Body Resonance concept

Not too sure if I'm on the right wavelength with this..... Crystals, Homeopathic remedies etc are used to cause the body to repair itself. I would expect each organ, muscle, bone etc to have its own resonance. If the crystal or medication can stimulate at that frequency a return to health can be expected.
It is up to the practitioner to be skillful in identifying the source of injury,
and finding the best matching medication.
How this works in principle I do not know but I believe the body's basic design puts it very much in sympathy with resonances.

Resonance is possible where things show wavelike patterns of movement. All resonance is is the capacity for certain frequencies of energy to create a higher amplitude for the wavelike pattern.

A good example of this is a swing. If you push the swing with the right frequency of pushes, you can make the swing go higher, but if you push the swing in the wrong frequency of pushes you may end up stopping the swing rather than making it swing more.

So, presumably, if you are going to use the phenomenon of resonance in healing you need to find the following:

• a phenomenon in the body that can behave in a wavelike way
• and that by increasing the amplitude of the wavelike pattern you can restore health
• and a way that you can influence the wave like pattern to increase the amplitude of the wavelike pattern

So is resonance in healing just a metaphor for something we can't empirically* identify? Like energy? Or spirit?

*I'm using this word "empirically" to refer to scientific procedures where it is possible to identify and measure a phenomenon in a consistent way.

I'm not suggesting that all words we use must comply with this kind of empirical standards but what I am suggesting is that it can be misleading to use words with a quasi-empirical meaning when the phenomena that are being described cannot be identified and measured empirically. The most important reason for being careful about this distinction is that those who have a more empirically based view of things are quite likely to dismiss those who use quasi-empirical terms in the guise of metaphore.

Norbu

A good example of this is a swing. If you push the swing with the right frequency of pushes, you can make the swing go higher, but if you push the swing in the wrong frequency of pushes you may end up stopping the swing rather than making it swing more.

Hi Norbu,

I agree we should be careful not to mix mataphors with "quasi-empirical terms".

But the pedant in me just wanted to pick up on the swing thing. The wrong frequency of pushes woulds actually change the frequency of the rate of swing, but the incorrect phase of pushes would potential stop the swing. I think it's important that when people are discussing Resonance that frequency is only one parameter and apart from amplitude and power, the other essential parameters are phase and harmonics.

Okay, I'll switch the pedant off now and let the debate return :eek:.

Myarka.
PS. Body resonance has been researched as part of electronic warfare.

Phase and frequency of pushes.

Hi Myarka,

Thought you'd feel the same way about language with this. But just to do the pedant (or is it pendant!!) thing...

The wrong frequency of pushes woulds actually change the frequency of the rate of swing, but the incorrect phase of pushes would potential stop the swing.

A swing is a pendulum and the frequency or period of oscillation is determined by the length of the string. The period of oscillation is independent of the weight of the bob (or person sitting on the swing if their centre of gravity does not change the effective length of the pendulum swing/swing chain) and independent of the amplitude of the swing.

Incorrect period of pushes don't generate amplitude in the swing. I think they would just cancel out and the swing would slow down by means of friction and air resistance until it stops. Incorrect period of pushes would not start the swing to move once it had stopped.

Pushes with a correct period but out of phase with the swing that is in motion would slow the swing down until it stopped. If these pushes continued, the swing would start to swing again in phase with the new phase of pushes.;)

Norbu