(as seen in Eden Magazine, July 2017)
Could whole body vibration improve your love life? Sounds like a pick-up line . . . but maybe so.
Attraction is a combination of many factors: physical appeal, emotional openness, and sexual energy, to name a few. And whole body vibration (WBV), a revolutionary exercise and therapy system, effects all of those areas through a variety of mechanisms.
WBV is an intense workout, which we all know is good for both our health and our looks. Ten minutes of exercising on a powerful WBV platform gives you the benefits of one hour of conventional weight lifting. This intense workout effect is hard to believe until you try a session yourself—then you understand as your muscles begin to burn after just one minute. For a quick visual think of a jackhammer operator and the muscles they develop in their arms and shoulders. WBV is gentler and much more pleasant (many people say it feels like a massage), but if you do ten one minute exercises, each one targeting different muscle groups, in ten minutes you will have done a full body workout.
Just as important though are the effects on your brain and your electromagnetic energy system. When you are on a vibrating plate every neuron in your body will be firing signals into your brain at the same rate the plate is vibrating—twenty to fifty times per second. This intense stimulation of your brain raises serotonin levels rapidly—and serotonin has a major anti-depressant effect. It is, in fact, the molecule that most Western medicine antidepressant drugs target. So, suddenly you are in a better mood. You are more cheerful, optimistic, self-confident, and motivated—all very helpful for romance and social interactions of all kinds.
Add to this that testosterone levels rise with WBV1 and you might be on your way to creating a dating phenom! Susan Rako, MD, a psychiatrist, wrote a groundbreaking book in 1996 (still considered an authoritative resource) called The Hormone of Desire: The Truth about Testosterone, Sexuality, and Menopause. In it she describes her experience, and the research, that has shown that testosterone levels affect libido (meaning one’s “life force,” not just sexual drive) for both men and women. In Dr. Rako’s words, testosterone is “essential . . . to the healthy functioning of virtually all tissues in [a woman’s] body, and to her experience of vital energy and sexual libido.”2 Typical high-testosterone effects include focused motivation, assertiveness, a sense of power, and enhanced sex drive. Healthy levels of testosterone help women take risks and live their lives with exuberance.
And then there is the effect of WBV on your chakras and energy meridians. On the physical level, WBV stimulates electromagnetic energy through a physical property of crystals called piezoelectricity—the ability of crystals to turn mechanical vibration into electrical vibration. Our bodies are living liquid crystals in the sense that we are highly organized molecular structures and, as such, we have the property of piezoelectricity. Dr. Norm Shealy, MD, PhD, and a world famous neurosurgeon, describes our “bodies, souls, minds, and emotional realm” as a “living matrix” with the property of piezoelectricity.3 “Waves of mechanical vibration moving through the living matrix produce electrical fields and vice versa . . . . Connective tissue is a liquid crystalline semiconductor. Piezoelectric signals from the cells can travel throughout the body in this medium.”4 The result is that “energetic treatment of one part of this living matrix always affects the whole.”5
Thus, every time you are on a vibration plate, your neurons fire, shooting electromagnetic energy through your body and brain, as your body turns the mechanical vibration into the electrical energy vibrations you need to heal, balance, and unblock your energy systems. Energy will flow into and through your energy meridians and chakra energy centers, increasing their proper spinning and energy flow. This energy flows from the plate upwards through your chakras, and all that energy flows through your Kundalini chakra first—the seat of your sexual energy—giving you a blast of sexual energy every time you vibrate. This may account for some of the more immediate and remarkable effects anecdotally reported.
In my fifteen years of using and promoting WBV I have heard many stories of success in this particular area. My favorite involves a middle-aged woman who came to me twice a week for three weeks. She was primarily interested in losing weight and increasing bone density. WBV was originally developed for Olympic athletes, and so the workout effect is what WBV is most famous for. Her husband was skeptical however; “You think you are going to lose weight and increase bone density just by standing on that machine!” Three weeks later, my client came to me, “I think those hormonal affects you were talking about might be kicking in, she said, now my husband says, ‘Buy one.’”
1 C. Bosco, et al., “Hormonal Responses to Whole-Body Vibration in Men,” European Journal of Applied Physiology 81 (2000): 449–454.
2 Susan Rako, MD. The Hormone of Desire: The Truth about Testosterone, Sexuality, and Menopause, (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1996), 25.
3 Norman Shealy, MD, PhD. Soul Medicine (Santa Rosa, CA: Elite Books, 2006), 212.
4 Ibid, 213.
5 Ibid, 212.
