What is Kinesiology?
Kinesiology comes from the Greek
work kinesis which means motion.
In the medical sciences
kinesiology is the study of
muscles and the movement of the
body. Touch For Health,
Professional Kinesiology and
other programs we offer use
kinesiology to refer to muscle
testing, which is a form of
biofeedback. Using muscle
testing and kinesiology can help
reduce stress and pain, improve
performance at school, work and
sports, enhance relationships
and promote health and
well-being.
What is Touch For Health?
Touch for Health (TFH) is a
natural approach to health care
that integrates eastern
principles of acupuncture theory
with western techniques. Touch
For Health was developed with
the lay person in mind. TFH
teaches a simple way to balance
the acupuncture meridians
without needles. By balancing
the acupuncture meridians your
system has more resources
available to deal with physical,
emotional and mental stress.
What is
PKP?
The Professional Kinesiology
Practitioner (PKP) program was
developed by Dr. Bruce Dewe, a
medical doctor from New Zealand.
Dr. Dewe greatly expanded the
balancing system developed in
TFH. PKP uses a great many
techniques to balance our
physical, mental, emotional,
nutritional and spiritual needs.
PKP incorporates a priority
system to determine the best
technique to use as needed. PKP
identifies and clears the
emotional charge often involved
in imbalances. Clearing the
emotional connection facilitates
longer lasting and deeper
corrections. PKP was designed
for health professionals but
anyone is welcome to expand
their knowledge and skills
through these courses.
Is it
safe?
The techniques are safe and easy
to learn.
Is this a form of medical
treatment?
No. These techniques are taught
with the intention of balancing
a person’s energies in relation
to their goals. We do not
diagnosis, treat or work with
named diseases. Professional
Kinesiology works with enhancing
the body’s innate healing
capabilities. For any potential
medical problem we recommend
seeing a licensed doctor.
What is balancing or a balance?
Balancing is the term that we
refer to when a person has a
Touch for Health (TFH) or
Professional Kinesiology
Practitioner (PKP) session. We
balance to release the blockages
in the body’s energetic pattern.
Often this is to release
congestions of energy in the
acupuncture pathways known as
meridians.
Meridians are the specific
pathways that carry the
electromagnetic energy that
surround and innervate the body.
Most of the meridians were named
after body organs Often there is
a relationship between meridians
and specific organ functions.
Meridians were first discovered
in the acupuncture system
approximately 5,000 years ago by
the Chinese and have been mapped
thermatically, electronically
and radioactively by modern
technological methods. In a
balance we work with the
acupuncture meridian system
without needles, just using
touch and energy reflexes, .
When a person is under stress
(physically, mentally,
emotionally, biochemically,
electromagnetically, etc.) the
body’s meridian system goes out
of balance. The normally fluid
movement of energy between the
various meridians develops areas
of congestion (excess) and
depletion (deficiency). This
will show up immediately with
muscle testing due to the
relationship of specific muscles
to specific meridians. Over time
a person may notice symptoms
that manifest in their energy
level, posture, performance,
physical and emotional states.
Long term imbalances can affect
the organ functions themselves.
Essentially stress and
subsequent imbalances in the
meridian system has the effect
to impede the body’s innate
healing ability.
Do I need a license to use
this?
Check with your state and local
laws. A few locations require a
license to touch another person
as part of your professional
work. Touch For Health was
created for people to use on
their family and friends. If you
are using it non-professionally,
a license should not be
required.
Can
I self-test?
Muscle testing is a science and
an art. Doing it well on others
takes training and practice.
Doing it on yourself is even
more demanding. Clear muscle
testing requires a neutral and
unbiased intention by the
practitioner. This is not as
easy when testing yourself.
There are some people who do
self-testing and claim to get
useful results. TFH does not
teach or encourage self-testing.
PKP teaches techniques for
quality self-testing.
What is the difference between
Touch For Health, Therapeutic
Touch and Healing Touch?
Touch For Health is a
kinesiology and uses muscle
testing for accessing
information, a form of
bio-feedback. Healing Touch and
Therapeutic Touch train people
to sense differences in another
persons energy body or aura.
Then the energy body is worked
on to normalize the field. In
Touch For Health people can
balance for goals in their life
and physical, emotional, mental
and spiritual issues.
What about other "K’s"... other
Kinesiology systems?
The first “K” was Applied
Kinesiology (AK). It was
developed by Dr George Goodheart
DC, a chiropractor from Detroit.
In the early 70’s Dr. Goodheart
began teaching his new technique
to other doctors. One of his
first students was Dr. John This
DC from Pasadena, CA. Dr Thie
took what he considered were
simple, non-medical techniques
from AK and created Touch For
Health. Today AK is still taught
almost exclusively to doctors.
TFH is a program for lay people
and professionals taught in over
50 countries around the world.
Many people who studied TFH
explored various ways to extend
the use of this biofeedback
skill. Systems were developed
focusing on education, emotional
clearing, brain/mind
functioning, spiritual work and
other creative approaches to
life. A number of new
kinesiology systems or “K’s”
have been created. A few like
PKP have spread worldwide. PKP
is the first to be recognized as
a professional training program
by a national government.
How is a PKP balance different
from a TFH balance?
The balancing work in Touch For
Health is done in the context of
setting goals. We identify how
the person wants to feel
different, and put that into a
positive goal. When a person is
“getting a balance” the areas of
energetic imbalance in the
acupuncture meridian system are
identified through specific
muscle testing. Then the
meridian system is re-balanced
using a number of simple reflex
techniques. These techniques may
include light touch, gentle
massage, tracing a meridian or
specific movements.
The Professional Kinesiology
Practioner system has over 250
potential balancing techniques.
In PKP for each balancing
procedure an emotion is
identified. The emotion
underlying the imbalance is
often what holds the energetic
pattern in place. Having the
person think about the emotion
during the balancing procedure
is often the key in releasing
long standing problems. PKP also
works in very specific ways with
changing attitudes, releasing
sabotage programs and unhooking
reactive patterns. Also clearing
aspects of an issue that may be
locked in to another time in the
person’s life can be very
important.. The system is very
extensive. PKP includes a
priority protocol that allows
the practitioner to determine
the best techniques to use at a
given time.
Once energy imbalances and
reactive responses that the body
has adapted to cope with stress
have been relieved, the person
can function to their true
potential - more fully on the
physical, mental, emotional and
spiritual levels. |
