Although little known in the UK, Body Electronics has been developed since the 1950s by Dr. John Whitman
Ray and others. It is a very powerful trauma releasing bodywork that uses pressure-points. A point is held
steadily on the body, for typically 2-4 hours in each session. Points held for this extended time period
usually release amongst other things aching, pain, burning, numbness, unresolved emotion and memory, and
a person generally ends the session feeling more peaceful inside. Sometimes they have obvious correction
to structure or function of their body.
How Body Electronics Works
If you have ever seen a bone that has healed after a break you will notice that there is extra bone
growth around the area of the break. This is normally taken as "just what happens" during the healing
process, and that healing is never going to be perfect. In fact this extra bone, in a crystal formation called a
calcification, contains a record of the pain of the break that has not been accepted. It is a record of
the resistance to the situation. An analogy would be digital memory stored on a computer chip.
Trauma lays down for example extra bone, in a crystal formation called a
calcification. It contains a record of the pain that has not been accepted. An analogy would be digital
memory stored on a computer chip.
If you have ever touched a liquid crystal (LCD) screen you will have seen that pressure creates differing colours. It releases "information" by what in physics is called the piezoelectric effect. When a comparable calcification in the body is pressured for long enough during a Body Electronics session of pointholding, the information it releases into awareness is a fragment of the suppressed memory, emotion and physical pain in the body. To the degree to which acceptance of this takes place, the record in the calcification itself is reduced. As a result one will see a reduction in its size and a returning to normality of the bone itself; a more complete healing.
It is not just broken bone that creates a calcified record of the resisted pain. Every time any pain, physical or emotional, is resisted (not accepted) it is entered into a crystal matrix within the body. This matrix of crystals forms at points which can be accessed through acupressure points, reflexology points, cramped fibrous muscles, scar tissue, spinal or cranial bones. A good point for treatment for a person with Body Electronics would be assessed by its level of pain when given some pressure, or by its physical abnormality (for example a displaced spinal vertebra) or those points which for example, correspond to the areas of most stress according to iridology. One of these points can then be held, with steady pressure during a Body Electronics pointholding session to release the "information" within the crystal. In fact if there are several people present, one point can be held by each person. The receiver is then guided through the memory and emotion that arises, into the beliefs connected to them, whilst being encouraged to encompass all with acceptance.
Bodily Regeneration Through Trauma Release
With Body Electronics I have personally seen release of numbness held in the body as people relive operations etc.; fast restructuring of poor posture; reduction of scar tissue (since this is a record of our own suppressions); restructuring of part of a face 20 years after accident damage; and many times reduction in calcification of the spine and other bones. The level of difficulty in this process is the level and depth of our own suppressions and beliefs. It is not a quick fix for the faint of heart! Someone would be assessed as to whether they are nutritionally and psychologically prepared before they enter into Body Electronics.
I have personally seen ... fast restructuring of poor posture; reduction of scar tissue; restructuring of part of a face...
Note that these are anecdotal cases and I cannot "prove" these things nor have they been evaluated in the light of medical so called "science". Perhaps miracles can happen just beyond the point where our beliefs stop. However, significant physical changes rarely happen to those wanting miraculous changes! "Want" is not the acceptance of the ways things are.
Reduction of Emotional Reactivity - The Kundalini Fire
The process of Body Electronics stimulates a burning sensation in the body, from the point being held, but frequently spreading to other areas also. This burning is called Kundalini in Indian traditions, and is talked about in Yoga and some meditation practices. The burning is a sign that the emotion being experienced is being removed from the body by a process of transmutation. The intensity of burning can be difficult to believe at the height of a session.
Often work that releases emotion leaves someone with the need to remove toxins from the area of the body that contained it. This is obvious with the use of, for example homoeopathy, since so many times someone will have obvious strong detoxification signs such as a fever or "flu" after taking a remedy. Transmutation differs to this in that nuclear* and chemical reactions are taking place at a highly accelerated rate. The process of transmutation occuring during emotional release in Body Electronics does not require any detoxification as harmful elements are literally changed into beneficial ones.
*Note that nuclear reactions taking place at low temperature without the release of radiation is taboo science! These types of reactions are covered in the book Biological Transmutations by the French scientist Louis Kervran. This book should leave the sceptical scientist with a few awkward questions!
