BIOENERGETIC SCANNING
How bioenergetic communication works
Similar to detecting truth and lies when hooked up to a polygraph machine, bioenergetic communication technology can determine if the body’s response to a digital signature of an actual stimulus is in range or out of range (and by how much) compared to the baseline reading. Digital signatures of specific nutritional products, for example, are posed as questions to the body, and the body responds directly via galvanic skin response. Because the computer communicates directly with the body, the subjectivity that occurs when questions are asked, perceived, and responded to (as with a polygraph test) is eliminated.
While bioenergetic technology isn’t diagnostic, it provides a wealth of information that can be used to make better wellness decisions. Focusing on the stressor Virtual Items that are out of range as well as the biologically coherent balancer, Virtual Items can greatly assist wellness professionals and their clients as they seek to better manage stress load and improve overall well-being.
Arise Wellness Center offers a variety of bioenergetic scans to suit individual needs. Basic Balancers or Basic Food scans take about 5 minutes and the Basic Wellness Scan provides insight into the body's stressors & balancers and takes about 12 minutes. The results are delivered directly to your email. These Basic scans do not include professional interpretation other than what is in your 10-18 page emailed report. If you need clarification on focus areas identified in your scan, please schedule a wellness consult appointment, or Bioenergetic Interpretation Virtual Consult. Dr. Vowell can help you better understand the results and prioritize areas of health focus.
Bioenergetic scanning is included with Wellness Consult Sessions and includes many different scans to assist with root cause issues. Bioenergetic scanning sessions analyze both organs/systems as well as foods, frequencies, emotions, herbs, and other advanced areas depending on the individual. Advanced bioenergetic scans include imprinting energetic needs into homeopathic products. SET-DB allergy sensitivity therapy scans all types of areas that may be impacting health and therapy clearings aid the body in neutralizing the sensitivity physical reaction. Our Herbal Apothecary has specialty Bioenergetic scanning to determine custom herbal products that are created just for your needs.
Wellness Insight & Informed Choices
6 Reasons Why You Should Get a BioEnergetic Scan
- Get Insight into your wellness Reports from your bioenergetic scan provide you with information that may help you make individual wellness choices. Identifying Virtual Items to which you have an unusual response may give you and your wellness professional insight to keep you functioning at an optimal state.
- Identify your biological coherence for nutrition Does one size fit all when it comes to nutritional support? Of course not! The scans identify your body’s unique responses. Knowing your biological coherence helps you and your wellness professional choose the nutritional supplements that will support your individual health and wellness needs.
- Save money There are many good nutritional supplements, but you probably don’t need them all. Knowing your biological coherence helps you to choose products that are right for you. Choosing the right supplements means your investment is more likely to pay off, providing you the benefits you need and saving money on things you don’t need
- Target specific areas From energy to weight management to longevity and more, a bioenergetic scan can assist you in whatever area of wellness you are looking to improve in. Virtual Items in the software are categorized into different wellness areas, so you can scan for only those categories that are relevant to you and your goals with the guidance of your practitioner.
- Track your wellness Bioenergetic scans give you information “in the moment.” Tracking your scans over time can be beneficial, allowing you to identify trends or long-term patterns that you will want to pay particular attention to. Keeping track of your past can help you predict the future, and reviewing your past reports gives you essentially a look back through time.
- Get peace of mind Worrying about your health or the health of a loved one can be incredibly stressful. Bioenergetic scan reports introduce a new perspective about your unique biological coherence, enabling a more complete picture of wellness. Knowing more about your individual wellness can make all the difference, giving you an added measure of peace.
Galvanic Skin Response
What Is It & What Does It Measure?
The skin is an amazing and versatile organ. It’s not only smooth and often nice to look at, but also helps to regulate many functions of the body. It acts as a barrier against environmental threats, contains nerve cells that detect changes such as temperature and pressure, can heal itself, and (ideally) keeps your body at a steady 98.6 degrees.
Yet another great thing about the skin is that it responds to changes, or stimuli, in a way that can be accurately measured via galvanic skin response. The term may sound a little geeky, but we think it’s pretty exciting, especially when we consider the amazing amount of information it can reveal about an individual.
Your skin is electric
Your skin, and much of the rest of your body for that matter, conducts electricity. If your body didn’t conduct electricity, touching a high-voltage fence or sticking a knife in an electric socket would have no effect on you. We wouldn’t be alive without electricity because body functions are controlled by electrical signals.
The skin in particular is a good conductor of electricity, so even a weak electrical signal introduced to the skin can be measured. By applying a constant, unperceived level of voltage to the skin, we can get a baseline reading of the skin’s conductance. Skin conductance (SC) is a term that’s often used interchangeably with electrodermal activity (EDA) or galvanic skin response (GSR).1
A measurable reaction
The baseline reading of skin conductance is referred to as tonic conductance. This conductance level is different for everyone, but it usually ranges from 10 to 50 very small units of conductance called microsiemens. Tonic skin conductance levels also vary based on the person’s psychological state and autonomic regulation at the time the measurement is taken.
