Esther Veltheim

"Via the mind you can never know your true nature, but you can recognize who you are not."

~ Esther Veltheim from Beyond Concepts

The Holographic Mind

This article is based on presentations made by Dr. Francisco Di Biasi and Dr. Richard Amoroso. Dr. Di Biasi’s presentation was called “The Quantum–Informational Holographic Model of Consciousness” and Dr. Amoroso’s presentation was on the separation of Mind and brain.

I have met these men at two quantum health conferences in Brazil where we were all presenters. Although I only got to speak to Dr Di Biasi briefly on each occasion, my participation in group conversations with him inspired me to examine his work more thoroughly and ponder the way his theories can apply to a deeper understanding of the different ways the holographic universe model can be utilized in the advanced levels of BodyTalk.

I had the pleasure of having several long conversations with Richard during which he was able to help me to a much deeper understanding of the physics behind BodyTalk and the nature of the concepts I am covering in this article.

Many the concepts in this article are covered from a different angle in my “Finding Health Course”, but I felt inspired to elaborate more on this work and that of a few other scientists, because I think it makes a major contribution to the understanding of quantum health care, which is the basis of advanced BodyTalk. I have to warn you that the subject matter is pretty heavy-duty, but if you bear with me, it should be well worth your while.

Francisco Di Biasi: Francisco Di Biasi, MD, neuroscientist, is recognized as the only Grand Ph.D. of South America Awarded the Medal of Science and Peace, Albert Schweitzer, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, is author of several books, including “The Consciousness Revolution”, which was organized in partnership with Richard Amoroso. His combined knowledge of Medicine, Quantum physics, and transpersonal Psychology has contributed enormously to a new paradigm for health.

Richard Amoroso: Theoretical physicist, Acupuncturist, Psychologist, Astrophysist, Computer Scientist, Philosopher, Noeticist; Director – Noetic Advanced Studies Institute, California, USA; Director - Quantum Computing Research Laboratory, Veszprem University, Hungary; 2010 Recipient of the prestigious Telesio-Galilei Gold Medal; Lifetime honorary member, Romanian Academy of Science, Author or over 30 books, 200 academic papers and chapters in five languages; Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Medicine; Holder of 4 US Patents on Quantum Computing and related Medical Technologies.

The Overview – “Quantum-Informational Holographic Model of the Universe”

The first premise of this model is that the brain and mind are separate functions. The term “mind” can also include the concept of a localized specific aspect of consciousness or even the term Dr. Di Biasi prefers to use, “spirit”. The following slide is from Dr. Amoroso’s presentation showing microtubule events influenced by gravitational pulls of the activity of mind.

The connection between mind and brain happens by means of quantum micro–sites that are collections of nerve dendrites called dendrons.  These dendrons couple, possibly by means of gravitational forces caused by activity of the mind, to psychons  [a hypothetical term given to a unit of nerve energy].

In the bigger scheme of things consciousness is seen as having a dynamic aspect concerned with interconnecting holonomic informational quantum brain dynamics [QBD], with the quantum informational holographic nature of the universe. This dynamic aspect of consciousness can be viewed as a holoinformational flux.  This denotes a totally expanded worldview incorporating all information, which is often referred to simply as universal consciousness.

The term “quantum informational holographic nature of the universe” refers to the big picture that I’ve called universal consciousness. Whereas, when we are talking about the mind-brain interface, we are talking about the “holoinformational flux.” This holoinformational flux is self-organizing and generated by the holographic function of neural information.

Both Dr. Di Biasi and Dr. Amoroso agree that this self-organizing holographic neural function can be optimized through practices that encourage clearer and better-defined states of consciousness such as meditation, prayer, and other higher consciousness spiritual practices.  By utilizing these practices they consider it will result in harmonic states that will improve the quantum potential of the individual.

Brain mapping studies on people experiencing these harmonic states have shown a highly synchronized and exceptionally well ordered spectral array of brain waves. The results of this phenomenon demonstrates very unique harmonic patterns setting up what appears to be a harmonic symphony orchestrated in the connectome[i] of the brain.

This exceptional coherent brain state will then generate a non-local holographic informational field of consciousness interconnecting the cortical field of the human brain and the holographic cosmos [universal consciousness]. Simply speaking, people experiencing this level of consciousness will be tapping into universal consciousness during an exceptional intuitive understanding of all aspects of manifestation. The only limitations will be the knowledge filters necessary to interpret that understanding.

