OVERVIEW
Welcome to The Body of Information. You are about to look into a new way of working with issues that concern you. The Body of Information is a platform of tools designed to help you explore inwardly and communicate with others in a meaningful way. Devised around graduated, layered workbooks, our tools allow you to describe and illustrate your experience as it unfolds for you. This "diary" can then be shared if you wish with other users of the site, to grow a community of shared interests.
From each workbook you’ll be able to:
· Choose the goals you want to work toward.
· Work with a compliment of tools to describe, draw and label your experience.
· Work interactively with tutorials and other reference materials on a range of skills and holistic approaches.
· Pre and post test your experiences of pain, tension, energy and mood.
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Collaborate one-on-one with a guide, coach or therapist through a special service. 
A model-based system
The Body of Information is model-based. That means that you can work step-by-step toward goals that you set. Each model is designed to provide a gentle way of reaching deeper into personal experience, be it for emotional processing, physical pain, or other complex issue. We are reaching out to innovative healthcare providers in building our curriculum of models and workbooks. What these providers share in common is the vision that as a healthcare consumer you possess the intuitive potential for deeper healing and growth. Eventually we hope that you will evolve your own model here
The workbook
Each
model accesses the workbook and each workbook is graduated and layered. That means that you can work back and forth
between layers and see your previous work as on a transparency. The model directs each layer of the workbook with customized guidance,
prompts, and labels for describing as well as drawing your experience. As you move through the graduated layers you can
hone your sensitivity and the describability of your experience.
The figure in column two defaults to male and female body figures. The reason for this is to focus you on what is happening here and now, while the sensations are going on. However, you can replace these body views with other images that might work better for you at a particular time. You can choose from the image library or download your own to your personal database. That way, if for instance you want to work with an anatomical detail instead of a whole body figure you can do so. Or, for instance, if you have a picture of yourself as a child that helps you more easily identify with feelings and sensations from that time, you can work with it in conjunction with a tutorial about family relationships or even a picture of a family member in column 3.
Tutorials, charts and other workbook entries can be accessed from the third column, beside the work canvas area. So, if you want to look, for instance, at a diagram of muscular trigger-point locations to release hip pain you can see that diagram beside the one you’re working on. If you want to look at your past work or other users who have posted workbooks on comparable experiences you may do so here as well.
You can also work with a therapist, coach or specialist in a live session right on your workbook. Not only does this mean instant messaging beside your workbook but your coach can actually share the mouse and point, paint and label in order to direct your attention and provide detailed information. You can find a licensed or certified professional to work with in the listing service under Resources.
CREDITS AND CONTACT
This
site is the project of Stephen R. Scholle, Ph..D., L.Ac., licensed psychologist and acupuncturist.
Programming
is by Brian Van Duzee brvanduzee@msn.com and Terry Henning.
Research and ideas behind the site.
Contact:
info@bodyinfo.com.