BodyTalk and Nursing
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Aug 09, 2024
By Ellen Hingst
In my first Fundamentals class, I was inspired! The following case history fully grabbed my attention:
Anne, a nurse for comatose clients in an intensive care unit, had just returned to work after completing the first BodyTalk course. She decided to balance just the cortices on 6 of the clients. Two days later, 4 of the 6 clients were awake, to the amazement of the staff and relatives! These clients had all been there for weeks, if not months. She said, "If only I could follow up with more BodyTalk, but once they're out of a coma, they leave my station!" (BodyTalk Fundamentals, Dr. John Veltheim and Sylvia Muiznieks, page 109)
With this example in mind, I adopted a new perspective in my nursing practice that I called, "I Wonder... What If?"
I wondered if the BodyTalk System, the new integrative medicine practice I was learning, could make a difference and improve patients' outcomes--and nurses' lives too. What if we really could revolutionize healthcare and transform lives--both patients and nurses?
Celebrating a new website, BodyTalkforNurses.com, https://www.yourfirstlight.com/bodytalk-for-nurses, testifies that YES, we can!
As a night shift nurse, I began practicing the techniques from my BodyTalk Fundamentals class on my colleagues, and amazing results started occurring. A colleague who was at risk of delivering her baby prematurely stopped going to the emergency room, carried her baby to term, and delivered naturally and healthily! Colleagues who had trouble conceiving, had polycystic ovaries (PCOS), or other issues, started becoming pregnant and growing their families. The night shift team was in awe as hearing returned, long-term pain vanished, and other remarkable results happened. Some of them even became practitioners along with me.
Very soon, the enthusiasm of my colleagues took over, and I started hearing, "Can you try those techniques in my patient's room?" If you know anything about BodyTalk or healthcare in general, you know that getting permission from people or their legal caregivers is the ethical standard. "Permissions" on multiple levels is, in fact, a key component in BodyTalk. So, while I'd have to ask the patients themselves if they were interested in some additional tools to support them, BodyTalk Founder, Dr. John Veltheim, always reminded us of the power of the Cortices technique (watch here: https://www.youtube.com/@thebodytalksystem). In the BodyTalk community, this technique which re-harmonizes the right and left cortexes of the brain, is considered safe and completely non-obtrusive when there is an emergency or when someone or their caregiver cannot consent. I watched in amazement as an EEG technician, who was in the middle of testing and needed help, marveled at the immediate calmness of an agitated, sleep-deprived patient in need of being physically restrained when I performed the Cortices technique on the brain from across the room. Testing was easily completed, when before it had been impossible.
Another time, as I walked in for a shift change, a patient was about to be taken to the intensive care unit (ICU) because he was clinically crashing, unresponsive, and needed a higher level of care. I walked to his bedside and tapped out his cortices. As his blood pressure, breathing, and other vital signs began to stabilize, I heard the charge nurse say to ICU, "Never mind, we don't need the ICU bed; Ellen got to him."
I then began asking some patients if they would like to try some "additional tools" to help with clinical issues. Initially, it felt self-serving--like when it came up in a simple BodyTalk session to address "consciousness of control" in the large intestine thereby avoiding manual stool extraction. What is called the SB technique came up on a woman who had hit her head five years prior and, despite every two hours receiving pain management, couldn't get rid of the headaches and other symptoms. In four hours, she started going without pain medication every two hours, and the clinical team was dumbfounded when the next day the symptoms were gone, and she could go home. When pain medication didn't work, anxiety escalated, and clinical tools were exhausted, BodyTalk was the added support that was needed.
One of my favorite clinical applications of BodyTalk was among children in a residential treatment center. When medication failed to relieve the anxiety, anger, and stress of being in a boarding school away from home, the emotional release technique often came up for these kids as a way to unburden their stress, with their parents' permission of course. The kids always became quite engaged in this specific BodyTalk technique as they gave "what" they were feeling a color (they didn't need to necessarily identify or remember the origin of the feeling). The kids could then watch and sense the emotions they'd been feeling disappear, resulting in a calmness and empowerment that helped them get through the day or evening. They started telling the other children, when they were in crisis, that they needed to see Nurse Ellen and try her magic. This brought much-needed relief, reduced medication use, and enhanced clinical outcomes for these high-risk children on their journey of healing.
BodyTalk inspired additional celebration as I was able to successfully care for my own well-being and that of my peers! Tapping my cortices on the way to, and after, a code or stressful situation certainly improved my ability to serve. As I was tapping, colleagues would cutely say, "Hold on, Ellen will be back shortly," as they observed and watched the power of the Cortices technique to manage stress in a challenging environment. I don't love receiving vaccines and often cringe at the thought of getting the required pneumonia and COVID vaccinations, but I share with my colleagues that BodyTalk's Body Chemistry technique has me covered. I remember one year when I decided to go to employee health to get the shots, my co-workers said, "Ellen, what are you doing? Body Chemistry will keep you safe!" My response was, "BodyTalk has a vaccination repair strategy to help, and I choose to serve patients in the hospital!" Sure enough, my recovery was uneventful and not painful, while colleagues were taking 24 to 72 hours to fully recover.
We celebrated BodyTalk, especially during COVID-19, as Body Chemistry and other techniques kept colleagues and me able to serve in the center of Washington state, where the pandemic began in the United States! Recently, I was honored among all the International Daisy Award Winners at my local hospital for my 2021 award. I remembered the power of Cortices on me and my agitated patient who wouldn't stop hitting and biting, necessitating restraints and heavy medication. I marvel at how BodyTalk kept me sane and functioning during the stress of clinical nursing care, especially in the last four years, and that I am still able to serve with joy when many of my colleagues have left the field.
The recent launch of BodyTalkforNurses.com celebrates the power of consciousness-based healthcare to serve nurses and patients. Currently, our clinic, based in Washington, USA, but also providing online treatments globally, is offering 50% off the first session to the tired front-line clinical population who tirelessly served over the past four years while the rest of the world was home hibernating!
The launch of BodyTalkforNurses.com also celebrates the recent formation of the Pacific Northwest BodyTalk Association (see details below). Our association is capturing practitioners to enhance practice and make a difference. By offering support and education to our budding practitioners, we are ensuring success in the Northwest America BodyTalk matrix! We invite fellow nurses to join us, follow us on Facebook, and add your voice and clinical examples, as we continue to revolutionize healthcare and transform ourselves and those around us. We also invite instructors to consider offering CEUs through American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) to enhance clinical education!
Come and see! I Wonder... What If?
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Getting Permission
From the BodyTalk Fundamentals Manual
True or False? The BodyTalk practitioner can perform BodyTalk long-distance sessions for someone any time he/she wants to.
False. It is very important for the BodyTalk practitioner to receive verbal permissions from a client before doing any type of distance or in-person work. We do not conduct sessions on people who are unaware of them being performed unless in an emergency situation or when the client is underage or in a coma where permission from the legal guardian would first be required. This all relates to the ethics of working with clients in general, where upon examination, the motivation behind working on someone without their knowledge would reveal itself to be egotistic on the part of the practitioner and very agenda-based.
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