This model helps unite the ancient philosophical traditions of higher consciousness and the modern findings of neurophysiology by connecting consciousness -- mind -- brain. The neural circuits of the brain orchestrate holonomic quantum information, which interface dynamically with universal consciousness, which shares the same properties.  This establishes a concrete relationship of interconnectedness between consciousness and the brain. Further, the quantum nature of this relationship also means that it is nonlocal -- hence cosmic. This means that a well-trained brain has the potential to experience what Dr. D Biasi terms a holoinformational cosmovision[ii] brain. This also means that the concept of a localized holoinformational flux now has the potential to become and instantaneous universal non-local holoinformational flux.  Simply put, the science here says that there is no reason why the human mind/brain, if conditioned through meditation and spiritual practices, can’t experience universal consciousness.

Practical Application

Before we explore this concept further we should look at some of the practical applications of what has been said so far. In BodyTalk, we are very mindful that the intuitive process is the key process that not only tells us what needs to be done in any therapeutic session, but will also activate the appropriate formulas required for the patient and implement them as therapeutic change. The theory behind this concept will be covered in my online course called “The Philosophy and Science of Intuition.”

In this case the term “intuition” refers to that aspect of consciousness referred to in this current article as “instantaneous universal nonlocal holoinformational flux.” I think I prefer the term “intuition”!

BodyTalk practitioners are constantly encouraged to improve their ability to go into what we would call the “zone.” This infers the level of consciousness where our mind/brain complex is operating in an increasingly better harmonic. The deeper we go into the zone, the more powerfully we experience the phenomena described above that enables us to tap into universal consciousness at deeper and deeper levels to allow facilitation of the healing process.

This work by Dr. Di Biasi is saying to us that if, as conscientious practitioners, we continue to practice disciplines such as MindScape, meditation, BreakThrough, and other consciousness raising techniques, we will indeed eventually end up with a “universal nonlocal holoinformational” understanding of our patients, and life itself.

Karl Pribram’s Holographic System

Karl H. Pribram is a professor at Georgetown University, in the United States, and an emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and Radford University. Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHpTYs6GJhQ

In a holographic system, the information about the whole system is distributed and contained in each and every part of the system. The whole is in the parts, and each part is in the whole.

The work of Karl Prigram on brain dynamics has shown that the cerebral cortex is a site of the holographic information process that he calls a “multiplex neural hologram.” He has demonstrated that the cortexes have local clusters of neurons that do not have long fibers extending from them. These neurons are not concerned with facilitating normal nerve impulses.

These local clusters build neural holograms by the interaction of the electromagnetic fields emitted by neurons in a way similar to the interaction of sound waves in a piano. When a pianist string is struck it generates a vibrational standing wave between the two ends of the string, thereby creating an interference pattern. Constructive interference of these sounds through the surrounding strings creates the harmony or harmonics that are the notes making up the music we listen to.

Pribram was able to demonstrate that a similar process is continuously occurring in the cerebral cortex as a result of the interaction of the electromagnetic fields of the adjacent cortical neuronal clusters, thereby generating a harmonic field. He further demonstrated that these harmonic electromagnetic fields are distributed in the cerebral cortex and holographic pattern stores and encodes huge amounts of information responsible for the maintenance of memory and consciousness.

I should point out that the music is not in the piano but in the resonating field that surrounds it. In the same way our memories and consciousness [mind] are not in the brain, but in the holographic informational field that surrounds it.

This new holographic paradigm gives us a revolutionary way of thinking about the whole process of memory, mind, and consciousness that is consistent with the theoretical basis behind The BodyTalk System^TM.

The Holographic World View

The current research shows the existence of Quantum Brain Dynamics in neural microtubules, and in the synapses and molecular organization of cerebrospinal fluid. This Quantum Brain Dynamics can generate Bose-Einstein condensates combined with the Fröhlich Effect. 

Bose-Einstein condensates consist of atomic particles, (or in the case of the Fröhlich Effect, biological molecules), that demonstrate a high level of coherent alignment, functioning as a highly ordered and unified informational state. These quantum dynamics demonstrate that the interaction process between dendrons and psychons are not limited to the localized synaptic cleft, but a much wider impact throughout the whole brain. This holographic and highly ordered set of harmonics can then interphase universally according to the degree of development of each brain.

The interconnectedness between a developed brain and cosmos is an instantaneous non-local connection to the concept of a holoinformational flux, from which both mind and matter are informed -- the universal consciousness.

In this way, quantum holographic brain dynamic patterns are an active part of the universal quantum-holographic informational field. This will then lead to the generation of an informational field interconnection that is simultaneously nonlocal (quantum-holistic) and local (Newtonian-mechanistic), i.e. holoinformational.

