Category Archives: Kinesiology

Sudden Muscle Pain Solution

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Have you ever had sudden muscle pain that seems to come out of the blue? Then this experience might sound familiar. You are sitting at your desk and reach out to your right side to select a book from the shelf beside you. That’s OK. You ease the book out from its position on the self, still leaning slightly and stretching to your right. It’s a bit awkward but you can’t wheel your chair closer as there are files on the floor blocking your way. You wriggle the book free and you lift it off the shelf. It’s a bit heavy and you feel a sudden twinge in your shoulder. The shoulder didn’t like that but the pain subsided as soon as you put the book on your desk.

After referring to what you needed in the book you again lean out to put the book back on the shelf, but this time the pain is stronger so you change your mind and leave the book on your desk. At the end of the day even picking up the book from your desk right in front of you creates twinges, and there’s tension in the back of the shoulder too.

Next day you are aware of shoulder twinges with the slightest moves, even without holding any extra weight in your hand. And it continues to get worse. In a few days the arm and shoulder ache, and tension has increased in your back, now the opposite hip is also complaining.

Your Own Experience
Now in your case it might not be reaching over to get a book. It could have been reaching back to pull the safety belt out to buckle up in your car seat. It could be reaching down to pull out a weed. It could be picking up the paper that fell on the floor or doing something you have done many times before, but this time it’s a slightly different angle or from an awkward position or while juggling other items or something similar – and bang! – there goes that sudden twinge or sharp pain telling you something is definitely wrong.

Let me ask you, did that particular movement cause the pain or was it the last straw? Or had you been sitting in the same position for hours before reaching out? Or were you thinking about something stressful and not paying attention to what you were lifting? Or did you have a hangover or your blood sugars were low, or you were too busy of late to eat well and had no time for exercise? Or had you been relying on coffee, tea or juice, even soft drinks to hydrate your body instead of water?

Hmmm! There are many possible causes for pain, and some relate specifically to shoulder area, or your neck or more the low back, or hip or knee in particular, or could involve several areas. Rarely is the cause right then and there. That would be an accident, wouldn’t it? But of course, when under any kind of stress we are all more accident prone anyway. So even an accident may have contributing factors that relate to your own lifestyle or state of awareness, or lack of, over time, culminating in that moment when pain suddenly fired off.

Get To The Cause
But whatever the cause, attending to and getting relief as soon as possible is important. And once the pain is reduced or even if it disappears, it is equally important to find the underlying cause and attend to that. This is the key that ensures the pattern that set off the pain in the first place is not repeated. Addressing the cause is the long-term solution that protects you from degenerating into patterns of recurring pain and ongoing suffering.

The immediate solution and long term solutions will naturally depend on the cause and the repercussions on the body as a whole. Researching the topic of pain and pain solutions you will quickly discover there are almost as many options for solutions as there are causes. Seeing a doctor for a diagnosis and any tests that could help is a start. Getting to the bottom of the cause and creating long-term solutions is not the expertise of doctors as this needs a holistic approach and most doctors limit their themselves to drugs and surgery.

Holistic Solutions
Attending to the obvious is rarely the long-term solution. For best results uncovering and re-balancing the causal factors on a physical, mental, emotional, nutritional and essential level will reinstate holistic equilibrium to the body, mind and spirit.

Kinesiology Identifies What is Needed
Kinesiology muscle response testing quickly sorts through the options to identify the priority for creating the best internal environment for healing to take place and ensure long term betterment. Your body knows what it needs to heal itself. Muscle response testing provides a way to “ask” the body what is necessary.

Some of it is common sense.
Do what it takes to help your body’s healing process:
– reduce stress and strain
– drink water to dilute and flush out waste and toxins
– provide repair material through your food choices
– add supplements and herbs as appropriate
– keep the body moving within the range of the situation
– ensure your circulation is well maintained to bring new supplies for new cells
– focus on improving oxygen levels with mindful breathing
– ensure adequate rest and sleep for the repair and replacement to happen
– stay positive and appreciate each step of the improvement as you recover
– be grateful that the body is designed to self heal
– review what to change so there is no repeat of the problem.

Would it surprise you to know most people don’t consider these basic common sense actions or are not even aware they can support their healing process?

Kinesiology muscle responds testing is an invaluable tool and will guide you to pin point the specifics within each of these “common sense” components for your body’s optimum healing level. You can test for how much water, which foods, best time to eat what, thoughts that lift and direct energy for repair – and create the best healing environment internally.

Muscle responds testing will also identify the specific emotions stirred up by your pain experience, how to rebalance the stress, and the insight to gain from this pain experience so you build your awareness and self-knowledge.

To help yourself stay pain free you do need a level of awareness, some knowledge and skills. What is it that helps you know whether to learn skills to resolve pain now, or soon? How do you go about deciding how much time and energy you will invest in learning about your health and pain recovery? What would it be like if you had the knowledge and strategies to double your energy and increase healing for your self – and for your children?

Touch For Health kinesiology can do much more that reduce your pain.

Are you interested? You might want to learn at least the basics of Kinesiology muscle response testing through Touch For Health workshops. Attending just two days of TFH 1 you will learn how to raise your energy to handle every day life with greater ease, be productive and still have energy to spare to enjoy your family. And you will have techniques and strategies at you fingertips to boost recovery from life’s mishaps as needed.

Imagine what would happen if you could muscle test which food was causing your child’s headache or tummy ache, or uncontrollable outbursts, or sleep disturbances. Or which foods would aid pain recovery. Or what if you could help with learning difficulties, your own as well as your child’s, would that make a difference? You’ll be amazed and delighted how you can go from feeling helpless to helpful with Touch For Health knowledge and skills at your finger tips. Muscle pain can happen suddenly. Learn what to do to quickly and safely reduce the pain and fully recover.

Register for Touch For Health 1 Workshop coming up on 4th & 5th February and begin your year on a positive note. See notice attached to your January News.
Cheers
Anna

Energy Medicine


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Chinese Traditional Medicine, the use of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs over thousands of years, has gradually become more accepted, even among doctors. Acupuncture uses needles made of two different metals. These are inserted into the body at specific points, depending on the health state of the person in need, and act as electrical conductors to help the body discharge or redistribute blocked energy or recharge depleted energy. This is energy medicine.

