The Physics of Energy Medicine: How the Body Responds to Motion, Coherence, and Information — Even Across the World
Non-member post. For educational purposes only. Published Dec 15, 2025.
This article is for analytically minded people who want to understand the science behind why energy work produces real results - including how sessions can be effective remotely, even via email. This article bridges scientific research with energy medicine practice for those seeking to understand why this work produces results - including remotely. While all research cited is peer-reviewed, this is written from a practitioner's perspective, not by a physicist or medical doctor. Interpretations aim for accessibility and practical understanding rather than strict academic convention. Energy work complements but does not replace medical care.
Life Is Movement
Here's something simple but profound: life is movement. As temperature drops toward absolute zero (−273.15°C or 0 Kelvin), energy can no longer move or flow in useful ways. Nothing can change, react, or do work. And without movement or change, life cannot exist. [1]
But above that temperature, everything moves. Your heart beats. Your blood flows. Your lungs breathe. Your brain sends signals. Even at the smallest level inside your cells, molecules are constantly moving, creating rhythms and patterns that keep you alive.
This movement isn’t random chaos. It’s highly organized - more like a symphony than noise. When that organization is disrupted by stress, trauma, illness, or prolonged tension, the body doesn’t function as smoothly. You may experience this as pain, brain fog, fatigue, or a feeling of being “stuck.”
Energy work supports the body in restoring this organization. It isn’t magic or forceful intervention - it works by supporting the natural rhythms and communication systems your body already uses to regulate, adapt, and heal.
Your Body Is Already an Energy System
You don't need to believe in "energy healing" to understand that your body runs on energy. That's just biology.
Your heart creates an electromagnetic field you can measure several feet away from your body. Research from the HeartMath Institute has shown that the heart's electromagnetic field can be detected up to 3 feet away using sensitive magnetometers (SQUID-based sensors).[2] Your brain runs on electrical signals - that's what an electroencephalogram (EEG) measures. Your nervous system is literally electrical wiring, conducting signals at speeds up to 120 meters per second.[3]
Even your cells communicate using biophotons - ultra-weak light emissions that allow cell-to-cell communication. This was first discovered by German biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp in the 1970s and has been confirmed by numerous studies since.[4]
This isn't woo-woo. This is measurable, mainstream science.
What energy work does is interact with these existing systems. It helps restore what scientists call coherence - which just means getting all your systems back in sync with each other, like tuning an instrument or getting an orchestra back on beat.
When your systems are coherent and in rhythm, everything works better. Your nervous system regulates more easily. Your body heals faster. Your mind feels clearer. You sleep better. You handle stress more effectively.
What Happens When You Get Stuck
Think about what happens when you're under chronic stress, carrying old trauma, or holding tension in your body for months or years.
Your nervous system gets stuck in overdrive - what researchers call sympathetic dominance, where your fight-or-flight response stays activated even when there's no immediate threat.[5] We see this a lot with clients of Birch Cove. Your muscles and fascia (the connective tissue wrapping everything in your body) tighten up and lose their flexibility. Research has shown that fascia is densely innervated with mechanoreceptors and responds to both mechanical and emotional stress, creating restrictions that affect whole-body movement patterns.[6]
The communication between different parts of your body gets garbled or blocked. Your heart rate variability (HRV) - the variation in time between heartbeats - decreases. This is significant because HRV is one of the most reliable biomarkers of nervous system health and stress resilience. Lower HRV is associated with chronic stress, anxiety, depression, and increased risk of cardiovascular disease.[7]
You might experience this as:
Chronic pain that won't resolve no matter what you try
Feeling wired and tired at the same time
Brain fog or difficulty concentrating
Emotional reactions that feel out of proportion
Sleep problems
That feeling of being "stuck" even when you're actively working on yourself
None of this means your body is broken. It means your body has lost its natural rhythm and coherence. The individual parts still work - but they're out of sync with each other.
This is where energy work comes in.
How Energy Work Restores Coherence
Energy work introduces organized, coherent patterns that your body can recognize and respond to.
Think of it like this: if your body's rhythms are like an orchestra that's gotten out of sync, energy work is like a skilled conductor coming in and helping everyone find the beat again. The musicians (your cells, organs, nervous system) haven't forgotten how to play - they just need help getting back in rhythm together.
When working with a certified practitioner like Sarah at Birch Cove, she creates a coherent pattern - through focused intention, specific techniques (Emotion Code, Body Code, and Belief Code), and her own regulated nervous system state - that your body can entrain to. Entrainment is a physics phenomenon discovered by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens in 1665, where oscillating systems synchronize their rhythms when in proximity or connection.[8] You experience this all the time - when you tap your foot to music without thinking about it, that's entrainment.
