Exploring the root of symptoms
One of the BodyTalk techniques called Active Memory explores the “consciousness root” of symptoms, conditions, and disease found in the bodymind. Active Memory is a state where we store the memory with an emotional charge. This technique aims for the person to process the situation and synthesize (make sense of) the emotions and fully recover.
Case Examples A: Depression, Pain, & Fatigue
Jennifer presented with depression, general aching in the body, fatigue and a feeling of severe body weakness. Her symptoms manifested a few days after watching a movie depicting a father beating his child.
Jennifer presented with depression, general aching in the body, fatigue and a feeling of severe body weakness. Her symptoms manifested a few days after watching a movie depicting a father beating his child.
During her BodyTalk session, Active Memory came up as one of the links and highlighted a past childhood event involving verbal abuse by the father, even though her relationship with her father was currently “normal.”
The emotional memory was stored in the body and triggered subconsciously by the scene in the movie releasing stressful emotions, creating physiological changes in the body in turn weakening the immune system (virus), depressing the heart emotions (depression), and weakening the adrenals (tiredness). Since the emotion was trying to emerge and was not recognized by the mind, the body diverted it into generalized pain. Many pains are simply the body’s way of diverting focus, so that we do not experience emotional trauma. |
The physical treatment of the symptoms could have given the client temporary relief. Many times, however, the symptoms do not disappear fully and/or they return quickly, unless the original emotional trauma and underlying thoughts are resolved fully. An emotion will only be stored when it is “fed” by thought patterns. By using the Active Memory technique, the link between the brain and the stored active emotional memory was disconnected. Once the thought patterns are disassociated from the active memory, the emotion loses its support system and dissolves. Once the active memory was cleared, Jennifer recovered fully in about three days.
Case Examples B: Headache
Pam suffered severe recurring headaches over a period of about four months and would often have them three or four times a week. Chiropractic care helped significantly because they seemed to stem from tension in her neck and jaw. During her BodyTalk session, Active Memory came up as one of the links and highlighted her erelationship with her daughter. It was traced back to strong guilt feelings. When she was pregnant with her daughter, she was having enormous financial burdens and a strained relationship with her husband. He was angry that she was pregnant because of the burdens it would place on them. In desperation, she attempted a home abortion. It was unsuccessful and she ended up having the child and derived great joy from her. Deep down, however, the subconscious guilt she felt was enormous. And it was triggered subconsciously when the daughter announced her pregnancy five months earlier. The tension in her neck and jaw steadily got worse as the daughter confided that she was also having relationship problems with her husband. |
Once Pam’s subconscious memory was activated and the traumatic emotional content dissolved using BodyTalk, the neck and jaw tension and associated headaches disappeared permanently overnight. She later recalled that every headache had started after a conversation with her daughter, although she did not make the connection at the time.
The incredible aspect of the ability of the BodyTalk technique to address active memories based on sensitive and personal issues, such as the ones presented in this case, is that no psychological therapy, extensive sessions of any kind, or intense emotional discomfort is required to release them. The traumatic memory can be cleared without the practitioner needing to know the details of the event. For example, if Pam had felt uncomfortable relating her story to the practitioner, it would have been sufficient for her to simply reflect on the situation while being balanced. Nothing had to be said, or explained, to the practitioner.
The incredible aspect of the ability of the BodyTalk technique to address active memories based on sensitive and personal issues, such as the ones presented in this case, is that no psychological therapy, extensive sessions of any kind, or intense emotional discomfort is required to release them. The traumatic memory can be cleared without the practitioner needing to know the details of the event. For example, if Pam had felt uncomfortable relating her story to the practitioner, it would have been sufficient for her to simply reflect on the situation while being balanced. Nothing had to be said, or explained, to the practitioner.
Case Example C: Food Intolerance
Mark presented with a multitude of food intolerances. He had a list of foods that upset his digestive system and triggered many allergic responses. The problems started in his early twenties; Mark was thirty-two when he began BodyTalk sessions.
During one of his early sessions, Active Memory came up as a link and highlighted the experiences in his childhood when he had many fights with his parents over food. Often the dissension occurred because he did not want to eat certain foods and he was reminded of the “starving children in Africa.”
Mark presented with a multitude of food intolerances. He had a list of foods that upset his digestive system and triggered many allergic responses. The problems started in his early twenties; Mark was thirty-two when he began BodyTalk sessions.
During one of his early sessions, Active Memory came up as a link and highlighted the experiences in his childhood when he had many fights with his parents over food. Often the dissension occurred because he did not want to eat certain foods and he was reminded of the “starving children in Africa.”
Other times, it was simply that most of the fights his parents had took place at the dinner table while he was eating. He was a sensitive boy and the collective associations of emotional trauma and food created an active emotional memory in his system.
The food intolerances became very noticeable in his early twenties because that was when he married and started a family. He suddenly found himself in battle with his own child over food. A subconscious link to the stored active emotional memory occurred and he rapidly developed eating disorders and food intolerances. |
The Active Memory technique, along with the other links in the formula, cleared the active emotional memory stored in his body and the food intolerances all cleared within two week.