Category Archives: Kinesiology

Do You Have Intuitive Intelligence?

Posted on by

Intuition is now considered an “intelligence” and like emotional intelligence, social intelligence, creative intelligence, intelligence for reading, writing, & rithmatic, and a string of others, we can now acknowledge, claim and explore intuition without being ridiculed, even in scientific circles.

Intuitive intelligence is being researched scientifically and HeartMath Institute has been immersed in exciting and heart intelligence affirming research since 1991. Their research is showing that the heart appears to be involved in the processing and decoding of intuitive information. It also presents evidence that females are more attuned to intuitive information from the heart.

I read that there is an “underlying nonconscious aspect of intuition which includes implicit learning, implicit knowledge.” It is being acknowledged more openly now that intuitive perception plays an important role in business decisions and entrepreneurship, in learning, research, medical diagnosis, and healing, in spiritual growth and overall well-being.

Several researchers have contended that intuition is:
– an innate ability that all humans possess in one form or another
– is arguably the most universal natural ability we possess
– could be regarded as an inherited unlearned gift.

Although intuition is often felt as a sensation in the body, that physical sense can come with a knowingness and recognition of information from any or all of our five senses, with a vision, colour or sound, even a taste or smell. We interpret the sensations we experience.

There are times our drive to produce a particular outcome can provide a rational direction or decision, yet … a “bad feeling” gnawing away at you is a sign that your intuition is telling you that, no matter how much you might want to talk yourself into this direction, it’s somehow not right, it’s not in sync with your “inner knowing”.

Research and experience at HeartMath Institute suggests that emotions are the primary language of intuition, and that intuition is a largely untapped resource. They teach how to engage heart felt emotions, like compassion and gratitude, with breathing, to entrain the brain frequency to be in sync with the heart and generate the calm experience we intuitively seek.

Implicit knowledge or implicit learning could be knowledge we gained in the past and either forgot or did not realize we had learned something unintentionally. Like the monkeys in the mirror neuron experiments, we watched, absorbed, integrated and stored, to later bring forward the knowledge or skill as the need arose. There was no logical or conscious need to understand, just integration of how to achieve a particular result, simply by watching and registering in our own body the same muscle and energy patterns of the person we are watching. We can learn by mirroring behaviour.

The brain has a highly efficient and effective pattern-matching ability. Your brain matches the patterns of new problems and challenges with implicit memories base on your prior exposure and experience. We are not conscious that the brain is pattern matching, we just find our body is moving as needed, an idea or a thought pops up, or a solution appears in our awareness. It’s not a conscious process.

Another type of intuition might be called energetic sensitivity. Our nervous system detects and responds to changes in the electromagnetic field around our body. A common experience is becoming aware that someone is watching or staring at us. Their attentive energy focused on us has penetrated our field and registered in our nervous system.

Walking in nature we can perceive change of the Earth’s field as we move through areas of trees and plants, rock formations, and flowing water. To be walking in the bush and come round a bend and suddenly find ourselves in a clearing can starkly highlight awareness. The atmosphere can be quite different, very palpable, as our skin sensors register the change.

That change is visual and also energetic. Close your eyes and you can still feel it. Walk back and again approach the bend, more slowly this time, and pay attention to when you become aware of the change. Native tribes have grown up being sensitive to their land and its special places, for healing, for peace, for recovery. Westerners may not have honed that awareness but by paying attention in different environments we can become more sensitive to environmental energy.

Albert Einstein has been widely quoted as saying, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

To enhance your awareness of your intuition do a Touch For Health Goal Balance on:
I easily and readily access and align with my intuitive intelligence for … (problem solving, inner guidance, clarity, next step, etc). Touch For Health kinesiology uses muscle response monitoring to communicate with your subconscious, and bring up to conscious awareness that which is usually hidden from our everyday awareness. It also shows which part of our energy system to stimulate to become more aware of our intuitive ability and direct it to a specific area in our life.

Touch For Health program builds sensitivity to energy change and increases your intuitive intelligence. Workshops are held regularly.
For more information on workshops email: anna@annamcrobert.com.au

Reverse the Digestive Decline

Posted on by

Have you got a Digestive Problem?
Are you feeling bloated and uncomfortable,
suffering with tummy cramps and get headaches,
feel tired all the time and …

I think you may be shocked at what you’re about to read.
Your digestion decline can start as early as your 20s! Really? Research shows that if you have a digestive system (along with the rest of you) that’s older than 60, then there’s a 65% chance that you have insufficient digestive capacity? And the digestion decline may have started in your 20s. If you can’t extract the goodies from your foods, then you can’t repair and replace cells efficiently, which means you are actually aging faster than you realize. At age 30 your digestion could be functioning as age 60! That’s a mismatch that can be corrected.