Your body is incredibly intelligent. When it perceives a coherent pattern, it naturally begins to align with it. This happens because:
Your body is already designed to seek coherence and balance (homeostasis)
Your nervous system is constantly scanning for safety and organization through a process called neuroception, identified by Dr. Stephen Porges in his Polyvagal Theory [9]
Your cells and tissues are responsive to organized information through mechanisms including mechanotransduction (how cells sense and respond to mechanical forces)[10]
You don't have to make anything happen. You just have to be open and allow your body to do what it already knows how to do.
Why Remote Sessions Work Just as Well
This is where people often get confused: "How can this possibly work when we're not in the same room?"
Here's the key: energy work is information-based, not force-based.
The practitioner isn't trying to push energy at you across space like throwing a ball. Instead, they're creating a coherent informational pattern, and your body - because it's an energetic system that's constantly sending and receiving signals - can perceive and respond to that pattern.
Your body already does this all the time. Your heart's electromagnetic field extends several feet beyond your body. Your nervous system generates its own electromagnetic field. These aren't metaphors - they're measurable with scientific instruments like magnetoencephalography (MEG) and magnetocardiography (MCG).[11]
The biofield - the field of energy and information that surrounds and interpenetrates the human body - has been the subject of increasing scientific investigation. A 2015 report published in Global Advances in Health and Medicine reviewed the scientific basis of biofield therapies and concluded that multiple physiologic pathways are affected by biofield interactions, including electromagnetic signaling, biophoton emission, and quantum-level processes.[12]
When you book a remote session with Sarah at Birch Cove:
You give permission and open yourself to the session (this matters - consent and receptivity are crucial)
Sarah creates a highly coherent state and focused intention
Your body, which is already an information-sensitive system, perceives that coherent pattern
Your system naturally begins to align with it, through what physicists call non-local interactions
Non-locality is a well-established principle in quantum physics, demonstrated most famously through quantum entanglement - where particles remain connected and influence each other regardless of distance.[13] While human bodies are vastly more complex than individual particles, research in quantum biology suggests that similar principles may operate in living systems, particularly in processes involving consciousness and intention.[14]
Research on distant healing has shown measurable physiological effects. A meta-analysis published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine found that distant healing intentions were associated with small but statistically significant effects on recipient wellbeing.[15] Studies using electroencephalography (EEG) have demonstrated correlated brain activity between healers and distant recipients during healing sessions.[16]
You experience this as real, physical changes: tension releasing, breath deepening, emotions shifting, pain patterns changing, energy returning. These aren't imagined - they're your body responding to coherent information and reorganizing itself.
What You Might Notice During and After Sessions
During sessions at Birch Cove - whether in person or remote - many clients experience:
Physical sensations: warmth, tingling, pulsing, or waves of energy
Tension releasing in specific areas
Emotions surfacing and releasing
Breath naturally deepening
A sense of heaviness (deep relaxation) or lightness
Sudden insights or memories coming up
Sometimes nothing obvious - and then noticing changes hours or days later
After sessions, the effects continue to unfold:
Movement patterns that were stuck become easier
Pain that's been chronic starts to shift
Sleep improves (research shows energy therapies can improve sleep quality and reduce insomnia)[17]
Mental clarity returns
Emotional reactions become more proportionate
You feel more "like yourself"
Things that felt overwhelming become manageable
Here's what's important to understand: one session can create a shift, but lasting change requires reinforcement.
Why Ongoing Sessions Matter
Think of it this way: if your body has been stuck in certain patterns for months, years, or even decades, one session might give you relief and show you what's possible - but your system will tend to drift back toward familiar patterns unless you reinforce the new coherence.
This is consistent with what we know about neuroplasticity - the brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections. Dr. Norman Doidge, in his groundbreaking work on neuroplasticity, emphasizes that while the brain can change, new patterns require consistent reinforcement to become stable.[18]
The same principle applies to your entire body's energetic and physiological patterns. Research on somatic memory - how the body stores trauma and stress patterns in tissues - shows that releasing these patterns often requires multiple interventions over time.[19]
It's like physical therapy. One session might loosen a tight muscle, but if you want that muscle to stay flexible and function properly, you need consistent work until the new pattern becomes the default.
Each session at Birch Cove builds on the last:
First sessions often address the most immediate, surface-level disruptions - the "loudest" issues your body wants to resolve
Subsequent sessions can go deeper, addressing underlying patterns, older trauma, and more subtle imbalances
Regular sessions help your system stabilize in its new, more coherent state until it becomes your baseline
The clients who experience the most profound, lasting transformation are those who commit to booking a series of sessions rather than one-off work. This isn't about dependence - it's about giving your body enough time and support to truly reorganize and stabilize in a healthier pattern.
