Science Is Catching Up to What Ancient Healers Have Always Known

A Landmark Study on Biofield Therapy and What It Means for Your Healing Journey

There is a moment that happens in a Siwa Murti session that is hard to put into words. Something shifts and the body softens. Something that had been held somewhere in the tissues, in the nervous system, in places that were unconsciously bracing begins to release. Clients describe it as profound, immediate, and real.

For anyone who hasn't experienced energy healing firsthand, or who is skeptical, or who just wants to understand why this works, the science is finally starting to arrive.

In April 2026, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, one of the most respected cancer research institutions in the world, published a groundbreaking study in the peer-reviewed journal Cancer Medicine titled:

"The Preclinical Effects and Mechanisms of Biofield Therapy on Pancreatic Cancer Cell Growth and Metastasis" (Yang, Wei, Chakraborty et al., 2026 — DOI: 10.1002/cam4.71726)

Here is a summary of the study and its findings about energy healing/biofield therapy's impact.

What Is Biofield Therapy and Why Pancreatic Cancer?

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat cancers known to medicine, with a five-year survival rate of less than 13% and an average survival time of under six months from diagnosis. Conventional treatments including surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy have made only modest progress against it. Researchers at MD Anderson wanted to explore whether biofield therapy (BT), the same category of energy healing that includes Reiki, Healing Touch, and Therapeutic Touch, could do something that pharmaceutical medicine has struggled to accomplish.

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health classifies biofield therapy as an "energy therapy". It works with the subtle energy field of the human body to promote healing, balance, and restoration, which is what Siwa Murti energy healing also does.

What the Researchers Did

The research team conducted a rigorous series of laboratory and animal studies, examining the effects of biofield therapy on pancreatic cancer cells (both human and mouse cell lines), patient-derived cancer organoids, and living mouse tumor models.

To ensure the results were as credible as possible, the study included:

• Three different biofield therapists using a standardized method (the Bengston Energy Healing Method), whose results were replicated independently

• Sham control groups, where a non-therapist mimicked all physical movements of the healer to rule out the effect of simply having a person nearby

• Blinded analysis, meaning the scientists evaluating results didn't know which samples came from which group

• The study was pre-registered with the Open Science Framework before it began, a gold standard in research integrity

This wasn't a small, casual study. This was serious, methodologically rigorous science conducted at one of the world's leading cancer research centers.

What They Found: Five Remarkable Discoveries

1. Biofield Therapy Significantly Reduced Cancer Cell Growth

Across multiple human and mouse pancreatic cancer cell lines, cells exposed to just 15–30 minutes of biofield therapy showed significantly reduced proliferation compared to sham and incubator control cells. This was replicated across eleven separate experiments. Notably, when normal (non-cancerous) pancreatic cells were exposed to the same therapy, their growth rate was unaffected suggesting biofield therapy may be selectively active against cancer cells.

2. It Changed the Physical Structure of Cancer Cell Mitochondria

Using transmission electron microscopy, researchers observed something visually striking: cancer cells exposed to biofield therapy developed swollen mitochondria with disordered internal structure. The mitochondria, the energy-producing engines of cells, were measurably disrupted. This kind of mitochondrial alteration is associated with impaired cellular function and is a known precursor to cell death. This was visible and measurable.

3. It Arrested the Cancer Cell Cycle

Biofield therapy caused a significant increase in cancer cells becoming "stuck" in the G0/G1 phase of their cell cycle, which paused cancer cell division. When cells can't progress through their cycle, they can't replicate. This effect was observed across multiple cell lines and with all three therapists.

4. It Reduced Cancer Cell Voltage (A Possible Key Mechanism)

One of the most fascinating findings involved cell membrane voltage potential. Cancer cells are known to be abnormally depolarized (higher voltage) compared to healthy cells, and this electrical state is associated with the cancer phenotype including its ability to spread. Biofield therapy reduced cell membrane voltage by up to 36.7% in human pancreatic cancer cells, leading to hyperpolarization which shifted the electrical environment of the cancer cell toward a healthier state. This may be one of the key mechanisms through which energy healing exerts its effects at the cellular level.

