The Health Code

Praise for The Health Code

John Daugherty shines light on how symptoms are better seen as information or gateways into their emotional—and often traumatic—causes. His book includes background to the bodymind tradition and describes in friendly and accessible ways a number of self-help strategies that any of us can learn and practice, both to heal and to maintain health. I highly recommend Dr. Daugherty’s work and await his future publications.

—John Hartung

Principal, Colorado Center for Alternative Psychology

The Health Code is the perfect blend of emotional, mental, and energetic healing. Dr. Daugherty’s intimate insight into the principles and tools he used to beat cancer are inspiring and educational.

—Jeremy W. Greenfield

Chief Brand Officer @ Popl

John is a special type of health care practitioner— a true healer. He is someone interested in the complexity of your wellbeing and how your emotions are related to dysfunctional manifestations in your body. I urge you to take time to slowly read and digest this book as a starting point for optimizing your heath and the health of those who may be under your care.

—Laurence Berarducci MD FACC

Director of Outpatient Heart Failure Clinic, Pueblo, CO

Written from a place of deep authentic experience as a seasoned professional, this book is a comprehensive resource for practitioners and those on their individual journey of self-care. The Health Code weaves together ancient philosophy with cutting edge research, case studies and theoretical frameworks providing an invaluable resource we look forward to highly recommending in our private practices.

—John & Lisa Matthews

Directors of IllumineNation

Coaching Mentoring Leadership Yoga, Melbourne, Australia

Dr. Daugherty, backed by decades of hands-on experience and keen insight into his clients’ physical complaints and their underlying causes, has presented to practitioners a thorough process of assessing and treating these conditions. The book is a guide that belongs in the armamentarium of every practitioner of the healing arts.

—Dr. Michael Brown, MD, Neurosurgeon

Dr. John Daugherty is a master at teaching how to listen to the unspoken voice in the body that whispers to us the stories of our past that manifest as illness and injury. With Dr. Daugherty as our guide, the Healing Code is a tool for deep listening to these disempowering stories held in our inner terrain so that we may heal and transform.

—Alexandra DelGaudio

Re-memberment Guide for Stones Stars and Story

THE HEALTH CODE

Aligning the Mind and Body for Optimal Wellness

Copyright © 2020 by John Daugherty

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This book’s intended purpose is not to substitute the medical advice of a physician or qualified therapist. The reader should regularly consult a physician in matters relating to his/her health and particularly with respect to any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention.

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Table of Contents

Foreword

A Note from the Author

Preface

Chapter 1

Eyes Opened

Chapter 2

Bottom-Up Thinking

Resonance

The Path Less Taken

Chapter 3

Connections

Chapter 4

Body Roadmap

Gateways

Chapter 5

The Connection Gateway

Chapter 6

The Vision Gateway

Chapter 7

The Expression Gateway

Chapter 8

The Love Gateway

Chapter 9

The Action Gateway

Chapter 10

The Pleasure Gateway

Chapter 11

The Foundation Gateway

Chapter 12

Putting it All Together

Interpretations

Chapter 13

Visualizations, Exercises, and Meditations

Visualizations

Exercises

Meditations

Epilogue

References

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Whether you are a practitioner in the healing arts or a seeker along the path of your own individual exploration and transformation, you will now be introduced to some healing codes that will align your mind-body and help you achieve optimal wellness. This book will help you as a practitioner to expand your own awareness of the magnificent healing potential of the physical life that you have, literally, at your fingertips. It is through these pages that you will now be given a new way to hear the underlying factors and causes of your, or your client’s pain or suffering. You will learn to become a more empathic listener when face-to-face with the individual souls sitting in front of you during your healing work.

As a seeker or healer or both, you will learn more about yourself and the power you have to transcend whatever illness or challenge you or your clients may be facing now or in the future. Your body is a barometer of the quality of your life’s alignment (or misalignment) with your inspired mission or soul’s purpose. Knowing how to decipher the codes your body is giving you when it experiences pain or other symptoms not only facilitates physical alignment but catalyzes the possibility that healing your pain sets the stage for the expansion of our soul’s journey.

Symptoms arise in your body as a way for you to evolve along your journey in life. You can use your physical symptoms and pain as codes to unlock the door to your individual growth that benefits your mental, emotional, and physical well-being. These symptoms and their codes can come in a sequence and help you understand your subconscious story lines, the story lines that often keep you stuck in patterns that ‘fail’ to illuminate your true potential for your greatness.

You are possibly living out stories that you didn’t even consciously choose. You may have adopted different parts of your stories from your family dynamics, your traumas, your beliefs, and your perceptions and even injected some from those you have subordinated to. You probably began crafting your individual narratives at a tender age, without even being aware of it. Your imprinting and conditioning from your families of origin, from your own individual experiences—even from your ancestral lineage—have probably been running your life for many years.

