HUMAN CELLS HAVE ELECTRIC FIELDS	NEWSLETTERS
BOUNDARIES AND YOUR ENERGY FIELD

BELOW IS AN ARTICLE FROM "THE DAILY GALAXY" ON THE EXCITING SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH ON CELL RESEARCH. IT VALIDATES ENERGY TECHNIQUES AND THE POTENTIALLY GREAT IMPACT IT HAS ON OUR DNA AND CELLULAR TRANSFORMATION.

July 30, 2008

Human Cells Found to have Electric Fields as Powerful as Lighting Bolts

Using newly developed voltage-sensitive nanoparticles, researchers have found that the previously unknown electric fields inside of cells are as strong, or stronger, as those produced in lightning bolts. Previously, it has only been possible to measure electric fields across cell membranes, not within the main bulk of cells, so scientists didn't even know cells had an internal electric field.
This discovery is a surprising twist for cell researchers. Scientists don't know what causes these incredibly strong fields or why they' are there. But now using new nanotools, such as voltage-sensitive dyes, they can start to measure them at least. Researchers believe they may be able to learn more about disease states, such as cancer, by studying these minute, but powerful electric fields.
University of Michigan researchers led by chemistry professor Raoul Kopelman encapsulated voltage-sensitive dyes in polymer spheres just 30 nanometers in diameter. Testing these nanoparticles in the internal fluid of brain-cancer cells, Kopelman found electric fields as strong as 15 million volts per meter, up to five times stronger than the field found in a lightning bolt. However, this discovery goes beyond being incredibly interesting; the finding will likely change the way researchers look at disease.
"They have developed a tool that allows you to look at cellular changes on a very local level," said Piotr Grodzinski, director of the National Cancer Institute Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer in Technology Review. Grodzinski believes many developments in cancer research, for example, over the past few years have been "reactive" rather than proactive. Despite how far cancer treatments have come, the way that cancer, and other diseases, progresses at the cellular level in the first place is still not well understood. With a better understanding, researchers could improve diagnostics and care. "This development represents an attempt to start using nanoscale tools to understand how disease develops," said Grodzinski.
Kopelman has developed encapsulated voltage-sensitive dyes that aren't hydrophobic and can operate anywhere in the cell, rather than just in membranes. Because it's possible to place his encapsulated dyes in a cell with a greater degree of control, Kopelman likens them to voltmeters. "Nano voltmeters do not perturb [the cellular] environment, and you can control where you put them," he says.
The existence of strong electric fields across cellular membranes is accepted as a basic fact of cell biology. The fact that cells have internal electric fields as well, however, is a whole new revelation. Scientists previously did not know of the existence of internal cellular energy fields, and are just in the earliest stages of understand the phenomenon. Kopelman presented his results at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology this month. "There has been no skepticism as to the measurements," says Kopelman. "But we don't have an interpretation."
Daniel Chu of the University of Washington in Seattle agrees that Kopelman's work provides proof of concept that cells have internal electric fields. "It's bound to be important, but nobody has looked at it yet," Chu says.
Posted by Rebecca Sato
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Links:
http://www.umich.edu/~koplab/research2.html
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19841
http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2007/12/mysterious_intracellular_energy

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BOUNDARIES AND YOUR ENERGY FIELD

Tired of feeling drained and exhausted after spending time with people? Is it hard to find "your space" while in the presence of others? You may be feeling the effects of a porous or thin energetic container which invites in and allows energetic invasion and infiltration of others to occur. Coming into greater awareness and contact with your own energy field allows you to work with this situation from the perspective where real change can occur; by adjusting yourself. We all know we can't change others or control how other people interact with us. We can however change a situation by changing the way we are relating to it. Becoming aware of and shifting the way we manage ourselves can and does change the way we experience others.

Here is a simple way to start practicing getting into greater contact with yourself:

• Ground: Feel your feet on the ground and imagine cords coming down from the middle of your body from each leg and out of the middle of your feet connecting deeply into the core of the earth. Feel the heat of the molten core of the earth rising up through your cords into your feet and expanding up throughout your whole body. You may see the color red or feel tingles or warmth, you many even "see" this energy coming up and into your body. Breathe deeply from your belly, imagine the breathe being drawn in from as far down your body as possible. You may even be able to imagine and feel your breathe coming from the bottom of your feet up into your body and expanding into all of your cells. (Hint: when you are first learning this, it may be easier to work in your bare feet.)
• Safe Container: Now imagine you have a bubble, egg, or column of light surrounding your body and encompassing you 360 degrees equally around your body extending out in front of you, back behind you, over your head, under your feet, and beyond each side. You are standing inside in the middle of your container and you feel comfortable. It is not too big nor too small. You can move around but still have an awareness of where the imagined walls and edges are. Your container is made of a material that feels safe to you but from which you can still see out of.
• Life Force Energy: Now that you are standing inside your safe container with your still established grounding to the earth, imagine a connection up to "Spirit" or "God" or whatever higher force you believe in. You are now connected from your source above (to a higher power) and below (deeply into the earth's energy) while feeling the protection and safety of your container all around you. Breathe in life energy or "chi" from the unlimited supply of the Universe. It is all around us like the air we breath even though most of us are unable to see it with our normal vision. Allow your body to breathe in and receive Universal energy through your skin, your eyes, your mouth, your feet, and your main energy centers called "chakras". If you do not know what Chakra's are, don't worry, just intend and imagine that you do and ask for the energy to also come into these centers. Nourish yourself with this pure energy source - it is unlimited and always available.
• Interacting with Others: After you have practiced and feel comfortable with your container, you are ready to interact with other people from this place of connection with yourself. It is likely that you will feel safe yet curious and interested in communicating with others. If another person is looking to "get" something from you or wants to manipulate you into their agenda by getting you to do something for their benefit and at your expense, you are in a position to safety respond in a way that represents how you really feel. If you are being asked to do something you don't want to do, it is much easier from this place of deep contact with yourself to say "No" or "I am not available to do that" or "I need to check my schedule and get back to you". Many times we may feel "bullied" or pressured and find ourselves agreeing to do something that we really don't want to do out of fear of not being loved or being rejected and abandoned. Feeling the strength and contact with ourselves inside our strong energy field supports us in standing up for our own authentic needs and sends a message that we are not an open invitation to be taken advantage of.
• Practice: Getting into the habit of interacting from your safe container and deep connection with yourself takes practice. It can make a real difference in how you feel in challenging situations and during the times you interact with habitual abusers who want to take advantage of you. It allows you to stop being a "victim" of someone else's abuse and invites you to take self responsibility for making real changes in your life. You are now in a better position to discern what your authentic needs and choices are.
  
  
  

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