I would distinguish what I practice, which is a combination of Shiatsu and BodyTalk, as more subtle than physical manipulation and safer than pharmaceutical intervention.

Working with the subtle energy level is less invasive and has a broader range of influence all the way down to the physical. Yet I’ve gone a step further to include Consciousness, which is more subtle than the subtlest energy and all-inclusive, whether subtle, dense or otherwise.

Energy is innate to physical matter. Nowhere can we find physical matter devoid of energy. Similarly, intelligence is innate to energy. Nowhere can we find energy devoid of intelligence. This innate intelligence (or simply “Innate”) is everywhere in the universe, which would include this planet, Earth.

Energy is patterns of vibratory movement expressing levels of intelligence (coherence, beauty, knowledge), and innate is non-active pervasive pure intelligence (wisdom, power, bliss) essential to Consciousness. Innate cannot be isolated nor made more or less intelligent – it IS intelligence. I can be conscious of varying energetic expressions of health or dis-ease in the body/mind complex, but Innate is Consciousness itself and beyond measurement including any attempt at diagnosis whatsoever.

Working intuitively with the dynamics of Innate is to work as though Innate itself were doing the intuiting. This I refer to as “Being in the zone”.

There is not a person more intuitive than Innate itself and this is what allows each of us to unfold what is essentially our own Innate Consciousness.

Working with Innate, therefore, is to work beyond any personal level of intuition, even though it is through that intuition that Innate communes during a treatment.

The great wisdom of both Shiatsu which is based on the ancient premises of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Veda, and Bodytalk which is a modern day understanding of the Quantum Theories being expounded in the Sciences, is that since Innate is innately our own consciousness, Shiatsu and BodyTalk amount to being an exploration into the appreciation of our own Selfhood.

Now, not even doubt, hesitation, insecurities, pains, and problems can get us down because they are also expressions of Innate – and any message communicated by Innate Consciousness is worth getting excited about. Love yourself; go easy; be gentle with your Self and see everything, ‘good’ or ‘bad’, as an opportunity to expand. Laugh at yourself, go to the mirror and look at yourself, give yourself a wink and a smile. Feel yourself worthy of communion with the Supreme Wisdom innate to Consciousness that pervades and supports all of Life- your Life! This is the Life worth living. This is the source of All, including health and well-being. “Finding Health” begins and ends here with the applied consciousness of Shiatsu/Bodytalk.

You are so much more than the sum of your parts. The quantum shift that 2012 represents is not Apocalyptic or the End of Times. It is simply the end of the focus of Cartesian reductionism on the parts of us, and a return to the Holistic understanding inherent, not only in the mystical traditions of all major religions, but also in the findings and observations of Quantum Theory.

I would like to thank and acknowledge Tim Hall, Bodytalk Practitioner, for the inspiration and some of the content of this article.