KINESIOLOGY 101
WHAT IS IT?
When it comes to our health, most of us want to be up to date and in the know about what's good for us. However we here at Bloom From Within believe your body may already know exactly what it needs for optimal wellbeing.
Kinesiology is a non-invasive holistic healing approach that allows the body to do what it does best, heal itself.
This kind of treatment is a combination of Eastern and Western medicine, utilising the body’s innate healing energy. The body knows how to best to care for itself and how to do it, but sometimes it may need a little help finding the answer.
Basically, Kinesiology enables the individual to bypass your conscious mind and safety barriers to isolate factors in you subconscious. In other words, we tap into the subconscious to hear the true message of the body, and allow it to do the talking.
Muscle testing is the key to knowing and speaking to the body. Through a range of motions and movements, the Kinesiologist can narrow down on the focal issue and emotion that is causing the body grief.
Each muscle group is related to a body part: digestive system, nerves, organs etc. How the muscles respond to different tests reveal the body's functioning and helps locate imbalances.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Think of your body as a computer for a minute. Most of the time, the systems and programmes work properly and smoothly, but once in a while, they glitch or they bring up error messages for no visible reason!
Our bodies are the same…figuratively. Kinesiology uses the body and muscles to speak directly to the deep undercover parts of our brain. We call your brain a biocomputer (see the connection now!) and the messages we get from your muscles are bio feedback that can be read.
When the body is under stress, caused by factors such as trauma, self sabotage, nutritional deficiencies, it will block energy flow within the body. This is where the body shows glitches and error messages in real life with no explanation.
When this occurs the muscles reflect this message and cause specific muscle patterns.
WHAT DOES IT HELP WITH?
Kinesiology has no limits, below are some of the more common situations we see:
body pain
weight concerns
body image
back problems
stress & confusion
phobias & fears
depressive tendencies
anxiety, fatigue and tiredness
learning difficulties
digestive issues
personal development & lifestyle
sports injuries
general wellbeing
WHAT CAN I EXPECT IN A SESSION?
Before a kinesiology session, you'll be asked to complete an in-depth client detail form about your history and what you would like to focus on in the session. During our time together, we will touch on some of these aspects as they arise.
During a session, you'll be asked to lay, fully clothed, on a massage table. Sessions usually last for about an hour and involve different techniques and movements depending on the focus area.
Kinesiology techniques and muscle testing will require you to move particular body parts and to hold that position while pressure is exerted against the limb.
About 1kg of pressure is applied at any time, this is about as heavy as two butter squares, or a litre of milk.
Treatment is designed to clear blockages by stimulating your innate healing capacity in order to help the body resume normal function.
Various methods may be employed including tapping, emotional release, massage, flower essence, oracle cards, oils, crystals, sound bowels, homeopathic remedies, nutritional advice or affirmations, just to name a few.