The future of medicine: Understanding energy and frequencies. Based on a talk by radiologist Dr. Mitchell Abrams at the 2023 TEDxTrinityBellwoods conference.
Future medicine is frequency medicine. What did Einstein have in mind? As a physician, a radiologist, I can say that it makes perfect sense. We don’t use scalpels. We don’t prescribe prescriptions. We use a fundamental understanding of energy and physics to non-invasively “cut through” the human body like a loaf of bread, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT).
However, I only began to appreciate the deeper meaning of this insight in my first year of medical practice. I was diagnosed with a heart defect and required open-heart surgery. It turned out that I had a “big heart” – after a brief return to work, I was entrusted with the position of head of our department.
I realized very quickly that our whole system is outdated. In fact, how we study, how we define health and well-being, is too narrow. I realized that something was fundamentally missing.
A journey in search of knowledge
This pushed me down the path of deep exploration and research, into exploring how other cultures view health and well-being. I traveled to India and realized very quickly that there was a whole field of science that we don’t encounter in the West, either in the medical education model or anywhere else. The science of the mind, the science of connection, how to feel a deep connection to ourselves, to others, perhaps to something greater than ourselves. The science of consciousness.
Through my radiological experience, I realized very quickly that the philosophies and model I was experiencing and learning were deeply rooted in science, especially physics. I remember the moment of enlightenment when I thought of Einsteine: “Everything is energy.” We can all appreciate that.
When you go to the doctor, we use a cuff to measure blood pressure. An electrocardiogram measures the electrical current flowing through the heart. An electroencephalogram measures brain waves.
We are energy beings
We are beings of energy. Imagine that you are made up of about 50 trillion cells. Each cell is made of molecules, molecules are made of atoms. And atoms, my dears, are more than 99.99999% of space.
Atoms are high-energy vibrations of energy. In fact, Nikola Tesla said: “If you want to understand the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Even your thoughts are forms of energy. Our emotions are also forms of energy.
We can talk about love, but when you experience it, you know what it’s all about. That lightness, that spaciousness, that sense of inclusiveness. And when we are stressed, anxious, we feel overwhelmed, squeezed. We focus excessively on current problems. These emotions, these energies are stored in the rhythms of our heart and we can identify them through what is called heart rate variability (HRV).
Understanding heart rate variability
Heart rate variability (HRV) describes the intervals between each heartbeat, which are constantly changing. But when you feel good, when you feel love, compassion – emotions considered “energy renewing” – the heart rhythm becomes very regular and sinusoidal. The heart speeds up, then slows down, speeds up again and slows down.
In this way, we observe the balance between the two branches of the autonomic nervous system: sympathetic and parasympathetic. These rhythms from the heart go to the brain and have a profound, very important effect on its functioning. Think of moments when you are very stressed. Maybe you’re preparing for a TED talk, maybe you’re writing an exam.
The power of coherence
Then you get anxious, stressed, your head is empty. You don’t remember what you know. But imagine the moments when you are at your peak, “in the flow” of life. This is a state of coherence. When this happens, your heart rhythms synchronize with your brain waves. In physics, we call this “phase synchronization” (entrainment).
Your heart rhythm, its pattern and brain waves begin to synchronize, “lock” into one phase and reinforce each other. This is very important because it affects the areas of the brain responsible for the way you think, act, perceive information and react to your surroundings and other people.
In fact, coherence has been shown to be extremely effective in improving mental health, especially in the most vulnerable. Implementing coherence programs in high schools leads to dramatic improvements in academic performance, especially in college preparation. Studies have shown a 73% increase in math test scores when children learn to tap into their true nature, that energy.
Impact on education and health
It is not only the brain that is influenced by the heart, but the whole body. Imagine going to the philharmonic tonight. You arrive early, the musicians are tuning their instruments, everyone is playing their part. The conductor has not yet arrived. You can hear the chaos, the lack of harmony.
The moment the conductor appears, everything changes! The musicians synchronize and we hear a beautiful, coherent harmony. The body is no different from this orchestra.
The heart is that conductor, and every biological system is a musician in that wonderful symphony called you. When the heart and brain are in sync, the heart “pulls” all the other organs together. They all begin to reinforce each other, growing in strength and amplitude. Imagine that in this way you begin to vibrate in an optimal energetic state, at an ideal energy frequency.
Power of autoregulation
Now imagine that your heart rhythm, brain waves, blood pressure, breathing rhythm and even the electrical potentials of your skin all vibrate and synchronize with each other. You assume that this is the most optimal state for healing and flourishing.
Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, the father of mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy, showed in his research that psoriasis patients, when they learned to “use their mind like a muscle,” healed four times faster! Four times faster!
The study also found that on a group of more than 5,700 people, those with the highest self-regulation skills were 50 times more likely to live another 15 years without chronic disease. This is a game changer in medicine. As a physician, I am extremely excited about this.
Mind like a muscle
Harvard’s Dr. Sara Lazar has shown that the mind works like a muscle. The more you practice techniques to develop coherence, the easier it comes, and the stronger and easier the effects (relaxed state) become.
