Below is an introduction to a book highlighting the work of L.E. Eeman, the inventor (or discoverer) of biocircuits. He was able to make some remarkable improvements in his health after sustaining serious injuries in the first world war. His doctors said there was nothing that could be done for him. So he took matters into his own hands and invented biocircuits.
Relax Your Way to Health
By H. D. Cotton, N.D., D.O., M.B.N.A.
First Published: 1954
Introduction & Historical Context
This practical manual on relaxation is based on the pioneering work of
L. E. Eeman (1889–1958), an early 20th-century British aviation officer and health researcher. After suffering serious injuries in WWI, Eeman began experimenting with passive relaxation and “bio-circuits” that used copper wires and the body’s natural polarity to restore health and balance. He became known for developing techniques involving relaxation, breath awareness, and electromagnetic field alignment.
"Relax Your Way to Health" was published in 1954 by
H. D. Cotton, a naturopath and osteopath, to distill Eeman’s method into a simple format usable by the general public. The book blends physical therapy with subtle energy principles, providing a structured nine-stage process to let go of muscular tension and allow the body’s innate healing intelligence to function.
Foreword by L. Eeman
After teaching for thirty-five years that, whatever a patient’s illness, relaxation must be his first step on the “way to health,” I find that my belief in this truism is as unshakable as ever.
Anyone who has been a motor-mechanic for thirty-five years is also more certain than ever that, no matter what is wrong with an engine, he must switch it off before he starts repairing it. But he also knows that switching off is not enough, and that he must, in addition, put a lot of energy and “know how” into his repair business if he is to satisfy his customers. He would, however, grant that anyone can learn “all about switching off” in two minutes.
Yet, if there is one thing the years have taught me, it is that switching off body, nerve and mind—i.e., relaxing—is not easy, that it cannot be learned in two minutes even by a very clever person, that it is difficult to teach, even to a genius, and that it is even more difficult to teach in black and white, simply, clearly, so that untrained people can understand and apply the teaching.
That is why I congratulate and thank the author so sincerely for having produced so simple and clear a little volume with illustrations so telling that they dispel any doubt that words alone might leave. And I congratulate him, too, for having made so obvious his conviction that just as the motor-mechanic knows that, after switching off, he needs energy and “know how” as well…
