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Health at Your Fingertips - 35th Annual Touch for Health Kinesiology Association Conference

Touch for Health Kinesiology Association7121 New Light TrailChapel Hill, NC 27516

Welcome to Health at Your Fingertips 2010

On behalf of the TFH Kinesiology Association, the TFHKA Board of Directors, and our many Angels andVolunteers, I would like to welcome our members, distinguished speakers and vendors, students and interestednewbie's to a historic gathering together and an enriching 4 days of nutrition for body, Mind, Heart & Soul. Mayyou enjoy it in good health!

We are celebrating 20 years of the Touch For Health Kinesiology Association, and likewise 20 years of theInternational Kinesiology College. At the same time, we mark the 35th consecutive Touch for Health conferenceheld in the United States. The TFH Foundation and the TFHKA have always held international gatherings,sharing good will and different viewpoints with old friends, colleagues in TFH and Energy Kinesiology, as wellas leaders from Applied Kinesiology and any number of other walks of life and areas of expertise.

We have been a launching pad for many of the "K's" and have had some influence, whether clearly recognized, orsubtly felt, on the birth and growth ofthe emerging profession of Energy Kinesiology, the expanding ideas andrecognition of Energy Medicine, and yes, even the recent explosive growth of the field of Energy Psychology.Today we are all the beneficiaries of this cycle. Today we can see the seeds that were planted 20 and 35 years agohave borne fruit that now nourishes us anew with a tenfold return on efforts to share this work in homes,classrooms and clinics throughout the country ... and the world!

This year we have chosen the theme "Health at Your Fingertips" which echoes the theme at one of the lastconferences held under the TFH Foundation (Health at Our Fingertips 1989.) In 1990 the TFH Foundation closedand the IKC and TFHKA were formed. It is amazing to realize that the TFHKA and IKC have already been inexistence 20 years! (Five years longer than the TFH Foundation was in operation next door to the ThieChiropractic Clinic). For me it's fitting that we might return to a familiar theme as we grow into another stage inthe formation of this energy field we are all a part of.

I happened to find in my library a copy of the 1989 Conference Journal, and I was fascinated to see similarthemes that are reiterated in 2010, as their application is validated not only in repeating the experience in so manymore countries, in new contexts and new areas of expertise, but also now with more scholarly literature published,with more academic/scientific insights, and at long last an initial evidence base that will be a catalyst for anotherlO-fold or greater growth of this work.

In 1989 we had about 9 TFH Instructor Trainers and acti ve Faculty in 10 or so countries. Many of the K's thatare well-known today had already begun to grow and spread throughout the world. Today we have more than 20International TFH Faculty, and additional instructor trainers who are creating TFH instructors in over 60 countriesaround the world! We have represented in our program today, members of the original TFH Foundation Board ofTrustees, (Sheldon Deal and Warren Jacobs) as well as Faculty member Norma Harnack, whose husband RichardHarnack was US Faculty together with John Thie and John Maguire in 1989. And we have leaders from EnergyMedicine, Educational Kinesiology, Energy Psychology and Energy Kinesiology. This is a moment to take abreath and appreciate the presence of early pioneers, leaders of today' s more robust organizations and trainingprograms, and undoubtedly some of the leaders and innovators of tomorrow!

This conference also marks a returning to what I hope will be more stability for our office and Board of Directors.We have 2 outgoing members, Joe Bassett and Richard Hurtado, who I thank for their service through challengingtimes, together with VP Karen Beleck who is volunteering to continue another 3 years on the board, as well as

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appointees Mary Jo Bulbrook, a leader in Healing Touch and Energy Medicine, who has joined the board tonourish some of her "roots" and Melodie Wakefield who brings some much needed financial perspective to theequation.

As many of you know, we have moved the office and changed our management twice in the last 2 years, whichhas meant our board members have been working overtime over an extended period to keep continuity in ourprograms while researching and trying a variety of strategies and logistics. LaITYand Arlene Green have workedfar above and beyond the call of duty, first helping to shepherd the association to successful function at EurichManagement in Michigan, and then when that was clearly not working, to physically move the office to NorthCarolina and donate time and space at their facilities in North Carolina to get our logistics and operations back ontrack, while at the same time heading up the Conference Committee and putting together this year's excitingprogram! Earl and Gail Cook (our eTouch creators, database experts, and TFH Angels extraordinaire) will bemissed at the conference this year, but their support and hard work will be felt in so many obvious and subtleways.

I think we are coming to a place where our systems are leaner, clearer, more effective, and set up for easiercontinuity for future administration and boards. I have one year left in my term, and with the support of thisoutstanding board, and our passionate membership, I believe we will be on solid footing when we meet again in2011, allowing us to turn our attention and energies from filing systems and online shopping carts to the realbusiness of the TFHKA- creating the new vision for the next 35 years of this energy work, and getting the wordout more than ever!

As we continue to look for new areas and new methods to develop the work and do our due diligence ofmarketing, we needn't forget about the tried and true. We have again on the program this year, a long-timesupporter, Jerry Teplitz, to help us renew our skills in creating high energy promotional materials. Rev. AlicjaAratyn is also on hand to offer us new insights into the vibrations of the human energy field.

We have had the great honor over the years of being a springboard for the innovators and leaders in the field, andfrequently have the leadership return to their "family roots" to share new insights and tales of opening newfrontiers, in the areas of the work itself, and across new geographies in the world. We are delighted to have thecurrent Chairperson of Brain Gym ® International, Bonnie Hershey to remind or reveal to us some of thecommonality of TFH and Brain Gym/ Educational Kinesiology, and share with us some of the fascinatingdimensions of the work of pioneers Paul and Gail Dennison.

Debra Greene returns to our conference, energized by her recent publication of Endless Energy and hercontribution to Goddess Shift. She will present a step-by-step procedure (Inner Clarity) for going behind thescenes to get to the core of energy imbalances, providing us another powerful opportunity for self-discovery,transformation, and lasting change.

Richard Duree, was at the Foundation in the early days of the grassroots explosion of Touch for Health around thecountry and then around the world. This year he returns to the fold and will share with us some of the cuttingedge science to explain how the 40-60 billion cells in your body somehow "all know what to do" and why ourwork in kinesiology is so effective.

One of our newest, but nonetheless hardworking and essential board members, Brian Esty, has stepped up to giveus some insights into the parallels of the TFH philosophy and NLP. He points out that John and Carrie Thie werestrongly influenced by Virginia Satir, who also influenced NLP, and shares some key concepts that areimmediately applicable in making our balances, not just about "fixing what's wrong," but PaJt of an enrichingjourney of transformation and everyday miracles.

Wherever I go in the world of kinesiology, I constantly meet people who remind me that our simple Emotional

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Health at Your Fingertips - as" Annual Touch for Health Kinesiology Association Conference

Stress Release technique is not to be underestimated. It may be the simplest, easiest technique in TFH, but itmight also be the most powerful. John Thie used to say that if the only tools he had were goal-setting, muscle-testing and ESR, he could probably get almost all the same results he did with Chiropractic, Applied Kinesiologyand TFH. One of the dreams of TFH is to share such simple techniques to "deactivate the stress response" aswidely as possible around the world.

In 1989, Marge Murray shared "emotional tapping" adapted from Roger Callahan's "Phobia Tapping." In 2010,Gary Craig's Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also based on Callahan's tapping, has spread worldwide toamazing success- in terms of being known, and in terms of so many people receiving significant help and relief.Greg Nicosia, president of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, points out that today, EFT isprobably the most widely used, and is the preferred technique to be studied in most research. In fact, there is nowa significant evidence base of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) - the current "gold standard" of researchevidence. Energy Psychology has reached the minimum threshold to be considered "real." This is importantnews. Though John Thie consistently called for the kind of evidence base that is being generated in the field ofEnergy Psychology, both in Applied Kinesiology and in Energy Kinesiology, he was also fond of saying TLC ismore important than the RTC!

As Greg Nicosia so poignantly points out, we persist in this work because we already know it works, we haveexperienced it working everyday miracles, AND we do need this research that is happening in AK and isexploding in ACEP, to allow it to be available to more people, AND you can give the patient the "right medicine"but it may not really be effective if, "he doesn't know you caJ·e."

Fred Gallo literally "wrote the book" on Energy Psychology, and will offer us some of his fascinating insightsinto some of the mechanisms behind trauma, and the potential for immediate, lasting relief.

Johanna Keller-de-Wild comes all the way from Switzerland to share a new perspective on the Five Elements, anda new way to relate to our family, friends, students or clients. John Holodnak has come all the way from Australiato share with us a different approach to the diagram of holistic health- not the triangle, but the SQUARE, withvaluable notes on nutrition and herbs. And Warren Jacobs comes out of retirement to remind us again of theimportance of Emotions and Active Listening, with his expert style of interviewing, and the final tonic note ofmany a good balance- THE HUG.

These are exciting times as we reach a new tipping point in the paradigm shift from disease treatment back toEnergy Balancing. A month ago, Mary Jo Bulbrook introduced us to some of her friends practicing HealingTouch at the Scripps Institute in San Diego, California (a Center of Excellence in Integrative Medicine, in thecompany of Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Duke, Tufts, U. of Wisconsin, U. of Maryland and U. of Arizona). I waseven lucky enough to receive a very soothing and stress-relieving demonstration session. With over 2000 Nursespracticing Healing Touch in cutting edge hospitals around the country, energy work is increasingly becoming akey feature of cutting edge Integrative Medicine, and the patients are asking for it!

The cycle begins again today. We can change this world, one person at a time ... AND the hundredth monkeymay soon be holding his ESR points or tapping his EFT spots. Then ALL of us will truly have "Health at Ourfingertips." I hope you will leave here with new inspiration, and an expanded vision of TFH and energy work inthe world, and your own life. I hope you go home with some new applications or perspectives for your practice,whether it is with your family or your hospital patients. And be sure to get about 15 hugs per day, recharge yourbody, mind and spirit, and take your new connections with you to nourish your vitality, and enjoy YOUR life tothe fullest.

In Touch,Matthew Thie,President, TFHKA, 2010

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Table of Contents

Perspectives on Biological Communication by Richard Duree 10

What's the Buzz about Brain Gym@? by Bonnie Hershey M.Ed 22

Energy (Not) Tapping for Trauma by Fred P. Gallo, Ph.D 27

Blending Western Medicine with Touch for Health and Applied Kinesiology by Warren Jacobs 34

Neuro-Linguistic Programming Applied to a Touch for Health Balance by Brian Esty 35

The Balance Process- Going Deep, Facilitating Change by Caren Truske, M.S. Ed 39

Advanced Strategies in Balancing the Central Power Current by Mary Jo Bulbrook .43

The Use of Magnets in the AK Practice by Sheldon C. Deal, D.C., N.M.D., DIBAK 47

The Physiology and Neurology of Precision Muscle Monitoring by Adam H. Lehman, En. K. 50

Applications Using the Equilibrium of Health Square by John Holodnak.. 60

Create High Energy Marketing and PR Pieces by Jerry Teplit; 66

Sacred Geometry of the Human Body by Rev. Alicja Aratyn, M. Eng 68

The Five Elements to Success in Sharing Touch for Health by Arlene Green 71

The 4 Archetypes in the 5 Elements by Johanna Keller-de- Wild 76

What's What in Energy Psychology: Making the Path by Walking It by Gregory J. Nicosia, Ph.D 80

Balancing to the Core with the Inner Clarity (IC) Four Bodies Protocol by Debra Greene, Ph.D 86

The Influence of the 14 Muscle Sequential Balance on Stroke Outcomes and Neuroplasticity by Norma Harnack 92

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Schedule of SpeakersThursday, July 15

WelcomeMathew Thie

Perspectives on Biological CommunicationRichard Duree

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Perspectives on Biological CommunicationBy Richard Duree

Abstract:

State dependent memory or state-specific learningrecords not simply a report of actual events.Included in the memory are the emotions, feelings,related memories and connected muscular patternsand reflexes experienced while experiencing anevent. Classical biochemical cellulm' communicationis but one type of epigenetic (over genetic) influenceon cellular activities such as growth anddifferentiation. New research exposes the role ofintegrins and connective tissue as informationpathways for cellular communications that aresimultaneously mechanical, vibrational oroscillatory, magnetic, energetic, and electronic. Thisinformational network connects every cell in thebody.

Davis-Duree reflexes will be used to alter statedependent stress stored in the enteric area, or thesecond brain in the gut.

Years ago, researchers discovered that the emotionalstate we moein when learning takes place becomesan integral part of that learning. We call this type ofmemory state dependent memory or state-specificlearning. Candace Pert's discovery of the "moleculesof emotion" shows how all informational substance(ligands) related function, such as cellularcommunication and control, immune systemfunction including allergic responses andinflammation, occurs as a sophisticated memorysystem handled primarily by our emotional brain,via the hypothalamatic limbic connections.

Due to these hypothalamatic limbic (emotionalbrain) connections a positive or negative emotionalreaction or "state" triggers a corresponding flood ofstate specific informational substances. Becauselearning and memory are emotional-cognitivefunctions, the neural pattern, imprint, script, or"structure of knowledge" (to use Jean Piaget's term)of a specific learning event includes in its contentthe memory patterns of those emotionalinformational substances prominent in the body atthe time of that learning.

Thus the emotions, feelings, related memories andconnected muscular patterns and reflexive reactionsexperienced while learning something becomes partof the learned biopattern. When we exercise thatlearning in the form of some type of internal orexternal perception (looks, smells, sounds, tastes,feels like), even years later, the same learnedbiopattern will activate, informational substanceswill be released on cue, for they are as much a partof the neural/glial information pattern as isconscious intellect and our body (structure andphysiological responses), brain (emotional andpsycho/physiological responses), and heart(feelings/physiological) respond accordingly.

The whole body is a learning and memory system,an organism. It is important to remember that whenwe are discussing biological subsystems that we aredealing with a living biosystem where all the partsare interconnected and interactive.

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"I THINK therefore I am," said Descartes. He couldhave also stated: "I act, therefore I think."

Our concept that the brain was the center of mindhas long been considered central to what makes ushuman. Now research suggests that our bodies andtheir relationship with the environment govern evenour most abstract thoughts.

"Advocates of traditional accounts of cognitionwould be surprised," says Tobias Loetscher at theUniversity of Melbourne in Parkville, Australia.

"They generally consider human reasoning toinvolve abstract cognitive processes devoid of anyconnection to body or space."

Until recently, the assumption has been that ourbodies contribute only to om most basic interactionswith the environment, namely sensory and motorprocesses. The new results suggest that our bodiesare also exploited to produce abstract thought, andthat even seemingly inconsequential activities havethe power to influence our thinking. Traditionalbeliefs regarding cognition view human reasoning asa series of abstract processes occurring in the brainthat are devoid of connection to one's body or theexternal environment. This view has beenincreasingly challenged recently in the scientificcommunity. Dr. Loetscher suggests that even ourmost abstract thoughts do not take place in ourbrains alone. Our most abstract thoughts aregoverned instead by our bodies and the relationshipbetween our bodies and the world around us. In thismore recent view, the mind and body work together,neither having primacy over the other. In fact theyare simply parts of a totally integrated biosystem.

In the work I have been involved in for the past 35years I have begun to explore our encultured self andthe structures of our personal life metaphor and theiraffects on our health and wellbeing, The veryfoundation and framework of our world view, self-image, mind set, faith, and belief are culturally andexperientially determined. In order to learn how torescript patterns in our own lives, and use thisawareness to assist others in rescripting theirs, wehave become aware of how many of these patternsget embodied. How did I learn that this particularway of experiencing a scene in life that causes stressor pain? Who and what caused a particular scene to

be written into the script of my life? The firstawareness comes from learning that we are indeeddealing with patterns. Some patterns, or scripts, wereinherited from our genetic past, the form and shapeof our bodies and the way in which we process manyforms of reflex and sensory awareness. Other plotdevelopments are written into the script in responseto our unique interpretation of the environmentalexperiences we have had from conception forward.The feedback from the internal and externalresponses to these environmental signals alters howwe grow and what we connect together.

Once we become aware that our experience of life isa direct result of our interpretation of sensory inputswe can begin to cleanly observe conscious orsubconscious responses and reactions to theperception of your (or your client's) personal reality:how we structure om interface with internal andexternal environmental signals and om uniqueassemblage of genetics (biology), sensoryimpressions (somatic reflexive memory) and thoughtstructures (conscious and subconscious adaptivemetaphors) are some of the base factors in ourability to manage stress, change and the cumulativeeffects of unmanaged stress on our biology.

That being said and science and biology being whatthey are what we are dealing with are people andpeople are all about relationships and story.Relationships m'e based upon communication. Fromthe relationship between fields, cells, self, others andthe environment, clear and balanced communicationis essential to the process of health and well being.

Arguably the most important connectionbetween cells lies in the different ways that theyexchange information with one another. The precisepattern of our organs, in fact of our whole body andits dynamic functioning is possible only becausecells communicate and cooperate. It is vital for cellsto understand how to work together in a preciselycoordinated manner. The cells must communicate toknow when to divide, when to repair themselves,when to make molecules, when to move, and whento die.

So one way cells in different parts of the bodycommunicate with one another is by using theirsense of molecular "smell" as molecules that movefrom cell to cell, allow cells to coordinate theiractions by sending informational substances back

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and forth. For instance, in a simple form of cell tocell communication, one cell will emit a signal, inthis case a molecule or informational substance. Thismodule will stimulate the outer covering ormembranes receptor of the cell. This stimulation tothe outer membrane will set up a chain reaction ofmolecular events that travels from the outermembrane all the way in many cases to the nucleusof the cell.

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Neuron to Neuron Neuron to Blood Intra & ExtracellularFast LymphaHc

MindiBody System Integra,on

There is another basic structure underlying theconnection between cells and their myriadmanifestations, organs, muscles, bone, bloodvessels, nerve, bioenergy systems and skin surfacesthat we kinesiologists work with daily. In order tounderstand how these different systems getconnected we have to look all the way back for amoment of fertilization. At the moment offertilization, major changes happen inside the egg,the genetic material of the sperm and egg fuses andthe egg becomes a complete cell. The cell thenbegins to divide, from this moment on thedeveloping fetus experiences everything the motheringests and every feeling, thought, and movementthat she makes, these environment related epigenetic(over genetic) influences have a direct effect on thedevelopment of the fetus including braindevelopment.

Over about five days, the single cell body dividesfour times, to produce a ball of 16 cells. This ball ofcells, known as a blastocyst and looks like a fluidfilled balloon. It is at this phase when the embryoimplants into the mother's uterus. Around thesecond week after conception, the blastocyst hasembedded itself with one part of the ball embeddedin the side of the uterus. What happens next is thesame for all animals whether fish, reptiles, ormammals. All organs can be traced to one of threelayers of tissue in the developing embryo. Thesethree layers become known as the germ layers.Significantly the three layers form the same structureand every species. Every heart of every speciesoriginates form from the same layer. Another layer

gave raised every brain of every animal. No matterhow different species look as adults, as tiny embryosthey all go through the same stages of development.

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The names of these three layers are derived fromtheir position: the outer layer is called ectoderm, theinterlayer endoderm, in the middle layer of themesoderm. Ectoderm forms much of the outer partof the body (the skin) and the nervous system.Endoderm, the inside layer forms many of the innerstructures of the body, including our digestive tractand numerous plans associated with it. The middlelayer, the mesoderm, forms tissue in between theguts and skin including much of our skeleton andarm muscles. Whether the body belongs to a salmon,dog, chicken, frog or a mouse all its organs areformed by endoderm, ectoderm, and mesoderm.

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From the endoderm:lungs,glands,inner liningafgut

From the ectoderm:skin (ells, braln cells.hair, tooth enamel, nails

From the mesoderm:skeletal muscle.organs,red blood cells

As mentioned previously development themammalian embryo has three distinct layers:ectoderm (external layer), endoderm (internal layer)and in between those two layers the middle layer ormesoderm.

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Parenchyma

The parenchyma are the functional parts of an organin the body. This is in contrast to the stroma, whichrefers to the structural tissue of organs, namely, theconnective tissues. The parenchyma, of most organsis of ectodermal (brain, skin) or endodermal origin(lungs, gastrointestinal tract, liver, pancreas). Theparenchyma of a few organs (spleen, kidneys, heart)is of mesodermal origin.

Examples include:

Organ Parenchymakidney nephronlungs alveoli, respiratory bronchiole,

alveolar duct and terminalbronchiole

spleen white pulp and red pulpbrain neuron, glialiver hepatocyteheart myocyteThe stroma of all organs (all parts of the organ thatare not organ specific in function) is of mesodermalorigin is the same substance that is the supportingframework for every cell in the body which typicallyconsists of connective tissue made from collagen.

Peter Gascoyne and Ron Pethig, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

In 1981 a collaboration with Peter Gascoyne andRon Pethig, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi demonstrated thatthe protein, collagen, acts as semiconductor inbiological systems where water is also present.Collagen is the most abundant protein in the worldand is the main component of a tissue that hasalways fascinated me: the connective tissue. This is

the stroma material that forms the bones, ligaments,tendons, cartilage and the coverings of the bones andmuscles known as fascia. The fascia forms thelargest system in the body as it is the system thattouches all of the other cells and systems. It can bedescribed as the construction and communicationfabric of the animal body. Alfred Pischinger,Hartmut Heine and their colleagues in Germanyreferred to this living matrix as the "groundregulation system" and the key to health and disease.To illustrate one aspect of this body wideinformation system we can look at a publication byHelene m. Langevin and Jason Yandow titledRelationship of Acupuncture Points and Meridiansto Connective Tissue Planes they hypothesize thatthe network of acupuncture points (AP) andmeridians can be viewed as a representation of thenetwork formed by connective tissue. They proposethat the anatomical relationship of acupuncturepoints and meridians to connective tissue planes isrelevant to acupuncture's mechanism of action andsuggests a potentially important integrative role forconnective tissue. Over 80% of classicalacupuncture points fall on facial cleavage lines (AP).These areas are more conductive than control points(OCP).

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The entire connective tissue living matrix issimultaneously a mechanical, vibrational oroscillatory, magnetic, energetic, electronic, andinformational network. We now know that thecellular matrix is connected, across the cell surface,with the connective tissue system or extracellularmatrix. Recently a whole class of cellular 'trans-membrane' linking molecules, or 'integrins,' hasbeen discovered.

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As was stated earlier YOU started life as a singlecell. Now you are made up of somewhere between40-60 trillion of these individuals. Every day billionsof these cells die and are replaced. And if you hurtyourself, billions more cells spring up to repairbroken blood vessels and make new skin, muscle oreven bone. Even more amazing than the staggeringnumber of cells, though, is the fact that, by andlarge, they all know what to do - whether to becomeskin or bone and so on. The question has been, how?

Until recently, the focus was all on "smell": that is,on how cells respond to chemical signals such asneurotransmitters, growth factors and other ligands(informational substances) bonding with the cellsurface and their epigenetic affects. Biologiststhought of cells as robotic automatons that blindlyfollowed the orders they were given by thisbiochemical information. In recent years, however, ithas started to become clear that the sense of touch isanother epigenetic factor and is vital as well,allowing cells to work out for themselves where theyare and what they should be doing by reading thestresses, tensions and textures around them.

What is emerging is a far more dynamic picture ofgrowth and development, with a great deal ofinterplay between cells, genes, our body's internaland external environments plus our interpretation ofthese sensory inputs.

While it was clear that physical forces do playa role- for example, astronauts living in zero gravity sufferbone loss - until recently there was no way tomeasure and experiment with the tiny forcesexperienced by individual cells. Only in the past fewyears, as equipment like atomic force microscopeshas become more common, have biologists,physicists and tissue engineers begun to get to gripswith how forces shape cells' behavior.

"What's surprising is not that there are tactiledifferences between one tissue and another," saysDischer. After all, doctors rely on such differencesevery time they palpate your abdomen. "What'ssurprising is that cells feel that difference."

The details of how they do this are now emerging,most cells other than blood cells, parenchyma, livewithin the fibrous extracellular matrix or stromaconsisting of connective tissue made from collagen.

Each cell is linked to this matrix by proteins in itsmembrane called integrins, and the cell's internalprotein skeleton is constantly tugging on theseintegrins to create a taut, tuned whole. "There'sisometric tension that you don't see," says Ingber.This is another of the areas in which much ofkinesiology operates. In practice, this meanschanges in external tension - such as differences inthe tone of muscles, stiffness of the matrix, or theeveryday stresses and strains of normal musclemovement - can be transmitted into the cell andultimately to the nucleus, where they can direct thecell's eventual fate. Even relatively mild stressesmake a big difference. Even small differences inforces can influence development.

To understand how this signaling system works weneed to be aware of the role of these integrins - tinyprojections emerging from each cell, that act likemechanical sensors, mini-transmitters and receivers.The "integrins" are protein molecules that traversethe cell membrane and they form a direct physicalconnection between the extracellular matrixincluding connective tissue and the cellscytoskeleton, intracellular and nuclear matrices.Signals from the cells are transmitted to theconnective tissue and from the connective tissue tothe cells. This mechanism brings informationinstantaneously from the senses, mind (consciousand subconscious), meridians and all other bodysystems into each cell of your body.

In 1969 Mark Bretscher at the Medical ResearchCouncil Laboratory of Molecular Biologydiscovered that one of the proteins in the membraneof red blood cells extends across the cell surface,

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essentially connecting the inside of the cell with theoutside. His research on this subject was reported inseveral scientific journals in 197].

Dr. Donald Coffey at Johns Hopkins School ofMedicine studied the nuclear matrix and itsinterconnections with both the DNA and withmolecules that extend across the nuclear envelopeand connect to the cytoskeleton. What this meantwas that we could now trace the continuity inwardfrom the extracellular matrix and connective tissues,across the cell surface via the integrins and relatedmolecules first described by Bretscher, throughoutthe cell cytoplasm via the cytoskeleton, and acrossthe nuclear envelope to the genetic material. In 1991,the same group produced an inspiling report on theway signals propagate through this matrix, whichthey termed a tissue tensegrity matrix system.Tensegrity is defined as a continuous tensionalnetwork (called tendons) supported by adiscontinuous set of compressive elements (calledstruts).

