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In an impoverished Mexican village, U.S. volunteers use BodyTalk to help children with special needs. Since BodyTalk is based on biofeedback, a subtle muscle testing, it represents an instant "common language" that can be used to overcome the lack of individual medical histories and the inability of many patients to communicate vocally. Using BodyTalk's simple and gentle therapy, these volunteers have seen these children become more alert and interactive, gain mobility skills, experience reductions in pain and exhibit happiness and affection.
A woman became depressed after her son’s death; she also developed asthma, using an inhaler at unsafe levels. During her first BodyTalk session, it was discovered that she had, in part, inflicted the asthma upon herself by making a garden out of the plants from her son's funeral. However, since BodyTalk addresses the emotional aspects of illness, as well as the physical, it was found that the plants themselves weren’t the problem; it was, instead, what they represented. After realising she was traumatizing herself with each visit to the garden, she had her first positive dream about her son. At last report, her mental state had improved, and she had not had to use her inhaler for three months.
A BodyTalk practitioner received an email from a former patient in another country. The message concerned the woman's 88-year-old father, who was suffering from arthritis to the point he could barely walk and could not use his hands. As BodyTalk can be done through distance treatment, therapy began. After four months of steady improvement, a final report came: "My father has recovered an incredible dynamism. He is walking one hour a day down town and back home. Fast and energetic, with no cane. I am really happy to see him like this." The practitioner was, too!
A 60-year-old woman was diagnosed from birth as having "cerebral palsy of the left arm", as well as suffering from multiple food and environmental allergies, poor stamina, depression, generalised muscle pain, insomnia and nervousness. Unfortunately, her palsy made muscle-testing difficult. Fortunately, BodyTalk can be administered through a surrogate. Three days after treatment, the patient called the practitioner to say that her depression had lifted, she was mentally clear and joyful, she was sleeping short stretches and some of her allergies were receding. With continued treatments, she reported feeling as though her life had completely turned around.
BodyTalk can be combined with massage therapy to address ailments such as medial epicondylitis, an overuse injury sometimes referred to as "golfer's elbow". In one report, a massage therapist helped a colleague who was experiencing pain while plying her trade and afterward. As BodyTalk focuses on what needs to be done and the order in which it should be applied, the therapist was able to methodically address the issues creating the pain and to eradicate it.
BodyTalk is used by laypersons for day-to-day health challenges. For instance, a young girl fell while dancing and injured her tailbone, resulting in near immobility and great pain. Using BodyTalk techniques that involved energy links in muscle/skeleton and nerve circulation in the spine, the girl's mother was able to get the child back to full stride in 18 hours and reduce her pain from off the scale to a very small sensation.
BodyTalk works on pets and other animals, as well, addressing illnesses and injuries and improving overall health. In a special programme dubbed AnimalTalk, pet owners and animal caretakers can take care of creatures who can't explain their problems or the extent of their pain.