When low on supplies your body will break down existing tissue, sacrificing muscle tissue, skin tissue, bone tissue, to get what you need to keep your vital organs going. That is one of the reasons that you lose muscle mass as you age, and develop osteoporosis, and your skin thins and wrinkles.
This reduced capacity to digest foods can lead to reactions to the foods you eat, even those that were fine when you were younger. And all the symptoms will make you think you’re sick … and need medications … that produce side effects that can be worse than your current problem. Scary!

Improving your digestion could save you thousands of dollars in costly health treatments and medications. Many medications can upset your body systems even more, hide the original cause, create heaps of further problems, make you put on weight, reduce the nutrition you can extract from foods, create a string of additional food reactions, get you on a medical drug treadmill, and keep you there, while you continue to decline. And you’ll be told that’s inevitable with age. Not true!

You don’t have to decline, you can even reverse the loss of digestive capacity, at any age. You can actually improve your digestion, naturally. Kinesiology food testing, through monitoring muscle change, can identify which foods your body can handle effectively, and which foods cause trouble, that drop your energy and create symptoms, and put an extra load on your detoxing and elimination organs.

If you have been ill your body is directing energy to healing, not digestion. If you are stressed, your body is directing energy to deal with the threat, and not to digestion, till the stress has passed. What if it never totally passes? What if every day is stressful to you? Then your digestion remains low, and poorly digested food sets up a reaction, causing inflammation in your gut, and throws your intestinal microbes out of balance too.

Attend Food: Friend or Foe workshop, Saturday 3rd February, 9am to 4pm and learn how to take stress off your digestion, and what to do to boost your digestive powers.
Take charge of your energy, digestive power and brain power. This is a face-to-face workshop in Brisbane Australia.
Email me for details and I’ll send the Registration Form.
anna@annamcrobert.com.au

Food: Friend or Foe

Posted on by

Food: Friend or Foe workshop could save a lot of misery for you and your kids. If you want to know which foods are safe and which foods disturb the digestive tract, mess with energy levels, and trigger behavior problems, then this one day course is ideal for you to learn how to quickly and easily test which foods are safe and which are disruptive. That way you can bypass the problems and increase health.

Talking with people recently highlighted some issues around food:
– food reactions are a continuing problem, (worse with holiday treats)
– which foods are your friends and which are a foe?
– how can you choose the best food for your system (not all good food is good for you)
– how can you recognize which food is creating problems (how to pin point them)
– how can you drop the belly fat (expanding more on belly than else where)

Are any of these on your “find the answer” list?
Do you want clear, effective solutions?
Then this can be the most valuable information you’ll come across.

In the workshop coming up I can show you how to:
– identify which food creates which reaction in your body
– pinpoint which foods boost your health and lift your energy
– demonstrate which foods drop your energy and create disturbing symptoms
– find which foods maintain your current state and keep you going

But it doesn’t stop there. I’ll spend 7 hours in a hands-on workshop to train you in a small class, so you get to learn to do this yourself, ask questions and get your answers on the spot. And you’ll get heaps of notes to take away with you.

The topic – Food: Friend or Foe
That’s right, I’ll show you how to identify which food you can trust and which to avoid using kinesiology muscle monitoring, so you can make the right choices for you and have great energy all day.

You see, two of the biggest problems facing people wanting to know what is best for them food wise, is the overwhelming amount of information about food available today, often contradictory, and the time it takes to research and track down what you want to know for your own situation.

There’s lots of piece meal and varied information out there, many options and opinions. But how do you know what is right for you specifically, for your metabolism, for your genetics, for your lifestyle, for your energy level, for you as a unique whole person? And each child will also be uniquely different in their own right as well, so what is right for you may not be right for your child.

When I started searching for answers for myself years ago, everything I read seemed to be written for me and my symptoms, but no matter what I tried, the results weren’t there, I wasn’t getting better. Everything the doctor prescribed added more symptoms. I was still bloated, still starting the day looking and feeling ok to have my belly blow up with fluid and my waistline expand dramatically by lunch time. I was feeling nauseas, even if I didn’t eat or drink. Everything I ate made me feel worse. I felt tired, sick and disillusioned. And I had two young children to care for, one with unresolved health issues.