The 1991 report by Pienta and Coffey gave preciselanguage and experimental validation to the transferof energy and information through the living matrix:

Cells and intracellular elements are capable ofvibrating in a dynamic manner with complexharmonics, the frequency of which can now bemeasured and analyzed in a quantitative manner ...atissue-tensegrity matrix system .. .is poised to couplethe biological oscillations of the cell from theperipheral membrane to the DNA. ..[and in the otherdirection]. [Words in brackets added by the author]

The new research on epigenetics is teaching us thatthe way we think about ourselves and even thewords we use and the words used by the peoplearound us can cause changes at the level of our DNAmolecules. It is said that the DNA in every cell inyour body is listening to every word you say and

hear. From the ideas expressed above, one can seethat the vibratory living matrix probably plays a keyrole in delivering the vibrations of our words andthoughts to every DNA molecule in our bodies.

Donald Ingber

Donald Ingber's work has involved showing howtissue, cellular, and nuclear architecture can bedescribed as tensegrity systems.

Tensegrity also accounts for the fact that inflexibilityor shortening in one tissue influences structure andmovement in other parts. While a kinesiologist mayfocus on improving muscle balance, flexibilityand/or mobility of a particular part of the body, theeffects can and do, spread to other areas. This is, inpart, due to the tensional integrity of the system, butit is also due to the fact that the tensional system is avibratory continuum. This can be demonstrated witha tensegrity model by plucking one of the tendons.This will cause the entire network to vibrate.

Since the living tensegrity network is simultaneouslya mechanical and a vibratory continuum, restrictionsin one part have both structural and energeticconsequences for the entire organism. Structuralintegrity, vibratory integrity, and energetic orinformational integrity go hand in hand. One cannotinfluence the structural system as we do askinesiologists without influencing theenergetic/system, and vice versa.

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We can use the downstream effects of themechanical signal generated by physicalmanipulation to modulate signal transduction to andwithin the cell. Modification of connective tissuesstresses and tensions therefore may have importantbiomechanical, vasomotor and neuromodulatoryeffects as observed with Chapman (neurolymphatic),Bennett (neurovascular), and Davis-Duree reflexes(N.E.P.). We will now work with Davis-Dureeenteric related reflexes used to help change statedependent stress reactions in the gut area related toperception.

Answer these questions before proceeding tofollowing pages.

3 Questions

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N.E.P. Enteric Release Technique

Have you ever experienced a Gut Feeling? Whohasn't? Without a doubt if you are alive you guttalks to you from time to time. When there isconflict between the brain in the head and the brainin the gut, (enteric nervous system) the gut usuallywins. When clients come in with a wide range ofsymptoms from depressed states, fear, bowel issues,anxiety, and just strange feelings or moods that theyattribute to the gut area, start the N.E.P. entericrelease technique.

1. Go to the area around the navel and checkby a shock tap and test...

2. If you get an indicator change start testingslowly around the navel spiraling out in thedirection of the illustration on the next page.

3. When you get an indicator weakness pressinto the area and hold the area on top of theupper trapezius muscle.

4. Hold the two points and dialogue with theclient about the issue until the pulse comesup in the ganglion, the area below your handsoftens, or the client tests that you have heldthe point long enough.

5. Continue this process until there are no morereactive points in the abdominal area on thatissue.

6. Go to the area around the navel and checkby a shock tap and test.

7. If you get an indicator change start testingslowly around the navel spiraling out in thedirection of the illustration on the next page.

8. When you get an indicator weakness pressinto the area and hold the area on top of theupper trapezius muscle.

9. Hold the two points and dialogue with theclient about the issue until the pulse comesup in the ganglion, the area below your handsoftens, or the client tests that you have heldthe point long enough.

10. Continue this process until there are no morereactive points in the abdominal area on thatrssue

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Richard Duree

Is an internationally known kinesiologist (MasterKinesiologist, !ASK) educator, author, lecturer andcounselor, he served for six years as an executiveboard member and the Research Director for theInternational Association of SpecializedKinesiologists (!ASK) and is currently serving onthe Advisory Board. He is a Trustee NeuroenergeticPsychology Institute and co-creator of theNeuroenergetic Psychology System, N.E.P.,Structural Kinesiology, Phased Reflex System andthe Advanced Professional Practitioner Programswith Andrew Verity, N.D. During his 35 years in thefield of specialized kinesiology Richard has alsoserved as the head of Research and Development forDr. John Thie, creator of the Touch for HealthProgram. He acted as an Instructor Trainer for theTouch for Health Foundation with Shanti Duree andco-creator of the One Brain System Gordon Stokes.Richard also worked for many years with Olympicand other world-class professional athletes under thedirection of Dr. Leroy PelTYof the InternationalSports Medicine Institute, Los Angeles. At theRenaissance Clinic in Nassau, Bahamas, heresearched the effects of muscle balancing on stressand aging under the direction of Dr. Ivan Popov,M.D. He has published numerous papers inkinesiology journals worldwide and contributed tonumerous books on the subject including Touch forHealth 2nd edition by Dr. John Thie, Staying Youngby Dr. Ivan Popov, M.D. and Energy Medicine byDonna Eden and David Feinstein. Along with hispartner Shanti he teaches various kinesiologicalprograms at professional schools of natural healingworldwide. When not on the seminar circuit Richardmaintains private practices in Santa BarbaraCalifornia and Ashland Oregon USA.

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Schedule of SpeakersFriday, July 16

What's the Buzz about Brain Gym@?Bonnie Hershey, M.Ed.

Energy (Not) Tappingfor TraumaFred P. Gallo, Ph.D

Blending Western Medicine withTouch for Health and Applied Kinesiology

Wan-en Jacobs

Neuro-Linguistic Programming applied toa Touch for Health Balance

Brian Esty

The Balance ProcessCaren Truske, M.S.Ed.

Advanced Strategies in Balancing the Central Power CurrentMary Jo Bulbrook

The Use of Magnets in the AK PracticeDr. Sheldon Deal, D.C., N.M.D., DIBAK

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What's the Buzz about Brain Gym"?Bonnie Hershey, M.Ed., Brain Gym" International, Board Chair

Some of you may have yet to experience the BrainGym" program, even though both Touch for Healthand Brain Gym branch from the same kinesiologytree, with George Goodheart's Applied Kinesiologyat the base. I find it fascinating and wonderful tonote the commonalities and close ties of the twomodalities.

Brain Gym founders, Paul Dennison, Ph.D. and GailDennison, were both trained in Touch for Health. In1979, Paul took the Touch for Health courses at theTFH Foundation in Pasadena where he met thefounder John Thie. While working with students as areading teacher in his Valley Remedial GroupLearning Centers in California, Paul made theintuitive leap to use muscle testing as a teaching andanchoring tool. Following his Touch for Healthcertification course, Paul wrote a letter to himselfstating his goal of writing a book and starting Edu-Kinesthetics, a new method of kinesiology. Edu-Kinesthetics evolved into Educational Kinesiologywhen established as a non-profit foundation in ] 987and is currently doing business as Brain Gym'"International.

In 198], Paul Dennison wrote his ground-breakingbook Switching On, documenting his success inusing muscle testing and other simple movementsfor people with dyslexia. Paul's own learningchallenges were the driving force in his explorationof creating ways to help others. As an educator, hedrew from what he had learned in Touch for Health,vision training, Jin Shin Jitsu as well as from histraining as a marathon runner when creating aneducational branch to the kinesiology tree begun byGeorge Goodheart. Gail's input based on hermovement, dance, Touch for Health and visiontraining background has contributed to the on-goinggrowth of the Brain Gym curriculum.

Brain Gym was the first in its field to exploreintentional movements and their relationship todevelopmental physical skills, cognition, andbehavior. Each movement is, in the way that it'sused, unique to Brain Gym.

Paul intuitively used the supraspinatus, pectoralismajor clavicular and latissimus dorsi muscles fromTouch for Health prior to making the connection tothe body dimensions-side to side, top and bottom,front and back. He soon discovered that theseconnections are perfect representatives for the threedimensions, later to be known in Brain Gym as theLaterality, Centering and Focus Dimensions.

The Three Dimensions:

We naturally move in a coordinated fashion withinthe three dimensions of laterality (side to side),centering (top to bottom) and focus (front to back).There are times when we may be feeling "off', suchas when we are spinning our wheels, feeling stuck,overwhelmed or stressed. Looking at the dimensionsmay provide insight into what could use supportallowing one to reclaim balance along with the joyof learning.

We naturally dance between feeling like "we've gotit", "we're getting it" and "huh?" (where stressorsare evident). When we slow down and notice inwhich of these states we are currently operating, wecan evaluate how the current state is serving us andwhether support would be useful in shifting to amore efficient learning/performance state. We canthen choose/not choose to do activities (from BrainGym, TFH or many other modalities), which maymove us into feeling more integrated.We can get a better idea of these learning states bylooking the Three Dimensions of the Brain Gymprogram.Let's begin with the Laterality Dimension.

This dimensional midline is right down the center ofthe body, dividing left and light and has to do withthe communication between the right and lefthemispheres of the brain as well as the right and leftsides of the body - the ability to move and think atthe same time.

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processingmidline

communication

This is considered the "processing midline" whereboth eyes, ears, and hands are involved with reading,writing and manipulating objects. There is a flow ofinformation between both hemispheres of the brain,allowing for the creative space of self-expression todevelop, the possibility to see the whole picture andthe details, and the ability to consider a situation incontext.

The supraspinatus muscle represents the LateralityDimension. In Touch for Health this musclerepresents the central meridian associated with thestatement, "I am a success". In Brain Gym-eze wecall the range of motion/muscle check "The Robot"and consider "What are my thoughts?"

The Centering Dimension has a midline aboutwaist/hip level dividing the top and the bottom of thebody.

This dimension is about accessing our emotions. Thequestions of "Am I connected to those around meand the world?" and "Do I belong?" represent theCentering Dimension.

When this dimension is not available the "fight orflight" survival mechanisms may get triggered.Furthermore, the ability to feel grounded andcentered in this world may be impeded when this"stabilization" midline is not engaged. This is wherewe notice our level of connection. Is it safe enoughto reach out and gather in new information on astable base?

In Brain Gym, the pectoralis major clavicularmuscles represents the Centering Dimension. Thenickname for this range of motion is "TheSwimmer"; it has to do the top and bottom of thebody noticeable with the up and down motion of themuscle check. In Touch for Health, the pectoralismajor clavicular is used when checking the stomachmeridian. This meridian has to do with, "I amcontent and blessed" - or not?

The last of the 3 dimensions is the Focus Dimensionwith its midline going up the side of the bodydividing the body's front and back.

participationmidline

comprehension

This dimension is thought of as the "participation"midline. The feeling of wanting to move forwardand engage in the world or hang back and withdrawdescribes this dimension, as well as the ability to seenew possibilities and take purposeful action. Whenthis dimension is not in balance, the survivalmechanism of "freeze" may come into play.

The latissimus dorsi muscle helps demonstrate thisdimension; Brain Gym refers to this range ofmotion/muscle check as "The Penguin". In Touchfor Health, the latissimus dorsi corresponds with thespleen meridian - the "I relax and do my best"

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meridian. It has a lot to do with posture. In BrainGym, we ask the questions: "What am I sensing?","Where am I in space?" and "How am Icomprehending what is happening?"

Both the Centering and Focus Dimensions deal withthe survival system, a vital protective mechanism forthe brain/body system. The challenge is noticingwhen this survival response is truly working tobenefit and protect us versus when the perceiveddanger is a pattern no longer necessary for oursurvival. When all three of these dimensions arebalanced and available we are in the "flow" of life.When we pause and notice that something is out ofsynch, we can choose to pull from our individualizedtoolboxes of wondrous modalities to assist us ingetting back into balance.

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In Touch for Health, one tool available is to "switchon" by doing:

• Up/down switching - rubbing above andbelow the lips while holding the navel and"switching on" the central and governingmeridiansLeft/right switching-rubbing the K27' swhile holding the navel to "switch on" thekidney meridian and assist with eye trackingFrontlback switching-rubbing the tailbonewhile holding the navel to "switch on" thegoverning meridianCentral meridian sweep-sweeping up anddown the central meridian (pubic bone tolower lip) and finishing with 3 sweeps goingup the bodyChecking for hydration

The acronym begins with:• "E" stands for Energetic--Sipping Water.

We are chemical and electrical beings andwe know that water is a conductor ofelectricity. When dehydrated, our electricalsystem is not able to function at it best.Because our brains and bodies arecomprised of a large amount of water,sipping water is supportive.

• "C" stands for Clear - Brain Buttons. Thiselement may look familiar as it involvesrubbing the K27 points while holding thenavel as in the side to side switchingmentioned above, The hands placed belowthe collarbone and on the navel provide aphysical reference of our vertical andhorizontal planes.

• "A" stands for Active-The Cross Crawl.By alternately touching hand to oppositeknee, we are using both sides of the bodywhile crossing the Laterality midline. Thisgross motor movement requires balance andstability while supporting the walking gait.

• "P" stands for Positive-The Hook-ups.This movement has been adapted fromWayne Cook and what was known asCook's Hook-ups. To do Part One of thisactivity, cross your ankles and outstretchyour arms at shoulder level. Turn yourpalms out, thumbs down and cross one handover the other interlacing your fingers. Draw

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In Brain Gym, we do PACE, which is an acronymfor Positive, Active, Clear and Energetic. Much likethe "switching on" activities above, the PACEactivities are preparatory - getting us ready forwhatever is next.

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your arms under and up to rest comfortablyon your chest while touching your tongue tothe roof of your mouth. In Part Two uncrossyour feet and arms touching the thumbs andfingers together while resting the tongue onthe roof of your mouth.

When we are in a "fight or flight" response ourbodies' energy goes to our extremities to run or stayand fight off our dragons. In Part One of Hook-upswe are bringing our extremities to our center forgrounding and balance. According to author andneurophysiologist, Carla Hannaford, "Touching thetongue to the roof of the mouth, stimulates thetongue ligaments which connect to the vestibularsystem, thus activating the RAS [ReticularActivating System] for focus and balance, and alsohelps to release a tongue thrust caused by posturalimbalance." Part Two represents the connection ofthe left and right hemispheres allowing for ease ofneural communication and stability.

*Please note that any of these activities canbe adapted as needed and can be donestanding, sitting or lying down.

As with Touch for Health, reading about Brain Gymis entirely different from experiencing it. The proofis in the experience. With your skills and muscletesting knowledge, Brain Gym makes intuitivesense. You know about movement and participation.And as Paul Dennison says, "Movement is the doorto learning." Come experience the excitement of thesynthesis of these modalities by taking a Brain Gymclass or receiving a balance!

Sources:Dennison, Paul E. and Gail E. Brain Gym® 101:Balance for Daily Life, Ventura, CA: Edu-Kinesthetics, 2007.

Dennison, Paul E. and Gail E. Brain Gym"Teacher's Edition, The Companion Guide to BrainGym": Simple Activities for Whole-Brain Learning,Ventura, CA: Edu-Kinesthetics, 2010.

Dennison, Paul E. Switching On: the Whole BrainAnswer to Dyslexia, Ventura, CA: Edu-Kinesthetics,1981.

Hannaford, Carla. Smart Moves: Why Learning isNot All in Your Head, Salt Lake City; Great RiverBooks, 2005.

Resources:Brain Gym" 101 is the 24-hour entry level course istaught in over 87 countries around the world andtranslated into more than 40 languages. Thefoundation office resides in Ventura, California andcan be found at www.braingym.org. As with Touchfor Health, both modalities are simple, profound andinternational in scope.

Brain Gym® International is committed to theprinciple that moving with intention leads to optimal

learning. Through our outstanding instructors andmovement-based programs,

we empower all ages to reclaim the joy of living.

Moving with intention.

Brain Gym" is the registered trademark of Brain Gym"International, Ventura, CA, www.braingym.org

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Energy (Not) Tapping for Trauma© 2010 Fred P. Gallo, Ph.D

I am no stranger to trauma and I am also sure thatyou are well acquainted with it. For me, traumabegan at a young age. When I was eleven mymother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and shedied of lymphoma at forty-three. I was nearlythirteen. As the cancer spread throughout her body,I watched helplessly as the mother that I loved andknew to be passionate and vibrant, wither away. Shesuffered immensely and I suffered with her. Yousee, in those days, cancer patients mostly remainedat home with insufficient pain medication to the end,which meant intense pain. I saw and heard hersuffering. My father confided in me that she wasgoing to die a year before she did and he told me tokeep it a secret. I recall the strong electricalcharge-the seeming bolt of lightening-surgethrough my body when he told me she was going todie. I remember feeling weak and falling to myknees, like the life had been drained out of me.

Although she wasn't supposed to know, I'm surethat she did. But she kept the secret too; we didn'ttalk about it. As a child, I frequently cried myself tosleep and prayed that she would be cured or at leastwouldn't suffer so much. As a good Catholic boy, Ieven hied to relieve her pain by placing a holyscapular at various locations of her pain. She toldme that it helped, but the pain traveled throughouther body. There was no keeping up with it! I feltdejected, helpless and hopeless, and I was convincedthat my effort was not helping, even though in someways it probably was. I believe that she found somesolace in my attempts and even some pain relief. Ofcourse, my three brothers and my sister weretormented by her death and dying also. I'm sure ourfather's heartbreak was the greatest of all, although Icouldn't understand that at the time.

For me, my mother's illness and death were bothagonizing and numbing. And these traumasinterfered with my relationships for a long time. Ihad complex grief and I tried to cope by not thinkingabout it and sometimes by emotional reliving, butultimately none of this helped. Really I don't thinkit OCCUlTedto me that my grief could be eliminatedby anything other than the passage of time. Yet the

time-passing notion was really a myth in my case.Time was not healing these wounds and I had towait three decades for relief through other means.Amazingly, each resolution took only but a fewminutes and in some ways it was instantaneous.Here I intend to discuss how trauma sufferers can behelped quickly and thoroughly by eliminatingenergetic disruptions or blocks via energypsychology. But first I'd like to touch on anotherpersonal traumatic event that taught me somethingextremely important about how trauma is maintainedand how it can be dissolved.

TRAUMA AND PANICI was twenty-one and I had just graduated fromDuquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,where I majored in the three P's: philosophy,psychology and parties. The day after graduation, Ihad an automobile accident that nearly claimed mylife. It was early June 1968, and I was driving myred Volkswagen Bug to the university student unionto meet some friends, when a car much larger thanmine-I believe it was a Chevy-ripped off mydriver's door, shattered the windshield, and sent mycar spinning. Immediately I flu through the air, inwhat seemed to be slow motion, into some woodensteps that my body broke. I then bounced over abanister, slid along the side walk, and rolled overonto my face before coming to an abrupt halt.Immediately I tried to get up, and at that moment Icould feel that I was bleeding internally. I lay downagain, rolled over and looked up at the sky, terrifiedthat I was going to die. I shouted, "No! I'm notgoing to die! I'm not ready." I believe thataffirmation and determination was a key to mysurvival, although it also left me with a problem thatI'll go into shortly.

I had many injuries, including a ruptured spleen. Iunderwent surgery, received six pints of blood(that's 2.84 liters), and my life hung in the balancefor several days. I was in the Intensive Care Unit forthe first four days and in the hospital for ten daysaltogether. I was given plenty of morphine for pain,which I took advantage of to my disadvantage. Iasked for morphine when I was in pain, but also

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when I was too hot, too bored, or when I simplywanted to "party." When I realized what I wasdoing-that Ihad become dependent on morphine-I told. the nursing staff about this and from then onrefused the drug, even though I craved it for severalyears.After leaving the hospital, I recovered at home overthe next couple of months. During that time, I alsohad thyroid surgery. Even though my physicalcondition improved quickly after the surgeries, Icontinued to experience psychological trauma formany years: fear when I was driving, anxiety,flashbacks and frequent episodes of panic with thefeeling that I was going to die. I resolved thattrauma over a period of time by learning to relax myhold on the steering wheel while driving and byriding out a severe panic attack one evening aboutten years after the accident. Back then I had manypanic attacks and I became especially tenified abouta two-hour attack that began while I was sitting inmy living room one evening. I tried just abouteverything I could think of to abort this episode. Ipaced while wrenching my hands, jumped up anddown, prayed, breathed into a paper bag, went to thebathroom several times, soaked my head in coldwater, took a warm shower, took a cold shower,drank some lemonade, gulped down a shot ofwhiskey, and finally ran full speed up and down thestreet along my house. Then I became reallydisgusted and laid face down on my bed and tried tointensify it. I closed my eyes and tried to go into thepanic-into the abyss so to speak. With defiance, Icalled to the panic, "Come on ... get me!"

The curious result was the exact opposite; the panicinstantly vanished. I had come face-to-face with myfear, stared it straight in the eye, didn't waver, andthe panic fled. I thought I might have scared itaway. About a week later, another panic attackstarted and again I intently and mindfully focused onthe sensations. And again, it disappeared. Isearched for any inkling of it in my body, but it wasgone. I was pretty sure that I scared that one awaytoo. The satisfaction I felt about this serendipitousdiscovery! From then on, I no longer lived in dreadof panic. Even if a twinge of anxiety occurred, Ifaced it, observed it, and it would invariably vanish.I also realized that I could not use this approach tooutwit panic, since the panic would surely know. Ihad to truly want to immerse myself in it, no matterwhat. I had to be for real. With this, my confidence

grew and I came to understand the sources of mypanic. Partly it was about a blind spot in myconsciousness-something that I concluded while Iwas flying out of my car in June 1968. I hadforgotten this. As I hit the sidewalk, I had the ratherdetached thought, "Am I going to die now or after Istop sliding?" It was not a matter of IF I was goingto die; dying was imminent. It was just a matter ofhow soon. When I stopped sliding along thesidewalk, my demise was inevitable at any moment.The panic always carried with it the sense that I wasgoing to die now and I had to fight to stay alive.While it was certainly a good idea to not die at thetime of the accident, somehow I took it out ofcontext. In a sense the accident and dying were everpresent, or nearly so. Traumatic stress is created themoment we say "NO" to the traumatic experienceand the flow of life energy is blocked. It's like theproverbial "Don't think of an elephant!" whichperpetuates the thought of an elephant. What weresist persists. The ancient Chinese called it stagnantchi and in energy psychology we use terms such asperturbation, energy disruption, energy block, andduality. Eventually I understood that panic-thatstrong electrical charge-was also connected to mymother's death. Could misguided loyalty to mymother have been involved? To some, resolution ofa trauma can be a long drawn out process or it isnever resolved. But when an effective method isapplied, very little time is needed. Actually thetransformation occurs outside of time. We shalldiscuss more about this and effective methods, butfirst some additional reflections on trauma.

WHAT IS TRAUMA?Trauma is so prevalent that we might be tempted torevise Buddha's dictum about life being sufferingand say that life is suffering because of trauma.Trauma, however, is not only about awful events,but about the attachment in the aftermath of theevents. It is a negative attachment at many levelsthat accounts for trauma.

While there is a conscious attachment to the memoryand its meaning, trauma is also an unconsciousattachment so that what fuels trauma is not so muchwhat we remember as what we have misplaced inconsciousness. (In part, this is what dissociation isabout: disconnected from the images, information,etc. ofthe event/experience.) In this view, trauma isabout being blind to relevant information and not

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coming to terms with it. Another way ofunderstanding "coming to terms with" is tothoroughly process the event-recover the lostinformation and understand it from a widerperspective, a higher level of consciousness. Giventhis understanding, one approach involves anarcheological expedition to uncover the lost data sothat the unfinished business can be finished andtrauma's "post-hypnotic suggestions" can be'banished. Even though this understanding isaccurate, many people become traumatized duringthe attempt to review and uncover the missingmaterial. So trauma can build on trauma. Thisemotional upset has been described as abreaction insome circles, which is distinct from the originalterm. However, I have come to learn that abreactionis not at all necessary if we address the fundamentalcause of trauma. Also while reprocessing can oftenlead us to the fundamental cause, going directly tothe cause is more efficient. Nonetheless, there isvalue in many methods and we ought to remainrespectful.

Surely, memory is involved with trauma, although itis non-declarative or implicit memory rather thandeclarative or explicit memory that matters most.There are many aspects to consider when weexamine trauma. Let's take a brief excursion.

Trauma has many highly visible features. We canpaint its landscape with a fine brush or a broad one.With a fine brush, we can talk about PosttraumaticStress Disorder (PTSD), dissociative disorders andmany other diagnoses described in ICD-lO and DSMIV. PTSD is trauma in its most obvious form.There's the traumatic event, the fear, and thehelplessness. The event, itself, is bad enough;although the aftermath, what we rightly callposttraumatic stress, is what torments. That tormentincludes any number of symptoms such as intrusiverecollections, distressing dreams, flashbacks,avoidance, emotional numbing, splitting, and muchmore.

These are the conditions and the symptoms ofobvious trauma and it can be singular or multiple.However, when we use a broad brush, there are lessobvious traumas or upsets that can have a majorimpact. Most psychological, societal and evenphysical problems are rooted in trauma. Also theindividual's resources and perception are essential to

the impact of the event. Some obvious traumaticevents are tolerated well by some people and otherseemingly inconsequential events are highlydamaging to others.

TREA TMENT THEORIESThere are many theories about trauma, each lookingat a different slice. To the cognitive therapist,trauma is attachment to distressing memories andthoughts. The goal is to reframe one's thoughts in amore rational direction or more directly to becomeaware of one's ability to dismiss distressingthoughts. Consistent with this is the knowledge thatyou are the thinker. Also using your ability todisregard traumatic memories each time theyinfringe on your serenity is valuable towardmaintaining health and ultimately resolving trauma.

To the behaviorist, trauma is conditioningattachment and extinction is the goal. Treatmentshave involved exposure, either flooding or gradualexposure. Frequently, this process itself can betraumatizing if the therapist or client isuncomfortable with strong emotion. While tuning inthe trauma is a necessary aspect of any successfultreatment, it is not necessary to wallow in distress inorder to heal. As a matter of fact, reeling in distresscreates insecurity, is not therapeutic, andinadvertently reinforces the trauma.

This brings us to the systemic aspects of trauma andtreatment. Trauma is often intertwined withrelationships that cause, perpetuate or enable theperson to remain a trauma victim. The solutionbecomes one of shifting the relationship in a healthydirection, away from an unhealthy attachment orentanglement. Of course, the therapist's interactionwith the client is imperative in this regard also. Thetruly helpful therapist maintains a steady eye on theperson's inner power and health, which is innate toall of us. When the therapist's view is from thishigher perspective, it brings out the health in theclient. This promotes health for the therapist as well.

The neuroscientist sees trauma as attachmentinvolving sympathetic nervous system activation,including hypervigilance of the amygdala in thelimbic system. And there is also the disabling of thehippocampus, the brain structure implicated in ourknowing that an event is past. At the same time aconfiguration of neurons filing is integral to trauma.

