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just by listening to it. Your energy field is not sealed off with solid boundaries; it will always interact with the energy fields around you.
    THE MYSTERY OF THE BOND BETWEEN US—AND BETWEEN OUR CELLS
    Lynn McTaggart, a science writer and author of The Intention Experiment and The Bond, points out that we’re constantly communicating with the field outside of us and experiencing what she calls “the bond.” As she writes,
    Between the smallest particles of our being, between our body and our environment, between ourselves and all of the people with whom we are in contact, between every member of every societal cluster, there is as Bond, a connection so integral and profound that there is no longer a clear demarcation between the end of one thing and the start of another. The world essentially operates, not through the activity of individual things, but in the connection between them—in a sense, in the space between things [ The Bond ].
    What else is in this space between things? What’s in the dark matter that we find between the stars, planets, and comets? What information is exchanged between me and you, between one starling and another as they fly in unison? What information is exchanged between our cells? Cellular biologist Bruce Lipton upended the world of biology when he discovered that the brains of the cell—the seat of its intelligence—is not in its nucleus, safely ensconced deep inside that cell, but in its membrane, the part of the cell that interacts with everything outside of it. Is it communicating with “the bond,” the space between it and the next cell? Is there a vast network of messages being communicated between cells, just as invisible as radio waves when you look into the sky and see nothing moving from transmitter to receiver?
    What happens in the space between you and me when one of us creates loving, supportive thoughts and imagines sending them to the other? Researchers at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, in Petaluma, California, conducted an experiment in which they had one member of a couple send loving, healing thoughts to the other, who was in another room, with instruments measuring the response. The recipient experienced changes in heart waves, brain waves, breathing, and blood flow. What’s more, another experiment showed that when two people were in separate rooms with their eyes closed, and one was exposed to a flashing light, the other person’s brain responded as if it had seen the light, too.
    Is this what happens when birds, flocking together, suddenly shift direction simultaneously, then shift back, and back again, in perfect synchronization? The scientists may have theories, but they really don’t understand how the birds are communicating with each other instantly, as if they’re of one mind. Maybe we are all of one mind and just don’t realize it! If this is true, then our bodies are responding to a lot more than just our own, personal anger or sadness.
    As we’re talking about the body’s response to emotions, we should also consider the role of thoughts and beliefs. Clearly, thoughts and beliefs can exacerbate emotions, but do they create emotions? Or, do we have the emotions and then make sense of them by creating thoughts and beliefs? Or, perhaps there is no real line separating them the two. ( I’m furious. Well, no wonder. He just insulted me .) For people who feel too much, emotions and thoughts are always intertwined.
    Obviously, our beliefs can affect our emotions as well. ( He thinks she’s better than I am! Boy, that burns me up! ) Our emotions and others’ emotions affect our bodies, and so do our personal beliefs—and the beliefs of those around us that we’ve come to internalize. It seems we feel long before we understand what’s going on. Our limbic brains experience fear before our prefrontal cortexes can make sense of it all, using words ( Oh, I get what’s happening.