Gentle muscle monitoring is the key tool used by Kinesiology and Touch for Health pracitioners to receive answers from that infinitely intelligent computer that is our body. In this localised field of information we are tapping into the knowledge of an amazing field of power. With Kinesiology techniques we are facilitating the information to flow smoothly throughout the system, thus re-organising and transforming the energetic make-up of our body.

At the same time we are also influencing our surroundings and who we are in the context and the concept of our environment is constantly changing and evolving.

Understanding that and working with this body of knowledge is fascinating and humbling at the same time.

It all started with Dr. George Goodheart in 1971 - when he discovered the energetic link between chiropractic adjustment and energetic flow of information.

In the early seventies however Dr. John Thie, a formidable chiropractor with wonderful humanitarian insight started to teach Touch for Health, a system which was designed for lay people. Dr. John Thie had studied under Goodheart and had come to the conclusion that muscle monitoring should be taught to lay people as a means of self-help for optimizing the community health. At first only doctors, mainly chiropractors studied this new system. Since then millions of people from all walks of life have studied Touch for Health. Many have been so inspired and encouraged by it, that they evolved their own systems within the Kinesiology field.

His first book,Touch for Health, 1973, is now an international best seller. Millions of people around the globe have been introduced to his modality and it is the foundation of many new and fascinating modalities.

A  simple 14 Muscle Balance is designed to:

• accelerate recovery from illness and injuries

• reduce or eliminate many different kinds of pains: headaches,  backaches, stomach aches

• prevent future health problems

• increase energy and counteract fatigue

• show you immediately which foods are undermining your energy.

Using the different aspects of the Triangle of Health as an indicator, we can monitor the energy situation of the body’s meridians and help correct imbalances, where they occour.

Each meridian is connected to one or more indicator muscles in the body.

Gently testing them for their being “switched on”  or not,  is what we do when we do muscle monitoring.

The technique used in this case is to gently activate the neurolymphatic reflex points in the body, to also hold certain points on the cranium which are called neurvascular reflex points.

As a third means of increasing the energy flow we are gently stroking along the run of the body’s meridians  - thus strengthening the flow of their energy.

This allows the body to balance out its energy flow and correct whatever imbalances have been there before, which may have shown symptoms to us in the form of aches, muscle impairment, intolerance to a certain food or substance or other.

The Kinesiology movement has now created a worldwide network of healers and teachers. And it all started from here!

(the drawing originates from the Touch For Health website)

For more information:  http://www.touch4health.com