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As Hebb articulated, neurons that fire together, wiretogether (another form of attachment). Thus, traumabecomes ever present, not completed in time. Thegoal is to calm the amygdala, disconnect theneuronal connections, and allow the hippocampus torecord the event as over and done with.

The neurochemical understanding of traumainvolves elevated levels of epinephrine and .norepinephrine. During a traumatic event there is anactivation of these neurochemicals in the service ofsurvival. After the traumatic event has passed,another neurochemical, cortisol, is released to abortthe alarm. In the case of PTSD, insufficient or nocortisol is released and the alarm continues to sound.This is consistent with sympathetic activation aswell. Of course, the goal is chemical balance.

To the body worker, trauma may be attached to themuscles, and the goal becomes one of awareness andrelease through massage and movement.

The shaman says that the soul or part of the soulleaves the body during a traumatic event and soulretrieval is needed. The shaman travels to under orupper worlds to escort the soul back to the body.

Trauma and upset also result in ego attachments thatinterfere with your spiritual connection and true self.

And consistent with all of this, trauma it is anenergetic attachment-an energetic block orimbalance, a disturbed and perturbed vibration ofenergy, a resonating energy field that goes on and onwithin the traumatized person and resonated outwardto others. While these structures are fueled by ourcore energy, they are not who we truly are.

ENERGY PSYCHOLOGYPsyche is Latin for soul. The ancient Greeksbelieved that the soul or psyche was the source ofbehavior. Also in psychoanalysis, psyche refers toforces in an individual that influence thought,behavior, and personality. And those forces areenergetic. So originally psychology was the study ofthe soul or the spiritual aspect of the person, whichalso involves energy. And since energy cannot bedestroyed, this also applies to each of us as spiritualenergy beings. Energy psychology is consistentwith the original definition of psychology.

When you have a trauma or any psychologicalproblem, its genesis is in upset and frequently adecision turned against you. The emotional upset isa function of many factors, including theindividual's developmental background, genetics,activation of neurochemicals, brain structures suchas the amygdala, etc. And there is a freezing thattakes place, consistent with blocking hippocampusprocessing and being inundated with a strongenergetic charge. The decision made at the time oftrauma many take the form of I am helpless; I'mpowerless; 1 am worthless; I am a total looser; I'mgoing to die any second; 1 deserve to suffer; or anyof a multitude of conclusions. These are oftenreferred to as core beliefs, and since a person actsfrom these perspecti ves, we can say they arenegative or controlling identities. They might alsobe referred to as sub-selves, alters, ego states, oreven mental demons.

When I first encountered energetic approaches, I wasskeptical. The idea of treating a psychologicalproblem by tapping on the body, for instance, wasforeign to me. Of course, I knew about Reichiantherapy and Rolfing, since one of my graduateprofessors used to undergo Rolfing sessionsregularly and return to class after the weekend blackand blue, rather beaten up. At the time that seemedodd to me. Also, I heard about a group therapyapproach in the early 1970's, which involvedtickling group members who were not being honest.That seemed hilariously odd to me too. Also I knewabout acupuncture, but I thought that was onlyrelevant to physical problems.

Nonetheless, I decided to give it a try. I used to havefear of heights and I eliminated this problem withina few minutes. The same applied to trauma. All Ihad to do was physically tap on specific acupointswhile recalling the memory or being in a situationthat caused emotional distress. Of course, at first Ithought this was simply distraction. However, whenthe fear of heights did not return and when thememories forever ceased to be distressing, thedistraction theory was immediately disqualified. Abetter explanation was needed, and we've touchedon that somewhat already.

The essential features of many energy psychologyapproaches involves attuning the problem-that isthinking about it-and then stimulating the body in

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specific ways, such as by tapping on acupoints,holding chakras, etc. In time I discovered that thiswas merely a technique and that any approach thatconformed to these simple laws of energy couldaccomplish the same thing (and often moreprofoundly). Although I overcame panic by stayingpresent, observing the panic and trying to intensifyit, for some odd reason most of my clients wereunable or reluctant to do that. But tapping ortouching specific bodily locations, or visualizing inspecific ways, makes it easier; and clients usuallyreport that they feel calm and relaxed. Yet theresults are not limited to relaxation; there is also ashift in understanding and consciousness. Aftertreating trauma in this way, people often shift out ofego attachment and became more philosophical andspiritual about what happened to them. "It doesn'tbother me any more. Oh, it's just something thathappened. I don't know why it bothered me for solong. I feel more relaxed now, more at peace, Theanger and resentment are gone." These are thecomments we hear regularly from people who werepreviously tormented by trauma.

ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY TREATMENT FORTRAUMASince 1992, I have been helping people to eliminatetrauma and other psychological problems withenergy psychology. Let me tell you briefly aboutone person that I treated in this way. Amanda, a 19-year-old female university student, was referred tome because of PTSD after an automobile accident in1999. The dri ver in the other car crossed over themedial strip and struck her vehicle head-on, killingboth of his passengers and himself. Amanda waspinned under the dashboard for several hours while arescue team struggled to cut her out of the crushedcar. She had multiple injuries and was in thehospital and then a rehabilitation center for severalmonths. I saw her a year after the accident. She washaving frequent nightmares, flashbacks, panic,anxiety, guilt feelings and she was also abusingalcohol.

Initially, we focused on her memory of being pinnedunder the dashboard. After she thought about it andrated the distress as a 9 on a 0-10 scale, I asked herto dismiss the memory from mind while followingthe Midline Energy Treatment (MET), a techniquethat I developed in the mid-90s. MET involvesphysically tapping on four points on the head and

chest (related to acupoints and chakras): third eyepoint, under nose, under bottom lip, and on theupper chest. After about five rounds of tapping, shewas able to vividly recall the event without distress.Several times throughout the treatment she laughedand asked me, "How does that work?" Follow-upsessions at one week, two weeks and two monthsrevealed that after the initial session, distress aboutthe event, nightmares and flashbacks no longeroccurred.

During the course of treatment, other aspects of thetrauma were treated, including feelings of guilt aboutthe people who died. That distress was also resolvedin one session by using MET and a couple relatedtreatments.

Later in therapy, she reported that a relativemolested her from age five to twelve. Using a morespecifically focused treatment that involves manualmuscle testing (Energy Diagnostic and TreatmentMethods (EDxTM), we were able to determinewhich meridians were involved in order toefficiently eliminate this abuse trauma. After wetreated upset connected to various memories, shereported a lingering feeling of worthlessness,including a "ditty and disgusting" feeling in thelower abdomen. Apparently she concluded that shewas worthless, dirty, and disgusting when she wasmolested. We were able to eliminate this sensationand her belief about not being worthwhile as well.A follow-up, several years later revealed ongoingrelief on all counts. The trauma and core belief aregone.

LAYERINGSince I have been working with energy psychologyfor over eighteen years, I have naturally been on alearning curve. My initial love of tapping hasmatured and taken me in other directions. Early on Ileamed that simply holding treatment points orimagining tapping or watching someone else tapworked just as well. Since I found that many peopleare reluctant or forgetful of tapping to relieve atrauma or other forms of emotion distress, Ideveloped a technique that I refer to as "layering."It helps to relieve emotional distress and it alsothoroughly trains the person to use the technique orpreferred facets of it for self-help. The steps are asfollows:

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1. Tune in and rate the problem2. Client physically taps on the four treatment

points3. Client hold the treatment points during

diaphragmatic breathing4. Client watches the therapist tap the points on

himself5. Client imagines tapping the treatment points6. Client imagines holding the treatment

points.7. Other layers may be considered, such as

tapping the points on a photo or doll,imagining the therapist tapping the points,and verbally saying the points.

SELF-HELP AND HELPING OTHERSIt's worth noting that while I appreciate the self-helpsentiment, self-help in not always possible. When itcomes to the really deep issues, there is no substitutefor the guidance of a compassionate, capabletherapist. It's really difficult to be in the problemstate and the helper role at the same time. Youwould need to switch back and forth between theseroles and this can interfere with thoroughly treatingthe problem. Additionally, if you are experiencingcounter intentions (psychological reversal) at thetime, which is generally the rule with deeper issues,you will not be inclined to treat yourself. After all,why would you want to treat yourself if you are in aself-sabotaging mode about the problem? Of course,this also applies to the therapist. Therapists who areoperating from counter intentions can be of no helpto their clients. So the health of the therapist isimperative. As the old saying goes, "You can onlyteach what you know."

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Clauser, J., and Shimony, A. 1978. Bell's theorem:experimental tests and implications. Rep ProgPhysics, 41.

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Figley, C. R. and Carbonell, J. 1995. The "ActiveIngredient" Project: the systematic clinicaldemonstration of the most efficient treatments ofPTSD, a research plan. Tallahassee: Florida StateUniversity Psychosocial Stress Research Programand Clinical Laboratory.

Foa, E. B., Rothbaum, B. 0., Riggs, D., andMurdock, T. 1991. Treatment of posttraumaticstress disorder in rape victims: a comparisonbetween cognitive-behavioral procedures andcounseling. Journal of Consulting and ClinicalPsychology, 59, 715-723.

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Gallo, F. 1997. A no-talk cure for trauma: thoughtfield therapy violates all the rules. The FamilyTherapy Networker, March/April.

Gallo, F. 1999. A no talk cure for trauma. In R.Simon, L. Markowitz, C. Barrilleaux, and B.Topping (Eds.), The Art of Psychotherapy: CaseStudies from the Family Therapy Networker, pp.244-255. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

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Gallo, F. 2007. Energy Tappingfor Trauma: RapidRelief from Traumatic-Stress Using EnergyPsychology. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.

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Blending Western Medicine withTouch for Health and Applied Kinesiology

By Warren Jacobs

This approach to health care sees the therapeuticrelationship between doctor and patient as apartnership with shared responsibilities for theoutcome. Often the clue for the direction oftreatment lies within the patient rather than with thedoctor. This method is used to facilitate the exposureof what is perhaps already known by the patient onsome level, but which has been therefore denied toconsciousness. This is in contrast to the traditionalwestern approach where the patient has the pain, thefear, the illness, and the QUESTION while thedoctor has the ANSWER. This alternate methodsuggests that often the patient has the QUESTION,etc. and the ANSWER! The doctor functions moreas a facilitator, teacher, partner and friend. He hasthe method by which the patient can gain access tothat which is already inside himself but resides onsome level where it remains hidden and as yetunusable.

Initially, a determination can often be made withKinesiology to establish where the complaint has itsroots. Is the root of the problem in nutrition,structure or emotion? From this beginning, one canexplore in increasing depth from the general to thespecific, depending on the willingness of the patientand the art and skills of the facilitator. This methodis rapid, painless, cost-effective and safe.

WHY ARE YOU HERE IN FRONT?WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAPPEN INOUR TIME TOGETHER?

With these questions, the patient is obliged to takeresponsibility for the goal.

With this method - a shared responsibility in thetherapeutic process allows for the best outcome.DETERMINE THE GOALIS THE GOAL the best goal and positive, clear,energizing and motivating?

I am now ready for this goal/or not.

I am open to discovering my blocks for this goalwith a balance. Choose the balance.

Proceed with the balance. WARREN BALANCE,DIAMOND BALANCE, CHAKRA BALANCE,SOUND BALANCE, INTIMACY BALANCE,LIFE QUESTIONS, ADDICTIONS BALANCE,etc. (which ever is chosen)

THIS TAKES THE PATIENT FROM NO-CHOICETO CHOICE

On completion of the chosen balance, restate thegoal with I am now ready to .

Test on both sides of the brain. DOES IT HOLD?HOW DO YOU FEEL?

Hug.

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Neuro-Linguistic Programming Applied to a Touch for Health BalanceBy Brian Esty

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a collectionof therapeutic tools found to be very effective atchanging patterns of behavior. These tools are basedprimarily in verbal communication and are directedat resolving conflicts between the conscious andnon-conscious aspects of awareness. This isaccomplished by observing cues that identify non-conscious thought processes, and communicatingusing these cues to create solutions that are morecongruent with our conscious intent.This is very close to what we do in a Touch forHealth (TFH) balance. We communicate with thenon-conscious, energetic aspects of self usingmuscle testing, and identify solutions which enableenergy to move more congruently with our goals.NLP offers us as TFH practitioners additional toolswe can utilize to achieve these ends, enhancing thepower of our balances to facilitate change in ourlives.Over the years NLP has acquired some ethical issuesas the techniques have been applied to manipulatepeople into choices they may not have otherwisemade. Unfortunately, muscle testing also sufferssome of the same problems. The distinction, as wewell know, is to always work from permission, withrespect and in the context of conscious choice for aspecific outcome.

BACKGROUND ON NLPNLP originated from research done by RichardBandler and John Grinder, studying three veryeffective psychotherapists in the 1970's: Fritz Perls,Milton Erickson and Virginia SatirFritz Perls is recognized with his wife as theinnovators of "Gestalt Therapy". The core of theGestalt Therapy process is enhanced awareness ofnon-conscious aspects of sensation, perception,bodily feelings, emotion and behavior - in thepresent moment. His work opened possibilities forusing physical responses for emotional and cognitiveIssues.

Virginia Satir is the innovator of Family TherapyShe began treating families in 1951. She believedthat a healthy family life involved an open andreciprocal sharing of affection, feelings, and love.

This translates to the idea that we are not either wellnor clinically diagnosable; rather we constantlymove back and forth on the spectrum betweenwellbeing and dysfunction and that we could all feel/ function better. These were considered radicalideas at the time, outside the mainstream ofscientific consensus. John and Carrie Thie, as well asJoseph Heller (Hellerwork) and the innovators ofNLP - Richard Bandler and John Grinder and manyof the "fathers of the human potential movement"studied with Satir.

Milton Erickson is generally regarded as the fatherof Therapeutic Metaphor. This is metaphor whichintentionally engages the non-conscious mind.Erickson is widely recognized for his approach tothe non-conscious mind as creative and solutiongenerating. His work with metaphor opened the wayfor story telling to be used both in trance inductionand conscious therapy. The use of metaphor is apowerful component of Touch for Health andstudying Erickson and his students is a great way togain proficiency with this rich therapeutic modality.

Matthew and Carrie Thie 'both have said that one ofthe core differences between TFH and the wellspringfor most of it techniques - Applied Kinesiology(AK), is the influence of Satir on John and CarrieThie. Applied Kinesiology is essentially a model fordiagnosing and treating dysfunction or disease, IE:for fixing problems. TFH originates from a framewhere diagnosis is a hindrance, that healing is aconsequence of positive intent, that we are on ajourney to realizing our full potential and thatmiracles can happen.The NLP tools Iwould like to discuss are:

Using Eye Movements to assess thoughtpatterns.Anchoring a balance.Re-Framing during a balance as a way toshift energyFuture Pacing to strengthen a balance

You may have run across some or all of these toolsin other trainings. Here Iintend to present themspecifically for the TFH model.

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EYE MOVEMENTS:Before getting into the specifics of eye movements itis worth taking a moment to go over left / right braindynamics. Our brains are divided into left and righthemispheres. Our left brain runs the right side of ourbodies and right brain runs the left side of ourbodies. Over time the two brain halves have taken onspecific functions. Normally the left brain controlsmore linear functions and the right global.Occasionally someone will have the functionsreversed, but at least 90% of the time this is the case.The linear functions are more logical, thoughtful,reasoned out, and the global are more emotional,feeling, relational.How this applies to TFH is that if you are doingemotional work with your client it is more effectiveto be to their left - if they are laying down to stand totheir left side. When the eyes are focused in the leftvisual field, the right brain is dominant in processingwhat is happening. The client then has moreimmediate access to their emotional experience, andless tendency to filter their experience logically.Another, less savory example of this is when buyinga car the salesperson will often seat clients with themale to their left so that the male client is lesslogical and can be more easily pulled emotionallyinto the purchase.

One of the most useful pieces of information tocome to us through NLP is the awareness that ourunconscious eye movements reveal how we formatour thoughts. Our inner dialog has a preference fororganizing how to understand its environmentthrough either visual, kinesthetic or auditory(sometimes taste and smell) cues. Observing yourclients eye movements will tell you a lot about howthey are thinking. When you are helping a clientframe a goal for a session, this can be very helpful. Itallows the clients brain to skip a normal step ininternally translating conversation into how itnormally processes information. You can use thisinformation to frame how you converse with them.By framing your words in your clients processingmode, you speak more directly to their innerthoughts. By doing this, you are intentionallyspeaking in the language of your client's brain.

These are the basic eye directions and processingmodes:

Visual processing = eyes up

Auditory processing = eyes to the sidesKinesthetic processing = eyes down

Examples:If you notice that their eyes went up and that theyare processing visually, you could use terms likefocusing / seeing / visualize. Instead of saying "Whatdo you think about that?", you could say "How doyou see that?", "How do you visualize that?", "Doyou have any insight into that?" or words like"view".If you notice that their eyes went down and that theyare processing kinesthetically, you could use termslike feeling / touched / connect / walked through.You would say: "How do you feel aboutthat?","How did that touch you?" or words like"understand" or "grounded","having a grip onthings,"For Auditory processing, where the eyes move to thesides, you can use: "Tune into that", "harmonizewith","resonate with"Taking the extra step of speaking in the language ofyour clients internal thought processes will go a longway towards establishing a strong rapport, feelingsof safety and being understood that supports them intransformational change.

ANCHORINGIn NLP, Anchoring is used to merge two or moredistinct experiences. This is done to create newchoices for old patterns. Anchoring can be thoughtof as hooking up new possibilities for choice - at anon-conscious level of experience. The basictechnique involves using some stimulus, usually atouch, but a visual or auditory anchor also worksvery well. The stimulus is coordinated with aspecific feeling or thought in a way that, if thestimulus is re-applied, the feeling or thought will re-trigger and be re-experienced. When used in a TFHbalance, it can be considered as a powerful tool forfortifying the results of a balance.A common example is a client who comes in for aTouch for Health balance is asked: "When you leavetoday what would you like to be different?" theclient begins to discuss this in a negative, dark way.Trauma is a good example of something the clientmay be working on. Your job as a TFH practitioneris to frame their issue in a positive, present tensegoal, but before you start this, you can gently touchthe clients forearm or knee, perhaps multiple timesas you see the feelings and thoughts cross their

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minds. The touch should always be the samepressure, timing and location. This creates an anchorthat you can access at any time that should retriggerthe negative experience you wish to work with.Again, you need to get your pressure, timing andlocation as close as possible to the original stimulus.For example if you are balancing Heart Meridian,after it clears you can trigger the anchor and re-testSuhScapularis to see if the balance holds. Usuallyyou can get two or three, possibly four good tests outof an anchor. Indicator muscle testing the trigger aspart of the post assessment creates assurance that thegoal is strong in relation to the negative experience.Another aspect of this is that when we are muscletesting, we are generating Anchors on the limbs weare testing. For example, when we test Psoas andfind it weak, we have an Anchor where we weretouching on the leg associated to that weak muscletest. After we balance and go back to retest Psoas, ifwe test the leg in the same manner, we retrigger theAnchor. This gives us as practitioners informationthat we balanced all of the elements that generatedthe weak test. It is best on the second test to firsthold the leg differently to see if the Psoas switchedback on, then trigger the Anchor and re-test to see iftriggering the Anchor switched the muscle back off.This tells you that your balance addressed thespecific stress, and not a more global imbalance.

The client need have no conscious awareness thatAnchors are being employed. Skilled therapistsusually will Anchor in the clients dominant mode ofcognitive processing, for example, if the clientprocesses visually they will use a visual stimulussuch as a specific hand movement that they arecareful not to repeat unless they are ready to triggerthe anchor. In Touch for Health it seems appropriateto stick with tactile stimulus.

RE-FRAMINGRe-framing involves the transformation of meaning.Perhaps the simplest example of this is shiftingperception from the "Glass half empty to half full".During a touch for Health balance, as the energymores more vigorously in association with the goal,perception should begin to shift to better alignmentwith the goal. It can be very helpful at this point toexamine an aspect of the issue in a new light, from adifferent point of view. Doing so requires that thepractitioner adopt a wider view of the landscape ofthe issue, to step back so to speak and adopt what is

known as a Meta viewpoint. This requires a certainamount of discipline and practice to pull yourself outof assumptions about what is being considered.However, it is essentially very simple and can easilybe modeled on the "glass half empty to half full"idea. Keeping your mind open to the possibility of are-frame creates the opportunity for it to emergefrom your imagination. The fundamental practice inTouch for Health of framing goals positively andpresent tense is a form of basic re-framing.Example (from Wikipedia)A university or college student breaks his leg duringsummer vacation. He is crestfallen, because he canno longer play tennis and golf with his family andfriends. A few days later, he realizes that he now hasthe quiet, alone time to learn how to play the guitar,something he had always wanted to do but had beentoo busy to attempt. He then discovers he has a greataptitude for music and becomes a decent guitarplayer by summer's end. One year later, he changeshis major to music. After graduation he embarks ona successful music career. Years later, his friendsrecall how unfortunate his leg fracture was thatsummer, and he says, "Breaking my leg was the bestthing that ever happened to me!" From then on,whenever he is disabled by injury or illness, herecalls the lesson and is far less despondent over histemporary disability than he otherwise would havebeen, as he takes the opportunity to do somethingnovel.

FUTURE PACINGAt the end of a balance, when you are doing the postassessment, you can help to "lock in" the results byadding in a technique know in NLP as FuturePacing. Touch for Health encompasses a version ofthis in the section on "Using Emotional StressRelease (ESR) for future performance". In thatsection a future event that has anticipated stressassociated with it is "walked through" while holdingESR points. In Future Pacing you imagine your goa]or desired change at various points on a futuretimeline - starting even a few hours, then days, thenweeks months and years into the future. It is usefulto guide your client through imagining these futureevents using generalized outline of the event. Whendoing so it is better to avoid specifics, and veryhelpful to phrase in the clients dominant mode ofprocessing, IE: visual, auditory or kinesthetic.

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doing this to discover stress on a future time that theclient may not even consciously experience. Thiscan then become the focus of another balance,revisiting the goal in the future context, or the stresscan be cleared using ESR. Adding these steps to thepost assessment strengthens the balance and makes itless likely that future stresses will initiate regressioninto an unwanted pattern.

Notes:

Much more information on these NLP techniquescan be found online, in the books by Bandler andGrinder and books by practitioners like AnthonyRobbins. It is common to run into layers of jargonand convoluted presentations in an attempt tosynthesize these complex concepts. As Touch forHealth practitioners a good understanding of basicconcepts will provide plenty of resources to add toour balances. The book by Anne Linden Mindworks:an introduction to NLP is recommended as a goodplace to start.

BACKGROUND ON MEBrian Esty has been in private practice in SanFrancisco since 1983 blending Hellerwork StructuralIntegration Bodywork, NLP, Craniosacral Therapyand Specialized Kinesiology. His grasp of sensory-motor dynamics 1S grounded in his ElectricalEngineering education and approximately 2,500hours training in Manual Therapy modalities. He hasbeen a Touchfor Health Instructor since 2006offering classes in Touchfor Health in SanFrancisco and other cities in the US. He is currentlyserving on the board of the Touchfor HealthKinesiology Association. For the last 12 months hehas been training as a Core Specialist in NeuroMotorReflex Integration under Dr. Svetlana Masgutova,and is nearing clinical certification as a CoreSpecialist in the International and US MasgutovaNeuroMotor Reflex Integration camps.

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The Balance Process- Going Deep, Facilitating ChangeBy Caren Truske, M.S. Ed

What is meant by "balance"? How do youknow when you are balanced? What does balancelook like, sound like and feel like? What do you doto become balanced, to stay balanced and to regainbalance? How do you facilitate and support"balance" in others?

I fell in love with Educational Kinesiologyand the 5 step Balance Process when I took my firstBrain Gym® class in 1998. In Edu-K a "Balance" isa "specific five-step process done for the purpose ofenhancing one's ability to move between effort (lowgear) and ease (high gear).""This process supports us in shifting from effort toease with regard to a specific personal goal, and thiskind of balance creates new movement patterns andnew neural pathways in support of that goal." (BrainGym® Student Manual)

Balance has been identified in various walksof life and disciplines as;00 an invisible center between the left and right foot00 an experience of the tension between standing and

falling00 if we don't breathe in, we can't breathe out00 the more fully we move, the more fully we relaxCI) for every action there is an equal and opposite

reaction00 the big picture context balanced with details and

di stincti ons00 holding on & letting go, thinking & doing,

laughing & crying ...all diverse actions temperedby balance (Brain Gym® Student Manual)

In Touch For Health, balancing is oftenthought of as "reprogramming the body'sbiocomputer, assessing its performance andupgrading the programming." The TFH balance ismore than just a structural assessment of the body'smusculature, it also assesses the mind, mental andemotional states, and energy systems "balancing forthe future by programming a goal into thebiocomputer." "Different goals will show differentpatterns of weakness." (TFH Book 1)

Currently, scientific evidence explains andvalidates what many have intuitively known forcenturies. Our bodies create electric fields. Just asan antenna, we act as receivers of the vibratory fields

around and within us analogous to the waytelevisions and radios pick up electromagneticvibrations from the air. As Carla Hannaford statesin her new book, Playing in the Unified Field, "Thevast sea of vibrations which we are all a part of isresponsi ve to and affected by mind and mind'sintentions." We are transmitters as well as receivers,influencing the information field and one anotherwith our intentions, levels of integration, coherence,state of balance, and attitudes. The effectiveness ofthe teacher, coach, practitioner, facilitator orpresenter is directly influenced by their own internalcoherence. Therefore, it is imperative that we aspractitioners and facilitators "do our own work"balancing, integrating, establishing and maintainingcoherence; efficiency in action, within ourselves.

I have found that the power, depth andopportunity to facilitate and support change andpersonal transformation is significantly influencedby the "Balance Process," Edu-K's template orframework for transforming effort to ease,enhancing performance, creating integration, health,wellness, and coherence .

Step 1 - find your PACE - Connectpractitioner/facilitator with client. In Edu-K, PACEis a 4 step series of movements. First, hydrate bysipping water so you have Energy. Second, rub yourBrain Buttons (K27) to get Clear. Third, Cross-Crawl to become Active. And fourth, Hook-up to bePositive. Regardless of the type of kinesiology thatyou practice or the modalities that you work in andwith, it is important and extremely beneficial tobecome present, centered, and coherent in themoment. Some traditions and bodies of workmeditate or perform an invocation, invoking andrecognizing the presence of a Higher Power. Justlike a gardener who prepares the soil to receive theseed, I merely suggest and invite you to take andmake time to connect, center, become coherent andfully present with your client. Both you and yourclient will notice a difference.

