CAMPO DE ENERGIA HUMANO: CONCEPÇÕES MILENARES E CONTEMPORÂNEAS

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The practice of care based on laying on hands therapies implies the need for greater understanding of the human energy field. OBJECTIVES: To understand the concepts of the human energy field within ancient vitalist conceptions, to verify the existence of contemporary scientific explanations about the human energy field and its possible applications in care and research in the field of health. METHOD: Narrative review using dissertations and articles available in the BVS, in the Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences databases (LILACS) and in the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), personal collection books and websites of renowned researchers in the study area. RESULTS: In ancient oriental knowledge, we see that the human energy field is composed of many complex structures of subtle energies, related to physiological, mental and emotional processes of human beings. Nowadays, some authors consider the energy field as a cloud of electrons around the body and a sophisticated technology such as bioelectrography by visualization of gas discharge, is capable of performing several measures, among them, stress, amount of biological energy and chakra analysis. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: Despite the differences in conceptions, both ancient and contemporary knowledge relate the characteristics of the biofield to physical and emotional conditions and, somehow, sophisticated technology rescues traditional knowledge.