The kidneys are vital organs in the human body, primarily known for their role in filtering and removing waste products and excess fluids from the blood through urine production. They are a pair of bean-shaped organs located on either side of the spine, just below the rib cage.

In this article, we’ll look at the conventional view of kidneys, followed by an expanded bioenergetic view.

The Conventional View on Kidneys

The kidneys maintain overall fluid balance in the body and regulate various electrolytes, ensuring the proper chemical balance of the blood. They also play a crucial role in the regulation of blood pressure through the secretion of hormones that control blood volume and vascular resistance.

Another significant function of the kidneys is the filtration of blood to remove waste products. This process involves a complex system of nephrons, the functional units of the kidneys, where blood is filtered and urine is formed. The kidneys efficiently recycle essential substances like glucose and amino acids back into the bloodstream, while waste products and excess substances are excreted in the urine.

The kidneys also have vital roles in other physiological processes, including the production of hormones. For instance, they produce erythropoietin, which stimulates red blood cell production in the bone marrow, and they play a role in the synthesis of Vitamin D, which is important for bone health.

Furthermore, the kidneys help in the regulation of acid-base balance, ensuring that the pH of the blood remains within a narrow range, which is critical for the proper functioning of various bodily processes. 

The Relationship Between Bioenergetics and the Kidneys

Bioenergetics recognizes these familiar views of the kidneys while expanding in several ways. A key example of this is energy production in the body.

Professor Peter Fraser, who developed the human body-field theory we have today, spent a lot of time studying tubules in the body. He noted that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) saw roles of the brain, kidneys, and lungs in producing chi, or life force energy. All of these are full of tubules, which he came to see as sorts of tuning forks, whose cavities would gather energy for the body through resonance.

In his early days of exploring the topic, he considered their resonance with the vacuum of space itself, or what some people call the zero-point field. Modern research now shows us there may be something to this, as they have been able to teleport energy from one area of space to another through quantum entanglement. But in the end, Fraser had set this aside for a simpler idea: the tubules are tuned to sounds in the body, specifically to the beating of the heart and the sounds produced by the brain. The length and diameter of the tubules tune them to different sounds.

He proposed that this resonance helps produce the body’s energy, and the tubules effectively store this in the three major cavities: the brain tubules store it in the cranium, the lungs in the thorax, and the kidneys in the abdomen. This gives us a unique view on the “triple cavity” or “triple burner” theory of TCM, although Fraser’s approach is – as usual – conceptually similar while still having its distinctions.

For this reason, when creating a bioenergetic remedy specifically designed to help the body produce more chi or source energy, he used information he had gathered from integrator fields of the lungs and kidneys.

The Bioenergetic Connection Between the Kidneys and Brain

We’ve already seen a connection between the kidneys and brain: they both have a lot of tubules, which assist in energy production. Because of all these tubules, Fraser said that kidney and brain tissues were similar energetically, and believed that sometimes the kidneys might need to be treated to support the brain in response to intoxication or concussion.

But the relationship between the kidneys and brain also gets more specific. Energetic integrator fields are similar in concept to acupuncture meridians, but they represent a wireless communication system based on similarity of resonance. And the kidney integrator field includes many specific areas of the brain, including the cerebellum, thalamus, and pineal gland.

Interestingly, the cerebellum and thalamus are both involved in motor control – the movement of the physical body. If we think back to the energy of the different cavities, they relate in some ways to the heart (thoracic / lung energy), mind (cranium / brain energy), and body (abdomen / kidney energy). Or put another way, our inner motivation (from the heart), our action plan (from the mind), and our ability to carry out these plans (from the body).

From this perspective, the kidneys would be related energetically to moving the body to carry out our motivations and plans, and indeed they are connected to portions of the brain that control our movements.

Other Bioenergetic Views on the Kidneys

The kidney driver field relates to the nucleus of the body’s cells, giving us perhaps an unexpected and profound relationship with the kidneys, and bioenergetic reason to take their health even more seriously than we might. The implications here are extraordinary, as the cell nucleus is where we store our genetic code.

The kidneys also relate bioenergetically to bones in general, which somewhat connects with what we already know of their role in stimulating blood cell production in the bone marrow.

Fraser also made an interesting observation regarding the stomach driver field. He said it related to neural tissues, along with the kidney driver field (the brain connection we’ve discussed). And therefore, sometimes if the stomach driver was difficult to correct, we might need to support the kidney driver.

Fraser further saw relationships between the integrator field of the kidneys to such issues as postural reflexes, seasonal affective disorder, poor long-term immunity, and excess emotions or lack of emotions. He especially noted emotions related to sexual appeal and performance as well as to sympathy and the ability to express it.

Furthermore, he saw some connections here to asthma, some forms of arthritis (which could be supported by correcting this integrator and the general energy terrain), and “odd forms of candida.”

Fraser also noted the impact of heavy metals on the body, and specifically called out lead, cadmium, and mercury salts, the latter of which he said especially affect the kidneys. He believed bioenergetic support for heavy metal detox was needed in this instance, though this would not preclude the use of other nutritional agents and even lifestyle efforts to help the process.

Finally, TCM and bioenergetics both recognize a link between the kidneys and the emotion of fear. In seeing a tendency for fear in someone, we might also be on the lookout for kidney issues to develop; and in the same way, if we do recognize health issues with the kidneys, we might look at emotional events around fear as possible triggers or contributors to the problem. In considering the emotions of an organ, we have another avenue to understand the nature of the problem and to address it.

An Overview of Bioenergetic Kidney Support

Overall, we want to look at any aspect of the body-field related to the kidney when looking to support someone who is seeking better kidney health. Here is a summary of the primary and secondary fields with this relationship:

Primary Fields:

• Kidney driver
• Kidney integrator

Secondary Fields:

• Energetic terrain 7, normally related to issues of chronic fatigue, and we have pointed to the kidney association with energy. This terrain links to the kidneys.
• Energetic terrain 15 tends to stimulate the thymus and the secretion functions of the kidneys and bladder.
• Energetic star 13 (related to carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen processes in the body) is bioenergetically linked to calcification processes, so it could relate to issues like kidney stones.
• We can also remember the close association between the kidneys and the brain as well as the triple cavity theory when looking to support the kidneys.