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Mind Changes Molecules Outside the Body

Clinical EFT Therapy Validated as Evidence-Based Practice for Psychological and Physiological Conditions2

A comprehensive scientific review of a therapy called Clinical EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) has been published in a top peer-reviewed journal, Frontiers in Psychology.

It compared the evidence for EFT against criteria published by the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 12 Task Force on Empirically Validated Therapies. Summarizing the results of 56 randomized controlled trials, it found that EFT is highly effective for anxiety, depression, phobias, PTSD, and stress symptoms.

EFT, also known as acupoint tapping or simply “tapping,” is a practice that combines acupressure (tapping on acupuncture points) with elements of conventional psychological methods like cognitive processing and exposure therapy (focusing on distressing memories). Studies show that the addition of acupressure rapidly reduces the emotional triggering that results from disturbing events.

In the past decade, research in EFT has increasingly focused on objective biological markers such as cortisol levels, immune function, brain activity, and gene expression. It has also been used to successfully treat physical conditions including pain, insomnia, and autoimmune diseases.

The results of randomized controlled trials, the gold standard of research, showed EFTs effects to extend beyond the subjective perceptions of stress measured in psychology. The paper’s coauthor and EFT pioneer Dr. Dawson Church observed that, “Self-reporting and subjective change is one thing, but objective change means that independent of what you think or report, there are external positive changes that are measurable.”

The review concludes that Clinical EFT is “efficacious for a range of psychological and physiological conditions. Treatment is associated with measurable biological effects in the dimensions of gene expression, brain synchrony, hormonal synthesis, and a wide range of biomarkers.”

The paper noted several other characteristics of the treatment method. Comparatively few treatment sessions are required, treatment is effective whether delivered in person or virtually, and symptom improvements persist over time. Also, EFT works well as group therapy, which makes it cost effective to administer.

EFT is also unusually safe, with no reports of adverse events in the more than 2,000 study participants. This has led to it being characterized by the US Veterans Administration as a “generally safe therapy.” The paper notes the prevalence of “simultaneous symptom reduction,” where multiple psychological conditions (such as depression and anxiety) and physiological diagnoses (such as pain and insomnia) decline at the same time.

With over 125 studies now published in peer-reviewed journals, Clinical EFT is one of the most-researched treatment methods in the field of psychology. The review paper found it to be a stable and mature method with an extensive evidence base, capable of being used in primary care settings as a safe, rapid, reliable, and effective treatment for both psychological and medical diagnoses.

What you likely don’t know is that you have another superpower and it can be demonstrated with water.

Your first superpower, changing molecules inside your body, is obvious to you. Think a stressful thought and you magically create molecules such as cortisol and adrenaline. Think more stressful thoughts, and think them regularly, and you create the neural pathways of stress in your brain. 

Meditate, pray, love, act kindly, and feel compassion and the process goes into reverse. You increase the mass of those parts of your brain, and within three weeks, the stress pathways begin to degrade. It’s easy to see how we’re changing molecules inside our bodies.

Growth MindsetWhat’s harder to perceive, but equally true, is that our consciousness is able to change certain molecules outside our bodies. Scientists have been demonstrating this with water for over 50 years.

Starting in the 1960s, a pioneering researcher at McGill University named Bernard Grad examined the effects of intention and energy using water. He took a sample of water and placed it in two identical containers. One was blessed by an energy healer and the other was not. He then took barley seeds and watered one batch with blessed water and the other with the unblessed water. 

The frequency of sound passed through a Chladni plate produces different patterns—from the top left, 305 Hz, 5065 Hz, 2076 Hz, and 2277 Hz.

More of the seeds watered with the blessed water germinated. Those plants grew taller, with higher-quality leaves and more chlorophyll (Grad, 1963).

Later experiments measured the molecular quality of the water molecules themselves. Normally, the bond angle between the oxygen atom and the two hydrogen atoms is 104.5°. But after being treated by Therapeutic Touch energy healers, the bonding angle decreased (Schwartz et al., 2015).

There are many other studies showing the effects of energy on matter. There’s a whole field of science called Cymatics, which looks at the effect of sound on molecules. An easy way to visualize this is using an instrument called a Chladni plate. It’s a metal plate with powder scattered on top. When different sound frequencies are played through the plate, the powder molecules organize themselves in different patterns. 

You might have thought before reading this post that your negative thoughts hurt only you, but now you know that your superpower enables you to change the molecular structure of objects and living things merely by your attitude toward them. Think about that as you move through your day and send plants and people kind thoughts. You also might want to bless your water before you drink it!

References

Grad, B. (1963). A telekinetic effect on plant growth. International Journal of Parapsychology, 5(2), 117-133.

Schwartz, S. A., De Mattei, R. J., Brame, E. G., & Spottiswoode, S. J. P. (2015). Infrared spectra alteration in water proximate to the palms of therapeutic practitioners. Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, 11(2), 143-155.

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