When considering the mathematical properties of holographic systems in which the information of the whole system is distributed in each part of the system, Dr. Di Biasi proposes that this universal interconnectedness could permit access to all the information codified in the wave interference patterns existing in all the universe since its origin. This is in keeping with the scientifically accepted concept that no information is ever destroyed.

The quantum-holo-informational nature of the universe interconnects each and every “localized” brain-consciousness with all this universal information stored in the holographic patterns in an indivisible and irreducible informational cosmic unity. Hence the famous saying from all the religions and philosophies: "as above so below" (Alchemy); "all that is outside is inside" (Upanishads); "the father is inside us" and "as in the earth so in the heavens" (Christianity).

This universal interconnectedness could be perfectly understood as a Cosmic Holographic Consciousness – commonly called Universal Consciousness. One may also prefer to see it as the “intelligence” behind the concept of “intelligent design.” This would also supply the “observer” for the “observed” holographic universe that is so important as a basis of quantum physics. Otherwise we have the problem of explaining how millions of years on nonliving matter can exist without the presence of an observer.

Universal Consciousness in this interpretation, is the holoinformational flux that permits the interaction of the holonomic informational Quantum Brain Dynamics -- that can be considered as extended dendrons -- with the quantum-holographic nature of the universe, that can be viewed as an extended cosmic psychon.

Brain is material; communication is mind. We can develop highly harmonic synchronized brain/mind states through practices of deep meditation, prayer, MindScape, and other states of higher consciousness designed to elevate the coherence of mind function. This will expand our universal interconnectedness by synchronizing the functioning of the cerebral hemispheres and mind leading to a coherent brain/mind state that optimizes the holographic treatment of neuronal information.

In Dr. Di Biasi's concept, this highly harmonic synchronized state generates a nonlocal holographic informational cortical field, creating a holoinformational flux of consciousness interconnecting the human mind with the Holographic Cosmic Consciousness.

In BodyTalk terms – it connects the Mind to the Supramental Intellect thereby facilitating total utilization of intuition to access universal intelligence to the level our knowledge and training allows for interpretation.

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[i] See my article on The Connectome in my blog

[ii] An expanded world view

Imagination

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

~ Albert Einstein

The Guessing Path

by Esther Veltheim

It took many years of people telling me "you must read Marion Woodman's Addiction to Perfection!" before I actually read the book. Like any addict I dismissed these well meaning friends and the notion that I could have any such addiction. After all, I was well aware of how totally imperfect I was!

It is not that I didn't buy Marion Woodman's book. I bought it several times in fact, but somehow always ended up giving it away before I read it. Some twenty years after I first heard of it I sat down and read it, but its messages stayed swirling around on the surface of my psyche and really couldn't penetrate. The addiction was so deep and so unconscious; a true addiction.

Only in very recent times has it hit me what everyone was seeing in me that I could not. The word perfection had thrown me because it described a goal I was in total denial of aiming for. But one morning, after a night of strange dreams, I woke up and was struck by the stream of thoughts that were coming to me. One after another I watched them, horrified to see the persistence of so many reprimands. They were not new to me.  On the contrary, I was used to the mind's barrage of reprimands. I had just never, consciously, experienced the fear that fuelled them. I had never, consciously, seen the simple message that every single reprimand held.... "You must do nothing wrong!"

As I lay there that morning, these words reverberated inside my body and all I could do was sob like a little child. And that, really, was exactly who was sobbing, the tiny, stalwart girl in me who my entire life had been terrified of doing something wrong. That is not to say I had gone out of my way to be good. On the contrary, I spent the first half of my life priding myself on being a rebel. It was the safest form of strength the little girl could find. But on that morning, the adult me was finally getting in touch with how powerfully this little girl's fears were still coloring her life.

And as I lay there watching and feeling more deeply I saw what was once a fearful vulnerable little girl in me begin to transform. Her little face became serious, her fists clenched, her mind became determined. And I watched her as she took one determined step after another. Sad but determined, she began to tread the Guessing Path.....

"What is Mummy really feeling?" "Why does Daddy talk that way?" "What can I do to make everyone feel better?" "What can I do to stop him?" "What can I do to stop her?" "How can I help?" "What have I done wrong? What am I doing wrong?!" "What is wrong with me?!"

And with everything inside her telling her that, "Everything wrong is my fault!" each step down the Guessing Path became more determined. And with every step, the conviction deepened, that I was fundamentally incapable of doing anything really right, useful, helpful, worthwhile or good.

As I lay there that morning, I saw the Guessing Path and my journey along it stretching out the length of my life. Every single step of the way I knew with less and less doubt that "There is something wrong with me!"

