Exciting BodyTalk News

This evening Robb picked me up from Chreso with great news. Esther, the wife of the co-founder of Chreso approached him at the meeting they had this afternoon and told Robb how great it has been having me at Chreso. She was worried what they would do when I left. Couldn't I stay longer? I can't remember the exact words, but she believed that what I was doing was a major asset at Chreso that was benefiting both the staff and patients immensely. She wanted to know if it was possible for someone to learn what I was doing so it could continue to be implemented at Chreso when I'm gone!!! Isn't that wild? Robb told me it was the first time Esther had ever liked something he had introduced at Chreso. I'm ecstatic. Absolutely thrilled. Robb asked if this was possible, and I told him. "Of course!" Isn't that exciting!!! BodyTalk Access might become a regular part of Chreso clinic in Lusaka!! I'm speechless. Esther is a very stoic woman, and when I spoke with her for a moment the other day, I gave her an update on the reactions I was witnessing from the work, and she said, "Well it's all psychosomatic". It felt like a brushoff and a dismissal of what I was doing as nothing more than a placebo, but I didn't care, because I'm used to people thinking that, and everything is a placebo anyway, and she wasn't the type I thought would get it anyway. So I say all that to say I was very surprised at Robb's story. Can you believe it?

Anyway I'm very grateful and excited. Now I just want to oversee the integration of BodyTalk Access into every clinic and hospital in the world!!! And I won't be satisfied until I have. Just imagine how it would reform healthcare if patients were healing faster, discharged sooner, using less medication, and less likely to return with aches and pains and head colds months later. It would be great! Besides training the nursing staff I want to get full time BodyTalk Practitioners on staff at medical facilities. Besides being underutilized for my skills in helping people, I know so many others who are underutilized as well! Men and women who know they were born to do this work, but can't make any money at it. This must change!!! I want to find them jobs too! What a lovely world it would be when you went to see the doctor and felt assured by their knowledge, but also touched, nurtured, seen and healed. Makes me think of all my trips to the doctor's office over the years, and especially the ones when I was really sick and unhappy. Sometimes I would cry and cry in their offices, but their prescriptions could not heal the pain deep down manifesting as annual bronchitis and back spasms. If they had hugged me for a long time, maybe it would have helped. Maybe that should be implemented at hospitals; long, caring hugs when you need them. At my HeartTouch training they taught us that when you hold a hug for at least 15 seconds the brain starts to produce oxytocin, a drug that makes you feel well. Do you think I could find a job as a professional hugger? I think if someone really recognized the benefits of meeting human need when patients are unwell and seeking help at a clinic, they would see that it does not cost the clinic more, it costs them the same, if not less. When women hire a doula, they don't see it as an additional cost, because they know the presence of the doula will lower their chances of having numerous interventions including a costly cesarean, and they know the cost evens out, as well as enhances the overall experience for them by making them feel nurtured and cared for. This reform must absolutely happen! If only I knew where to begin. "Hello. Hi, I'm calling to talk to you about a job. No this position doesn't exist yet. I'd like you to pay me to wander around the hospital and love people." Does that sound about right? Need I say more. Anyway, I'm just dreaming away. I'm sure I'll be awakened soon by cold, harsh reality. And I know not everyone needs a hug, some people just need their Cortices tapped out and a pat on the back. Good thing I'm coming home in six days because I need both. Goodnight everyone.