BodyTalk Tapping
Nov 20, 2009
By Tim Hall, LMT, CPT, RYT, CBP, Parama BP
"Is the tapping what causes the shift?" I'm sure someone has asked you that or chuckled when they saw you tap.
The BodyTalk System is a modality that is not
easy to categorize. BodyTalk was not developed as an offshoot or revision or
even growth of something else. It took a quantum leap, which does not lend
itself easily to comparisons. Reducing BodyTalk to simply a tapping modality is
a misunderstanding of the depth of the practice.
Analogies can provide insights when more direct
comparisons are not available. When reading a book, the eyes shift left to
right and back again down the page. They follow the line of text and see the
letters formed from the black on white.
When reading, is it the process of the eyes
running over the text that allows it be meaningful? Of course not. Any
illiterate person can do the same and not have any idea what they are looking
at. The meaning comes from understanding what the words and symbols mean.
A person of lesser education, such as a second
grader, can only get a superficial meaning. As the person is educated, his/her
understanding grows, and although the act of reading is basically the same, the
meaning deepens and enriches the person's life to that degree.
Running the eyes over text is like tapping. It
is basically the same for a brand new cortices tapper and the most advanced
practitioner. However, it is a person's vocabulary, ability to read between the
lines, know symbolic meanings, use of proper grammar and style, etc. that is
like the information and applications we learn in the modules.
Our right brain ability to zone and pull forth
deep power during a session is like reading something again because you know
there is a deeper meaning than the superficial context and you are determined
to pull forth the inner truth.
Studying language requires effort, but reading
itself is effortless. There is also advanced zoning where reading remains
effortless, but a deeper aspect of mind engages to actively search for
otherwise hidden, profound meaning that could not be gained ahead of time by
the normal course of study. (This is like the PaRama formula 1 race car driver
analogy given by JV).
If BodyTalk was merely a 'tapping technique' it
could still work really well in a certain way for certain issues. There are
some teaching methods where you can accurately learn to read and speak foreign
languages, but you have no idea what you are saying. Being able to quickly and
easily do that does have value, but in the end, it's the understanding that facilitates
communication. Some modalities have no depth to their philosophy, and the
theory just can't provide real satisfaction for the practitioner. Underlying
the understanding is consciousness. As consciousness expands, the ability to
understand automatically increases and with it the inherent power of
consciousness itself. The BodyTalk System, which includes BreakThrough,
FreeFall and MindScape, is not a superficial approach.
When just teaching tapping without much more
explanation, such as cortices, seems to work, perhaps it is better explained by
group matrix dynamics. It is our growing understanding that gives meaning to
minimally educated people tapping out their cortices.
By making use of our own inner strengths,
individual uniqueness and taking advantage of all that the IBA offers, we have
depth and breadth. Perhaps a better category beyond energy medicine might be
deep energy medicine or consciousness-based health care.
Give importance to that which is important. All
aspects of the practice have value, which certainly includes the tapping.
Sessions are effortless because it is the understanding that does all the work.
By expanding consciousness and gaining deeper and broader understandings, we
can do less and accomplish more. Since consciousness is all there is, when
individual consciousness merges fully with universal consciousness, we are
truly doing nothing and accomplishing everything. This is the goal beyond
concepts.
Thanks, Tim