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ENERGY KINESIOLOGY BENEFITS AND LIMITATIONS ENERGY KINESIOLOGY BENEFITS LIMITATIONS AND uscle testing and energy balancing can yield profound benefits for our health. Many imbalances in our bodies may best be found via this relatively new tool. Muscle testing may have spawned the best modality, in all of medicine, to determine the optimum way to ° restore heath to us, because it is capable of tapping into the body's own A technique memory and wisdom to try to correct health problems. This remarkable developed from method, described below, can—under certain circumstances—be better than 9 any external observer can be. muscle testing may be the best moda lity A Brief History of Modern Muscle Testing . odern muscle testing, or applied kinesiology (AK), was discovered by In orthodox and George Goodheart, DC, in 1964. He incorporated his knowledge of several different fields, including kinesiology, and the discoveries of Drs Chapman alternative medicine and Bennett. Now, kinesiology—without the “applied"—refers to the for determining centuries-old knowledge of gauging the strength of individual muscles, such . as by getting the subject's arm or leg in certain positions while s/he resists the optimum way the push or pull of an external tester. The only thing being tested for is the direct strength of that individual muscle. Dr Goodheart and later colleagues, to restore health however, found that individual muscles were energetically connected to because It utilises specific acupuncture meridians, which in turn have been known for thousands of years to be energetically connected to individual organs. This is the so- the body’s own called muscle/meridian/organ energy connection. But one has to be carefu not to assume that the end organ is affected in a way that would show via standard western medical testing. Dr Goodheart devised methods to strengthen individual muscles that had tested weak. He knew the discoveries of two physicians from the 1930s. Frank Chapman, DO, had found numerous points on the body that, when rubbed, increased lymph flow to certain areas or organs. Terrence Bennett, DC, had found that certain reflex points, when held, lightly increased blood flow to certain regions or organs in the body. Goodheart incorporated these two reflex systems into applied kinesiology, after seeing that they could strensthen individual weak muscles Chanman's reflexes are now known as memory and wisdom, not guesswork. A Brief History of Modern Muscle Testing Modern muscle testing, or applied kinesiology (AK), was discovered by George Goodheart, DC, in 1964. He incorporated his knowledge of several different fields, including kinesiology, and the discoveries of Drs Chapman and Bennett. Now, kinesiology—without the "applied"—refers to the centuries-old knowledge of gauging the strength of individual muscles, such as by getting the subject's arm or leg in certain positions while s/he resists the push or pull of an external tester. The only thing being tested for is the direct strength of that individual muscle. Dr Goodheart and later colleagues, however, found that individual muscles were energetically connected to specific acupuncture meridians, which in turn have been known for thousands of years to be energetically connected to individual organs. This is the so- called muscle/meridian/organ energy connection. But one has to be carefu not to assume that the end organ is affected in a way that would show via standard western medical testing. Dr Goodheart devised methods to strengthen individual muscles that had ested weak. He knew the discoveries of two physicians from the 1930s. Frank Chapman, DO, had found numerous points on the body that, when rubbed, increased lymph flow to certain areas or organs. Terrence Bennett, DC, had found that certain reflex points, when held, lightly increased blood low to certain regions or organs in the body. Goodheart incorporated these wo reflex systems into applied kinesiology, after seeing that they could strengthen individual weak muscles. Chapman's reflexes are now known as neurolymphatic points, and Bennett's reflexes are known as neurovascular points. These systems may also re-set the acupuncture meridians without needles. n addition, Goodheart found that certain techniques performed directly on weak muscles could immediately strengthen them. Some of these are called spindle cell and Golgi tendon techniques. They are among the quickest ways to correct muscles that are out of balance, yet they remain mostly unknown to massage and physical therapists. For example, a standard technique used by massage therapists is to massage a muscle so as to "reattach" its tendon end to bone. But Goodheart found that simultaneously working on the Golgi tendon areas of both ends of a set of muscle fibres can often do in seconds what working on just the one end cannot do in weeks or months of therapy. | think by Steven Rochlitz, PhD © 4 April 2011 Post Office Box 2154 Cottonwood, AZ 86326, USA Email: info@wellatlast.com Website: http://www.wellatlast.com by Steven Rochlitz, PhD © 4 April 2011 Post Office Box 2154 Cottonwood, AZ 86326, USA Email: info@wellatlast.com Website: http://www.wellatlast.com NEXUS « 25 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com