Kinesiology

A whole new branch of energy medicine sprang into being in the 1960s combining the knowledge of the Chinese meridian energy system with Western understanding of anatomy and physiology. This became Applied Kinesiology.
Chiropractor George Goodheart created Applied Kinesiology when he combined his knowledge of the body and muscle systems with meridian energy influence on internal organ function. He also added the work of Chapman and Bennett to activate lymphatic waste clearance and influence blood circulation.

John Thie, fellow student and colleague of George Goodheart, assembled key strategies for muscle and meridian balancing and made this health care system available to lay people the world over. And so Touch For Health kinesiology was born and did its part to help more than 10 million people in over 40 countries since early 1970s.

People round the world have learned the ever-growing variations of Kinesiology and applied their new found knowledge at home, in the playground and in class rooms, in offices and in clinics. This has been one of the fastest expansions in natural therapies and over 120 different specializations of Kinesiology have developed worldwide in the last 40 years.

Power in Your Hands

Can you imagine how powerful it is to be able to settle down stress reactions, lift tiredness, lighten your mood and reduce your pain, all by touching a few points that change the energy flow in your body. Energy Medicine was revered by our ancestors and continues to be a blessing in our times. And science is progressively discovering why and how it works, giving it credibility in the eyes of more and more of the world’s population.

Touch For Health and Three In Once Concepts kinesiology have proven to be valuable foundation programs for every day folk to gain a personal experience of the life changing impact of moving energy in their body. It is a most wonderful experience to be all het up about some issue, or feel anxious about a coming event, and have that just dissolve with an energy balance.

A shift in energy can change emotional wellbeing, can strengthen internal organ function, can increase tolerance to a larger range of foods, can make relationships flow more smoothly. As stress dissolves our natural nature of curiosity, imagination, inventiveness and problem solving comes to the fore. I encourage everyone to attend at least one Touch For Health or Three In One Concepts workshop.

First Hand Experience

I wouldn’t tell you to go and learn Touch For Health if I hadn’t proved the benefits first hand. I proved it to myself first by helping my son get better when doctors said surgery was the only way to go. This was a drastic and distressing option, yet watching him suffer and have a restricted life was even more distressing. If you are a parent you might relate to what I was going through at the time.

What is it that helps you know whether you should find another way for you or your child to be well? You don’t have to decide now, I told myself. We took time out as a family and eventually decided I would continue learning Kinesiology and use that to help my son. And he gradually got better. Where doctors saw no way of strengthening his genetic weakness, nutritional supplements, herbs and kinesiology worked the miracle I was praying for. This is the every day miracle of the body’s capacity to self heal when given the right internal conditions.

Touch For Health Workshops 

So why is it that some people don’t see the value of discovering and learning how to bring out the best in themselves, the best in their body, the best in their mind, the best in their children? Touch For Health does just that, with simple, easy to apply techniques that activate the body energy systems and turn health issues around gently. Would you like to see better energy and health levels? Would you like to feel more energetic and vibrant? Would you like to help others feel better too?
I don’t know if signing up now is what you want to do. Would you like to see more about Touch For Health kinesiology and its benefits? Would it surprise you to know that you don’t need to have any background in health or how the body works to learn Touch For Health and get results straight away?

Imagine what would happen if you knew how to activate the body communications systems and enhance cell repair programs, increase energy, support the body’s healing mechanism, reduce stress, improve posture and stop pain.
The body is very willing to respond if you know how to communicate with its balancing programs. That’s what Touch For Health can teach you.

The next Touch For Health introductory Workshop is coming up 4th & 5th February 2012. Reserve your place now. Lock in your commitment before Christmas gets you side tracked.

Go to the Touch For Health notice with this December News and sign up now. As soon as the kids are back at school in 2012 its your time to learn how to empower your kids and yourself too, using the TFH strategies for health, for learning difficulties, for stress relief, for food testing, for sports performance.


Sign up now. You’ll be glad you did.

Cheers

Anna

The Energy That Powers Our Planet Powers Our Health Too


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Energy Medicine or Energy Therapies are terms being used by a growing number of natural health practitioners. What is this about? How does it work? Is it real?

Well actually, it’s undeniable. The energy that powers our planet powers our health too.

“Scientists have shown that all matter has some magnetic properties. And each of us does emit some strange sort of live magnetic energy field that can be demonstrated with special imaging techniques. This also seems to vary with our state of physical and mental wellbeing, much like the ancient Chinese concept of Qi.”
Quoted from Magnet Therapy, The Pain Cure Alternative – A Scientifically Proven Method That Really Works!
by Ron Lawrence MD PhD &Paul Rosch MD FACP &Judith Plowden.

Some vital force powers everything in our universe. Our ancestors recognized this and discovered ways to engage this energy for healing. This vital force is active in all living systems, in our planet Earth, in every plant and animal, in every cell of our body. In the past this energy was too subtle for crude instruments to read, but today we have sensitive technology that can measure this power, this force, this all pervading energy.

The terminology of the ancestors may not be the same as our scientists use today – but it seems we humans from the early times in history and we of the present are acknowledging existence of the same subtle energy and tapping into its benefits. The ancient tribal ways and the new tribal ways are overlapping and integrating more and more as we explore ways to be healthy physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

Learning to be in sync with, and to align with this energy may hold the secret of longevity and optimum health.

Electro Magnetic Basics
Whenever there is a flow of electric current a magnetic field forms at right angle to the flow. All magnets have a north pole at one end and a south pole at the other. The terms north and south, negative and positive only relate to direction of the flow of current. Even when a magnet is cut in half, each half into half again, each part still has a north and south pole at either end as the flow of energy direction is the same in each separate piece.

By day the positive polarity of the sun dominates, and by night the negative polarity of planet Earth dominates. The Chinese call this yang and yin energy, day and night energy. Western scientists call it our circadian rhythm. Most people refer to it as our body clock. All recognize it as a natural rhythm of Earth and essential to keep us all healthy and well, a rhythm of expending energy during day time activities and alternating that with rest and sleep at night to regenerate energy and the physical body tissues.

