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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
BodyTalk Protocol
BodyTalk uses a very well-organized system to thoroughly investigate the issues happening within the body. With the protocol chart, all body parts, as well as all body functions can be addressed in the proper order to affect the changes necessary.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Nine Energy Systems of the Body
If you're like me a few years ago, if someone uses the words "energy" and "healing" in the same sentence, you have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. Here is a great description of the nine energy systems of the body. They are very organized and interconnect with each other and with all of our physical organ systems. Some of the better known energy systems include chakras, meridians, and aura. You can read more about these systems, as well as the others here:
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Happy Thanksgiving
1. Depression
2. Anxiety
3. Weight loss
4. Body image
5. Grief
6. Anger management
7. Fatigue
8. Aches and pains
9. Arthritis
10. Dyslexia and other learning disabilities
11. ADD/ADHD
12. Behavior modification
13. Infertility
14. Hormone imbalance
15. Endometriosis
16. Allergies
17. Athletic performance
18. Pre- and post-surgery recovery
19. Newborn adjustment
20. Digestive problems
21. Stomach pain
22. Generational/inherited issues
23. OCD-type symptoms
24. Skin conditions
I'm sure there are many more I'm forgetting. Truly, the list is too long to post here. I have been continually amazed at what can be addressed when you actually let your body do the talking and you do the listening. It's pretty smart!
If you or someone you know has benefited from BodyTalk, please leave a comment.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Clinical Study Proves BodyTalk Sessions are Effective for Chronic Pain!
Dr. Laura Stuve, a Certified BodyTalk Instructor, Practitioner and a Ph.D. Molecular Biologist and geneticist, along with Janet Galipo, Senior BodyTalk Instructor, and 6 other American BodyTalk practitioners, performed a chronic pain study. The study was performed using distance sessions only, TARGETING CHRONIC PAIN, in individuals who HAD NEVER RECEIVED ANY BodyTalk before this study. These conditions were established to comply with the National Institute of Health and followed their guidelines using a randomized control trial - single blinded.
In order to control for the placebo effect, in keeping NIH grant credibility as the guideline, the distance sessions were established as the blinding effect. Assessments were done by Self Assessments using PROMIS, also NIH guidelines.
The subjects were any individuals who had chronic pain, on a pain scale from 0 – 10, (0 being no pain and 10 being excruciating – the same scale used in my hospital to rank pain), the pain rating had to be more than 4 on a subjective scale.
The conditions were that all subjects had to have all correspondence done remotely, and all sessions were distance sessions, meaning that all subjects corresponded via phone or website. Subjects were not allowed to use any other Complimentary Alternative Medicine modalities for the duration of the 9 week study. The only exclusions were that subjects had to be 18 or older and could not be on opiate based pain medications.
Measurements were recorded by statistician and professor at UCLA’s School of Medicine, Dr. Honghu Liu, Ph.D., who is actively teaching clinical study design and who helped develop the PROMIS initiative.
The control group, (who DID NOT receive BodyTalk sessions), reported a 15.4% improvement, while the study group, (who DID receive sessions), reported a 70.4% improvement!
When the statistical data was analyzed, a significant value will always measure under 0.05. The lower the value, the greater the significance of improvement- Clinical Data showed:
Pain Level – 0.0074
Pain Impact – 0.0493
Anxiety – 0.0025
Depression – 0.0321
Anger – 0.0061
Fatigue – 0.0333
After the study was over, all participants were asked which group they thought they were in. Only 1 person from the control group thought they were in the study group. However, nearly all of the participants in the study group thought they were receiving BodyTalk sessions.
This clinical study is truly inspiring and revolutionary. I see similar results in my nursing practice, which fuels my passion for The BodyTalk System. I look forward to more clinical studies where BodyTalk demonstrates significant clinical improvement!
Sunday, September 16, 2012
The Iceberg Principle
Recently my youngest boy came in the house
and was proud to show me that he had helped weed the dandelions out of our
front yard. He showed me a handful of yellow flowers that he had snapped off at
the head. I explained that just pulling off the top does not solve the problem, since you have to remove the roots if you want to be free of weeds long term.
