Meeting Recap — 19 March 2008

Featured Topics:

1) Group discussion

• Patient to Person workbook, Chapter One, "Learning to Live With It"

• An open, lively conversation on the question, "Am I a better person as a result of dealing with chronic pain?"

2) Presentation on Mona•Vie products by Sandi and George Mueller

Mona•vie distributor Sandi Mueller spoke to the group, played the audio portion of a promotional CD and fielded questions about the Mona•vie health beverage, one of the new, popular "super-fruit" juices.

Sandi's husband George Mueller, a recovering back-pain patient, gave animated testimony about how drinking 2 oz. of Mona•vie juice twice a day had effectively stopped his need for medication to deal with his pain.

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The following text — part of the video "The Story of Mona•vie" — states the mission of the company and describes its product, with words that illustrate the Gaian focus of the firm's up-beat advertising.

Humanity has been waiting for MonaVie. And MonaVie has a mission--a daunting one. It begins with helping people enjoy a greater degree of wellness. MonaVie delivers dense, abundant, powerful nutrients that are transforming lives with remarkable swiftness!

A global, surging demand for natural and SAFE health solutions guides another part of MonaVie's mission--enabling individuals to build a legacy for their families by taking the MonaVie message to the masses.

MonaVie's roots reach deep into the Amazon where the rainforest is home to one-third of the world's species of animal and plant life and where deforesting is threatening habitat and ecosystems.

MonaVie's most renowned ingredient, the legendary Acai Berry, is one of the few Brazilian exports that can directly protect the mighty rainforest itself. As word of the extraordinary benefits of drinking MonaVie reaches across nations and oceans, harvesting the rainforest FRUITS will become wiser Brazilian commerce than harvesting the trees themselves.

Indeed, one of the greater facets of MonaVie's mission might well be in helping to save the rainforest, the lungs of the world, for future generations.

More information about the Mona-vie line is available at
http://www.mymonavie.com/sandimueller.
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Meeting Recap — 5 March 2008

Featured Speaker: Tricia Baker P.T.
Featured Topics: "Body Talk Access" and "Brain Magic" Therapies

The visiting speaker for our March 5th meeting was Tricia Baker of Spring Hill Physical Therapy. Her professional biography and a photo are posted on the Spring Hill web site (http://www.springhillpt.com) and reproduced here:

"Tricia Baker, P.T. received her degree in Physiotherapy in 1978 from St. Mary’s Hospital in London, England. She has developed and worked in rehabilitation programs in the U.K. and Africa, as well as offered home care and private practice in the U.S. since 1990. Her training includes CranioSacral Therapy, Homeopathy, Massage Therapy, Reiki, and BodyTalk. Currently, her passion lies in BodyTalk, which is a system based on muscle testing to stimulate the body’s own healing."

Ms Baker spoke to us about two recently developed and increasingly adopted modalities of physical therapy: Body Talk Access and Brain Magic.

There were two handouts:
1) "Body Talk Access: Techniques & Reference Guide." (bodytalksystem.com)
2) "Brain Magic: An Easy Click," the fourth lesson from Brain Magic by Niel Slade. (http://www.neilslade.com/Papers/viewzone/BrainMagicView.html)

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Following are summaries of the key features of the two modalities.


BodyTalk Access— developed by John Veitheim (chiropractor, traditional acupuncturist, philosopher, and teacher) — is an energy bodywork technique that aims to communicate directly with the body-mind entity to affect good health. It employs five therapeutic techniques called (1) Cortices, (2) Switching, (3) Hydration, (4) Body Chemistry, and (5) Reciprocals.

For more on Body Talk Access, visit (www.bodytalksystem.com or www.bodytalkaccess.com).

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Brain Magic's goals:
Cooperative intelligence, Imagination,

Creativity, Intuition, & Logic — effects
possible when the amygdala is

"clicked forward."

Brain Magic, an energy bodywork method developed by musician and teacher Niel Slade, focuses on the brain's "lymbic system," in which the amygdala serves as "a gateway/switch that turns on the most advanced part of [the] brain, the frontal lobes."

When the amygdala is "clicked backward" toward the primitive core of the brain, the results are "primitive reptile brain thoughts and behaviors: self-defense and counter attack; fight or flight; basic survival" and negative emotions.

When the amygdala is "clicked forward," it purportedly "begins Cooperative intelligence, . . . jump starts [the] Imagination, . . . begins new Creative thinking, . . . connects [one] to higher Intuition, . . . [and] "adds on common sense and Logic." Hence, the acronym "CICIL."

For more on Brain Magic, visit (http://www.neilslade.com/Papers/viewzone/BrainMagicView.html).

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An Added Oddment

Nota Bene. The following paragraph should be taken for what it is: a verbal experiment by your editor to write — with Tricia's sporting permission — a summation of her presentation in a style that imitates the pronunciations and spellings of British English.

To wit:

Whilst Tricia was amongst us, she spoilt many a false notion about easing chronic pain, most notably thinking straight away that the best of all possible reliefs are to be found in the chemist's bottle. She didn't altogether rubbish the idea of taking medications, but she did encourage honouring the programmes of natural healing residing inside our very own bodies, programmes waiting to be envisioned, learnt, and used to ease one's pain.

She also invited us to prefer liquid vitimins — i.e., vitamins — over tablets.

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Tricia Baker can be contacted at Spring Hill Physical Therapy, 530-274-2320.

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