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Even our DNA pulses with electricity that emits magnetic fields and helps create a vast network of light made of interactive, internally generated fields that also react to external energy fields. All aspects of the self, which is really a set of oscillating fields, creates and responds to memory, consciousness, and ultimately, the universe, and of course, to measurable vibrations, such as mechanical waves, electrical signals, electrical, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields, as well as heat and light. 9 Whether you are aware of it or not, every time you touch a client, you are working bioelectrically. Every time you think about, talk to, or dream with a client, you are interacting with their measurable and immeasurable energetic fields, and therefore are performing bioelectric medicine. How can you improve your ability to shift the energetic fields and, in turn, support the body's most natural processes—especially when everything you do can create change? I propose using an adaptation of an age-old shamanic tool called the assemblage point. Various shamans or priest-healers have, throughout history, theorized the existence of an assemblage point. 10 There are many types of assemblage points, but the basic notion is of a single area within the subtle energetic body where all properties of the self converge and create coherency. It's usually perceived as being located in the external energetic field near the chest—but remember, it's a focal point for internal and external energies. 11 Coherency is a unified state. It's what we want for our clients. When their body, mind, and soul are coherent, all systems are go. Every aspect of the person is better able to cope with stress, recover from trauma, make effective decisions, find pain relief, and experience well-being. Ideally, you could perceive, touch, stimulate, or focus on the assemblage 104 m a s s a g e & b o d y w o r k s e p t e m b e r / o c t o b e r 2 0 1 5 point and help rebalance a client's entire system, calling for coherency instead of disharmony. You could also work with the assemblage point to safely perform bioelectric medicine without a machine. The stationary assemblage point is usually found in the front and back of the chest area. This is a particularly awkward position for a bodyworker, or even for myself, an intuitive and hands-on healer. I have found that working directly on the center of the sternum or holding the hands a couple of inches above it will accomplish the same goals as working farther away. Likewise, touching or operating just over the comparable area on the back will balance the backside energies. Using the heart area as the center of the energetic and therefore physical body is commonplace among energy practitioners. Hundreds of studies, many of them conducted at the HeartMath Institute, prove the heart is the strongest electromagnetic organ in the body, creating a field that emanates up to 10 feet away. It is also the key center for composing coherency in all levels of our being. 12 The heart chakra, a subtle energy center, merges energy from all the lower chakras or subtle energy bodies and higher chakras to serve as the center of the subtle energy anatomy. It includes an anchor point, which literally anchors the assemblage point into the heart core. And in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the heart meridian (meridians being channels of subtle energy that flow through the body) is the most electrical meridian in the body. 13 The heart area is legitimately the best place to gather energy and effect bioelectrical change. I focus on the sternum because in TCM, the sternum represents all our life experiences and the expression of our heart. 14 It is also the center of the anchor point and the most approachable way to balance the electrical energy. USING BIOELECTRICAL TECHNIQUES How do you best work with this sternum point for bioelectrical balancing? First, locate the center of the sternum on a client and the comparable area on their back. You'll find this on-the-body assemblage point equidistant between the top and the bottom of the sternum in the center of the chest. I include the xiphoid process in this formula, which puts the center in the middle of the sternum body and below the sternal angle. This is approximately between the