Many of the concepts in the Advanced Exploring Procedure overlap, as they are all different ways to get more of the story of what needs to happen.  It is easy to confuse what roles the different aspects of the Exploring Procedure play in telling the story. One example is understanding the difference between Satellites and Definitions. What is the difference?

The simplest answer is that Definitions come under Details, so they are really saying look at less. Satellites are a kind of link that bring in an additional energy, so they are really saying look at more.

When applied to a single destination, a Definition provides further detail about what aspect of that destination is being focused on. E.g. the liver has hundreds of functions: a physiology Definition may narrow the focus to just the bile production function, and a consciousness Definition may narrow the focus to just the anger production function of the liver.

A simple way to look at applying a Definition to a link or a parcel is that it helps to be clear what the desired benefit is. For instance, we may balance the spleen to the gall bladder, with a consciousness Definition of worry and decisions.  It is also a narrowing of focus: you are essentially saying "I know these are two complicated organs, but make sure you focus on the worry and decision making roles as a priority." This provides both clearer focus and an understanding of the benefit from the link.

A Satellite is an additional energy that contributes to the balancing of the main parcel, but it is not the main focus of the formula. Rather than narrowing focus, it adds additional information to the link. Often, the satellite will address something that needs to be balanced before the main parcel can balance. For example you can have an active memory balancing as a satellite. Balancing the active memory as part of the overall link addresses something that is taking energy away from the main parcel. Another way of understanding this is that balancing the active memory frees up energy that was previously being wasted and this is now available to help the main parcel come into balance.

The big difference between Satellites and Definitions is this:

• Definitions narrow the focus for greater clarity.
• Satellites expand the focus to find related issues that also need to be balanced to allow the main parcel or package of the formula to balance more completely.

Gaining greater clarity on the exploring procedure allows you to have a clearer focus on what is occurring.  Focused non-judgmental observing from the practitioner is what enables somebody to have their shift. 

The theory of matrix balancing sounds hard, but talking about it is actually really easy. The theory you need to understand to address matrices as practitioner is light years ahead of what your client needs to hear. I tell them that there is a local imbalance in the functioning of the pancreas (as an example). Then I tell them that physically it reduces the efficiency of the pancreas and mentally it will make them worry more than they should. I say I am going to balance the energy of the pancreas to address both aspects.

With invasive energies I give the same explanation as the one above - most people would not understand the concept and it may scare them! I know that an invasive energy will be attracted to persons pancreas (same example) if they have a weakness there so the explanation that I gave above is still appropriate and effective. 

In my view advertising matrix work is too technical for the average lay person to understand. Unless somebody asks me specifically if I can help with an entity, I do not discuss it with my clients. The real thing that Module 9 gives you is the ability to address both stubborn, physical complaints as well as limiting belief systems that seem difficult to resolve - stay focused on benefits with any advertising.

What can and can't you safely say when they ask "How many sessions will it take?" 

• Get better and faster results in your practice.
• Dramatically increase your knowledge of energy medicine.
• Improve how you relate to your clients
• Understanding of anatomy and physiology from a Chinese Medicine perspective

• Gain inner peace, self acceptance and understanding
• Gain insight into personal life challenges
• Align with the natural rhythms and universal flow of life

• These new products are getting great reviews
• Focussing  in psychological aspects of Module 6 and 9 seminars
• For new students and monitors
• Aspects of this work not covered in the manual

Tucked away on the outskirts of the holiday beach town in New Zealand, Tracy Livingston lives in her picturesque homestead with chickens and sheep, waking every morning to a stunning view of the waterfall running through her backyard.   

Tracy is the practitioner who caught John Veltheim's attention with the techniques that she was using and inspired him to create what we know of today as BodyTalk.  If you have met Dr. Veltheim, you'll know it takes a lot of energy and character to capture his attention.  Tracy definitely fits that description!  We recently interviewed this lover of nature and the outdoors to get to the bottom of what makes her such an integral part of our community.

Why were you interested in becoming a body worker?

I started massaging other kids at boarding school when I was 10 or 11. I was fated to do this work.  I woke up one morning just before my 21^st birthday with the words in my head 'you're going to be an osteopath' - of course, my next thought was 'what the heck is an osteopath?'.  I did my B.A.Sc whilst continuing my search 'for the answer', I did every adjunct that looked good - Applied Kinesiology, Cranio-sacral, strain-counter-strain, activator technique (mmm......scary - lucky for my patients that didn't last long!) before finding Neuro-Link.  I practiced N-L for a number of years before meeting John Veltheim in 1995.  The rest, of course, is history - his severe long standing health problems started to resolve over a number of treatments with this approach and he decided to take the work that I was doing to a whole new level and viola! BodyTalk was born.  It took off in a way that I could never have imagined, it creates a warm little place in my heart when I think of all the great things BodyTalkers have done and are doing, and yet we are still in our infancy with this work.

What made you look for other answers in your practice? 