This book gives you the healing codes to understand how to transcend such story based illnesses and awaken wellness through reflection and meaning, through rewriting your individual narratives that have caused you to make choices that reflect less than who you truly are—and less than what you are worthy of.

The gift these codes will bring to your clients will be breaking them free from old limiting patterns and giving them a new narrative that impacts every facet of their lives. It’s beautifully surprising when the work you do as a practitioner not only heals physical pain, but helps your clients align with healthier relationships, a deeper spiritual connection, greater capacities for abundance, and a deeper awareness of their authentic selves.

The information within this book is an elegant blend of the eastern and western, ancient and modern, physical and subtle, essential wisdom of mind and body for guided healing. Like a pass code that opens a secure doorway, you can utilize the codes to unlock your ability to heal your or your client’s old trauma and for you and they to become aware of the feelings or emotions that stimulate illness based thoughts within your and their minds.

Without a more reflective awareness, your thoughts can generate more of the same feelings keeping you trapped in a cycle of repetitive thoughts and emotions that keep you in your habitual behaviors. Because your mind, an artifact of your neurobiology, does such a remarkable job of making our thoughts automatic, often you have no choice but to experience a crisis in your body to bring to your awareness the patterns that make your life so difficult.

This book explores how your feelings and emotions are part of your healing cycle, helping you to release your stored misperceptions or narratives. This is a part of healing many practitioners resist since they are often trained to look at the body as a separate thing from the emotions and the mentally inspiring soul.

Since your emotions are often held in the tissues of your body, they generate the chemistry of the pain and inflammation that creates your physical body’s symptoms. As you release or transcend the emotions, you learn to break through the cycle of these habitual behaviors. This affords you an opportunity to change the way you think and change the meanings you hold about core experiences, stories, and beliefs you’ve been holding in the body for often a lifetime.

If you change the way you think, you unleash the potential to heal and to change your behavior. Disrupting your old patterns, rewriting your old limiting narratives, and understanding the relationship between these thought forms and your emotions and body, give you access to the combination that can break the lock on the door of your limited beliefs, attitude, perceptions and behaviors. As you read this book you will all be inspired by John’s touching stories of what appear to be miraculous healings. What John will show you in this book is that tapping into the power of the miraculous healing isn’t really so miraculous. Healing at the depth that John teaches in this book facilitates clearing and aligning on a deep level, helping you or your client break free from the patterns of the past and deepening your and their resiliency and ability to continue to access high levels of wellbeing, inner fulfillment, and health.

In this book you will learn a systematic approach to consistently producing seemingly miraculous outcomes for your clients. You will understand that you are capable of experiencing such healing miracles in a predictable and consistent way.

Renewal is built into the very fabric of your body. In truth, degeneration and disease are the exception, not the norm. Even though most individuals accept aging, degeneration, and disease as a part of life, once you understand how your body renews itself through wisely listening to your symptoms and opening to the many ways you can heal, you can start to harness the emotional and physiological processes intentionally, which creates the space in your life to reflect, redirect, and move your energy into thriving rather than surviving.

Read these pages and you will expand your awareness, intuition, and your capacity to help your clients facilitate their own spontaneous healings. Through these pages you will learn that you have access to a deeper degree of insight and wisdom for your clients that can help you more effectively and efficiently ease their pain and suffering.

It is my hope that in reading this book you will remember the whispering of your inner knowing of your own body and help your clients do the same, that you will deepen your skillset as a healer and that miracles will become a daily part of your now inspired practice.

Dr. John Demartini

International best-selling author of The Values Factor

drdemartini.com

A Note from the Author

My life experience has been a constant and continuous quest for growth and understanding of the universal laws and principles and how they interact with human values, behaviors, health and wellness. I have studied health, healing and human behavior from a bio-energetic wellness perspective creating a confluence of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energies and how they influence the quality of our life experience. My love is learning, teaching, speaking and sharing strategies for experiencing your truly authentic self, the inspired self. This experience allows you to open to your greatest potential with the possibilities that are available to you right now. I have 40 years’ experience in healing, workshops, coaching and sharing.

Now the practical and somewhat boring information about who I am. I have been practicing Chiropractic for 35+ years, and in that time, I have studied and explored multiple methods and processes of healing. I trained and practice as a Chiropractic Physician, although most of my clients and patients just call me a healer. I am grateful for that designation, because healing entails many different aspects of who I hope to be in the world. I have advanced studies in Bio-Energy medicine, Functional and Integrative medicine, as well as being a Board-Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician. I have studied various personal Coaching methods and have trained in many human behavior trainings, such as the Hendricks Institute, Psych K, Neuro-Emotional and Somato-Emotional Therapies.