The Requirement for a Supporting Nutrition Programme
When burning is experienced in a session of Body Electronics pointholding there are accelerated changes using valuable body resources. These resources must be available for the session to be productive and are only available though a good wholesome diet in someone with good digestive ability and ability to assimilate nutrients. There are some clues as to a suitable nutrition programme in the page on nutrition. In particular, sessions use enzymes and a full spectrum of minerals. In fact for some people, just taking additional enyzmes and minerals results in their body burning with the release of old suppressions! Additional enzymes can be obtained through certain foods or high quality enzyme supplements*. For mineral supplementation it is not sufficient to take isolated minerals, such as taking a magnesium or zinc supplement. To be effective in Body Electronics pointholding, the supplement needs to contain a full spectrum of 70+ minerals. This wide spectrum would otherwise only be available through intake of a wide variety of foods, as it is exceptional for any one food to contain even as many as 50+ separate mineral elements. The most effective mineral supplement that has been found to be of great benefit for someone undergoing Body Electronics pointholding sessions is from the deposit of humic shale in Utah, USA, commonly sold under the name of colloidal minerals**.
* Note that many supplements are of questionable potency and do not state the standardised enzyme activity on the label. For this reason, John Ray set up a company called Enzymes International to supply products of high enough quality to support the process. All enzymes from this source originate from the National Enzyme Company set up by the food enzyme researcher Edward Howell.
** Not all colloidal mineral supplements are in this organic form from this particular deposit and may not be safe. The minerals as supplied by Enzymes International have been used extensively in body electronics without any problems. They are the minerals of choice for pointholding.
Elimination of Restrictive Beliefs
When we look at a memory it is often very hazy or sketchy. Perhaps in the cases of early childhood,
or medical operations, memory is absent altogether. This is not because "it is so
long ago", or because "I was unconscious", but because we have emotionally and mentally
resisted the experience at some level and have kept resisting ever since. If we simply cannot remember
a situation it is because we have resisted it maximally. Often when we can remember something, we still
only remember enough detail to justify our position as a victim.
The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe.
I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know
it - I don't need to believe it.
When a belief is released connected to a memory it leaves a person in no uncertain mind about the truth. It is a state of knowing something and of greater fullness of memory. It is a state of seeing that we have clouded our own memory to convince ourselves of a lie. It could be as simple as the following example: We are angry at mother for pulling our hair and hurting us when we are a child. When the anger dissipates in a session as an adult, we see that she was pulling us away from putting our hand in the fire, which we had conveniently forgotten so we can remain white as snow and have someone to blame!
We would not add a "positive" belief to increase a person's self-confidence, we would gradually release the pain connected to the cause of under-confidence.
In Body Electronics we would see addition of "good beliefs" to a person, as some hypnotherapists or subliminal tape recordings would do, as merely adding a lie to a lie. Unfortunately two lies do not make a truth, they only take you further from it. For example we would not add a "positive" belief to increase a person's self-confidence (help them lose weight or stop smoking or whatever), we would gradually release the pain connected to the cause of under-confidence. Where we may have reactively avoided situations due to this under-confidence in the past, we can now act through true choice.
Nothing is good or bad,
but thinking makes it so!
Uncovering Truth Layer by Layer
Do you want the confirmation of the Truth? You must have it in yourselves. Truth contains its own evidence. If the evidence of its Light and Power be absent from a Soul who professes to have received the Truth, you may assume that that one only received its dim reflections upon the speculum of the mind, without receiving in the very Sanctuary of Being, the Life-giving power which Truth signifies.
The process of uncovering truths is a gradual one. Our levels of feeling are related to the level of hormones our glands can put out, and the level of sensation our nerves can feel. When we resist something, we are asking to feel it less; we are literally demanding that our nerves are numbed and our hormone glands become less functional. We could uncover a childhood memory and resolve something to a level, but then may revisit that same memory years later to uncover something new. The release of emotion from many other memories in the mean time, has increased the intensity of emotion and physical pain that we can feel in general. Unless we empty the body of the emotion connected to a memory, through unconditional acceptance, we simply cannot access the level of feeling we had prior to that incident. We are then limiting ourselves to the levels of memory (and hence truth) we can uncover.
Body Electronics is rare as a method in that it sees mental-emotional shifts going deep enough to produce physical regeneration. We have created layer upon layer of physical imperfection upon the perfect blueprint of the body, as we have resisted situations. As a layer of resistence is removed completely from the body, the corresponding physical layer is also removed, leaving us, however slightly, closer to the original perfection.
Many people coming from other disciplines find they are revisiting the same issues again in Body Electronics, because they have not cleared them completely.
Only a real emptying of resisted, non-accepted emotion and physical pain in such a way as this can regenerate nerve supplies and endocrine (hormone) glands and organ functions permanently.