Positive and negative polarity and the ability to attract the opposite is what makes our body systems work, what allows repair to cells. It’s also what makes it possible to power our homes, offices, factories, and our transport systems. It’s what drives our communications, radios, TVs, and computers. It is the basis of what powers and drives our body’s inner life and our outer life style.

Electro Magnetic Diagnostic Tools
Modern medicine uses ECG, Electro Cardiograms, and EEG, Electro Encephalograms, as diagnostic tools. The same measurements can be taken in magnetic values using Magneto Cardiograms and Magnetic Encephalography. MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, is in common use today in hospitals and research trials.

So medicine uses both readings of electrical activity and magnet fields of the body and its organs to determine the wellbeing of our brain and organ functions.

Greater use of both these forces can be made to aid healing and maintain health. Electrical currents have been used to heal “un-healable” bone fractures. These are fully documented by the medical researchers involved. Yet this type of investigation has been neglected or derailed in mainstream research as pharmaceutical companies finance only biochemical activities of the body and, understandably, will not support research into natural remedies or natural phenomena for people’s wellbeing.

Governments allow pharmaceutical companies to decide what will be researched and what will not. This is not independent but very biased investigation of methods to keep people healthy. Actually none of the research is to keep people healthy or well, only to keep them going. No pharmaceutical research is aimed at wellness or resolving cause of ailments, only at drug dependency for a lifetime once commenced, in spite of all the known and documented side effects. Most doctors readily submit to and promote that approach. It is a massive industry.

Any discoveries of how to become well, rebuild strength and resilience and stay well comes from lay people, often parents, scientists, and health professionals, who turn away from the standard medical approach, who refuse to see drug dependency as the only answer to maintaining and sustaining life. Doctors who seek wellness for their patients using natural or alternate approaches are often persecuted and prosecuted. But gradually public demand is forcing change on the medical industry.

Change From The Ground Up
All medical drugs, without exception, have side effects. Statistics show that Number 2 cause of death in USA today is the direct result of treatments by a physician and it is expected to reach Number 1 officially in the near future. Some estimate it is already the top cause of death. A statistical study shows “that more than two million American hospitalized patients suffered a serious adverse drug reaction. Over 75% were dose-dependent, which suggests they were due to the inherent toxicity of the drugs rather than to allergic reactions.” No statistics were available on the number of people suffering adverse effects that were not in hospital.

People are turning to all forms of natural therapies, from massage, to acupuncture to chiropractic to kinesiology. Along with natural therapies go diet improvements, supplements and herbs, plus relaxation, meditation and regular exercise, and of course a focus on breathing and water, to aid healing and improve health. The move across to this wholistic approach as a first option to resolving health issues, and away from drugs, has gained momentum.

Negative side effects of drugs are no longer acceptable.

Energy Medicine and Electro magnetic therapies have a growing following and are being sought out as preferable to medical drugs. Energy medicine has gained acceptance through acupuncture, kinesiology, hands on healing such as reiki and other therapies. Electrical devices that read energy imbalances and transmit a frequency for rebalancing are in common use by doctors and specialists in Europe, and magnets are being used also, a modern version of using lodestones in ancient times.

The power to draw out or disperse “evil influences” is being modernized.

Cheers
Anna

Low Back Pain – the Emotional Cause

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You’ve done your best to sort out the physical side of your low back pain, yet the pain persists. Now what? As with all pain, low back pain can have an emotional cause. A persistent stressful thought or attitude can keep the pain active.

The word “emotion” explains what is actually happening. E-motion is energy in motion. Your painful emotions create energy movement resulting in physical changes in your body that can create physical pain. These changes can range from barely discernable to obvious and extreme, from tension as muscles tighten up, to going “weak in the knees” as muscles just collapse, from posture a little off centre to totally displaced, from a slight discomfort to severe pain.

Pain is a warning. Something is not right. Low back pain can be the result of cumulative influences that have put strain or demand on the low back muscles. What you do to correct that and be pain free depends on what caused the pain in the first place. Previously we considered some physical causes of low back pain and what to do to resolve that. So now lets look at low back pain and the emotional cause.

We talk of a broken heart, having a gut full, of being torn apart, feeling unsupported or let down. Our language is full of sayings of emotions being powerfully experienced in specific parts of the body causing physical distress and pain. We commonly acknowledge that emotional pain goes with physical pain, and that psychosomatic refers to the psyche, the mind, and soma, the body, so we know through our own experiences that the two are linked.

Yet in the medical world solutions are primarily aimed at treating all pain as if from a physical cause, using medication or surgery.

Scientific Breakthrough
Candace Pert, world famous scientist and author of Molecules of Emotion, has done the groundbreaking research to show how our emotions and body interact. She shattered some cherished medical beliefs about emotions being experienced only in the brain, and went on to discover the scientific breakthrough that shows molecules set into motion by emotion have specific receptor sites throughout the body, not just in the brain. These emotion molecules dock in at cellular receptor sites and change the activity in the body organs, in the muscles and other structures, giving scientific credence to the truth that emotion can be experienced, as the saying goes, as “a pain in the neck,” among other places.

Her conclusion was that the body and mind are one, what happens in the brain is happening in the body too, something natural therapies practitioners have known and addressed in their practices for centuries.

Ancient Knowledge
Centuries before our Western scientists worked out that emotions can create physical pain the Chinese had already worked out a co-relation of which emotion effects which organ function and the influence on the meridian energy system. Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture work with a system of energy pathways, meridians, that support all body functions, and with Five Element energy flow patterns of these meridians to understand where energy gets blocked when there is dis-ease or pain. They teach that pain is blocked energy and that releasing the energy block and reinstating flow will reduce the pain.

More recently, in the 60s George Goodheart, a curious and motivated chiropractor, looking for more ways to relieve pain, matched body muscles to meridian energy flow to organs, adding a further dimension to the Chinese traditional insights of organs and emotions. And so Applied Kinesiology was born and has spawned many expressions of kinesiology to give relief to human pain on all levels, physical, mental, emotional, and biochemical.

