Welcome to the newsletter for Odyssey To Wholeness. This newsletter is a forum to discuss a wide range of issues regarding mind-body psychology. There is little, if anything, that does not affect the mind-body connection. That gives me, the author, wide latitude with an opportunity for fun. I rarely do things if they are not fun! If you would like to have a particular topic discussed, send me an e-mail.

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The contents of this newsletter are:

1. Personal Message
2. From Ask Cathy: What is enlightenment? Hormonal migraines The emotional effects of obesity
3. Class Schedule

PERSONAL MESSAGE

I hope all of you had a great summer. Mine was filled with tremendous new learning. In my last newsletter (if anyone still has it please forward it to me at Cathy@OdysseyToWholeness.com. I managed to save it in a "safe" place and can't find it. I need to get it to my WEB mistress, Troika, so that she can put it on my site) I told you about The BodyTalk System. I had taken Mods 1 & 2 in Dallas over Memorial Day weekend. What a way to begin the summer. I've now taken some of the advanced mods. By the end of the year I will have taken all the relevant advanced protocols. I'm just blown away by what has happened with clients with BodyTalk.

BodyTalk addresses the entire bodymindspirit. We begin with getting permission from our other than conscious mind. Our unconscious contains powerful programs that may have been programed in ways not helpful to us now. Examples: 1) As a child we received attention only when ill. Now we may have an unconscious belief that being well will result in isolation. 2) Perhaps we did something or something happened when we were young and gave a subconscious command to suffer. These unconscious programs will prevent us from achieving health. BodyTalk can easily address these issues as they arise.

What I have personally received from BodyTalk:

• craving for sweets GONE
• greater peace within myself
• long standing grief greatly decreased
• long standing anger greatly decreased
• loving the "Catherine" part of myself
• fibromyalgia GONE

What I have seen happen in others

• alcoholic drinking stopping after a few sessions
• 40 year pain from breast surgery GONE
• greater mobility in a frozen shoulder
• 15 year old quiting most self-destructive behavior
• long standing asthma and lung problems greatly reduced
• spiritual growth -infections clearing in days
• a man in his mid-80's no longer switching numbers
• greater focus
• severe depression greatly reduced

I don't teach BodyTalk, but if you are interested in taking a class in BodyTalk please send me your name and address (Cathy@OdysseyToWholeness.com) and I'll have information forwarded to you from Ernesto Fernandez, a Master teacher. You'll receive a free report, a tape by developer John Veltheim explaining foundational principles, and a testimonial tape.

For a session, contact me at Cathy@OdysseyToWholeness.com or 713-681-2400.

FROM ASK CATHY

I received several questions from the last newsletter.

WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?

Much is written about enlightenment. Here are my thoughts. Enlightenment occurs when we are able to live in our hearts continually. Enlightenment occurs when we always experience ourselves as one with all creation, having no sense of separation between ourselves and any person, animal, plant, place or thing.

Jesus once said "Be in the world not of it." I believe that when we are able to live in the world from our hearts without getting caught in the drama, we achieve enlightenment. Everything our eyes would view would be an expression, an aspect, of the creator. The events in our world would be learning experiences and not tests. In this sense, nothing really matters. In another sense, everything matters. (Ah, the paradox of life.) We would know that this life is a process of returning to the undifferentiated Oneness.

HORMONAL MIGRAINES

First, the legal disclaimer. This is not an area of expertise for me. For correct allopathic medicine information please check with your medical doctor. What I am stating is simply experiences of either myself or others I know.

From my experience migraines are due to an imbalance in the bodymindspirit. This imbalance can be hormonal, mental, emotional or spiritual. Traditional allopathic medicine only address the physical body, not the whole person. I have found that physical, emotional, mental and spiritual influences affect the way we feel physically and emotionally. An imbalance in the physical, as in hormones, will cause an imbalance in our mood, thought process and spiritual connection. Imagine a mobile hanging over a baby's crib. Each arm represents body, mind, emotion or spiritual. Each arm has other arms representing aspects of our body, our mental process, beliefs, and spiritual life. Pulling on any arm causes movement in the entire mobile until balance re-occurs.

Things that have helped me and others: The products of Dr. Richard Schultz (www.800HerbDoc.com). I've benefitted from his cleansing program and female balance herbs. I've also benefitted from natural progesterone cream you can get at your local health store. Hypnotherapy or Healing Touch can help discover the source of energetic or emotional causes of the hormonal migraines. The cause of your hormonal migraine may not be the same as someone else's.

In addition, The BodyTalk System is designed to balance the bodymindspirit in priority. The BodyTalk System is not a treatment. It simply uses the wisdom of the bodymindspirit to tell the practitioner which links need to be made within the body to get the various parts of the bodymindspirit to communicate with each other. Sometimes there is what seems to be a miraculous change through one session. For most I have seen subtle changes over a period of a number of session. I do believe that The BodyTalk System can assist in relieving these migrains.

OBESITY AND THE EMOTIONAL EFFECTS

As a psychotherapist and one who has struggled with a weight problem from childhood, obesity and its emotional effects have been part of my practice. Just as in hormonal migraines we do not know the cause of obesity in each individual. For each person it could be one of more of the following: hormones, metabolism, allergies, beliefs, emotions, and others. My friend, Joan Ifland (http://www.sugarsandflours.com) has done tremendous research during the course of her own healing regarding the emotional effects of sugars and flours. (Download her book from her site or buy a hard copy. By the way, I introduced her to BodyTalk. She was so impressed she took the Mod 1 & 2 course and is very excited about what is happening with her coaching clients with BodyTalk.)

We live in a society in which thin is idolized. There are WEB sites that give instructions on how to become anorexic, which is a life-threatening disease. I grew up with the words "fat-so", "porky" and other slurs on a regular basis. The effect upon me and others is decrease in positive self-image, humiliation, hopelessness, depression and so on. Although it has not happened to me, I have been present when someone very obese broke a chair. Their humiliation was palpable and heart-rending. (The Soul Healing prayer can heal individual incidents such as these. If you do not have a copy let me know at Cathy@OdysseyToWholeness.com and I'll send you the prayer.) I believe that incidents such as these can establish a despair and helplessness that nothing will help, so why bother.

I am working on a multifaceted program regarding weight issues which would encompass Soul Healing, changing belief systems, nutrition and The BodyTalk System. When I lost the craving for sweets after grief and anger were removed from my pancreas I was delightfully stunned. My innate wisdom told Chari, the practitioner, that removing those emotions was a priority. I did not go in with the intention of working with my cravings. This event told me that all weight problems are multi-faced in a way we are not at all aware.

Send further questions to Ask@OdysseyToWholeness.com.

CLASS SCHEDULE

I have been so involved in learning The BodyTalk System and writing some books that I have not yet developed a class schedule. Next newsletter I'll let you know of some weekend classes.

Blessings to all.

Cathy Chapman