Failing to address the root of a problem
is a common problem our society faces. When it comes to our health, we are
frequently guilty of merely treating symptoms, as opposed to correcting the
source of the problem. This is known as the iceberg principle.
It is natural for us to focus our
attention on the obvious problems that are visible to us on the surface, but the "tip of the
iceberg" is just a small portion of the problem. Doing so may cause some
immediate relief, but we are still oblivious to the cause of the problem and, thus, unable to solve it.
Our health can be likened to the iceberg principal in that many underlying problems occurring at the subconscious level
physically manifest themselves as disease in our bodies. You temporarily treat a headache
with aspirin, allergies with an antihistamine, or depression with anti-depressants, but if you don't address
what is causing those problems, then you are only masking symptoms and not getting to the root of them.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Welcome
This is the story of my incredible journey with BodyTalk. A few years ago (2-1/2 to be exact), I found myself with some interesting dilemmas. I was a 38-year-old mother of 9 with a full-time job, a part-time job, and a few failed businesses under my belt for the record, and I was living under a cloud of a significant depression that felt like I wasn't me. I had no idea whatsoever of what to do about anything. I was struggling, more like panicking, to keep my head above water. I didn't have the time I so wanted to spend with my family, and my relationship with my husband was becoming more and more negative. I kept telling myself that if I could just solve the money issues, everything in my life would be fixed.
I didn't really think of myself as being in poor physical health, but I was at least 30 pounds overweight and completely unable to lose more than 5 pounds... EVER... no matter what. I NEVER had time to work out, I got rated up for a life insurance policy because of elevated cholesterol, my thyroid was low-functioning and, due to PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome), my hormonal system was so wacked out that I had to use progressively more fertility treatments to get all of my babies after the first one. I was a picture of perfect health. NOT!
It was about this time that I experienced Divine Intervention in my life. By some quirky fate, my husband ended up going back to school to finish his degree. Since he had a full class load and a full-time job, he couldn't always attend all of his classes, so I frequently attended in his place to turn in papers and take notes, etc. I found myself in the midst of a class taught by Barbara Lockhart called Mind, Body, Spirit Wellness. She brought in several guest speakers on different alternative modalities, and I was intrigued that they all swore by their particular modality, yet they were all different. I started to wonder what they had in common, and realized that the bottom line was energy.
In discussing what I was learning with a dear friend, she suggested I go see her sister who "does BodyTalk." Since I was super intrigued by what I had been studying, and not having anything to lose, I decided to give it a try, mostly in the spirit of trying to be open-minded about something completely foreign to anything I had learned growing up. I remember that day like it was yesterday, and it changed my life profoundly forever.
Some of the first issues that were addressed in those initial BodyTalk sessions were related to grieving the loss of my ideal life of being able to stay home with my children after realizing I was going to likely have a job until the day I die, as well as anxiety and fear related to when our house was in foreclosure. Anger over my current situation was a big problem for me that I had previously had no way to deal with before BodyTalk. The practitioner that I was seeing was incredible, and I began to learn about intuition as I observed her work. As I drove away from her house, I felt a sense of relief, as if a huge burden had lifted, but I was curious to see if it would last or if it was just a transient mood change. During that following week, I was surprised to notice that I felt more like me again. It had been so long since I had been able to think clearly, that was so relieved. My husband even asked me why I was different. Those first BodyTalk sessions were literally crisis management as we began the process of peeling off the layers of faulty belief systems that I had, over time, adopted as truth.
Once the initial crisis had been averted, my BodyTalk sessions shifted to more of a health maintenance theme, as I managed carpal tunnel symptoms from my transcription job and leg edema from sitting all day typing. We continued to peel away emotional and mental baggage, going deeper to the root causes of my physical symptoms.
After awhile, my practioner mentioned that she felt like I was really ready to start making some BIG changes. I thought that was pretty funny because the progress I had already made was still hard for me to wrap my brain around. I invited her to bring it on, though, as I was curious to see what would happen if we pulled out all the stops. I had NO idea.
