I'm picking up Good Vibrations!
By Laura Joint
Could stress soon be a thing of the past? Apparently, the key to a stress-free life is all down to Sympathetic Resonance Technology, which you can wear in a pendant being pioneered by a company right here in Devon.
A Devon-based company is pioneering a new technology which could take the stress out of our lives.
QLink, based at the Tamar Science Park in Plymouth, was even asked by ex England football manager Sven Goran Eriksson to provide pendants for England's footballers.
And the firm had a special request from the captain of the European Ryder Cup golf team, Ian Woosnam, to supply pendants for the players to wear during their successful defence of the cup against the US.
The theory behind the QLink technology is that it makes people calmer and enhances their ability to perform in their chosen field.
In simple terms, it's physics meeting biology and harmonising together. The QLink is worn around the neck and is empowered by the wearer.
It is encoded with Sympathetic Resonance Technology or SRT™, a pioneering branch of quantum physics.
This makes it act as a tuning fork that resonates with the ideal note at which the body's energy system should hum.
The body responds positively to this ideal note and pitches itself to it so that, in time, the ideal and the actual note become harmonised.
This, it is argued, can help top sportsmen and people put under stress from man-made electricity such as computers and mobile phones.
Research indicates people who wear the QLink have more energy and are less prone to headaches. It's also claimed that some young people with learning difficulties have benefited from using the pendant.
The Plymouth HQ has the worldwide rights to sell the QLink pendant, and it is also coordinating further research.
At the moment, QLink is categorised in the UK as complementary health, but the firm is to apply for medical status in 2007. This status has already been granted in Australia.
Charles Clark, managing director at the Plymouth firm, said: "Our theory is that the frequency patterns from the QLink have an effect on the body's magnetic fields and that in turn has an effect on physiology.
"It is allowing the body to self-correct.
"We've had England footballers wearing them - Sven Goran Eriksson contacted us and asked for some, and we are now doing trials with leading rugby and cricket teams.
"Golfers have got hold of this technology and Ian Woosnam requested that the Ryder Cup team players wear QLink.
"The other side of the coin is that if you are feeling under par and are looking for non-invasive ways of improving your health, then this technology can help."
The technology has been developed in the US over the past 20 years.
But does it really work?
"We have taken it to various academic institutions and asked them to do studies," said Mr Clark.
"In these studies, we have used it at a cellular level, at an organ level, and at a full body function level and all of these show there is a beneficial change to physiology."
A basic pendant retails at £75, but if you prefer a gold QLink, then it will set you back £585.