"What am I doing wrong?" "What have I done wrong?" "Would it be wrong to do this, wrong to say that?" "Oh my goodness, I should never have done that!" "It's my fault!" "It's all my fault!"

The further I travelled along the Guessing Path the more my doubts about myself were silenced. The Guessing Path was working its magic and I knew with more and more certainty "There is something fundamentally, irreparably so wrong with me!"

Lying there, watching this journey was the first time the adult me truly felt compassion for that little girl. She was tiny, maybe four or five years old when she took that first step. Such a lively, natural, radiant little girl, finally too overwhelmed by feelings of responsibility for the pain she saw around her. She just knew it was all up to her. It was her responsibility to mend everything broken that she saw around her. She was to blame, after all!

Somehow, as I finally began to understand what the addiction to perfection meant and how it had come about in me, the reprimands began to die down. They are still not fully gone. When the playful, wonderfully spontaneous little girl inside me is dismissed in any way, the little girl who grew up reprimanding herself takes over. The adult becomes beset with doubts; guessing, guessing, guessing. But now I notice the addiction more quickly. Gradually, step-by-step I feel closer to that little girl who preceded the Guessing Path.

Perhaps, the adult me is finally turning her back on the goal of perfection, tracing her way back along the Guessing Path. How many more steps? Will I ever be able to jump off? Or, perhaps, it is simply that when there is no need to become anything at all anymore the Guessing Path will disappear. Who knows? I try not to guess.

Between and Rock and a Hard Place

By Esther Veltheim

Which way does a child turn? On the one hand the tiny infant is still close enough to the intuition and her guidance; close enough to sense that not everything mummy and daddy are saying and doing feels right or is correct.

On the other hand how can we doubt our world? We have to feel safe. Whatever it takes! ..... Even if it means turning away from self. If that is what will keep us safe that is what we will do. We are tiny, vulnerable, and we have to trust our world, become as close as possible to it; stay as close as possible to it.

On the one hand we doubt our world. On the other hand we have to trust it. Between a rock and a hard place......."If I doubt my world I will have nowhere to go, nowhere to be safe."

And life has begun. Whatever it takes! "I have to feel safe!" And self-doubt is the only option for the tiny child.

But living in self-doubt is so painful! And the tiny child continuously strengthens its belief in the world around it. And the pain begins to numb. And many times it does not feel right, but the world is becoming bigger and bigger and the tiny child has to believe, can't risk abandonment, can't risk feeling all these feelings.

And here we are; now a teenager, now an adult. We are not so close to the guidance of intuition, but she still tugs at our sleeve; still whispers in our ear. Do we trust her? Can we doubt her a little longer? That is so much easier.

And somehow, no matter where we look, the world does not fulfill us and we cannot fulfill ourselves. We want so badly now to know what this is all about.

"What is life all about?" "What is the point!?" But asking such questions means we have to turn away from our world, away from the familiar....turn back towards that place we had to abandon to stay safe.

Between a rock and a hard place....."can I feel safe anywhere?!" "What is this all about?!" "What have I done wrong?" "Who the hell am I?!" "What am I doing here???!"

But we can't bear it any more and the questions start coming. And people think we are crazy and we begin to doubt ourselves where, before, we had no doubts.....at least not as many. At least we could kid ourselves we were just fine thank you. "It was easier not to ask!" "Why did I begin trying to understand myself?" "I should have just left things as they were!"

But here I sit "between a rock and a hard place" ..... and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Something is happening. The questions. The questions are key. No time to focus on the doubts. This little child in me has so many questions. She is teaching me how to ask and what to ask. We sit here together and I make room for her......

Between a rock and a hard place.

From tiny child to adult, much of our lives we sleep between the rock and a hard place. We don't question. We don't even know the huge boulders are there; like huge blinkers, narrowing our vision, blinding us to our self, to everything; distorting our vision inside and out. We don't question anything. We know everything.....and what we don't know we are sure we can find answers for or prove.

Between a rock and a hard place.

This is where we begin our life, all of us. A choice that is no choice. But now we are grown. Maybe not "grown ups" but we are grown and we have a choice. Now we can question. Now we can doubt what we could not dare to doubt as tiny infants. Now we can question anything; everything!!....If we remember how.

Between a rock and a hard place, but at least now we have options, choices. And we can choose to lie down and sleep, "to sleep, perchance to dream." Or we can take life into our own hands, start taking responsibility for our experience....start doing.....

'WHATEVER IT TAKES!!!"

Perhaps this is a very good place to be. To begin from the beginning. Maybe there is nowhere to go, nothing to become, maybe I just need to actually be here .....maybe there is a way to be here that I have yet to discover.