John Thie, a student and colleague of George Goodheart, created Touch For Health kinesiology to give every day people a way to work with and maintain their health and physical structure. He recognized we all need tools at our fingertips to deal with the day-to-day stresses of life. TFH has been taught round the world, and brought empower and relief to thousands of people.

Kinesiology works to reduce pain and aid healing because it taps into the body’s own resources, the meridian energy flow, the communication between body and brain through the nervous system and, as Candace Pert clearly identified and tracked, through the body’s biochemical messengers.
The word “tap” is very appropriate for Meridian energy balancing.

The dictionary states: tap – any device for controlling the flow of liquid from a pipe or the like by opening or closing an orifice. Acupuncture points are the entry to the energy flow lines, and acupuncture, acupressure, kinesiology neurolymphatic points, neurovascular points among other correction points can control the flow of energy through meridians, opening or closing special connections, increasing or reducing the energy flow, there by reducing pain effectively.

Fight or Flight Muscle Pattern
We are all familiar with fight or flight reaction to a life threat. Emotionally that is anger or fear. With anger the muscles of the upper body power up with extra energy and blood to physically fight, to defend or attack an enemy or opponent. With fear triggered the blood is primarily shunted to lower body so your legs can take off in flight, run from the enemy. Prolonged state of anger or fear will lead to muscle pain and internal organ disruption. But these are not the only emotions that are triggered up when pain is on line.

Each different emotion will produce its own pattern of energy use and muscle reactivity, redirecting energy from less needed muscles and focusing a concentration of energy in the muscles required for action.

Specific Emotions
Pain will trigger emotion in each of us. Unfamiliar pain may trigger fear or concern. A recurrence of an old pain may trigger dread of going through it all again. Long standing chronic pain can trigger frustration or anger that no solution has been found. Or it could trigger feeling sorry for self, that pain is an unfair burden. Or there may be guilt or regret over a lack of implementing lifestyle changes required to help sort out the pain. Certainly, pain can block joy.

The pain may be in the same area in different people yet be caused or exacerbated by different emotions. Each emotion will have its own pattern of under working muscles and over working muscles that shows in our posture and gait. This is the body language that we read to get a sense of how a person is feeling. The energy change occurs first, then the muscles show the distribution of energy with some muscles tensing up and others releasing.

Low Back Muscles
Muscles associated with low back pain, when related to Chinese Five Element meridians and emotions, tell their own story. The multilayered muscles each side of the spine are activated by Bladder Meridian and are affected by fear and anxiety. That’s your major back support and is often too tight and inflexible or not evenly balanced.

The psoas muscle, attached at the inner low spine and to the inner leg, is supported by kidney energy flow, and is also related to fear and anxiety. Another low back muscle, quadratus lumborum, allows you to bend sideways and is an indicator of large intestine energy flow, and goes with grief, guilt, regret.

These three muscles are all linked to elimination of body waste and toxic material. If we do not clear out the bladder and bowel regularly the concentrated toxic contents will create havoc producing health symptoms and pain in the low back. The corresponding emotions, fear, anxiety, dread, and grief, guilt, regret, can disturb the efficient elimination of the body, and conversely, poor elimination can predispose emotional sensitivity to fears and regrets.

And same as for when you do not eliminate toxic body matter, fear, anxiety, dread, grief, guilt, regret, elimination related emotions, can play havoc in your emotional wellbeing, affecting personal and work life. The emotion, the organ disruption, the stagnant meridian and the painful muscle are interconnected expressions of the same experience.

Other low back muscles relate to reproductive system, to blood sugar balance and their emotions and can also contribute to low back pain.

If the organ function is stagnant, the energy is stagnant and the emotions can be stagnant too. Stagnant means not enough movement, motionless, stale, sluggish, torpid, foul. When you face up to the emotion and move through it the meridian energy too moves freely again, supplying the elimination organs and clearing out physical waste, taking pressure of the organs and relieving the stress and pain in the low back.

There is no point in ignoring the wholistic nature of human beings. The best results are achieved when we address all three aspects, the physical, the mental/emotional, and the nutritional/biochemical. Addressing low back pain and the emotional cause is part of recovery.

“I’ve come to believe that virtually all illness, if not psychosomatic in foundation, has a definite psychosomatic component,” writes Candace Pert. And so does pain.

How do we address the emotional side of pain? This will be covered in a separate article.
Cheers
Anna

Surprising Results – A Client’s Story

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Have you ever had an experience that produced results way beyond what you anticipated? Well I watched facial changes happen for a client that surprised us both. So I have captured the surprising results of this client’s story to share with you. This was the result of applying Facial Harmony followed by a natural face lifting mask and reflexology to hands and feet – an exclusive rejuvenation special.

Facial Harmony Energy Release Experience
The specially combined procedures took two hours and the interactive synergy of these produced results beyond any one procedure alone, as we were to discover. And I must acknowledge, this client has done a great deal of self-exploration and was very open to discovering what this process might uncover.

On sitting up at the end my client’s first comment was “I feel like Michelin man. My body feels like it has expanded in big rolls.” This relates to the sense of energy expanding in sections as muscles the length of her body relaxed progressively.

As we talked about her experience I watched her face changing before my eyes. Often as a person starts speaking and using the face muscles after Facial Harmony, they facilitate the clearance of lymphatic fluids. Generally the muscles are more responsive, with increased mobility and range of facial expression. I watched as one cheek filled out and lifted, then the other. The bottom lip plumped out, then the top lip.

Her facial expression was more relaxed, softer, gently serene. She had been super busy with lots of stressful communications back and forth over some months due to a high level of responsibility and demand in a new position. This was on top of other projects and her usual work. So it was good to see a relaxing and softening of her features, and note the energy shift and muscle release that was happening. The cumulative stress had dropped away from her face, taking years off her appearance.

What the Face Revealed
I was able to give her insights of what was being revealed in terms of her individuality and traits, as she focused on various features changing.

Three In One Concepts kinesiology provide two workshops on face reading and how we are structured to function. It’s a very insightful and revealing program for understanding self and others and is part of workshop programs I teach. So I was able to explain the different indicators of her inbuilt strengths becoming more obvious as her face muscles relaxed and assumed their natural proportions.

