Welcome to the fascinating world of Kinesiology – a remarkable blend of science, intuition, and healing. Kinesiology is the study of muscles, and it goes far beyond the physical. It’s a holistic approach that taps into your body’s innate wisdom to restore balance and promote overall well-being.
At its core, Kinesiology is the study of muscles, their functions, and the intricate interplay between physical and emotional aspects of our being.
Developed in the 1960s by Dr. George Goodheart and fellow chiropractors in the U.S.A, Kinesiology has evolved into a comprehensive system for testing and balancing muscles, paving the way for enhanced health and vitality.
In 1970 to 1973, Dr. John Thie introduced “Touch for Health,” extracting essential Applied Kinesiology techniques and making them accessible to the general public. Applied Kinesiology serves as the foundation, where we tap into the body’s own biofeedback mechanisms to facilitate healing.
By evaluating muscle responses, Kinesiology uncovers insights into the mind-body connection, leading to personalized and effective solutions for a wide range of concerns.
In addition to muscle balancing, we balance the whole body using meridian theory, lymphatic drainage, and neurovascular holding points, physical manipulation and emotional stress release.
Our bodies operate on many levels, including electrical, emotional, nutritional, physical and spiritual levels. Muscle testing is used to establish if any imbalances exist in the body being tested in these and other levels. Not only can muscle testing establish where imbalances exist in the body, it can also be used to establish the most suitable remedy for the particular person being tested. This means that the person being tested will find out the root cause of the problems, and also the correct program to follow to get well again.
We are all familiar with orthodox western style medicine, which tends to treat the symptoms of disease. The holistic approach is to find and treat the root cause of the problem by bringing the body back into balance. Here is a common example: a person who gets headaches frequently may take headache tablets for relief (often self-administered!) and this would indeed treat the symptom in that the headache may go away. However, the headache could be caused by bad diet, or result from constipation, or be caused by any number of other conditions. This means that the underlying problem is not being treated and could worsen over time leading to more and more serious symptoms. This is just one example of how treating the symptom may not always be the best thing to do. Kinesiology techniques can be used to help establish and treat the root cause of the problem from the word go.
Monitoring and testing the response of specific muscles can obtain a huge amount of information obtained directly from the body. This is possible because the body is like a computer, with a vast storehouse of knowledge regarding its condition. All the practitioner does is access this knowledge!
A Multifaceted Approach
Kinesiology is a versatile and non-invasive therapy that can be applied to diverse areas of health and wellness:Kinesiology for Kids
In addition to assisting in the treatment of medical problems, Kinesiology can be used effectively to help with other types of problems. Educational Kinesiology is used to help with learning difficulties, dyslexia, co-ordination problems, hyperactivity and aggressive behaviour, to name a few.
In Edu-K, the body and mind are viewed as one. By improving posture through Applied Kinesiology, and by using simple exercises, learning becomes fun as unnecessary stress is eliminated. Every child learns differently, and is as unlike any other as two fingerprints. Edu-K recognises this, and works with the specific needs of each child.
Kinesiology for Pain Relief
Pain regrettably plays a part in many peoples lives and can be caused by many problems including arthritis, back problems, sports or old injuries. Many kinesiology techniques are particularly beneficial for pain relief. Energy flows continuously around our bodies, 24 hours a day, and blockages may occur for all sorts of reasons. If not released, these blockages can lead to more serious illnesses. Kinesiology is suitable for all including the very young or old.
Kinesiology for Stress
We are all affected by stress. Whether we like it or not, stress is part of our lives. The ability to handle stress varies from person to person. If stress is not handled correctly, it can lock into the body and can cause physical symptoms at a later stage. Have you ever seen stress on a death certificate? No! Yet, stress is one of the major causes of death in the world. Kinesiology techniques can be used to identify and deal effectively with all types of stress and emotional problems. Every one can benefit from the stress release from school children to business executives. Fears, phobias, past and present trauma can all be dealt with. You can even deal with the stress of future events, for example exams, weddings and other upcoming stressful events.
Our body’s response to stress is natural, and has a vital part to play in our lives. You may have heard of the “Fight or Flight” response. This is a survival mechanism and is used by the body to direct resources (blood/energy) to parts of the body as needed. In our modern world we generally don’t need to run fast from predators, but our bodies response is non-specific and reacts to modern stresses as if they were life threatening. Physical problems such as stomachaches, indigestion and ulcers could be indicators of unresolved stress. Kinesiology can be used to confirm the cause of stress and to release it, enabling the person to deal with the problem objectively.
Kinesiology for Nutrition
Modern living is inherently unhealthy. We buy food containing pesticides, flavourings, preservatives and colourings. Continued ingestion of these chemicals undoubtedly leads to health problems. Our bodies can in fact become toxic. Nutritional problems may relate also to imbalance, where an individual diet does not contain sufficient nutrients or vitamins to remain healthy. If your diet is not balanced then you need to eat more of the foods you do eat to get the nutrition your body needs, and this is clearly unhealthy. Eating a balanced, nutritious diet means you eat less, are not hungry as often and are far healthier.
Kinesiology techniques can be used to help identify specific nutritional weaknesses and sensitivities in the body and to detox the body using herbs, homeopathy, flower and gem essences, colour and sound.
Nutrition does not always mean giving something extra, sometimes it means taking something away, for example any food that the person is allergic to.
Kinesiology for Structural Problems
Backache, tennis elbow, hamstring injury, pulled muscles, sports injuries are all examples of structural problems. Kinesiology techniques have helped many people with such problems to become completely well again. Using the principle of balancing, a complete range of muscles are tested and corrected. In addition to improvements in general posture, relevant meridians are also vitalised. One of the commonest contributing factors to structural problems is bad posture, where the person assumes an unnatural position and so puts strain on the entire structural system. Fixing the muscles involved, and thus correcting the posture obtain balance obtained again.
In an ideal world, nobody would ever get sick. It is a sad fact that our modern lifestyle increases our likelihood of getting sick. The ever quickening pace of life, food additives, pollution, radiation of all kinds and our social structures all contribute to the wearing down of our physical and mental defences. This is evidenced by the increased incidence of heart disease and cancers, which are considered relatively “modern” diseases. People nowadays have to be more vigilant about their health and staying well. Diet, mental attitude and minding our body have never been as important as they are today.
In China, people go to their doctor to be kept well! Regular visits for “balancing” help keep the body healthy and catch potential problems before they become real problems. An analogy of this is the regular servicing of a car. To keep cars running well, most people have them serviced regularly. Failing to service the car will eventually result in serious and possible life-threatening failures for the driver (by brakes failing, worn tires etc. etc.). In the western world, we accept the logic of car servicing without question. However, we only visit our doctors when our body starts to give trouble, instead of going for a regular service to keep us well. It is unfortunate that orthodox medical practitioners expect visits only from sick people.
In an ideal world, nobody would ever get sick. It is a sad fact that our modern lifestyle increases our likelihood of getting sick. The ever quickening pace of life, food additives, pollution, radiation of all kinds and our social structures all contribute to the wearing down of our physical and mental defences. This is evidenced by the increased incidence of heart disease and cancers, which are considered relatively “modern” diseases. People nowadays have to be more vigilant about their health and staying well. Diet, mental attitude and minding our body have never been as important as they are today.
All of the therapies offered by the Freedom Holistic Centre are 100% natural and based on holistic principles. These therapies are complementary, which means that they work alongside any medical treatments already being prescribed, and will not interfere with them. Clients are advised not to come off any medication without their GP’s advice.
