Science is taking the mystery and superstition out of energy healing. Since the advent of quantum physics, science has been able to steadily quantify the existence of the human energy field and how it is affected by everything in its environment. Bruce Lipton, a biologist and author of "The Biology of Belief", suggests that we look at ourselves as a community of cells and also presents evidence that the environment has a profound effect on every cell (within and outside of our body). Since everything is energy, that includes our thoughts and our emotions. Science now reveals that cells do respond to thoughts and emotions and through the chemical interactions that take place they cause responses in the brain and the body.

A response that you might be most familiar with is the stress response. It begins with a thought of a stressful experience that we may have had or are having, or even anticipating. These thoughts then produce emotional responses such as anxiety, depression, fear, anger, sadness. Stress produces different chemicals in the body, preparing it for the flight or fight response. These chemicals which, when not being used up immediately by the action of fight or flight, then express themselves physically as the symptoms of stress we are all familiar with: muscular tension, headaches, upset stomach, etc. We are being affected by the very energy of our thoughts. Utilizing this awareness, we can do much toward healing ourselves on the mental and emotional levels by the conscious use of "thought".