The way we use the muscles of our face will make certain features more obvious. Subconsciously, and even consciously, we respond to the strengths we see in the face of others and instinctively anticipate the behaviours that go with those strength indicators.

My client’s expanding cheeks gave a younger, more adventurous appearance, which I’ve seen many times before, but what I hadn’t expected was the widening of her face. It looked like her face had structurally broadened. Width of the face through eye socket area goes with a built in confidence, and the wider the more the confidence is innate. So her natural confidence had been released and expanded.

Her jaw became more obvious. In Three In One Concepts Structure/Function program this is an indicator of inner authority. She was obviously releasing and expanding that capacity in herself as well. Her whole face was wider which goes with being seen as a confident authority. And as we tend to live up to the way people see and treat us a new phase was opening in her life.

Her nostril flare increased and this goes with self-reliance. She had certainly been engaging this ability in recent times but when the face exhibits this visually even more, others recognize and respond to this aspect, especially in a tough situation.

Her top lip became fuller. This facilitates spontaneous verbal expression. As this expanded and increased the fultrim area, between the top lip and under the nose, shortened. A short fultrim goes with taking things personally – her impartiality had reduced, so it was a good awareness to have for future interactions.
The bottom lip became extremely full though nothing had been applied to the lips themselves, just the muscles and energy round the lips had been activated. Bottom lip goes with spontaneous giving time, action, and support. She was certainly supporting a whole new group of people, so now her face was expressing this ability more obviously. Being spontaneous giving with everyone could leave her depleted so was another useful awareness for her to ensure she left time for herself too.

The area right across the forehead, between eyebrows and hairline, filled out quite obviously. This is the area of creativity and problem solving for the left brain and right brain and the midline integration of both.

The changes were remarkable and obvious – to both of us.

The Changes Continued Through The Body
Later she rang and added more as she became aware of the differences. Her smile was no longer crooked but equally expressive on the left and right. This relates to expressing inner world and outer world joy equally. A dimple showed in her cheek. It had been missing for many years and reappearing now meant she was using her muscles in a similar way to her younger years. Her smile had increased and revealed more of her teeth, so she looked happier. And even her voice range had changed when she sang.

And the changes continued. She was aware her spine had become more flexible and her back muscles softer, much pain was gone, and she felt straighter. Her hips and pelvis were more mobile. The chest pain had gone. The ache in her foot had eased and her jaw moved freely. First the top jaw had come forward and a little later the lower jaw relaxed and came forward too. Tension in the jaw can be part of holding tension in the shoulders and hips too so the jaw relaxing signals other joints to let go as well.

Her chin became more defined though the tip became less pointed, more softened. A prominent chin can indicate the ability to hang in resolutely, even in difficult times, till the required outcome is achieved. Often getting to the finish line is a matter of keeping going, another useful trait.
Release of Potential

Everything that changed was the indicating the release of her potential that had been contained and restricted by the cumulative stress of recent times and of the more distant past.

The face communicates much, even before we speak. On a subconscious level we instinctively recognize at first glance, to a greater or lesser degree, the innate capacity of a person we meet, and also on a conscious level, once you have had the training for your eyes to see more of the real person.
This was a surprising and revealing experience for my client and one we both enjoyed exploring in short and term long term shifts for expressing her innate strengths and preferences. Moving energy in the extremities, the face, hands and feet, had facilitated greater change in muscle activity, revealing strengths more clearly.

For Your Personal Growth
How much of your own potential is held back by the muscle patterns created by past stresses and traumas? These delightful and surprising results for one client inspired me to tell you what is possible. Facial Harmony is one way to unlock the muscle and energy patterns that trap your full range of strengths, and open the way to experience more of your uniqueness.

Make an appointment today for the Facial Harmony Experience.
Cheers
Anna

Physical Solutions for Back Pain

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There are solutions for low back pain. But first, to correct the problem and maintain long-term success, you need to know how to work with the body and not against it. Your body will always do the best it can under the circumstances you provide, so lets look at the physical side of back pain first.

Team Work
Muscle pain is rarely a one muscle problem. Muscles work in teams and every movement will have a prime mover, a leader in the action, with other team players supporting the movement. The opposite action muscles receive a signal to stop working. Muscles ideally respond to signals to switch on or off as needed.

When experiencing back pain, according to research published in The British Medical Journal, to keeping moving in spite of the pain is more helpful for long-term recovery. But just doing exercises only may not fix the problem. Exercise for the unprepared or unwilling muscle can actually make matters worse.

Activate slack muscles
If the under working muscles in the body are not receiving or sending a clear signal to the brain to be included in an exercise, then other muscles compensate automatically and the tension and pain problem can be compounded if you are not aware of what is happening and what to do.

When you use muscles regularly, the brain recognizes that activity as a request to keep those muscles in readiness, willing and able to respond as needed. When muscles are rarely used or used in a limited range with very little load, then the brain does not register these muscles as essential to your life work or life style. Muscles get attention by the brain when they are used and will lose tone rapidly when not part of your regular activity.

Muscles not used for a prolonged period, as when recovering from injury, may be dropped from the “working circuit” and will likely lose tone and muscle mass. They need to be reintroduced for the brain to reconsider how and when to include them in with other working muscles and gradually be given more duties as they rebuild and strengthen. The brain can and will build new circuitry or add to existing neural networks to do this. It’s quite amazing when you think about it.

If a muscle has been out of the working program for a while or the tone is very low, then exercises are difficult to perform and even a little effort can feel like a strain. Gently upgrading the working program in the brain with kinesiology techniques makes it easier to activate muscles so they can be exercised safely and appropriately. It speeds up building muscle mass too.

Kinesiology Solutions for Back Pain
In Kinesiology there are a variety of ways to deal with the physical cause of muscle pain. The Touch For Health style of kinesiology focuses on identifying and activating the under working muscles throughout the body first, so they can take up their share of the load and the overworking painful muscles can relax off and do less. The aim is to redistribute the demand on postural muscles and improve energy flow. This can often reduce back pain 60% if not more, just through a basic 14 or more extensive 42 muscle energy balance process.

Kinesiology correction techniques can bring immediate changes in muscles. Spinal Reflexes are applied when a muscles shows poor response on both left and right of the body. Poor activity on either left or right side only responds well to specific points that stimulate the lymphatic system to improve clearance of waste products in the muscle area. This reduces congestion and improves energy flow and the muscle becomes more responsive immediately.

