The Science
How does it work?
There is more than a little irony about Specialized Kinesiology being at the cutting edge of today’s neuroscience. Mostly because there are so many ties to Eastern Medicine, which is thousands of years old.
For thousands of years, pressure points and meridians have been used by shaman, healers, and medicine men to determine which organs or systems of the body were sick and to prescribe herbal remedies. This wasn’t considered “alternative” medicine anywhere in the world until the past 100 years or so.
In fact, it may surprise you to learn that most medical doctors around the world still use this practice today, alongside prescribing pharmaceutical drugs and herbal remedies - and it works well for them and their patients. Very well in fact.
And just so you know how it works, you can think of the meridians like different circuits that run through your body. Each one passes through different organs and has different pressure points along the way. It's literally just a matter of learning the roadmap of your body. When you know which pressure points belong to which circuits - and which organs those circuits pass through, you are able to feel if the pulse is weak or sluggish.
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Now, let's apply this exact same concept with something you're more familiar with. A flashlight. You know it runs on batteries, of course. But how does the energy from the batteries power the bulb to light up? Through a circuit that connects the bulb to the batteries. And how do you know the batteries need to be replaced? Well, obviously when the light becomes dimmer and dimmer until it finally goes out.
The Era of Physical (and Pharmaceutical) Medicine
Modern Medicine as we know it is based solely on the physical body. And yet, we innately know that we are a being with a physical body, a mind, and a soul or spirit. We are all aware that mental health has been given a bad stigma until recently, and even now people are hesitant to admit they need therapy or other mental health treatments. The medical profession is largely secular, subscribing to the theory of evolution and the “Big Bang” Theory and therefore leaving no room for Divine Design.
Without a Creator, the issue of how one’s soul or spirit might affect the physical body becomes problematic. Therefore, the medical approach to treatment has remained very Darwinian; you just happen to be alive. Your goal is to survive life, and then you die. But we all know we are beings with a mind, body, soul and spirit.... not just beings with a body.
Insanely Interesting Fact
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If you put your hand (or any part of your body) under a microscope, you will find cells.
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If you look put a cell under a microscope, you will find DNA.
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When you put DNA under a microscope, you will find atoms.
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When you put an atom under a microscope, you will find 99.9999999999999% empty space.
The nucleus (protons and neutrons) plus the electrons make up only .0000000000001% of an atom’s total physical size.
The rest is just the space in which the atom exists.
This means that if a Proton (inside the atom’s nucleus) was the size of an apple, its closest Electron would be the size of a grain of salt….. AND it would be approximately 1.24 miles away.
Talk about mind blowing!!! (Feel free to read that again.)
These thoughts and emotional reactions from your Mind caused a very real reaction in your Body. This seems reasonable right? We all know this to be true from our own life experiences.
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Now apply that same concept to your thought-life as a whole. Do you know someone who is always happy and smiling? Do you think it is more likely that nothing bad ever happens to this person or that they choose to focus on the positive side of things, no matter what is happening in their life?
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What about the negative person for whom things always seem to be going wrong. Do you suppose they actually have an exorbitant amount of bad luck, or that it just seems that way because all they focus on is the negative things in life?
It's the exact same thing, but the circuits in your body run through organs instead of light bulbs. A good strong pulse at the pressure point indicates that the organ along that same circuit (meridian) is also strong. A weak or sluggish pulse indicates that the organ along that same circuit (meridian) is weak or sick and needs some help. Of course, this is a very simplistic explanation. There are many more layers to what I do, but this will give you a good idea of the main concept.
I know many of you may be skeptical or even leery of anything to do with Eastern medicine practices or pressure points - and meridians in particular. You are unfamiliar with what they are and the use of these things to balance the body has often been attributed to voodoo or mysticism. The mystic reputation was perpetuated by many of the shaman and healers themselves, claiming spiritual powers. Perhaps this was because the science behind the practice was not yet known. Or perhaps, here in the west - and particularly over the past 100 years, the perpetuation of this stereotype was to ensure that the only options available were pharmaceutical and surgical options.
Quantum Medicine
Don’t be intimidated by the term “Quantum”! It simply means “how much” in Latin. You could easily replace the word “quantum” with “quantity” in English and it would be a correct translation. As an example, you could ask “What Quantum of flour does this recipe call for?”
The reason the word seems a little daunting to most of us today is because in the early 1900s it started to be used by physicists as they studied the behavior of electricity. They used the term “Quanta of Electricity” (ie: “Quantity of Electricity) as a unit of measurement to by which they could define the characteristics of Electrons. You might remember electrons from studying atoms in school.
The concept of an atom has been around since about 1800 AD. You learned in school that the atom is the smallest part of a substance that cannot be broken down chemically. You likely learned that each atom has a nucleus at the center, which contains Protons and Neutrons. You also learned that orbiting around the nucleus are Electrons.
Even though every image of an atom we have seen in our lives is like the one pictured here, with electrons seemingly threaded through perfect hoops surrounding the nucleus, in actuality, there is nothing physically holding them there.
They are suspended in place by an electrical force, not a physical structure. You can think of this like a magnet.
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Example: Imagine you are holding two magnets, one in each hand. The closer they get to one another, the stronger the attraction – until all of a sudden - they snap together!