All of this said, through years of study and practice, I have developed many of my own approaches to health and healing. These methods encompass the ability to create change in physical, mental, emotional and behavioral aspects of each and every patient. These methods have been brought out in this book, and my hope is that you as a reader will benefit from what you learn here. If you are a health practitioner, my hope is that you will find a way to utilize the information in this book to help clients and patients in your own practices. That would be the ultimate honor to have shared something that would help someone, somewhere that I have never even met in my life, but was able to share the energy of healing through another practitioner.

I would like to direct you to more information about me on my website drjohndaugherty.com which gives you my intentions and my commitment to serving my community. Please take some time to browse around.

My hope for you is that you find healing, transformation, and the best version of yourself expressed in the world.

Dr. John Daugherty

Preface

Thirty-five years ago, I was a young doctor and was not aware of the earlier works of great scientist-healers like Dr. Wilhelm Reich, MD, Dr. Ida Rolf, MD, Dr. Peter Levine, PhD, and others whom I have come to know and study. I came up in the profession with the great minds of Dr. George Goodheart, DC, Dr. Alan G. Beardall, DC, and figured my way through practice and patient care alongside Dr. Scott Walker, DC, Dr. John Brimhall, DC and Dr. Ted Morter, DC; all incredibly dedicated doctors and innovators. Their scientific research and clinical experience has helped me for nearly three decades to open my mind as a healer and practitioner. I originally began writing this book twenty years ago, as we were all developing our healing approaches on a daily basis with our patients. Even while all of these individuals were applying the scientific works of our time and putting our focus on healing varying aspects of the human condition, it was almost all theory then. Though these works clinically created great outcomes, it took testing and time to bring this book together in a sensible way using constantly evolving science and clinical methods. The thought-leaders in the early 1980’s were just beginning to speak to each other about their discoveries, which made it difficult to develop a healing protocol that would be applied in practice as well as in life.

In meeting my own need for learning, I was able to bring others’ studies and my own clinical experience into a collaboration of material for my own personal benefit as well as to the benefit of others. Three decades later, there is greater cooperation between practitioners as well as within fields to bring together the work of many who have made huge contributions to the understanding of how the mind, body, and emotions interact. There is greater focus on what is useful at helping heal the traumas that challenge us in our lives.

We now have the ability to utilize the power of our minds, emotions, and bodies in ways we know intuitively and scientifically work to improve our lives. Evolution of techniques and combined therapies as practitioners and being able to help patients apply exercises and focused skills around self-care and self-healing methods have improved our ability to address the trauma within ourselves. We can use these methods to enhance our lives, our performance, and our health.

The most important thing about your journey using the information in this book is not just the success of healing an issue, pain or symptom. What is most important is crafting your personal approach with an open-minded perspective. These concepts and ways of thinking lead to your own process of self-inquiry and healing as a journey of discovery. The principles and tools in this book are a helpful engagement of self-care practice and self-healing. It can help you with challenges and other struggles you are having in your own life, whether you are dealing with cancer, other diseases, or unresolved trauma. As healers and practitioners, you can easily apply these methods and approaches to your own patients and integrate a broader skill set to your professional development.

As these concepts and principles worked for me, I believe that others could benefit from them as well. I feel that energy integration is a missing part of most medical intervention. The new science on how the body is energetically organized, and how we as healers can influence these subtle energies, is a powerful tool available for those who want to radically change the lives of others as well as their own. We have the influence from our colleagues and teachers: Dr. Carol McMakin, DC, Dr. John F. Demartini, Dr. Louisa Williams, DC, ND, Dr. George Gonzalez, DC, Dr. Richard Gerber, MD and many more who are changing the way we approach healing. They are developing and utilizing many different approaches of energy medicine to improve the lives of doctors and patients. Through their generosity of sharing what they have learned, they are educating a tribe of doctors that are benefiting and changing the lives of millions around the globe. I hope my small contribution through this book will bring more awareness to healers about the work of others and add to the advancement of their skills. My desire is that this book will create a tribe of people who are in the mainstream and complementary healing arts to be more open-minded to the new science of emotional, mental, and energetic healing that is now available. My hope is also that the collaboration of your tribe of healers, both medical and complementary practitioners, help you take the responsibility to explore your emotions to identify where self-healing and self-care is needed. This book is for you to improve your quality of life, the quality and scope of your healing work, and it is an opportunity to look and see what isn’t working. Then, you can begin to work with your body and mind for continual improvement. You can bring the best version of yourself to the healing field that you create with each of your patients or clients.

Obviously, these recommendations are not a replacement for your unique healing method. Hopefully the information in this book will give you a fresh perspective and maybe some new thoughts