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Leonard Eeman and His Biocircuits

The Man

Leon Ernst Eeman, a Harley Street medical practitioner, demonstrated in the 1920s
that there were differences in electrical potentials (polarity) between various
locations on the body. His therapeutic genius was to conclude that if there are
polarities of electrical potential, then it should be possible to form circuits between
those polarities in a single individual or in groups of people to create therapeutic
effects.

Eeman was invalided-out from army service

following World War I, "100 percent disabled"
after a plane crash.

"I was in such pain and felt so ill that I couldn't live
much longer."

He was in acute pain that drugs didn’t touch. His

head and spine, more or less continuously
tormented him, leading to total exhaustion and
"unbearable insomnia". Given "the failure of
allopathic medicine"; he decided that recovery
would be completely in his own hands. While in
the hospital, he read everything he could get his
hands on. Of course, the first thing they gave him
to read was?... a Bible.

He considered why Jesus placed such emphasis on the “laying of hands”. The word
was “hands” and not “hand” – why both? Further reading in science pointed to the
human body being a conductor of electricity. He considered why children tended to
heal more quickly than adults. He considered that many healing processes occurred
during sleep.

His contemplations led him to the hypothesis that the human body was a “bipolar
organism” and that the “life energies” had aspects that were both electrical and
magnetic but that these energies "[were] not gross muscular energy, but the energy
of the life force itself" – that there was a synthesis of forces, which we call “life
energies”.

He thought that when disturbances of these energies occur; we tend to become ill.
He eventually came to believe that humans radiate energy, and that this energy
accumulates in the body, in the muscles and at various specific locations. When these
locations are linked to create a “circuit”; the life energies flow more readily and
health is enhanced.
When he created his first “biocircuits” from copper mesh screen; he found that
creating a circuit with them produced the same kinds of effect "as those that occur
when the hands and feet are instinctively linked – warmth, relaxation, and increased
energy." Eeman spent hours every day in one of his biocircuits. After two years, he
had not only healed himself and banished all pain but felt healthier than he had at any
time in his life. He created and patented a “bio-circuit device” in 1922 and used it in
his Harley Street practice for the rest of his life, continuing to develop and
experiment with it up until his death in 1958. The device is very simple and made up
of copper mesh screens, copper wire and conductive handles. There were no
reported no side effects with the device and its results were benign.

Research

Research has been conducted on the “Eeman Effect” – Julian Isaacs, Ph.D, of John F.
Kennedy University, performed double-blind studies that confirmed the devices'
ability to promote relaxation. In the summary report, Isaacs stated: "The results
obtained were surprisingly strong and consistent, despite the author's initial scepticism
regarding biocircuits. The fundamental conclusion which is strongly indicated by the overall
results of this study is that relaxation biocircuits do relax their users significantly more than
could be achieved by unassisted relaxation, all other factors being held constant."

Joseph Heller, a pioneer in bodywork, promoted the use of Eeman’s biocircuits,

Professor George Fritz, a leading researcher in biofeedback, used them regularly in
his clinics, and their use is slowly beginning to enter the “mainstream alternative”
health world.

Eeman’s Insight

Although Eeman’s books and papers deal with “bio-circuits” and the results of his
research; the real essence of his work (and his key insights) regard how patterns of
reaction to thinking and feeling are “stored” or held in the skeletal-musculature and
how this affects our happy functioning on an on-going basis. He lived and worked
during the early years of psychoanalysis’ ascendancy and so he “couched” his own
work in pseudo-psychoanalytic attire. I believe it was his genuflection to a faulty but
then respectable theoretical context that led to his work being ignored for so long.
But his insights, when we extract them from the psychoanalytic context, can be
highly valuable for us today. His praxis and emphasis on what he called “mycognosis”
(knowing through the muscles) and his simple method, can provide swift and
immediate relief for those of us attempting to live in the insane and unconsidered
way we do today.

Eeman theorized that thoughts, and the feeling reactions we have to those thoughts,
do not happen in some abstract space called mind but, rather as they “pass through”,
the body engages, usually in the form of stresses of one kind or another.
The body is reacting, unconsciously, in defence against what is perceived to be
threatening, usually by setting up tensions of one kind or another in the musculature,
the so-called “Startle Response” being the archetype. Over time these tensions,
however small, become habituated – amplified and fixed; thus conditioning and
habituating the body-mind to specifically defensive postures, in reaction to
progressively more generalised stimulus. Thus, our stress “fuse” gets shorter and we
are more ready to snap at others “for provoking us”.

If it were merely a matter of a bit of stiffness or soreness; it would not be that grave
a matter but Eeman suggested that these patterns of defence through fixation, lead
us to favour the stressful reactions (defences) that we have fixated upon. In other
words, we have practiced a form of reactive defence and so the body brings it
forward on more and more occasions.

Our unconsciously habituated stress responses become the foundation for how we
move through the world. We experience less freedom of response; while the world
seems to be more and more aggravating. In fact, we have made ourselves more
aggravate-able.

But, beyond this, the greater stresses we experience as part of life – those which
produce shock as a reaction (e.g. accidents, insults, marital strife, being fired, grief,
etc.) – have a very powerful fixating effect. According to Eeman, it is micro-muscular
fixation from events connected with shock-reactions that cathartic therapies were
looking to release. Eeman favoured catharsis as a healing method as it was du jour
and seemed to be dramatic in effect (thus creating a “convincer” for patients that
something therapeutic had occurred).

We now know today that catharsis is unnecessary and sometimes can be counter-
productive. The methods we will be using during the retreat are non-cathartic but
produce the same results – there’s no point in yelling and screaming, as most people
are self-dramatising (drama kings and queens) these days anyway…

The Eeman Biocircuit places the body into its own self-correcting, regenerative state
where tensions and stresses can be discharged with minimum of drama. After you
acclimate to the method, the experience is relaxing and refreshing.

The experience is different each time. If one is stressed out; sleep is sometimes the
first effect. When stresses have been reduced; a pleasant half sleep is experienced.
With practice; a unique state of “conscious trance” (100% aware, 100% relaxed,
100% at peace) may be experienced. It’s just what the bodily condition should be
when we are not being insane psycho-chimps, running around “living”…

[…]
References

‘Biocircuits: Amazing New Tools for Energy Health’

By Leslie Patten with Terry Patten

‘Technique of Conscious Evolution’

By L E Eeman

‘Co-operative Healing’
By L. E. Eeman

‘The L. E. Eeman Report—The Pioneering Years of Biocircuitry’

By Tom Brown (Borderlands Science)