Introduction

Frequency, very simply, is cycles per second and is usually measured in hertz. Anything periodic has a frequency that can be measured in Hertz (Hz). For example, the frequency of the second hand on your watch is 1 cycle (or full revolution) per 60 seconds or 1/60 Hz.

PEMF stands for pulsed electromagnetic fields, so we will focus our discussion on frequency as its related to electromagnetic waves.

The entire electromagnetic spectrum includes frequencies ranging from very low (long radio waves) to very high (gamma or cosmic rays).

The Sun is a source of a most of the electromagnetic rays we experience on a daily basis which is mostly from the infrared through the visible to the ultraviolet end of the spectrum.

The earth itself emits a predominantly infrared wave due to its hot core and also partly a re-radiation of the suns energy it absorbs.

As humans we need full spectrum light on a daily basis (ideally) or over time we develop something called seasonal affective disorder.

But what I want to discuss is the fundamental frequencies of the earth's magnetic field and exactly what those frequencies are and which are not only good for our health, but absolutely essential. These frequencies are distinctly different from other frequencies in the elecromagnetic spectrum because they are based on the Earth and the Earth's Ionosphere's resonant frequencies.

We will also explore further studies Adey and Zimmerman that confirm that the Earth's natural resonant frequencies are the most healing and actually essential for the human organsm.

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The Schumann Resonance Frequencies (7.83 Hz)

Just as a tuning fork has resonant frequencies for sound, so the planet earth and the ionsphere surrounding it has resonance frequencies for electromagetic radiation called the Schumann Resonances. Basically the ionsphere with the Earth's surface creates a spherical wave-guide that surrounds the earth. Low frequency electromagnetic waves bounce around this waveguide which is how radio signals can be transmitted around the globe.

The fundamental frequency of this spherical cavity of the earth is 7.83 hertz which, like a tuning fork, is the earth's fundamental "note".

These frequencies are are excited mainly by lightning strikes but can also be induced by solar flares.

The Human brain also has natural frequencies for electromagnetic radiation. It turns out the Earth's Schumann resonances are "in tune" with the brain's Alpha and Theta states (relaxation and deep relaxation). Neurobiology researchers O'Keefe and Nadel further showed that the hippocampus of the brain is tuned to 7.83 Hz.

Also, Michael A. Persinger on behalf of NASA found a solution for cosmonauts. The first manned space flights created considerable physiological problems for astronauts, and it was only through the installation of Schumann wave generators (7.83 Hz) that the side effects were remedied.

It's important to note that although the fundamental (and most dominate) frequency of the Schumann resonance is 7.83, there are higher harmonics just like a piano has varying octaves of "C". These higher octaves also have healing effects because they are in "harmony" with 7.83.

The Frequencies of the Earth's Magnetic Field (11.75 and 11.79 Hz).

Klaus Piontzik in his book "The Lattice Structure of the Earth's Magnetic Fields" lays out a derivation of the fundamental frequency of the earth's magnetic grid.

This frequency was found to be 11.79 Hz at the poles and 11.75 Hz at the equator. The difference coming from the fact that the Earth "bulges" at the equator due to centrfugal forces of its rotation.

Interestingly, this fundamental frequency is exactly 3/2 of the Schumann frequency.

So the earths magnetic field itself has a fundamental frequency and that frequency is 11.79 Hz (polar) and 11.75 (equatorial).

And like the Schumann frequency, this frequency also contains higher harmonics.

Frequency of the Rain Forest (Approximately ~12 Hz)

The Adey Window of Biological Frequencies (3-25 Hz)

From the mid-70s accounted for WR Adey and SM Bawin experiments with brain tissues of chickens and cats. They irradiated the tissue with modulated VHF fields.

