BodyTalk in the News
When Shannon Murphy's grandmother suffered a stroke, the Pennsylvania resident knew she would need support. But not just the kind that offers a kindly word of hope.
She called Laura Hames Franklin, a BodyTalk practitioner, who has immersed herself in the energy healing technique. Over the phone, the New York City resident conducted a session and left Murphy, who also has studied the technique, in charge.
"The things that came up (in Laura's session) seemed as though they were coming out of my grandmother's mouth," Murphy told Franklin in an e-mail. "Even though Laura had never met me and knew very little of me."
Murphy continued "tapping out cortices" — a standard technique in BodyTalk that involves gentle tapping on the head and sternum that is designed to reawaken the body's energy circuits. While the initial bodywork was on herself, once the family was able to see the patient, she began to directly apply the technique on her 82-year-old grandmother.
"The first time was when they were trying to see if there would be any paralysis," she said. "As soon as I began tapping, she began to move her hands and was making facial expressions while still on the ventilator."
She continued working on herself throughout the day, and eventually other family members became involved. Other than being weak and sleepy, Murphy's grandmother had no ill effects from the stroke. "The doctors are saying that she totally stumped them," Murphy wrote.
Franklin wasn't surprised. Since she stumbled upon BodyTalk almost five years ago, she said she's still constantly amazed at the technique's potential to open new areas of the body's awareness — not just for herself, but for others as well.
"It is so rooted in consciousness," Franklin said. "It's about evolving and self-discovery. It's not just about health and healing; it's also about transforming."
Developed in the 1990s by John Veltheim, an Australian chiropractor, acupuncturist and Reiki master, the noninvasive technique combines elements of Eastern and Western theories. Veltheim was inspired by the ancient tapping technique to turn around his own health crisis.
Practitioners, using a form of biofeedback, identify weakened energy circuits within the body that might be blocked for whatever reason, often stress or trauma. Attention is placed on those areas or points, and then the practitioner lightly taps the client's head, stimulating the brain center. That causes the brain to re-evaluate the state of the body's health.
The goal of the technique, Franklin said, is to stimulate the body's ability to communicate and heal itself. As a practitioner, Franklin said she's not really doing anything to the person except helping them make connections and trust the body's healing potential.
"I am so amazed at the healing powers you can bring up into your own body," Aubrey said. "These are such simple techniques that everyone should learn them."
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