Now pull them apart again, flip one magnet over and repeat. This time you can feel them repelling each other.
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You can feel the push and pull of their electrical forcefield, even though you cannot see it, right?
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This force you feel (but cannot see) is the energy caused by Electrons and Protons being attracted to and repelled from each other.
The Mind-Body Connection (Here is where we tie it all together)
EVERYTHING your body does requires energy. Breathing, digesting food, pumping blood, making hormones, thinking, being angry, being happy, doing nothing at all except sleeping - they all take energy (some more than others). If you are alive, then you are making and using energy, whether you realize it or not.
Note how your mind automatically wants to make the energy we just talked about (electrons floating in and out of atoms) different than the energy your body needs to survive and thrive. BUT, they are actually the very same thing. You ARE made of atoms, remember.
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Let’s go back to Modern Medicine’s philosophy again. What was that? Oh yeah… we are a physical being. That is why you’ve only learned about how the body makes energy in a physical way (digesting food and creating energy on a cellular level). However, how would you characterize your thoughts and emotions? How does your mind fit into all this? Or even does it?
Some of these things you've always heard or read start to take on a whole new meaning when you truly understand the impact your brain and your thoughts have on your health and physical body.
Your life is not lived so much by what circumstances happen to you and around you - so much as your life is lived through the filter of your perception of the circumstances that happen to you and around you.
Clearing "Blockages" (What I do)
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I know this part can sound abstract and hard to fully understand at first. But if you can think of your mind in terms of not only an information highway, but also an energy highway, it makes it a bit easier to understand. As long as messages - and thoughts and energy and instructions - can travel freely between your brain and body, everything operates how it was designed to operate.
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As each of us goes through life, we are faced with things that happen to us - and things that happen around us. These things can cause blockages along the highway between our brains and our bodies. Sometimes these blockages are caused by physical traumas that occur, sometimes they are caused by emotional traumas that occur - and sometimes they aren't caused by anything significant at all! Just the "wear and tear" of living life as a human being.
Translation? Everything you see around you (including yourself) that we perceive as permanent and a solid, at its most basic level (an atom), is actually 99.99999+% SPACE - plus moving energy (electrons) within that space.
I know it all seems a bit abstract to think that we are made of space and energy, but I know you were tracking all the way until we got to the atoms. The only new information is what atoms, themselves are made of. And it turns out they are mostly made of empty space and electrons moving within that empty space (which causes energy).
In addition, Modern Medicine takes a mechanical approach to your physical body, as if it were a device or a machine. Every doctor specializes in one part of your body. Much like a mechanic with a car, they examine, treat, and even replace parts of your body as if each operates independently of the other.
We know these medical practices do not work. How? Take a look around you. About 60% of the world’s population is dealing with chronic pain and disease. Everyone we know is sick and their doctors don’t seem to know what is wrong, what is causing the illness, or how to cure it. And would you believe it - even though these medical practices continue today and are touted as “cutting edge”, they’ve actually been outdated since 1925!
Let’s Explore this a bit: Imagine you are having a really bad day. Everything seems to be going wrong. You’re frustrated, agitated, and exasperated. And then a perfect stranger smiles big at you as they hold the door? Did you feel your body and mind lighten just a little bit? Did you take a moment to slow down, take a deep breath and smile back?
Have you ever walked into a room and just felt like something was off or something was wrong? Maybe you picked up the phone and the way the person on the other end said your name, you knew something bad had happened. Did you immediately get a knot in your stomach or did your hands get clammy?
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Philippians 4:8
So, with that in mind, think back to the last time you went to your doctor and they asked you what you’ve been thinking on lately. When did they ask what thoughts were dominating your time. If they were positive or negative - and how they might be influencing your body. My guess is that has never happened.
The Mind-Body Approach is really that simple. We all intuitively know that our thoughts effect us, but we haven't really known how much until now. This is what is so cutting-edge about the advancements in neuroscience over the last decade or two. We are learning that your mind's perception of what is happening all around you has more of an effect on your life than what is actually
happening around you. We are learning that this is why it is so important to control your thoughts.
Another very helpful way to think of the synapses in the brain is as valves, like the one pictured here. Each of these "valves" must be able to open and shut fully. Sometimes they get blocked "open" or get blocked "closed". They can even get blocked partially open or partially closed. This results in some part of your physical body or your mind being unable to operate as it is intended.
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Using a scientific method developed by neuroscientists, I touch various points along the meridians (or circuits) of your body, which allows me to see which areas are clear and functioning with ease, and which areas are restricted or blocked.
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I then "clear" or "balance" these areas, allowing the brain and body to communicate freely again.
This method is safe. It is effective. It requires no medication. In fact, you do not even have to know where the blockages are. Your body was made so incredibly that by simply "reading" the pressure points along your body's natural meridians will tell us where they are and how we can clear them.
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I was blown away by how this method so easily restored the communication between my son's brain and his body after a devastating concussion, returning him to "normal" after we were told that he may never regain what he had lost. This method has forever changed my life and that of my family - and I never tire of seeing how it changes the lives of my clients.
I can't wait to see what it does for you too!
Live well!!