Step 2 - set a goal, identify and focusintention. The power of intention has received a lotof press this past decade and rightly so. It has beensaid that, "energy follows intention," "what you

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5 Step Balance Process:

1) Find Your Pace-Connect(prepare yourself, connect client withpractitioner/facilitator)

2) Set a Goal- Identify & FocusIntention

3) Perform Pre-Activities(muscle check, role-play, move ... noticeposture, breathing, flexibility, energy,pain ... access prior knowledge, elevateawareness, notice current patterns,beliefs, etc. and honor what is currentlyin place and available)

4) Choose from your learningmenus(s)

(learning menus vary with eachpractitioner/facilitator's talents, gifts andtreasures; BG, OBO, VisionCirclemovements, TFH, etc.)

5) Perform Post Activities(usually the same as pre-activitiesrecognizing, noticing, andacknowledging changes both largeand small)

Anchor & CelebrateIs the "Balance" complete or is there aneed for more? What is needed? How

much? How Long? How often?

focus on you get more of," "you reap what yousow." There are a number of phrases and sayingsand yet, the themes are similar. By identifying asspecifically as possible what is desired (a specificfeeling, state, outcome, goal, etc.) bothpractitioner/facilitator and client focus and directenergy. If you are working with goals, SMARTgoals provides a nice framework to use for goal

setting. The SMART goal format can be easilyfound through a web search for SMART goals.

Language is a key in setting goals andidentifying an intention for the session. All goalsand intentions should be; positive, first person,present tense, active, clear and energetic. It is oftenhelpful to ask the client, after they have stated orwritten their goal, a series of questions such as; "Is itpositive?, "Is it active-something doable andachievable?", "What would make it more active?,""Is it clear?," "What would make it more clear?,""Do you feel energetic or overwhelmed whenthinking about your goal?," "Does anything need tobe added or taken away from the goal as you havewritten/stated it?" Such questions help create clear,specific, powerful goals.

This step is indeed important. It can greatlyaffect the quality, depth, and effect of the "Balance."I encourage everyone to invest time into identifyingand naming a goal, calling it forth and then openinglike a radio receiver, to the energy of the desiredoutcome, behavior, feeling or state.

Step 3 - Perform pre-activities. Pre and postactivities give a before and after picture comparingwhere the client is at the end of the "Balance" towhere he or she started. They can be as simple as;"On a scale of 1-10, where are you now?," "Draw apicture of you in this moment," to muscle checkingand noticing posture and movement in variousdimensions or planes. Walking, noticing breathing,muscle tension, and flexibility strictly from anobservational perspective without any judgment orinferences by either client or facilitator also providesvaluable information and serves as a reference point.Pre-activities give feedback and information aboutwhere the client is in that moment by identifying"low-gear," unlocked muscle responses. They alsoidentify the resources the client possesses that areaccessible and available for the particular goal.

Role-playing and progressive challengesspecifically related to the goal tend to perturbate theclient's system drawing attention to old worn outpatterns, behaviors and responses that may currentlylimit and inhibit optimal health, well ness andperformance. In order to make shifts and changes inour lives we must step into a new space, leave ourcurrent homeostasis and create a new "home." The"Balance Process" gently guides and supports clientsthrough this process of change. Taking the time toteach and develop the client's noticing skills andawareness, free of judgment and criticism, allows

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the client to be more fully present and to recognizepatterns and habits thus empowering him or her totake personal responsibility for change, growth,transformation, health, wellness, peak performanceand optimal living.

Step 4 - is the Learning Menu. As eachpractitioner/facilitator develops his/her skills addingtools and modalities to their respective toolboxes,the "Learning Menu" expands. Remember, as afacilitator you are just that, facilitating the"Balance." Often the client will give youinformation and clues regarding what they need thatthey may be unaware of and which you may pick upon easily. You don't have to "know," understandnor have "the answers." Your job is to facilitate,guide, direct, draw out and support your client. Seethem perfect, whole and complete. Hold spaceknowing and trusting in the expression of health,wellness and optimal performance for both you andyour client. Open and allow the energy initiated bythe goal statement to flow.

By involving your client in selecting andidentifying their "Learning Menu" from your list ofpossibilities, they are balancing for their goal andlearning to trust their own "knowing." Be creativeand have fun. Stay open and flexible. Utilize yournoticing skills as well as your client's awareness andfeedback to determine suggestions, possibilities andeven combinations of modalities to "Balance" andmove the client into or perhaps towards a new spaceor way of being.

Step 5 - Perform post-activities. Generally,the post activities return to a check of all "low-gear"or unlocked muscle responses OCCUlTingin the pre-activities along with any role play or movement thatwas previously challenging. If a movement is doneand the immediate response isn't as desired, remindthe client to relax and breathe. They may need sometime for their system to integrate. Cross-Crawl maybe just the integrative movement that supports andguides their system into finding that new level ofintegration.

It is all feedback. Ask the client, "What isdifferent?" This simple, open ended question helpsthe client to identify and articulate changes andrecognize new possibilities. If more integration timeis needed or the "Balance" has shown progresstowards the goal yet the goal hasn't been fully

actualized, homeplay, cross-craw, water, rest, awalk, nutritional support or something else includingadditional sessions may be needed. Ask what else isneeded, how often and for how long. Remember,this is their process. You are merely facilitating andguiding them in becoming more aware, moreintegrated, more coherent, and more balanced.

In ending the session, always anchor andcelebrate any and all shifts and changes big andsmall. You may wish to create your own endingritual, drawing the session to a close. Each"Balance" is unique and different and yet the 5 stepprocess remains the same. "Balances" range in timefrom seconds to hours. They can be performedanywhere and at any time. I have found that byfollowing this simple yet profound 5-step process,deep and life-long changes occur.

References:

Childdre, Doc and Cryer, Bruce, From Chaos toCoherance, Boston, MA; Butterworth-Heinmann,2008

Dennison, Paul E. and Gail, Brain Gym® StudentManual, 2nd Edition

Gralton, Toni, Touch For Health Book 1

Hannaford, Carla, Playing in the Unified Field,Great River Books, 2010

Presenter:

Caren Truske, M.S. Ed., is a professional memberof the Educational Kinesiology Foundation andTouch For Health Kinesiology Association. Acertified Brain Gym®, Optimal Brain Organization,and Vision Circles Instructor, Touch For Health andNLP Practitioner, and Brain-Based LearningSpecialist, Caren combines 10 years of NCAADivision I intercollegiate coaching with 17 years as apublic school teacher. Currently, Caren resides inColumbus, Ohio where she teaches high schoolscience and runs a private Kinesiology and Coachingpractice working with individuals of all ages,athletes, athletic teams, groups, businesses andfamilies. [email protected]

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Advanced Strategies in Balancing the Central Power CurrentBlending Touch for Health with

Energy Medicine, Healing Touch and Energy Psychology since 1976By Mary Jo Bulbrook

DescriptionWhen the practitioner is having trouble withinterventions holding often times this can be a clueto explore problems in the Hara Alignment orCentral Power Current of the body that serves tosupport the meridian system feeding all the bodysystems and organs. Muscle testing can supportidentifying if the system aspects are in alignment ornot. Often times repetitive problems can result fromtrauma stored at this dimension and be the culprit forimpacting one's life. Learn to diagnosis thisproblem, identify the language to describe theimplications to the client and ways to correct andbalance the Hara line. Frequently the client can beempowered to make the corrections easily onceinstructed in identifying the symptoms causing theimbalance and ways to change them.Transform Your Life

The future is in your hands to be healthy and returnto health. Through energetic self care you will beempowered to identify and heal from current andpast issues that serve to undermine the integrity ofwho you are and your soul's integrity. Calling inspiritual resources to help you identify and releasethe energetic blocks that limit joy and spontaneitywill be included. Through the Energy Medicineprocess of meditation, use of drawings, choosingcards and reflection, the release of pent up energyand emotions are sourced and released. Thisinformation is intended for client self care but it willcomplement any energy practice to be used forempowering further your clients with additionaltools. The basis for this work is grounded in TouchFor Health and Virginia Satir Process for BecomingMore Fully Human. John and Carrie Thie and thepresenter were colleagues of Satir and often workedtogether in launching new ways of helping peopleheal and change. Energy Sculpting used by Satirwill also be incorporated.

Objectives: Participants will be able to:1. Focus on a personal healing need.

2. Describe how he / she has been impactedwith this issue.

3. Assess the impact of this on the energysystem including the chakras, meridians,energy field and hara line.

4. Intervene with simple energeticresources to restore energy flow.

About the presenterMary Jo Bulbrook, RN, EdD, CEMP/S/I, CHTPDr. Bulbrook is a medical/spiritual intuitive andCertified Energy Medicine Specialist with 35 yearsteaching, practicing and researching the impact ofenergy on health and healing worldwide through herrole as a university professor in nursing and inprivate practice incorporating TFH, Healing Touch,Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine withpsychotherapy and cultural teaching.

Currently Dr. Bulbrook is chairperson of theHumanitarian Committee of the Association ofComprehensive Energy Psychology, and Director ofComplementary Therapies with Akamai UniversityMaster and Doctoral Programs. She is a co-funderof Healing Touch International helping and workswith indigenous Healers in New Zealand, Australia,and South Africa promoting world peace andhumanitarian service,

She taught TFH starting in the 1980's and is a friendand associate of John and Carrie Thie in the VirginiaSatir international teaching network.

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7 Step Self Care "Powering Up" Meditation* Energy MedicineTRANSFORM YOUR LIFEPurpose

This meditation done over time builds the internal light of your soul helping you tobecome clear in your life's purpose and grounded to achieve your intentions.

TechniqueThis seven-step meditation can be done anytime that you need a boost to get focused and set clearintentions for your life. It is best done in a quiet setting without distractions as you start your day but alsocan be done anytime during the day.

1. Bring your hands above your head as far as you canreach placing the palms of the hands in a prayer likefashion with the palms touching.In your mind or out loud say:"Fill me with light, to become clear in my life'spurpose and intentions and able to manifest them."

2. Slowly bring your hands down still folded to theheart area, then separate the hands at this level andextend out as far as you can reach at heart level withpalms pointed down. Continue to say:"Fill me with light, to become clear in my life'spurpose and intentions and able to manifest them."

3. Still holding the arms out, now place the palms upand say:"I surrender to DivineWilI."

4. Next bring the hand to the center of the body andplace one hand with the fingers pointing up and theother hand with the fingers pointing down and say:"Align my core with Source and grounded it."

5. Bring the hands together folded with palmstouching at the heart and say:"Thank your for hearing and answering myrequest."

6. Extend the hands out with palms facing up and say:"I share and join my light and love with others."

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ExperiencePlease record or journal your experience each time you do the meditation to identify the changes in youover time as you build your core internal light, set your intentions and watch as the intentions manifest inyour life.

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·'''Powering Up" Meditation was channeled to Dr. Bulbrook while teaching Transform Your Life in Byron Bay, NSW, Australia, March, 2010.

© 2010 Mary Jo Bulbrook. All rights reserved.

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The Use of Magnets in the AK PracticeBy Sheldon C. Deal, D.C., N.M.D., DIBAK

Abstract

Understanding the difference between the north andsouth poles of a unipolar magnet can provide a goodshortcut for several procedures in an AK practice.

Background

When you approach a black and white televisionset with the north pole of a magnet, the screen of thetelevision picture will rotate counterclockwise.When you approach the screen of the television setwith the south pole of the magnet, the televisionpicture will rotate clockwise. This establishes thedifferent magnetic energy fields surrounding thenorth and south poles of a magnet. This explainswhy opposite poles of a magnet attract each otherwhen they face each other, because they are turningthe same direction. It also explains why like polesof the two different magnets repel each other whenthey face each other, because they are turning inopposite directions.

Application

When the North Pole is placed on the belly of anormal testable, non-hypertonic muscle, it willunlock the muscle, thus verifying that the muscle isa good indicator and not a muscle that is locked orhypertonic. This takes the place of autogenicinhibition via pinching the spindle cells together; aprocedure which some patients complain hurts themor bruises them.

When the South Pole is placed on the belly of thesame muscle, it will unlock the antagonist muscle.There is a neurological circuit between the right andleft side of the body for each muscle. When thissame procedure is done on the other side of thebody, these four muscle tests confirm that this is anormal, non-aberrant functioning circuit whichmakes an excellent test muscle indicator. Thethoroughness of this procedure is not normally donein applied kinesiology but it can detect manyaberrant muscle patterns that go undetected.

I keep a magnet in each treatment room for thisand other purposes in preference to pinching the

spindle cells together in an effort to qualify the testmuscle.

The South Pole can be used as an amplifier to testif a substance underneath it is wanted by the body bymaking a weak muscle strong. It is especially usefulwhen testing for allergies. As an amplifier it picksup hidden allergies that you would otherwise havemissed. The South Pole will also make a strongmuscle go weak when placed above a substance thatthe body does not want.

Any acupuncture point that needs to be treatedwill T.L. (therapy localize). The South Pole willexaggerate an overactive point and, thus, weakenyour test muscle, or it will neutralize an under pointand you will miss the fact that it is under if you donot test both ways with your magnet. The NorthPole will exaggerate an under active point and, thus,weaken your test muscle, or it will neutralize an overpoint that you would otherwise miss if you do nottest both ways.

A good therapy for an under active point is to putthe south pole of the magnet over the point and shinea laser through the hole in the magnet to tonify thepoint. You can also put the North Pole over a pointthat is overactive and, by shining a laser through thehole in the magnet, you can sedate the point.

The North Pole helps kill pain and the South Polespeeds up circulation and promotes healing. I oftentape the magnets over the area to be treated and sendthe patient home with them. The North Pole on theeyelid for 20 minutes per day will shrink a smallcataract.

The North Pole over the sternum and the SouthPole over the upper dorsal spine simultaneously willtorque the body counterclockwise and will lowerblood pressure; and if you reverse the poles, you canraise the blood pressure, if needed. Sometimes wesend the patient home with the magnets withinstructions to do this five minutes per day withdramatic changes in blood pressure.

When testing substances on the body, as doesMichael Lebowitz, you can avoid losing yourindicator muscle since it is almost impossible toremove the substances from the taste buds on thetongue. This also avoids reactions to bad tasting

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substances and reactions to substances that mayotherwise be toxic to the body.

When wearing a magnetic bracelet on the wrist,the red blood corpuscles (RBC's) are caused to spinas they pass by the magnet via the radial artery; thisbreaks up clumping and cleans the debris that hasaccumulated on the surface of the RBC's. This has atremendous cleansing effect on the body.

Notes:

Conclusion

Magnetic therapy has multiple uses in the AKpractice. It is a safe nontoxic noninvasive procedurethat provides another piece of the jigsaw puzzle inour approach of treating the patient via naturalmethods. Mainly because the North Pole sedatesand the South Pole tonifies.

References

Deal, S.c., Advanced Kinesiology, New LifePublishing Company, 2000, Tucson, AZ

Lebowitz, M., "Biomagnetic Testing." ICAKSummer Collected Papers, 1991, Page 97

Walther, D.S., Applied Kinesiology, Synopsis 2nd

Edition, 2000, Pueblo, CO., Page 235

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Schedule of SpeakersSaturday, July 17

The Neurology and Physiology of Precision Muscle MonitoringAdam Lehman, En.K.

Applications Using the Equilibrium of Health SquareJohn Holodnak

Create High Energy Marketing and PR PiecesJelTYTeplitz

Sacred Geometry of the Human BodyRev. Alicja Aratyn, M.Eng.

The Five Elements to Success in Sharing Touch for HealthArlene Green

The 4 Archetypes in the 5 ElementsJohanna Keller de Wild

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The Physiology and Neurology of Precision Muscle MonitoringBy AdamH. Lehman, En.K.

Introduction - The Big Picture of MuscleMonitoring

There are 3 basic models we find in the plethora ofEnergy Kinesiology modalities:

1.The Energy Readout Model

2.The General Communication Model (IndicatorMuscle)

3.The Protocol Model

The Energy Readout model is where it all began.Beginning with Applied Kinesiology and evolvinginto Touch for Health for the lay person communitythat spawned Energy Kinesiology, the EnergyReadout Model says that, for each meridian and itsrelated organ/gland, there is at least one muscle thatcan be used to assess the energy flow for thatmeridian. That muscle, therefore, acts as an "energyreadout" for that meridian. When we use thismethod, the information is limited to the specificrelationship involved.

In the General Communication Model, we learnedthat any muscle in the body can act as an indicatormuscle. This indicator muscle provides a means ofcommunication more generally, accessinginformation in a neurological/electromagneticmanner, and has the ability to explore informationoutside of the muscle's specific meridian correlation.This more generalized approach offers a flexible,and even improvisational, method of communicationwith the person being monitored.

The Protocol Model uses an indicator muscle, butfollows a specific path of action, usually based onunderstood principles of neurology andelectromagnetic flow in the body. It is, therefore,less improvisational, and utilized in more specializedforms of Energy Kinesiology that target specificbody function, such as brain integration, orsequential developmental processes such as earlyreflex development and neurological hierarchy.

Each model has its advantages and disadvantages.For the purposes of this discussion, I will focus moreon the first 2 models, as they are much morecommon in the world of Energy Kinesiology. Aswell, the protocol model simply utilized principlesfrom the other 2 models.

As the world of Energy Kinesiology developed, theuse of the Indicator Muscle model became muchmore prevalent. The ability to "ask questions" of thebody and get a response by using a single muscleseemed much easier than going through manymuscles to assess energy flow. However, theimportance of the Energy Readout model is not to beoverlooked.

When you consider the premise that each meridian,and therefore its related organ or gland is directlyrepresented by a particular muscle(s), then you cansay that the muscle is a direct neurologicalrepresentation of the energy flow in thatmeridian. So when a meridian is out of balance, thatshows in its related muscle, as originally researchedand developed by George Goodheart, D.C.

Now consider the role of an indicator muscle withone of its first uses - checking the alarm points ofChinese acupressure. By going through these pointsand using a single indicator muscle, the body has away of indicating what meridian(s) one might findstress in without monitoring a lot of differentmuscles. This is a great "shortcut" to finding wherestress exists, but consider that it is just that - ashortcut that acts as an alarm.

To use an analogy ...when a fire begins in a house,what happens? An alarm goes off in the fire station.And then what happens? Do the firemen simply getthe hoses out and begin spraying water around? Ofcourse not! They have to go to the house where thefire is.

The Indicator Muscle model often forgets this part.We get the information about the alarm, and then wesimply start to balance, ignoring the "house" - inother words, the muscle that is the direct

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neurological representation of the energy flow of themeridian - where the fire is.

In Applied Physiology (AP), these two models areintegrated in a way that is not seen in otherkinesiological modalities. Once it is known wherethe fire is (the alarm point), we then go to the muscleof that meridian (the house on fire) and monitor it toassess the actual stress found there. AP goes evenfurther still by finding where in the range of motiona muscle's imbalance is showing, and adds that tothe circuit. In this way, AP doesn't just go to theblock the house is on, but rather to the specific houseitself. Then we begin to balance! Now we're puttingout the fire directly, having alerted and activated thebody's neurology where the actual problem is. Whyis this important?

Dr. Paul Nogier, a French neurologist considered tobe the father of modern Auricular Therapy, didresearch on the results he achieved (or not) based onacti vation of a person's problem. He found that if hetreated his patients based on what he was told abouttheir problem, he got pretty good results - maybe upto 50% of the time. However, when he treated hispatients with their problem activated, in other words,aggravating a pain or whatever it took to activate theneurology of the problem itself, his results jumpedup to 95%. Pretty significant.

Considering that the muscle related to the meridianis the neurological representation of the imbalancefound via the alarm point, then activating thatmuscle alerts the body as to where to direct thehealing modality applied when the balancing isdone.

Unfortunately, the prevalence of the IndicatorMuscle Model has seemingly led to a deteriorationof the use of the Energy Readout Model. In fact, theuse of precision muscle monitoring as the tool of theEnergy Readout Model is often neglected orconsidered a burden, despite it being the foundationof what Energy Kinesiology is about.

It is the author's opinion that integrating the twomodels will help achieve better results by activatingmore neurology around the actual imbalance(s)found using the indicator muscle.

With this in mind, the purpose of this paper is toprovide further information about the importance ofprecision muscle monitoring, and why it's important.Please keep in mind that this is a complex topic, sowhat follows is a condensed overview to assist inunderstanding the core principles of musclefunction.

The reader is encouraged to explore further if deeperunderstanding is desired. The bibliography providessome key places for continued study.

The Why We Do The Things We Do

Goodheart's original premise of each muscle in thebody being related to a specific meridian (andtherefore, also to that meridian's organ or gland)provides the basis for why it's important to monitorthat muscle precisely. So let's delve deeper into that.

Every muscle in the body has a defined action andrange of motion. Because the body has the capabilityof very complex movements, it is often beyond asingle muscle's ability to carry out thesemovements. A muscle often needs assistance.

As well, muscles need opposition in order to carryout refined movement. With no opposition, ouractions would be very abrupt and extreme, causingawkward and jerky movement. In most cases, theopposition comes from a group of muscles, not just asingle muscle, again due to the complexity ofmovement in the body.

Due to the nature of these relationships, we havespecific names to define the muscle we are focusingour attention on, and the other muscles in its sphereof action.

The muscle whose movement we are focusing on iscalled the agonist, or prime mover. This muscle isour point of focus when monitoring.

Any muscle that assists the agonist in its movementis called a synergist.

Any muscle that opposes the agonist in itsmovement is called an antagonist.

Keep in mind that while a synergist is helping anagonist do a particular movement, it is outside of its

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own prime range of motion, so it doesn't have all itsstrength to apply to that movement. It simply assistsby adding some peripheral strength.

As well, as mentioned above, the antagonists don'tdirectly oppose a particular muscle's primarymovement action. There is usually more than oneantagonist, whose combined actions oppose theagonist's movement. The best example of anexception to note here is the biceps and triceps,which do directly oppose each other.

Muscles create movement by attaching to 2 differentbones with at least one joint in between. Betweenthese two attachment areas are tendons - fibrous andlargely inflexible tissues that attach to the respectivebones on either side - and the belly of the musclemade up of fibers that have the ability to contractand extend. When the fibers contract, they pull onthe tendons, which pull on the bones and bring themcloser to each other, creating movement. As thesefibers are bundled together and all go in the samedirection, then the movement is defined by that verydirection. This movement, therefore, defines themuscle's action, and becomes the basis for figuringout what position to put the muscle in, and how tomonitor it.

The Art of Kinesiology

Muscle monitoring originally developed as a meansof assessing neurological function to determinewhere injury OCCUlTed.Knowing that the spinalsegments each provide neurological enervationpathways to the muscles in a certain area of thebody, then determining which muscles in that areaare able to "hold" or not against pressure has theability to identify at what spinal segment an injuryoccurred. In order to precisely determine this, it isimportant to isolate, as much as possible, a particularmuscle's (the agonist) action and range of motion.As noted above, we use the muscle's anatomy tohelp figure this out.

Unfortunately, it can get a little more complicated.Some muscles have more than one attachment ateach or both end, giving those muscles the ability tohave more than one, or a more complex, action. Aswell, some synergists kick in close to the edges ofanother muscles prime movement and take over as

the prime mover, potentially confusing where therange of motion begins and/or ends.

So the trick of monitoring a muscle precisely isknowing how to position it such that its action is asisolated as possible from its synergists, and how tomonitor it in such a way (direction) that the specificaction of the muscle is challenged.

And why is this important? Well, if the premise thatwe kinesiologists go by is that each muscle is relatedto a specific meridian, and we're monitoring thatmuscle in order to get the energy readout of itsrelated meridian, then it's important to monitor thatmuscle in such a way as to negate the synergists asmuch as possible. This is because we don't wantinformation bleeding in from the synergist(s), whoserelated meridian(s) is likely different than the onewe're trying to get information about!

This is also why the quality of the musclemonitoring itself is also so important. If the pressureused is either abrupt or strong enough that it causesrecruitment from the synergists, then the premise ofthe Energy Readout Model is defeated. This is whywe learn to apply gradual pressure, only to the pointof feeling the agonist muscle respond, so that we getthe information we're looking for accurately.

The combination of isolating a muscle and gentlymonitoring it within its range of motion is the art ofEnergy Kinesiology.

The 7 States of Muscle Stress

In Touch for Health, as in the original AppliedKinesiology model, we deal with essentially twostates of a muscle monitored in contraction -lockedand unlocked. Richard Utt, the originator of AppliedPhysiology, identified seven states of muscle stress.Five of these states have been adopted in one formor another by other kinesiology modalities, and serveour purposes for this discussion as well. Let's lookat the neurology of these states.

It has been shown that a properly functioning musclein contraction has a frequency between 39 and 59millivolts (mv). This range, therefore, indicates amuscle that is in homeostasis, or as we might say, inbalance. However, when the frequency moves out ofthis range, one of two things happen - either the

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muscle becomes more rigid, or it weakens. Thiscauses "erratic" behavior in the muscle. How doesthis erratic behavior express itself?

If the frequency drops to between 39mv and 0, thenthe muscle weakens, which shows as an unlockingmuscle when monitoring it. Because a muscle incontraction is referred to as a facilitating muscle(think of a contracting muscle as "facilitating"movement), this under energy response is called"underfacilitated." (Please refer to the chart at theend of this section, on page 6, for a visualrepresentation of the following discussion)

When the frequency of a contracted/facilitatingmuscle is over 59mv, then the muscle becomes morerigid. In Energy Kinesiology, this shows up as amuscle that will not respond to spindle cellmanipulation. In other words, when contracted, if wepinch the belly of the muscle to send a signal that themuscle is too contracted and to unlock it (more onthis later), that signal does not get responded to withthe proper unlocking response. This locked musclethat won't unlock when we send the message to doso is called "overfacilitated."

