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Walt Whitman wrote many poems about his life what he saw etc.
but the title of the one poem is absolutely correct...
I sing the body electric.
as I am not a huge Walt Whitman admirer,

here isa partial story of a woman which I will leave the url for you to read
however the story is not uplifting and it is not a story of healing
rather a story of the body being electric -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1774
or click this in case:

http://tinyurl.com/3fss7v


and her English Dr. speaks of our electric bodies: -
the article is called
A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM:

As Dr Paul Jarman, a consultant neurologist the National Hospital for Neurology in London, explains: "The individual nerve cells in the brain discharge a current of electricity along the neurons, the nerve cells which make up the central nervous system.

"These then charge the particles in each of our cells and basically transmit the orders from the brain to the muscles and internal organs."

Without this electricity, we could not function.

It is exactly the same kind of electricity which is artificially produced to run our homes - but while the amount we run on wouldn't power anything else, it can be enough to give a fellow human being the sensation of an electric shock.

This is similar to the "shock" you experience off a car door or nylon clothing - it's thought the combination of movement and suddenness of touch cause the sensation.

"Our neurons are like wires conducting electricity and we constantly feel a series of electric shock sensations, but so tiny that we generally do not register them," says Dr Jarman.

The problems come, he says, when there is inflammation or damage to the brain, such as a blow to the head or spinal cord, which then interferes with this constant flow of electrical impulses.

"It is then entirely possible that you could experience some very bizarre sensations, such as electric shocks. Multiple sclerosis victims, for example, frequently report an electric shock sensation when they bend their neck forward, because of the inflammation at the top of the spinal cord, common to the condition."

In Dawn's case, the MRI scan revealed that the worst of the inflammation was centred on the spine and base of the neck - effectively the "pathway" for the electrical impulses sent along the nerves by the brain.

Abnormality of the electrical impulses can also affect the temperature of the skin and the connective tissue - as in Dawn's case - because messages from the brain to control this are simply not getting through.

While Dawn's case is an extreme example of what can go wrong, there are a number of illnesses related to our body's electrical communication system.

And there are many doctors working in this field of medicine - so-called "energy medicine" - looking at electricity as both a cause of illness, and as a treatment.

The principles are not new - from as early as the Thirties patients with mental illness or severe depression were given electric shock treatment (ECT) in an attempt to correct this "malfunctioning" of neuron pathways (the treatment is still used in hospitals today, in severe cases which do not respond to any other form of treatment).

Even back then, it was known that the brain runs on electricity. Now, this rather crude form of the treatment is being refined, and one of the most exciting new developments is "transcranial magnetic stimulation," or TMS.