A brief History Brain Gym Workshops
Kinesiology ‘How to be at your best’
Kinesiology comes from the Greek word “Kinesis” meaning Movement/Motion and “Logos” meaning science. Kinesiology is the “Science of Testing Movement” or “Muscle Testing”.
Kinesiology was originally developed by an American chiropractor called George Goodheart in 1964. He found that by testing muscles before and after he made a correction he achieved better results for his patients. As time progressed he was able to make a connection between various muscles and acupuncture meridians. By testing these muscles the kinesiologist can get a picture of what is happening in your meridian system and how this is affecting you. But, equally, the muscle testing can also show what has affected the meridians in the first place and indicate what is the best way to deal with that stress, be it emotional, physical, environmental, nutritional or mental.
So, kinesiology is a blend of the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine and western techniques that allow a kinesiologist to treat you in a truly holistic manner. Each person’s session is unique to them. Kinesiology can establish connections between imbalances and can establish which is the priority issue to be dealt with and what is the most effective treatment.
Kinesiology uses a range of gentle yet extremely powerful techniques. These restore balance to your system and create and maintain health and well-being. You can function better on all levels.
Some people consider kinesiology to be one of the best methods to use to uncover and help the underlying causes of health problems that are difficult to find by any other means.
Muscle monitoring (muscle testing)
These are two names for the same thing and can be interchangeable. Muscle monitoring is the principal tool of kinesiology.
A limb is placed so that one of its muscles is in a contracted position. The kinesiologist applies pressure to that muscle and the client is asked to match the pressure. This is not a test of the strength of the muscle but of how the muscle responds to the stimulus of the added pressure. The muscle will either remain in contraction or will unlock. At no time should the client experience pain or discomfort with the testing. How the muscle responds gives the kinesiologist feedback and this is used to determine what the priority stresses are and the best way to address them.
What are the benefits?
Kinesiology restores the whole system to balance, facilitating the self-healing process.
It can, for example:
- Increase energy and vitality
- Prevent illness
- Help achieve life goals
- Relieve physical pain and tension and improve posture
- Defuse stress and the causes of stress
- Heal traumas
- Enhance brain function and co-ordination
- Discover individual nutritional needs
- Identify food and environmental sensitivities
- Find and clear underlying causes of energy blocks/imbalances/diseases
A bit of history:
Applied Kinesiology (for chiropractors and medical professionals)
In 1964, an American Chiropractor, Dr. George Goodheart discovered the unique way of Kinesiology Muscular Test showing that when something is bothering us, not only our muscular system changes but also our entire body posture. He demonstrated that muscles testing allows us to evaluate the aspect of the entire body and to find out the true source of imbalance.
Please visit www.icak.com or www.kinesiology.net
Touch For HealthT Kinesiology
Dr. John Thie, American Chiropractor, friend of Dr. Goodheart, created a simplified version of Applied Kinesiology called “Touch for Health” which is a synthesis of Muscular knowledge, Neuro-lymphatic and Neuro-vascular Reflexes, Chinese Medicine and various complementary practices such as Osteopathy, Chiropractic and Naturopathy and made it available to lay people. From this point, kinesiology spread worldwide. It exists nowadays many different kind of kinesiology specialized in various domains but all based on the biofeedback of the brain/body system.
Please visit www.touch4health.com
Touch For Health can be easily learned by anybody interested in maintaining good health, ask OHC for classes with Edith Laidlaw.
Brain Gym®
Brain Gym® was created by Paul Dennison PhD to help children and adults with learning difficulties. Brain Gym® is now used to improve functioning and life quality for people of all age, from education to the arts, in business, healthcare, sport and personal development. The movements can be safely used by people of any age and mobility, from babies upwards.
Brain Gym® is part of Education Kinesiology Foundation (also called EduK) regrouping a various courses such as Vision Gym®, Integration of Primitive and Postural Reflexes in infants, Optimum Brain Integration etc.
Please visit www.braingym.org
Brain Gym® can be learned by anybody interested in brain/body integration for easy learning, ask OHC for classes with Edith Laidlaw.
