B.E.S.T. (Morter Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique, Morter B.E.S.T., Morter B.E.S.T. Technique; originally called bio energetics): Chiropractic variation of self-healing and Polarity Therapy developed in 1974 by M.T. Morter, Jr., M.A., D.C., developed the method in 1974. Its theory posits Innate Intelligence: an internal force that totally regulates health.

(See also: Morter Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique B.E.S.T., Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Breema Bodywork: an ancient health-improvement method whose design is: (a) to release tension; (b) to promote health, vitality, and inner harmony; and (c) to create emotional, physiological, structural, and energetic balance in the practitioner and recipient.

(See also: Breema Bodywork, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

bioelectronic diagnosis: Form of diagnosis exemplified by radionic diagnosis. It involves using: (a) a tissue sample (e.g., blood, hair, or saliva), to tune into the patient's vibrational state (rhythm); and (b) special instruments that concentrate the energy field.

(See also: Bioelectronic diagnosis, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

barefoot shiatsu massage: Variation of shiatsu practiced by Viola M. Timbers, R.N., B.A., of New York City. It features pressing on meridians with hands, elbows, knees, and feet.

(See also: Barefoot shiatsu massage, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

body-centered psychotherapy (body-oriented psychotherapy, body psychotherapy, direct body-contact psychotherapy, humanistic body psychotherapy): Any combination of: (a) psychotherapy and (b) massage therapy, touch therapy, or movement techniques. Body-centered psychotherapy may include breathwork.

(See also: Body-centered psychotherapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Body Centered Therapy: Method whose components include: (a) Conscious Communication Skills, which involve learning the language of Microscopic Truth; (b) Movement Therapy; (c) Pre- and Perinatal Psychology; and (d) Radiance Breathwork.

(See also: Body Centered Therapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

breathwork (Breath Work, conscious breathing): Multiform healing modality characterized by stylized breathing.

Its design is to effect physical, emotional, and spiritual change. Breathwork:

(a)           can dissolve limiting programs that are stored in the mind and body; and

(b)          increases one's ability to handle more energy.

Modes of breathwork include rebirthing, Essential Breathing, Middendorf, and Vivation.

(See also: Breathwork, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

bioenergetics

1. (Bioenergetic Analysis, bioenergetic method): Offshoot of Reichian Therapy developed by psychiatrist Alexander Lowen (b. 1910), author of Language of the Body (1958). Its theory posits bioenergy (life energy), and its principle is that all bodily cells record emotional or energetic reactions.

Practionars hold that such cellular memories are adaptable to healing and consciousness-raising, and that patients can release them by crying, screaming, and kicking. Practitioners may be called bioenergeticists.

2. Science practiced by former boxing instructor Yefim Shubentsov, called The Russian and The Mad Russian. It is a treatment for phobias, addiction, bulimia, overeating, pain, migraines, and hearing deficiency. According to its theory, such problems are remediable through effects on the patient's force fields.

(See also: Bioenergetics, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Biogram Therapy: (biogram healing, Biogram Healing System, biogram mind-body healing, Biogram System): Treatment developed by Dr. Richard Johnson. It involves guided imagery and is the basis of an audiocassette program. Biogram refers toa something that communicates directly with the source of a malady to initiate the healing process on mental and physical levels.

The principles of Biogram Therapy include these:

(a)           One can learn how to use one's mind to correct any negative physical conditions in various areas of the body.

(b)           Everyone possesses a cellular memory, the experience of one's ancestors in genetic code, which may cause otherwise inexplicable difficulties for the individual.

(c)           One can develop both the ability to see inside one's body with one's mind and the ability to derive information from one's DNA archives (the Library of Time), with which one can retrain oneself at the cellular level.

(See also: Biogram Therapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

bodywork (Bodywork Therapy, bodywork therapies): A potpourri of methods typified by exercising, manipulating, and/or manually (especially digitally) touching the body. It overlaps with energy field work. The expression bodywork is generally interchangeable with hands-on healing and hands-on health.

The major categories of bodywork are:

(a)           massage therapy,

(b)          body-centered psychotherapy, and

(c)           touch therapy.

Its major foci are:

(a)           body structure (e.g., chiropractic),

(b)          body armor (e.g., Reichian Therapy),

(c)           chi or vital energy (e.g., acupressure massage, acupuncture, and jin shinn),

(d)           relaxation (e.g., lomi-lomi and Swedish massage), and

(e)           the subtle body (e.g., Reiki and Therapeutic Touch).

The word bodyworkers refers to practitioners of any form of bodywork that is not categorizable as acupuncture, chiropractic adjustments, osteopathy, body-centered psychotherapy, touch therapy, or energy field work.

(See also: Bodywork, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Bio-Chromatic Chakra Alignment: means of unblocking bodily energy centers with visionary tools based on alien science. These include: (a) the Bio-Chromatic Integration Device, which converts deep space energy to human frequencies; and (b) the Starchamber, which filters, focuses, and amplifies the life force energy of any object.

(See also: Bio-Chromatic Chakra Alignment, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

body oriented emotional release psychotherapy (Neo-Reichian emotional release work): Method promoted by Dee Cassella. Its theory posits blocked sexual energy and holds that one reclaims one's natural 'SELF' as one:

(a)           releases anger, fear, and sadness, and

(b)          grieves over the loss of one's inner child.

(See also: Body oriented emotional release psychotherapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Balanced Health: Offshoot of applied kinesiology taught by The Academy of Systematic Kinesiology, in Britain. Treatment may include chakra corrections.

(See also: Balanced Health, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Bateman Health System: Combination of Qigong and yoga developed by Allan Bateman and promoted by the Bateman Institute for Health Education, in Manhattan (New York City).

Be Set Free Fast» (BSFF): One of the tapping therapies. Larry Phillip Nims, Ph.D., developed it. According to BSFF theory, in adults any specific problem typically has 700 to 1,900 emotional roots. Each BSFF treatment series eliminates all of a problem's roots. (See energy therapies. )

(See also: Bateman Health System, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Biofeedback Without Machines: Modality for relatively stressless living and for tapping inner resources to discover one's identity and potential, according to George E. Soroka in Biofeedback Without Machines: A Strategy For Living (1994). Soroka's method joins biofeedback and a form of counseling that includes Transactional Analysis. In his book, Soroka states that everyone is plugged into the universe at large, that this connection is a transcendent source of awesome power, and that biofeedback enables one to begin an exploration of the cosmic energy force. He also suggests that God is immanent in humans.

(See also: Biofeedback Without Machines, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Biogenic Support (homeovitic support): Phase of homeovitics whose aim is to minimize production of free radicals during Clearing and homeovitic detoxification.

(See also: Biogenic Support, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

bio-iridology: Mode of treatment selection based on the color of the iris and iris markings. One of its underlying purposes is to balance body, mind, and spirit. Bio-iridology's treatment options encompass chiropractic, deep yoga breathing exercises, dietary modification, dietary supplements, and herbs.

(See also: Bio-iridology, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

BioKinesiology: Offshoot of applied kinesiology developed in the mid-1970s by John Barton. Its principle is that stressful emotions are the basis of most illnesses. correction includes dietary supplementation.

(See also: BioKinesiology, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Biological Archeology: Component of BEYOND MEDICINE whose principle is that the body stores all information in cellular memory. It design is to peel away layers of stresses, toxins, and traumas the body has stored. Biological Archeology encompasses herbology, homeopathy, kinesiology (see below), and psychotherapy.

(See also: Biological Archeology, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)