We now have identified 3 states of a muscle:

1. Homeostasis (a muscle working properly,between 39-59mv),

2. Underfacilitated (an unlocking muscle that won'tlock when we tell it to, 0-39mv), and

3. Overfacilitated (a muscle that is locked, butwon't unlock when we tell it to, over 59mv).

What is often overlooked is that a muscle'sneurology goes beyond simply telling a muscle tocontract (or not) to initiate movement. When in therole of an antagonist, a muscle must also work toresist the movement of its opposing muscles. In thisway, a muscle acts as an inhibitor of movement.This is a crucial function. The neurology is morecomplicated than for facilitation, with signalscoming from a number of different areas, rangingfrom spinal reflexes to deep brain centers, as well asthe cerebellum and cortical motor areas. As a result,when we monitor a muscle only in contraction, weare neglecting responses from these otherneurological areas that are an important part of a

muscle's overall function and circuitry. Returning toour fire analogy, it would be like the firemen comingto the house and only checking the living room,spraying water around to put out fire, and thenleaving without checking the kitchen and bedrooms.In Applied Physiology, based on the originalreseaJ'ch of Richard Utt, we monitor muscles in bothcontraction and extension, to make sure we arechecking more thoroughly the neurology of themuscle in question - both its agonist and antagonistfunctions. Monitoring in contraction isfacilitatationmonitoring, challenging a muscles ability to hold itscontracted state, and functioning in balance with itsantagonist inhibitors. Monitoring in extension isinhibition monitoring. This is looking at a muscle'sability to play nice with its opposing contractingmuscles.

While the muscle whose range of motion you'reworking with is not doing the "work" of holding(contracting to maintain its position, which is beingaccomplished by the opposing muscles), its functionto maintain a balance through its role as an inhibitoris still part of the muscle circuit. By working withthis muscle within its range of motion, and notnecessarily within the range of motion of thefacilitating (contracting) muscles, we are set up tounderstand the question we are asking. To furtherensure that the information we are obtaining isrelevant to the inhibition function of the muscle weare monitoring in extension, we use the spindle cellsof that muscle (not the contracting muscles) to sendthe messages to unlock and lock again. What'simportant to note about the spindle cell message wesend in this circumstance is that we reverse thedirection of the spindle manipulation. In otherwords, to send the unlock message for inhibitionmonitoring, we spread the spindle cells, and then wepinch to send the lock message. This is directlyopposite to what is done when monitoring themuscle in contraction! facilitation monitoring.

Using the above model of electrical current in amuscle, and applying it to inhibition monitoring(monitoring in extension), we can state that a musclebetween -39mv and -59mv is functioningnormally ...in homeostasis. Notice these are negativenumbers, as opposed to the positive voltagesgenerated in contraction.

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However, if a muscle is between 0 and -39mv, andtherefore unlocking when monitored in the oppositedirection of its normal facilitation action, but stillwithin its true range of motion, we say that it isoverinhibited. This monitoring of a muscle in theopposite direction of it facilitation action is checkingits role as an inhibitor.

When a muscle is between -59mv and -lOOmv,thereby monitoring as locked when monitored in theopposite direction of its normal facilitation action,but still within its true range of motion, and will notunlock when its spindle cells are manipulated, thenwe say the muscle is underinhibited.

We've now identified 2 more states of muscle stress,giving us a total of 5 (again, please see the chartbelow):

4. Overinhibited (an unlocking muscle that won'tlock when we tell it to, between 0 and -39mv)

5. Underinhibited (a locking muscle that won'tunlock when we tell it to, between -59 and -100mv)

We still have homeostasis, which represents amuscle in balance, between -39mv and -59mv whenmonitored in extension.

You may notice an interesting difference in thenames of the muscle states between contraction andextension. The contracted state between 0 and 39mvis called underfacilitated, while the extended statebetween 0 and -39mv is called overinhibited. Each isrepresented by an unlock when monitored, andwon't lock when the appropriate spindle message issent. It is usually easier to think of the under-energyas a result of its relationship to active function - acontracting muscle trying to stay contracted (and, inthis case, failing). Keep in mind that opposingmuscles are meant to be working in balance to eachother. And because they are in opposition to eachother, then consider that if one is under functioning,it may be because the opposition is over functioning.In this case, the inhibitor is winning the battlebetween the two, and not being in balance with each

other, an underfacilitated muscle (or muscle group)is being opposed by an overinhibited antagonist.

Conversely, when a contracted muscle isoverfacilitated (greater than 59mv), then itsinhibiting antagonist is not doing enough to keep itin balance. Therefore, it is underinhibiting (greaterthan -59mv). Regardless of which direction you'remonitoring a muscle in, this is represented by amuscle monitor that is locked and won't unlock withspindle messaging.I often refer to monitoring in extension as being in"opposite land." You monitor the muscle in theopposite direction, you apply spindle messaging inthe opposite way than in contraction (spreading tosend the message to unlock, pinching to send themessage to lock), and the names of the stress statesare opposite as well.

This is summed up in this manner:

Overfacilitated (OF) and underinhibited (UI) speakto muscles in either contraction or extension(respectively) that are locked and won't unlock withspindle messaging.

Underfacilitated (UF) and overinhibited (01) speakto muscles in either contraction or extension(respectively) that are unlocked and won't lock withspindle messaging.

There are 2 other states, which are extreme states ofunderfacilitation/overinhibition (unlocking musclesthat won't lock) and overfacilitation/underinhibition(locking muscles that won't unlock). The former isrepresented by muscles that are at Omv, andtherefore don't function at all. This state is calledflaccid paralysis, and results in people that need tobe carried around and are otherwise unable togenerate muscle function on their own. On the otherside of the spectrum are muscles that are beyond the100mv or -100mv extremes. This is called spasticparalysis, often seen in scenarios such as cerebralpalsy, and shows itself as limbs that are bent andcan't be straightened because some muscles areextremely contracted and can't be straightened.

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Muscle Proprioception - The Spindle CellsMuscle spindle cells are specialized cells that arewrapped around groups of intrafusal (inner) fibersdeep in the belly of every muscle. As proprioceptors,their function is to alert the brain to the state of theextrafusal (outer) muscle fibers that surround them-how contracted or extended they are - as well as tothe speed that the fibers are changing. In this way,they provide important protective information - if amuscle is extending too quickly such that the fibersmight tear or the joint become hyperextended, thenthis message gets quickly relayed neurologically andthe fibers are told to contract again to stop thehyperextension. As well, the information of howcontracted or extended the muscle is, even when notmoving, is used to determine how much oppositionis necessary from the antagonists to maintain a staticposition. In other words, there is an enormousamount of information being relayed from thespindle cells that is critical to posture and movementon an on-going basis - millions of neurologicalmessages every second.

Muscles have several groups of fibers that combineto create movement and resistance. The outer fibers,known as extrafusal fibers, are the main workers -they are stimulated by alpha motor neurons, whosemessages originate in the motor cortex and arefurther processed in the spinal cord before exiting tothe muscle itself. The fibers are bundled into groupsof various sizes, anywhere from 3 to severalhundred, referred to as motor units. In this way, theyare able to receive messages for a variety of levels ofcontraction and therefore, movement. If only a smallamount of movement is needed, a small bundle ofonly 6 fibers might be stimulated. If more than thatis necessary, maybe that bundle of 6 is supplementedwith another bundle of 14. If a big movement isnecessary, maybe a bundle of 20 is stimulated. Andif the whole muscle must contract, then they all getstimulated. With larger muscles, these numberswould of course be greater.

Anatomy of a Spindle

Within the outer layer of extrafusal fibers that aregetting the alpha messages are other bundles offibers, the intrafusal fibers, that have the spindlecells wrapped around them, and whose ends attachto the extrafusal fibers. In this way, as the extrafusal

fibers extend or contract, they stretch or squeeze theouter portions of the intrafusal fibers.

Intrafusal bundles are smaller than extrafusalbundles, containing anywhere from 3 to 12 fibers perbundle. The intrafusal fibers are different fromextrafusal fibers in that they have contractile regionsat the ends and a non-contractile center receptor area(exactly the opposite of an extrafusal fiber, whichcontracts in the middle, but not at the ends wherethey eventually attach to bones as tendons). So whenthe extrafusal fibers extend and stretch the ends ofthe intrafusal fibers, this eventually stretches thecentral sensory region and stimulates it to send itsmessage through the spindle cell neurology.

There are 2 types of intrafusal fibers - nuclear bagand nuclear chain. The nuclear bag fibers are bothlonger, and wider in diameter in the central sensoryportion due to a larger amount of cell nucleigathered there. There are anywhere from 1 to 3nuclear bags in each spindle.

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Nuclear chain fibers are half the length of a bag, andhave nuclei lined up in a row (like a chain). Theremay be anywhere from 3 to 9 of these in eachspindle.

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The Neurology of a Spindle

The neurons that are connected to the spindle cellsare not alpha motor neurons, but rather gammamotor neurons.

There are 2 types of gamma neurons - Ia and II.

Type Ia nerve fibers, also known as the primaryending or annulospiral ending, wraps a singlesensory fiber around the central (sensory) portion ofthe spindle. These endings transmit messages as fast

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These messages are sent continuously so the bodyknows how contracted a muscle is at any time thespindle is stretched. Because these signals are sentby both primary and secondary endings, and becausethe nuclear chain fibers are the ones that both thesenerves ennervate, it is thought to be the nuclearchain fibers that are most involved with the staticresponse.

The dynamic response does both speed and statemessages. However, it is only the primary endingsthat send these messages. Therefore, it is thoughtthat the nuclear bag fibers are most involved in thisdynamic response mechanism. When the length ofthe spindle changes suddenly, then the primaryending is powerfully stimulated (remember thatthese are also some of the fastest messages in thesensory system).It doesn't matterhow big thechange is - itmight beminiscule - butif it is fast, thenthe nuclear bagfibers will

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The Physiology of the Spindle Responses

If we put the above discussion into actual practice,we find 2 key functional effects: the static reflex andthe dynamic reflex.

In each of these, the messages sent by the 2responses go to the spinal cord, where interneuronssend the messages to the brain (specifically thecerebellum, basal ganglia and cerebral cortex), andalso respond to the messages themselves for quickerresponse. In each case, the response from the

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interneurons is to do the opposite action of theoriginating message. In other words, if the dynamicresponse is stimulated by muscle extension, then theinterneuron's response is to powetfully oppose thatresponse by quickly contracting the fibers. If a longterm stretch is gradually applied such that the staticresponse is invoked, then a slower contractionmessage is returned from the interneurons.Conversely, in either of these examples, if theoriginating message was one of too muchcontraction, then a "negative" response of inhibition(relaxing of the fibers) is returned from theinterneurons.

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Much is still not known about how this mechanismfully works, and all the functions it may be involvedwith. However, it can be postulated that thiscomplex feedback system is involved in posture(including antigravity responses that allow us tomaintain standing positions through on-goingmuscle contraction), the constant balance that mustbe maintained between agonists, antagonists, andsynergists for any given movement, and the abilityto make refined and smooth movements by all thesemechanisms working together properly.

Putting It To Work

Given what we now know, it becomes easier topostulate what we are doing when we use musclemonitoring.

When we apply pressure to a muscle to gauge itsresponse, we do so with gradual force to see how themuscle responds. This would be invoking the staticstretch response and making sure it is functioningproperly. It has nothing to do with the strength of themuscle, which is based on the extrafusal fiber's

abilities. By applying our monitoring strengthgradually, up to about 2 pounds of pressure, within aspecific muscle's range of motion, we are isolatingthat muscle's action and making sure the staticreflex! response mechanism is functioning properly.

In order to further ensure that the response we aregetting is accurate and complete, we then challengethe dynamic response by pinching and spreading thespindle cells quickly to see if the muscle responds ornot.

If a muscle is not functioning properly due to itsinability to hold against gradual pressure and/ordetermining that the dynamic spindle mechanism ismalfunctioning, then we've learned something thatis dependent on what model of Kinesiology we'reworking with:

In the energy readout model, we know there is stressin the muscle, and therefore, the flow of energy in itsrelated meridian is not balanced (and based onwhether the imbalance is OF/UI or UF/OI, we cantell certain things about the nature of the stress).

In the indicator muscle model, we can no longer relyon the indicator muscle to tell us what we want toknow until we do something to bring it back intobalance. This is an important concept that is oftenoverlooked in models that use pause lock to holdstress in the neurology. In Applied Physiology werefer to this as powers of stress, and a procedure isapplied to bring the muscle back into balance beforecontinuing to look for the next piece of information.

Wrapping ItUp

As we have now seen, to identify if a muscle isreally functioning properly, it is important not onlythat it holds against a couple of pounds of pressure,but that it also will unlock when the appropriatemessage is sent to the brain. The most common wayof sending this message is with the muscle spindlecells. Affecting the spindle cells provides us withthree possible results to any muscle monitor:

1. A muscle that unlocks when told to, and locksagain when told to (homeostasis); This can bechecked with a muscle that is either locked orunlocked to begin with.

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2. A locked muscle that does not unlock when toldto (overfacilitated or underinhibited, depending onthe direction of monitoring);

3. An unlocked muscle that doesn't lock when toldto (underfacilitated or overinhibited, depending onthe direction of monitoring).

When we begin monitoring a muscle by putting itinto a contracted position and applying pressure toattempt to extend it (facilitation monitoring), thisforces the muscle to contract more in order tomaintain its position. Doing this gradually is critical- in this way, only the static gamma response isstimulated, and no "danger" message is sent to causethe muscle to unlock. If it holds, then we know it'snot underfacilitated. But it doesn't mean the muscleis in balance!

Because the muscle is in a contracted state, then wemust send a dynamic "danger" message to see if itwill unlock. To do this we must "trick" the muscle tothink it is being quickly over-contracted. By goinginto the belly of the muscle and giving it a quickpinch, this stimulates the gamma-Ia enervatednuclear bag spindle cells to fire, and through a spinalreflex as well as messages to the brain, the muscle'sfibers are told to relax. Now, when the muscle is re-monitored, it should no longer be able to holdagainst the gradual pressure that was initiallyapplied. However, if it still holds against thatpressure, then something is wrong with the system,and we would know that the muscle isoverfacilitated (OF).

Conversely, if we are monitoring a muscle in anextended state by trying to push the muscle towardscontraction (inhibition monitoring), and it holds,then we have to send a different "danger" message.With a muscle in contraction, this meant pinching itfurther into contraction. With an extended muscle, tosend the same danger message to get the muscle tounlock, we must force the fibers further into quickextension. Therefore, to send the unlock message fora muscle in extension, we spread the spindles. If itstill holds against that pressure, then something iswrong with the system, and we would know that themuscle is underinhibited (UI) - the muscle inquestion, in extension, is not inhibiting enough tocounter the contraction of its antagonists, hence, it isstaying locked.

When the muscle is unlocked, we have to send theopposite message - after all, if a contracted muscleis already unlocked, sending the unlock messageisn't going to tell us much! So for an unlockingmuscle in contraction, we spread the spindle cells tosend the message that it is too stretched and toactivate the fibers to hold contraction. For anunlocking muscle in extension, we pinch the spindlecells to see if we can get the muscles to lock again.

In either case, if an unlocked muscle does notrespond by locking again, then we have animbalance. For a muscle in contraction that won'tlock, this is underfacilitation (UP). For a muscle inextension, it is overinhibition (01) - the muscle inquestion, in extension, is overriding the antagonist'sability to lock again, and is therefore, overinhibiting.

Remember that in each case, we are working with amuscle circuit. So even though we think we aresending messages about the muscle whose spindleswe are pinching and spreading, these messages alsoaffect the associated antagonists, and they must allwork together to accomplish the desired result.

Conclusion

As a result of the above discussions, we see that theneurology of a muscle provides us with a lot ofinformation that affects how we, as EnergyKinesiologists, do what we do. We've seen that theposition we place a muscle in, and the pressure weuse, are important to the accuracy of the informationwe obtain through the use of muscle monitoring.When we move outside of the boundaries of theactual neurology of the body, we can no longer besure of what information we're getting. If EnergyKinesiology is to become well regarded in themainstream of the healing arts, then awareness andconsistent application of these principles isimportant.

We have also seen how muscle spindle cells actuallywork, an important part of muscle neurology that weoften use. Now that we know how they function, itbecomes important again to use them properly, in aneurological manner. If the spindle cells are notpinched or spread in the direction of the fibers, or ifenough pressure to actually push into the belly of themuscle and activate the spindles is not used, then themessage is not being sent. If these guidelines are not

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being followed, but muscle changes are beingobserved, then it is not the neurology that is causingthat. Neither is it intent, as many often offer as areason. Rather, it is more likely the expectation ofthe practitioner, instead of the actual neurology ofthe client, that is influencing the outcome, andthereby doing the client a dis-service. Again, ifEnergy Kinesiology is to become well respected,then the tools we profess to use must be usedproperly so that the results can be explained.Otherwise, one must wonder why we even use thesemechanisms if we use them improperly whileclaiming they are the basis of what we do.

Notes:

Energy Kinesiology is the use of muscle monitoringas the voice of the subconscious. As such, itprovides us with an incredibly useful tool to assistothers in their healing process by identifyingblockages to healing and letting the body indicatewhat will work best for unblocking those blockages.By learning how this tool works, and the neurologybehind it, we can benefit - and more importantly,our clients can benefit! - by honoring the principlesof the neurology as a means of getting more accurateinformation and understanding what that informationmeans.

Adam Lehman, En.K., has been in love with EnergyKinesiology and related healing arts for more than 2decades. He is Director of the Institute ofBioEnergetic Arts & Sciences in Sonoma,California, where he maintains his practice andteaches workshops. As well, Adam travels aroundthe U.S. and internationally giving talks andteaching seminars. He is the Advanced Instructorand Instructor Trainer for Applied Physiology in theUS and abroad.

Bibliography

Utt, Richard1984

Stress: The Nature of the Beast,

Guyton, Arthur C. Textbook of MedicalPhysiology, 8th ed. 1991

Lehman, Adam Notes from variousAnatomy/Physiology classes and workshops

Internet through Google

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Applications Using the Equilibrium of Health SquareBy John Holodnak

THE EQUILIBRIUM OF HEALTH SQUARE

PHYSICALPosture; Skeletal System; Muscles; Structure;

Movement; Co-ordination; Organs; Nerves

HEALTHBALANCE

EQUALS

EQUILIBRIUM OFWELLBEING

CHEMISTRYChemical Body Processes; Hormone& Enzyme Activity & Functioning;

Digestive Functioning; NerveFunctioning; Nerve Chemistry Firing;

Nutrient Interactive Body FunctionProcessing; Diet; Eating Habits;

MIND-MENTALLogical Brain; Cognitive Brain;Intellect; Rationale; StructuredThinking; Analytical Thinking;Psychological Factors; Set Body

Programs; Polarity FiringMechanisms; Nervous System

SOUL / SPIRITUAL / EMOTIONSIntuitive; Gut Feeling; Heart Feeling; Psyche;

Inner Voice;Grounded Feeling; Aura; Force Field;Emotional Feeling Status; Self Image

WHEN ALL SIDES ARE EQUAL & IN BALANCE, THIS WILL BRING EQUILIBRIUM OF WELLBEING

The Development of the SquareFor many years the "Triad of Health", has been seenand used (eg - Touch for Health manual and otherhealth related literature). The "Triad of Health" andthe equilateral triangle has represented Mind - Body- Soul or Physical - Chemical - Emotional, etc.Over years of working with these triangles I havefelt there was a missing element. What I haverealised is there are actually four components to ourmakeup, not three. Each of the four can be separateentities but have influences over each other.

What I realised also there was an association to thenumerology number of 4 (square). The numerology

number of 4 relates to the practical world of living,present time living, reality, doing, creating,planning, actioning, movement, momentum,manifesting

• 4 = relates to the practical world we live in• 4 = relates to our practical experiences that

need to be experienced• 4 = 4 sides of the square related to our

health balance, the equilibrium of health &wellbeing

We are part of the elements of air, earth, water andfire. There are 4 functions that relate to sensation,

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feeling, logical thought and intuition. There are 4components of us, physical, chemical, mental andemotional - spiritual.

PhysicalThe physical side is about our physical structure(bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, cells, organs,nerves, etc). These are the hardware components ofourselves, which also involves the movement of thebody as this is mechanical (walking, running,twisting, bending, extending, etc).The associated observed patterns can be seen withmovement, coordination and balance.

Some associated kinesiology applications arecovered by Touch for Health(TFH); NeuralOrganisation Technique (NOT); Edu-K.

ChemicalThe chemistry side covers chemical processing andregulating our bodies. One process relates toconverting food fuel into useable fuel (nutrients -sugars, fats, carbs, starches, vitamins, minerals, traceelements, proteins, amino acids, etc) for differentfunctions and processes the body requires to operateand regulate efficiently. Also, breaking food downthrough the digestive system to enter the bloodsystem (nutrient carrier), to be transported to bodyorgans, glands and cells so specific set programmedroles and functions can be fulfilled. The setprogrammed roles for elimination systems arecovered under this as well. Regulation of bodyfunctions are assisted by hormones, co-enzymes,enzymes, nervous system and the firing mechanismswhich require nutrients to assist with efficiency forthe physical, mental and emotional systems. Evenwithin the cell's DNA replication process there is achemical reaction for energy production (ATP).Using an example, the sex hormones influenceapproximately 80% of all bodily functions andprocesses, the way we think, feel and respond todifferent stimuli, physically, chemically andemotionally.

The associated observed patterns are seen throughskin, nails, iris, sclera distortions and discolourationsand changes in blood chemistry, allergy issues, etc.

Some associated kinesiology applications arecovered under TFH; ICPKP; BKP; Applied

Biokinetics where chemistry sides of the body areaddressed.Mind - MentalThe mind-mental side is where logistical setprogrammed functions occur which are pertinent tovarious bodily functions (ie. heart beat and rhythm;breathing rate and rhythm). The firing mechanismsare polarity based with varying positive and negativepotentials relating to different current and voltagerates, as well as various electromagnetic intensitiesaround cells in the body. This relates to theelectricity potential, which is part of nerve filing,impulses and stimuli that activate various bodilyfunctions (ie, nerve impulses down the spinalcolumn; and nerves to activate muscles for bodymovement) and we need a certain amount ofelectrical potential for activities to occur in bothconscious and subconscious programs. Learntprograms go initially into the conscious mind thenfurther log into the subconscious mind to becomeautomatic programs (learning to walk, riding a bike,driving a car, habits, etc) which associate to robotictypes of programmed patterns. Similar to acomputer, these are set written programs.

The associated observed patterns are seen throughstructure function facial traits; types of bodymovements and actions; behavioural patterns, etc.

Some associated kinesiology applications arecovered under Applied Physiology (AP); LEAP;Edu-K; NOT; etc.

Each of these three sides/aspects of ourselves havethe same characteristics for us all, no matter who orwhat we are (male, female, animal, mammal, etc).What makes us individual and creates personalidentity with the way these functions operate andactivate is related to the fourth side - the soul,spiritual and emotional side.

Soul - Spiritual - EmotionalThe soul, spiritual, emotional side relates to ourindividualism and has no physical substance orhardware. It has associations to our five input senses(vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch). It is all mainlysoftware that is stored holographically orenergetically in the body cells, chromosomes, DNA,chakras and auric levels. The storage of thisindividualism is held by a certain combinationpotential charge (+ve and/or -ve,

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electromagnetically) which can be held consciously,subconsciously, cellular level, DNA level, chakraand/or auric level (computer software is modeled thesame). Everything that we do and experienceconnects with an associated feeling emotion.Depending on how we respond will be determinedon the interpretation of the input 5 senses along withthe associated feeling emotion. Interpretation can bepast fear based or present time open minded basedwithout conditions or something inbetween. Om pastconditioning is related to interpretation experienceswhich are actual feeling based experienceinterpretations which are stored in the body. Withevery action, process, movement, etc that is done,there is an associated feeling emotion which can beeither positive or negative (willingness orresistance). Our inner voice (self talk) can bestrongly influenced by all of the above andinfluences our self image and whether we movebackwards, forwards, stay stuck, be inspired,determined, resentful, fearful or phobic. This makesdriving your car very individual, as some drive slow,cautiously, fast or something in the middle,depending on the interpretation of what is in front ofthem and/or around them. When individuals have asense of something is not quite tight (intuitiveness,psyche, gut feeling, etc), it is the change ofelectromagnetic charge or reactive or distortedenergy that influences or reacts, which in turn makesindividuals respond accordingly (welcoming orfeeling threatened). This is related to living orsurviving in the past, present or future according tothe memory software programming.

The soul, spiritual, emotional side of us creates animprint on every factor of the other 3 sides and canhave impacts on our conscious and subconsciousprograms. They become all intertwined. Using anexample of walking, we can have enthusiasm so wewalk upright with zest or there can be anunwillingness, which can bring a poor posture and ashovel of the feet. Poor eating habits can affect ourposture, it will affect our mind - mental facilities byputting it into scramble and also put a dampening onthe energy mass. Again, with every action, processor movement that is done, there is an associatedfeeling emotion which can be either positive ornegative (willingness or resistance).

The associated observed patterns are seen throughbehavioural response patterns; emotional posture

patterns; auras; individual iris and sclera patterns;etc.Some associated kinesiology applications arecovered under Three In One Concepts; CounsellingKinesiology; Neuro-Training; TFH Metaphors;Spiritual Kinesiology; etc.

Application Balancing ProtocolEssential Pretests before starting:

Body HydrationSwitching on for Brain & Body IntegrationBrain (CV) & Spine (GV) MeridianEnergiserThymus Gland Energiser TapWalking Gait - Brain Integration &CoordinationCalf Muscle & Achilles Tendon ReleaseCross Crawl Integration

Application - Demonstration 1 ProcedureUsing the "Equilibrium of Health Square"Test for:

• Priority side affected that is under challenge• Component ofthe affected side (chemical ~

hormonal ~ adrenal)• Any Reactive sides of the Health Square? If

yes, which sides and what components ofthe affected sides

• Priority emotion using appropriateEmotional Charts

• % negative stress; % happiness; %willingness to change / improve

• Time factors - (past, present, future)• Kinesiology Balance required• Important to clear unwanted baggage;• Willingness to regain balance (work rest &

play); regain happiness; % willingness torespect and to honour self and others (asappropriate) .

Application - Demonstration 2 ProcedureNutrition in Relation to the Health SquareWhen nutrition comes up as a correction then thiscan be further opened up.Nutrition for the PhysicalDoing Alone - general movement; walking; running;swimming; sport; playing; sleeping; sitting; etcDoing with Others - sport; walking; activity play;etc.

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Nutrition for the ChemicalFood - general balanced eating; constitutional bodytype eating; blood sugar type eating; blood typeeating; specific directional eating for assistingparticular body areas; eating timing; protein;vegetables; carbohydrates; sugars; fruit; fats;legumes; water; liquids; stimulants; sedators;Supplements - vitamins; macro, micro, traceminerals; amino acids; fats; herbs; homoeopathics;essences;Fresh air; breathing;

Nutrition for the Mind - MentalAlone - reading; meditation; sleeping; general orspecific exercise; crosscrawl exercises (Brain Gymtype); computer games; work; positive personalchallenges; writing; etcGroup participation - social; sport; chess; draughts;board/ card games; work; team participatingchallenges; etc.