Where was this fluid that expanded my belly coming from? Why was I feeling nauseas all the time? How come my energy would drain so quickly? Why didn’t the supplements work? Was that the right combination of foods I ate? Am I doing enough? Should I keep going, or should I stop trying this, that, or the other?

And my young son had other issues. He was forever coming down with infections, was on antibiotics regularly, was on medication for asthma, had bowel issues, was exhausted and couldn’t get going in the mornings. He wasn’t enjoying his life and I was stressed watching him suffer.

It took time to find answers, but I did. I studied how the body works, how the nervous system works, how biochemistry works, how it all comes together.

I discovered how to go through information available and sift out what was relevant to my son and myself. I learned how to personalize options presented and address my unique situation. He got better and I got better, thanks to kinesiology muscle monitoring

So, then I could help others too. I have now been running my clinic since 1981, all the while continuing to learn and add to my skills and knowledge. By combining ancient wisdom from traditional cultures, with present day methods, and adding what science is discovering and proving, we can get the best from old and new ways to help the body work efficiently and effectively.

If you want some guidance, for yourself or your children, including:
– insight on how to adjust foods to suit your health better,
– reassurance that you are on the right track,
– gain ability to improve your results,
– to build your confidence with muscle monitoring
– and to trust your body’s ability to indicate your best options,
then you will definitely benefit from attending Food: Friend or Foe workshop
Because you will get the information, see the demonstrations, and learn hands-on how to muscle monitor foods so you can at any time test if foods are friend or foe.

Food: Friend or Foe Workshop
Saturday, 3rd February 2018, 9am to 4pm.
To Register: email me anna@annamcrobert.com.au for details.

Is Your Energy Field Healthy?

Posted on by

What does your body energy field say about you and your health?

Every one of us has a magnetic field that emanates from our body, so that when we approach another human being, our two fields meet before our physical bodies interact as we greet and touch to shake hands or give a hug. We register the vibe intuitively and subconsciously, before we engage consciously and physically.

Every electrical signal, within cells, between individual cells, among clusters of cells that form an organ, signals from organ to organ, signals along the nerve fibres to the brain and back to the body, the millions of electrical firings that are continuous and constant in the living body, generates a magnetic field. This body-field is unique and constantly moving, expressing into the outer world the electrical activity of our inner workings.

The field you create when you are healthy and vibrant is very different from the field you emanate when tired, depleted, unwell, angry, frustrated or depressed. Learn how to balance your energy field with Touch For Health kinesiology muscle and energy balancing.

Bruce Lipton tells us that “the mind is an energetic field of thought.”

The energy of thoughts and intentions contribute to your body-field. Wiring up the brain to an electro-encephala-graph, EEG, every thought produces its own firing pattern of neurons that is recorded on the graph printout. Functional Magnet Resonance Imaging, fMRI, measures blood flow changes occurring as you process a thought or visual stimulus. Now we can also read the field around the brain with an MEG, a magneto-encephala-graph, without using probes or contacts on the body at all. The whole head activity measured by MEG can capture the result of the brain processing visual stimulation, or spontaneous oscillating activity, such as alpha rhythms.

So, what does all this mean?

In the documentary movie, The Living Matrix, Bruce Lipton said, “the magneto-encephala-graph is a probe outside of the head, and it reads the fields of neural activity, without touching the body. Basically, it says when you are processing in the brain you’re broadcasting fields.”

What kind of field do your thoughts and body activities and health broadcast?
What do others intuitively pick up about your body-field?
Some people have the specific gift that allows them to read the body-field without MEG. Not everyone has developed this gift, but everyone can get feedback about the inner body and brain activity through muscle response monitoring. When you learn Touch For Health kinesiology a whole new world of awareness opens up.

Touch For Health 1 is due 7th & 8th October. Contact me for details.
anna@annamcrobert.com.au
Cheers, Anna
PS. Scientists and researchers call it the body-field. You might know it as the body’s aura.

Believe It Or Not

Posted on by

In the Brisbane Courier Mail this morning I read about a research team scouring Gold Coast hinterland for signs of existence of yowies. The was an article by Geoff Shearer. Believe it or not, this is serious scientific research.

Ranae Holland, research biologist, has a Bachelor of Science degree and is part of the yowie research team, but remains a sceptic at this stage. In case you are new to Australia, a yowie is a legendary ape-like creature that shuns human contact, but occasionally leaves footprints behind or is heard in the night. This Ozzie research dovetails with Oxford University scientists and others. Queensland expedition in the wilds of the Gold Coast are one of 20 such research expeditions, on the hunt round the world looking for evidence of strange creatures in our midst. Their aim is to get DNA samples to determine their genesis.