Between a rock and a hard place.

Maybe there are possibilities here where I thought there were none.

The Formative Years

Recorded by Felix Schembri in Wiggensbach/Germany in the IBA office in Europe

Environmental Influence on Disease

Recorded by Felix Schembri in Wiggensbach/Germany in the IBA office in Europe

Fernando Bignardi

Graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of São Paulo (1980). Masters degree in Homeopathy, Psychosomatics psycotherapy, characterology Reichian and horsetherapy. As well as in Geriatrics and Gerontology, Behavioral Medicine and Integrative Care UNIFESP.
He is currently coordinator of the Center for the Study of Aging, Department of Preventive Medicine by UNIFESP, where, besides the epidemiological research on aging, has been developing line of research in the application of Transdisciplinary Health Care It is Lecturer and Consultant in Medicine, Corporate Sustainability and Quality of Life. He worked in companies such as Natura, Ara Cruz, Caixa Economica Federal, Alcoa, BM & F, SESI, SEBRAE, etc..
It was featured in the cover story in magazine “This is about Meditation Medicine” for his work at the Center for the Study of Aging for the results obtained with the use of meditation as a tool for healing. 

I first met Fernando briefly last year when we both lectured at the quantum health conference in Recife, Brazil. I met him again at the quantum conference in Granada, Brazil earlier this year and have since established a very strong friendship with him. He has shown a deep interest in BodyTalk and in particular the concept of it being consciousness-based, as this is a subject he is very strongly interested in. Fernando has opened many doors for me in Brazil especially in the academic world. He has considerable influence in medical education at the federal medical college in São Paulo. Through his contacts and the respect everyone holds for him, he has opened up many opportunities for BodyTalk to be heard.

Several of the co-presenters at the conferences had expressed a strong interest in learning more about my work. Particularly the principles behind it, and the philosophy and science. Renata invited a group of these scientists to a dinner at her house during my visit to Brazil earlier this year. I had a very enjoyable evening discussing many aspects of healthcare and philosophy with a group of brilliant doctors and scientists who were so open to learn and asked such good questions. I also demonstrated an advanced BodyTalk treatment on one of the participants who had quite severe health challenges and responded dramatically on the table. They all expressed an interest to know more, so through Fernando and Renata, I arranged to do an intensive special presentation over a few days to a small group of scientists when I went back to Brazil a month later. The presentation went very well and I really enjoyed it because I was able to just focus on the big picture rather than individual techniques etc.

Fernando then arranged for me to give a lecture at his university. He arranged for many of his students studying consciousness work in healthcare to join as well as many of the faculty of the university in medicine, psychology and sociology. I was given three hours for the talk and had a really fantastic time. The auditorium was packed, and the response was overwhelmingly good. I discussed the general principles and philosophy of BodyTalk and spent time explaining the way it was developed as an extension of events in my life.

Many of the people attending has since signed up to study BodyTalk and indicated they want to learn the whole system. In the meantime, I was approached by several different professors about further studies and research. Fernando and I continue to meet and have found so many common understandings about what is necessary for the future of healthcare. I am really looking forward to continuing to work with Fernando in the future both as a colleague and good friend.

Ram Tzu #2

Rams who knows this…

You will never have enough. 
There is not enough to be had.

Your satisfaction, 
However sweet, 
Is always temporary. 
And when it goes 
It leaves behind a void 
That screams to be filled.

So you go again in search 
Of completeness, 
Of fullness 
Off peace, 
Of happiness. 
But you know only to look 
For satisfaction.

A blind man in search of the sky.

You clever ones will see 
It to be a problem with 
A simple solution.

Austerity…

You strip yourself of worldly goods 
Run about naked 
Living off the labor of the crass souls 
Still bound to the yoke of desire.

Pity it doesn’t work. 
It looks so good on paper. 
But always in the deep, 
Dark recesses of your soul 
Lurks a tickle of noble want…

To be one with God.

It might just as well be a Rolls-Royce.

Fools, don’t despair. 
For you there is always hope.

From No Way: A Guide for the Spiritually Advanced
by Ram Tzu (ISBN 0-929448-13-8)

The Connectome

One of the more recent discoveries in neurophysiology is the discovery of the concept of the connectome. The principle behind the connectome has been an important basis of energy medicine. It underscores the understanding that the brain is not Cartesian in its makeup, and that it works as one large functional unit. Basically, the principle is that every neuron is connected to every other neuron in the brain in a complex configuration unique to every individual. It is this total functional unit that will then dictate the mechanics of what constitutes our character and personality.
 

