Research Journal: March 2026

The Field – Ma et al., 2023 – Jiang et al., 2026

By Nadya Bell

All I really need to tell you today is Love:  unconditional, unlimited, universal. Gratitude, for the benefit of all our experiences. And please help us now. Apparently, it doesn’t really matter who you pray to — they’re listening. Set the intention, and something responds. The light moves through us.

My evening drives home through corridors of snow have been accompanied by The Field by Lynn McTaggart. As I work through Emotion Code certification — tying together muscle testing and healing intention, sometimes across distance — the research she discusses clarifies many of the principles we use in practice.

We are all here, tying together the threads of the field, examining the stardust within us. Walking through what feels like a holographic universe. Many of us experience the emptiness within as a doorway to infinite light.

The sound of the field itself is love. So thank you for being here.

Meanwhile, I spend my days hunting for pearls; pulling up the fish, recognizing their patterns, and washing them away.

If dreams belong to the collective, mine echo with Hamlet: “To take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them.”

I always love tracing the imprint of the universe within the deepest structures of the body. A little research reading, for curiosity’s sake.

“Significance of mechanical loading in bone fracture healing, bone regeneration, and vascularization” (Ma et al., 2023).

This paper took me through the fine-touch gateway, showing how gently we are affected in the deepest ways. Specifically, the activation of mechanosensitive receptors in the cellular membrane has the capacity to influence gene expression, cellular signaling, and differentiation.

The kind of touch that simulates bone growth is fluid shear stress — similar to moving your hand slowly through water. Subtle drag, not crushing compression.

Yet I continue to feel disappointed at the omission of bioelectrical gradients in many biological discussions. The emphasis remains on cellular actors, chemical signaling, and genetic expression. Important, yes — but incomplete. Voltage gradients and frequency distributions within the biofield offer a more expansive framework for understanding morphology and healing.

I will have to rinse my brain with some Michael Levin. I am continually amazed by the depth of understanding he offers. Morphology and healing begin to look less like purely chemical events and more like expressions of electrical patterning within a larger field.

I am pleased to see periosteum research continuing to expand. Fluorescent dye imaging of active healing cells is offering clearer windows into the repair process.

“Fibrous-layer resident Angptl7+ periosteal stem cells sense injury inflammation to orchestrate fracture repair” (Jiang et al., 2026).

This research suggests that what we feel during stages of bone healing, such as calluses and thickenings, may largely reflect periosteal stem cell activity. The short-term changes immediately after injury appear to involve a subset of skeletal stem cells (Angptl7+) that are highly active during repair, even if they do not directly contribute to long-term bone growth.

These cells reside primarily in the fibrous layer of the periosteum until injury occurs — and then they assume leadership of the healing process.

Like the bark and outer layer of a tree, the periosteum is the peripheral regenerative intelligence, moving in to heal and unify the structure after trauma. Also like wood, even within our densest bone tissue, there is a remarkable amount of water.

And that

. Osteocytes alone might barely detect impending fracture, but the pressure sensors embedded within fluid-filled microchannels amplify subtle forces through mechanotransduction.

If fluid shear stress and mechanotransduction is an expression of the electric and informational architecture of the biofield, it could be the listening that happens within. 

Sometimes it feels like squishing the water out of people’s bones.

Other times, it feels like a corona of fire.

Happy reading,

N

Jiang, B., Xing, W., Xu, X. et al. Fibrous-layer resident Angptl7+ periosteal stem cells sense injury inflammation to orchestrate fracture repair. Cell Res 36, 121–136 (2026).

Ma Q, Miri Z, Haugen HJ, Moghanian A, Loca D. Significance of mechanical loading in bone fracture healing, bone regeneration, and vascularization. J Tissue Eng. (2023 May)

McTaggart, L. (2008). The field: The quest for the secret force of the universe. Harper.