The BodyTalk System: Changing The Way You Look At Health Care Forever
By Virginia Lickel, MEd, LPC

I have been a student and practitioner of "healing work" since 1985 and during that time have acquired an extensive list of credentials. My journey, like many, was driven by my desire to heal my own chronic illness, which could not be named or treated by the medical profession. Although I have been witness to a great amount of physical, emotional, and spiritual healing for others and myself, I was not quite prepared for the miracle of health and well being that I have experienced through the BodyTalk System.

What is the BodyTalk System?
The BodyTalk System is a safe, non- invasive, simple, yet comprehensive healing system. It is a combination of advanced yoga, advaitic philosophy, modern physics, mathematics, the energy dynamics of acupuncture, the clinical findings of applied kinesiology, and Western medical expertise. It is a form of therapy that allows the body's energy systems to be synchronized so they can operate as nature intended. The BodyTalk practitioner, in partnership with the innate wisdom of the client's body, enhances the body's own remarkable healing abilities to successfully treat a wide variety of diseases and conditions. BodyTalk is a stand-alone treatment or can be used in tandem with other healing modalities, both complementing and enhancing their effectiveness.

How was the BodyTalk System created?
The BodyTalk System was developed by Dr. John Veltheim, a chiropractor, traditional acupuncturist, philosopher, Reiki master and, by all accounts, a true Renaissance man. From an early age, he began studying many forms of energy medicine, martial arts, and meditation. As a doctor of Chiropractics and Chinese medicine, he created a multi-disciplinary practice in Australia, adding homeopathy, psychotherapy, bioenergetics, applied kinesiology, and many other natural therapies to his expertise. By the late 1980s, he was in such great demand that he was treating 20 patients per hour and working six and a half days per week. This schedule finally caught up with him and he became very ill - first with cancer, then with liver disease associated with the Epstein-Barr virus. When he was told that he had lost ninety percent of his liver and had less than a week to live, he finally decided he needed a lifestyle change (at least that's how he tells the story). He checked himself out of the hospital and using his own techniques, recovered enough to live and keep working. He left healthcare - vowing never to return - and began lecturing all over the world, sharing his knowledge and experience with others. However, the effects of the Epstein-Barr virus remained. Although his liver regenerated over the next couple of years, he experienced extreme fatigue and maintained a constant body temperature of 101 degrees Fahrenheit.

When his work took him to New Zealand, he met an Osteopath trained in acupuncture who told John of a new technique that she and several others had been using with amazing success in treating chronic viruses, bacteria, and interestingly enough, dyslexia. He received a treatment and, within several hours, his temperature had risen to 105 degrees. He acknowledged this as a good sign. Something was happening! His immune system was activated and responding. After three days in bed, his temperature had returned to normal and he said he "felt like a million dollars." Several weeks later, blood tests confirmed that the virus was gone.

Of course, John was very impressed and after some study of this new method, he determined that this group of healers had made one of the most important discoveries he had ever encountered. This new healing system (soon to be named the BodyTalk System) was turned over to John who had the expertise and ability to understand, explain, and help it evolve to its full potential. Today, this system has been taught to over a thousand practitioners worldwide. Currently, there are more than 50 trained BodyTalk instructors teaching in 18 countries, and the healing results are amazing.

How does the BodyTalk System work?
The premise of the BodyTalk System is a concept from quantum physics that the body/mind/spirit is a Hologram, with each part inter-related and interdependent. For optimum functioning, each aspect of the whole must know what every other aspect is doing at any given time. However, due to the many stress factors we face every day, these inherent lines of communication are disrupted, resulting in poor physical and emotional health. A key element of BodyTalk is to restore the delicate balance between physiological and biochemical functions, emotional and mental interactions, environmental influences, and hereditary and genetic restrictions in order to synchronize all these factors into a cohesive whole. All harmonizing is done under the direction of the innate wisdom of the body, that aspect within each of us that carries the blueprint for optimum health and the knowledge of how to heal on all levels. The BodyTalk practitioner, using neuromuscular feedback, accesses this innate wisdom. By following a comprehensive protocol of questions, the practitioner establishes exactly what balancing the body needs and in what order this balancing is needed. A Hatha yoga technique is employed to focus the brain toward repair and to store the changes into the heart energy complex.

Clinical results have shown that once the communication systems of the body have been reestablished and the body/mind/spirit complex synchronized, the body is capable of healing itself at a deep and lasting level. This means that the immune system will start to eliminate chronic and acute viruses, bacteria, parasites, and toxins. Allergies are reduced and there is improvement in emotional and psychological disorders, postures and coordination, digestion and elimination, brain functions, learning disorders, and states of distorted consciousness in the form of negative belief systems and attitudes. Wow! For more information on the BodyTalk System, visit the BodyTalk website at www.BodyTalkSystem.com.

Virginia Lickel, M.Ed., LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a certified BodyTalk Practitioner in private practice in Greensboro. For appointments, please call her at 336.272.3488.