BodyTalk can be simply understood as an Oregon v. Oklahoma football game

 BodyTalk corrects the broken-down communication among all the parts of your mind, body, and spirit.  In fact, the term “BodyTalk” refers to the need for all the parts of you to be able to communicate with each other.  When the lines of communication have been restored the body heals itself.

You might ask, “But if I’m sick, I want the broken parts to be fixed!  What does communication have to do with anything?”

Well, in my experience, when a part seems to be broken and dysfunctional, the real problem is poor communication. 

Consider the botched ending to the Oregon-Oklahoma football game last fall.

Towards the end of the game, Oregon was mounting a furious comeback on Oklahoma.  After scoring, they needed to get the ball back, so they successfully executed an “on-sides kick.”  Or at least apparently so.

Television replays to millions of people around the country clearly showed that an Oregon player illegally interfered in the play and that the ball should be given back to Oklahoma.  College football recently introduced a replay system specifically for this kind of situation and the game was stopped so that the replay official in the booth could look at the video and make the correct call.

Much to the everyone’s amazement, however, the ball was given to Oregon because “there wasn’t enough evidence to overturn the call on the field.”  Oregon drove down the field, scored a winning touchdown, and all he** broke loose in the state of Oklahoma.

The replay official got death threats.  The Pac-10 conference was embarrassed.  Senior politicians in Oklahoma demanded some kind of retribution, and we were all left wondering how such an easy call got screwed up.

A few days later in the Oregonian newspaper, John Canzano reported on his visit with the disgraced replay official.  Was he blind?  Was he dumb?  Did he purposely throw the game in Oregon’s favor because he received a bribe?  Many Oklahomans were thinking he was an evil man who deserved an ugly fate.

As it turns out, the problem was poor communication.  Because of a telecommunications error, the replay official never saw what he needed to make the correct call.  In the booth, he waited and waited until they finally got him a single replay that was from an inconclusive angle.  He was under time pressure to get the game going and made the only call he felt he could make.

He felt horrible about his mistake.  He went home that night and watched replay after replay, sickened by what he saw.  He was a veteran referee who took pride in his abilities and responsibility for his mistake.

You might have had similar experiences.  Perhaps you were ticked off at a colleague for not calling you back, only to find out that they never got the message.

In jobs, in relationships, and in your body, communication is the major determinant of health. 

Consider your adrenal glands.  It is very common for a natural practitioner to say, “Your adrenals are shot!  You’ve been driving on the freeway and eating too much sugar and raising four kids.  We need to fix your adrenals!”  And off you go, with a myopic treatment plan focused on your adrenals, and not focused on the rest of your body.

What is critical, though, is that your adrenal glands are absolutely dependent on a cascade of immune, nervous, hormone, electrical, and chemical signals from every other part of your body.  Your thyroid gland could be dysfunctional, your nervous system could be stuck in ”fight or flight” mode, you have a belief system that people who relax are lazy good-for-nothin’s, and you have a chronic yeast infection in your gut.

What do all of these problems have in common?

They all communicate with each other thousands of times a second via immune, nervous, hormonal, electrical, chemical, and emotional signals.

Here’s the key:  if the communication is clear and complete, it is much, much easier for all of the parts of your body to do their job.  In fact, it can heal itself- without drugs, herbs, or chemicals.

So, take a lesson from the Oregon-Oklahoma game.  If you’re not feeling well, don’t blame your body, blame its communication system.  And then find a way to fix it.

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