Chapter 4

Reestablishing Communication

The key element in maintaining health in the body is to reestablish communication between all the systems and parts of the body. In this way, the body can synchronize its activities, heal, and adapt to the stresses of life.

Then, at the turn-of-the-century, physicists and mathematicians discovered that everything wasn't that simple. The laws of relativity and quantum mechanics quickly showed the scientists that the simplistic model of the clock was not valid except in relative conditions. Although quantum mechanics proved this some ninety years ago, there is still a primitive tendency to approach medicine, and the treatment of the body along the archaic Cartesian lines of reasoning. This still occurs because it appeals to our natural tendency to want to use simple logic to explain the world despite all the evidence to the contrary. That is, that there are no logical or ultimate explanations.

By tracing the discoveries of quantum mechanics through to the present time, we see the evolution of the holographic paradigm. Quantum mechanics views the world as being in constant dynamic interaction at all levels; nothing existing in, and of itself. Everything, from this perspective, exists only as part of a dynamic system, with each part reflecting the whole.

Bells theorem emphasizes that "no theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require specially separated events to be separate." In other words, all distant events are constantly interconnected and interdependent. This implies that each and every electron must know exactly what every other electron in the universe is doing in order to understand what it, itself, has to do at any given moment. This further implies that every atom in the universe is constantly "in touch" with "all that is". This universality (or interconnectedness) of substance corresponds to the concept of a consciousness that is cognizant of everything - collectively and individually. This paradigm postulates that every microscopic part of our body knows exactly what every other part is doing and is responding accordingly. The innate wisdom of the individual body is therefore connected to the wisdom of Totality as a Whole. By utilizing this wisdom, we are tapping into universal consciousness.

In his book, The Web of Life, Fritjof Capra  summarizes the view of the famous quantum physicist Geoffrey Chew who developed the "bootstrap" theory to explain the observed phenomena of sub-atomic particles: 

The "bootstrap" philosophy declares that we must abandon the idea of fundamental building blocks of matter. There are no fundamental entities whatsoever – no fundamental constants, laws, or equations. The material universe is seen as a dynamic web of interrelated events. None of the properties of any part of this web is fundamental. They all follow from the properties of other parts, and the overall consistency of their interrelations determines the structure of the entire web.

This further reinforces the concept of synchronicity. Concordant with this concept is the conclusion that everything within the body is in a dynamic, synchronized, interactive, and totally inter and intra-dependant state.

This concept is called Dynamic Systems Theory. Through the Living Systems Theory, all branches of alternative medicine have the potential of developing a solid, theoretical framework for working with the body as an energy system. Living Systems Theory also goes a long way in explaining the nuances of the mind/body relationship particularly in relation to energy healing. The diverse and controversial findings and observations of the human energy system are finally explainable in relative terms.

The integration of the concepts of energy that comes from physics, with the concept of a dynamic biological system, emphasizes dynamic, interactive, communicative, conscious relationships within systems and between systems.

This is important when we study:

1. The relationship of the brain to the rest of the body 
2. The heart to the rest of the body, and 
3. All the other combinations within the body. 

Despite existing scientific and mathematical knowledge, the medical model has continued to disregard the important lessons learned from dynamic systems theory. Allopathic and alternative medical systems have continued to try and break the body down into parts. Consequently, the workings of the body continue to be investigated by means of this simplistic linear model. Traditional medicine has also tended to limit its analysis of the body to that which is tangible and can be readily dissected or examined under a microscope. Theoretically it tries to relate to the body in the form a simple chemical interactions. This is despite the fact that science has clearly demonstrated that the body is simply energy interacting with energy in a multitude of forms. The physical, tangible aspect is only one small part of a total dynamic interactive process interacting with itself and its environment. 

Medicine can no longer afford to labor under an antiquated system of looking at the world. In the 21st century it must have the courage to look seriously at what science has been saying for a hundred years and accept that a new paradigm must evolve in the treatment of disease. This paradigm would be based on recognition of the living dynamic interrelationships within the body. There would be recognition that all interrelationships are being synchronized and coordinated by an innate wisdom infinitely greater in intelligence than even the most sophisticated computers. 

It will be primitive and counterproductive to treat the body through diagnosis and intervention. The exception would be in emergencies where the natural process is too damaged to repair itself. The key will be in cooperating with the innate wisdom of consciousness to restore the vital interrelationships by linking the critical components that have lost their lines of communication. This will then enable the necessary synchronicity of bodymind activities for restoration of dynamic health relative to the individual needs of that particular system. 

An analogy can be made with a symphony orchestra. You can have seventy finely tuned instruments in a symphony orchestra, each capable of making a beautiful sound, but if you do not have a conductor to synchronize the playing of the instruments the end result will be a noise, not a symphony. The parts of the body are like the parts of that symphony orchestra. If they are synchronized by the innate wisdom within the body then there will be a symphony of health. Poor health occurs when the communication systems and energy linkages necessary for innate wisdom to function optimally are compromised. This is where BodyTalk comes in. In the BodyTalk system we ask the body what it requires to re-establish all the communication systems necessary for it to do his job.

The key element here is to realize that treatment of individual body parts will not necessarily lead to good health. Most systems of medicine concentrate on treating individual parts or systems. We are not just talking about traditional medicine. Everyone knows the folly of having a patient go to a heart specialist for the heart, kidney specialist for the kidneys, and a urologist for the bladder. In the meantime, none of the doctors know about any of the other doctors treating that same patient. Each doctor is only concentrating on his own speciality, often ignoring the dynamic interrelationships between all the organs and the importance of synchronicity in their activities. 

I have also found that alternative medicine is very guilty of doing exactly the same thing. Patients receive treatment from several practitioners at the same time and none of them are coordinating their efforts. Although alternative medical practitioners pay lip service to being holistic in their approach, the fact remains that the majority are still only focusing on individual systems. They may treat the meridians, the chakras, the digestive system in the form of diet, the spine, the muscular system, the emotions, and so on. This is not truly a holistic approach because they are still treating individual systems much the same as a heart specialist just treats the heart and cardiovascular system. All alternative medicine is doing is looking at isolated sets of frequencies within the body mind complex.

In the new paradigm presented in this book, I propose that in the future we must always look at linking the entire spectrum of (physical and energic) systems and recognizing each individual system as part of a whole.

The actual BodyTalk treatment protocol allows for this. Besides being a protocol for a nearly complete system in its own right, the protocol provides a link between all the systems. It forms a bridge between physical medicine and energy medicine and everything in between. Each modality slots into the overall protocol and the bodymind's innate wisdom will readily take advantage of the particular system the practitioner has expertise in. 
 
 
 

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Reproduced with permission from John Veltheim, http://www.parama.com/