(The following article was in the September, 2002, issue of Emerging Lifestyles Magazine.)
BodyTalk System™: A New Healing Paradigm
by Lois J. Wetzel
Something very exciting is emerging in the arena of health care. It is called BodyTalk System, and originally came to the world via an Australian chiropractor and acupuncturist named Dr. JohnVeltheim. BodyTalk is a blending of many modalities including Reiki, acupuncture meridians, breathwork, cranio-sacral therapy, Chinese Five Elements medicine, homeopathy and more. It works on the assumption that illness occurs because communication has broken down between certain areas of the body. The body can heal itself if that communication is re-established. The "innate wisdom" of the body knows in what sequence things must be healed. The parts being linked or the order of linkage may make no logical sense to the observer, but it does to the innate wisdom of the individual client’s body. Using muscle testing, the practitioner silently asks a series of questions of the client’s innate by lifting the client’s relaxed wrist. The wrist will either lift or not, depending on if the answer is yes or no. These silent questions begin with asking permission to do the work. The questions then go on to ask which specific area the innate wisdom wishes to "balance" first.
Balancing usually involves touching the parts of the body that wish to re-establish communication. The client is told what it is that wants to be balanced. For example, if the left foot wishes to communicate better with the small lobe of the liver, the client would place one hand on the left foot and the practitioner would place a hand over the small lobe of the liver. The connection between liver and foot then would be made via the practitioner "tapping" the client’s head and sternum while the two parts are held. During this time the client is doing very deep breathing, inhaling and exhaling completely. This tapping goes on for about two full breath cycles, and then the client’s body is allowed to "download" the re-connection, before going on to the next linkage.
Many of the links do seem odd to the logical mind. Yet as long as the protocol is followed, linking the "parts" that wish to be linked may very well cause surprising healings to occur. Here are some examples of actual experiences with BodyTalk.
At the beginning of her treatment, Claire was on anti-depressants and prone to outbursts at her husband and children. She was lethargic and sad. The first balancing was of the spheno-basiliar connection in the cranium. This involved her placing a finger on the roof of her mouth with one hand, and the other hand on the bridge of her nose. She was tapped out, and her body indicated it did not want anything else done that day. Claire lay down and slept for two hours before she was able to go home. She immediately felt better. Two days later, after consulting with her doctor, she began going off her anti-depressants. Claire came for a few more sessions. She is no longer on medication.
Donald came for a session filled with anxiety. He had been laid off from an executive position in one of the big companies in Houston. Donald was balanced first for hydration to his chest. Second, all the nerves in his body linked to nerves coming from the brain, and to money, and to the root chakra. Then his spleen was balanced. He left deeply relaxed. The next day Donald, who had been out of work for six months with no job interviews, had two serious interviews and later received offers from both. He came for two more sessions, and a few other things were balanced as well. Donald is now happily working.
Kianna is a paralegal with a large law firm. She has had two experiences with BodyTalk which merit reporting. One experience involved releasing accumulated toxins linked to the liver. She went straight home and had a bowel function exactly like the kind one experiences during a liver cleanse procedure. In another session her body announced, via muscle testing, that it wanted to balance an event, which occurred at age 22 in a specific month. Amazed, she stated that this was the very month she became pregnant, and no one, not even her own father, seemed to be supportive of her situation. Her feelings of abandonment, particularly from her dad, were still with her. We balanced this and she experienced tears, but reported the following week that for the first time she is now able to truly trust her new husband. She thinks the event at age 22 was connected to her inability to trust men.
Jake, a 28 year old plumber, had his body balanced for two viruses. For the next two days he had a fever of 102 degrees and unusual smelling breath and urine. Since then he has been full of energy and has begun to put on weight, which had been a challenge for him.
The above are just a small sample of the experiences people have had. One might wonder who practices BodyTalk System™? Medical doctors, acupuncturists, psychotherapists, chiropractors, physical therapists, dentists, massage therapists, and nurses are being trained to do BodyTalk. It is very popular in Europe, Canada, California, and Atlanta, as well as in Florida, where Dr. Veltheim now lives. This healing method has only been on the planet since the mid-1990’s, and so is quite new to everyone. It will be quite interesting to follow its spread and development.
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Body Talk System™: An Energy Medicine
by Lois J. Wetzel
About three years ago I had the experience of recalling a past life that left me feeling really depressed. It was one that had ended quite badly. Usually when I recall a past life it has a gradual healing effect. This one stayed with me far too long. I called Donna, another healer, and asked her if she would work on me. She said yes, and we arranged to meet in two days. She said she had just been trained in BodyTalk System™, and thought that was probably what I needed. That was the first time I had heard of BodyTalk.
Within a twenty-four hour period I heard of it two more times, and from different people, one of them in a bagel shop I seldom frequent, the other in an email from a former sister-in-law in a foreign country! Donna worked on me twice and the depression was almost totally reversed after the first session, and completely gone after the second. I was impressed.
Naturally, when the first BodyTalk class in Texas was offered I signed up. That was in March of 2002. At that time I had been doing metaphysical/spiritual work for many years with the focus of healing people. BodyTalk pulled everything I already knew together into an organized system. It is a synthesis of many healing modalities, including some I had not mastered, and included a protocol for asking questions of the innate wisdom of the client’s body/mind/spirit. The questions lead to what "parts" of the client need to be "linked" so the client can self-heal. These questions are asked silently, using muscle response, so that the client’s conscious mind does not interact. Then once the links are determined, they are announced aloud. The client is tapped on the head, which works like hitting a re-set button, and then tapped over the heart, which allows the client’s body/mind to store the change that has been made. The heart remembers, you see. And then permanent, deep, healing changes occur.
In just over two years I have repeatedly seen chronic depression lift after just one or two sessions. Lifelong constipation goes away, as does chronic debilitating pain from auto accidents, older adults with difficulty breathing since childhood, eating compulsions, unwanted personality traits, fears, phobias, inability to love or be loved, migraine headaches, moles that are scheduled to be surgically removed, uterine and breast tumors, low red blood counts, severe symptoms of malaria, liver toxins, allergies, dyslexia, viruses, parasites, nail fungi; these kinds of things heal...I could go on but for lack of space. What is odd is that the client may come in complaining of back pain, and what the innate wisdom seems to work on is something else entirely. We go with formulae that have nothing to do with the back pain, yet the back pain goes away. Or it stays for now, but something they thought they would have to live with for the rest of their lives goes away! People know they feel better physically, their meditation deepens, they get along better with others, or they change jobs and finally do something satisfying. Something might heal by linking the liver to the left ventricle of the heart, or the innate wisdom might address childhood trauma, meridians, chakras, a past life or astrology, Chinese clock or genetic history! I have seen chronic neck pain heal after doing a formula involving having been unjustly hanged in a past life.
Lest you think this is weird, airy fairy stuff, BodyTalk is totally based in the hard science of quantum physics. If we understand quantum physics we are not at all surprised at how this works. Unfortunately, very few do understand it. It is also based in the principles of Advaita, an ancient spiritual practice from India. And now that we know more about science, the two are mutually supportive. Things ancient spiritual writings have been saying all along are being reinforced by quantum theory. Human knowledge seems to be coming full circle, and we are discovering again, in our own terms, some of the things the ancients knew. I believe that BodyTalk System is an example of that.