Other points increase blood flow to the muscle. Running the meridian that supports a specific muscle may be required or activating cells within the muscle or in the attachments work well when the muscle has been over strained or damaged.
These are basic techniques that anyone can apply to reduce pain once they learn where the points are and the type of stimulation required.

Corrections Reduce Pain
In kinesiology the muscle response monitoring procedure can identify which muscle is under-working and which specific point or correction will reinstate the muscle responsiveness. The results are immediate and the point or points can be done at home to maintain the improvement till the body is able to maintain the improvement on its own.

Each muscle is preprogrammed to know its own job and to help out other muscles if they are failing or struggling. This is a natural compensating and supporting ability that we take for granted or don’t even recognize is happening, yet is essential for smooth and graceful as well as powerful use of your body muscles. It is a beautiful example of community work within the body.

As the body is holistic in its communications, in a TFH balance the whole system of meridian energy distribution for muscle use is checked, not just the muscles in the pain area. Rechecking the subjective pain level at the end of a muscle energy balance typically reveals reduced pain levels and a more relaxed and improved alignment of posture plus greater mobility.

Touch For Health Workshops
The body is very willing to respond to the caring touch that activates specific points which connect internal resources. Pain is a signal. This is your body’s language for something needing help and it responds to your specialized input.
There are other causes for back pain that I’ll cover separately.

You don’t have to feel helpless or stuck when wanting to reduce pain to feel better, look better and be better. Book in for a kinesiology balance and experience the impact of working with your body to gain the results you want.

Register for the next Touch For Health Workshop and discover the safe and simple techniques that can keep your back pain free and functioning efficiently and effectively, expanding your options for joyful activity at every age and stage of your life.
Cheers
Anna McRobert

How We Walk

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How we walk can make a huge difference to how our brain works. As babies we crawled on all fours as preparation for balancing on our feet and walking. With every movement we programmed our brains, building networks to support walking to running to dancing to specialized sports movements. But these brain networks and how we walk prepared us for much than just walking.

I was reading about a kinesiologist who developed a tiny treadmill to help infants with Down Syndrome learn to balance themselves and walk earlier. “The idea is we want to support this underlying pattern of coordination in their legs, this alternating stepping,” Dr Ulrich said.

This article drew my attention to how readily we take for granted the ability to walk and balance on our feet as we need. We never think about how we walk.

Dr Ulrich said, “Once locomotion occurs, it really advances cognitive development, social skill development and language, so the sooner you get them (Down Syndome babies) walking, the sooner they can explore their environment.” Babies start their treadmill training as early as eight to ten months of age.

And this “cognitive development” in babies continues in us all as toddlers, children, teenagers, and adults. Walking does far more than just get you from A to B.

Walking Programs Your Brain For Learning
The rhythmic coordinated movement, alternating stepping out with one leg and the opposite arm and swapping smoothly and continuously, helps to integrate left and right brain as well as well as other specific brain areas. This brain coordination is essential for easy learning, not just for babies in their first year of life, but also for later in the classroom, in the home and in the office, right throughout life.

In Touch For Health Kinesiology workshops we activate the acupuncture points that help integrate the brain side to side, top to bottom and front to back. This is a 3D “switch on” of brain neurology in preparation for processing body/brain communication in the TFH muscle and energy balancing process.

In any new learning situation this 3D “switch on” of your brain is an excellent first step to arouse the brain and set in motion coordinated networks for whole brain learning. You program your brain for learning by walking as a littlie and continue to reinforce this learning set-up in the brain each time you walk with momentum, and especially if you do your 3D “switch on” first. (See article 3D Switch On for Your Brain)

How We Walk
When we walk we lift one foot at a time, which means we are momentarily balanced on the other leg. So a sense of three-dimensional balance is as important as the coordination.

As we walk one leg swings forward in front of the body from the hip, like a pendulum, till the heel makes contact with the ground. At the same time the back foot rolls from heel to toe with a push off action to propel the body forward till balanced over the front leg. Now the back leg can swing forward past its partner that is rolling from heel to toe and in turn pushing forward.

So one foot or the other is always in contact with the ground. This is a beautifully coordinated continuous double pendulum movement. When also coordinated with opposite arm swing moving forward can be almost effortless.

In fact, it takes far less effort to walk with continuous coordinated movement than to stop-start as in window shopping or browsing or doing the grocery shopping and stopping to pick up items and compare ingredients. Each time you stop it takes extra energy and effort on the part of your muscles to begin the movement forward again. It takes a lot more energy to walk like a tourist or a mum going the grocery shopping than to set up a steady pace and keep moving.

When I watch some of the elderly walking, I often notice they walk so slowly that each step forward is from a standing start, so every step is very energy demanding. There is no push off from the back leg to propel their body forward so instead their forward steps get smaller and smaller till they are shuffling.

Meridian Energy Stimulus
And of course, if you have done Touch For Health Workshops you will recognize that the elderly are missing out on the extra that happens as you walk with momentum too. Each muscle you use as you walk is also activating meridian energy flow to the internal organs and supporting their function for active health as well.

Chest muscles engage stomach and liver meridians, arm swing uses gall bladder and lung meridian energy, knee lift and swing forward uses small intestine energy, foot lift to place the heel uses bladder meridian, push off with the back foot activates adrenal energy and large intestine energy.

A slow walk will not stimulate the energy flow in the same way, so meridian energy can remain sluggish or stagnant as a result, and be a mirror of energy levels in the internal organ functions.

Touch For Health also provides a way to check the opposite arm/leg patterns needed and has a correction that ensures the upper and lower body muscles are coordinating effectively so your walking gait has maximum gain for least effort.

How we walk often changes when you attend Touch For Health workshops. You learn how to easily and readily improve your coordination, balance, and gait rhythm, so walking is easy, pleasurable, and uplifting. The natural side effects are better internal function and improved health too.
Cheers
Anna

3D “Switch On” for Your Brain

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There are times your brain’s electrical circuits become overloaded or scrambled.

