BODYTALKS: Your Monthly Health News AND MORE:
2011
take care of your heart
The deepest imbalances in the body come from the deepest conflicts in the mind. Every time we question our own belief systems we become clearer in our understanding of who we are.
--John Veltheim, Bodytalk Founder
Part of my role as a practitioner, according to the International Bodytalk Association, is to become more neutral in my world view so that I can become less judgmental of myself and my clients. As my clarity increases, science tells us, my clients are able to see themselves more clearly. As part of maintaining my international certificate as a registered BodyTalk Practitioner, I’m required to take 32 hours of professional development every two years. Also, in order to maintain my certificate to teach BodyTalk Access, I must teach at least 30 students per year. In 2010, I completed Parama 1, the masters level of Body Talk, took Free Fall 3, an invitation-only course with Bodytalk founder, Dr. John Veltheim, in Kelowna, re-registered (monitored) Mindscape, and Modules 1, 2, 3, and took the new Structural Integration course in Seattle. It’s been an amazing year. I love sharing this work. Thank you for all your enthusiastic responses to these newsletters. As I write, I am able to ground the theoretical and the practical. Your listening helps you to do the same as you read and respond. I’VE LEARNED TO TWEET. FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER http://twitter.com/#!/stensonbodytalk
This month’s newsletter offers you an intriguing perspective and appreciation for the brain, the heart brain and the pelvis.
We know our belief systems are carried in our subconscious as a personal list of recipes for a successful life.
These expectations are taught to us by our family, culture, and life experiences. Each of them involves a list of attitudes, behaviour patterns and ways of living that we think will result in the perfect life or at least keep us from death, i.e. surviving the best way we know how. But what truly is the impact of storing these beliefs?
Bodytalk is healthcare that is geared to individuation—in other words, a system designed to peel away the layers of coping and defense mechanisms, release unprocessed events, and begin to question the efficacy of long-held beliefs.
A modality which shifts the need for approval from others and hence the need for masks that conceal our true selves. And it’s called BodyTalk because our essential essence, our authentic or natural selves, is already here. We’re born with it. We need to let it shine through. And I’m not speaking psychologically here, or simply physiologically but we have energetic rhythms that resonate with our own personal sounds, a mantra, made just for us. This mantra is located in the thalamus, the relay centre of the brain.
People attracted to Bodytalk are usually seeking to heal their own split mind.
All balancing is essentially consciousness-balancing which provides important insights for understanding ourselves. Practicing Bodytalk can be a very effective practice that surrenders guilt, blame and shame and replaces them with humility and relaxation: humility and relaxation at the physiological levels feels like BEING COMFORTABLE IN YOUR OWN SKIN.
As concepts and beliefs dissolve, practical actions are given full weight. When this happens, the ebb and flow of life supports and carries you forward without effort or struggle. Does that mean one sits in the lotus position with a smile on the face twenty-four hours a day? No. Does it mean relinquishing goals. Not exactly? Does it mean no more judgement or conflict? No. It means experiencing the present moment without the anxiety, the doubt, the impatience and the static. It means tuning in to the life you know you want to live. The life many of us are already living.
HOW?
The cortices technique addresses the fundamental issue preventing healing: the split mind. While this may seem an oversimplification, it conveys the idea that physical mental, emotional and spiritual healing all come from unifying the consciousness of the bodymind.
Parama Studies—The Masters Level of BodyTalk
THALAMUS CENTRAL: # 5 THE ANTERIOR NUCLEAR GROUP
Section 5 of the thalamus:
All our behaviour patterns of the past, family, culture, associating memory to learning reside here. Our memories teach us how to think and how to react. The adage: We learn by example has its base in physiology—the thalamus 5.
The good thing about this neurological function is that we don’t have to re-learn how to brush our teeth each morning or how to get to work or who that handsome man or woman sleeping in our bed happens to be.
However, what happens if this part of the brain is out of balance?
Suddenly, our sensory perceptions are clouded by memory.
The thalamus has an enormous impact upon the body. We see what we believe we see and not actually what we see. And sadly, we don’t even know that we are seeing it incorrectly because memories are so darn strong that they build networks (webs) of memories which intensify over time. A dog frightens us. A dog bites us. We are wary of dogs. A dog barks across the street. A dog attacks a child in a film. We read about dogs in the paper. Our one incident with a dog many years ago suddenly becomes entangled with all of these other associations.
Consequently, beliefs about life dominate our sense and we interpret the world according to our past experiences. Sound like fun? You can see that this section of the brain is strongly tied to our emotions.
It is by balancing the 16 sections of the hypothalamus that we can recognize the structure of our essential nature. The parts that come up during a session will help the client gain insight into which areas of their lives are being lived unconsciously, i.e., paralyzed by past traumas that have overwhelmed the brain.
Think of an overloaded breaker—it turns off to prevent a major collapse. However, when the brain or part of the brain “overloads and shuts off” we are turning out the lights of consciousness.
