Energy healing is reshaping how we think about health. It’s based on the idea that beneath our physical body lies an energetic system that drives how we feel, think, and heal.
When that energy flows freely, we feel balanced and alive. When it’s blocked or chaotic, stress, pain, and illness often follow.
Now, science is beginning to explain what healers have long known: our cells communicate through light and frequency. Understanding this may change how we heal, from treating symptoms to restoring the body’s natural harmony.
As my path in the world of natural medicine evolved in the 1990s, I was introduced to various forms of energy healing. They included remarkable diagnostic and treatment modalities that challenged my early understanding of medicine.
Electroacupuncture (according to Voll), applied kinesiology, energy healers, and Reiki all opened my eyes to seeing the body—and its healing—through the lens of energy.
At first, the idea that energy could diagnose or treat disease seemed impossible. Yet as I witnessed its power and effectiveness with my own eyes, my skepticism turned into deep curiosity. I found myself wondering, how is that possible?
These energy-based methods stood in sharp contrast to modern medicine, which focuses on biochemistry—the study of molecules, reactions, and substances like enzymes, hormones, neurotransmitters, and genes.
The biochemical model is brilliant in explaining and manipulating the parts of life, yet it falls short in explaining life itself.
The body’s biophysics—the energetic dimension of our being—is rarely studied or integrated into the products and protocols of modern medicine. While biochemistry serves us well in emergencies and crisis care, it often falters when addressing chronic conditions.
I began to see that modern medicine was focused on only half of the human picture. It seemed entirely logical to me that if we could address both the body’s biochemical and biophysical imbalances, we could solve more health problems with greater ease.
One of my strongest arguments for why healthcare must evolve is this simple truth: it currently focuses on only half of who we are. To make that argument more completely, I needed to understand the full potential of treating the body’s energy system.
I learned a great deal from the practitioners I met, whose explanations of these energy-based diagnostic tools and treatments fascinated me. Yet a deeper understanding still eluded me, so I turned to the biophysicists for insight.
I was fortunate to discover The Rainbow and the Worm by Mae-Wan Ho, PhD—a book that helped illuminate this unseen dimension.
The focus on biochemistry has created a system of medicine that is focused on parts and has resulted in specialists who study individual systems or organs within the body without a clear understanding of that system or organ’s interconnection with the rest of the body.
What We Are Missing: The Body’s Energy Healing Field
Ho and her fellow biophysicists reveal what modern medicine has largely overlooked—the body’s energy field. In their view, life is not simply a chemical soup but a coherent, dynamic field of energy in constant motion. They describe how energy, vibration, and structure work together to create function.
Ho spent decades studying how living organisms maintain order amid constant change. Her findings challenge much of what we thought we knew, showing that the body behaves as a quantum-coherent, self-organizing energy system rather than a machine made of separate parts.
From this perspective, health reflects the harmony and quality of our energy flow, while disease arises when that flow is disrupted.
The Quantum Body
In many of my writings, I argue and emphasize that until we integrate the science of quantum physics into our understanding of health and healing, our healthcare system will remain incomplete.
This is the world that Mae-Wan Ho so beautifully explores in The Rainbow and the Worm, where she illustrates how every part of the human body influences every other part.
She explains that the body’s components vibrate together in synchrony, exchanging energy and information almost instantly through coherent electromagnetic and acoustic fields—concepts rooted in quantum physics.
In this context, coherent means orderly. It describes a system in which every element is synchronized in both phase and frequency, allowing energy and information to flow freely, efficiently, and without loss.
In Ho’s view, a coherent body is one whose cells, molecules, and tissues resonate together, much like instruments in a symphony. This harmony enables communication, healing, and vitality that extend far beyond what classical biology or biochemistry can fully explain.
When that coherence breaks down, the body’s signaling becomes disordered, and we begin to experience fatigue, pain, or illness. In Ho’s model, health is not merely the balance of chemical systems—it is an energetic symphony in motion.
Structured Water: The Living Matrix
At the heart of that symphony lies water—the structured water within every cell. Mae-Wan Ho discovered that when water interacts with proteins and cell membranes, it forms beautifully ordered, liquid crystalline layers. These layers:
- Store electrical charge
- Conduct light and vibration
- Stabilize protein structure
- Enable nearly friction-free energy transfer
Ho explains that this liquid crystalline water forms the foundation of the body’s energy field. It serves as a bridge between physics and physiology—a living matrix that connects structure with function.
She shows that when we are calm, grounded, and well-hydrated, these water layers remain ordered and highly conductive, allowing energy and information to flow effortlessly throughout the body.
Yet under the strain of chronic stress or exposure to toxins, this delicate water framework begins to collapse, and the body’s communication system starts to break down.
Energy-Based Healing Systems and the Physics of Coherence
This is where Ho’s work became invaluable on my path of learning. Many of the energy-based modalities I was studying were often dismissed by modern medicine as “impossible” or “fringe.”
As I mentioned earlier, I soon realized that this dismissal stems from modern medicine’s narrow focus on biochemistry and its long-standing neglect of biophysics.
Modalities such as Homeopathy, Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, and EAV cannot be fully explained through biochemistry alone. Ho and her colleagues offer the missing scientific foundation that helps us understand how these energy-based tools and treatments actually work.
Let’s take a closer look at a few of them.
