What is Kinesiology?
Kinesiology originally developed as a branch of chiropractic practices but has evolved into a separate, specialised, holistic, healthcare practice.
The traditional meaning of the word is “the study of body movement”. In the natural health field muscles become monitors of stress and imbalance. “Muscle testing” is one of the techniques used in Kinesiology. This procedure is a tool for detecting and correcting various imbalances which may relate to mental, emotional or physical stress, nutritional imbalance, learning problems or injuries.
In an ideal environment our bodies are self-healing and self-regulating. In our stressful, fast-paced lives, we don’t afford our bodies the time to naturally rebalance and sometimes the signals between our body and brain become unclear.
Muscle testing monitors the feedback of muscles and detects the expected and irregular muscle responses revealing where a person is battling to adapt or cope in their life.
Listening to your body.
When we are under mental, emotional or physical stress our body talks to us through symptoms or dis-ease. These symptoms are the body’s messenger sent to communicate with us and focus our attention on the fact that we are not living fully.
Disease or dis-ease results from blocking the flow of life and symptoms are the body’s way of dealing with the blockage. Treating the symptoms is silencing your body’s messenger. When we treat symptoms we are stopping the body from expressing.
The symptom is not the problem! It is just the messenger.
It is important to find out what the message is and what area of your life it is telling you about. Kinesiology is about decoding the messages your body sends you.
Have you ever loved and lost?
While the relationship was going well you had abundant energy, could stay up late, eat junk food and yet felt on top of the world. When the relationship fell apart, you suddenly felt unworthy, depressed, hopeless, angry and became physically ill – perhaps experiencing back and neck pain.
What was the real cause of the pain? Something you did physically “wrong”? Or was it perhaps an outer manifestation of your internal state that affected your physical body?
In this example, if we just worked on the muscles of the neck and back we may be missing the real cause – the person’s inability to adapt to the new circumstances in the relationship.
It’s important to see the pain, “disease” or negative patterns as a messenger.
In this way we learn to work with our bodies and the messages it sends us. We learn to trust our bodies and to restore our natural self-healing and self-regulating internal ecosystem.
Listening to the messages we are sending ourselves is a vital part of self-care. When we ignore self-care messages we need healthcare.
As a Kinesiologist I work with revealing the message behind the symptoms.