In other words, no one is driving the boat, my friends.
That shutdown of the brain can be detected in an EEG scan too. The result will show a lack of activity which is labeled a “cold spot”, a delightful euphemism for NOBODY HOME. No circulation of blood, lymph, nerve, chi, consciousness, EMFS, no proton, soliton, electron, movement. If the brain isn’t aware that something is “blown” it can’t fix it.
Tapping out the cortices daily will eliminate these cold spots. Ask me how or look for Dr. Veltheim’s demo on YOUTUBE or www.bodytalksystem.com. You can also accelerate the process of removing the overwhelm with bodytalk sessions.
As the thalamus gets healthy, the lights turn on. The health of the thalamus is truly our most reliable indicator of wakefulness.
It is also vital to the neural feedback system controlling brain wave rhythms. If the brain isn’t receiving the information that the knee is out or the finger is cut or there is inflammation in a joint, it can’t fix it. Think of a record spinning round and round and no one noticing that the song has stopped. All proprioceptive impulses go through the thalamus.
The thalamus is the routing station for all incoming sensory impulses. Its health equals integration of mind, body, spirit.
We know the brain has been programmed by the past but we also know the brain is plastic. It’s a quick study. We won’t know what you need until we ask. The stance BT takes is to be flexible and anti-Cartesian breaking down the barriers to the superconscious mind. We simply fight the habits, get to specifics, get the brain’s attention and turn on the lights.
The Heart Brain
Gives Valentine’s Day a whole new look!
Understanding the Heart
In the Soncino Hebrew-English edition of Job, according to scholar, Roger Nash, in The Poetry of Prayer, they translate the word heart as “cockerel”.
The crowing of the cockerel warns us, even forewarns us, of dawn. The heart then, is how we live to our full natures, as beings who can look out, alertly, at natural events beyond our control, perhaps anticipating them, but, marking them by celebrating or singing, rather than seeking to change them.
Even when “natural” disasters befall us, we can continue to sing blessings. Through contemplation of the heart, we may be cured of “double-mindedness”.
The heart provides intelligent mediation between the individual, diversified self and the universal/unified Self. Unfortunately, the intellect’s capacity to stonewall the heart doesn’t make for intelligent living.
The little self is stored behind the heart and diaphragm.
The big self or atman resides in the right atrium of the heart.
The heartbrain interprets at a deeper level than the cortices. The thalamus interprets the five senses but the heartbrain interprets the subtle senses—our clairvoyance, audience, sentience etc.
A healthy heart changes its pace dramatically at all times in reaction to the environment. The heart should call the shots since it is our essential nature.
However, the degree of unconditional love experienced by the child in the first three years of life profoundly affects the functioning of the heart for life.
We need the imprint of feeling safe, nurtured, in harmony and balance with peace and love. How were the first three years of your life?
Treating the heartbrain means moving beyond knee-jerk reactions. BODYTALK TREATS THE HEARTBRAIN.
And you can bring more heartbrain consciousness into your business, relationships, families, your art, writing, projects, landscaping, re-modeling. Remember lying in the grass and finding shapes in clouds? That’s the heartbrain. Remember the feeling after making love—every cell in the body active and alive? Heartbrain. Ever feel happy for no particular reason? Heartbrain. (You can find out more at heartmath.com)
The heart is the first organ formed in the body. It is linked to the maintenance of and changes to RNA and DNA as it influences the genetic development of the fetus. That makes sense.
The heart effectively communicates via the blood to every cell in the body and the heart frequency which reaches well beyond the body up to 12 feet or more communicates with the frequencies of the world.
A spring cleaning directed at the heart cuts unnecessary habits, beliefs, needs, and fears. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!! CELEBRATE LOVE YOUR WAY.
Learning from the heart is a superior form of learning. More creative. More natural. Gets rid of useless neural connections that cause static in the body mind.
A heartbrain-dominated person focuses on new growth and new possibilities based on love, compassion, mutual understanding and cooperation. Whereas a reptilian-brain-dominated person must focus on survival mode which breaks down nurturing heart qualities (openness, trust, possibility, insight) because fear dominates and stonewalls the communication lines.
Healing the heart accesses imaginative, innovative solutions.
If you’d like to do heart-training to supplement your bodytalk sessions (I’ve done years of it and am amazed by the power of it), email Rod Punnett, somasense@shaw.ca or call Rod, 250-642-3542. Rod is doing cutting-edge work with heartbrain sensitivity and presencing work. I am grateful for his research and expertise and I urge you to find out more.
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Susan Stenson and John Veltheim, the founder of BodyTalk.
We invite you to further your studies in the coming months:
BodyTalk Access in Duncan, Feb. 20 with instructor Susan Stenson!
· Maintain good health with Access |
More Upcoming courses:
February 11-13 2011 - FreeFall 1 with Kristy Kenny in Vancouver
http://www.bodytalksystem.com/seminars/details.cfm?id=14013
(THERE WILL ALSO BE A FREEFALL 1 IN VIC. IN NOV.)