“What the Oxford study is about is if you truly are a scientist you should be constantly challenging the established norm,” Holland said.

“There are a lot of academics trying to get involved but (they) will not risk their reputation,” says James Fay, a member of the Australian team. “Science hasn’t been as open-minded as you would think.” … Really!

Reading that makes me ask what else “Science hasn’t been as open-minded as you would think” in terms of serious research. Being actively involved in clinical application and the teaching of kinesiology for 30 years, in private workshops and ten years at a registered college, has given me many opportunities to encounter “Science hasn’t been as open-minded as you would think.”

Actually it is the medical practitioners who have been the least open minded.

Believe it or not, research has been conducted on many aspects of alternate medicine to the point that body/mind medicine is now commonly recognized as real, a holistic approach is encouraged, and acupuncture, which is energy medicine, is used in medical clinics and hospitals too. Other forms of energy medicine have also been proven to be effective, including kinesiology.

This research has often been conducted by disenchanted medical practitioners and university professors as well as curious students whose bias has not yet been set by medical dogma. These are the ones who risked their reputation, refused to continue giving medications that are ineffective and cause so many detrimental side effects or direct harm. So they went in search of a better alternative. After all, the oath medical practitioners take admonishes, “first, do no harm.”

If the possibility that yowie’s, bigfoots, sasquatches, and yetis may have a recognizable DNA attracts scientific research, and is based on reported sightings round the world over eons, it makes me wonder. What if all who engage in holistic medicine over centuries may have a discernable DNA worthy of research, maybe even an energetic link. Believe it or not, it just might be so.

www.annamcrobert.com.au

Tension, Pain, Thinking – What Is The Link?

Posted on by

Are pain and tension linked to thinking? How? Do we experience physical pain more than mental emotional pain? Is limited body movement and limited thinking inevitable as we age? Which comes first, the body’s lack of flexibility or fixed and limited thinking? Is rigid body and thought pattern a sign of aging? How much of our physical and mental deterioration is our stuck thinking based on childhood belief and expectation? Do you ever ponder these questions?

These are the kind of questions you may not ask yourself until your body is in pain. Then the questions come unbidden. What have I done? How bad is the damage? Am I getting old? Can this be fixed? What do I do to fix it?

So, what do you need to know about your body and aches and pains to stay healthy and to repair readily when there is a mishap, overload or accident? How can you avoid a recurrence of the pain? What do you need to know?

Habits Serve and Shape Us
All of us have habits that serve us well and other habits that get us into trouble or limit our progress. These habits will shape our body, our thinking, our health, our relationships, our joys and our distresses. How can we increase the life enhancing habits and identify and reduce or eliminate the life sapping habits?

Teaching kinesiology and stress managing skills I interact with people of all ages. Some are dealing with young children and want safe and simple techniques to help them. Some are looking to change career or add to their existing health care training. Some have had a health wake-up call and want to make changes. Some are curious about how the body works and want be more aware of the best ways to improve energy and health or to stay healthy as they age. Many are interested in how their thinking influences their body function.

Habits Grow With Us
As we grow older our habitual thoughts and emotions make their stamp more and more visible on the shape of our muscles, our posture, walking gait and range of flexibility in movement. How does this happen?

As a baby, a toddler, a youngster we were curious, instinctively experimented, reached for anything new on our horizon, till we became familiar with what was constantly in our home world. This became our comfort zone, a place to retreat to when outer world was too difficult, too demanding, or too stressful.

In familiar territory we didn’t need to make an effort to master something new. We could switch off, relax, zone out, and do only what was comfortable. Our comfort zone is a useful place to rest and recuperate in but once recovered, got our second wind, we need to venture out again and engage in the unfamiliar, the difficult, the new, to stimulate and expand our ability and capacity. This is our life journey of self-discovery and self development. Along the way we learned to recognize stress and tension.

We Know More Than We Realize
Have you ever looked at a person and thought, “he/she is tense,” even before you spoke with the person. What made you recognize and use the work “tense?” We are often good at reading body language. It’s not an intellectual process but an immediate and instinctive assessment of a person’s current state. We know the signs even if we can’t articulate them.

Chronic anxiety for example, wreaks havoc with muscle tone, tensing muscles not for movement or work activity, but as a reflex to the anxious thoughts. We tighten muscles of the body to create a hard shield against the world, against fear of emotional pain, “holding our self together” physically, in an effort to counter or avoid the emotional “melt down” or to prevent “falling apart”.