The "connectome" represents the sum total of connections between all the neurons in the brain. Therefore, it is a complex fingerprint of your identity, which reveals the differences between brains, and dictates the way the brain responds to any given situation.
 

The connectome will have two distinct components based on our knowledge of how the body really works:

1. The energic, electrical blueprint of the connectome
2. The physical wiring of the brain, which is the physical manifestation of the energic blueprint.

So far, science has focused on the physical wiring, as that is the only factor the current equipment available can detect.  The term "connectome" is connectplus ome, with the ome inferring the connectome relates to the brain like the genome relates to cells. It also infers that the connectome has a strong epigenetic basis.  

The main protagonist of the connectome concept is Dr. Sebastian Seung , MIT Professor of computational neuroscience. He maintains that because the connectome of the human brain would be so complicated (billions of neurons), it could take another 40 years before there will be computers powerful enough to actually map it out completely. He points out that mapping out the connectome will be far more complicated than mapping the human genome. 

The diagram is the connectome of a Tapeworm that has only 300 neurons, which involved 7000 links. (The human brain has tens of billions of neurons.)

Fortunately, we do not have to wait that long for practical application of the understanding and implications of the connectome in energy medicine. Connectome research is now priority program for the National Institute of Health . 

The principles already discovered strongly sync with the principles of treatment used in PaRama BodyTalk.

Two Levels of Connectome function

1. The basic level is called the stable connectome. This is the circuitry that establishes the core functions of the brain that are not designed to be readily changed. This enables continuity of brain activity and essential stability in neurological processes and day to day functions of the nervous system.
2. The second level is considered unstable because it reflects our personality and many character traits. This means it would reflect our belief systems, habits, and attitudes about life.

The research has confirmed what we have known for a long time in energy medicine using techniques like BodyTalk. It demonstrates that from the moment of conception, the connectome changes throughout life. The neurons adjust or "reweight" their connections by strengthening or weakening them. The neurons reconnect by creating and eliminating synapses, and they rewire by growing and retracting axon and dendrite branches. 

Much of this new research clearly contradicts conventional wisdom in neurophysiology - the body can create entirely new neurons, axons and dendrites and eliminate the existing redundant connections. The important thing to realize here is that this would all have to occur at the energic blueprint level first, and this is where the BodyTalk techniques can be very powerful.

Dr. Seung has established the process he calls the four R's.

1. Reweighting

2. Reconnection

3. Rewiring

4. Regeneration

The process of the four R's is limited and framed by genetics. However, it has been clearly established that the largest factor involved in the changes made to the connectome are the environmental factors of life events. This confirms the principles of the BodyTalk System and other holistic-based else care systems.

Heart Connectome

It has been clearly established that the heart has billions of its own neurons that are far smaller, but more sophisticated in function than the brain . Obviously, the heart also has its own connectome. The function of this connectome will concur with the general functions of the heart-brain complex discussed in the "Eastern Medicine" course I am teaching starting in 2012. 

Therapeutic implications

The concept of the connectome and gives us a very powerful focusing tool for the formulas and techniques of energy medicine systems such as BodyTalk. At this stage, it is doubtful that the innate wisdom of the body would attempt to use our techniques on the whole connectome of the brain. However, there is no reason why we can't influence functional sections of the connectome.

Coordination Matrixes

In BodyTalk we talk in terms of coordination matrixes for various functions of the brain. For example, when we developed a skill that requires coordination, such as serving in tennis.  The process of developing that skill would involve training the energic connectome which, in turn, would activate the four R's to rewire the physical brain's connectome. Sometimes, when a stressful injury occurs to the shoulder, the coordination pattern is compromised.

The BodyTalk technique to restore this function involves the defragmentation of the coordination matrix. The effectiveness of the technique has been shown to be dependent upon the extent of the injury, the level of stress, and the time lapse between the injury and the treatment.

Up till now, the weakness of the technique was based upon focusing purely on the section of the connectome that was damaged. Now we have a few other possibilities in approach. Obviously, in keeping with the principles of the BodyTalk System, the choice of approach will be made intuitively.

1. The defragmentation/rehab formula of the specific coordination matrix can be linked to the whole connectome at a time prior to the injury. This will make available the information necessary for rehabilitation of the energic and physical connectomes.
2. In some cases, it may be better to link to the connectome of the heart at a time "prior to the injury".
3. The formula may also include a CDRRII (a common advanced BodyTalk formula) of the relationship between the coordination metrics being treated, and the current general connectome of the brain, so that changes can be made in the main connectome to facilitate the changes occurring locally, and the ramifications of them, to the whole brain function. 

