The brain
can be likened to a biological computer that has overall control of the body.
Within the brain there appears to be a 'virtual' template that it uses as a
model to regulate both the physical body and the 'emotional body'. The brain
communicates with these bodies by several pathways, some of which are
neurological or chemical, and some of which are purely energetic.
The
nervous systems runs the voluntary functions of the body and contributes to the
running of the involuntary functions (heart, digestion, etc). It does this in
cooperation with the many chemical systems that work mainly through the blood
stream.
Acupuncture
has demonstrated that there is another, equally important system of meridian
energy flows that link this virtual body to the physical.
IBD
techniques take these physical and energetic principles, integrating and
extending them to form a truly wholistic suite of techniques.
Research
indicates that a major component of illness is the failure of this virtual body
to communicate effectively. This may be due to a failure of the energy flows
just as much as it may be due to failure of the nervous and blood flows.
Using
work pioneered by Goodheart, Riddler, Versendahl and Chinese acupuncturists, and
further developed by IBD and others, the IBD practitioner can find and fix these
energy flow problems. Often this is the unrevealed element in chronic illness
- the reason why people, that otherwise should recover, fail to regain their
former health. Restoration of these energy flows using simple and painless IBD
techniques allows the brain to fully communicate with the body and restore it to
health.
Since a
proper communication between the internal template and the physical and
emotional internal worlds is a major requirement for health, it follows that IBD
can have a part to play in almost any health problem and uncover and correct
many of the roadblocks to true health.
