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September/October 2010 Alternative Health
BodyTalk Access: Balancing the Brain and Body

by Dr. John Veltheim

The BodyTalk System uses state-of-the-art energy medicine to optimize the body’s internal communications and allows it to more effectively respond to injury and illness. The system and its related wellness and personal growth programs draw on natural energy fields to bring stability, well-being and balance to people, animals and the environment.

BodyTalk Access is a complete system in its own right and stands apart from the general BodyTalk System. Access comprises five basic techniques — cortices, switching, hydration, body chemistry and reciprocals.

Cortices is by far the most commonly used technique in BodyTalk. It is the first technique a practitioner will use in almost every treatment, because it is so important in establishing the general healthy functioning of the brain.

The cortices technique is designed to bring about systematic corrections to the brain. The theory is that we are balancing the two halves of the brain, the left and right hemispheres, the masculine and feminine brain, the mechanical side and the creative side.

The cortices technique fosters better communication between the two hemispheres through the corpus callosum, thus enabling this communication to occur at all levels. The corpus callosum, consisting of over 200 million nerve fibers, is the largest connective pathway in the brain. It connects the left and right sides to each other.

The cortices technique also improves circulation within the brain — on many levels. Besides the obviously important blood circulation within the brain, the circulation of the cerebrospinal fluid and the lymphatic drainage of waste-product electrolytes from brain activity also are increased. In addition, the flow of meridian energy and other subtle energy systems critical for healthy brain function are improved.

While the cortices treatment helps repair the functioning of the amygdala system and its relationship to the thalamus, the hypothalamus, hippocampus and prefrontal cortex (which improves the body’s ability to deal with stress), it can also bring someone out of shock so their brain can function far better.

When you bring someone out of a mild state of shock, it means they are going to repair their own body better. For example, when someone is in a state of mild shock, the brain is not going to be very observant. We are not just talking about being switched off to the world around you — we have to remember that, to the brain, the body is the world around it. We find that people very often will live with chronic viruses, infections, parasites or allergies because the body is in shock.

Thus their immune systems are not observant enough to pick up the existence of those microbes in the body and therefore are not attacking them and killing them off. As a result, a person can live with fatigue, pain, headaches or what is sometimes diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia because their defense systems are being compromised due to mild shock.

All BodyTalk techniques rely on a tapping process to bring them into effect. The light tapping is used to activate the communication required and to store the memory of the changes that are being made. The tapping process involves spreading the fingers to reach over both hemispheres of the brain and gently tapping on the head. This alternates with the fingers lightly tapping over the center of the chest on the sternum to activate the energetic heart complex.

How to Tap

Tapping of the brain is accomplished by spreading the fingers and thumb so that both hemispheres are contacted across the midline of the skull. Tapping of the heart is done over the center of the chest on the sternum or breastbone with the focus on the heart underneath. All tapping is done lightly at a comfortable speed.

The tapping is alternated between the brain and heart while the contact points are either indicated energetically or physically held. It is not necessary to synchronize the tapping with the breathing.

Note that it is possible to access the heart energy not only by tapping on the sternum, but, if it is more convenient, by tapping on the back in between the shoulder blades. The heart’s energy pattern is accessible from all sides.

The Cortices Technique

Place one hand, with fingers together, at the base of your skull, so that it straddles both sides of your head and covers the top of the neck and the bottom of the skull. While holding this position, tap the head and then the sternum with your other hand, alternating for two full breath cycles.

Your focus while tapping out the cortices is on connecting all points of the right hemisphere of the brain to the left hemisphere and highlighting and eliminating all the “cold spots” of diminished blood supply or cellular activity that are present.

Now move your hand up onto your head just above the position you just held. (You are going to systematically cover the whole head one hand-width at a time.) In the new position, tap out your head and sternum, alternating for two full breaths.

Repeat this procedure until you have covered the whole midline of the head from the base of your skull to just above your eyebrows, making sure that the entire brain is covered. Your hand positions may overlap to ensure that no areas are left untouched.

Now cover the sides of your head to balance the temporal lobes of your brain. After holding both sides of your head for a few seconds, let go with one hand, and while still holding one side of your head, use your other hand to tap on your head and then on your sternum. After each head and sternum tapping, place your tapping hand back onto the side of your head for a few seconds. Continue this process for at least two full breath cycles.

John Veltheim, D.C., B.Ac., author of BodyTalk Access, is a chiropractor, traditional acupuncturist and founder of the International BodyTalk Association. In 1995, he developed the BodyTalk System. Visit www.ibaglobalhealing.com.