1) Quantum Physics

Quantum physics states that quantum particles (electrons, photons, atoms, etc.) are always in what is called wave-particle duality: At times they operate as a wave and at times they operate as a particle. I'll use a plasma globe to explain how that works.

Without touching the plasma globe the various plasma tentacles drift all around the sphere (all 3 dimensional waves are spherical) and the individual tentacles could be at any point in the sphere at any point in time. Although you can distinguish the energy tentacles in plasma globes, quantum particles would fill all parts of the sphere simultaneously in their wave form, a concept called superposition. Quantum particle's natural state is a spherical wave in superposition but that changes when the quantum particle is measured. This is how quantum physics describes it in a quick 49 second video.

The particle function of quantum particles, as described in the video, happens when a quantum particle is measured. Measurement collapses the entire wave into a single particle, kind of like the plasma globe being touched. This same concept is called "collapsing the wave function."

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The mechanism that collapses the wave function is a controversial topic in quantum physics. Most quantum physicists right now believe that it is due to decoherence, a word meaning that the wave function collapsed due to coming into contact with something in the natural environment, such as photons of light. Another group of physicists believe that the collapse is due to human consciousness. Regardless of which it is, what matters right now is that the natural state of a quantum particle is a wave because all waves have frequency.

2) Spirituality

Higher frequencies have more compressed wavelengths meaning that they have more energy in less space and, therefore, have higher energy levels as a result. More energy means more power just like more wood on a fire means a bigger fire except that frequency is exponential, meaning that the higher the frequency is, the larger the difference between it and lower frequencies becomes. Here is a chart of the electromagnetic frequencies of visible light, with purple having the highest frequency and red the lowest.

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Spirituality takes the concept of electromagnetic waves and frequency and applies it to emotions with positive emotions having higher frequency and more energy than lower frequency negative emotions. This is where the disagreement between quantum physicists on what collapses a wave function becomes more important. Obviously not everyone believes in enlightenment, although most religions do including the big 5 (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism) although they call it different things: one calls it Moksha, the other enlightenment and Buddha hood, while the other three call it being a prophet. If the wave function collapses due to consciousness, that would have some pretty crucial implications beyond the possibility that this heightened state occurs due to physiological changes in the body based on emotion; a change in frequency.

The concept of emotions having frequency is pseudoscience but that doesn't make it necessarily incorrect and I'll explain why. Scientists have attempted to measure the frequency of emotions, but have not identified frequency related to it, which is what makes it pseudoscience. That being said, the idea that emotions impact energy is easy to validate. Shame is less fun and less energizing than joy and people have less energy when depressed than when they're happy. This shift in energy is factual and is the shift in frequency that spirituality is referring to, or so I believe. The book Biogeometry Symbols by Dr. Ibrahim Karim, who has held many prestigious health-based positions worldwide and won an international award for his work on biogeometry, scientifically shows that even squiggly lines have frequency. If squiggly lines can have frequency, emotions can.

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Another way to validate this concept is by understanding the impact of emotion on cells. We know that emotions impact cell health and the body: positive emotions impact the body in positive ways and negative ones impact the body in negative ways. Here is a summary of how positive emotions impact the body from the National Institute of Health. If the cells of the body respond to emotions, which are made up of quantum particles, which are most often in a wave state, then emotions have to have a frequency, or at least the changes emotions make in the body do. Even if emotions aren't frequencies in themselves, they 100% trigger it in the body. In fact, the word emotion means "energy in motion," which can be understood as the expansion and contraction of the body which would then result in a different atomic frequency. Emotions should have a frequency based on these ideas on an electromagnetic level, a concept that will be addressed shortly.

3) Acoustics

Now that we've established that emotions likely have frequencies, or at least cause frequency changes in the body, we will talk about resonance. A frequency can create something called resonance when it reaches the preferred frequency, or optimal frequency, of the system it is in. Complex systems can have many preferred frequencies. When resonance occurs, the amplitude or overall energy of the wave increases dramatically. The amount it increases is actually insane. Here is a 3 minute video on it.

For those that refuse to watch the video here are the most important concepts. The first is that there is a very small bell curve in which resonance is maxed, a concept called the peak of a resonance curve shown below.

The peak resonance is the perfect amount of matched frequencies to enhance the resonance to its absolute maximum capacity and power for that frequency. There is a very narrow window for resonance to occur.

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The video shows how dramatic resonance can be and here are pictures showing the impact of resonance.

The red dot is the current amplitude, or power, of the current resonant state. This red dot is not currently in the peak resonance bell curve, it is before or after the curve begins or ends, at one of its smallest points.