Layers of emotion, pain and belief within us are endless. We can access ancestral traumas in our genetics, and sometimes memories that only make sense as being from previous lives. Why go through this process? Because all these layers of belief are all holding us back from living who we truly are.
Power and Creation
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Thoughts, beliefs and the attached emotions create our world. I have heard that most people who die of
snake bite poisoning have been bitten by a non-poisonous snake, yet the autopsy says they have been poisoned.
Why then can we try to make changes to our lives only to come across the same old people in different guises,
and the same old blocks time and again? Because the world is the mirror of our inner workings, most of which we are
totally oblivious to. The unconscious creative power reigns supreme over the conscious! We have very little conscious
power and creativity initially, but we can start to change this by eliminating from the body the record of the suppressed
and unconscious emotions and with it the veiled memory and beliefs. You simply cannot escape the unconscious creative
power by adding new layers of suppression as most people are attempting. It is still there, still creating, still
weaving its web.
How We Don't Love
The diagram shows an example of how we might defend ourselves against the raw emotion of terror stirred up by being physically attacked at aged 5 by a person called X.
At "The Incident" the raw terror is not fully accepted by the beliefs that come up at the time - "fight X", "I can run away", "need help!" and so on (the ones in the bottom box). If the person has survived the incident, as time goes on he has "anger at X", is "scared to remember" the incident because it is too painful and eventually becomes "disturbed by all violent people", justifying the reaction since "everyone knows that violence is bad". At the age of 30 the stress of the suppression creates a physical symptom. The person doesn't see that this is his responsibility for allowing the suppression to remain in place and feels victimised by it ("I'm a victim of my illness"). He then takes medical drugs to suppress the symptom ("I need painkillers") and, ending up in numbness and with little or no memory of the original incident, believes he is happy and loving. Even perhaps loving towards X himself ("I'm happy, I love X").
We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn.
If the person starts to work to uncover the suppression, the first things he would encounter would be physical and emotional numbness, and disturbing feelings, perhaps in dreams, of violence, which challenge his state of happiness. Eventually, as he gets through enough layers of defensive beliefs he will be able to feel the "raw terror" - the actual full intensity of the feeling in the body at the time. Only when this has been experienced without judgement has real love and acceptance been given to the incident. Only then is there the possibility of him forgiving person X, rather than pretending he does. At that moment of feeling raw terror, its effect disappears completely from the physical body and it disappears as a compulsively defended emotion. The person is free of the sickness, and free to choose to live other areas of life they had been reactively avoiding.
Spiritual Unfoldment
Each choice will either result in freeing us from identification with matter
or will result in an increasingly powerful spiral into identification with matter.
The spiritual path is not about disconnecting from the body, or being able to walk across
fire, or bend spoons: There are many false paths and party tricks which lead people away from the truth.
It is also not about being a medium and talking to the dead,
or talking to spirit guides, or channelling information from "higher beings".
These abilities may come as part
of a spiritual journey, but, still being external to ourselves, they can at best only be bringers of truth
and are not the truth itself.
Spirituality is not about believing what is written in some holy book or praying for God to do something
about our mess. It is not even about a full-on quest to be more conscious!
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not "the
thinker." The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.
You begin to realize there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect
of intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy,
inner peace - arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.
Spirituality is about for one thing, becoming more incarnated as we empty the emotional reactivity
from our bodies, access greater levels of memory and with it greater levels of truth about who we really are.
Contrary to what many people think, removing many stuck emotions from the body does not lead to an emotionless state!
Far from it, it leads to greater levels of feeling, greater access to real love, empathy and compassion, and also
to greater levels of desire - but those desires are no longer attached to anything that is not connected to what
we are being given to do in service - our purpose. Desire simply becomes the passion to live our unfolding life in
service, meeting the challenges on the way.
Once we have stepped into being of service in the way we are being guided, over reactively living a life
we think we should lead, all manner of things come to aid us with synchronicities so often marking the path!
Then there is the realisation: you only are given the chance to become more conscious so your new abilities
and strengths can be used in the particular level of service ahead.
When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.
Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire,
that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.
Review of the most accessible book in Body Electronics by Dr. Doug Morrison This book covers nutrition, iridology, points for pointholding and the concepts of resistance and its effect on the body in some depth.
A summary of Body Electronics with an overview of the nutrient programme, how pointholding works and the structures of mental emotional resistance by its founder Dr.John Whitman Ray
Understanding the process of healing is not easy. In fact society does not educate us for it. Even many natural therapies do not support true healing and may be tripping people up who are wishing for it.