Our Language Reveals Our Knowing
The common expressions in our language are metaphors highlighting just how familiar this experience is for many of us, either living in anxiety our self or recognizing it in others. Chronic anxiety can set our body tone and over time becomes our habit and our norm to the degree that when our muscles are not tense we “don’t feel our self”. It becomes part of our internal feedback system and self-image and we only recognize self through the anxiety produced body posture, tension, aches and pains.

Our entire history is progressively recorded in our muscles. Each stage of development of physical and mental habits is the foundation for further postural habits that reflect the impact of life events and how we coped.

As the years go by the stress patterns bow us, bind us, trap us in degenerative habits within ever narrower ranges of comfortable activity. We avoid what is not comfortable, what stretches our capacity because it’s uncomfortable. With narrower ranges of extension and flexibility we lose power and strength and become narrower in our range of thinking and effort and connection with our outer world.

Awareness Opens Solution Options
Without awareness of this process happening we make no attempt to slow, stop or reverse this linked mental and physical decline. Releasing the limited muscle range can also release the mind’s range of thought, allowing for new mental exploration, for creative invention, and shifting our view to new or different possibilities to engage in for fun or interest or other benefit.

Various styles of hands-on bodywork like massage and kinesiology address the body/mind habitual patterns, releasing stress held in the physical tissues caused by our challenges, anxieties and fears. Bodywork is not just physical, it also moves the stuck energy patterns and supports the release of body/mind tension.

Regular Body Care
A regular appointment for de-stressing the physical and mental/emotional body accumulations is anti aging and health and energy preserving. Regular muscle and energy rebalancing prevents habits becoming dis-ease. As your body loosens under the influence of caring hands so does your thinking and your interest and choice of activities that you can include in your life regularly.

Attend a workshop in Touch For Health Kinesiology to learn safe and effective stress reducing skills for tension, pain and thinking. Your health and life can become better with Touch For Health Kinesiology.

Emotional Stress Release for Stress and Muscle Tension

Posted on by

It is natural for muscles to tense up when there is stress on line. It is also natural for muscles to release and relax when you are not in stress. So tension can come and go with different ups and downs of life. Muscle tension is how your body tells you that you need to do something to change what is going on so you are not wearing yourself out or making yourself sick.

Trouble is we often don’t recognize that we are carrying stress as muscle tension. Because it can be such an every day part of life it feels “normal”. We are often hurrying to get things done, get kids off to school, be on time, arrange events, keep appointments, complete work tasks, plan projects, or whatever. We may be dreading some coming meeting. We may have stirred up old fears. Our thinking and self-talk can easily reinforce stress and make it all worse.

Some people are habitual worriers and always stressed to some degree, and it shows in their muscle tension. Our muscles can be 75% contracted and that tension can still be out of our conscious awareness, till someone touches a tight muscle and we become aware it is hard as a rock. Or we are snappy or irritable and realize we are “holding our self together” with muscle tension.

So once you are aware of muscle tension, or stress, or worry, you can consciously choose to do something about it. Sometimes it is when there are headaches, or shallow breathing, or tight chest, or some other symptoms that finally you have to take the time to deal with the cumulative effects of daily stress.

When you realize muscles are tight you can take the tension out of the tight muscles with Emotional Stress Release, a technique from Touch For Health Kinesiology, as a first step to reduce muscle tension.

For Example, you may have been rushing to get things done before closing time. Following is what you can do to ease muscle tension gently.

Emotional Stress Release technique for Stress & Muscle Tension

First is always to acknowledge what is, the truth of your current experience.

Place one hand across your forehead and say to yourself:
1. “My muscles are tense, and my breathing is shallow and tight. (breathe in & out).
2. “I can feel the tension as I focus on it and realize my breathing is tense too. (breathe in & out).
3. “I recognize the tension has been building for a while.” (breathe in & out).
4. “The tension is adding to my tiredness / irritability / muddle-head feeling / etc.” (breathe in & out).

Acknowledge till the tension in your thoughts and your body starts to reduce and your breathing becomes a bit easier. You may need to repeat steps 1 to 4 a couple of times. Be sure to pay attention to your breathing between each statement. You may notice the warmth increasing under your hand on your forehead. That’s a good sign.

Next accept what is.

