Ginnaya is a certified BodyTalk System™ practitioner. Here she explains how BodyTalk System™ can help in eczema and skin complaints.

The BodyTalk System™ can address:

• Food/dust/pet allergies
• Chemical sensitivities
• Toxic overload
• Stress and emotional triggers
• Hydration and circulation
• Skin rejuvenation and scarring
• Immune system to manage inflammation/infection

BodyTalk addresses the cause of a problem, in the perfect order for your healing. While most skin complaints have an obvious trigger, there is almost always a mind or emotional pattern at the root of the issue. Just think about some of the language we use to describe skin complaints ‐ irritated, angry, erupting.

Bombarded on a daily basis by media about acne, wrinkles, and sun damage, you can’t help but be aware of your skin. If you experience skin disorders you will be painfully familiar with the limitations they can cause. But what does your skin actually do? Let's look at the physiological function of your skin, which gives you an indication of what may be happening at a subconscious level.

Your skin is your container. Your physical boundary, the barrier that defines you from the rest of the world. It keeps YOU in, and keeps that which is potentially harmful out. It is also your identity. Your self‐image. When asked to describe themselves, most people will describe the container (red hair, green eyes, freckles) rather than the contents (kind, funny, creative).

Skin is your sense of touch, the way you experience the world. How you FEEL about the world and your place in it. Being comfortable with touching and sensuality. At a subtle level this includes your intuition or gut feeling. Your body’s biggest organ, the skin is closely related to the lungs and large intestine, and plays a major role in both breathing and elimination/detoxification.

With each breath your body takes in fresh oxygen to fuel your system and releases by‐products of this gas exchange back into the environment. You breathe in the world and release that which is no longer of use to you. The lungs and large intestine are associated to the emotion of grief, which in balanced quantities allows you to let go of the past (people, things, experiences) to make space to welcome the new. If unbalanced we can hold on too much, too long and become too ‘full’ to accept new experiences or change.

If you have a history of eczema or skin disorders you are by now probably making some connections with when it has been more severe and what was going on in your life at the time. Even Western medicine acknowledges that stress is a trigger for eczema and dermatitis. Yet the common solution is creams that suppress the symptoms. If you suppress stress, emotions and unhealthy thought patterns they are going to erupt elsewhere and usually to a much greater degree. Put like that it doesn’t make any sense, does it?

If your skin condition is triggered by an allergy, what is at the root? Allergies are again symptoms, a reaction to the environment that you exist in, be it something ingested (food, drink), something inhaled (dust, airborne toxins) or something you come in contact with (chemicals, plants). But why? Does the allergen have a memory associated to it, subconsciously retriggering the emotions involved? Maybe you are hyper‐sensitive by nature. Sometimes an overloaded/toxic system means the allergen is simply the ‘tipping point’ – simply too much to process. It is no longer safe to fully engage with your environment so you reject it and increase your physical protection.

BodyTalk works with your innate wisdom, which miraculously manages the 50 trillion cells in your body! Stress can impact on the internal communication of the body; sometimes it needs a friendly reminder to work as a team again.

BodyTalk can identify and gently release these stressors. Usually stored in the subconscious (making them a little harder to access by yourself), these can include out‐dated belief systems and habits, memories stored with an
emotional charge which can retrigger in similar situations, inherited thought patterns, and hypersensitivity.

On a physical level, BodyTalk can support your system to increase circulation and release toxins in the body, strengthen your immune system to eliminate inflammation and infection, and increase hydration and absorbtion of nutrients to heal your skin. BodyTalk works brilliantly as a stand‐alone system, or can integrate seamlessly with other modalities to support your healing on all levels.

At the Herbal Health Centre we have had fantastic results with clients following a programme from our naturopath/herbalists to address the physical symptoms, while dealing with the root cause with BodyTalk. People with skin issues say that it prevents them from fully engaging with the world. You become very aware of how you are presenting, often choosing to hide the affected area or yourself. You remain distanced from others, separate, as interacting becomes uncomfortable.

Your experience of being in the world becomes drastically reduced as the sense of touch is withdrawn. Release the underlying issues and suddenly your world becomes a safe place again. You can once again embrace the simple joys of life. The sun on your back, fine sand between your toes, the gentle embrace of a loved one.