SLIMBRIDGE DOWSING GROUP REPORTS
Kinesiology - Touch for Health , Janet Nicholls
They say seeing is believing, but in the case of kinesiology, feeling is believing too.
About 20 of us joined the Saturday morning meeting on 28th February, when Janet Nicholls from Abergavenny gave a fascinating talk and workshop about kinesiology, otherwise known as Touch for Health, the study of movement. However, that study - a combination of chiropractic methods and Chinese medicine - is predominantly of the muscles, and can reveal a great deal about a patient and their symptoms.
Kinesiologist Janet Nicholls (left) helps Slimbridge Dowsing Group members understand their imbalances!
Testing is through muscle resistance, and Janet soon had us all on our feet, testing each other. In pairs and in turn, we were instructed to match pressure from our partner’s forearm. "Think of something that makes you happy,” she ordered, and muscle response was steady and strong. “Now think of something that makes you sad," she said, and immediately our muscles weakened and became a bit "wibbly-wobbly".
And yet, one lady who had hobbled in with severe discomfort from six-month-old whiplash, exacerbated by yesterday’s bike ride, was surprised to find her ear being massaged, and prompt relief. After half an hour, she was able to turn her head significantly further than previously, with much less pain.
Another member who has been troubled by painful arthitis for many years, was invited to hold a carton of milk to her cheek, in close proximity to the salivary gland, while her muscle resistance was checked. "You have an intolerance to cow’s milk," confirmed Janet, "and to goat’s milk. And to sheep’s. Ah, you’re OK with soya milk. If you switch to soya milk, you will find your arthritis considerably relieved."
Our speaker had learned all this the hard way herself many years previously. She had been 3 stones overweight and thoroughly depressed. Muscle testing revealed that she was intolerant of milk and wheat. "But I can’t be!" she protested, "I’m a farmer’s wife!" But she was, and within three months she had shed her extra weight, and was feeling happy and energised. All sorts of things can unbalance the physical body, the mind, the equilibrium. Just think how often you are exposed to things your body can’t tolerate: foods, car fumes (bad), flowers (good), and the effect that can have. Fears and phobias too are the result of an imbalance, and can be helped by kinesiology.
The joy of Touch for Health is that we can also help ourselves. The whiplash lady can massage her own ear; the arthritis sufferer can control whether she drinks cow’s milk or soya; we can knowingly avoid breathing in fumes, we can take balancing exercise and we can certainly increase our consumption of water.