What is “Body Electronics”?
DISCLAIMER: This small article is not medical advice; I am not a medical professional, and Body Electronics should only be applied under the guidance of a qualified instructor.
“Body Electronics” is a name given to a set of principles discovered by Dr. John Whitman Ray. It is a healing modality. I have never encountered anything else quite like it.
Dr. Ray often called it “the science of bodily regeneration”; recently Canadian instructor Illia Heart has given it the subtitle “freedom through consciousness change”. Both are fitting. When these principles are applied, the regeneration of the physical body is possible, and the more locked-in parts of the human mind are accessible and can be changed, allowing us to let gradually go of our compulsive behavioural patterns.
A long time ago Dr. Ray wondered quite innocently, “what happens if you hold a pressure point for a long time?”
We answer and experience this in pointholding intensives. What happens (provided preparations are done correctly) is that we guide ourselves into “healing crises” wherein we re-experience suppressed emotion, with the goal of transmuting and letting go of our emotional trauma (though there’s certainly more to it than that).
The story goes that Dr. Ray worked in sports medicine at the time, and found that if nutritional requirements were met, and if the patient was willing to re-experience the pain and emotion associated with injury or illness, healing could occur.
For those of us who feel we already have good health – we can go to work, participate in society, etc – we can still benefit from this work. Our behavioural patterns often tie us into various experiences, wherein we create and recreate the same problems, patterns and issues over and over again.
This happens individually and collectively.
That we can become more and more free from these enslavements is cause for celebration.
Dr. Ray has suggested that most of us are about 99% reactive in our thinking – meaning we have little to no real freedom of thought. “Us is old tapes”. We recycle the same old thought patterns over and over… but we don’t have to, if we apply what he taught.
There is no doubt in my mind that this is the work the world needs, and deeply wants.
Douglas Morrison’s book How We Heal (North Atlantic Books) is an excellent addition to any would-be healthy person’s bookshelf. Dr. Morrison studied under Dr. Ray for many years, and How We Heal explains many principles of healing that can be applied in any modality.
There has been much written on Body Electronics, the purpose of this small article is to simply raise awareness of the existence of the work. I recommend Illia Heart’s website wholehealthcentre.com (Canada), Graham Bennett’s website healthybeing.co.nz (New Zealand), Peter Hinde’s website http://www.bodyelectronics.co.uk/index.php (England), and John Hutchison’s website
http://old-site.bodymindhealing.info/
(Australia). There are two facebook pages, Body Electronics- The Evolution Of Consciousness, and The Gnostic Way, both run by Illia Heart.
I have attended three of Illia’s intensives and would recommend interested parties seek her out.