Demystifying kinesiology
What is Kinesiology?
The word Kinesiology comes from the word kinetic, meaning moving energy. Kinesiology is the practice of muscle monitoring, developed by Dr. George Goodheart an American Chiropractor in 1964. One of his students Dr. John Thie developed a system to teach the public these self-help techniques. This is known as Touch for Health, combining muscle monitoring with the wisdom of Chinese medicine.
Using Kinesiology, the muscles become monitors indicating stress and imbalance. By '“'muscle monitoring'”', Kinesiology becomes a versatile tool for identifying and correcting various imbalances in your body and therefore, in your life.
Why Muscles?
Your nervous system is designed to self-regulate and adapt to change. Physical and emotional changes are registed by signals that work like feedback loops between the brain and the muscles. When you experience stress and can't adapt properly, your muscles reflect and hold on to this tension. They hold the memory (including emotional) of every move they ever made. You may carry this stress for years and it can manifest as illness, aches and pains, dysfunctional behaviour or a personal crisis.
Muscles are the filing cabinets of the subconscious mind. By accessing muscles we can bring certain files to consciousness to be dealt with. The emotions are released; the muscle returns to its original length and the aches and pains dissipate.
How does it work?
To monitor your muscles the kinesiologist holds your arm (or any muscle) and exerts gentle pressure to asses your body's response. The muscle will either lock or unlock. The muscle is not being tested for its strength but rather its ability to maintain un-interrupted, coherent communication with the central nervous system. If the muscle unlocks it has been inhibited at the physical, emotional or at the energetic level due to a disturbance in the flow of energy. Kinesiology can locate, then remove these blockages, identifying the time and situation that they occurred.
The healing begins
Once the Kinesiologist has identified the problem they are able to monitor for the appropriate treatment. The Kinesiologist will then touch reflex points and ask questions to identify the specific imbalance. As everyone is different, different ways are required to heal the imbalances. Muscle monitoring will tell the Kinesiologist exactly what a particular person needs. Healing techniques include acupressure, flower essences, lymphatic stimulation, specific exercises, nutrient or homeopathic remedies. There are, of course, many other modalities and techniques different Kinesiologists will specialise in.
You don’t need to be sick to see a Kinesiologist. You may just be ready for change or opening up to your unlimited potential.
