Neck tension is a very common complaint. My results with this area really improved when I realized that a tension between Mercury and Venus is a common underlying cause of these complaints. Mercury rules the cervical spine, which makes perfect sense when we remember that Mercury provides intellectual curiosity - it makes us look around for interesting things. The cervical spine physically allows to look around, so this is a natural affinity between the neck and Mercury. Venus rules the thoracic spine, and the thoracic area is where we feel all of our emotions. Venus represents feminine energy and hence being in touch with our feelings.
 
Mercury and Venus need to work together in order for the junction between C7 and T1 to be open and mobile. If there is tension in someone's natal chart between these two planets, they will tend towards a lot of tension at the base of the neck. The person will be aware of neck and shoulder stiffness, and since this is where the brachial plexus is, nerves to the arms are affected and the person may develop carpal tunnel syndrome. So it is good to know that balancing these two planets can bring relief to neck shoulder and wrist pain.
 
On a psychological level, this imbalance represents some imbalance between thinking and feeling. Both should work together - intellect divorced from feelings can rationalize any behavior. Feelings that are not interpreted don't really serve to guide our learning and evolution. Imbalances can occur in many ways: one person may intellectualize their emotions rather than actually feeling them. Another may have feelings that are so strong that they can't think clearly - they are simply lost in their emotions without learning from them.
 
Two ways that this knowledge comes up for me is to have both a physiology definition and a consciousness definition come up on a balancing between Mercury and Venus. There could be other consciousness definitions possible so you may need to play with the keywords for these two planets to come up with one that fits the client's situation. I also have this Mars/Venus relastionship come up when searching for a label for a secondary matrix at the joint between C7 and T1, which for me is a common location for matrices. When you clear this imbalance at that joint, the person experiences relief from neck tension, and is more able to integrate their thinking mind and feeling mind, so that both play a balanced role in looking at their issues.

This month's miracle comes from my own case files and highlights the power of healing when the client is ready to 'shift'.
 
The client is a 75 year old woman who has been suffering from macular degeneration for over ten years. This condition involves degradation of the blood vessels in the retina leading to blurred vision and eventually blindness, and is not considered curable - it just gets progressively worse. She received occasional BodyTalk sessions over this time, and although it didn't reverse her condition, it did slow down the progression of the disease and she was able to keep driving much longer than her retina specialist had predicted. She had to stop driving in 2008, limiting her ability to live a normal life.

She then had three BodyTalk sessions, one month apart. Many links either to the eyes or involving definitions about eye health and vision came up in each session. A few months later, she told me that her retina specialist had certified that she could resume driving as her vision had improved to be within legal limits for driving and her improvement had been stable over several visits. Normally, macular degeneration just gets worse, so this was an exceptional finding. She had received some medical treatment for one eye, and her physician expressed genuine surprise at how much the eye had improved, assuming his treatment was the source of improvement - until my client reminded him that he hadn't treated the other eye which had improved as well!
 
I'm always curious as to why a condition improves when it does as I believe there is often a change in life circumstances that makes the person more ready to shift. One note is that several sessions happened close together, which allows them to synergize. If there is too long between treatments, sometimes the positive changes from a session are not fully integrated into the bodymind, and the results "wear off" because of lack of an appropriate follow-up appointment. In this case, it turns out that the woman's family situation had recently changed. Her husband had died some years ago, and both of her sons lived in other states. Many of her friends were of failing health - several friends or acquaintances were dying every month. Around this time one of her sons moved back to her state, and she felt like she had hope for the future again. I believe this is part of both why she had more sessions and why the sessions were able to target her vision more effectively - she had something to look forward to. She celebrated by buying a car and is driving further now than she has in many years - her world has really opened up.