Thursday, August 23, 2012

Brazilian Congress

Less then one year ago, Juliana Lara Resende, who is a BodyTalk Access Trainer in Brazil’s capital, Brasilia, accepted a job as a psychologist working in the Legislator’s House health care program. It appears that the Brazilian government has its own healthcare set up for members of Congress and their families, as well as all the support staff and their families. This health care program, as part of the National Congress policies and practices, participates in setting the standards in healthcare in Brazil. Once new ideas have been accepted, and proven to be effective in the parliament’s healthcare scheme, it is then likely to be considered for implementation in any other government and hospital institution nationwide.

Juliana seized the opportunity to educate the congressmen and their advisors and support staff about BodyTalk. At this stage there are several of her colleagues who have trained in BodyTalk Access, or received treatment from her. The government decided they needed to look at integrative medicine as part of their future plans in healthcare. They decided to invite a series of international experts in integrative medicine to present to congressional members, support staff, and the administration of the healthcare program.

Juliana made sure that BodyTalk was on the agenda, and convinced the medical department and all the other areas involved in health care and quality of life that I should be the first person to give a presentation. A great deal of work went into the promotion of this, which included convincing members of the Brazilian government to attend. It could not have worked out better. The lecture theater they used, one of the largest in the Brazilian National Congress building, was completely filled, with standing room only at the back. For those who could not get into the lecture, and those who were unable to attend, the lecture will be broadcast on the legislator’s house television channel so that people can watch it. When all the other lectures are presented over the next few months, the health care program – Pró-Saúde – will be making a video combining all the different ideas presented, and distribute it to all their beneficiaries – which includes most of the congressmen in Brazil.

The lecture was very well received, and Juliana has reported great enthusiasm from the people she works with. A current designated committee for writing the policy on health and quality of life at work (of which Juliana is part of) has already included complimentary medicine in the form of alternative health care.  After my talk I met with the head of the health care program Pró-Saúde, Mr. Ricardo Kowalski, who expressed similar enthusiasm and assured me that he will be actively investigating the utilization of BodyTalk in the their healthcare’s system. The next step is making sure BodyTalk has legal validation to be practiced in hospitals in general, and ensure only qualified people can practice BodyTalk.

The whole evening was such fun - they even enjoyed my jokes -  or at least the ones that Juliana decided to translate! I managed to teach them all to tap out their cortices. Learn to tap out your cortices by clicking here.

Photography courtesy of Anibal Herrera. 

Children's Hospital in Brasilia



On 10 August I had great pleasure in making a three-hour presentation at the hospital for children. Before the talk I was given a tour of the hospital and I was just so impressed by how modern and beautifully it was planned. In particular, how well it had been designed for children. It was sad seeing the children because this hospital only accepts patients by referral, and they are only referred for serious cancer cases, and serious blood diseases.


The hospital board and administration have been very progressive in looking at different ways to help the children and their families through such a heart-wrenching time. They have already allowed Reiki practitioners to volunteer their services in using Reiki to help ease the pain and suffering. They’ve also demonstrated openness to new ideas. Fortunately, we were lucky to have a medical doctor working at the hospital who is also a BodyTalk student. This is actually the second hospital in Brasília where Dr. Eliane Bittar has brought BodyTalk.   

Getting into the hospital for this talk was a joint effort of several people primarily organized by Juliana Lara Resende, a BodyTalk Access Trainer and PaRama BodyTalk practitioner in Brasília. I was asked to give a three-hour presentation in the afternoon and arrangements were made so that staff could attend as well as members of the hospital board of directors.




The talk and demonstration went very well and my discussions with the key people involved after the talk were very positive. I finally talked to Dr. José Carlos, who is the oncological pediatrician in charge of research projects.

In my conversations with him he assured me full hospital cooperation in allowing BodyTalk practitioners to come into the hospital and treat children. He also said that he would support an application to host a full BodyTalk research program at the hospital. This means that the research would be set up and controlled by the hospital, and it would be the hospital that presented it for peer review and publication.





During my visit I also met Mariângela de Paiva who is in charge of our BodyTalk program in the local Brasilia military hospital where she practices BodyTalk and is arranging for training of more BodyTalkers to help her out at the hospital.


It was so rewarding to see so much support from the local BodyTalk matrix in Brasilia and just how much progress they’ve made in such a short time.