Circuits Under Stress
Any kind of stress, physical, mental, emotional, biochemical, situational or environmental, can scramble electrical signals between body and brain, between left and right brain halves, between front and back brain, lower brain and upper brain. The degree of stress or danger perceived can influence the degree of reaction. You can have side to side switching, or top to bottom switching or front to back switching, or all three. Now where is this 3D “switch on” for your brain?

Switching
Under stress your brain is programmed to go into survival mode. Stress is processed as some level of danger to survival. The normal communications between body and brain and within the brain are put on the backburner and all focus, effort and energy is directed to survival in the moment.
We switch from normal whole brain communication to survival program mode.

Touch For Health level 1
At this introductory level of Kinesiology we learn how to, at least temporarily, ensure wholistic three dimensional electrical communication, so the brain is able to receive signals from the body’s muscles and respond clearly during the TFH energy and muscle balancing procedure.

Left and Right scrambling can be recognized as confusion following instructions such as “turn right”, and you immediately turn left. “Pass this to the person on your right” and you pass it to the person on your left. When writing there is often confusion between “b” and “d” and “p” and “q”.

Top and Bottom scrambling can be recognized as feeling unstable or queasy going up or down stairs, looking up at tall buildings or looking down from a height. When writing, there is confusions between “b” and “p”, “d” and “q”.

Front and Back scrambling can be recognized as lying on your back when asked to “lie on your front,” or having trouble reversing the car using the rear vision mirror. Writing can slide up or down a page.

When feeling stressed, or before starting any new learning process or doing homework or research for a project, it is a good idea to do the 3D Switch On and take some deep breaths.

3D “Switch On” for Your Brain
– one hand over the navel + rub under collar bones just beside breastbone
– keep hand over the navel + rub above top lip and below bottom lip
– keep hand over the navel + rub tail bone at end of sacrum
– deep breath, swap to other hand over navel
– repeat the sequence above

Any time confusion re-appears just repeat the 3D Switch On.
Cheers
Anna

Are You Too Old To Learn?

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Has it been many years since you undertook specific new learning?
Are you too old to learn? Is it too late?
Is the brain set up for learning only when we are young?
What about memory, does it really get worse as we get older?

These are some of the questions that come up when adults of all ages, from 20s to 70s, take on learning Touch For Health Kinesiology.

Lets get some things straight first. If at your first attempt to learn something new you feel awkward and uncomfortable – that’s a good sign. You are in your learning mode. If it was easy and comfortable you would be using existing brain networks and programs, still in your comfort zone, and not stepping out into new territory. Congratulations for your bravery!

How old do you feel when you are feeling awkward and uncomfortable? Please be aware, what this new learning right now can do is put you back into early childhood when you first discovered that you couldn’t do something and felt inadequate, or slow, or out of step with others, or behind in some way. It usually goes with criticism or judgment by a parent or other authority like a teacher, or a sibling, or someone, or even yourself.

So if new learning was a stress to you when you were little then you will play out that stress pattern again now. You will feel as helpless and inadequate as when you were three or five or seven or whatever. All your confidence, built up over many years of doing things, increasing your ability and mastering skills … will disappear … in an instant … as if you have never learned a thing since early childhood. Just note, as soon as you feel like a child you may also readily behave like a child.

Be aware – just know – that’s a good sign. You are being real. That part is good. The feeling of incompetence is real. It feels awful, but its real – recognize it – acknowledge it – own it – welcome it.. “Wow! That’s amazing! That’s how I felt as a child.” “How awful for me back then.” “And its come back, emotions, body sensations and all”. As soon as you do that you, the adult you is back in charge and compassion for the little you is on line and available.

What has surfaced is the memory of the you of long ago who needed reassurance but was too scared to ask for it, or didn’t know how or had no verbal skills to ask, or didn’t have anyone around who understood how bad it felt and how to help you. That’s why you are doing TFH now – to learn the skills that would have made growing up less traumatic and more enjoyable.

Welcome to Touch For Health. Welcome to new learning.

Now let me remind you that with your basic TFH 1 skills you can deal with it:

– evaluate how stressful this situation is for you, 0 to 10
– take a deep breath in … and breathe out slowly
– put your hand on your forehead, take another breath in … and out
– now tell your front brain under your hand the feelings you are dealing with right now
– how it feels, what part of the body is feeling it, the degree of discomfort, what it reminds you of in the past, where were you then, who pops up in your mind as part of the recall …
– and any sounds, sights, sensations, smells or tastes.
– take a deep breath in … and slowly out
– tell your front brain again about your discomfort and what it seems connected to
– do this several more times, with a full breathe in and out at the end of each recall
– now check in and re-evaluate the stress level compared with at the beginning
– if you still feel uncomfortable, do this process again.

– if you feel calmer, you are ready to explore what you want to experience instead
– look for a time in your memories when you did actually learn easily, without feeling judged, and as you took all the time appropriate to you.
– example: when you learned to walk, fell down multiple times, failed to walk without being concerned about the failure, just had another go … until you mastered walking.
– Or when you learned to feed yourself, or brush your teeth, or dress yourself, or ride a bike, or … many skills everyone of us had to learn through trial and error, till we got it, in our own time.

– acknowledge you have very effectively gone through the process of learning new skills and information
– visualize yourself in the future, how you look having mastered the learning, notice how confident and at ease you look, how easily the words flow out as you explain what you are doing, how readily you gain cooperation and agreement with your participant, how well you work together
– go through this scene several times

– take a deep breathe … and breathe out slowly …
– and bring your awareness back to now, rub your feet on the floor, look around the room,
– re-evaluate how you feel about new learning
– know you can revisit this scene any time you feel like a boost, hold your forehead as you do that.

You now have access your whole brain to support you in your learning endeavours.

Have a whole TFH balance on a goal like “I easily and readily learn new information/concepts/ techniques (whatever you need right now) engaging my curiosity with great enjoyment.” This will align 14 meridian energy system with your goal. Swap with a fellow student or go see a kinesiologist with the skills to help you through it all.
Have fun
Cheers
Anna

Are You Destined For A Health Breakdown?

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How stressed are you? What is it that tells you that you are stressed? Are you destined for a health breakdown?