While tonic skin conductance is a baseline measurement, phasic conductance changes are the result of the body responding to external stimuli. This increase in conductance compared to the baseline can be observed shortly after a subtle stimulus such as a smell, a sound, an image, or a question is introduced.
Phasic changes can be observed when the skin’s sweat ducts fill in response to a stimulus. After the sweat is deposited or absorbed by the skin, conductance returns to tonic levels. According to Edelberg’s widely accepted sweat circuit model, the extent of this increase can be measured by the amount of sweat and number of sweat glands activated.
Going Deeper
Why Are These Measurements Important?
So now you know more about what galvanic skin response is and how it can be measured, but why are these measurements important? To answer this question, let’s take a closer look at our autonomic nervous system.
The autonomic nervous system regulates a wide range of bodily functions, including:
- Heart rate
- Respiratory rate
- Digestion
- Waste elimination
- Fight-or-flight response
- Blood pressure
- Electrolyte balance
- Sexual response
- Body temperature
The body largely handles these and other functions automatically, hence the term “auto” before “nomic.”
The autonomic nervous system is further separated into the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems. The parasympathetic nervous system regulates “resting and digesting” as well as “feeding and breeding” processes, while the sympathetic system regulates things like blood pressure, heart rate, and galvanic skin response.
By measuring galvanic skin response (as well as other sympathetic responses), we can detect emotional arousal and even the level of arousal. This is significant because it’s information that’s gathered directly from the body. Therefore, the readings are an objective look at how we react to a given stimulus.
Because our thoughts are filtered by our conscious mind, what we think may be going on in our body may not be accurate, and we aren’t able to see the full picture. With galvanic skin response, we can bypass the filters of our conscious mind and discover what the body is really trying to tell us with a high degree of accuracy.
To Tell The Truth
Uses of Galvanic Skin Response
Perhaps the most well-known use of galvanic skin response is the lie detector test, formally known as the polygraph machine. Along with measuring heart rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure, the polygraph measures galvanic skin response as questions are asked. A polygrapher is trained and qualified to interpret the responses to the questions, but standardized questioning procedures must be followed to get an accurate reading.
Initially, the polygrapher asks questions that are obviously true or false, such as “Is your hair blonde?” to establish a baseline reading. Questions with answers unknown to the polygrapher are then asked and the readings are compared to the baseline to determine whether the subject is telling the truth.
Other uses of galvanic skin response allow us to discover how the body is really responding without our conscious filters getting in the way. Galvanic skin response is such a valuable way to observe how the body reacts to certain stimuli that it’s been utilized in a wide variety of fields for several decades. Some of the areas in which GSR technology is used include:
- Psychological research
- Psychotherapy
- Media and ad testing
- Usability testing
- Consumer neuroscience
- Health care
Stress levels correlate to GSR
We’ve established that a certain stimulus, such as an image, sound, word, or question, can trigger an emotional response that can be measured. When we look at emotional arousal based on GSR readings, we can easily observe how they correlate to levels of stress as well.
For example, a study conducted in 2005 found that among an electrocardiogram, electromyogram, skin conductance, and respiration, heart rate and skin conductance were most closely correlated to stress levels in the subjects tested. And a more recent study found that GSR sensors can be used to detect stress levels in real time.
Additional studies show the value of galvanic skin response as both an indicator of stress and predictor of performance. One study, for instance, showed that galvanic skin response can be used to predict performance in stressful situations.
Another study of note found that listening to hymns had a significant effect on GSR values. Looking at this research, we can see how monitoring GSR can not only be useful for detecting stress, but finding effective ways to manage it as well.
Managing stress for better wellness
The ability to detect stress accurately is important because it plays a significant role in our health and well-being. In fact, it is estimated that stress plays a role in 75 to 90% of human diseases.12 Since we can’t completely eliminate all our stress, the key is learning to manage it effectively and reducing it where we can.
The first step to managing stress is identifying what is stressing us or putting us out of balance. Observing galvanic skin responses can help us see what may be out of balance. This draws our attention to areas of abnormal responses.
Once we’ve discovered the areas on which to focus, the next step is to help the body handle the stressors in a more effective way.
Advances in GSR & EDS technology
While galvanic skin response was first used in the field of psychoanalysis in the early 1900s, acupuncturists began experimenting with the technology in the 1930s. In the early 1950s, the celebrated German physician Reinhold Voll developed a device that measured the electrical potential of skin by means of a stylus that was manually applied to an acupuncture point.
Dr. Voll developed an elaborate system of measuring acupuncture points for the purpose of diagnosis. After diagnosing a patient using this system, he would then test a variety of medicines until he found a combination that resulted in energetic balance to the acupuncture points.13
While Voll’s process was effective, it was also time-consuming and invasive. So in the 1980s, American scientists and engineers began computerizing his process. The computerization process involved creating a virtual representation of a medicine and then generating a signal or frequency using the virtual representation to track the effects on the body, similar to Voll’s process of moving actual medicine into the proximity of the body.
Bioenergetic ZYTO founder Dr. Vaughn Cook was one of the early pioneers of computerizing Dr. Voll’s process, which is known as electroacupuncture according to Voll (EAV). Dr. Cook created biocommunication, which further advances EAV and computerized electrodermal screening technology.