One Man's Ability to Heal

I have experienced my own remarkable healings with BodyTalk and so I have both reverence and respect for it, and, with each new healing experience, despite what my mind tries to tell me, sometimes, healing impossible to heal diseases is possible.
My 89 year old dad was diagnosed with colon cancer in October of 2011. I went with him to the doctor to get the results of the tests they had performed. The doctor told us that he had colon cancer and that they recommended operating to remove a portion of the colon, and, that they had booked a date for surgery for him. The doctor also told dad that he would live about a year if it spread which supported the recommendation to operate. I wanted him to have the surgery. He didn’t. He told the doctor he was busy on that day and couldn’t have the surgery then. He told the doctor he’d like to wait and have another colonoscopy down the road instead. Since dad is 89 the doctor didn’t argue with him, but did mention that wasn’t the usual protocol. Usually cancer gets treated when it’s diagnosed if the patient is healthy enough for it, and dad was.
As we walked out of the hospital he told me he was, in his words, ‘a naturalist’. To him that means that nature is perfect and what ever happens will take care of everything, and he didn’t want any medical intervention even if it meant dying. He said that if he was younger he might consider it. He thought surgery might makes matters worse at his age. He told me he wasn’t scared of dying but that living less than a full life concerned him some. He still works his own cattle and irrigates the land.
On the way out of the hospital, he asked me if I could do BodyTalk for him. Of course my answer was yes. But, I wondered if doing this work would give him false hope. This was cancer we were considering here. I told him I didn’t know if it would help or not, but it seems like he healed himself quickly with BodyTalk every time he had previously asked for a session to heal a minor ache or pain. A few years ago BodyTalk assisted him in healing gout.
I did two sessions with dad in my office and other practitioners and I did approximately eleven more sessions, with his permission, by distance.
Another biopsy was performed in May, 2012 and the doctor said the cancer was gone.
Thank you for pioneering this work, John. I realize that not every person will be able to heal themselves like he has, but in this case he did.
Warm regards from Brenda Miller, CBP

Thank you from Fred Mandeville

Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton

Author: “Punk Science” and “The Genius Groove”

Ever since I read Punk Science I was very eager to meet Dr. Samanta-Laughton. As you're probably aware I am always fascinated with being able to take complex scientific concepts and bring them down to simpler explanations and practical applications for use in healthcare. Her book was in excellent example of being able to do that, so I was fascinated to meet with this remarkable pioneer the 1st chance I got. It turns out that she knew of my work and was interested in meeting me as well.

My trip to England earlier this year provided us the opportunity. Our meeting was to serve two purposes. She wanted to interview me for her upcoming movie called “punk science” which is designed to explain and reinforce all the concepts from the book with the advantage of visual presentation. She has also interviewed many major players in progressive healthcare and science.

I was quite taken back by the carload of equipment she bought with her to make a professional job of the interview. Her assistant certainly knew what he is doing and we were soon underway. The idea was that she would interview me for 20 min. and that would eventually be edited down to a few minutes for the movie. It turns out she loved what I had to say and wanted to keep interviewing me and asked me many very searching, but very exciting questions, which bought out new information. The interview ended up lasting for 2 hours. Manjir assured me that I would still only be allocated a few minutes in her movie. However, she explained that she is establishing an online education section on her website where she is going to include the rest of the interviews that she did so that people didn't miss out on the information. My interview will also be linked to our BodyTalk website.

After the interview we went to dinner with her partner and enjoyed another 3 hours of conversation. I rarely enjoy a conversation as much as I enjoyed this one, because it seemed like our minds simply blended. Anything that each of us said, the other immediately identified with, and elaborated on. We both learned so much during the evening. I talked about the new developments in my Finding Health 2 course. In particular, the fact that I was getting spontaneous healing occurring under certain conditions, and working beyond the parameters of space and time. She then proceeded to explain the science of how and why that it would occur. Her explanation was an extension of the one I'm already giving but added new dimensions to the understanding. She pointed out that her next book would cover this subject in a lot of detail.

In the meantime, I'm integrating this new understanding into my current work on my next major workshop on the energy systems of the body. I told her that I would love for her to present her latest version of this aspect of quantum physics at a conference in Malta next year. Her reply was that she loved and supported my work and would love to come to the conference as the keynote speaker. She assured my that she would tailor her explanation to specifically verify the theories I am using in advanced BodyTalk. We have since confirmed the dates with her so she will be opening the conference.

You will love meeting her at the conference because she has such a vibrant personality and a total willingness to share information and to listen. I came away from my meeting with her very inspired to write the next workshop, as she had given me a much deeper understanding of the concepts I wanted to get across. We agreed to stay in touch and work together whenever we can. I hope to meet her whenever I go to England from now on.

I strongly suggest you read her books starting with Punk Science and visit her website, https://www.paradigmrevolution.com.

How Easy Can It Be?

