Scientists of various specialized areas are teaming up, putting together their research work and discovering the wholistic nature of human function.

Well, some scientists have been researching and confirming this for decades. It’s just that their own peers refused to consider or acknowledge anything that was different from their own original training and they would actively denounce, ridicule, undermine and refute anything new.

Resistance to anything new is not unusual. Medical specialists, natural therapy practitioners, and every day folk are no different in that regard. We, each of us, hold dear various beliefs, ideals, knowledge, strategies in whatever field we specialize in, be that on the home front or in the business world, or in government, or in health care. So it’s not about pointing the finger at only one area of expertise or knowledge. Any challenge to existing beliefs, long held “truths”, is generally defended – at first. Change can take time to be accepted.

Every one of us in our endeavours is likely to defend our long held “truth”, the beliefs and concepts on which we have based our decisions and behaviour, rather than face the reality and admit that we may have been blind or been barking up the wrong tree. So resistance to new insights is common in every field, particularly among peers and colleagues.

But the evidence is mounting in the medical field that drugs and surgery are not the best or only way to keep the majority of people functional, that various therapies are as effective and often more so in helping people recover from illness, and without the side effects. Dogmas are collapsing under the weight of gathering evidence and a more holistic approach is growing and is likely to become the norm in future.

According to Nathan S. Kline, MD, MA, FACP, Director of Research Facility in Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg, New York, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, New York back in 1962, “Time and again in the short history of science, ideas that were “conclusively disproved” have later been recognised to be not only correct, but of stunning significance.”

Psychoneuroimmunology (psycho/neruo/immunology) is a term coined in recent times that acknowledges the collaboration of psychologists, neurologists and immunologists in terms of how to help people deal with ill health of one kind or another. This collaboration recognizes that how we feel emotionally impacts on our brain and the whole nervous system and can directly compromise the ability of our immune system to protect us and keep us well.

The days of ignoring, criticizing, belittling or laughing at anything that didn’t fit existing medical dogma are numbered as attitudes shift with the accumulating research that can’t be refuted.

Medical and complimentary and alternate therapies have been uniting under the term of integrative medicine, even though there are detractors who are still fighting this union of traditional knowledge and modern discoveries for handling health issues.

Other new collaborations are forming, even including those from outside the body function arena. NASA research on the ability of plants to detoxify our internal building environments and provide essential oxygen for human wellbeing is one combination of health research and plant and environment research coming together. (see article Plants are Essential for Human Life posted December 2010)

Another less publicized combination is doctors, scientists and electricians. All medical training acknowledges we humans are electro magnetic beings. That means we generate electricity, have electric circuits with positive and negative polarities, generate an amplitude or voltage between the positive and negative.

Without this electrical activity inside and outside every cell no activity or human life as we know it is possible.
How has this essential element been ignored for so long when looking for ways to heal the body? Focus has been on biochemical aspects and surgical interventions with little consideration to the body-electric activities or the mind till recent times.

Epigenetics has clearly shown that every thought can change your brain activity and also triggers biochemical changes and body responses that can switch genetic programs on or off. Constant thoughts of fear, anxiety or any other stress can become a thought habit that plays out in the brain and in the body simultaneously. This includes changing the body’s biochemistry and altering energy distribution and use. There is no separating the mental, emotional, biochemical, physical or energy contributions to the whole. They work together, simultaneously, in concert. A change in one area will trigger a cascade of changes in all other areas.

Health and Safety standards in the work place, from factories, to office blocks, to mining and gas harvesting, are set in accord with medical and scientific standards to ensure the environment is safe for workers. This concern is in the outer world while still ignoring or under rating pollution of the body’s internal cells in the majority of medical patient that can be just as dangerous in the individual body.

Our internal environment needs to be kept safe too. Instead of just prescribing drugs to mask the cause of headaches or upset stomach, or itchy skin, the body may need internal cleaning up, the removal of toxic build up, change of pH through diet or lifestyle, water to hydrate and dilute waste for elimination, a shift of habitual stressful thoughts, all stock in trade for natural therapy approaches, including Kinesiology.

So what about the internal and external electromagnetic environments? These are equally important, perhaps paramount.

“Grounding” is being validated by the latest information from research projects. Every house with electrical wires for lighting and power is by law automatically earthed, meaning it has a wire that is connected to the Earth for grounding or discharging of any excess electrical charge, to avoid electrocution.

As you are also electro magnetic, how do you get earthed? In the January Newsletter article, Earthing Reduces Pain and Increases Health, I talked about taking your shoes off and walking, sitting or standing on the damp grass or wet sand. This effectively discharges into the Earth the stress charge that builds up in your body during the day from normal work, time schedules and family life. Being barefoot also allows you to absorb the Earth’s negative ions that support wellness. And you can also de-stress and rebalance your electrical energy in other ways.

The Chinese meridian and acupuncture system specifically addresses the need to rebalance energy flow to regain and maintain health.

Working as a Kinesiologist I regularly draw on the Chinese Five Element system to discover which is the main under active system in the body and which function is holding on up the energy flow and preventing an automatic rebalancing. Meridians are energy pathways that are electrical in nature and respond to positive and negative polarity input.

Kinesiology combines elements from both the Chinese acupuncture system and the modern medical knowledge of anatomy and physiology and how the body works. George Goodheart, a chiropractor, created Applied Kinesiology and his student and colleague, John Thie, put together the basic elements of this work for lay people to use as maintenance and first aid, and called the system Touch For Health.

Touch For Health kinesiology provides everyday people with safe and simple ways to discharge stress, rebalance meridian energy flow, check which food will support and maintain this balance biochemically, activate clearance of lymphatic waste, improve blood circulation, support organ activity, enhance brain function for learning, reduce pain and improve posture and co-ordination.

This Kinesiology health care system was John Thie’s gift to his patients and to all people who seek to regain and maintain wellness and enhance relationships and daily life. Touch For Health puts power and knowledge into the hands of each person so they can take charge of their own wellness, to educate themselves about how to be healthy and whole, to recognize what the body is communicating through energy shifts and muscle response change.

Any persistent meridian imbalances act as an early warning system that indicates, possibly years in advance, which functions are energy starved or overloaded and will physically deteriorate if the energy is not rebalanced. The energy imbalance registers long before tissue breakdown and rebalancing the energy is pro-active preventative health care. It is a way of influencing genetic programs, and escaping the family patterns of health degeneration.

It really is time to learn how to be well rather than wait for symptoms to occur for which a doctor will likely prescribe drugs to silence the body’s cry for help and block awareness that something is malfunctioning and needs help to regain full function again.

Doctors are writing reports and books about the existing medical system.

“The Journal of the American Medical Association has been warning … for over a decade, publishing research showing the dangers of infections, injury and death in American hospitals. … Theses studies rank iatrogenic or doctor-caused illnesses among the largest killers of Americans … Other studies with different criteria, actually find that iatrogenic illnesses are the number one killer.”

“Astonishingly, the U.S. Congress, Office of Technological Assessment, has reported 85% of the drugs now in use have no satisfactory scientific documentation backing them,” according to Norman Shealy, MD, PhD and Dawson Church, PhD. This and much more, along with statistics, they cover in their book Soul Medicine.