A MUST-DO COURSE!
March - BodyTalk Access with Karla Kadlec in Victoria
April 8-10 2011 - BreakThrough 1 with Brenda Miller in Vancouver
http://www.bodytalksystem.com/seminars/details.cfm?id=13806
May 7-10 2011- Module 1&2 with Amanda Rollefstad in Victoria
http://www.bodytalksystem.com/seminars/details.cfm?id=14295
October 15-18 2011 – Module 4/7 with Amanda Rollefstad in Victoria
http://www.bodytalksystem.com/seminars/details.cfm?id=14318
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abundance is all around . . . what do you see?
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BODYTALK TESTIMONIAL
Hi Susan,
When I came into the apartment tonight after our session, I knew that I had to move. I feel sad thinking about leaving this place because it is such a beautiful, spacious suite yet there is no insulation. So, there you have it.
I have been looking for apartments online and in the paper along with bringing boxes home to get me motivated to begin the move. I haven’t been able to muster up the energy-no wonder after our session today!
I want to live in an environment that supports me mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually-THANK-YOU for that
I feel so fortunate to have found you! I have SO appreciated all of your support and healing work since I first walked into your office bawling my eyes out after spotting your book of poetry –My Mother Agrees with the Dead on the coffee table. That was 3 years ago...can you believe that?
I look forward to a renewal of energy that will move me through this time with ease and clarity.
Have a great rest of the week-end. .
Christie xx
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Women’s Health Care Ignored From the Waist Down
January 12, 2011 by Carol King from Ms. Magazine on-line http://www.msmagazine.com/
When it comes to health care, who would deny that prevention is preferable to treatment? I’m right there when public health recommendations include tobacco-free living, a reduction in alcohol and drug abuse and healthy eating. So I’m behind the president’s National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council, which he established in June. The council developed a national prevention, health promotion and public health strategy, complete with recommendations [PDF] that “provides an unprecedented opportunity to shift the nation from a focus on sickness and disease to one based on wellness and prevention.”
But guess what’s missing? Any mention of reproductive health care, aside from HIV/AIDS and eliminating health disparities based on gender. There’s nothing about prevention of unwanted pregnancies. Nothing.
I wasn’t surprised, though. “We have a ‘waist up wellness’ model that seems timid about even mentioning sex,” said Lon Newman, Executive Director of Family Planning Health Services in Wisconsin.
Yet sexual health is an important component of overall health and should be included in this important national strategy.
BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT WAIST-DOWN HEALTH DURING THE CHECK-IN FOR YOUR NEXT SESSION. There are no taboos with bodytalk. And always remember to bring your dreams, too.
by Susan Stenson
Faith
(after reading Don Domanski and walking on Muir Beach, Nov. 2010)
Who can believe otters hold hands
in a circle when they sleep?
To learn to love like that?
Moon-sensed and mad-capped.
Like girls these days on the beach.
Dragging their dreams through sand
looking for love, or synonyms for love,
a poem, a rock, a baby?
Who do we think we’re kidding?
Everything is a monk.
The pathetic slug booted
off the gene pool list
expects us to step on him:
perfect Buddha of the woods
doesn’t need a mail-order kit
to check ancestral fact, proof
from the ancients he’s a slug.
Doesn’t stand on the shore
with two arms outstretched,
waiting for a sign he marries.
Perhaps faith is a talent. We know
love takes time to hedge its bets.
Susan’s Distance BodyTalk Sessions
Save $10.00 by having a Distance Session
Do distance sessions really work?
You betcha’. . .
Please let your friends and family know that distance sessions are available. Call to book a DISTANCE session or to purchase a gift session for a friend. 250-478-6008. I have worked with clients in Ontario, New York, B.C., California, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Israel, France, South Africa, Australia, Quebec and Swaziland.
Distance sessions are not just for those clients who live far away. Distance sessions are great if you can’t get to my office. Simply email me for a time and we can do the session over the phone. Too busy for a phone call? No problem, I will do the session and email you the links. Both types of distance BodyTalk are equally effective.
Some clients do a combination of distance and “real time” sessions as they find both types so effective. If there is an issue that seems to be dragging its heels, for example, perhaps one invested in shame or guilt, sometimes, a distance session can access that since our “masks” are not present: i.e., I don’t have to impress you and you don’t have to impress me.
The powerful healing qualities of distance sessions cannot be underestimated. I receive distance sessions often and each time the results are amazing.
Susan Stenson, CBP, B.Ed, M.Ed. Access Instructor
"Tapping into Total Health with BodyTalk"
Susan Stenson began her BodyTalk studies in 2003 and certified with the International Bodytalk System in 2004. With respect and clarity, Susan works with clients in a safe, non-invasive manner in her office on Keewatin Place in the High Quadra area of Victoria. She really appreciates your referrals. Thank you.
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