Nutrition for the Soul/Spiritual/EmotionalAlone - meditation; reading; prayer; affirmations;quietness; writing; talking aloud to the wall (this istalking to the other sides of you); crying; laughing;smiling; singing; music; watching a TV show /program; open space; country air; sitting by thewater, ocean, etc; being with pets / animals; etc.Group - family gatherings; friends & socialness;parties; playing with your children; laughing;smiling; choir singing; movies; shows; etc.

Application - Demonstration 3 ProcedureWhen working within a balance, there are timeswhen the strengthening technique or correction mayrelate to nutrition / supplements / herbs /homeopathies / etc. For the purpose of thisdemonstration application example, herbs will beused and tested with accordingly. Referral to thebelow Herbal Classification will be used for theapplication demonstration.

Test for:• Physical; chemical; mental;

emotional/spiritual. (As in HerbalClassification below.)

• Within each classification - (as underphysical -7 structural or pain &inflammation)

• Which herb(s).

• Appropriate way to be taken: -Liquid, dried; fresh; powdered; tablet form;tea; poultice; succus; food (spices,garnishes, etc); body care (skin care,perfumes, body lotions, soaps, etc);fragrances (personal, home, etc); gardening(growing them around own homeenvironment).

• Dosage: - large doses (tablespoon,teaspoon); small doses (mIs, drops);homeopathic doses; homeobotanical doses;blended doses/ combinations.

HERBAL CLASSIFICATION ACCORDINGTO THE HEALTH SQUAREPhysical FactorsStructuralOats, Comfrey, Horsetail, Fenugreek

Pain and InflammationWillow Bark, Prickly Ash, Horsetail, Oats, Comfrey,Hawthorn, Gota kola, Cats Claw, Celery, Astragalus

Chemistry FactorsSex HormonesSex hormonal imbalances (females & males), libido)Chastetree, Paeony, Don Quai, Blue Cohosh, FalseUnicorn, True Unicorn, Golden Seal, Crampbark,Raspberry, Calendula, Sarsparilla

Female MenopauseDon Quai, Wild Yam, Sarsparilla, Shaktavari, MuiraPuina, Horny Goat Weed,

Male MenopauseSarsparilla, Damiana, Muira Puina, Horny GoatWeed

Thyriod HormonesBladderwack, Coleus, Yellow Kelp, Bugleweed

Adrenal Hormones (adrenalin, cortisol)Licorice, Withania, Polygonum, Siberian Ginseng,Korean Ginseng, Rosehips, Rehmmania

Glucose HormonesJambul, Goat's Rue, Licorice, Cinnamon, Stevia

Digestion

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Marshmallow, Slippery Elm, Meadowsweet, LemonBalm, Barberry, Gentian, Cinnamon, Pomegranate,Pau D'arco, Pepperment, Aloe, Paw Paw,LiverSt Mary's Thistle, Andrographis, Dandelion Root,Schisandra, Bupleurum, Globe Artichoke, Turmeric,

LungMullein, Elder Flowers, Eyebright, Albizia,Horseradish, Garlic Succus, Hyssop, Euphobia,TylophoraExcess AcidityMeadowsweet, Barberry, Clivers, Calendula,

ImmuneEchinacea, Andrographis, Olive leaf, Qing Hao,Astragalus, Chinese Wormwood, Black Walnut,Cal's Claw, Clivers, Calendula, Bloodroot, NettlesLeaf, Albizia, Goji, Bupleurum

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Create High Energy Marketing and PR PiecesBy Jerry Teplitz

© 2004 Jerry Y. Teplitz

Have you ever wondered why somemarketing and public relations pieces are moreeffective than others? Why do some ads get thrownin the trash, while others convince customers to buy?Or why do Internet surfers skip some web pages, butstop to read others? One explanation is the energythese materials create. If energy created by the pieceis positive, it wins more attention and more business.But if the energy is negative, the piece ultimatelyfails and people click somewhere else, or throw it inthe trash.

Although this "energy stuff' may seem likenonsense, it actually works. It stems from overtwenty years of studies and applications inbehavioral kinesiology, or muscle checking. Andyou can use it to create more effective marketingpieces for your business.

What kind of results can you expect?

Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup for theSoul book series, has publicly said he will notrelease a Chicken Soup book until it's been throughthis Kinesiology process. They have now sold over90 million copies of their books.

What is Kinesiology?Your brain constantly sends electronic

messages through your nervous system, creating anenergy field around your entire body. When one ofthose electronic impulses is interrupted by anotherenergy field, it can be measured by a physical,muscular reaction. Behavioral Kinesiology is themeasurement tool that taps into your body's naturalenergy fields and determines how everything aroundyou affects you.

Essentially, your thoughts elicit a physicalreaction. And positive thoughts send physicallydifferent energy signals than negative thoughts. Sowhen you see something, maybe an advertisementfor a product or a company web site, your brainsends either a positive or negative response to thevisual signal. When you look at a marketing piece,you are subconsciously intercepting the energy ofthis piece as positive or negative.

Every advertisement you see has an energyattached to it that can either encourage you to readthe copy or throw the piece in the garbage.Therefore, all the marketing and public relationspieces you create in your business will have anactual physical effect on the people who see them.This includes everything from web copy, to visualgraphics, to text, to colors. So when you createmarketing pieces with a positive energy, they elicit apositive response and make people feel good aboutyour company.

How Does Kinesiology Work?To perform the kinesiology test, you will

need a partner for all the exercises. So have yourpartner face you with one arm at their side and theother arm extended at a ninety-degree angle from thebody as if a bird were extending its wings. Thethumb on the extended arm should point toward thefloor. Now place one of your hands just above thewrist on your partner's extended arm, and your otherhand on their opposite shoulder. To test their naturalresistance, ask your partner to resist against yourpressure on their extended arm, and then gently tryto push down on their arm. Don't attempt to force itdown; all you have to do is push firmly for a fewseconds then release.

To demonstrate the physical effects ofmental thoughts, ask your partner to think of apositive experience while keeping their armextended. Allow them to focus on their positivethought for a few seconds, and then push on theirarm as you did before. Their arm should remain firmand strong. Now allow them to focus on a negativethought, then push on their arm again. Most likely,their arm moved down much easier, despite theirefforts to keep it extended.

By doing this exercise, you've experiencedthe way thoughts affect your energy system. Andyou can use this same technique to check your websites and other promotional materials. Ask yourpartner to look at an advertisement in a magazine, ora page on a web site, and push down on their arm. Iftheir arm moves down, that means the promotionalpiece has a negative effect. But if their arm stays

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strong, then the piece is having a positive effect.You can use this technique to test the way yourcompany's marketing pieces affect the people whosee them.

How Can You Create High Energy MarketingPieces?

Start testing your company's marketing andpublic relations pieces by choosing a single pieceand gauging your partner's reaction to it using themuscle testing exercise from the previous section. Ifyour partner's arm stays strong, then the piece has apositive energy and is more likely to be an effectivemarketing tool for your organization. But if yourpartner's arm falls, then the piece has a negativeenergy and is more likely to be ineffective. But thisdoesn't mean that you should trash the whole piece.The negative energy may be originating in a singleelement of the piece, such as a graphic, a line of text,or a logo. In this case, you need to test the differentelements of the piece further.

Using the same kinesiology techniques,cover everything but a single graphic on yournegative marketing piece, and test your partner'sreaction to the graphic elements. Did their armweaken, or did it remain strong? If it remainedstrong you'll need to leave another elementuncovered and check again.

By using the process of elimination, youcan check all the parts of your promotional piecesand web pages your company uses in its prcampaigns and identify the ones that may be mosteffective, and the ones that may have a negativeeffect on potential clients.

See the Benefits in Your BusinessThis approach will allow you to begin

working at the concept design phase. When youidentify and eliminate the negative elements, yourpieces and web sites will get a more positiveresponse from the people who see them. Instead ofpassing your ad in a magazine, your product on theshelf, or your page on the web, the public will bemore likely to stop and notice.

About the Author: Dr. Teplitz is an author, attorneyand has a Ph.D. in Wholistic Health Sciences. He isauthor of Managing Your Stress, Switched-OnLiving and Brain Gym For Business. He speaks andconsults on management, leadership, sales and

personal development issues. Contact him at 800 77-RELAX (777-3529), Email [email protected] or goto www.Teplitz.com.

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Sacred Geometry of the Human BodyBy Rev. Alicja Aratyn, M. Eng.

"There are only two ways to live your life.One is as though nothing is a miracle.The other is as if everything is."

Albert Einstein

Sacred Geometry is an enormous body of knowledgewhich can assist Touch For Health practitioners withhelping their clients. We first introduce the basics ofSacred Geometry as a way of enhancing the subtleenergy bodies. We then go on to explain fourconcepts that will be combined to create a newcomplimentary treatment option.

Sacred Geometry teaches us how, by using vibrationof shape, we can create what is needed for health,abundance, tangible objects or intangible ideas, andmuch more. Sacred Geometry shows us also howcertain energy patterns are hidden in shapes and inour body.

For centuries these sacred shapes have been used inmany spiritual traditions for such things as theinitiation of adepts into Sacred Wisdom, for attuningthose on the Path to Spiritual Development to highervibrations, and in many healing modalities tomanifest and maintain health. The main purpose ofusing shapes and patterns is to benefit from theirenergetic values which can help to create the higheststandard of balance through the manifestation of thefrequency of Gold and other vibrations of a highspiritual quality.

The first concept, however well known, needs to berestated: we are alive because our Life Force (Light)flows throughout our bodies via the meridiansystem. We charge our "batteries" during the night,when we sleep, and slowly lose the energy duringthe day. As a result of this loss, our physical body aswell as subtle energy bodies (that is the mental,emotional, spiritual bodies around our physicalbody) shrink, as per Dr. Thie description. This sameprocess, however at much faster rate, take placewhen people are sick or their energetic system iscompromised by outside influences. By measuringthese three fields we can get an idea of how rapidly

and/or severely the illness is developing and/ormeasure the reaction of the client to other energies.

The question remains: how to measure the previoussize of these fields if the client only comes to uswhen they are already unwell?

The second concept, which originates with AlbertEinstein, is called a "time line". A time line is a wayof tracing the vibrational echoes of a person'senergetic state. This is useful for practitioners to beable to detect and measure the nature of past statesof a clients' bio-field - that is, before they becameunwell. The vibrations generated by certain shapesin Sacred Geometry and Radiesthesia are used tomake these measurements which are, in turn, used asa reference point during sessions.

The third concept will help us understand how toaddress a health or life problem which negativelyinfluences our client. Here we have two mainapproaches:

2) Through standard Touch For Healthprocedure of touching and stimulatingacupressure points and releasing the stresswhich in effect will allow proper energyflow and expansion of energy field.

3) The other method is non-touchingapplication of energy to the effected points.We know that each acupressure point createssmall or large vortex. This vortex is able toattract and absorb the energy from thesurrounding environment. If a meridian isbalanced, the vortex is "silent" which meansit is almost inactive or "closed". However, ifa meridian is depleted of energy, the vortexbecomes more active, spins faster, andenlarges itself in order to attract moreenergy from an external source. Therefore, ifwe place an object vibrating strongly at afrequency compatible with a givenacupressure point's energy then this energywill be absorbed by that acupressure pointand will spread throughout the meridian to

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balance it.The final concept relates to the tools we use to createthis external energy source. To this end we useradiesthetic tools commonly called pendulums.Radiesthesia is the European term of vast field ofexpertise which encompasses what is known inNorth America as Dowsing as well as SacredGeometry. The word Radiesthesia is derived fromtwo words: the Latin word "Radius" which means"Ray" and Greek word "Aesthesis", which means"Sensitivity". Together they refer people's sensitivityto vibrations (or rays) radiated by the human body orobjects in our environment. In order to detect orcreate those vibrations we may use pendulums.Those which will interest us are based on SacredGeometry principles and are called in Europe"healing" or "therapeutic" pendulums. They are ableto either supply with energy or clear (remove) excessof energy from acupressure point.

Let's now combine all four concepts together tooutline balancing procedure. We will practice thismethod during our session on the Conference.

4) When client come to us with a problem thePractitioner must first assess his health usingkinesiology (mostly the neurolymphatic andneurovascular points).

5) The Practitioner travels along client's "timeline" to check his balance before theproblem appeared.

6) The Practitioner then returns to the presentwith new information regarding their client'sproblem.

7) Using therapeutic pendulums thePractitioner creates the desired vibrationsand passes them to the acupressure pointthrough which problems or unbalance maybe addressed.

8) By using Touch For Health and Kinesiologyprocedures the Practitioner checks if balanceof client's energetic system has beenrestored.

Each step of the 5 steps technique will be presentedand described in detail during session.(For those who will not attend the Conference:please refer to Home Page of our websitewww.intuitivedowsing.com . Details regarding

treatment procedure are posted there under "TouchFor Health Non-Touching Treatment". Thank you!)During the session participants will also practice theapplication of other Sacred Geometry Shapes suchas DNA Spiral, used by many practitioners usingnumber of alternative medicine modalities to balanceclient's energetic system. Many Kirlian photographswill be shown to demonstrate changes in the client'sbio-field. Attendees will have a unique chance toexperiment with different Sacred Geometry shapesto experience how they work and how they influencethe physical body as well as how they can changeattitudes toward life's challenges.

About Rev. ALICJA ARA TYN, M. Eng.

Alicja Aratyn will change your life forever as she hasfor thousands of others around the world.Over last 17 years she teaches, leads and inspires aswell as heals and consults to help people bring theirlives to the next level of awareness. As a natural bornhealer she shares her gift generously.

Alicja Aratyn, born in Poland, is an EnvironmentalEngineer by profession. Her early interest inMetaphysical knowledge and Mysticism led her tofurther involvement in the student movement inEurope in the 70' sand 80' s.In 1991 she moved to Canada with her son, Tom.Many personal challenges and the sickness of herson made Alicja put her theoretical knowledge intopractice. First-hand personal, positive experienceconvinced her to stay with Alternative methods andEsotericism as a full time business. Therefore since1993 Alicja has dedicated her professional life tosharing her expertise and knowledge to improve thequality of life of many people. She founded the"Alicja Centre of Well-Being", which now is basedin Mississauga, Ontario, and offers many differenttreatments, personal counseling and channelingsessions as well as a variety of seminars andworkshops.Alicja Centre of Well-Being offers the world'slargest variety of Dowsing Tools, as well asprotective jewelry from around the world, Atlantisproducts, pyramids and pyramid-based instruments,neutralizers for geopathic stress and EMF, anddifferent Feng Shui remedies.

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If you have problems with choosing the proper toolfor your specific kind of dowsing work and ability,ask Alicja and you will be amazed.Alicja is Vice President of Canadian Society ofDowsing, Register Teacher with Canadian ReikiAssociation, teacher and lecturer at AmericanSociety of Dowsers. She also lectures on manyConferences and for many organizations. She is amember of prestigious Toronto Press Club.Alicja teaches her own system, "Science ofDowsing", based on old European School ofDowsing and ancient Egyptian knowledge aboutshapes, called today Sacred Geometry. She travelsextensively throughout the world to lecture, teach,lead and motivate people to enhance their personalvibration. Inher Seminars AJicja uses the newestAccelerated Learning Techniques which allow peopleto increase retention of knowledge. Her classes arealways well attended due to unique composition of vastknowledge, wisdom and incredible sense of humor.Alicja Centre of Well-Being also offers the largest onthe net variety of Metaphysical tools.

To learn about Alicja's private sessions and seminars,visit: www.intuitivedowsing.comwww.vibrationaljewellery.come-mail: [email protected] or call:(905) 848-1233.

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The Five Elements to Success in Sharing Touch for HealthBy Arlene Green

Almost every TFH student that I haveknown has been amazed and excited about TFH.They leave class enthusiastic and ready to share itwith the world around them. Then along the way,something happens and some students fail tomaintain that passion and follow through. If TFH isto grow to become a household word, we need tocreate the conditions to translate that enthusiasmfrom the classroom out into the world.

To share some of my thoughts and insightson the subject of how to be successful in sharingTFH, I will draw on the wisdom of the FiveElements energy flow and some of my ownexperience over the past 30 years of being both astudent and teacher of TFH. The Five ElementsModel is at the core of the Chinese system ofAcupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, andalso a part of the Touch for Health system. Thismodel was implicit in the Chinese view of the worldand the inter-dynamics of man's relationship withhis environment. Dr. Thie integrated these conceptsinto the Five Elements balancing model in TFH andlater introduced some of the 'metaphors' of the FiveElements into his work. Inherent in the FiveElements is an association with various qualities andaspects such as a season, emotions, etc. Thefollowing ideas draw upon the spirit of this modeland offer some creative applications in the context ofteaching TFH. I encourage you to use it as a meansof exploring your ability to be an effective teacher orsharer ofTFH. Let's start with Wood.

WOOD - The season of wood is springtime and itbegets the season of renewal and wonder in the earlybeginning of new growth. A seed is planted andbegins to bloom. It's like springtime when firsttaking TFH. A new awakening and awareness isborn of these truly amazing skills available to us atour fingertips. As we learn and gather newknowledge it feels like a seed taking root andstarting its growth. It needs to be nurtured with theknowledge and practice of these skills until it beginsto bloom.

TFH is a specialized system of healing thatis unique to many of the energy healing modalities

in that it tends to be more systematic than most. Thedisadvantage is people have to have a base ofknowledge to perform TFH, as it is not just anintuitive sensing of the energy or tapping a shortsequence of points to balance the energy. The hugeadvantage of this in depth process is that it providesmore detailed information and personalizes theprocess for each individual's needs. An addedbonus is that goal setting can address a wide varietyof issues for people on all levels and in all timeframes. Goal setting is also extremely specific inenergetic assessment and clearing, and results tendto be longer lasting. Once students master the basic14 muscle balance process, they can apply it in anunlimited amount of situations. The key is that thestudent needs to gain that knowledge first and haveconfidence in using it. As a teacher, I have seen thatthe students who take more classes and closertogether in the early stages of learning tend to be theones who gain the greatest confidence and use it inthe long run.

In addition to the need for knowledge, onceone is awakened to the amazing potential for TFH inhealing and perforrnance enhancement, studentsusually have some vision of being able to use thisfor the benefit of others. Making a commitment togo home and use it after class is critical to gainingconfidence.What knowledge do you still feel you need in orderto do or share TFH with others? How do we takethat knowledge and our vision and bring it intofruition and share it most effectively with others?

FIRE - Once you have taken a TFH class, gained alevel of confidence in using it, and want to shareyour JOY and enthusiasm for the work, one of themost important elements is keeping the FIREburning. Immersing yourself in both the skill andexperiencing the wonders of the work on a regularbasis can keep that fire burning. Some people findthat taking classes not only helps build confidence,but also keeps their enthusiasm alive. Anotherimportant way to feed that joy is when you balancesomeone and it makes a positive difference in theirlife. That supports your desire to help others and italso will encourage you to want to do it again.

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So what is your fire about? Once you find it, own it,be it, live it, express it, and share it.What special groups do you want to have an impacton?

Another aspect of that joy and enthusiasm ismaintaining that sense of heartfelt Gratitude forhaving access to such a wonderful gift ofknowledge. I was so appreciative of knowing how tohelp my baby as a new mom, that I imagined thatevery mother would want to know about TFH as away to help their children. How do we share thisinformation and enthusiasm for TFH to families asDr. Thie envisioned when he created it back in the1970s?

Loving the work, believing in the work, andholding that space of LOVE for your students orclients as you offer the work, is paramount to beingeffective and successful.Bringing not just the knowledge of the process, butalso the loving intention of helping others into thework can be as healing as the work itself. Whenspeaking, keeping an authentic heartfelt connectionwith the audience or person you are talking to isessential.

What is your intention, your 'burning'desire, your PASSION, for sharing TFH?

EARTH - Getting down to earth with our intentionsand enthusiasm means first getting our feet on theground. Having enthusiasm about the work is a startbut then you need to transform or manifest thatdesire into GOALS and an ACTION PLAN as tohow you will get out and be successful in sharingyour knowledge. Create specific, powerful goals thatwill allow your enthusiasm to continue. Write yourgoals and your action plan down on paper, includingtime deadlines for them.

Napoleon Hill in his famous Think andGrow Rich book said: "Desire is only a thought, animpulse. It is abstract and of no value, until it hasbeen transformed into its physical counterpart."Let's look at some specifics.

On an individual basis, how do youapproach friends, colleagues, acquaintances andeven skeptical family members? Sharing benefitsabout the work, rather than just its features, isusually the best way to start. People want to knowwhat the work will offer them personally. Will ithelp their sore shoulder or tight neck muscles? Canit relieve their stress? The aspect of goal balancinggreatly expands the application of the work to a

multitude of areas and people will want to knowwhat they can gain from it.

Know your audience- what are their specialneeds and what aspects of the balancing work wouldapply best for them? Speak to those special needs.Be sincere and caring (EMPATHY) and giveexamples of how those techniques have been appliedin other situations to help people. You can teach alot through personal examples or testimonials.

If you are a teacher, when looking at givinga lecture, teaching a class, or wanting to be usingthis in a practice are you trying to reach everyone ortargeting a special group of people? Have amarketing plan. If teaching or giving a presentation,decide on the date well in advance. Set up thelocation and when possible do a physical check ofthe facility or ask lots of questions beforehand tomake sure it is a comfortable space that will meetyour needs. Is the location easy to find and in a safelocation? If giving a talk at someone's house be sureto ask things like do they have pets? Some peopleare allergic or uncomfortable with animals so best tocheck that out in advance. What kind of chairs?How big is the space? Are there any distractingnoises nearby? Can the room temperature beadjusted? You want your participants to becomfortable when they are there so it is yourresponsibility to make sure the site meets your, andyour participants' needs.

If speaking to a specific audience, then tailoryour talk for their needs and interests. If not, whatkinds of general points would most people beinterested in? Do several demos when giving a talk.Involve the group in audience participation byteaching some switching on skills, auriculars andother simple techniques. Do before and afterassessments so they can notice a difference.

If giving a class, what kind ofcommunication will you have with your studentsbefore the class? Calling each one, emailing a list ofwhat to bring, class times, lunch plan, directions, etc.in advance will help your students see that you areorganized and meet their need for feelingcomfortable about what to expect. What kind ofoutline works best for you when teaching? Havingan outline of each technique, when and for howmany minutes? Or a breakdown of the techniquesfor each morning/afternoon and then go with theflow? Do you work best from a rough outline, notecards, reading or winging it? These are the kinds of

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specific details that are involved in creating anaction plan for success.

Remember if you love what you're doing,doing it will not seem like work but merely a meansto an end. Draw your sustenance from your mother- Fire- your passion and desire to share this withothers will help keep you on track even if the detailsof planning may not be the kind of thing that you getexcited about.

METAL - Now that you have the knowledge,enthusiasm, goals and action plan to share TFH, nextyou will execute the plan by calling on yourSTRENGTHS. What are the skills and attitudes thatyou have that can help you to be successful? Startwhere you feel comfortable. Maybe you feelinsecure about explaining the theoretical, but youhave a lot of enthusiasm for the results and beingable to help people. Begin there. Sheldon Deal oncesaid, "If you catch on fire, people will come frommiles to see you burn." Your enthusiasm will becontagious, and sincerity can open doors, where justknowledge may not. So use your strengths whenconveying your desire to teach or practice. I oftentell students that one's presence is far more effectivethan at times technical excellence.

Even what may seem like a quality that is anegative can be turned into a positive or strength(how yin/yang). For instance, my parents said that Icould be stubborn when I wanted something. I'velearned to turn that quality into perseverance, whichI attribute as being one of the most importantqualities that has helped to sustain me in this littleknown field over the years. Just because TFH was(is) something new and different than the norm, hasnever discouraged me from sharing it with others.Nor have I ever worried about what others maythink. My determinism coupled with my love forthe work, helps keep me focused on my end goal.Once I decide to do something, be it teaching,organizing a class or a conference, etc. I followthrough until it is complete.

Other qualities that might be important forsuccessful accomplishment of one's goals could beorganizational skills, communication skills, self-confidence, and commitment as well as followthrough.

What are the skills that you are lacking?Would taking a class to leam them, practice attoastmasters, partnering with someone who hasexpertise in them, or just paying someone to perform

them, help assist you in being more successful withyour plans?

What are the attitudes that you wish to havemore of? Do you know which ones would help youto achieve your goals? Do you take time to reflecton them, or balance for them? Do you take time togive thanks (gratitude) for the knowledge and skillsthat you do have? Do you acknowledge yourself foryour strengths of character and skills that you dohave?

One of the qualities that we all have that canbe used to help us accomplish our goals is the godgiven gift of imagination. When we can take ourpassion combined with our goals and action plan andimagine them happening, they are more likely tomanifest. That skill of imagination coupled withtechniques like ESR or goal balancing can be used toincrease our chances of being successful.

WATER - Sailing downstream or going with theflow - Once you have your vision - enthusiasm-game plan and have drawn on your strengths andresources - then it is time to put your boat into thewater and let it sail. Sometimes you find it goesdownstream easily and other times it may run intoobstructions and you may have to re-navigate to getit back on track.

What are your challenges to getting out andsuccessfully promoting or teaching TFH?

On a one-on-one level, we may get excitedabout sharing our knowledge and skills with othersbut they may not hold that same openness andenthusiasm. I remember one of my students, whowas the director of the Red Cross, really wanted hersupervisor to be open to this work but she washighly skeptical of it instead. It wasn't until ahunicane hit and they found themselves in a sheltertogether for few days, that when a severe backachegot the better of the supervisor, she grudginglyagreed to let my student balance her. Much to heramazement the balancing work relieved her pain andshe had a very different opinion of the work afterthat. My student wisely waited until a strategicallyopportune time to offer her skills to her coworker.Nothing is more convincing than first handexperience, especially when people are skeptical.