5. “Its not surprising there is tension in my muscles, its been a busy time, I’ve been rushing.” (breathe in & out).
6. “I’ve got some things done and there’s more to go.” (breathe in & out).
7. “I’ll be glad when its done.” (Breathe in & out)

Notice as more of the tension leaves, your voice becomes less harried, your body eases and your breath slows down.

Next look forward to when you will be more at ease.

8. “The more efficiently I get it done the sooner I can wind down.” (breathe in & out).
9. “Then I’ll have a cup of tea / glass of wine / ring a friend / smell the roses / or whatever.

The stress goes down as you acknowledge the problem, accept it, and look forward to when its over and dealt with. You have diverted your brain blood flow away from stress survival program area to problem solving front brain.

I may not have covered your particular cause of muscle tension so I hope you can get the idea of the process that you can apply to your situation. There are more techniques in Touch For Health Kinesiology you can use to help yourself.

Let me know how you go with this.
Cheers
Anna

PS. Emotional Stress Release was covered in a recent Touch For Health 1 workshop presenting several ways to rebalance stress and tension. Contact me for more on theses workshops.

Patti wrote: “Thanks so much for the wonderful learning experience, I thoroughly enjoyed it and am so looking forward to our next course.”

Communication Pitfalls and How To Navigate Safely

Posted on by

We have all had the experience of having words tumble out or our mouth before we could think, resulting in insult or injury. Now let me ask, were you wanting to insult or injure at the time? Was that your intention? If so, check your motivation for this, as like attracts like, and you will likely find your world full of people who think it is fair game to insult and injure you.

Is this what you want for yourself? If not, do you know how to turn this around? Do you know how to recognize and navigate safely through communication pitfalls and roadblocks? Do you have the skills and strategies? Do you want some understanding and insights?

What if the outcome was totally opposite to what you intended? What if you were you wanting to gain co-operation and positive and mutual benefits and it mis-fired? It was mis-understood? It blow up in your face? Tell me, was your conscious and subconscious in agreement on this, on the same page, pursuing the same goal, expressing the same intent? How do you know?

Your communication awareness and skill may benefit from a thorough exploration with a specific goal in mind. If you have Touch For Health skills then do a goal balance on something like, “I easily attract relationships that are mutually respectful, caring and beneficial.”

Kinesiology as a First Step
Balancing the meridian system to that specific goal, using Touch For Health Kinesiology, aligns you to be attracted by and be attractive to others with the values and behaviours of your goal statement. Balancing your energy to the frequency of the goal statement is like tuning yourself to be in resonance with it. That becomes the “vibe” you put out and one that recognizes and attracts others with that “vibe”.

Now Build Communication Skills and Insights
Having aligned your energy for the result you want to have, mutually respectful, caring and beneficial relationships, next step is to identify the “how to”. Communication is an art you can develop. You can learn the skills to apply and achieve the communication outcomes that nurture the relationships you want to build and maintain.

Touch For Health energy balancing is one way to shift your focus and direct your energy to what you do want and no longer add energy from what you don’t want. But there are many communication pitfalls and how to navigate safely is an essential skill. In The Dynamic Communication Program we go into the “what” and “how” of communication. We draw attention to the pitfalls so you don’t fall into the holes, so you can see what is coming and navigate safely round, even through, without leaving a trail of disaster and without being battered and bruised yourself.

To get more insights on how to do this, register for The Dynamic Communication Program and get the benefits of more effective communications that lead to more satisfying relationships. You can learn and thrive.

The Dynamic Communication Program is open to professionals and every day people, parents, siblings, spouses, teachers, business leaders, natural therapists, to all who specifically focus on communicating with others for mutual benefit.

The only prerequisite is an open mind and heart, and a willingness to take part, contribute, exchange, and gain benefits. Register now. (See Notice attached to March News)
Cheers
Anna

Muscles – How They Work

Posted on by

A friends daughter has just given birth to her first child. As you can imagine there is much joy and delight for the families of both parents of this new being. This wonderful event has drawn my attention to muscles, and how they work.

Looking at and holding a new baby I am in awe of how quickly this tiny, soft bundle will go from no voluntary muscle control to, in 12 months or so, be crawling, balancing, toddling, all to the joyful encouragement of anyone on the scene. This child will also begin eating and drinking without assistance, turning pages in story books, attempting to put on shoes and items of clothing and mimicking what the “big people” are doing, all in the first year pr two.

All this physical activity is dependant on muscles. Without control of the voluntary muscles of our body we would be as helpless as that new-born baby.

Babies have their muscles in place at birth but these have too little tone for specific activity as yet. While in the womb there was no need for muscle tone as the environment was fluid, there was nowhere to go and nothing to do but let nature take its course over a nine-month period.

