancient healing systems including Ayurveda.

What then, is Biofield Tuning? Biofield Tuning is a sound therapy method that uses tuning forks on and around the body for targeted nervous system relaxation. This sound therapy method works directly with our nervous system, seeing it as inextricably connected with our conscious and subconscious mind, including our memories. All physical, mental and emotional disorders can be perceived as "dissonance" in our electrical system. Biofield Tuning is able to locate, diminish and resolve this dissonance and in doing so, alleviate and even eradicate the corresponding physical, mental and/or emotional symptoms.  

How it works

In the practice of Biofield Tuning, tuning forks are used to scan through the electromagnetic field of the body in order to detect and correct areas of dissonance and resistance. During a Biofield Tuning session, a client lies fully clothed on a treatment table while the practitioner activates a tuning fork and scans the biofield slowly, beginning from about six feet away.

The practitioner is:​

• feeling for resistance and turbulence in the client's biofield

• listening for a change in the overtones and undertones of the tuning fork

When the practitioner encounters a turbulent area he/she continues to activate the tuning fork and hold it in that specific spot. Research suggests the body's organizing intelligence uses the steady coherent vibrational frequency of the tuning fork to "tune" itself.​ Through the introduction of the coherent sound input of the tuning fork, chaotic waveforms come to a more harmonious expression.

In short order, the dissonance resolves and the sense of resistance gives way. This appears to correspond to the release of tension with the body. By shifting the body’s magnetic field and thus shifting the electrical flow in the body, pain, tension, stuck emotions, and trauma are released. Client's relax and breathe more freely and the body enters into a more coherent and increased flow state.

In Biofield Tuning, we take an electromagnetic approach to restoring wholeness by bringing discordant wave forms back into circulation and availability.  The more bioavailable energy we have at our disposal, the more energetically efficient we become. By using the coherent input of the forks, the biofield also becomes more coherent, orderly and harmonized.

Practitioners work with the "Biofield Anatomy Map", a compilation of Biofield Tuning's founder, Eileen Day McKusick’s 25+ years of biofield observations. As the biofield dissonance subsides, clients generally report feeling "lighter," able to breathe more freely, and a diminishment or resolution of their symptoms.

One might interpret this as a kind of targeted nervous system biofeedback. Eileen has come to see this process as "consciousness hacking", a side-door entry into the psyche - working with what has been hidden in plain view - which assists people in making changes they otherwise could not on their own. Some conditions respond very well to Biofield Tuning, and others not so much. Many practitioners integrate Biofield Tuning with tools from other modalities which integrate in very complimentary ways to each other but not everyone practices Biofield Tuning in exactly same way.  

Eileen herself suggests a series of three sessions to begin with, generally once a week.  Very often issues can be resolved or greatly improved within three sessions, but there is no limit to how many sessions one can receive. Each session builds on the one before it; there are always deeper layers one can address during Biofield Tuning Sessions.

Cautions & Guidance

Is Biofield Tuning right for you?

Biofield Tuning is not advised for individuals who are extremely ill as it may create a strong healing response in the system. As the body releases tension, any toxins that have been held in constricted tissue are released which has the capacity to produce flu-like symptoms, exhaustion, waves of emotion, loose stools and in extreme cases (very rare) rashes and vomiting. Cancer, pregnancy, palliative care, and pacemakers are contraindicated in Biofield Tuning.

Click here to see the full cautions and guidelines list to help determine whether Biofield Tuning is right for you.

Experience Biofield Tuning

Experience the power of Biofield Tuning by working individually with a Biofield Tuning Practitioner, through an In-Person Biofield Tuning Session or Distance Biofield Tuning Session today. Similar to many other energy, sound and light healing modalities, Biofield Tuning sessions can also successfully be conducted from a distance. For your convenience, we offer both types here at Everyday Miracles Reiki.

Turning Skeptics Into Believers

For those who remain skeptical about the validity of Biofield Tuning, below are links to a two-part article written by John P. Thomas. He is a health writer for Health Impact News. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Science in Public Health (M.S.P.H.) from the School of Public Health, Department of Health Administration, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The below-linked articles, published respectively on 04/01/2019 and 04/02/2019, capture in detail his first-hand experiences of receiving Biofield Tuning sessions as a skeptic.

Part One: Biofield Tuning: How Sound Therapy Can Unlock the Hidden Causes of Illness  

Part Two: Biofield Tuning: Healing with Vibrational Sound Therapy 

Scientific Proof 

If you are curious to learn more about just how important our electric bodies are, feel free to check out the electrichealth.com website. Biofieldtuning.com is another excellent resource to look into for those who'd like to dive further into the science and mechanics behind Biofield Tuning. And last but not least, here is a list of various studies on the biofield providing further scientific proof, for those of you doing both academic and personal research on the topic:

Peer Reviewed Scientific Journals of Biofield Science Journal Articles 

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all previous centuries of existence.” — Nikola Tesla

"Matter is Energy...Energy is Light...We are all Light Beings." — Albert Einstein

"The universe is energy. Vibrational energy. All energy vibrates. All matter is energy that has slowed down enough so that we can see it and touch it." — David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

“Your relationship with your body is one of the most important relationships you’ll ever have. And since repairs are expensive and spare parts are hard to come by, it pays to make that relationship good.” — Steve Goodier