I have found that using the concept of the connectome and has acted as a very powerful focusing tool in my formulas that are designed to reestablish healthy brain functions. This is why I have included a section on the connectome in my new course, "Eastern Medicine" which I'll be teaching from the beginning of 2012.

Please keep your eyes open for a future blog called "the holographic universe" which will add a new dimension to the understanding of the connectome. You will then see that all the connections in the connectome I like the strings of a piano. They are responsible for setting up harmonic standing waves that will holographically interact with all the other standing ways to produce a holoinformational network. This concept also adds new dimensions to the understanding of the main series covered in the "Finding Health 2" course.

Feelings

Unknown

A BreakThrough Treat

I have just heard that Esther has decided to initiate the new IBA training center in Sarasota, Florida by teaching a class there for IBA staff and friends. Better still – she is teaching BreakThrough 1 – a course she wrote, but hasn’t taught for many years. Even better – she is opening it up to the public as well, until spaces are filled. I can tell you it is well worth a trip to do this course in the way that only Esther can teach it.

Below, I have added a description of the course that Esther has just written:

BreakThough is an exploration of the most common, most painful and most misunderstood human experience - conflict. As challenging as this obviously sounds, what a BreakThrough 1 class involves is really an adventure in questioning in ways we have probably not done since childhood.

Although conflict resolution certainly comes about when one works with BreakThrough, it is not our primary focus. Our focus is more far reaching. Our focus is to unlearn the habits that prevent us from seeing and feeling beyond blame. In other words, BreakThrough is all about shifts in perspective. 

When we see and feel beyond blame our experience of life’s challenges transforms, as does the way we deal with them.

One technique of BreakThrough 1 is its Seven Steps process. A single story of conflict is isolated and worked with, using a specific protocol of questioning. Step-by-step, we discover that, however recent the story is; all over-reactions have their roots in assumptions adopted in childhood. 

What is more, we discover that no matter where a person is from, or what their background is, we all bear a primal wounding that is universal. With this realization alone there bubbles up such compassion for our fellow man that conflict takes on a whole new meaning. 

Suddenly we start to understand our own behavior and our experience of others in a totally different way. Once we begin living life from this very different perspective it changes the way we deal with conflict, from the ground up. We start to be far more conscious of what we are doing and why we are doing it, and, increasingly, the concepts of blame and victim consciousness show themselves to be totally unjustified - no matter what the situation is.

Rather than urging ourselves constantly to aim for a "new and improved" self, BreakThrough gives us a tool that allows us to come home to the human being we are, and to make peace with our humanness and life in general. 

Working with BreakThrough, we have the possibility of leaving childish, needy behaviors behind and, as adults, to rediscover the ability to experience life in a truly childlike, honest and open way that is truly natural to us.

This is what BreakThrough is all about…..the healing nature of conflict.

Conscience

Conscience is the boxing ring 
in which good and bad are pitted 
against one another. 
Guilt is the biased referee
we keep on the payroll to 
mediate between our should and 
should nots and to ensure 
that all fights are fixed 
before they even begin.

Esther Veltheim 

Scientific Acceptance of Complementary Healthcare

As you are probably aware I was published in JAMR, the Journal of Alternative Medical Research earlier this year, which is a peer-reviewed journal circulated primarily in Europe. The editors and review committee I dealt with at the journal proved to be very cooperative in helping me promote the concepts of BodyTalk.

Their enthusiasm to look at alternative and complementary healthcare systems to enhance the medical model impressed me. There is now a scientific committee that has been set up with the purpose to promote awareness of complementary and integrative medicine throughout the whole healthcare system in Europe.

This committee also organizes regular conferences on a very large-scale to further this promotion. The most recent conference was the Jerusalem International Conference on integrative medicine held in Jerusalem From May 13th to 15th, 2012. It was very well attended and had dozens of presentations on all aspects of integrated medicine. I will try to keep you posted on the future conferences because we really should be trying to attend them whenever possible.

I was honored to be invited too join the scientific committee. I have listed the committee members below so that you can see the caliber of people who are involved with this project. There is exceptional diversity and wisdom among the many members of the committee. It is great that they saw fit to invite me on the committee because I was the founder of the BodyTalk System, which they are endorsing.

Scientific Committee http://www.brainconference.com/en/index.php?page_id=8

Chong Mai Meridian

The Chong Mai meridian is one of the eight ancestral meridians that have a very important function in traditional Chinese acupuncture as regulators of the 12 main meridians. The reason they are called ancestral meridians is that, from a Chinese medical point of view, they are the main controllers of our genetic ancestry. This is another way of saying they are the most powerful way of influencing genetic and epigenetic diseases in the body from the point of view of traditional acupuncture. 