This is the real miracle to me – how a cell can be fertilized and begin to divide into two cells, four cells, eight cells and continue to follow a blueprint over nine months to grow into a whole baby.

And once born this baby will have to learn to live under the pressure of our atmosphere, a very different demand from in the womb. That very demand will develop tone in muscles till this little one can “find its feet”, stand up, toddle, walk and then run.

Muscle Is Remarkable Tissue
Muscles make up 70 to 85% of your body weight, depending on your physique and fitness level. Muscle fibres have the unique ability to contract and release, shorten and lengthen, and are responsible for almost all movement in and by the body.
Some muscles are classed as voluntary muscles. They are the ones we activate when we to cook dinner, draw up a plan, create a garden, use our computer, hug those we love, go for a walk or swim. These are the ones we can overwork at the gym or strain when lifting the groceries out of the car boot.

Other muscles are classed as involuntary muscles. They activate our visceral organs and keep them working as needed without requiring our conscious input. These muscles keep food moving through our digestive system, allow us to breathe in and out, and move waste material to the bladder and bowel ready to eliminate, among many other tasks that we mostly don’t think about.
Muscles are the most metabolically active tissue in the body and use most of the oxygen and food we provide. Muscle tone, or lack of, defines our shape and physical activity, provides stability for our joints, keep bones in place, is the source of our physical strength and influences our sense of power.

Our skeleton is held together and erect by muscles attached by tendons, ligaments and other connective tissues. It’s not the skeleton that holds us up. Without muscles doing their job we would be like a collapsed bag of disjointed bones.

Muscles work in groups with a prime mover doing the most to create a particular movement, in concert with synergists or helpers, stabilizers and bracers, and antagonists that release as the prime mover activates, to produce graceful, smooth, efficient movement.

“Any contraction in one part will necessitate lengthening in other parts, so that the entire musculature must always utilize many of the different directions of pull afforded by the arrangements of its fibres and many of the cables and levers provided by the tendons and the bones in order to execute any single change of shape,” writes Deane Juhan in Job’s Body.

In other words, any movement is not isolated to one area but engages the entire body’s muscles and connectors in greater or lesser adjustments to achieve change in body posture or movement. All your body muscles and their attachments are constantly communicating with each other and working as a single, united, synchronized whole.

This is why piece meal work on a muscle misses the point in terms of reducing pain and creating betterment in balance and co-ordination, as an isolated area of change needs to be integrated with the whole body awareness. The body operates as a whole and all upgrades need to include the whole muscle support system, not just a part. That’s what makes the Touch For Health Kinesiology muscle and energy balancing procedures so effective. You balance the whole body for every issue or stress.

Muscle Response Testing
Muscle tone and muscle responsiveness is responsible for normal posture, gestures and general movement. And it is this responsiveness of muscles that we look for and monitor in Kinesiology muscle response testing. We are testing this ability of the muscle to respond and hold its position in response to the gentle test pressure that is applied gradually to engage the lock mechanism. I train my students to feel and recognize this response in muscles. It is far more gentle and subtle than power or strength testing and avoids causing unnecessary strain.

The muscles ability to respond in this way to subtle testing indicates the conditions internally are available for the body to communicate effectively via the nervous system for efficient function and to give immediate feedback. When conditions are unfavourable the muscle effectiveness is reduced and the muscle does not fully lock and has to work much harder and recruit other muscles to do its job.
Actually, every thought can change the conditions for efficient muscle response by raising or dropping the energy flow according to the quality of each thought.

Do This
Close your eyes and hold your arm out to the side at shoulder level.
Now recall a time you were having fun. It might be the last time you were at the beach, or hiking in the hills, or sailing, or fishing, or pottering in the garden. Hold that thought for a bit and note how your arm feels.
Change your thought. Recall a time you were annoyed, fed up, despondent or anxious. Hold that thought for a bit and note how your arm feels.

Shift from the pleasant or fun thought to opposite thought a few times, waiting for a few seconds at each change to tune in and note the feel of your arm.

What you are likely to notice is that as you think of the “fun” time your arm feels lighter, easier to maintain, and when you shift to a “no fun” thought your arm feels heavier. That is your arm muscle, middle deltoid, demonstrating that you need more effort to hold out your arm for a “no fun” thought because your energy level to the muscle doing the job out just dropped.

Your habitual thinking can make you feel lighter or heavier, increase your energy or decrease it. Every thought has a muscle and energy pattern.

