I rarely teach Module 1&2 anymore, but when teaching the advanced modules I find that a high percentage of students are not practicing because they lack confidence with their muscle checking. Being able to muscle check is the deal breaker. The problem I repeatedly find is that people think of muscle checking as a skill, whereas I teach it as an understanding. When students really understand what muscle checking is about, they get it quickly.

Of more concern is that I often hear either in person or by reading the forum that many practitioners are over-confident about their muscle checking. This is very dangerous, as a recent forum post indicated: a practitioner advised their client to go off prescription drugs based on muscle checking. The client worsened and was justifiably upset. Over-confidence can be fatal, it's just not worth it. 

Its important to remember that our answers are colored by our filters.  We all have them.  Recently I was doing a BodyTalk session on my son and I came to an environmental link affecting him.  It was either me or my wife.  At this point my answers were becoming fuzzy.  I didn't want to think that it was me affecting him.  I eventually asked my colleague Karen Atkins to do a session for him because my filters were affecting the clarity of the session.  In fact he was resonating with an aspect in me that was affecting him.  It's important to understand that we all have limits.  The way we see things will affect our answers.

Another question I am often asked is "Why hasn't BodyTalk grown faster because it is so amazing?" I believe the real answer lies in the ethics of muscle testing. You have to be relaxed enough to do effective BodyTalk, but being over confident, and giving advice based on muscle testing severely damages the whole matrix. We need a lot more practitioners who understand how to muscle check in an effective AND ethical manner.  For more insights and understanding about this very important topic you can join my audio download lecture.  Details are given below. 

Sometimes the old saying about the cobblers children not having good shoes strikes too close to home. Late last year I relocated to Boulder, CO, set up a new office and added to my staff. With so much transition as well as lots of projects going on, including a new accounting system and a new website, there have been gaps in communication as we define and redefine roles for myself and my staff. I found myself getting frustrated at mistakes and mis-communication. And since it is my company, I can really only blame myself, which is even more frustrating! So we did a Matrix BodyTalk session on my company. The change in tension for myself and others was immediate, and the real test: more registrations for future courses and a flow of new clients came in right away! Our energy shifted and the universe responded, it's as simple as that. 

Working with the energy dynamics within groups and families is a key feature of Module 9. Part of Module 9 is working within the body to transform belief systems, but to fully address the big picture we need to look at how the person fits into the family, their company, their team or club, and their community. The Complex Matrix techniques in Module 9 address groups as if they were living organisms - which of course they are.

Here's where we come back to the analogy of the cobbler - I teach Module 9, but sometimes forget to use the techniques on my own life and the groups I belong to. So I decided to do  a matrix session on my 2010 Module 9 courses in South Africa and California. These are joint efforts between myself and my team, and the local coordinators and BodyTalk communities. It is a perfect example of a group needing BodyTalk to function at it's optimum efficiency and energy level. Here's a summary of the links that came up. 

For the South Africa class, I first wrote down as many people and things related to the course that I could think of: my staff, coordinator Debbie Zacharias, her assistant, Julia Hastie, our new website, manual printing, etc. Then I made a similar list for the California class, where the coordinator is Laura Stuve. These were the links:

2. Wood to Metal with a consciousness definition of surrending old ideas to allow growth.

3. A parcel (Julia linked to my office staff) linked to another parcel (testes linked to adrenals with a definition of energy). The resulting package had a roving satellite of Neptune.

For more about how this can affect the health of a family or other group, take Module 9! See you in South Africa or California!  Go to the IBA website for more information.

• Explaining BodyTalk concepts to your clients
• Growing from mirroring
• Advice and confidentiality  
• How to witness miracles 
• Ethics in all aspects of BodyTalk practice 
• Getting better results
• Being amazing
• Your role as a practitioner
• Mastering the YES NO  
• Techniques for intuition development
• How to handle challenging cases
• Strategies for difficult client interactions
• Practical exercises to develop confidence

• Confidence in your muscle checking
• To get comfortable and stop struggling
• Get in the Zone, and let your intuition flow
• How to present muscle-checking effectively
• Talking about your answers
• Self-testing
  

• The science of miracles
• How to see more miracles in your life
• How to see more miracles in your practice
• The secrets behind changing your world, your results, your miracles             

Ask Dr. Ka'imi
Adv Sr. CBI, VP for Academic Development at the IBA

"Please clarify your comment that the piriformis muscle is another major controller of lymph drainage and that it may need releasing before the pubic bone as controller."       Jill Nutsford, CPB from New Zealand follows up on an insight Ka'imi shared in a 1&2 course.