The pictures taken by this man were captured by means of his creation, called Polycontrast Imaging Photography (PIP). The pictures were of all the workshop participants in attendance, including myself. We went, nude, into the darkened back room, where our sides, backs, and front bodies were captured. The results were what looked like an oval-shaped circle outlining our skin’s edges. Each circle, depending on which participant the photo was taken of, appeared differently. Some had more orange than anything else, some blue, and some red; the dominant color changed from person to person. No one really knew what particularly to make of it; even the teacher himself wasn’t entirely sure yet. The workshop had been part of his ongoing research to reveal the puzzle of what this Electro Magnetic Field around the body could mean, and offer up in the face of modern scientific discoveries.

    Being a teacher of yoga, my curiosity of the human body, and the various elements that affect, and comprise, optimal health, has taken a trip upward, soaring as fast as a rocket launching into the infinite world of space does. It is easy to forget that we have electricity being created and stored in our bodies. It’s even more difficult to remember that one of the first encounters we have had with electricity is back in the 1700’s when a hand rubbed against a spinning wheel. It was at that point that the sparks began to fly. Let’s go back to what is easy to remember though; is there really anything that is one hundred percent entirely easy in this life? Is the attainment of optimal health easy? I ask you, because my experience is that health, like all else, is very complex. For those of you agreeing, are you ready to consider that health is even more complex than we have yet to know?

    Observing bodies in yoga class (yes that includes my own!) I notice a lot of shaking. There, of course, are many explanations for this. From what I have felt in my own body, I present an explanation that seems most intuitive to me; our bodies, oftentimes locked, release a flow of energy throughout the body, once again, as part of the opening process. By locked, I mean that I often see people’s knees, wrists, elbows and hips locked, creating a stagnation in the overall flow of energy throughout their bodies. Think about the body as a machine for a moment. Imagine visible, unregulated energy, flowing freely through the machine. Now, imagine the machine hasn’t been greased properly, and the joints of this ‘machine’ become frozen, stiff, and – if this machine had the ability to feel-they also become achy. Now, imagine some friendly people walking over to this cramped up machine and lengthening their extremities by lengthening one arm, and then the other. In fact, they do the same for the legs, too. Imagine a powerful wind current being turned on (that’s the breath) while the machine is being stretched and moved. Energy begins to flow again, through the machine. Only now, we not only have all the energy that was already flowing through the machine before the pulling on its extremities began, we now also have the gain of the energy that had been previously trapped in the ‘joints of the machine’ now discovering ‘flow’ again! To all Yoga-or Pilates- enthusiasts out there, this is another one of those infinite possibilities that may be happening to you when you get ‘the shakes’ in yoga class! 
   

    Okay, so looking at the big picture, we’ve now been given the reminder that we have energy flowing in our bodies in the form of electricity, and the possibility that that energy flow can become restricted due to tightly held joints, and muscles. Now, what else has an Electro Magnetic Field emanating around it? Any guesses? That’s right, electronics… During my research, I discovered that people around the world are experiencing what is known as electrosensitivity. It is when the EMF around electronics adversely affects the EMF around our bodies. ‘How much harm can it do?’ you may be asking. The answer; a significant amount. It is public knowledge that people, around the globe, have had to quit their sit-in-front-of-the-computer-all-day jobs because of electrosensitivity. We also have people experiencing excessive migraines, nausea, depression, insomnia and anxiety, as side effects. Hmm, I wonder if EMF’s being shed from our much-needed electronics are not only affecting us physically, but also affecting our own Electro-Magnetic Field. What would scientists discover if they decided to study this field of questions? Activities that boost our EMF are being outdoors around natural settings, sleeping well, eating well, and of course, not overusing our electronics. What can we each do to be health smart when it comes to our modern lifestyles? Though there are many ideas, formulas, and solutions out there, the preservation of our own energy is monumental in the face of the equation representing optimal health. Besides, seeing friends face to face, away from a computer screen; leaving the cell phone behind when we go for a stroll around our neighborhood, or to a short run to the grocery store; turning our cell phones off when we’re at work, instead of having them glued to our hip pockets, are all ways to brandish not only certainty of our health, but also a way to maintain sanity in a world that is forever increasing its pace.

    Let’s face it, we have become a world where we develop new variations of our favorite electronics every few months, in order to meet our desire to have every bit of the world at our fingertips. We are accustomed to having answers, and emails sent to us on the wireless wave currents within milliseconds. Even if you don’t believe that electronic’s EMF could possibly interact with our own, we do know that the use of electronics in moderation creates a happier, healthier earth. It takes many energy plants, and transformers, to continue to run 10 million cell phones a day. Let’s be wise about how we spend our energy, and the earth’s. Are my scientific postulations true? How many people out there are already taking into consideration these ideas? I do know many are, for sure! They’re on Facebook! How many though exactly, I don’t know. I’m not a scientist, and I do not research these things all day and all night; why should I, or you? We have our intuition, and our ability to feel these things in our own bodies, for ourselves. I’m simply a yoga teacher for therapy, writer by trade; buried in the books I write and dreaming about a day where people no longer place an all importance on other’s facts anymore, but instead believe in their own discoveries.

Gaia Madeline Standing is the writer of Caped In Mission, a work of fiction that will, by the Grace of God be on book shelves shortly. Caped In Mission's was inspired by Gaia envisioning a 'what if' scenario, and now, four years after the day she started writing the book, science shows Gaia's imaginings are true!   In her free time she can be found taking nature strolls around one of the beautiful neighborhoods situated in Vancouver, Canada, where she resides, in the name of divine replenishment. For more on her completed novel, and the next she is working on, click on the Caped In Mission and Tova hyperlinks here at the site. To learn more on the PIP technological discovery, or Dr Thornton’s work, visit http://biofieldscience.org