If you read my last blogs about measuring the electric fields you are being exposed to at your desk by using a multimeter, continue your understanding about how your house circuit breakers can be adding to the problem and what to do about them. By the way, you can view my video on using a multimeter to assess body voltage here.
While most of us are familiar with the electricity in our appliances, the wiring in the walls is somewhat of a mystery. We can't turn it on and off with ease like we can with our appliances, we can't see the wires, and if you have ever drilled a hole in the wall to hang a picture, you know the weird anxiety you feel praying that you don't accidentally drill into a live wire, Yikes!
Think of your circuit breaker as the power strip--you know like you use to plug in all your appliances--to your house. All the wires circle around the house and go back to the panel located near or in the garage. In fact Circ is the Greek or Latin root for circle. Electricity can't flow unless there is a closed circuit (circle) for it to race around. Houses have multiple circles of wires for all kinds of things: Dryers, Microwave Ovens, light switches for a room, dishwashers, furnaces, heat pumps. In the modern home, there are dozens of them. In the pre 1920s homes there were wired with only about one or two. They did not have near the amount of electronics we do today, so one or two circuit breakers fit the bill. You had your lights and a few plugs. That was it.
Voltage in the wires is always there and always on and always coupling with our bodies whether or not we see or feel it. See Plasma Ball Video. Most people consider it harmless, but there are growing studies that show AC electric fields are damaging to our cells and autonomic biological systems.
Turning off circuit breakers can be a welcome relief, especially for the electrically sensitive. A Building Biologist can do a thorough testing of all the circuit breakers in the house to find the ones that are the most troubling. Some you can live with, some you cannot. If there are strong fields on circuit breakers in the house that are close to or in the bedroom walls, turning those off can offer your body a welcome sigh of relief at night when you sleep.
If you are in an area that is not readily serviceable by a Building Biologist, and or if you feel confident in your ability with a multimeter, you can use it as a body voltage meter which will give you information about where the highest voltage areas are in your house and which circuits are causing them. You simply turn off all the circuits and then turn them on one by one in a process of elimination as you test the body for what is coming off each circuit.
People who need certain circuit breakers off at night on a regular basis can have an electrician install a cut off switch in the house to make it easier. Depending on how much that circuit is used, it can stay off permanently, unless needed. Depending on finances, this might actually be an option. I have several circuits in my house that are off permanently, and I bring in electricity through a shielded cord from another room for just a few items.
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