I was always searching - but ultimately the answer comes when you notice your own health improve.  I knew Neuro-Link was a good starting point for me, because I had suffered from chronic IBS (I won't bore you with the gory details!) amongst other chronic health issues so when that cleared so quickly, I knew I was on the right track.  When BodyTalk came along, it took the original ideas to a whole new level, and healed even more stuff - I knew I had found my answer, I knew I HAD to teach it.  And it just keeps getting better, with many practitioners and instructors bringing in new information and ways to use it, more questions are being answered every day.

What is the most important feature of the BodyTalk System for you? 

What's possible!  Being able to treat anything, anywhere, you are limited only by your knowledge and imagination.

The sense of safety that comes with knowing you can't hurt someone.

NOT KNOWING! and being OK with that.

Being able to take a lay person and teach them skills that they have always wanted and knew in their hearts they were capable of.

And teaching in 4 & ½ days how to heal, when it took me 5 years of 40hrs/wk to get my degree, and yet BodyTalkers get better results straight after mod 1&2, than I did after 5 years!

What's your favorite miracle story?

OMG!  Where do I start - probably John Veltheim's!

I treated a brain damaged infant who was born blind and she could see after just a few sessions - I was pleased with that.

One patient had cranial surgery for a Arnold-Chiari Malformation (brain stem squishing up in the foramen magnum) - 2 months post-surgery she still couldn't walk, was almost blind with double vision, her husband had to stay home to look after her as she was practically an invalid.  She walked out of the clinic after the first treatment and had to reschedule the third because she was back at work!  The best part was that the treatments were all really simple, you know, scarring - blood and nerve supply - simple brain balance balancing - reciprocals. 

Getting my patient, then friend, then BodyTalk student S.R. off the antibiotics that she had been on for 20 years for mitral valve damage, and supporting her through the immune rebalance that needed to take place, taking her off her thyroid meds, all her heart meds, fibro-myalgia meds, and whatever else she was on.  She came in suffering from muscle weakness, constant and unremitting pain, palpitations, (two pages of symptoms basically) to doing landscape gardening and then became a personal trainer, and finally succumbed to learning BodyTalk.  Now she is pregnant with her forth child after the medical profession said that if she had another child it would kill her.  She's in great shape!  Nice to be a part of her getting a life back.  It was no fast miracle though - it took a while - the miracle is when both the practitioner and the patient don't give up on each other. 

I know you are really into Breakthrough, what has it done for you in your life? 

Oh you know all the right questions! BreakThrough was transformational for me.  John Veltheim was teaching in NZ, 1994-5, when we met. I did it several times within a couple of years.  I went from being a control psycho witch to almost normal within the course of the first weekend. Just ask my husband, he'll back me up. Two obvious immediate changes - the first was that I could talk to and treat my mother like a normal human being, a bit of a breakthrough for me. The second was that I fell in love for the first time - instead of picking my boyfriend (now husband) apart for all his faults, for the first time I truly saw him for what he was - a kind, loving, gorgeous man who totally loved and accepted me, and I felt my heart kind of softly explode with love.  It was a wonderful experience for someone who had shut down that part of her anatomy a long time ago. Nice to get my heart back, and for that I will always be grateful to John. My epiphany a couple of years ago was that it is easy to feel that way about the people who are close to you, so my next goal is to have unconditional love and acceptance for all people.  A harder goal but worth working towards.

What do you love best about New Zealand? 

I have lived in Fiji, Egypt, Greece, England, France, and what seemed like forever in Australia and enjoyed it all, but once I got back to NZ I didn't want to leave again.

Clean, functioning public loos are a not to be an underestimated sign of a great country and a cause for much rejoicing.  There lots of peace in NZ.

We have loads of water - in rivers and lakes, in the sky and beaches are never more than an hours drive away.  Its always been about nature and the outdoors in NZ.  Grant and I spent every spare moment of our first years together kayaking, hiking (tramping here) and running mountains and skiing. It doesn't get better than that.

Do you have a family?

Grant and I have got a pigeon pair - Tessa, 13, taller than me for a year or so now and dark and gorgeous like her dad.  Tane (a good Maori name, the God who separated Mother Earth and Father Sky to make room for people to live on earth),  8, and just a live wire.  He's going to need plenty of BodyTalk!  We live in a paradise here in Whakamarama Rd, (which means illuminated or enlightened) next to a river with a waterfall that we swim in every day in the summer.  Grant runs a mechanical workshop - a solid sensible job as a perfect foil for this wild intuitive healing stuff.

Where do you practice from?

I quit full time practice a while ago, because I did too much for too long and basically collapsed about 2004.  I figured I could have children, run a household and either teach or practice but not both.....something had to go.  I have been lying low for a number of years because I know that I can't turn people away - in my osteopathic days I would see patients from 8am-6pm.  I didn't want to go back there so it was easier to quit. When I teach I try to let people know how to avoid getting themselves to that state - actually listening when innate tells you to take a rest instead of soldiering on.  I've had my rest and I am ready to start again, and have applied for my osteopathic practicing certificate.  I want to convert osteopaths into BodyTalkers and I figure I can do it better from the inside. I have a nice office at home (miles from anywhere so people have to be keen) and sometimes I run small seminars from home because its wonderful to be able to open this incredible space to students so they can relax and regenerate while they study.  

Happy BodyTalking fellow BodyTalkers around the globe - glad to have you part of our wonderful matrix!