With teaching, one of the biggest roadblocksto 'being out there' may be FEAR.Most people find public speaking creates ANXIETYfor them. They say the number one fear is not deathbut public speaking. Why is that? I would guess that

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most people fear that others will judge them. But ifyou come from your passion and speak your heartand have some plan about what you would like tosay, knowing that what you will tell them can be ofgreat benefit to people, that may be the inspiration tohelp you forge ahead and try it out. Also rememberthat you probably know more than they know.Focus your attention when speaking on them, notyourself, and how excited they will be once theyhave learned about the potential for this work. Abalance can be most helpful too. But if you justknow that your strength is best at one on one thenstart there. Some teachers like to start with smallgroups of people they already know. I started by co-teaching with a friend and that way I did not feel thatI had all the responsibility to steer the ship bymyself, but that someone else was there to back meup. After the first time co-teaching then it waseasier for me to take the steering wheel and be onmy own. So know what works best for you and gofor it.

Another challenge to getting out and doingthe work, either with clients or teaching, is often thatstudents feel like they have to know it all. TFH is aprogram that teaches 'how to use the book' so it ismeant to be used. I remember at a TFH conferencewhere I was speaking about the importance ofconfidence and how that can be a key element inbeing successful, I made the comment that it wasmore important the type of 'presence' that one hadwhen seeing clients than the fact that you may lookup points in the book during the balance. The sameis true for teaching. Two women came up to meafterwards and thanked me for saying that, as theyhad chosen not to do the work because theirhusbands had most of the reflex points memorizedand they didn't. I assured them that what will mattermore to clients and students is their caring attitude,than the fact that they might look up a few points.That seemed to be the roadblock to them practicingand with this new insight they left with a renewedenthusiasm for doing the work.

Some people find that promoting the work iseasy but promoting themselves is not. One has toremember that in some ways it's a package deal.People take classes sometimes more that they'veheard great things about an instructor than just thecontent looks interesting. So look again at whatstrengths you bring to the work and feel good aboutpromoting yourself in ways that isn't ego based buttruth based.

One of the biggest challenges of our time isconveying to people the important value of this workduring financially difficult times. People are notspending as freely as they had just a few years agoand class enrollment and clients have dropped formany people. That stumbling block can be turnedaround to be used as an asset in showing people thepositive benefit of preventative health care. One ofmy students was a mom with seven children. Shecame and took my one day intro class with one ofher children, then signed up for the full TFH 1 - 4with both her 21 year old daughter and her 16 yearold son. Her children both excelled at the work andlater they all went on and took the PKP training.Last year I emailed the mom and asked her howmuch she had saved the past year since completingthe training. Her first response was probably about$2000. A few days later I received an email fromher saying she was 'shocked to discover that she hadsaved $4380 in medical costs' over the last yearsince learning TFH and using it within her family.So when reaching lay people emphasize the benefitof savings that will be gained from being able tohandle so many different health and well beingissues when they can balance themselves and theirloved ones. There's no price one can put on thevalue of being able to help one's loved ones whenthey are ill or in pain. How can a parent deny theability of being able to help one's child by havingskills at one's fingertips?

For teachers, a good target group, are thehealth professionals that need continuing educationclasses. Licensed health professionals can be foundmany times online or for a nominal fee through theMassage or Nursing boards. Be flexible both withscheduling and with making creative financing plansfor students.

Sailing your TFH boat in the rapids of liferequires the skill of flexibility and resourcefulness attimes to navigate the occasional stumbling blocks(or beaver dams) that sometimes show up.

So now that you have some perspective onsome of the key elements involved in manifestingyour vision and passion to share TFH, whichelement and its related aspects do you find to be themost challenging to you? Muscle test for which isthe priority aspect. Create a positive goal statementaround that issue. Then find a balancing activity(choose or muscle test for priority) that will addressthe stress around that issue. Remember to do some

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pre and post assessments so that you know that therehas been a shift. Do this both with the balance aswell as after a specified time frame (say two monthslater) to see how well you have been able to achieveyour goals.

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Arlene Green is one of the three TFH Facultymembers in the U.S. She has been teaching TFHsince 1981 and has taught more classes/people inthe U.S. than anyone else. Her passion is to teachTFH to both lay people and health professionals andto motivate people and instructors to share it aswell.

Arlene GreenU.S. Kinesiology Training Institute

7121 New Light TrailChapel Hill, NC 27516

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The 4 Archetypes in the 5 ElementsBy Johanna Keller-de-Wild

Why should I be part of the audience?

Maybe you have a 14 year old daughter, who pushesyou to your limits. Maybe you have parents, whoyou still don't understand, even though you're anadult now. You work with clients and sometimesmiss the point. Perhaps you're a teacher and have todeal with different types of students. Or you wish tomake peace with the annoying neighbour. There arean endless number of questions in life, when itcomes to getting on with other people. Here you willsee some old attitudes in a new light and new aspectsin old patterns.

Let's go!

How do the four Archetypes fit in the five elements?To do this we need to look at the earlier diagram ofthe five Elements.

Metal Earth

Originally the Earth was in the centre and the fourother elements were positioned around it: Wood inthe East, Metal in the West, Fire in the South andWater in the North.The orientation of Earth is in the centre - always"The place where I am right now" - from here I canmove in any of the four directions. The centre is themost important direction in Chinese cosmology, sothe word China is pronounced "Zhong Guo", where"Zhong" stands for "Middle" and "Guo" stands for"Nation".

Here lies the mystery of understanding the peoplewe come in contact with. We all carry earth in our

centre and if we are connected with it, we canrecognize the four Archetypes around us.Only through this awareness does it become clear,why we can empathize with others. We can mirrorall the Archetypes, recognize and name them. If wedo so we can easily discover that we can't handlesome of them and would prefer to avoid dealing withthem. But can we avoid our partner, our kids, omstudents or our clients, just because their currentArchetype doesn't suit our mood today? Or wouldwe prefer to understand more about theirconstitution and thus find access to them?

Definition of the term Archetype:

The four Archetypes: Melancholic, Choleric,Sanguinic and Phlegmatic were defined by Socrates.They demonstrate the basic types, which appears indifferent proportions in each of us.

A rough description of each of Archetypes:

The Melancholic (KilBl)

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The Melancholic Type is defined by his feelings. Hefeels a lot and very precisely. He is especiallyreceptive to the painful feelings. He uses this todevelop his suffering capabilities. He sees life asbeing difficult, but still worthwhile.He finds his energy in his family, this is important tohim. He only needs a small circle of people aroundhim.As his power of suffering is internalised, it becomesthe source of his thinking. From the outside we

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notice little activity, but on the inside there is a lothappening.

The Choleric (LiJGb)

A Choleric has a lot of power to start things moving.He can pull people with him, motivated and canexpand himself. He has a lot of ideas and projects.His spirit is racing and he never actually slowsdown.He loves to be the centre of attraction and everythingmust be big, loud, harsh or at the very least dramatic.He needs people around him who work for him anddo what he tells them to.He has no problems; well if he had any he wouldtackle them immediately and change the situation.Eternally and internally he is very active.

The Sanguinic (He/Si)

A sanguinic type doesn't rate loyalty very highly.Today you're my friend, tomorrow not. He does thisin such a nice way, that we can't really be upset withhim. He would love to dance simultaneously atevery wedding.He gets excited about things quickly and enjoys anactive life. He lives for the moment and doesn'tcontemplate much, he just does it.

Externally he is very active, but internally not, deepcontemplation it not his "thing". He doesn't have agood overview, but still master's life with a lightheart.

The Phlegmatic (LulLi)

The phlegmatic type concerns himself mainly withthe subject of letting go. He is not exact and notconcrete. He has the tendency to water everythingdown and through this he can absorb a lot ofdamage. The phlegmatic type is a specialist in the artof suppression. There is little excitement internallyor externally, that's why not much happens.

The Earth (St/Sp)

Here we meet the hard worker. There is always toolittle time for this person. They would like to pushtheir time into time units. ACHEIVEMENT ISWORK PER TIME UNIT. They can't stand beingunproductive. You will also find this quality in theCholeric type. You have a goal in life and to reachthis goal you will work like a horse. You stick toyour goal, like a Phlegmatic. Nothing much candisturb you. You have a good overview, see thesense of your work; basically you are satisfied, aslong as you have your goal in sight. Nothing canstop you working towards it, you are also capable ofbeing flexible, as long as it serves your goal, aquality of the Sanguinic type. Your perseverance and

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your expanding knowledge are qualities of theMelancholic type.

These short descriptions give an insight into theArchetypes. It quickly becomes clear, that we CaJTY

every part of the individual type in us. Depending onthe situation or type, one or the other Archetype willcome to the surface.If we recognise these tendencies, then we canachieve, not a compartmentalisation but an insight,which supports our move to the next step. It is not adefinition like, "Ohhh, you're a Choleric type, nowI know how to behave with you for the next twentyyears!" As said at the beginning we want to reachthe client and continue with him and not stay stuckat the meeting point. None of us stays at the meetingpoint with their date, we are all going somewhere.

The presentation will go into the many faces of theArchetypes. There we look at children at school, ourown children, the work we "should" choose and ask"Is the path of least resistance always the best?" Wewill examine the typical clients, who visit our Praxisand get closer to their pattern of suffering or pain.With this we will get closer to ourselves and expandour horizon.

Everyone who works with people has the need topick them up where they stand.

But where do I pick my clients up?Where are they standing?And how do I find the way?

Have you ever had the feeling at the end of a sessionthat you have missed the point?I have to admit that this is a provocative question, aswe are using muscle test techniques to orientateourselves. We define priorities, 100k for the optimalbalance and give out best. Still! Sometimes it mayhappen that, even though we intensively test andquestion, we still don't find the bearing of the client.

How can that happen?

Actually, there are many possibilities to miss thetarget and this doesn't only happen to the newbie'sbut also to the experts. We can have a bad day or bemisguided by an idea, which is exposed later asbeing totally meaningless. The client can alsoemerge to be a tough nut to crack. There are people

who anive at our office with such a presence thatthey make us feel very small and insecure. Or theother type, who forget, why they bothered to come.Sometimes we have to deal with people who hardlysay a word and only nod theirs heads or whisper toconfirm or repudiate our questions. Or the ones whodon't stop talking. They tell you everything,important and unimportant, about work, the family,early childhood experiences, planned car purchasesand their sisters' neighbour (or neighbours sister)!!I will demonstrate a little technique how to indentifythe archetype of a related subject. It is very simpleand easy to do.

You will find wonders and miracles in simplicity.

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Schedule of SpeakersSunday, July 18

What's What in Energy Psychology: Making the Path by Walking ItGreg Nicosia, Ph.D

Balancing to the Core with the Inner Clarity (IC) Four Bodies ProtocolDebra Greene, Ph.D

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What's What in Energy Psychology: Making the Path by Walking ItBy Gregory J. Nicosia, Ph.D

What's What in Energy Psychology: Making thepath by walking itComprehensive Energy Psychology is literallyhealing at your fingertips guided by the body'sinnate wisdom accessed by manual muscle testing.Balancing of bioenergy systems enables rapidtransformation of negative thoughts, emotions andphysiological con-elates. Current research,applications and self care are explored.

DescriptionA review of the current state of affairs in

Comprehensive Energy Psychology including whatit is, what it does, how it works, current research andEP in our lives.

Energy Psychology is a collection ofpsychotherapeutic tools that utilize meridian, chakraand biofield interventions to bring aboutimprovement in emotional and mental health andwellbeing. At the professional level, treatment isoften guided using manual muscle testing to accessthe body's innate wisdom to facilitate thedetermination of system wide and specific sources ofenergetic interference and a wide variety oftreatment choices. Most energy psychologypractitioners recognize that the mind-bodydistinction does not accurately represent the realityencountered in practice. The line between medicineand psychology appears increasingly arbitrary asmany energy psychology interventions result innoticeable improvements in physical health andmany of the same interventions are used in thetreatment of physical problems in the practice ofenergy medicine. The mind-body distinction isperpetuated by the medical and psychologicallicensure laws that are well established in ourwestern societies and as such are unlikely to changequickly or easily. None-the-less, the more holisticconcept of Energy Health Practices has emerged as amore accurate description of the realities observed inclinical practice and is likely to gain increasingsupport over time. Hence, many of the followingremarks and observations about Energy Psychology

can appropriately be viewed in terms of body-mind-spirit health practices.

Energy Psychology (EP) has a history with deeproots in a variety of fields including: biofield andchakra influences from the Yogas, Pranic Healing,Therapeutic and Healing Touch; meridian influencesderiving largely from Oriental Medicine andacupuncture. Energy Psychology arose in the 1970sfrom the field of Applied Kinesiology as elaboratedin the seminal work of John Diamond, a psychiatristwho effected emotional changes via meridianinterventions and first noted the "reversal of thebody's morality."Roger Callahan extended this work into the firstthought field therapy that utilized a recursiveformula that first corrected for "psychologicalreversal", activated all of the meridians by tapping,employed a bridging technique that engaged wholebrain activity and repeated activation of meridiansselected through the use of manual muscle testing orapplied by emotion specific algorithms. The 1990'ssaw subsequent evolutions included my work onThought Energy Synchronization Therapy (TEST),Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT), Fred Gallo'sEDxTM, Larry Nim's BSFF, and what wouldbecome the most widely used EP technique, theEmotional Freedom Technique (EFT), popularizedby Gary Craig who distilled Callahan's recursive useof what had been called "the algorithm of lastresort," tap on everything. EFT has enjoyed popularsuccess and has been the preferred technique to bestudied in most research to date due to its ease oflearning and fidelity in application, not because it isjudged to be superior in efficacy to other EPtechniques, of which there are many that tailor thetreatment to the client and have expanded the rangeof application to diverse populations. The newmillennium brought about 25 or more iterations ofEP techniques all of which combine cognitiveinterventions with interventions to rebalance thehuman vibrational matrix to facilitate rapid positiveindividual change and optimal psychotherapeuticoutcomes. And that is what EP is and what it does!

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So how does EP work? Good question, whichdeserves my favorite correct answer:"Well, that depends." In this case how EP worksdepends on what level of analysis you choose toinvestigate. Callahan espoused the theory thatmeridian tapping removed perturbations fromthought fields thereby calming the attendantemotions via a cascade of neurochemical events.Although this may prove true in the final analysis, itis beyond our current ability to confirm or deny andlanded us in the land of Woo woo explanations. EPtreatments combine physical (sometimes not, butlet's save this discussion for another day), so,combine physical interventions for regulatingelectrical signals or energy fields with mentalrepresentations involving a feeling, cognition, orbehavior that is the target for change. Thissimultaneous pairing of the physical activity andmental activation is believed to balance aspects ofthe human vibrational matrix resulting in atherapeutic alteration of the targeted response. Thissounds like a great explanation of how EP works, ifyou're from China and practice Qi Gong! But forthe western scientist it conveys little more than(Woo WOO)2 = (Woo woo X Woo woo). So, here'sthe latest and the greatest explanation that can berelated to by those of you not of the land of Woo!Recent research indicates that manual stimulation ofacupuncture points regulates cortisol and producesopioids, serotonin, and gamma-aminobutyric acid(GABA). These neurochemical changes regulate theautonomic nervous system decreasing hemt rate,anxiety and pain, as well as inhibiting the fight orflight response and create a sense of calm. Thisrelaxation response reciprocally inhibits anxiety andcreates a rapid desensitization to traumatic stimuli(Lane, 2009). In the most traditional psychologicalterms, EP can be viewed as an exposure techniquethat utilizes a dual attention task of stimulating (AP)points on the skin that sends signals to the amygdalathat deactivate the stress response. These opposingprocesses, brief exposure via a traumatic memory orrelated cues activate the threat response; while,tapping AP points deactivates it overcoming the fearand threat response (Feinstein, 2010). This is theexplanation that has recently been accepted by oneof the American Psychological Association'sflagship journals just a few days after their 3rd

refusal to allow EP to be studied by psychologistsfor continuing education credit. Although I suspect

that some APA representative can make sense ofthese seemingly incompatible actions, we at ACEPwere told only that EP remains too controversial tobe certain of its claims and theory and that there wasno measurable criteria regarding the amount ofresearch needed to overcome the controversyobjection that was determined based solely on theirprofessional judgment. So let's look at the currentstatus of research in EP.

Evidenced based psychology has been the rallyingcry of organized psychology over the last decade andthe randomized controlled study is regarded as thegold standard of research studies. To date, there are14 randomized controlled studies of EP. Threestudies investigated the treatment of phobias: Wellset aI. (2003), Salas et al. (2009), and Baker & Siegel(2005) ; while, Benor et al. (2009), Sezgin & Ozcan(2010), Schoninger (2004) and Korber et al. (2002)investigated EP treatments for anxiety. EFTtreatment for PTSD has recently been investigated intwo studies by Church et al. (2009a) & (2009b) aswell as Single et al. (2004). EP treatment ofdepression has also been investigated by Brattberg(2008), Rowe (2005) and Church & Brooks (2010).Finally Elder et al (2007) investigated the use ofTapas Acupressure Technique (TAT) on weight lossmaintenance. Although much more of this type of"gold standard" research remains to be done tofirmly establish EP techniques in the armamentariumof accepted psychotherapeutic tools, energypsychology has reached the minimum threshold forbeing designated as an evidence-based treatment,with EFT having met the APA Division 12 criteriaas a "probably efficacious treatment" for specificphobias, test anxiety, and PTSD; and TAT formaintaining weight loss. Widespread acceptance ofEP as an efficacious treatment will likely require atenfold increase in the sample size and number ofthis type of study in order to enable a meta-analysisthat sits at the top of the hierarchy of scientificresearch. According to the stringent criteria of theNational Institute of Medicine not even cognitiverestructuring, EMDR, or medication are consideredto be efficacious treatments of PTSD, despite theirwidespread use! So we are in good company.

It is however, bad science to depend upon only onetype of scientific inquiry, one type of researchmethod, no matter how good it may be in

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determining causal relationships, especially insituations where there is insufficient researchevidence to support the common every day treatmentdecisions that are made in practice. Evidenced basedmedicine has largely turned medicine into drugprescribing. Certainly psychiatry has become almostexclusively the practice of psychopharmacology.

My grandfather was a physician who retired fromsurgery at age of 81, having delivered thousands ofbabies in his long career. At 85, while in the processof turning over his practice to a new young doctor,farmer Reeves came walking down the path to theoffice door. On seeing him, I heard Grandpa tell theyoung doc what he prescribed for the farmer'scondition and the new doctor saw Mr. Reeves for thefirst time. The next day the farmer returned with thesame complaint and the young doctor asked, "Whydidn't the prescription work?" My grandfather said,"You gave him the right medicine but you didn't lethim tell you about his problem. You didn't listen tohim and he doesn't know you care." What patientshave to say about their health and treatment isimportant. We must not replace judgment withsimplistic assessment of the quality of evidence. Weneed to encourage observational studies, basicresearch into mechanisms of action, narrative studiesand case studies that account for patient outcomemeasures.

And indeed we are doing that with a wide variety ofquasi experimental studies including the largeststudy of 2500 anxiety disordered patients in whichEP tapping compared very favorably to CBT and toneedles (Andrade & Feinstein, 2004). A number ofother studies extend the range of application of EP toagoraphobia (Irgens et aI, 2007), cognitivedysfunction (Nicosia & Cellinni, 2006). Severalother case studies shed light on the normalization ofbrain functioning after EP treatments (Lambrou etaI., 2003; Swingle et al, 2004; Diepold andGoldstein, 2000; Feinstein, 2004). This review is byno means an exhaustive list of the EP researchliterature. Such a list can be accessed on the ACEPwebsite www.energypsych.org.

Research is an attempt to demonstrate scientificallywhat we have come to know through our ownexperience. The only reason we persist with thesesomewhat odd looking procedures is as a rabbi's

wife said to me, "I don't know from this clackingand banging, but it sure calms me down faster thanxanex." It is our own experience of the positivechanges that EP brings about in practice that hasconvinced us to overcome our initial skepticism andforge a new field. Nowhere is this so clear as it is indisaster relief efforts.Using TFT, Professor Carl Johnson's compiled andimpressive record in Kosovo and other areas ofethnic cleansing in Africa having successfullytreated 334 of 337 individuals completely resolving1013 of 1016 identified traumas. Most recently,Stone et al. (2009) also successfully employed EP inRwanda making EP a major contributor to theresolution of disaster trauma in at least 14 countries(Fei nstein 2008b).

Personally, I have been blessed not only to haveexperienced thousands of inspiring transformationsin traumatized individuals, but also to haveexperienced tranquility in the course of curingcancer. My journey began when I accompanied apatient with MS to see John of god in Brazil. Shewanted to be cured, I wanted to help her and becomea better healer. Her MS went into remission; I gotnon-Hodgkin's lymphoma for Christmas. My goodfriend appeared at my hospital bedside the next day.He said little but used Bengston's cancer curingtechnique as he sat there quietly beforechemotherapy commenced. Although I amvegetarian for over 30 years, I followed a very strictdiet to control the raging Candida that the postchemo steroids engendered. I had Reiki treatmentstwice a week, sometimes during chemotherapy. Iused polarity balancing and strengthening techniquesdaily. I never feared for my life, a fact that amazesme to this day. I made up a story about the tumor,which was the size of a large egg, so I got it forChristmas and would give it to the Easter bunny.And I did! A few days after Easter the PET scan thatwas to be used to stage the cancer found none,anywhere. Was it the Bengston work, the Reiki, thediet, the EP? Can't tell. I guess I did a poor job as aresearcher. Wait, there's more. Although my doctorswere quite amazed that the Easter bunny really didtake the egg, they feared that I would not completethe 2nd half of the chemotherapy. No problem I am aman of my word so I proceeded with the nexttreatment that resulted in massive blood clots in myleg and lung. Three weeks later I was leg with these

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unable to walk and diagnosed with post phebitic legsyndrome, too bad, live with it. Maybe not. Newdiet, ionic foot baths and some roto rooter assistmade 50% improvement. Then drawn to thewizardry of Matrix Energetics, whose field Irecognized within a few minutes and I entered a newstory into the program of my life, discarded mypressure stockings and awoke to a body that againcan dance the night away. I got what I asked for aftermy life by circumstance became all about healingand I acquired a playful knowingness and curiosityabout how to help the healing of those who seekgood health. Is this Energy Psychology? I am notsure, but I know the words I spoke almost 20 yearsago are true: EP will certainly revolutionize yourpractice and more importantly transform your life.

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Baker, A. H., Carrington, P., & Putilin, D. (2009).Theoretical and methodological problems inresearch on Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)and other evidence. In D. meridian based therapies.Psychology Journal, 6(2), 34-46.

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Balancing to the Core with the Inner Clarity (IC) Four Bodies ProtocolBy Debra Greene, Ph.D

Abstract: At times, persistent energy imbalances re-occur regardless of our efforts to correct them. Inthis presentation I describe and demonstrate aneffective protocol for accessing the deeper layers ofsuch disturbances. The protocol derives from anenergy-based modality called Inner Clarity (IC),which recognizes four energy bodies that comprisethe human energy constitution. By using the ICprotocol, the deeper mechanisms of an imbalancecan be accessed with the assistance of muscle-monitoring. Once these deeper mechanisms are laidbare--and brought into conscious awareness--a fulland more permanent correction can take place.

Introduction: We've probably all had theexperience of encountering celtain energyimbalances or patterns that persist; no matter howmany times we correct them, they show up again.When this happens it's a big clue that something isgoing on at a deeper level. The question is: How toget to this deeper level in a safe and efficientmanner? The Four Bodies protocol derived from theInner Clarity (IC) modality offers a safe andeffective step-by-step procedure for going behind thescenes to get to the core of energy imbalances.

About Inner Clarity (IC): The human being is anenergy being with many layers forming ourpersonalities and spirits. These energy layers aresubject to disturbances created by stored emotions,limiting thought patterns or belief systems. Whenthese disturbances remain in the energy system, theycan cause ripple effects into other aspects includingthe physical body. In an Inner Clarity (IC) process,light-touch kinesiology muscle testing is used as asensitive feedback tool to access information fromthe bodymind system to find limiting beliefs andclear out destructive patterns. Because muscletesting responds to words, questions are asked andanswers given in a way that disassembles defenses,and interrupts old programming or automaticreactions. IC is a powerful opportunity for self-discovery, transformation, and lasting change.

The Four Bodies Model:

Inner Clarity (IC) is an energy-based modality thatconceptualizes the human being as an energy being.It utilizes as its foundation the multidimensionalmodel of William Tiller] in which energy andconsciousness are primary. In Tiller's model thehuman being exists on an energy continuum inwhich we occupy multiple levels of experiencesimultaneously. Upon these levels aJ'e formed ourenergy bodies, the vehicles through which weexperience on any particular level. Although Tillerrecognizes seven levels, for the purposes of the ICtesting proto co1the seven levels are synthesized intofour, along with their accompanying bodies asdescribed in the book, Endless Energy: TheEssential Guide to Energy Health? The four bodiesare the vital, emotional, mental, and universal.Below I describe the four bodies in an abbreviatedmanner, however, please refer to Endless Energy fora more thorough description. Let's look at each bodyindividually, along with its testing protocol.

The Vital Body

The energy continuum of the human constitutionranges from the low vibration (slow frequency) ofthe dense physical plane to the high frequency (fastvibration) of the universal plane. The vital bodyoccupies the lower frequency end of the energyspectrum. The vital body is interwoven into thedense physical body and extends beyond it forseveral inches. The vital body vitalizes us and actsas our power supply. It is comprised of the chakrasystem, the meridian system, the Tibetan eightsystem, prana, and other subsidiary subtle energies.

The physical and vital bodies must be understoodtogether as a seamless whole--as two sides of thesame coin--because without the vital body the

1 William Tiller, Science and Human Transformation:Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness(Walnut Creek, CA: Pavior, 1997); William Tiller,Psychoenergetic Science: A New Copernican-ScaleRevolution (Walnut Creek, CA: Pavior, 2007).2 Debra Greene, Endless Energy: The Essential Guide toEnergy Health (Maui, HI: MetaComm, 2009).

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physical body would be lifeless and inanimate. Itwould be a dead corpse instead of a living body.Thus, the physical body is best referred to as avital/physical body.

The vital body has special properties: One is theInterface Effect and another is the Blueprint Effect.3

We'll look at the Interface Effect first. The vitalbody acts as an interface between the dense physicalbody and the other higher frequency bodies-theemotional, mental, and universal. The vital bodyadds energetic substance to the physical body andreinforces it. As an interface, the vital body is the"go-between" in that it registers energy andinformation from the higher frequency bodies andtranslates those signals into physical substance. It isthrough the vital body that "belief becomes biology"and that our thoughts and feelings impact ourphysicality. The Interface Effect also means thatenergy and information from the emotional, mental,and universal bodies can be accessed through thevital/physical body-providing an important anduseful avenue of communication for kinesiologists.