5. It Reduced Invasion, Metastasis, and Liver Tumor Burden in Living Animals

Perhaps most remarkably, in living mouse models with pancreatic tumors, biofield therapy:

• Reduced cancer cell invasiveness by 55% compared to controls

• Reduced liver metastasis (the spreading of cancer to the liver, which is a primary cause of death in pancreatic cancer) in two separate animal studies

• Reduced liver tumor burden by 69% compared to sham controls in one study

• Produced results comparable to gemcitabine, a standard chemotherapy drug, in some measures

Why This Matters

This study does not claim that energy healing cures cancer. This was preclinical research, conducted in cells and animal models, and much more investigation is needed before any clinical conclusions can be drawn. The researchers themselves note that further study is warranted.

What this research does tell us is this: biofield therapy has measurable, reproducible, biological effects at the cellular level. Energy healing is not placebo. It is not imagination. Something real is happening at the level of mitochondria, cell voltage, gene expression, and tumor behavior.

If biofield therapy can influence the cellular environment so profoundly in a laboratory setting, imagine what it may be doing in the living, breathing, feeling body of a human being: a body carrying stress, chronic pain, trauma, grief, or disease.

This is what we have always known to be true. Now science is building the language to describe it.

What Siwa Murti Does

Siwa Murti is an ancient Balinese energy healing lineage rooted in the sacred traditions of Balinese Hinduism, brought to the world by High Priest and Master Healer Ratu Nabe. As a Level 2 initiate in this lineage, Jessica works directly with your body's energy field to identify and clear the blockages, physical, emotional, and energetic, that prevent your system from doing what it was designed to do: heal itself.

Like the biofield therapy studied at MD Anderson, Siwa Murti works at the level of the biofield, the intelligent, living network of energy throughout the physical body. Sessions are fully clothed, deeply restful, and profoundly effective. Many clients report immediate relief from pain, from tension, from the weight of things they've been carrying for years.

Siwa Murti has supported people through:

• Chronic pain and physical injury including conditions that conventional medicine has struggled to address

• Trauma and emotional overwhelm, clearing what the nervous system has been holding in protection

• Anxiety, fatigue, and stress to return the body to its natural state of ease

• Acute illness and recovery supporting the body's innate healing capacity during and after illness

• Life transitions including birth, loss, grief, and transformation the moments when we most need to feel held and restored

And it works in person and remotely because energy, as both ancient wisdom and emerging quantum physics suggest, is not limited by physical distance.

Words from Those Who Have Experienced Siwa Murti

"Earlier this year, I faced an unexpected hospitalization. In that moment of fear and uncertainty, all I could think of was the profound healing I had experienced through Siwa Murti... Her ability to connect and work with me virtually was nothing short of incredible. What happened next still amazes me: doctors who had initially expected me to stay overnight ended up discharging me the very same day." Jasmine M.

"My first session was targeting the energy and density in my womb and resulted in me feeling a FULL RELEASE... Each session was profound in its own right." Esi E.

The Ancient and the Modern Are Meeting

For thousands of years, healing traditions around the world have worked with the subtle energy body through touch, intention, breath, mantra, and the transmission of life force. Modern science is now beginning to observe, measure, and validate what practitioners and their clients have been experiencing.

The MD Anderson study is an invitation for the scientific community and for each of us to take energy healing seriously as a real, powerful, and complementary path to health and wholeness.

You don't have to wait for more studies to begin your own healing.

Your body already knows the way. Siwa Murti helps you return to it.

Ready to experience the healing power of Siwa Murti for yourself? Sessions are available in person and online.

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Disclaimer: The information in this article is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Energy healing is a complementary modality and is not a substitute for conventional medical care. The MD Anderson study cited is preclinical research conducted in cell and animal models; results have not yet been confirmed in human clinical trials. Always consult your healthcare provider regarding your health.

Reference: Yang P, Wei D, Chakraborty S, et al. "The Preclinical Effects and Mechanisms of Biofield Therapy on Pancreatic Cancer Cell Growth and Metastasis." Cancer Medicine. 2026;15(4):e71726. https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.71726