This is the impact of resonance at the peak of the resonance bell curve. The red dot became a red line and is WAY bigger!

The difference is enormous! It's almost like resonance makes 1+1=11

The body has multiple preferred frequency states depending on the organs or cells. Here is a study from Harvard showing the resonant frequency of the human body at 5-10 hertz. This study from Scientific Research: An Academic Publisher says that the liver has a frequency of 50-60 hertz. This article from Research Gate has this chart:

Now take the concept of organs having resonance and merge it with the idea that the body has multiple preferred frequencies (like those of our organs) but applied to preferred states of positive emotions. Telomeres, the part of DNA responsible for aging, shorten due to stress meaning that they age faster. This says to me that the body's preferred state is a lack of stress, or peace as shown in the emotional frequency diagram earlier. More positive emotional states are higher degrees of peace. As the body resonates at more positive emotional states it should have more power within it, which could account for the positive benefits in physical health seen from positive emotions. More energy = more power to change just like if a team of eleven horses can pull more than one horse can. If we can harness the emotional energy of a high frequency emotion through resonance with the body, then there is the potential for a large amount of emotional (or physical) change based on the principles of resonance.

4) Physiology

In constructing and testing Joy Theory I came to realize that Joy doesn't always fit as the preferred emotion in certain situations and in its place I started to use gratitude and hope when applicable. This made me wonder if I was on the right track with the emotions I was choosing to use in this theory and, in order to check myself, I decided to research the top 5 emotions in terms of their overall positive impact on physiology and psychology. According the ChatGPT the top 5 emotions based on overall benefit are (in this order): Love, gratitude, joy, hope, and peace. I then researched each in turn to decipher what specific impacts each emotion had on overall functioning.

The simplest extraction from the data is that positive emotions have positive impacts. When I hypothesized that emotions may be possible resonant states for the body, I think anything that helps the body and mind in a positive fashion indicates some kind of resonance, or at least optimal functioning. After looking at this chart I find it pretty impossible to argue otherwise. I didn't expect every emotion on the chart to have such overwhelmingly positive impacts on the brain and body.

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While this information may not be 100% accurate due to the brevity of my searches, it does give reliable enough information which was provided by AI. With this new assortment of information we have more distinct results. Here is a breakdown of the information:

Peace is easily the most impactful emotion, love is arguably second despite its lower amount of mediums and higher number of lows, joy and hope are tied, and gratitude comes in last place. Although, if we give a base weight of 3 to high, 2 to medium, and 1 to low then joy and hope rank higher than love by one point. Love also has the most M*s, meaning possible high impacts with a chance of low impact, and has one rating with a chance of negative impact as well as one with no impact at all. It also has the most low impacts. Another factor to keep in mind is that joy is typically regarded as a temporary state in these findings rather than a permanent state, which is the overall purpose of Joy Theory. With that in mind I would rate joy and hope as higher than love due to their higher reliability. Either way, love is a basic step in the standardized process, so it technically doesn't matter either way.

5) Neuroscience and Electromagnetism

The idea of the human biofield came out of left field while watching the documentary "Through the Wormhole," episode 7. It's the emerging science of measuring the electromagnetic fields and infrared radiation emitted by the body such as the brain, which emits a small energy field named the biofield. The heart is the strongest contributor to the biofield in the body, emitting an electrical field 60 times greater than that of the brain and a magnetic field 100 times more powerful, extending out 3 feet or more from the body. The strength of the field is an indicator of energetic power, meaning that the heart is far more powerful than the brain, at least energetically. The heart is actually wild, this information blew my mind. You can read about the heart here even though it's 104 pages so keep that in mind (I read about half of them) or just read my key takeaway summary.

Before elaborating on the findings, I want to say a few things. First, the journal that published this study is an independent publisher which means that their articles do not need to be peer researched before publication. Generally, that is not a good sign as far as trustworthiness is concerned. But, I asked google about them and they said they are cool research wise. Second, ironically as the article started discussing the soul and the heart in junction, I experienced a subconscious repulsion. The irony is not lost on me, but I write this to demonstrate my own subconscious biases against spirituality being a part of science. Being skeptical of spirituality runs deep... and it's still incredibly surprising to keep finding science that substantiates spiritual claims.