Do you recognize your stress in your impatience and irritability, in the sinking feeling or the emotional numbness that comes on or in the explosion of anger, in the headache that gets worse as the deadline gets closer, by the tension in your muscles, the shoulder pain when you feel you can’t carry any more load, the back ache when you feel unsupported so feel the strain of having to do everything yourself?

It seems that many of us are so used to being in some degree of stress that we don’t even recognize it any more. It has become our norm, and we only register when the stress increases above our usual level.

Alexander Loyd, PhD, ND, and Ben Johnson MD, DO, NMD tested hundreds of people in various parts of the world using the Heart Rate Variability (HRV) test, the ‘gold standard’ medical test for measuring stress in the autonomic nervous system.

Heart Rate Variability test has been used for over 30 years in mainstream medicine and is in the same category as CT scans and MRIs that create images of internal structures.

You cannot have good heart function and poor nerve system function. So monitoring the heart rate variability (the more varied the better) gives immediate feedback on the state of your Autonomic Nervous System too. And your ANS controls and co-ordinates all organs and cells in your body. So this is a reliable way of measuring stress in the body.

As Loyd and Johnson were doing the Heart Rate Variability testing a fascinating and relevant phenomenon emerged. Before testing they would ask people “Are you stressed?” About 50 percent of people replied “yes” and 50 percent replied “no”.

But, of the 50 percent who replied “no”, their Heart Rate Variability test showed that 90 percent of them registered as stressed!!! They didn’t realize their nervous system was working in stress mode!

Over all, that means 95 percent of people they tested were stressed! But only just over half knew it. The others were totally unaware of their state.

That’s scary. Prolonged stress plays havoc with energy and health. As time goes along 95 percent of us could be destined for a health breakdown. The weakest health link can break and become a health issue. This is a possible future for 95 percent of people right now. Are you one of them?

It really pays to know your stress level consciously, as then you can take steps to reduce stress, influence your destiny and stay on the track for wellness. Is there a way to ensure you are not destined for a health breakdown? If there is, what is it?

“Stress is at the root of every problem, emotional and physical,” according to Alexander Loyd, PhD, ND, and Ben Johnson MD, DO, NMD. They co-authored The Healing Code and provide their evidence to support this bold statement. To natural therapists the world over, this is the underlying belief that guides their approach to supporting clients to get better.

Kinesiology health care practitioners focus is on reducing stress and activating the energy production that improves the body’s functioning. Loyd and Johnson articulated that when stressed the nervous system is in defence mode, directing its resources to defending against an enemy or escaping a life threatening circumstance.

This means the body’s everyday functioning is on emergency energy rations, minimal, just ticking over. Your digestion and elimination is shut down, your reproductive system is shut down, your immune system is shut down. There is no point in defending internal cells if the outer world threat could kill you in an instant. We are set up to “fight the tiger or run from it.” When the stress has passed, then body functions can return to normal.

Prolonged stress is prolonged shut down of digestion and elimination. That means ability to extract nutrition from food is very limited. Elimination becomes sluggish and pollution builds up inside cells and around cells. Your cells are suffocating in toxic waste with too little oxygen or nutrition for efficient performance. Cells get more and more sluggish and eventually become sick. You become sick.

Prolonged stress is prolonged shut down of immune response. Energy is funneled to protecting from a real or perceived enemy when under stress and little is allocated to inside invaders like bacteria or virus. You become run down and susceptible to colds and flu and tummy bugs and everything going round.

Prolonged stress is prolonged energy focus on “the enemy” be that deadlines, peoples opinions or expectations, day to day demands, too little time and too much to do.

If you live every day stressed to your eyeballs, or even mildly stressed all day, you will not fully digest your breakfast or lunch, you will not extract necessary nutrients out of your food, you will be drawing on emergency rations without realizing the cumulative impact on your wellness.

So stress is an energy problem. Under stress your energy is withdrawn from running your body efficiently, from repairing and replacing worn out cells, from destroying unfriendly bacteria and other cellular invaders, from optimum energy use in cells for fueling and maintaining your “vehicle” in a state of wellness.

Only when stress has passed can your body return to catch up on internal housekeeping tasks. If stress is continuous and there is no respite there will be breakdown in the most vulnerable system and now the body and you are in trouble.

So if scientists are right and at least half of us, or maybe all of us at different times, are unaware of how much stress our body and nervous system is registering, how can you check your stress level? How can you discover from the body, and not just the conscious mind, what level of stress you are carrying on any issue or situation or experience in your life at any given time?

Well, thank goodness, you don’t need to invest in a Heart Rate Variable test machine. There is another way that is safe, easy and effective.

Kinesiology Muscle response testing for stress

A readily available alternative to Heart Rate Variability testing for stress level is to use Kinesiology muscle response testing.

Often when gathering information from a client in a clinic session, some event may be mentioned in passing as having been dealt with already and no longer a problem. I often suggest we muscle test to ensure the body memory has been cleared of the stress. All too often muscle testing shows a high percentage of stress still exists in the body, remaining in the subconscious, waiting to be triggered by a sound, a voice, a word, a song, a comment, a look, a smell, a body position, an environment – and the old stress or wound opens again.

It takes energy to keep a lid on those memories. As the years go by more and more of our energy is locked up in the job of keeping certain memories of pain and hurt and helplessness and fears below awareness level so that we can get on with every day life. But there is a cost for this protection from old pain. We have less energy for present day living. Stress is an energy drain, even when it is out of our awareness.

Take the steps to develop your awareness, to recognize how the body “tells” you of stress building up, and learn which stress reduction strategies work for you. Then develop the habit of regularly taking time out for your self to consciously de-stress.

Meditation, yoga, martial arts, singing, dancing, toning, music, painting – there are many ways to move your energy and find an expression for the subconscious aspects of your life experiences.

Touch For Health Kinesiology provides specific energy balancing strategies and emotional stress release techniques and you can muscle test to ensure your body and nervous system are actually able to respond to the strategies being applied. You can easily and readily reduce stress with TFH and align your energy with your goals and dreams.

Protect your health and ensure you are not destined for a health breakdown.
Register now to learn Touch For Health or make an appointment for a Kinesiology balance.