Your Body Knows How to Heal
Energy work doesn't heal you - your body heals itself. It's designed to. It wants to.
What energy work does is remove the interference, clear the static, and restore the coherent patterns that allow your body's innate healing intelligence to function the way it's meant to.
Whether you're booking an in-person or remote session with Birch Cove, the mechanism is the same: introducing coherence that your body recognizes and responds to, allowing your system to return to its natural rhythm.
This is not magic. It's not belief-based. It's working with the fundamental nature of how living systems function: through motion, information, and coherence.
Your body is already an energy system. Energy balancing sessions through Birch Cove simply help it remember how to run efficiently again.
Further Reading & Research Sources
[1] Martín-Olalla, J. M. (2025). "Proof of the Nernst theorem." European Physical Journal Plus, 140, 528.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06503-w
[2] McCraty, R., Atkinson, M., Tomasino, D., & Bradley, R. T. (2009). "The coherent heart: Heart-brain interactions, psychophysiological coherence, and the emergence of system-wide order." Integral Review, 5(2), 10-115.
https://www.heartmath.org/research/research-library/basic/coherent-heart-heart-brain-interactions-psychophysiological-coherence-emergence-system-wide-order/
Full PDF: https://www.integral-review.org/documents/McCraty%20et%20al.,%20Coherent%20Heart,%20Vol.%205%20No.%202.pdf
[3] Purves, D., Augustine, G. J., Fitzpatrick, D., et al. (2001). Neuroscience (2nd edition). Sunderland (MA): Sinauer Associates. Section on nerve impulse propagation.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10799/
[4] Popp, F. A., Li, K. H., & Gu, Q. (Eds.). (1992). Recent Advances in Biophoton Research and Its Applications. World Scientific Publishing.
https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/1559
[5] McEwen, B. S. (2007). "Physiology and neurobiology of stress and adaptation: Central role of the brain." Physiological Reviews, 87(3), 873-904.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17615391/
[6] Schleip, R., Findley, T. W., Chaitow, L., & Huijing, P. A. (2012). Fascia: The Tensional Network of the Human Body. Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier.
https://www.elsevier.com/books/fascia-the-tensional-network-of-the-human-body/schleip/978-0-7020-3425-1
[7] Shaffer, F., & Ginsberg, J. P. (2017). "An overview of heart rate variability metrics and norms." Frontiers in Public Health, 5, 258.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00258/full
PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29034226/
[8] Bennett, M., Schatz, M. F., Rockwood, H., & Wiesenfeld, K. (2002). "Huygens's clocks." Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 458(2019), 563-579.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2001.0888
[9] Porges, S. W. (2011). The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation. W. W. Norton & Company.
https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Polyvagal-Theory/
Book review: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3490536/
[10] Ingber, D. E. (2006). "Cellular mechanotransduction: Putting all the pieces together again." The FASEB Journal, 20(7), 811-827.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16675838/
[11] Cohen, D. (1972). "Magnetoencephalography: Detection of the brain's electrical activity with a superconducting magnetometer." Science, 175(4022), 664-666.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5061252/
[12] Rubik, B., Muehsam, D., Hammerschlag, R., & Jain, S. (2015). "Biofield science and healing: History, terminology, and concepts." Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(Suppl), 8-14.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.7453/gahmj.2015.038.suppl
PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26665037/
Full text: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4654789/
[13] Bell, J. S. (1964). "On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen paradox." Physics Physique Fizika, 1(3), 195.
https://journals.aps.org/ppf/abstract/10.1103/PhysicsPhysiqueFizika.1.195
[14] Lambert, N., Chen, Y. N., Cheng, Y. C., Li, C. M., Chen, G. Y., & Nori, F. (2013). "Quantum biology." Nature Physics, 9(1), 10-18.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys2474
[15] Astin, J. A., Harkness, E., & Ernst, E. (2000). "The efficacy of 'distant healing': A systematic review of randomized trials." Annals of Internal Medicine, 132(11), 903-910.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10836918/
[16] Standish, L. J., Kozak, L., Johnson, L. C., & Richards, T. (2004). "Electroencephalographic evidence of correlated event-related signals between the brains of spatially and sensory isolated human subjects." The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 10(2), 307-314.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15165411/
[17] Jain, S., & Mills, P. J. (2010). "Biofield therapies: Helpful or full of hype? A best evidence synthesis." International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 17(1), 1-16.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19856109/
[18] Doidge, N. (2007). The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. Viking Press.
https://normandoidge.com/?page_id=1259
Publisher: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/291041/the-brain-that-changes-itself-by-norman-doidge-md/
[19] van der Kolk, B. A. (2014). The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Viking Press.
https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/resources/the-body-keeps-the-score
Publisher: https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748
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