By Nenah Sylver, PhD © 2009
The Center for Frequency
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Frequency as a Healing Tool
In the 1960s, counterculture hippies urged us to “give peace a chance” great advice. To expedite that process, it was helpful to have “good vibrations,” considered so important that the Beach Boys wrote a catchy song with this title. It was easy to tell who had good vibes and who didn’t: an optimistic, considerate person was seen as “high frequency”, while a pessimistic, disagreeable individual was “low frequency.” Not surprisingly, everyone wanted to be around the folks who had good vibes.
Colloquialism aside, saying someone is “high frequency” is based on legitimate science. Every molecule, cell, living body, and object is comprised of energy that manifests as physical matter. Some of that energy is detectable as frequencies that belong to one or more radiation bands in the electromagnetic spectrum. These frequencies correspond to biochemical and biological processes in the body.
In the healing arts, there are different ways to affect matter. Conventional medical care changes organs, glands, and tissues through biochemical manipulation (like drugs) or physical manipulation (like surgery). With electromedicine, healing is achieved by working with the electromagnetic radiation and energy fields that form and are emitted by physical matter. Electromedical devices produce and focus specific frequencies in the form of electromagnetic fields, electric current, magnetism, visible light, heat, or other energies.
Although widely used in Europe, electromedicine is less known in the U.S. Most are familiar with TENS units for pain relief or shoe magnets, but electricity and magnetism are primarily used diagnostically in hospitals think ECGs or MRIs. Most professionals and the public are not inclined to use less popular electromedical devices, often due to lack of understanding of how they work.
Fortunately, receptivity to electromedicine is increasing. Health professionals are expanding their practices with holistic technologies, and the public is recognizing electromedicine as effective and valid. This article explains what “frequency” and related terms mean, explores electromagnetic energy in living systems, and surveys several electromedical modalities.
Electromedicine’s Successful Track Record
Healing with electromedicine is not new. From ancient uses of electricity (lightning, static), magnetism (lodestone), the Sun (infrared/ultraviolet), and visible light, humans have used electromedicine for healing. By the early 1800s, electric current was harnessed for practical uses, and by 1900, electrical power was common at home and work.
It didn’t take long before many electronic devices for medical treatment became mainstream. Electrotherapy and Light Therapy with Essentials of Hydrotherapy and Mechanotherapy (1949) details devices using alternating and direct current, static electricity, diathermy, infrared, ultraviolet, and ultrasonics—many are still in use today or their direct descendants are. Notable devices include Georges Lakhovsky’s Multiple Wave Oscillator, Violet Ray (using Tesla’s coil), Edgar Cayce’s Wet Cell, and Kellogg’s Electric Light Cabinet. They treated everything from aches to infections to degenerative diseases.
Despite this history, electromedicine has met resistance mainly due to suppression by mainstream medicine and pharmaceutical interests. Still, electromagnetic fields are widely used for diagnosis (like ECG, MRI), with the understanding that living organisms are energy-based. If these energies are used for diagnosis, why not for healing?
Pharmaceutical industries benefit from this resistance, since broad adoption of electromedicine would reduce their profits. Drugs can be used only once for one condition by one person; electromedical devices are:
- Non-invasive
- Support the body’s innate healing ability
- Usable by laypeople and professionals
- Useful for many conditions over a lifetime
- Shareable among users
- Relatively inexpensive for their range and scope
To understand why and how electromedical devices work, one must start with the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum—and with sound.
The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Sound
EM Spectrum: Particles and Effects
The electromagnetic spectrum (EM spectrum) describes a continuum of energy oscillations in our universe, ranging from slow, low-energy electrons (electrical current) to fast, high-energy photons (light, X-rays, gamma rays).
Figure 1: The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Although we perceive radio, light, and other EM energies differently, they are all connected as a continuous range of waves. Their properties depend on their speed and characteristics. Humans usually perceive EM frequencies by their effects. For example, we use antennas to access radio waves or X-ray machines to see inside the body.
An EM field includes both electric and magnetic fields, which can exist together or separately.
Frequency, Wavelength, and Amplitude
All EM energies have different frequencies measured as cycles per second (now called Hertz, or Hz). Waves also have different lengths (microns, nanometres, metres, etc.). Peaks are the highest points, troughs are the lowest. Wavelength is usually measured from peak to peak.
The higher the frequency, the smaller the wavelength; the lower the frequency, the longer the wavelength. As Kovács put it, “giants step out leisurely, while dwarfs run and take hundreds of steps for each one of the giants.”
EM spectrum order: radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays.
Electric and Magnetic Fields
Electromagnetic radiation (energy that travels away from its source) and EM fields (non-radiant spaces in which energy exists) operate differently. Static electricity and magnetism are static fields. When movement is introduced, they become electromagnetic fields. Oscillating electric fields generate oscillating magnetic fields at right angles and vice versa.
Key EM Wave Definitions
- Wave: Movement of energy along a directional axis.
- Frequency: Number of cycles per second (Hz).
- Wavelength: Distance between two identical points on the wave.
- Amplitude: Maximum intensity (like volume).
Sound
The EM spectrum is often compared to sound. Sound consists of mechanical pressure waves in a medium (air, water). When an object moves, it displaces air, creating waves our ears detect and our brain decodes. Pitch depends on frequency: lower frequency = lower tone, higher frequency = higher tone.
Frequency is more easily perceived in music (organized waveforms) than in noise (disorganized waveforms). On an oscilloscope, noise appears as irregular waves, while music or pure tones show regular, repeating patterns.
Figure 2: Oscilloscope Music vs. Noise
Different Wave Shapes
Different instruments or sources create different wave shapes. Common ones include sine, triangle, sawtooth, and square waves.
Figure 3: Basic Waveforms
The more complex an object, the more frequencies and complex waveforms it contains—like the difference between a single string and a whole orchestra.
Symmetry and Asymmetry
Music shows symmetry (organized relationships between frequencies), while noise is asymmetrical (random frequencies). The harmonic relationships in music and the EM spectrum are mathematically identical—octaves, harmonics, and so on. Symmetry corresponds to health; asymmetry to degeneration.
Pulsed Magnetic Fields
Magnetism in motion induces electromagnetic fields. Pulsing a wave means it is “on” for a period, then “off”, independently of its frequency. Pulsed EM fields are used in many devices because the movement of EM radiation in the body increases ion transport, blood flow, and more.
Figure 4: Wave Lag Time
Figure 5: Two Waves in Succession
The Electromagnetic Body
Electromagnetic waves are used diagnostically because living organisms are energy-based. Every cell is a transmitter and receiver of electromagnetic information. Examples include animals that navigate using magnetite in their bodies, plants with antenna-like leaves, and even humans (melatonin production is light-sensitive; magnetite is found in bones and tissues).
Cells transmit and receive energy, each with its own frequency. Healthy cells oscillate at higher frequencies; cancer cells, at lower. Magnetic fields correspond to biological activity a change in the field means a change in the cell, for better or worse.
About the Author:
Nenah Sylver, PhD, is an internationally published author in holistic health, electromedicine, and psychology. She gives seminars and is a featured speaker at Rife conferences. Her books include The Holistic Handbook of Sauna Therapy and The Rife Handbook of Frequency Therapy.
Website: www.nenahsylver.com
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This article is a summary and adaptation of “Healing with Electromedicine & Sound: Part 1” by Nenah Sylver, PhD. For the full appendix and diagrams, see www.nenahsylver.com.