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Research: SCHWARTZ and others,
Listed in Issue 105
Abstract
SCHWARTZ and others, Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science and Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AR 85719, USA, gschwart@u.arizona,edu, have measured people's ability to detect bioenergetic fields in response to training.
Background
The aim of the study was to measure the capacity of health care providers to detect biofields before and after bioenergy awareness training, with particular attention to individual differences in the personality trait of capacity to focus attention on tasks.
Methodology
27 physicians, psychologists and nurses took part in a 5-day intensive training course in bioenergetic healing. Before and after the course, the blindfolded participants received a 24-trial hand biofield detection test. In this, the experimenter placed a hand a few inches above the participant's left or right hand for 30 seconds at a time. After each time, participants guessed which hand was being tested. The test was done in blocks of two right and two left hand trials in different orders. Participants filled out Tellegen's Absorption Scale, a measure of the capacity to focus attention.
Results
The accuracy of guessing which hand was being tested was 50.8% pre-test, where 50% would be chance. Post-training the accuracy increased to 55.5% (p < 0.05). A high capacity for attention pre-training was significantly correlated with an increase in detection accuracy. High attention participants increased the accuracy of guesses to 58.3% compared with 52.7% for low attention participants.
Conclusion
These results support the experiential findings of energy healers that 1) training can improve bioenergy awareness, and 2) there are substantial individual differences in response to training.
References
Schwartz GE, Swanck S, Silbert W, Lewis DA, Lewis SE, Nelson L, Jain S, Mallory L, Foust L, Moore K, Tussing D, Bell IR. Biofield detection: role of bioenergy awareness training and individual differences in absorption. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 10 (1): 167-169, Feb 2004.