Many colleges and courses on Chinese medicine do not address the ancestral meridians because of the lack of understanding of how they function, and a fear that treating them directly may have adverse epigenetic effects. It is true, that if addressed carelessly by the untrained practitioner using acupuncture needles, some nasty side effects can occur. However, when they are addressed using advanced BodyTalk formulas, they can give rise to incredibly powerful results without any fear of side effects. This is why I have included them in my new “Eastern Medicine” course. 

The main Chong Mai pathway starts in the perineum, then flows up to a point just above the pubic bone, and continues to flow bilaterally right up through the abdomen into the chest, and then up into the face. It gives out many branches to all the vital organs, and its main function is to regulate the Qi and blood in the 12 main meridians and their corresponding organs. 
Its upward energy flow helps to maintain the position of the organs. Any weakness in the Chong Mai will lead to prolapse. (The Spleen meridian also shares this function of maintaining bodily structures in place and preventing prolapse.) It also strengthens everything in its pathway by filling the organs and tissues with healthy Qi and blood. It also fills the breasts. [Diminished breast size where tone has been lost, relates to functional disturbance of the Chong Mai and Spleen meridians.) 

During pregnancy, it plays a very large role in nurturing the fetus. If the mother’s vitality is low, or she’s not eating well and under too much stress, there will be a tendency to drain the reserves of the Chong Mai in order to assure a healthy baby. After the birth, the weak Chong Mai will result in poor circulation of blood and Qi to the body. There may also be diminished breast milk as the Chong Mai is very involved with producing the milk. Depression, and general tiredness develop quite quickly.

If the Chong Mai is not replenished, then once the mother stops breast-feeding, the breasts will tend to diminish in size and tone, and will end up smaller than they were before the pregnancy. Another cause of this pathological scenario is when the mother has an episiotomy or cesarean birth. If the scars do not heal well, they will block the flow of the Chong Mai. The BodyTalk or acupuncture scar treatment techniques are invaluable in this case. 
Interesting observation: Clinical experience has shown how transverse scars of the abdomen can have a powerful influence on the meridians flowing through the area; particularly the Chong Mai. It is quite common for a woman to undergo a hysterectomy and find that over the next year she becomes unusually tired, and feels her body is deteriorating. She’s prone to constipation, poor digestion, weak lungs, sagging breasts, and loss of tone in the facial muscles and skin. When she tells her medical doctor about this happening since the hysterectomy, he reassures her that he only took out her uterus, and that cannot affect the body in the way she describes! 

The reality is that the hysterectomy scars (internal and external) can effectively block most the flow of the Chong Mai, which would give rise to all those symptoms. Addressing the scar tissue will not necessarily correct the problem; the Chong Mai will also need to be addressed specifically. During my many years of practice I have literally seen dramatic regeneration of the body in hundreds of cases. I have also seen numerous cases of women who have diminished breast size and tone since the pregnancy, have that size and turn replenished even 10 years after having their last child. 

In modern times, where there is continuing stress exhaustion, it is often the Chong Mai meridian that suffers the most. The Chong Mai works at its best when the body has abundant energy and is stress-free. In a sense it is considered the energy system indicative of good health because when the Chong Mai is “full” the whole abdominal cavity is filled with nurturing energy, the organs are vital, the breasts are full, the lungs are strong, and the face is wrinkle free.

Another indicator is the strength of the relationship between blood and Qi. This can clearly be seen in the menstrual cycle of women. When the blood is weak, the menstrual flow is scanty or nonexistent. When Qi is weak, there is often very heavy menstrual flow, or even flooding.

When the Chong Mai is not filling the heart, there is a strong tendency to emotional heart pain, depression, and a general inability to experience joy in life. This will also give rise to a tendency to want to over-protect the heart in relationships, leading to an inability to fully express oneself, particularly in aspects of love and acceptance.

Filling the lungs with adequate Qi and blood is obviously a very important function. Weakness in this area makes the lungs vulnerable to infection, certain types of asthma, and respiratory disorders.

The Chong Mai doesn’t have specific effects on individual aspects of the digestion however, it will create a general weakness in digestive function and inhibit the whole process of the breakdown and absorption of food.

On top of all that, this very important ancestral Meridian can be used to address epigenetic disorders related to all those functions mentioned above. Up to this point, no course offered by the IBA, (including the Chinese Medicine course offered until it was discontinued at the end of last year), has addressed the ancestral meridians because we did not have an appropriate treatment protocol for addressing them. Now an excellent treatment protocol has been developed and proven. The details of the protocol will be a very important part of this section of the new “Eastern Medicine” course offered early in 2012.