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Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
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Chapter 5

The Sequence of Healing

The most important consideration in the healing process is the sequence in which the body heals the systems. One of the main factors that slows down the healing process is the superimposition of the bias and agenda of the practitioner.

The concept of what order to treat in is not something readily thought about in most systems of health care. In my many years of being in practice and running colleges and training practitioners I have seen that very often the difference between the top practitioners and the others is found in: 
  1. Their decision as to what to treat and, more importantly, 
  2. Knowing in what order to treat specific conditions. 
For most practitioners the easy part of treatment is to come up with a list of symptoms and a subsequent diagnosis. The key element in good therapy is to know in which order to treat each of the conditions and in which order to evoke repair of the organs, endocrines, or body parts. Very often practitioners designate the course their treatment takes by relying on their own fixed agenda or bias created from their training background. 

In my observations of acupuncturists, I saw the spleen orientated acupuncturist who always found a weak spleen that needed to be treated first. This was usually because she had a personal background of spleen disorders. Other practitioners may be kidney practitioners and tend to want to treat the kidney complex first because of their own background of weak kidneys. Most naturopaths are quick to find toxic livers in most patients in our society and are very quick to prescribe diets and herbs designed to detoxify the liver. Others want to fast patients and give them colonic irrigations to clean out the stomach and intestines. 

What most people fail to recognize is the vital fact that the body will respond best if you treat all the conditions in exactly the right sequence necessary to re-establish a dynamic system. Very often the body does not want the liver detoxified until the small intestine is treated or until the adrenals are tonified or the thyroid is balanced to the function of the pituitary gland, etc. 

When the practitioner prescribes a liver cleanse and it is not appropriate for the body at that particular time, the patient will often experience a worsening of the symptoms. This is often described as a healing crisis. Indeed, sometimes it is a valid healing crisis, but other times it is simply bad management. The body is not prepared to clean the liver out until the other system relationships are established first. If this protocol is not recognized, the body will have an adverse reaction to the liver cleanse. This will, paradoxically, slow down healing or overstress the entire system to the point that it cannot heal.

This concept applies to all modalities of health care. Before a surgeon operates it would be preferable that she asked the body what needs to be done before the operation in order for it to take full advantage of that operation. Very often the reason the patient has trouble recovering is because the rest of the dynamic system of the bodymind had not been correctly prepared to take full advantage of the ramifications of the operation. 

When a chiropractor is adjusting the spine there are often many subluxations apparent in the spine. The chiropractor should be aware that the body will respond far better if the adjustments are performed in the exact sequence that the body wants. For example, sometimes it would prefer that the pelvis and sacroiliac joints are stabilized first. On other occasions it may want the cervical vertebrae or a mid dorsal vertebra stabilized first. On other occasions it may be preferable to use other methods such as myofacial release or dietary supplements first.

In medicine, I have found that the actual sequence in which drugs are taken by the patient can be critical in results. BodyTalk can be used to quickly establish the right sequence, dosage, and combinations of drugs, supplements, herbs, or homeopathics that are best for the individual patient.

We must remember that the body is a total, holistic interrelated system that involves billions of interrelationships and linkages. Some of those linkages can be quite obscure and involve a dynamic that is way beyond the comprehension of a practitioner. The BodyTalk system recognizes this dynamic and therefore follows the protocol that: 

  1. No treatment is given until the body asks for it. 
  2. The treatments are given in the exact sequence asked for by the body in the exact number of treatments asked for by the body. 
For example, a patient may come in with a back problem and the BodyTalk protocol will establish that the body wants the stomach, psoas muscle, and rib cage balanced before any treatment is given on the back. It may not even allow the back to be treated on the first visit. Instead, it wants the original balancing to have time to work before the balancing of the back occurs. It will even tell the practitioner the exact day to bring the patient back for further treatment. Time and again I have seen the patient’s symptoms disappear even though I had not directly treated the location of the discomfort. 

In many cases the symptoms are not located near the cause of the disease. The so-called disease is merely the tip of an ice-berg. The disease is a collection of symptoms to which we give a fancy name. The true cause underlying the disease is usually a combination of many different factors. Most diseases have many ingredients behind them including such things as dietary indiscretions, stress factors, emotional imbalance, environmental toxins, physical injuries. There are also a score of other factors that we are not usually even aware of such as environmental relationship problems between the patient’s energy field and the energy fields of people and objects within the normal daily environment of the patient. 

A practitioner cannot hope to fully understand the enormous complexity of all these relationships or to work out an optimal formula to re-establish dynamic healthy synchronicity of all these factors. It is only the innate wisdom of the body that is capable of such a prodigious task. For effective healing at the deepest level we must acknowledge this enormous tool at our disposal, listen to it, and follow its instructions.

I am convinced that this concept of treatment is one of the most important breakthroughs in modern health care and will form the backbone of cutting edge health care within a few decades.
 
 
 
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Reproduced with permission from John Veltheim, http://www.parama.com/