Priorities like insulin resistence started to come up, and I started to learn more about nutrition. Since I had worked out many of the emotional reasons that I ate badly, I was able to completely change my diet without any difficulty whatsoever and make the lifestyle changes necessary to improve my health. Over the course of a few weeks to a few months, I dropped the 30 pounds like a rock that I had struggled with all those years, since the underlying reasons my body held onto that weight were no longer issues for me. Within 5 weeks, my cholesterol dropped in half, and my thyroid kicked back in. I felt like I was living a dream as I watched with my very eyes my body heal itself as we addressed the emotional stresses in my life one by one.
We also began exploring why I thought like I did about money and what was keeping me from being able to succeed at the different things I had tried. As we worked out some of those kinks in my brain, things started to shift in that area as well. I realized what a workaholic I had become and that I was compulsive about always having my time completely filled. I gradually started getting my life back, as well as my ability to function as a wife and mother again.
Since I was feeling better, I started to run around my block and then around my neighborhood. The thing that surprised me was that I didn't hate it. I actually kinda enjoyed it. My husband suggested I run a 5K, which is about the last thing I had ever thought I would want to do, but I DID IT!!! And I didn't die. My sister called and asked if I would want to run the Ragnar Relay on her team, and I said, "Absolutely not!" But then I began to wonder if I could do it. So I DID IT!!! With my new feeling of well-being and my new overall level of fitness, the old me was fading fast.
Then I had the surprise of a lifetime. One morning I felt a lump in my lower abdomen that I thought was kind of weird, though I was still getting used to my new body and what it was like to live in it. With my history of infertility, I brushed it aside, realizing that I hadn't been sick at all, and I wasn't tired, so it was highly improbable that I could be pregnant; however, I also acknowledged all the other aspects of my body, mind, and spirit that were seemingly righting themselves, so I finally took THE TEST. It was positive! It was such a miracle!
Around this time, I decided to start taking some of the classes for certification as a BodyTalk practitioner, mostly so I could help take care of my own family. I began practicing on my immediate family and then my extended family. As I approached certification, other people started coming out of the woodwork with issues they needed to resolve, first friends and then people I didn't even know. In all of their cases, the challenges were complicated, and BodyTalk was their best shot.
Today, I am continuing my own journey to wellness, always curious about what will come next. I also love being able to help teach other people about health and the roles that the body, mind, and spirit play in achieving optimal well-being. Every day I thank my Divine Intelligence for His hand in my life at just the right moment. I am so grateful for my challenges because they are what have helped me to learn and grow. Without them, I would not have been looking for and would not have found this wealth of knowledge I have gained and that can bless the lives of many, many others.
I didn't really think of myself as being in poor physical health, but I was at least 30 pounds overweight and completely unable to lose more than 5 pounds... EVER... no matter what. I NEVER had time to work out, I got rated up for a life insurance policy because of elevated cholesterol, my thyroid was low-functioning and, due to PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome), my hormonal system was so wacked out that I had to use progressively more fertility treatments to get all of my babies after the first one. I was a picture of perfect health. NOT!
It was about this time that I experienced Divine Intervention in my life. By some quirky fate, my husband ended up going back to school to finish his degree. Since he had a full class load and a full-time job, he couldn't always attend all of his classes, so I frequently attended in his place to turn in papers and take notes, etc. I found myself in the midst of a class taught by Barbara Lockhart called Mind, Body, Spirit Wellness. She brought in several guest speakers on different alternative modalities, and I was intrigued that they all swore by their particular modality, yet they were all different. I started to wonder what they had in common, and realized that the bottom line was energy.
In discussing what I was learning with a dear friend, she suggested I go see her sister who "does BodyTalk." Since I was super intrigued by what I had been studying, and not having anything to lose, I decided to give it a try, mostly in the spirit of trying to be open-minded about something completely foreign to anything I had learned growing up. I remember that day like it was yesterday, and it changed my life profoundly forever.
