String Theory: the BodyTalk version

Have you ever pulled your Christmas lights out of the box this time of year and wondered what the heck happened? How did they get all tangled up when they were just sitting in a box for 11 months?

It happens to me every time, and it started me thinking about a way to understand and visualize what happens in a BodyTalk session.

Imagine a long string that has been woven, kinked, and knotted into a tangled mess. As it sits in your hand with the free end sticking out, consider two questions:

1) How did the string get into that shape?
2) What’s the best way to untangle it?

It wasn’t just one thing that tangled the string up, right? Rather, it would take a series of twists, turns, and knots.

And to untangle it? There are a couple options. The first choice is usually the “Grab and Yank” strategy. Find a spot that seems promising and yank, shake, and cajole it into straightening. Does it work? I always fall into this trap with the Christmas lights. I get lucky once in a while, but often my grabbing and yanking just makes the problem worse.

The second, more reliable option with the tangled string is to back it out along the same path that it came in on. It’s more arduous, but if you start with the free end and push, twist, and pull it back along its path, the string will become less tangled. And when an especially tough knot comes out, a whole chunk of the string will unravel. All at once.

HOW YOUR BODY IS LIKE A STRING

Your health and your body is the sum total of all of your experiences. Where you are right now, whether you are struggling with your health or not, is the same as the free end of the string sticking out from the knots and tangles. A string is more useful when it is knot-free. Your health will improve if some of your knots are let loose and allowed to untangle.

Therefore, the same two questions can bring some insight to your health:
1)How did you get here?
2)What’s the best way to untangle yourself?

Some of the twists, turns, and knots in your past are probably obvious. A doctor might look at your tangle of string and say, “Well, this knot here is from the drinking and smoking, this one over here is from the car accident, and this other chunk is from eating too much red meat.” And you might grab another knot and attribute it to your childhood abuse.

But from working with patients, I now know that most of the kinks and knots are NOT obvious. It could be the attitude of your father towards you while you were in the womb, the hormone communication between your left and right adrenal glands, your fear that you will soon become to old to have fun, an immunization that damaged your DNA, the consciousness of being seperate from everything around you, your fearful response to someone else’s anger, a latent virus from an infection that you didn’t even know you had, and on, and on.

And in fact, there are many more knots and tangles like this in every one of us.

UNTANGLING EQUALS BETTER HEALTH

Which leaves us at the second question: What is the best way to become knot-free?

When a patient came to see me before I knew BodyTalk, I’d go for the “Grab and Yank” strategy. Find a likely knot and go for it, hoping it worked. As you have probably experienced, this “best guess medicine” strategy is sometimes successful. But it is rarely long-lasting and you might end up worse than when you started.

The more successful option for finding better health would be to start with where you are (the free end of the string) and follow the path backwards, untangling as you go. With each straightened twist and loosened knot you will find better and better health.

This is exactly the goal of a BodyTalk session. Though you don’t know it consciously, your innate intelligence knows the path exactly. And when your innate wisdom is combined with the body/mind roadmap that is the BodyTalk System protocol, a powerful healing emerges.

Thanks for reading.
-Travis

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