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Specialized Kinesiology Magazine
How are you Using your Stress Relief Tools?
Kinesiology and the General Adaptati0n Syndrome
ESR—the research is in!
A Time of Transformation
With Ger Casey
Loneliness Depletes Self-Love
Law of Gentleness for Healers and Coaches
Stress Release Keeping calm in crazy times
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Editor/Publisher/Writer Proudly brought to you by and flawed KinesioGeeks: dictator: Alexis contributing Costello Alexis Costello (Editor/ Publisher / Flawed DictaContributors: tor) Alison Kingston Alexander Kuhlen Anne Jensen Michelle Greenwell Bruce Dickson Natasha Polomski Ger Casey Reenie Rose Robert Frost Michelle Greenwell Sylvia Marina Sylvia Marina Cover image is a stock photo
Adam Lehman: Calming the Heart inside thewith holo-ESR gram with Ger Casey
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page 6 How are you using your Stress Relief Tools?
Opinions expressed by contributors and advertisers are their own.
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Contents: p. 4 Letter from the Editor p.5 Your turn: letters, questions and social media p. 6 Calming the Heart with ESR P. 13 How are you using your Stress Relief Tools? p. 17 A Time of Transformation and Change P. 19 Stress Relief for KinesioGeeks
P. 20 Loneliness Depletes Self-Love p. 22 Psychobiotics for Stress P. 23 Law of Gentleness for Healers and Coaches P. 26 K and the General Adaptation Syndrome P. 28 Classifieds p. 29 Because Health should be Fun! Cover art: stock photo from Pexels.com
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The power of water to calm even the busiest of minds…
The Bliss of Bodywork The Frequency of Balance
Photo credit Aidan Costello
Does anyone really know what’s going on anymore? The truth is that we didn’t know before either, but this year the things that we used to take for granted as being stable have been taken away/changed/reset, and so many people are grasping for ways to make sense of it all. We are lucky in our field that we have coping mechanisms literally at our fingertips. Techniques that we can use for ourselves and others to bring some peace to the chaos. Many have been using this time to go inward and define more clearly what they really want in life, to expand their education through online trainings, conferences and just having more time to read / review/ study. Others find that they are busier than ever trying to be of service. Wherever you fall in this spectrum, I hope that you have felt the support of the K-community in this year. This issue features some techniques for helping manage stress more effectively, for yourself and others, as well as research that proves the efficacy of Emotional Stress Release points for lowering blood pressure. Thanks for reading, we’re all in this together!
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Question: Are you more, or less, stressed than usual this year? How are you dealing with that? Kasia Rachfall: In many ways I am less stressed and it's because I've been consciously and deliberately relying on my emotional mastery tools and SIPS balances to keep my nervous system in check. When everything was first shut down, I loved having my family home with nowhere to rush off to. My own work didn't change much because my business is mostly online. It's been a bit stressful to pivot and shift into unknown territory with my work because the world is different now and asking for different solutions, it's exciting in many ways but change isn't always simple. Staying connected with my friends and family, even through technology, has also been a life saver.
Michelle Greenwell: I can definitely feel the stress of those around me in a much bigger way. When it begins to overwhelm me, I take a little more care. I set my intention for the day or activity, I do a balance, and I move with some of my favorite Tai Chi or dance patterns - whatever I muscle monitor to use. I always feel better by taking the action.
Denise Cambiotti: I have actually gone out to get myself a set of pastels and proper artist blending colouring pencils to fill in an artist's colouring book I picked up at an art gallery I stopped at on my way to the TFH Serra retreat conference a few years ago. Specifically to get my brain to change gears and bring more joy into my life. I thought I'd enjoy using water colours but they were too washed out for the style of the images so exploring new mediums has been fun. I also get myself out in nature and breathe deeply and move my body.
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Your Turn: sharing who you are
Fellow KinesioGeeks: this marks the beginning of year 5 for the magazine. As we go into this next year together, I was hoping that you would be willing to participate in a brief survey so that I know if this journal is truly meeting the needs of the community and how much interest there is going forward. If you are willing to take 5 minutes, here is the link. The results will be printed in the next issue. Thank you so much for your help and support!
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Healthy Travel
Advice from the Pros
Research Project with Ger Casey: Calming the Heart with ESR By Alexis Costello
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t the K-Conversations conference in April 2020, Ger Casey, founder of the Kinesiology College of Ireland, presented research that she had conducted in a lab that showed the efficacy of the Emotional Stress Release (ESR) points in lowering blood pressure. I was intrigued by this research and wanted to speak with her more about it so that this could be shared with everyone. https:// www.kinesiologycollege.com/research to download the entire research paper. Click here for the interview on YouTube A: Can you tell us a little bit about the experiments that you ran; for anyone who wasn’t at the conference and therefore didn’t hear you speak about it previously? G: I was working at the time at Queens College Medical Centre in Nottingham in the UK as a student of medical health science and we had to develop and design research projects. It looked like a great opportunity to check out some of the kinesiology information that I had been teaching people for years, telling them it worked. The muscle test was giving me that feedback, but it was nice to get some scientific evidence. There had been lots of empirical evidence that it worked, and people felt better, but there hadn’t been any hard,
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Stress Release scientific evidence. This was a great opportunity for me to do that. And I had an interest in blood pressure and hypertension because so many people suffer from it – it causes many many problems for people all over the world. And I had empirical evidence that my mother’s blood pressure seemed to come down when we did ESR. This was the opportunity to do it. A: What were the results from that? What do you feel are the most important take-aways from the research that you did? G: It was quite interesting because as students a lot of us were working on the same project and using different methods. I was the only person using any kinesiology methods; what we would call emotional stress release in Touch for Health, or frontal holding points in Applied Kinesiology. And this was a bit of a stretch for some of lecturers - to say that you’re going to put your hand on your forehead and there’s going to be an effect – this was a hard sell for them.