Some of the first issues that were addressed in those initial BodyTalk sessions were related to grieving the loss of my ideal life of being able to stay home with my children after realizing I was going to likely have a job until the day I die, as well as anxiety and fear related to when our house was in foreclosure. Anger over my current situation was a big problem for me that I had previously had no way to deal with before BodyTalk. The practitioner that I was seeing was incredible, and I began to learn about intuition as I observed her work. As I drove away from her house, I felt a sense of relief, as if a huge burden had lifted, but I was curious to see if it would last or if it was just a transient mood change. During that following week, I was surprised to notice that I felt more like me again. It had been so long since I had been able to think clearly, that was so relieved. My husband even asked me why I was different. Those first BodyTalk sessions were literally crisis management as we began the process of peeling off the layers of faulty belief systems that I had, over time, adopted as truth.
Once the initial crisis had been averted, my BodyTalk sessions shifted to more of a health maintenance theme, as I managed carpal tunnel symptoms from my transcription job and leg edema from sitting all day typing. We continued to peel away emotional and mental baggage, going deeper to the root causes of my physical symptoms.
After awhile, my practioner mentioned that she felt like I was really ready to start making some BIG changes. I thought that was pretty funny because the progress I had already made was still hard for me to wrap my brain around. I invited her to bring it on, though, as I was curious to see what would happen if we pulled out all the stops. I had NO idea.
Priorities like insulin resistence started to come up, and I started to learn more about nutrition. Since I had worked out many of the emotional reasons that I ate badly, I was able to completely change my diet without any difficulty whatsoever and make the lifestyle changes necessary to improve my health. Over the course of a few weeks to a few months, I dropped the 30 pounds like a rock that I had struggled with all those years, since the underlying reasons my body held onto that weight were no longer issues for me. Within 5 weeks, my cholesterol dropped in half, and my thyroid kicked back in. I felt like I was living a dream as I watched with my very eyes my body heal itself as we addressed the emotional stresses in my life one by one.
We also began exploring why I thought like I did about money and what was keeping me from being able to succeed at the different things I had tried. As we worked out some of those kinks in my brain, things started to shift in that area as well. I realized what a workaholic I had become and that I was compulsive about always having my time completely filled. I gradually started getting my life back, as well as my ability to function as a wife and mother again.
Since I was feeling better, I started to run around my block and then around my neighborhood. The thing that surprised me was that I didn't hate it. I actually kinda enjoyed it. My husband suggested I run a 5K, which is about the last thing I had ever thought I would want to do, but I DID IT!!! And I didn't die. My sister called and asked if I would want to run the Ragnar Relay on her team, and I said, "Absolutely not!" But then I began to wonder if I could do it. So I DID IT!!! With my new feeling of well-being and my new overall level of fitness, the old me was fading fast.
Then I had the surprise of a lifetime. One morning I felt a lump in my lower abdomen that I thought was kind of weird, though I was still getting used to my new body and what it was like to live in it. With my history of infertility, I brushed it aside, realizing that I hadn't been sick at all, and I wasn't tired, so it was highly improbable that I could be pregnant; however, I also acknowledged all the other aspects of my body, mind, and spirit that were seemingly righting themselves, so I finally took THE TEST. It was positive! It was such a miracle!
Around this time, I decided to start taking some of the classes for certification as a BodyTalk practitioner, mostly so I could help take care of my own family. I began practicing on my immediate family and then my extended family. As I approached certification, other people started coming out of the woodwork with issues they needed to resolve, first friends and then people I didn't even know. In all of their cases, the challenges were complicated, and BodyTalk was their best shot.
Today, I am continuing my own journey to wellness, always curious about what will come next. I also love being able to help teach other people about health and the roles that the body, mind, and spirit play in achieving optimal well-being. Every day I thank my Divine Intelligence for His hand in my life at just the right moment. I am so grateful for my challenges because they are what have helped me to learn and grow. Without them, I would not have been looking for and would not have found this wealth of knowledge I have gained and that can bless the lives of many, many others.
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