During the past year I have been conducting the Treatment Intensive module all over the world. I am getting great feedback, and obviously everyone's talking because my seminars tend to book out within a day or so of putting them online.
One of the most interesting comments made is how easy BodyTalk looks. People watch me and note that I seem to be doing very little in my treatments. I do not appear to be using any of the basic modules or doing all the linking that is required in those modules. I have even had people ask me why we insist they learn the modules when BodyTalk can be so much easier to do.
There seems to be a significant misunderstanding of the processes involved in becoming a good practitioner or, for that matter, good at anything you do. It is a common observation that when we watch highly skilled craftsmen, musicians, practitioners, and just about any skillful pursuit, they make it all seem so easy! Very often we may say: “well, if it's that easy, I can do it!” However, when we try, the results are just not the same. Making beautiful sounds come out of a saxophone looks so easy until you actually try it yourself. Of course, in many of these types of pursuits it is not critical that you are good at what you do because no harm can be done.
In healthcare, the story is different. When you are not properly trained and do not understand what you are doing then you simply cannot get the results on a consistent basis. The fact is that in order to get consistently good results with predictable outcomes we need to have the essential training and understanding of the techniques used. If we do not do the hard work of study and practice, then it is basically dishonest for us to treat people based on some philosophical principle that things should be easy.
The fact is that I make things look easy because of the years of work I have put into developing, evolving and practicing the BodyTalk techniques. What is important to understand is that the basic training one undergoes in any healthcare program is actually serving to rewire the brain into a different way of thinking and understanding. Much of that rewiring occurs as a result of the understanding we gain in learning the principles involved. This takes time and practice as well as some deeper thinking about the principles being used.
Training in the basic modules of BodyTalk is a good example of the principle of brain rewiring during training. In these basic modules you are learning the philosophy and science of Dynamic Systems Theory. You are also learning how to apply this using very specific and detailed protocols and procedures. Each module teaches you a different set of procedures and initiates you into a different level of understanding. At first, this seems complex, as does all new learning that would enable you to develop a specialized skill set. However, once you have learned, and understood, the procedures and techniques, then everything starts becoming much easier.
As you deepen your understanding and the protocol and procedures become second nature, the intuitive process becomes stronger. As this happens, the rigorous yes/no process of establishing formulas ceases to require mental effort. Instead, the formulas start happening spontaneously within the mind. In the wake of this type of training process, by the time the advanced levels are reached, you no longer have to do all the basic procedures in the same way. This is because the wiring of your brain has set up an energy matrix that will run the basic techniques automatically for your client. This is why advanced BodyTalkers rarely seem to be doing the basic techniques and procedures. The fact is that these techniques and procedures are activating spontaneously as part of the interactive entanglement between the practitioner and the client. The practitioner’s focus and intent when doing the treatment session sets up the necessary filters for changes to occur. At this stage everything starts to become simpler.
The danger is that practitioners in the early stages of BodyTalk training can watch these advanced practitioners during sessions and assume they can go back to the clinic and do the same thing. This is rarely the case, because the groundwork has to be done first; the rewiring in the brain has to be done; the understanding has to be there. The point of watching advanced practitioners work is to learn and be inspired to keep learning.
Over the years I have seen a lot of harm being done to the reputation of complementary healthcare by people wanting to make some quick money in teaching seminars. These are often people who are very skilled at a system and can, therefore, get good results consistently. However, they recognize the human frailty shared by many would-be practitioners of always wanting to find an easy way to do things. To this end, they develop what appears to be a very simple system and start teaching it to people who do not fully understand what is going on behind the scenes.
Such teachers can demonstrate treatments that look to be very simple and they will get good results in most cases. However, the reason for their good results is because they have put in the work to gain the skill levels necessary to get good results while making it look very easy.
The problem is that the students will be excited by the possibility of doing so little work for such good results. They leave the workshop thinking they now have the ability to produce the type of results their teacher was getting in class. However, over my 35 years of involvement in teaching healthcare, I have seen so many cases of students using the new, easy, techniques and not getting the same results. This is especially the case with lay practitioners who have established no basic healthcare filters.
The fact remains that because of the placebo effect, any new technique, no matter how good or bad the technique or the practitioner is, will get some results in about 30% of cases. Those occasional results will maintain the enthusiasm about the technique until the long-term overview is gained. Then practitioners start noticing that most patients are not responding well and, eventually, patients become bitter about paying so much money for a “quickie fix.”