(see "Effects of modulated VHF fields on the central nervous system" in "Ann NY Acad Sci 247" in 1975 by Bawin, Kaczmarek and Adey / "Sensitivity of calcium binding in cerebral tissue to weak environ-mental electric fields oscillating at low frequency" 1976 in "Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 73" by Adey and Bawin / "Ionic factors in release of 45Ca2 + from chicken cerebral tissue by electromagnetic fields" in "Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 75" 1978 by Bawin, Adey and Sabbot / "Models of long-range order in cerebral Macromolecules: Effects of sub-ELF and of modulated VHF and UHF fields" in 1979 with "Radio Sci 14" by Sheppard, Bawin and Adey / "Frequency and power windowing in tissue interactions with weak electromagnetic fields "in 1980 in" Proc. IEEE 68 "by Adey /" Tissue interactions with non-ionizing electromagnetic fields "in 1981" Physiol. Rev. 61 "by Adey /" Effects of weak amplitude-modulated microwave fields on calcium efflux from awake cat cerebral cortex "in Bioelectromagnetics 3" in 1982 by Adey, Bawin and Lawrence)

In their investigation, adey and bawin found a range of frequencies and intensities in which treated cells responded. Outside these areas, however, made no or only minimal response. The experimentally determined frequency will now be described Adey window.

The Adey window corresponds very closely to the fundamental and first couple harmonics of the earth's naturally occurring frequencies.

This range (the Adey or "biological window") is roughly 3 - 25 Hz 

Frequencies Emitted by Energy Healers (.3 - 30 Hz)

In the early 1980’s, Dr. John Zimmerman began a series of important studies on therapeutic touch, using a SQUID magnetometer at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver. Zimmerman discovered that a huge pulsating biomagnetic field emanated from the hands of a TT practitioner.

The frequency of the pulsations is not steady, but "sweeps" up and down, from 0.3 to 30 Hz (cycles per second), with most of the activity in the range of 7-8 Hz (Figure 2).

The biomagnetic pulsations from the hands are in the same frequency range as brain waves and scientific studies of the frequencies necessary for healing indicate that they naturally sweep back and forth through the full range of therapeutic frequencies, thus being able to stimulate healing in any part of the body.

Confirmation of Zimmerman’s findings came in 1992, when Seto and colleagues, in Japan, studied practitioners of various martial arts and other healing methods. The "Qi emission" from the hands is so strong that they can be detected with a simple magnetometer consisting of two coils, of 80,000 turns of wire. Since then, a number of studies of QiGong practitioners have extended these investigations to the sound, light, and thermal fields emitted by healers. What is particularly interesting is that the pulsation frequency varies from moment to moment. Moreover, medical researchers developing pulsating magnetic field therapies are finding that these same frequencies are effective for ‘ jump starting’ healing in a variety of soft and hard tissues, even in patients unhealed for as long as 40 years. Specific frequencies stimulate the growth of nerves, bones, skin, capillaries, and ligaments. Of course Reiki practitioners and their patients have daily experiences of the healing process being "jump started," and academic medicine is now beginning to accept this therapy as logical and beneficial because of these new scientific findings. In Figure 2 we have bracketed portions of the signal that correspond to the frequencies used in medical devices that stimulate the healing of particular tissues. Individual differences in energy projection and detection. 

So What are the Best Frequencies for Human Health?

Not to sound like a broken record, but the best frequencies for the human body are those naturally occurring on our dear planet earth.

There is abundance evidence that the TWO predominate earth based resonant frequencies are 7.83 Hz and 11.75 Hz (or 11.79 HZ) and their higher harmonics.

Further evidence is that the human brain state frequencies correspond to these frequencies (see next section) including the hippocampus.

Also of note is that both the U.S. (NASA) and Russian space program use 7.83 (Schumann generators) in the space suits and space stations to prevent serious illness.

Adey and Bawin showed very conclusively that cells respond to roughly 3-25 Hz and any frequencies outside this range have little or no effect.

Finally, Zimmerman in his study of energy healers found a magnetic frequency between .3 and 30 Hz validated Adey's research and soldifying the argument that the earth's natural frequencies are the most beneficial and actually the only absorbed and useful pulsating magnetic frequencies for the human organism.

Only two machines I evaluated had frequencies exclusively in this biological window.

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