Recently during a Touch For Health level 3 workshop I had the opportunity to demonstrate how to use Kinesiology to reduce muscle pain and tension in a way that brought immediate change, right before our eyes.
A whole new segment of knowledge and skill opened up for the participants. Students now had enough muscle knowledge to consider, not just activating individual muscles, but at teamwork, and how the muscles interacted.
Whenever muscles are habitually over tight and hard to your touch, they are overworking, often doing the work for several other muscles as well as their own load. These muscles become stuck in the habit of taking over and not letting other muscles in the team do their share.
As we unraveled the patterns of use and reprogrammed the team interaction we saw some amazing postural changes before our eyes. It was truly exciting. The body is so willing to co-operate if we just know how to go about creating change through understanding what the body is communicating and co-operating with it.
Pain and tension and posture imbalances are all part of body communication that can lead you to do the right thing to bring relief and ease through Kinesiology muscle response testing and corrections.
Shoulder Tension
One student had a shoulder sitting higher than the other. This is common for many people as we are generally one hand dominant, left or right, and use the dominant arm more often and more powerfully than the non-dominant arm.
Applying a TFH release signal to the over-worker and maintaining it, we reset the under-working muscles we had identified. TFH provides a number of techniques for this to happen. The result was that the hard tight muscle softened and the shoulders became more aligned immediately. It’s always a relief to feel the relaxation happen and the extra mobility when the tension has normalized. This is a muscle program reset, not just a relaxation, so the results last.
Neck Tension
Another common problem is tension in the back of the neck causing headaches or stiffness and a limited range of movement. This easily happens if sitting in front of a computer for hours a day.
As you get tired the blood sugars drop and the muscles in the back that are sensitive to that specific biochemical drop lose their tone. We learn to test this muscle in TFH 1. Your back is no longer supported effectively and rounds out. Your shoulders roll forward and as a result you tip your chin up to see the screen. This scrunches the muscles in the back of your neck and the tension here becomes a pattern activated each time you are in front of a computer screen. This is all too common.
The trick to rebalancing is identifying the under-working muscles to take the load off the over-working muscle. Observing the posture is the beginning of rebalancing the team. You can verify your observations with a TFH procedure.
Releasing the tight back of neck muscles and maintaining the release creates the opportunity to activate and reset the under working upper back, shoulder and front of neck muscles. The result is the back is supported and not rounder, and the head now sits balanced above the shoulders and no longer forward with the chin up. It’s always fun to see how quickly muscles adjust to their new, better balanced role.
Tightly Curled Toes
Another student had toes on one foot tightly curled so they never touched the ground when he walked. This was a longstanding issue that meant he had to compensate for not contacting the ground fully and not pushing off with this foot when walking. He limited his gait to accommodate the curled toes.
By repeatedly releasing the muscles that curled the toes under and activating the opposite muscles he was able in minutes get a signal through to the toes to start moving. It was amazing to see first one toe, then next and next progressively become responsive and able to extend and be in contact with the floor.
This was a childhood pattern and considered something he would just have to live with. Now he has made a change that will have an impact on how he walks and stands on his feet. As there is no need to compensate for curled toes he can relax other muscles he was not aware he was engaging.
When you have unhappy feet you will pay the price in forcing other muscles from your feet all the way to your neck to work in a compensating way. Releasing feet muscles changes the team work required for smooth and efficient momentum when walking or running, saving energy, extending the range for movement, easily aligning the balance over your feet, and avoiding accidents.
Low Back Too Tight
Another common postural pattern is tight low back muscles, front of hip bones rolled forward, and belly hanging out, even when well exercised.
We released the low back muscles for one of the students by de-activating the muscle fibres, and while released reset the abdominal muscles. We did this a number of times till the low back became a gentle curve, the hips in place and the abdominals effectively holding their tone in the front.
The result was immediately visible and can be sustained readily. Now any exercise to strengthen the abdominal muscles will be effective. The spine will be balanced between front and back muscles evenly instead of the back muscles doing double duty.
These were just some of the experiences of students as they learned how to use Touch For Health Kinesiology to effectively reduce muscle pain and tension. The body is remarkable and when you know how to communicate with your body through muscle response testing you will be delighted with the results that happen under your hands.
Kinesiology is a very effective way to reduce muscle pain and tension.
Register now for Touch For Health Kinesiology workshop and discover just how amazing we truly are and how readily the body responds given the opportunity to communicate its needs through muscle response testing.
Anna McRobert