Acupuncture is a good example of this. For several years I taught a two-year postgraduate course in animal acupuncture to veterinarians. They had great results and helped establish acupuncture as a viable tool to treat animals. Unfortunately, subsequently, we saw Vets setting up “quickie” two-day courses in acupuncture so that they could charge extra because they were adding to their repertoire by using a few needles on each animal.
These vets had only been taught very simple formulas that are easy to do. Occasionally, results will occur because some of the formulas will work if the situation is just right. In the meantime, this quickie approach meant that many animals were not being helped by acupuncture when the fact is, acupuncture works very well on animals for a wide range of conditions when practiced by a skilled practitioner. Further, the reputation of part of acupuncture within the Veterinary profession has been greatly diminished because of the overall poor results achieved by the “quick and easy” courses.
I have seen the same thing happened in Applied Kinesiology. AK is a great system that has been around for quite a long time. I have been involved with it since 1975. For a while I was one of the teachers. It has never been able to get the recognition it should get from the public, and other health professionals, because of the same situation as the Vets and acupuncture. It takes years to be a skilled AK practitioner. The college in Freiburg, Germany is a 4-year course. The practitioners graduating from this college have very successful practices.
In the meantime, the credibility of AK is being compromised by the fact that many of the well-trained practitioners in different parts of the world are making money teaching quickie versions of the AK protocol. They claim to be making AK much simpler and teaching an adaptation of AK that is just as effective. How these teachers support their story is by demonstrating treatments that appear to get good results. The problem is that the good results are not because of this “special and simple” new technique, but because of their extensive deeper understanding of kinesiology, which comes into play when they're using any technique.
Unfortunately the techniques of the minimally trained students of the “special and simple AK” usually means that these techniques are around for a while until the word gets out that they're not really getting the results claimed. They then fade out of the picture, which is great. However, they have in the meantime, through the poor results, given AK a diminished reputation as a profession. These days, many people do not realize that when practiced correctly Applied Kinesiology is a full profession in its own right. Instead, the fragmentation of the techniques caused by greedy practitioners wanting to make a quick buck in the lecture circuits, has acted like a cancer to the profession. Don’t let this happen to us with BodyTalk.
The BodyTalk system is rapidly being recognized as a full profession in its own right. In the meantime, we must be vigilant not to fall into the trap of being seduced into using quickie versions of aspects of BodyTalk. The big trap involved is the incorrect use of philosophical and scientific principles. Most BodyTalk practitioners are familiar with the term “consciousness is all there is” and that everything is like a hologram, which entangles all aspects of life. This is very true at certain levels. However, the reality is that life still has its complexities because consciousness uses those complexities as seen in the manifestation we have to deal with, as part of the learning curve.
It is ignorant and dangerous to say that “we just have to believe that consciousness is all there is” and that this means we can do virtually anything we want in a simple way because, “provided we have good intentions, healing will occur.” If that were true there would be no need to learn any form of medical science because even a surgeon should be able to just say, “repair your self, Heart” and the surgery would be done instantly.
This does not mean that spontaneous healing can't be done. However, as I teach in Finding Health 2, spontaneous healing on a regular basis requires many conditions to be met. They include right patient, right time, and right practitioner at that particular time. It also means that the practitioner must have the knowledge, experience, and understanding, required for those healing processes to occur. The accumulation of those factors in the practitioner does not occur in a short course. It takes years to accumulate the wisdom, understanding, and knowledge of technique to facilitate that type of change with any degree of consistency.
That is what you go to college for. That is why you learn the modules, and learn to perfect them, so they are fully imprinted as part of the wiring of your brain and mind. When the work is done, then the fun begins. Any of you who have watched our senior practitioners treating a fellow student, will realize that the simplicity of their treatment is a direct reflection of their accumulated knowledge and wisdom.
Over-simplification of profoundly complex philosophical concepts happens all the time. At worst the student’s understandings will remain superficial. However, over-simplification of a healthcare system, through elimination of its complex underpinnings, will result in negative ramifications, for practitioners, their clients and for the healthcare system itself.
Please, let us ensure that the BodyTalk System remains a profession. Let us not support or encourage its fragmentation by endorsing courses that do not follow the scientific and philosophical principles that underpin, and are well established in our courses.

Description vs. Prescription

"The advanced formulas of BodyTalk give descriptions of the processes that enable the healing to occur. They are not prescriptions to make them occur."

John Veltheim

Ram Tzu

You can be seen sitting for hours 

Palms turned to heaven 

Eyes shut 
Your breath even as it exits your nose 
Your attention is focused. 
You’re been doing this for awhile now 
You’re getting good at it.

At first you could barely sit five minutes 

Now you can disappear for hours.

Ram Tzu has a question for you…


Why did you come back?


From No Way: A Guide for the Spiritually Advanced

by Ram Tzu (ISBN 0-929448-13-8)