Homeopathy
Perhaps the most controversial form of energy medicine, homeopathy uses remedies so highly diluted that no molecules of the original substance remain. To biochemists, the idea that such a remedy could have any therapeutic effect seems impossible.
Ho’s explanation, however, makes it conceivable. During the processes of dilution and succussion (vigorous shaking), the water base forms stable, charge-separated domains that retain the electromagnetic signature of the original substance.
These remedies act not through chemistry, but through information. They deliver a frequency pattern that helps the body restore its natural coherence.
In this way, homeopathy works through resonance within water’s liquid crystalline memory field—a reminder that healing may also arise from the body’s capacity to respond to subtle energetic cues.
Chiropractic and Structural Alignment
For many years, the medical establishment dismissed chiropractic medicine as quackery. Yet chiropractic adjustments aim to realign the spine and nervous system, and patients often report far-reaching benefits—improvements in digestion, sleep, mood, and overall well-being.
Ho’s model offers a clear scientific explanation. When spinal alignment restores proper mechanical tension in connective tissue, the liquid crystalline water within fascia and nerve tissues regains order.
As a result, electrical and photonic signals can travel more freely throughout the body, allowing organ systems to re-synchronize. In essence, a physical adjustment becomes an energetic tuning of the entire field—restoring balance not only structurally, but vibrationally.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is founded on the idea of pathways through which vital energy, or Qi, flows. These pathways, known as meridians, have long puzzled anatomists since no physical tubes or wires have ever been found to match them. As a result, the concept was often dismissed by conventional medicine.
Once again, Ho’s biophysics offers an elegant explanation. Meridians may correspond to networks of liquid crystalline connective tissue—fascia and collagen infused with structured water. These tissues are capable of conducting electricity, sound, and light with remarkable efficiency.
Acupuncture needles appear to create tiny mechanical and electromagnetic shifts that realign charge flow and restore resonance throughout this network. In essence, the meridian system functions like the body’s electrical grid, maintaining the harmony and flow of its vital energy.
Reiki and Other Biofield Therapies
Practices such as Reiki, Healing Touch, and Therapeutic Touch use gentle, hands-on or near-body techniques to help restore balance within the body’s energetic field.
To biophysicists like Ho, this process involves creating coherence within the body’s electromagnetic and photonic networks. Every cell emits ultra-weak light known as biophotons.
When a practitioner’s coherent field interacts with a patient’s disordered field, resonance occurs—much like tuning forks aligning to the same pitch. It is not that the practitioner transfers their energy to the patient; rather, they help “teach” or entrain the body back to a more ordered vibration.
This renewed coherence allows the body’s own repair systems to re-synchronize and restore harmony from within.
The Energy of Homeostasis
One of my First Five blog series explores the energy of homeostasis and how its innate drive for balance shapes the structure and function of the human body.
Ho adds fascinating depth to this idea, describing homeostasis as a constant energetic dance involving trillions of feedback loops that exchange photons, electrons, and vibrational information to keep the body in dynamic balance.
In her view, healing is never something imposed from the outside. It is the natural re-emergence of internal order once interference subsides and energy flow is restored.
This beautifully mirrors what so many energy healers describe as the purpose of their work—to create the right conditions for the body to remember its own rhythm and return to harmony.
Why Drugs Can’t Do This
In earlier posts, I’ve explained that pharmaceutical medicines work through the energy of interference. This is why they cause side effects and adverse reactions—and why they rarely achieve true healing in chronic or autoimmune diseases.
Ho’s insights make this even clearer. A drug acts by blocking or stimulating a biochemical pathway. It is a mechanical manipulation, not an energetic alignment.
Ho often compares the body’s biophysics to a symphony orchestra. In that orchestra, every cell and signal must play in harmony. When a drug enters the system, it can be like introducing a violin that’s out of tune—the result is not music, but noise.
Quantum Biology Is Catching Up
Quantum physics is only beginning to reveal the vital role that biophysics will play in helping us understand how the human body truly works—and how best to support it in healing and recovery.
Cutting-edge research in quantum biology is now confirming many of the insights that Ho and others proposed decades ago. For example:
- Photosynthesis in plants transfers energy through quantum coherence with nearly perfect efficiency.
- Enzyme reactions occur through quantum tunneling rather than random molecular collisions.
- Birds navigate Earth’s magnetic field using quantum entanglement within their retinas.
If bacteria, plants, and birds use quantum effects to maintain order and function, why wouldn’t humans—the most complex organisms of all—do the same?
Ho gave us the framework. Now, modern science is beginning to fill in the details.
From Mechanic to Maestro
The physicians of the future will no longer act as mechanics repairing broken parts. They will become conductors, restoring harmony within the human symphony.
They will measure not only molecules, but coherence—heart-brain synchrony, field resonance, and photonic emission. All the subtle energetic rhythms that make us the miraculous beings we are.
Their prescriptions will rely less on drugs and more on frequencies, light, sound, and intention.
And in doing so, they will rediscover what ancient healers always knew: when life is supported rather than suppressed, it naturally moves toward balance.
Closing Thoughts
For many years, I’ve understood that beneath our structure and function, we are beings of energy and light. When our energetic field is coherent, the body repairs, recovers, and adapts with effortless intelligence.
Until medicine fully embraces the insights offered by biophysics and quantum physics, its understanding of the human organism—and its ability to truly heal—will remain incomplete.
The next great revolution in healing will not arise from discovering a new molecule, but from recognizing and working with the energy that animates all molecules.