In everyday life muscles under constant strain can become overloaded and complain by causing pain. Muscles can also become underactive through congestion of accumulated waste products, or due to lack of fresh oxygen and nutrients to support cell action, or due to reduced energy availability.

The range of contraction and release will govern flexibility in movement. Reduced flexibility and use of muscles response will make us feel old and weak. “Some of the most tangible and troublesome features of age itself are simple conditions of muscular activity … that create all kinds of limitations to movement and that waste precious vitality,” says Deane Juhan in his book Job’s Body.

Muscles and how they work reflects how we think habitually. Constantly focused on energy sapping thoughts will drop body vitality and reduce muscle activity, creating a continuous downward spiral in health and energy.

Rigid muscles often reflect rigid habits and rigid thoughts that become more obvious as we age. Restoring muscle responsiveness to structural muscles returns power to the muscles, increases circulation and energy flow, revives flagging spirits and uplifts motivation and interest to a more youthful functional age – thank goodness.

Kinesiology muscle balancing brings holistic change to body, mind and spirit.
Cheers
Anna

How Body Patterns Can Program Your Thinking

Posted on by

It’s not surprising our body gets out of balance regularly – because we do not use our body symmetrically. And the hidden effect is that your body patterns can program your thinking and left and right brain communication.

Each of us is either left or right handed and left or right foot dominant. This will predispose us to favour activity initiated by one arm and one leg, putting more demand on that shoulder and hip and the teams of muscles throughout the body that work with our dominant pair. Lifting, carrying, pulling, writing, kicking, digging, climbing stairs, whatever, we will tend to rely more on our dominant arm and shoulder and on our dominant leg and hip.

Even getting out of a chair, or walking to the letter box, doing the shopping, mowing the lawn, all the various activities at home or at work, we will “put our best foot forward” with greater demand on one side compared with the other. Little by little it leaves its mark.

Brain Activity
This lack of symmetrical physical activity in turn activates more of one half of our brain than the other, one of the influences that creates a dominant brain reference in our thinking as well.

To shift thoughts something as simple as using the non-dominant hand for gesturing, and putting more weight on our less dominant leg, can facilitate access to another perspective, another range of possibility in mental activity, another way of doing things. Our thinking and our body movements and posture are closely linked.

What is Ideal
There is no static ideal of body balance in life but a fluid unique way of moving for each of us that reflects our flow of energy and our ability to handle life’s events and recover from the stresses we personally experience. Stresses will register in both the tension and in the lack of tone in muscles.

If stress is not released the evidence in our muscles of further stressful events builds on each previous layer till they “weigh us down”, muscles give up under the load, till shoulders droop and the spine curves, clearly showing the burden is too much to carry. Or the reverse happens. The muscles get tighter and more rigid showing the strain of carrying on under duress. Eventually the joints become stiff and unyielding, our muscle range limited, as is our activity in life. We can look and feel old long before our chronological age says we are.

We are designed for movement, and the more varied our movements the more variety we create in out thinking and solutions to the myriad life challenges we encounter in our time. Challenge and change provide the opportunity to continually adapt, extending our emotional, mental and physical range, and provide the means of escaping the gradually increasing fixations of spine and posture, of thought and emotions. We can slow the down hill deterioration, plateau out, and then continue to increase life enhancing activity to improve health and resilience at any age.

Keep Moving
Life keeps happening and we will either rise to challenges, build knowledge, ability and strengths and deal with the challenges, or we will hunker down, shield ourselves, withdraw from the challenge, ignore it or push it away. And it will show in our general posture, our muscles, our range of movement, our attitude, thinking and problem handling capacity.

Take Charge
Take charge and be kind to your body. It is your instrument for playing your part on this planet. Regular health and body maintenance, regular attention to tone of muscles, releasing overworking tight areas and stimulating under working areas, is anti aging maintenance that brings short and long term health benefits. Maintenance can effectively rebalance tissues before stiffness becomes debilitating, before pain becomes chronic, before we become one eyed or lop sided in how we go through our experience of life.

TFH Kinesiology muscle response testing easily and readily identifies the particular emotion held in a specific muscle that is too tight and painful or too flaccid and unresponsive.

Applying TFH Kinesiology stress release techniques and balancing procedures change the energy concentration, drawing off excess energy from the over working muscles and redistributing to the under active muscles by stimulating their uptake capacity. The resulting postural changes reflect in more balanced thinking and reduced stress levels.
New body patterns can program new thinking.
Cheers
Anna