What is BodyTalk?

BodyTalk is an amazing new healing modality designed to bring harmony and communication to the body.

Created by John Veltheim in the mid-1990s, BodyTalk is one of the newest forms of energy medicine.  It is also the fastest growing health care system in the world.

BodyTalk acknowledges that within each of us is an innate wisdom that knows how to heal the body-mind complex.  Everyone has experienced the body’s own healing power—when you get a cut, scrape, or burn, your body forms a scab, then a scar that soon covers the original wound.  All this happens without much conscious effort from us—we don’t have to think about directing our white blood cells or lymph to a site of injury; the body does that of its own accord, much like the heart continues to beat and the lungs continue to breathe without any help from our conscious mind.

However, with continuous stress—whether it is emotional, physical, or mental—the body’s natural healing powers can become compromised.  When this occurs, communication within the body breaks down.  This is the root of disease in the body.

BodyTalk uses neuromuscular biofeedback to communicate directly with the body’s innate wisdom.  The practitioner quite literally talks to the body and asks, “What is the priority?” allowing the body to guide the practitioner to the specific sites between which communication has been compromised and restore that communication by tapping gently on the head.

Why We Tap

Tapping on the head allows the brain to focus on and repair the link.  Tapping gently interrupts the natural flow and rhythm of the nerves and cerebrospinal fluid, thus allowing the body to change its relationship with that organ, endocrine, or body part.  It’s like pressing the “reset” button on your computer.

Tapping on the chest invites the heart to store the changes.  The heart is the master organ of the body, and as such, will make the changes lasting and permanent.

End of Session

The body knows when it’s had enough.  As the body’s innate wisdom guides the session, it becomes aware of exactly how many changes it can incorporate at a time.  Some sessions last for 45 minutes to an hour.  Other sessions contain only a few links and last 15 minutes.  It just depends on the body and what it is capable of changing at that time.