According to the Blueprint Effect, the vital body actsas a blueprint for the dense physical body. The vitalbody is an exact replica of the dense physicalbody-part for part, organ for organ. As ablueprint, energy imbalances in the vital bodypredispose the physical body to illness or disease.Or, to put it differently, if something exists on thephysical level it originated first on the vital bodylevel. Conversely, this also means that if you correctan imbalance in the vital body you can predisposethe physical body to healing, the basic premise of theTouch for Health system.

The Emotional Body

The next higher frequency band of the human energyconstitution contains the emotional body. Theemotional body is responsible for our experiences onthe emotional plane. Ecstatic highs, desperate lows,and everything in between can be found on theemotional plane. Because it occupies the frequencyband in between the physical and mental bodies, theemotional body is highly influenced by the physical

3 Debra Greene, Endless Energy: The Essential Guide toEnergy Health (Maui, HI: MetaComm, 2009).

body as well as by thoughts. The emotional bodyalso exerts powerful influence on its neighboringbodies. As a lower, slower vibration, the energy ofthe emotional body is relatively dense, carrying asort of forceful, "raw" energy. The force of theemotional body combined with the fact that manypeople ignore this body's needs makes the emotionalbody one of the most active and mostmisunderstood.

The Mental Body

The mental body is considered a higher frequencybody and is responsible for mental capacities andthoughts. It has a dual aspect to it-both concreteand conceptual. The concrete mind is responsiblefor factual analysis and problem solving whereas theconceptual aspect of the mental body is used formore abstract or philosophical thinking. The mentalbody also gives us the capacity for self-observation.As a higher-frequency body, the mental body'senergy is of a finer, faster frequency and it exertssignificant influence over the lower frequencybodies (the emotional and vital/physical bodies).Because of its proximity to the universal body, themental body also receives energy and informationfrom the universal realm including intuitive insightsand "ah-ha" shifts in awareness.

The Universal Body

The universal body, sometimes referred to as thespiritual body, is the highest frequency body on thehuman energy continuum. The substance of theuniversal body is consciousness. Consciousness isthe "glue" that holds our bodies together. It is thegreat mediator that allows us to connect-the-dots ofour varied life experiences and synthesize them intoa coherent whole forming the essence of a uniqueself. Simultaneously, consciousness also connectsus beyond the self to the greater whole.

The consciousness of the universal body manifestsin varying forms. These include selective,individual, collective, intuitive and unityconsciousness. Selective consciousness involvesattention and intention whereas individualconsciousness refers to the sum total of anindividual's awareness amassed over the span of alifetime. Collective consciousness is the

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conglomerate of all our individual consciousnessescombined, and intuitive consciousness refers to ourability to tap into that collective. Unityconsciousness is the palpable experiencing of theoneness of all.

the bodies will be indicated. If more thanone, prioritize.

3) First ask the person about the indicated leveland only if they do not know the answer,then test further to find the specificparameter, as a last resort. Remember,consciousness is paramount!The Role of Consciousness in the IC Protocols

Consciousness is the substance of the universalbody, a high-frequency energy and, as such,consciousness itself is vibrating at ultra-highfrequency. Thus, it canies with it special properties.Consciousness is causal (causing things to manifest),intrinsically healing, unitive in nature, mobile, andlimitless. Because of its special qualities,consciousness plays a significant role in the ICprotocol: any deep or lasting change requires thepresence of consciousness.

• Parameters to check for the Physical level:A body part, distortion in the cells, aphysical object, a physical location

• Parameters to check for the Emotional level:A feeling (mad, sad, scared, glad, hurt), anattachment, a desire, an identification, aglamour

It is essential that the client make sense of theinformation derived through muscle testing; theymust be able to place the information within thecontext of their lived experience and to connect thedots. Therefore, the Ie protocols are to bekinesiologically tested out loud along with theconscious participation of the client. Verbalquestions are asked and answers derived in a waythat facilitates sense-making. Muscle testing shouldnot be used to replace conscious awareness.Keeping this in mind, let's look at some energeticdistortions common to each of the energy bodies andhow to test for them." The protocol below containssuggested parameters from IC, however, the list isnot exhaustive and creativity is encouraged.

• Parameters to check for the Mental level: Adecision, a conclusion, a repetitive thought-form, a conviction, an illusion, a judgment

• Parameters to check for the Universal level:Dogma, idealism, a defining belief system, acore value, duping, trancing

• Additional parameters to check only ifnecessary:

The IC Four Bodies Protocol:

o Check Timeframe: What we arelooking for is best understood in thepast/present/future?

o Check Context: What we arelooking for is best understood in thecontext offamily/love/worklreligion/friends/health/money/education/sex/career?

1) Set a goal or clear intention (intention is ahigh-frequency energy of the universal bodyand, as such, it conditions the energy fieldmaking it conducive to easy facilitation)

2) Test out loud to find out which body holdsthe key to understanding the core blockageor distortion. Ask: "What's getting in theway is best understood on the physical,emotional, mental, universal level?" One of

4) When the specific parameter is indicated,ask the person how it applies to their goal.Give time to allow them to engage theirconsciousness, come up with the answer,and put the pieces of the puzzle together.

5) Once the insight is gained, balance as usualaccording to your expertise and skill-base.

By using the energy-basedIC protocol you can helpensure the maximum energetic support for assistingyour clients. Going behind the scenes to the energybodies and accessing the high-powered energy of

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consciousness at the universal level helps facilitatelasting change at the core.

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About the Author: Debra Greene, PhD, is an energyhealth specialist who has worked with thousands ofclients and taught hundreds of workshops. She isauthor of the acclaimed book, Endless Energy: TheEssential Guide to Energy Health, and founder ofInner Clarity (IC), a holistic energy balancingmethod that uses energy kinesiology to access deeplevel imbalances and energy-based techniques totransform them. Visit her on the internet atwww.JoyfuIEnergy.com.

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Additional Papers

The Influence oj the 14 Muscle Sequential Balance on Stroke Outcomes and NeuroplasticityBy Norma Harnack

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The Influence of the 14 Muscle Sequential Balance on Stroke Outcomesand Neuroplasticity

By Norma Harnack

AbstractThe neurology of stroke and the changes in ability tocontrol physical movements or expressions thatoccur in stroke patients devastate thousands ofpeople worldwide. Stroke is a major contributor tonumerous disabilities from muscle atrophy andmusculoskeletal deterioration to depression. Thispaper discusses the potential role of specificprogressive muscle re-education (PMR), such as thatused in the basic Touch for Health 14 muscle testand balance (hereafter "TFH14"), in reversing theimpact of the stroke sequel, especially on themusculoskeletal system. The possible implicationsfor caretakers, nursing and rehabilitation therapiesare discussed in light of a single case study with thehopes of opening a dialogue for a more formalresearch investigation.

Stroke is the most common serious neurologicdisorder in the United States and world-wide,comprising 50% of all hospitalizations for aneurologic disease. In most European countries,stroke is of great importance because of thetremendous expenditures arising from cost-intensivetreatment and the large demand for continuednursing care. In Japan and other Asian countries,stroke is the second most frequent cause of death inpatients aged 65 years or more. For Chinese strokepatients, disability at admission is the mostimportant predictor of disability at discharge becauseof a lack of rehabilitation facilities and effectiverehab methodology.

Stroke often presents as a disabling illness that notonly involves many aspects of a patient's life butalso places a substantial burden on family membersand others. The aims of rehabilitation are tominimize the impact of the disability resulting fromthe stroke and to optimize the quality of life for boththe patient and his/her personal caregiver.Progressive muscle re-education, as in the TFHI4,may enhance rehabilitation and recovery by armingcaregivers with a simple repetitive exercise to apply

helping the stroke victim to regain independencewithout increasing the financial burden.

Progressive muscle re-education, as in the TFH14,increases muscular coordination and endurance andenhances brain plasticity and the neurologic abilityof the patient to recover more fully after a stroke,allowing them to regain their independence andresume Activities of Daily Living. The increase inmotor coordination and ability may prevent falls andother injuries associated with musculoskeletalweakness and poor coordination. In the TFH14, thenon-paretic and the paretic limb are used together toretrain balance between the hemispheres. Thus theTFH14 (PMR) benefits the muscles by solicitingspecific responses that impact proprioception and theexpression of movement as controlled by theindividual. This results in a progressive effect onother neurons encouraging the return of some of thelost function. Research, ingenuity and technologyhave already developed a "robotic brace" intended tohelp people exploit their neural plasticity. While thisdevice may affect physical function it will surelyhave a financial effect. Many of the medical devicesaimed at treating patients afflicted with neurologicaldisorders have not fundamentally changed indecades, or require costly, high-risk brain implants.Progressive muscle re-education as in the TFHI4,may exploit neural plasticity but without increasingany of the financial burden. The TFH14 may givethe brain a more dynamic way of forming neuralconnections to compensate for neurons whose linkswere injured or severed to grow new nerve endings.

History of one stroke

Introduction & Overview

On June 6th in 2004 at age 82, my mom Frances Psuffered a stroke that left her with right sideparalysis and expressive aphasia. After a thirty dayhospital stay, which included a very rigorousrehabilitation component of conventional therapy

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and utilizing the] 4 muscle balance from TFH to re-educate the neural pathways, my mother was able towalk out of the hospital with minimal assistance.After three months of conventional outpatienttherapy (three times a week) and the dailyapplication of the TFH 14 she continued to showpositive results. Conventional therapy wasdiscontinued after three months when insurancecoverage was no longer available. The practice ofthe TFH14 was continuous and she continued mildexercise on her own at the rehab center. After twoyears of consistent application of mild physicalexercise and the] 4 muscle balance from TFH herexpressive aphasia was minimal and she was able toreturn to full activities of daily living(ADL)including driving. She continues to exercise bywalking her dog, ADL and the application of theTFH14 weekly.

Onset & "Crisis"

On the morning of June 6th my mother called me onmy cell phone to ask me to come by her house afterleaving our church where I was employed as theparish nurse. Her message said that she thoughtsomething was wrong with her face and she washaving difficulty closing her beach umbrella. Herspeech, on the message, seemed halting, the messageitself seemed rather cryptic. It was 12 noon. I arrivedat her home at ]2:14 and let myself in. Frances waslying in bed fully clothed and expecting me. Shesaid she felt extremely tired (extreme fatigue is oftenexperienced at the onset of a stroke). She proceededto try and convey her difficulties with the umbrellaand that after giving up on closing the umbrella shecame into the house. She reported seeing her imagein the mirror and it seemed to her that her face wasmuch distorted although she felt no pain ordiscomfort. She also attempted to describe the eventsof the morning with several words eithermispronounced or backward. I immediatelyinformed her that I thought we should go to thehospital. Her response was an emphatic "NO!" After25 years of using techniques from TFH to assist herwith her health issues, my mother had come to relyon TFH. She was confident that TFH would be ableto "fix" whatever was going on. She raised her leftarm and held it forward for me to "muscle test" her.Applying very gentle pressure to her forearm, herarm collapsed at her side. I rubbed the appropriate

points but she was unable to position her arm for meto retest it. Again I suggested that we go to thehospital but this time I added "before we have to callan ambulance". Reluctantly she allowed me to takeher to the hospital which was located ten minutesfrom her house.

By 1:14 my mother was admitted to the hospital.During the admitting procedure she progressivelylost her ability to move her right side or to speakcoherently; she seemed to float in and out ofconsciousness. At my request a Neurology consultwas ordered and it was determined that a totalcollapse of the left carotid artery was the cause ofthe stroke. She was not a candidate for the "clotbusting" drugs or for surgery on the carotid. Initiallyit seemed as if our frantic drive to the hospital hadall been in vain.

For the next few days our family hovered over herbedside preparing for the worse and hoping for thebest. On about the fifth day she seemed to rally. Shewas able to remain conscious and alert for longerperiods and her vital signs had stabilized. She wasparalyzed on the right side and her speech wasaffected but her cognitive abilities seemed intact.There was a definite shift in her personality; hersharp, sometimes acerbic qualities seemed absent.Our priest called her the "new and improved"Frances P. We were yet to learn the unseenramifications of a stroke. The ischemia (lack ofblood) to the brain causes a breakdown in the entireneural network destroying years of input that definesour personality, who we are to everyone else. Somesurvive it with mild changes in personality whileothers have profound changes that re-define thepersonali ty .

On day seven the physician recommended thatFrances be discharged to the in-patient stroke unit ofthe hospital. The stroke unit included the PhysicalTherapy (PT) department, Occupational Therapy(OT) department and the Speech Therapy (ST)department as well as the nursing staff andphysician. Their multi disciplined team approachwas aggressive. Frances was evaluated by each ofthe therapy departments to decide what her level offunction was and what would be the best goals forher. Motor skills were the first priority followed bylanguage, which included writing and word

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interpretation as well as mathematical ability. Onday nine we started the rehabilitation regimen.

Therapy in the hospital

The entire design of the in- patient stroke unit was tomimic, as closely as possible, an out- patient setting.Because no one went to the PT rehab area in ahospital gown, clothes were brought from home,including shoes so she could dress for her rehabsessions. The first morning on the rehab unit, thenurse bathed and dressed Frances. I arrived just intime to wheel her to the PT area. After being shownwhere to park the wheelchair, Frances and I waitedfor her name to be called. From where we sat, wecould see the activity of the other patients as theywere put through their therapy programs. Patientswere in various stages of recovery. Some patientsrequired the maximum amount of help while othersrequired direction but no physical assistance.Frances was able to see that she was not alone in thissituation and would not be the only personstruggling with the various tasks.

The physical therapy area reminded me of circuittraining at the gym. There were balls and various"games" designed to improve cognition and refinefine motor movement. There were tables where thepatient could lie down while therapists guided themthrough various exercises to strengthen and lengthenlimbs to prevent contractures. There were steps invarying degrees of physical endurance and atreadmill. There was other equipment, straps andblocks and pillows designed to help with gaittraining or transferring from a wheelchair to a bed orcommode.

When her name was called she raised her left,unaffected hand so they would know who she was.Immediately a small dark haired woman approachedus. She introduced herself as the speech therapistand led us off to a small secluded office. Once thereshe told my mother the goals she had in mind to helpmy mother regain control over her speech. Then shegave her some repetitious verbal tasks and aworksheet that contained pictures with fill in theblanks next to them. My mother is a lover of wordsso it was difficult for her to discover that even thesimplest of words required so much effort topronounce. In the area of the written word it did not

appear that she had lost much if any function. Shecould write what she wanted to say much easier thanverbalize the words. She may have viewed that as asmall victory in the war against stroke. The therapistcongratulated her on not needing much attention inthat area and informed her that since writing whatshe wanted to say was not an issue they would befocusing on getting her to speak sans the aphasia.The worksheet was simple but the task of trying tosay what was written on the sheet was draining. Ourfirst visit was about 45 minutes and we left withhomework. We returned to the "bullpen" in the PTarea and awaited further direction. Soon we weresummoned again, this time for some fine motortraining for her hand. We sat at a table with atherapist who explained to my mother the task shewas expected to perform. She transferred conesfrom one slot to another, first with the left,unaffected hand, then with the right hand. Afterseveral tries at finding the right words my motherexplained to the therapist "Lcan't use my right hand,I had a stroke." The therapist just nodded and toldmy mother to "just do what you can, use your goodhand to help you." By lunchtime my mom wasexhausted and hungry.

Lunch was in a common dining area so once againmy mother could observe others who shared heraffliction. Some people had to be fed, some werestruggling to feed themselves and a few who werefeeding themselves but required some assistance.Frances, sizing up the scenario, made the decision tofeed herself using her left hand, but even that waschallenging. I decided to follow the model of thetherapist and encouraged her to do what she couldon her own. Finding and operating her mouth was atask and after several tries and several misses shesaid she'd had enough. I could see she was tired butfood was also a necessary part of the healingprocess. Swinging into nurse mode, I coaxed herinto a few more bites with me assisting her. I thinkthis humiliated my mother, a very strong,independent woman. I assured her this feeding thingwas temporary but eating was important. After all, ittook a lot of energy to get words out and move conesabout and that was no joke!

After lunch there was a brief rest period then back toPT. This time she was called first and she playedcatch with the therapist and a huge exercise ball.

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This exercise was primarily to stimulate a responsein the affected limb to attempt to catch the ball.After twenty minutes of playing catch, anothertherapist took over and put Frances through somepassive range of motion exercises to her affectedright side. Finally we were done for the day andreturned to her room to rest up for dinner. Franceswas exhausted and wanted to rest. As soon as shewas in bed she was asleep and had to be awakenedfor dinner. The intensive attention she had receivedthroughout the day had come to an end. Dinner wasserved in her room and when dinner was finishedpatients were on their own for the rest of the eveninguntil time for bed. She worked on her homeworkfrom the speech therapist so she would be ready forthe next day's round of therapy. For the next threedays, I observed these established routines. I alsoobserved that none of the patients in the rehab unit(during the time we were there) had contractures.There was minimal apparent muscle atrophyobserved in a few of the patients. This may havebeen the result of the patient not exerting sufficienteffort to stress the muscles enough to retain musclemass and tone.

The fourth rehab day fell on Saturday. The sameroutine was followed but less intense and thecontrolled rehab day ended around lunchtime. Sincewe had the afternoon "off' and having observed thevarious tools being used to stimulate recovery, Iasked my mother would she be willing to try playingthe piano. "What will I do with my arm?" "The samething you do when they throw you the ball!" Most ofthe time when the ball came to her there was somemovement in the right arm. I asked the nurse if theyhad a piano somewhere. They didn't have a pianobut they did have a keyboard. The nurse brought outthe keyboard and plugged it up. My mother lookedat it and started to finger the keys with her left hand,and with some effort she got her right hand on thekeys. To both of our amazement, she started to playwith both hands. It was awkward, her hand keptsliding off but it was a huge step to see what waspossible. They also had a computer the patientscould access. I encouraged Frances to try typing onthe keyboard of the computer. She was a secretarybefore she retired. Like the music keyboard, it wasawkward, her hand would slide off but she was ableto get some movement to occur. This took a lot ofmental and physical effort and it exhausted her.

Sunday was similar with therapy being provided ahalf day (as opposed to going up untiI5PM). OnSunday after lunch, I suggested to my mother thatwe could try some TFH. "But I can't raise my rightann" my mother protested. Using the phrase fromthe therapy team I responded with "just do what youcan". We went to the deserted PT area and I assistedFrances onto one of the therapy tables. We started totest the supraspinatus muscle which was weakbilaterally. After using several of the reflexes tocorrect the deficit, she could lift her right arm about20° and once again she was exhausted. For someonewho has undergone a stroke activating the 14muscles in a sequence is likely to be VERYexhausting because of the way energy is metabolized(put to use in the body). Rather than exhaust hereven further I suggested a "meridian rub" (tracing allthe meridians in sequence three times) beforereturning to the room for the night.

The rehab group continued to work on my motherduring the day while I and my family continued towork with Frances until time to go to bed,reinforcing whatever the therapist introduced. Someevenings, and every weekend, I continued to do theTFH14 with my mother. In TFH the non-paretic andthe paretic limb are used together to retrain balancebetween the hemispheres. Thus TFH benefits themuscles by soliciting specific responses that impactproprioception and the expression of movement ascontrolled by the individual. This results in aprogressive effect on other neurons encouraging thereturn of some of the lost function.

Frances continued to improve regaining use of herarm and hand and was able to walk with a cane or awalker before discharge. Her aphasia also continuedto improve although being too tired or stresscontinued to aggravate lapses of COlTectspeech.Thirty days after admission, Frances walked out ofthe hospital. Today she continues to live alone,manage her affairs and drive her car. Her aphasia isstill there but minimal and only notable when she isunder stress (physical or mental). The consistent,persistent redundant intensive routine of testing andcorrecting the energy to 14 muscle groups continuesto benefit Frances; Indicating that TFH benefits theentire physical and mental response of the body bysoliciting specific responses that impact theindividual on multiple levels.

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Relevant Stroke Pathophysiology

The clinical syndrome produced by a stroke isdetermined by the artery or arteries that areoccluded. Blood is supplied to the brain by twomajor sets of arteries, the anterior and posteriorcirculations. The anterior circulation consists of theright and left internal carotid arteries (ICA) whichbifurcate into the anterior cerebral artery (ACA) andmiddle cerebral artery (MCA) (Figure 1). The MCAsupplies most of the temporal lobe, the anterolateralfrontal lobe, and the lateral parietal lobe. Perforatingbranches supply the posterior limb of the internalcapsule, part of the head and body of the caudatenucleus and the globus pallidus. The MCA suppliesthe largest proportion of the brain and its occlusionis the most common cause of severe stroke. TheACA supplies most of the medial surface of thefrontal lobe, the frontal pole, medial parietal andanterior portions of the corpus callosum. Perforatingbranches supply the anterior limb of the internalcapsule, the inferior portions of the head of thecaudate and the anterior globus pallidus. Theanterior choroidal artery arises at the distal ICA andsupplies the medial anterior temporal lobe and thegenu of the internal capsule (Figure 2). The posteriorcirculation consists of the vertebral and basilararteries and their branches. Following a stroke, thedestruction of brain cells leads to loss of motorfunction.

Frances had a complete collapse of the left internalcarotid artery (ICA type stroke). Collateralcirculation was noted upon imaging. Her subsequentaphasia, muscle paralysis and generalized weaknessresulted from the stroke and its effects onsurrounding brain cells in the left hemisphere. Priorto the stroke she was totally independent with

optimum ADLability. Earlier in theweek preceding thestroke she wasattempting to teachher great grandsons,ages 11 and 13, howto play tennis.

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Media file I:Whenthe brain suffers aninjury, such as astroke, neurons

release glutamate onto nearby neurons, whichbecome excited and overloaded with calcium, afterwhich they die (left). Normal neurotransmission(above) is altered during injury, causing excesscalcium to activate enzymes, eventually leading todestruction of the cell. Since this process occurs viaglutamate receptors, including N-Methyl-D-aspattate(NMDA) receptors, scientists believe that damagecan be stopped through the use of agents that blockthese receptors.

Neural Pathophysiology - Aphasia

Aphasia is an acquired disorder of language due tobrain damage and develops abruptly in patients witha stroke or head injury. Aphasia, most often, occurssecondarily to brain injury or degeneration andinvolves the left cerebral hemisphere to a greaterextent than the right. Most aphasias and relateddisorders are due to stroke, head injury, cerebraltumors, or degenerative diseases. The neuroanatomicsubstrate of language comprehension and productionis complex, including auditory input and languagedecoding in the superior temporal lobe, analysis inthe parietal lobe, and expression in the frontal lobe,descending via the corticobulbar tracts to the internalcapsule and brainstem, with modulatory effects ofthe basal ganglia and the cerebellum.

Neuroplasticity (also called brain plasticity or brainmalleability) is the brain's ability to reorganize itselfby forming continuous neural connectionsthroughout life allowing the neurons (nerve cells) inthe brain to compensate. Brain reorganization takesplace by mechanisms such as "axonal sprouting" inwhich undamaged axons grow new nerve endings toreconnect neurons whose links were injured orsevered. In brain trauma or injury and diseaseneuroplasticity allows us to adjust activities inresponse to new situations or to changes in theenvironment. Undamaged axons can also sproutnerve endings and connect with other undamagednerve cells, forming new neural pathways toaccomplish a needed function. For example, if onehemisphere of the brain is damaged, the intacthemisphere may take over some of its functions. Thebrain compensates for damage in effect byreorganizing and forming new connections betweenintact neurons. For neurons to form beneficialconnections, they must be stimulated throughactivity that is persistent, insistent and consistent as

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in the 14 muscle balance. Neuroplasticity sometimesmay also contribute to impairment. For instance,people who are deaf may suffer from a continualringing in their ears (tinnitus) the result of therewiring of brain cells starved for sound. Althoughthe benefits of progressive muscle re-education suchas that used in the TFH14from TFH are not welldocumented in the literature, this form ofneuromuscular re-education has been observed anddocumented. (Gowitzke-Milner, 1980).

Stroke most often occurs in the elderly creating apseudo bias that it is highly influenced by age,which in turn creates another pseudo bias thatrecovery outcomes after stroke are also highlyinfluenced by age. Risk factor profiles for stroke andmechanisms of ischemic injury differ between youngand elderly patients citing changes in the brain, as aresult of the aging process. Age is merely thechronological account of our existence. Health isinfluenced by our genetic makeup, our behavior andthe general condition of our bodies -minimally byage. It is evident in the number of cognizant, active,productive people who are octogenarians that ourgeneral condition is influenced most by how well wecare for ourselves in total. Elderly patients withischemic stroke often receive less aggressive therapybecause of age bias. Prior to a stroke the person doesnot "think" about moving their limbs even thoughthought is going on. Science tends to minimize ourmovements, such as walking, as a reflex orsubconscious ability. However when that"subconscious" ability is compromised as in braininjury or stroke we must rely on a very consciouseffort to restore it.

Providing a better understanding of the underlyingcauses of stroke and how health behaviors influencestroke across the ages may have important practicalimplications not only for recovery and rehabilitation,but also for prevention strategies and future health-care policies. In this presentation there is no attemptto disregard the effects of aging in terms ofsusceptibility, patient outcomes and response totreatment, it is an attempt to overcome those biasesthat impact effective treatment and improvedoutcomes regardless of the age of the individual.

The effects of a stroke can be costly on multiplelevels and recovery can take years. Providing tools

that focus on the management of rehabilitation afteracute stroke and are cost effective will improveoutcomes in this vulnerable group. By educatingmore nurses, therapists and caregivers with simplemethods such as in the 14 muscle balance from TFHthat encourage and enhance recovery andrehabilitation are standards of care that can truly becalled "health reform".

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International Stroke Conference (ISC) 2010:Abstract LB P4. Presented February 25, 2010.

Complementary and Integrative Approaches toDementia

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AphasiaAuthor: Howard S Kirshner, MD, Professor ofNeurology, Psychiatry and Hearing and SpeechSciences, Vice Chairman, Department of Neurology,Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Director,Vanderbilt Stroke Center; Program Director, StrokeService, Vanderbilt Stallworth RehabilitationHospital; Consulting Staff, Department ofNeurology, Nashville Veterans Affairs MedicalCenterCoauthor(s): Daniel H Jacobs, MD, AssociateProfessor of Neurology, University of CentralFlorida College of MedicineMotor Recovery In StrokeAuthor: Auri Bruno-Petrina, MD, PhD, ClinicalTrainee, Pemberton Marine Medical Clinic, NVancouverMedscape -https://profreg.medscape.com

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