Just as muscles change their structure and appearance after a month or two of going to the gym, the brain changes its structure as well. New research shows that we have the ability to self-regulate, and with proper practice the body physically changes. Parts of the brain, such as the amygdala (amygdala), less evolutionarily developed, shrink. And the frontal cortex, more evolved, expands and thickens.
Technology in us
Realizing this capability is like discovering a technology that we all have unlimited access to at any time. Here is a graph showing a police officer in training, connected to a heart monitor. You can see that at 11:40 a.m. the policeman encounters an aggressive person, the fight or flight response is activated and the heart rate jumps to 180 beats per minute (tachycardia).
After the situation is over, the heart rate drops, but it is still around 100 beats per minute, which means it is still elevated. Trauma is not just a moment. Trauma remains in the body.
Note, however, that around 11:54 the policeman is asked to “flex his mental muscle,” to induce a state of coherence. And look what happens: the heart rate immediately returns to normal. Interestingly, the impact of the heart is not limited to improving brain function or mental health. It turns out that your energy goes far beyond your body.
Your heart is the largest source of bioenergy. An EKG is actually a measurement of the electricity flowing through the heart. Basic physics tells us that whatever conducts electricity also creates a magnetic field.
Each of us has an energy field around us with a diameter of 3-4 feet (about 1 meter). Just as the heart can synchronize the brain waves and organs inside us, it can also induce coherence in other people.
Energy interconnections
Imagine what I’m saying. It doesn’t just affect you. Your thoughts and intentions, your state of being, affect everyone around you. This diagram shows two people sitting 1.2 meters apart, both connected to heart monitors.
It is clear that when both people are asked to feel compassion and kindness, not only toward themselves but also toward the other person, their heart rhythms become coherent and synchronize.
This is of great importance in medicine. Researchers at the University of Haifa have found that when such physiological coupling (coherence) is produced, pain perception can drop by more than 50%.
Impact on medical outcomes
In fact, the Journal of the American Medical Association in a randomized controlled trial found that patients who received just one preoperative visit geared toward creating a compassionate state used half as many opioids after surgery and had a statistically significant reduction in hospitalization time and fewer postoperative complications.
Even CEOs of companies and organizations recognize this. When you provide people with the tools to self-regulate and access their peak potential, and then bring them together as a team, a very supportive, productive and cohesive environment is created. Research then shows an increase in productivity, creative problem solving and a decrease in health care costs.
Everything we would expect when everyone on the team is working at an optimal physiological and mental level. Why are our biology and energy designed in such a way that we influence each other at such a deep, subconscious level?
To understand this, let’s recall Da Vinci’s words: “Learn to see. Everything is interconnected.”
The interconnectedness of everything
Working with doctors and organizations, I suggest looking through a certain “lens.” That lens is geometry.
Note that Einstein is staring at the center of a diagram called “vector equilibrium” (vector equilibrium). This represents the 1996 Nobel Prize-winning chemistry buckyball (fullerene) discovered in 1996, representing the most energetically balanced energy system we know. This diagram symbolizes all of our Western science and technology.
The Dalai Lama, in turn, looks at the lotus flower in the background. It is an ancient symbol that has always represented the science of connection, the science of consciousness.
The rhythm of nature
Notice how the two diagrams intermingle. They occupy the same space. They share a common fundamental mathematical relationship. Now you will begin to recognize that every flower, every fruit, every leaf, all of Mother Nature dances to the same rhythm. It follows the same pattern. We call it the Fibonacci sequence, the golden ratio, sacred geometry.
Frankly, I don’t care what you call it. As a radiologist, I’m more interested in you learning to recognize it. When you start to see it in nature, you will start to see it in yourself as well.
Dance of life
As a radiologist, I teach medical students and assure them that every aspect of our physical being dances to this rhythm. Every element. This is important because from the spiral arms of the galaxy to our DNA, this frequency, this energy, this rhythm is omnipresent and connects us all.
When you superimpose this realization on the fact that we are 99.9% genetically identical, a new perspective of understanding ourselves and our relationships with each other emerges. This is crucial.
And it’s crucial not only for our mental health and well-being, but also to face what Einstein called the greatest illusion – the illusion of separation. Unfortunately, we are in a state of great confusion, not recognizing ourselves.
A new perspective on life
Realize that life can be a culture of cells in a test tube, or it can be a superorganism called man, or an even larger superorganism called Earth. Once we understand these perspectives, the sense of connection becomes tangible.
It helps us change the way we think. It’s not about “me versus you.” It’s about the fact that when we help each other, we also help ourselves. We now have free, readily available technology that can record and measure our coherence in real time with our phone, for free!
Imagine, you can measure your coherence, track your progress and measure our collective coherence. When we gather to practice together, we do it not only for our own sake, but out of love for all of humanity, because we are so strongly connected.
Call to action
I encourage you all, look on the Internet, find a friend, join a group, take the challenge, start practicing. Even if only five minutes a day. I guarantee, you don’t have to believe me or the critics. If you take five minutes and start tuning into your true nature, you will feel something. And if you persevere with the intention, I guarantee it will undoubtedly change you – you will change your biochemistry, your neurophysiology, the way you think, the way you process information, your immunity.
This is unbelievable. Thank you very much.
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