Why "I Am" Statements Are Rewiring Your Body: Eileen McKusick on Bioplasma & the Electric Age
Your words aren't just language; they're electric signals running through a biological system that responds to every "I am" statement you make about yourself. That's Eileen McKusick's framework, and this conversation takes it further than most interviews do, from the physics of what bioplasma actually is to the cosmological shift she believes will make frequency medicine the medicine of the emerging age.
This is Eileen's second visit to InnerVerse, arriving on the back of her landmark book Electric Body, Electric Health. The conversation covers why productivity guilt is an ancient program embedded deeper than we realize; why the biofield is a fractal map of your home and your clutter; how Eileen trained her brain to hold alpha brainwave states for minutes at a time through the practice of deep listening; why she believes "I am" statements carry creative force at the cellular level; the precise difference between gratitude and appreciation and why one of them actually grows like currency; what bioplasma is and how she connects the aurora borealis and the Schumann Resonance to your body's electric field; and why she reads the Aquarian age symbol as electric waves.
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Core themes
Stillness, Wildness And Cleaning The Drawers
Eileen describes a stretch after a busy spring of keynotes when she chose to stop being busy, framing it with the idea that any waveform begins in stillness. She argues we are conditioned toward guilt-driven overdoing, that we have been raised in captivity for generations and lost touch with our wildness, and that health means getting back to it. Chance draws an I Ching card, "Work on what has been spoiled," and Eileen answers with her motto, "When in doubt, clean." She casts the home as an exploded view of the biofield, so clutter mirrors undigested emotion, and says clients often go home after a tuning and clear it out.
Why The Gut Knows Better Than The Head
Eileen says that until a couple of hundred years ago the center of consciousness was never placed in the brain, and she suspects widespread literacy pulled us up out of our bodies. She prefers keeping awareness in the solar plexus, treating the organs of digestion as a council rather than a single advisor: the heart can be childlike, the brain confused, but the gut knows. She calls the fixation on the pineal gland unnecessary. Her simplest route out of the thinking mind is listening, to birds, a brook or a single tuning fork, and she says an EEG once recorded her holding alpha for four minutes at a time.
Words Are Spells And I Am Statements
Asked how to call out negative self-talk tactfully, Eileen names "I am" statements as the biggest thing, since, in her view, by our word we create our life. She once said "I'm fat, I'm broke, I'm sick" herself, and now asks people to restate "I am this" as "I have been this," which she says adds fluidity and lets the future differ. She argues we cannot berate ourselves into health any more than we could raise plants or pets that way. Chance says some people call self-loathing their only motivation, and that labels like "I have anxiety" have become a kind of social currency, especially among teenagers.
Untangling Hate And Choosing Appreciation
Eileen breaks hate into four feelings arriving together: powerlessness, anger, hurt and fear. She calls it valid but incoherent, and harmful to wellbeing if left alone. After moving to Burlington she caught herself hating cyclists, and by asking whether she was afraid, hurt or powerless she reached acceptance. Chance calls that the proper use of thinking, aimed at getting to the bottom of something. For people who insist they cannot choose how they feel, Eileen allows that some lows are genuine, then offers her favorite word, appreciation: gratitude pulls in, while appreciation extends energy outward. Chance adds that, like a house, whatever you appreciate grows in value.
The Electric Age And What Plasma Is
Asked about the turning of the ages, Eileen reads the symbol for Aquarius as electric waves and predicts medicine moving from a chemical, mechanical model toward frequency, saying sound healing went from unheard of to everywhere in her 25 years in the field. She says that while researching her master's thesis in 2010 she could barely find plasma in space in mainstream publications. Chance reads the Pisces symbol as regressive. Eileen defines plasma as the flow of electric charge, from the northern lights to lightning, and gives the definition of the biofield she says made her a renegade: the current flowing through the body plus the magnetic field around it.
Quotes
“I talk about how we've been raised in captivity for generations now, and we've lost touch with our wildness, with our essential humanness, with our own knowing.”
“If our field is an exploded view of our body, our home is an exploded view of that, that what is going on around us is going to reflect what's going on inside.”
“The heart can be very childlike. The brain goes off into the future and in the past, and sees things through filters and is very confused, but the gut knows.”
“The flow state is not something that requires thought. Like dancing is the perfect example. If you're ever actually being moved by the music, you're not thinking about the next move you're going to make.”
“We cannot abuse or punish or berate ourselves into a state of health and wellbeing. Try taking care of your plants that way and see what happens, or your pets.”
“When you say, "I am," it's so creative. But when you say, "I have been this," then it adds a fluidity to the equation that allows it to be different in the future.”
“Gratitude is like being glad for what is, but think about appreciation in a currency sense, and currency and our current are very related phenomenon as it turns out.”
“The same electricity that powers us is the same electricity that powers the sun and all the stars in the heavens.”
Eileen McKusick is the founder of Biofield Tuning, a sound-healing modality that uses tuning forks to map and clear the human energy field, and bestselling author of Tuning the Human Biofield and Electric Body, Electric Health; she has been a recurring InnerVerse guest.
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