An interesting presentation by Alex Theory about sound and how it can affect and interface with the physical body.
Alex Theory a sound visionary draws upon extensive training in psychology, integrative medicine, and psychoacoustic music production to innovate new styles of music and media. In Alex’s speakeasy session he discusses the power of sound and how to discover it. Alex also talks about the transformation of sound and the technology of it through the years.
By Tessa Boase
Published: 12:00PM GMT 22 Jan 2010
Have you ever wondered how the superhuman among us – the Barack Obamas, the Oprah Winfreys – manage to appear so gleaming, so lucid, so centred apparently all the time? Don’t they ever have an off day?
Obama, who this week celebrated his first year in office, shares a little secret with Oprah. They are reportedly both fans of “BodyTalk”, the alternative healthcare system of the moment, now finding converts in Britain.
BodyTalk is based on the belief that the body knows how to heal itself but, like a computer, can get overloaded, leading to malfunction. A BodyTalk practitioner offers no diagnosis or prescription, just a “rewiring” session using muscle testing and light tapping on the head and sternum to re‑establish channels of communication within the body. Then the body will start functioning optimally again.
Words like “innate”, “healing” and “wisdom” set off alarm bells for me, especially when used together. But look past the jargon – and past the fact that this is a booming Florida business whose founder, Dr John Veltheim, resembles an outsize elf with bushy beard and evangelical smile – and there is sense in recognising the body as a “whole” with interconnecting systems. After all, we know that when one thing goes wrong, diverse other symptoms can crop up.
Veltheim, an Australian, once ran a busy clinic for Chinese medicine, acupuncture, chiropractic and naturopathy. He became exhausted, got ill and couldn’t recover. The long search for a cure led him to experiment with blending these and other alternative therapies, creating “acupuncture without needles”.
His eureka moment came in 1995 with the discovery that you can literally tap into the body’s energy circuits by using simple muscle testing to discover areas of sluggish communication. Tapping on the head then tells the brain to “fix” the faulty circuit, followed by tapping on the heart to “store” the fix, just like a computer downloading a programme.
Confused? Cynical? London-based practitioner Britt Jorgensen was when she first encountered BodyTalk on a yoga retreat in the United States four years ago. “People were talking about this miracle cure,” she says. But no one could come up with a description that made sense to her.
Three weeks later, Jorgensen booked onto a BodyTalk course in New York and was captivated. She started practising on her husband, on friends and children, and says the results were demonstrable. Backache disappeared. Depression lifted. Skin complaints cleared up. Hyperactive children sat still. She continued training, gave up her high-powered job and qualified as a practitioner, treating people for complaints as varied as phobias, slipped discs and digestive problems.
I put Jorgensen to the test with a clutch of minor ailments: stiff back, aching wrist, sore throat – plus an unhealthy surfeit of anger. I lie on the treatment table and she wiggles my hand and arm, then lightly taps my head and chest bone. She also holds my feet briefly and lays a hand over my middle (she picks up straight away on the anger: the liver meridian apparently needs “balancing”).
Does she have healing hands? No. BodyTalk is an “energy medicine”, based on scientific principles. Veltheim has used neuroscience to back his findings, including a recent experiment in which the brain’s responses to BodyTalk were monitored. I leave the treatment room still unconvinced. The tapping feels too much like knocking on wood – vague optimism rather than hard science.
But, one month later, the results of three sessions have shaken my scepticism. All physical complaints disappeared within hours of treatment. More surprising has been my change in mood: I feel increasingly clear-headed, light-chested, optimistic and energetic, as if the white noise of 21st-century urban life has been switched off in my head.
I still don’t know how it works, but then I don’t understand what my computer repair man does either.
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“One of the problems in our society is that most peoples’ brains are not working well, certainly nowhere near as well as they should. Essentially they have been hijacked by the amygdala system, which is the fight-flight system that is designed to keep us alive.
These days, the stresses of living often cause the amygdala to malfunction.”
—Dr John Veltheim. Founder of The BodyTalk System TM
The Cortices technique is by far the most commonly used technique in BodyTalk. A main goal of BodyTalk is to have the brain functioning extremely well, because when the brain is functioning well, it can control the health of the body by ensuring the right communications are happening and the right instructions are going out.
The BodyTalk System is an energy-based technique, based on the scientific premise that energy comes first and matter follows. A great deal of communication within the brain and from the brain to the rest of the body is occurring at a much higher level through energy systems such as meridians, the flow of electrons, protons, solitons, and electromagnetic frequencies.
The brain and the heart are huge electromagnetic frequency generators, and their frequencies are part of the communication system. When we balance the energic level of the electromagnetic blueprint, we are going to profoundly affect all these electrical circuits. Further, we find that, clinically, the balance even affects the physical neurological circuits. The result of this better communication in the brain enables the brain to settle down and better coordinate its activities.
What is the future of healthcare?
New perspectives from quantum science show us that we need to completely re-think our approach to modern health care.
The BodyTalk System is based on the quantum paradigm that everything is energy/consciousness.
With this approach, we are working with the causal level of imbalance which can result in illness and disease, rather than the symptom or manifestation level.
“We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and their ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.”
—Aaron Antonovsky (1987). Unraveling the Mystery of Health: How People Manage Stress and Stay Well
To be human is to be in a state of constant change. 
When we are experiencing the flow and purpose of life we are able to cope with almost anything that causes change in our circumstances and environment. This is known as resilience.
When we feel that we have no control over our life’s direction, our relationships with the people around us and our environment, we experience stress.
Stress is a state of incoherence and imbalance — and the good news is — it can be changed.
Eliminating or reducing your vulnerability to stress can be the key to improving your health and wellbeing. BodyTalk is a safe, gentle and effective system that can assist you on your journey to health.
Your body is designed to heal itself.
When all parts and systems of the body communicate with each other, healing happens naturally.
However stress, injury and illness can cause communication breakdowns, resulting in discomfort and disease.
BodyTalk identifies these breakdowns and uses a light tapping technique to restore communication, helping the body to heal itself.
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