Here is my summary of key points from the article:

1. The heart is stronger than the brain in terms of influence when it comes to emotion. "The neural connections that transmit information from the emotional centers to the cognitive centers in the brain are stronger and more numerous than those that convey information from the cognitive to the emotional centers. This fundamental asymmetry accounts for the powerful influence of input from the emotional system on cognitive functions such as attention, perception and memory as well as higher-order thought processes. Conversely, the comparatively limited influence of input from the cognitive system on emotional processing helps explain why it is generally difficult to willfully modulate emotions through thought alone." The heart is often referred to as the heart brain for this reason.
2. The heart produces hormones including oxytocin, the love chemical, equally as much as the brain does. Emotions, besides being stronger than thought, are tied physiologically to the biological processes of energy. "Emotions and resilience are closely related because emotions are the primary drivers of many key physiological processes involved in energy regulation." Negative emotions literally influence energy regulatory functions in the body negatively.
3. Coherence is when two wave states become synchronized albeit at different frequencies. In other words, they become more symmetrically and harmonically patterned. Coherence has overwhelmingly positive effects including enhanced cognitive functioning such as clearer thinking and better decision making, emotional resilience and stress management, and increased physical and emotional well-being. All of the top 5 positive emotions (peace, joy, hope, love, and gratitude) enhance heart-brain coherence with peace being the only one that significantly impacts it which you read about here. I still don't think peace should be the focus of the theory because for myself I feel much more energy when I'm joyful than when I'm peaceful. True peace would be an attainment of a homeostatic state of joy.
   
4. It's scientifically verified that heart and brain rhythms synchronize among groups of people. This is generally triggered by synchronized activity such as choir or drum circles, emotional closeness and connection, having a shared focus or experience, and experiencing positive emotions. In other words, who you are around quite literally changes your physiology based on their electromagnetic output and group synchronization. This can also account for automatic magnetic and repulsive responses to people.
5. Here is a list of how emotion based interventions have impacted health and well-being:
   

The evidence is pretty clear that positive emotions positively impact us neurologically. What this also suggests though is that light has healing potential. Since the brain and heart both emit electromagnetic fields, that means that they should respond to electromagnetic waves, or in other words, the visible light spectrum.

This concept can then be applied the same way emotions will be, which is through the use of visual meditation which will be covered after explaining one more neurological and electromagnetic concept.

Bilateral stimulation is done in the background during this entire process, the process by which EMDR works, one of the top 5 trauma therapies in the world. Bilateral stimulation is done by stimulating alternating sides of the brain in a back and forth pattern which can be done by sight with watching a ball go back and forth across your horizontal axis, by sound by having sound alternate between left and right ear, or touch by tapping your thighs, knees, arms, toes, or any other part of your body as long as it's alternating. Here is an article by the National Library of Medicine that goes over how bilateral stimulation is used to instill positive beliefs during EMDR, creating a shift towards positive emotions. Bilateral stimulation allows the brain to break down information into smaller packets which allows for easier processing. My assumption is that the principles of acoustics make this possible. Below is a picture of a wavelength:

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When wavelengths are in a physical environment the crest and trough are measured by physical direction. Consider this pendulum. When it goes to the right it is represented in the graph by the upper half of the wavelength. When it goes left it is represented in the graph by the lower half of the wavelength.

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The alternating pattern forms the basis of waves, how literally everything in the observable universe works. Bilateral stimulation creates a wavelength in the brain by alternating left and right side activation, which is the smallest packet of information possible, hence why it works.

6) Visual Meditation

The brain struggles deciphering between reality and imagination. This is an article on the idea by the University College London, one of the top 10 universities in the world. Professional athletes often use visual meditation to improve their physical performance. Here is a study published by Research Gate. If professional athletes use visual meditation to enhance physical performance, why not use it to become an expert on experiencing joy? Studies published by the National Library of Medicine show that visual meditations and love-kindness meditations make the brain produce higher frequency brain waves which corroborates the ideas of joy meditation and frequency. Additionally, meditation and guided imagery has been found to increase theta waves, responsible for memory, learning, and creativity, all helpful in creating new emotional patterns. Visualizing yourself being in a state of joy, or one of the lower options if necessary, could train your brain to feel joy, enhance your neural pathways making it easier to do in the future, and create harmonic resonance leading to more physical, emotional, and psychological energy.

Moreover this indicates that visualizing colors of light have the potential to heal. The way that I use this method is to have the client imagine a healing ball of light above their head, whatever color they feel called to. I don't choose the color because your intuition should attract you to the electromagnetic state that is manifested through the body in the same way that having an iron deficiency makes you crave a steak. It doesn't happen consciously, it happens subconsciously on a physiological and electromagnetic level. Regardless, once the color is chosen I have the client imagine the light flowing into their body from the top of their head, filling their body with the light. I've had clients completely heal themselves using this technique alone.

And that concludes the science behind Joy Theory. May you be joyful!