Kinesiology is a complementary therapy which assesses imbalance in the body by noting how an arm or leg muscle responds under the challenge of light pressure.  As well as helping all manner of physical and structural imbalances by means of lymphatic massage, acupressure points and nutrition, it is also a very powerful tool to help with emotional problems aswell.

Techniques such as EFT have been developed out of kinesiology.  With kinesiology we are able to test a muscle and then retest it to see if the response changes when a verbal challenge is suggested to the client.  For example, if a muscle relating to the brain or stomach was strong, then went weak after the suggestion of the word “cat”, we could reasonably assume that the client had a problem with cats which was affecting the muscle response and more specifically the stomach meridian.  However, it needn’t necessarily be a fear or phobia of cats – it could be more specific, such as a pet that was ill, or allergy to cat fur.

Kinesiology is a holistic practice, treating the emotional, chemical, nutritional, structural, physical and electrical elements of the person.  Treating fears and phobias also receives this approach.

Kinesiology has some excellent and proven techniques to deal with phobias – sometimes eradicating lifelong fears in a very short timescale.  If a client visits me with a fear or phobia they want to resolve I would find out :

a)                  how long they have suffered

b)                  whether they can pinpoint an initial event which triggered it

c)                  what makes it worse and/or better

d)                 what difference it will make to their lives to be rid of it

e)                  on a scale of 1-10 how serious is it – ie, just by thinking about the phobia, what number 1-10 describes the panic they feel

By means of muscle testing I would then lock the response into the body temporarily.  target the specific meridian which is affected by the fear and pinpoint flower remedies and nutrition (Vitamin B Complex is excellent) which will help the individual and with a combination of talking to the client about the fear, when it started and tapping on the specific meridian end points which are affected, reduce the clients fear from 10 to 5 and sometimes 0 in one session.  Clearly this depends on the level of fear, how long they have suffered, other factors connected with the fear and how much they want to be rid of it.   Throughout the treatment I would be holding Emotional Stress Release points and talking to the client the whole time.  Sometimes a previously unknown connection surfaces, forgotten memories emerge which shed light on what appears to be a completely irrational fear.

Linda Belcher is a Systematic Kinesiologist and Tutor working from Shoreham by Sea and Forest Row, Sussex. www.lindabelcherhealthcare.co.uk