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An Interview with Pietro Abela

"In my early years as an energy bodywork practitioner most of my clients gained relief from their physical ailments. However, most needed to return for further sessions and continue to be reliant on my work for their continued relief. By adding BodySpeak^™ to my work my clients developed self-reliance, became empowered, creating a dramatic increase in those who were able to meet and sustain their health goals, independent of me.

Through on-table talk with my clients I discovered that their physical conditions and lifestyle choices were strongly influenced by their internal emotional organization. I found that this internal organization could be gently re-trained when a body-based non-linear form of dialogue was used. This is a simple notion: When the syntax of a sentence or question is subtly altered, the client's rational mind is by-passed, leaving the body free to respond. I was able to have conversations with the body, with the client's internal emotional organization actively guiding me towards the client's desired therapeutic outcome.

The symptom is basically a cry for help from a part that is exiled within the emotional system. Adopting beginner's mind, holding presence, using body-based dialogue and following the client's internal organization as it presents itself, inevitably leads you to this exiled part. Once these cries are heeded and this part is freed, the related symptom and any associated limited lifestyles traits are no longer needed. In other words, it is an essential law of reality that inner change has to result in a reflected outer change - there is no other option.

BodySpeak^™ is gentle and safe. It results in people experiencing sustained relief, expansion of the inner body experience and a discovery of personal strengths. In this way, using BodySpeak^™, people realize their physical, emotional and spiritual health goals."

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