They didn’t buy into that at all! Other people were doing tai chi, there was someone using red Bull to see how much they could raise blood pressure by drinking it, someone else was sitting in a freezer… We were looking for people who had stresses, and when they thought of them, it would raise their blood pressure and we would be able to measure it. And that was not a stretch for anybody; everyone knew and it was accepted that if you think about your stresses, your blood pressure goes up. But putting your hand on your forehead and seeing it go down was not really acceptable, and this was the bit that we wanted to prove. What we did was we measured people’s blood pressure a certain number of times over several minutes so we have a base level and average. Then we had them think about a stress and we watched the blood pressure go up and again we
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and originally they didn’t think we were going to get a good p-test, meaning a scientifically significant one. If the p-test is .5, it is significant, if it’s .01 it’s very significant, and if it’s .001 it is highly significant. What we got was .000007 and nobody thought that we were going to get that, but we did. And that blew everybody out of the water! Including me! And this held true for diastolic, systolic and pulse rate. A: It seems to me when I heard you present this before, that you said you had the people hold the points on themselves, so that you could rule out any effect from human contact?
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Stress Release G: Yes. One of the things you’ve got to do is punch holes in your own thesis or your hypothesis first, so you have to look at how people will criticize it. And an obvious one is that if you’re upset and somebody comes and puts their hand on your shoulder or your arm or your knee, it’s going to calm you down. It’s a comforting touch. So to rule that out, we had them hold their own points. We had other challenges – sometimes when people got stressed they cried and we were requested (by the lab) to stop the experiment immediately because you can’t have people crying – there were concerns that it was unethical to have people crying, and it took a while to convince them that people were just releasing. And there were some gender differences. Certain things that stress women don’t stress men and some things that stress men don’t stress women. So we also had to look at what actually stresses people. For example, men get much more high blood pressure in cars than women do, and women get much more high blood pressure and stress with family issues. Of course, that’s not across the board, but it seemed to be a trend.
A: I know from our conversation earlier that you actually did this research in 2005, right? What lead up to that and why release it now rather than 15 years ago? G: (Laughing) OK, so the ambition was probably a lot higher 15 years ago than it is today. I was planning at that time to go on and turn this into a PhD study. So that data was kept under wraps. I had the opportunity at that time because I had the labs and I had the information. I had a conversation with John Thie who was really looking for scientific evidence for Touch for Health particularly, and he knew that there was lot of empirical evidence; in other words, if everyone does the same thing and gets the same results all over the world with the same recipe, it becomes empirical.
“It’s not a popular study because it’s not going to make money for anybody. It’s hard to get funding because we’re using actual methods without drugs. ”
But there was no hard scientific evidence, and I think he really wanted to see some of that. I finished my study in July 2005 and I think he died in early August. I had sent him my results – whether he ever read them or not, I have no clue. But I had been in touch with him about it and he knew what was going on. I was delighted to get that done for him at that time. Now, 15 years later, I don’t have any ambition to do a PhD. So we decided just to give it out to the kinesiology community. If anyone else wants to keep going and working on it, that’s great! A: You had such great results with this study! Why do you think that we don’t do more of this kind of research in our field? Is there a bias against it? Are there just too many roadblocks?
G: To get labs and equipment and a technician, you’re talking about several thousand euros to do that – the price is probably prohibitive. A lot of research studies like that are sponsored, and nobody is going to sponsor you to research a method that is going to reduce blood pressure without medication. The big sponsors are drug companies and they don’t want to know. It’s not a popular study because it’s not going to
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Stress Release make money for anybody. It’s hard to get funding because we’re using actual methods without drugs. A: If other people were wanting to conduct research, are there resources that you would suggest? How do people get started with such things? G: I think the best thing to do is to take really good notes; to have a science notebook and notice everything and be really honest, and then have somebody pull it apart. Punch every hole you can in it yourself because people are going to criticize it, so you need to be your own worst critic on this one. Look at everything that a detractor could say, like (in my study), don’t put your hands on them, let them hold the points themselves so you take that out of the equation. Document everything meticulously; dates, time everything, what equipment you’re using – it’s very easy to do scientific studies. It’s easier to do null-hypothesis; it’s almost impossible to prove a hypothesis. I used a nullhypothesis – I said that holding the ESR points would have absolutely no effect on blood pressure and cardiac parameters. Therefore, if it does, I was wrong. You want to be wrong with a null-hypothesis. If I had hypothesized that it had an effect, I would have to show from millions of people the hundreds of thousands to show that it has an effect. So the first thing is; don’t try to prove something, prove that it doesn’t work. It’s a study in a box – you’re putting in parameters. Whereas, if you just put a hypothesis out with no parameters, it’s very hard to prove. A: What is next for you – are you conducting new research?
G: The follow up from that is interesting, we’ve gotten lots of people to use it, and it does show that you can reduce blood pressure. We have the proof on that. What it doesn’t do, is it doesn’t maintain it (the change). That would be the next thing is how do you maintain blood pressure? For people who are suffering with hypertension; if the blood pressure spikes because they’re stressed, absolutely ESR will bring it down no question. But if it’s an ongoing issue, ESR doesn’t seem to maintain it. It will take it down out of the dangerous level within five minutes, but if the stress in ongoing, unless you do something to deal with the stress, the pressure will spike again, so we need to give people better tools to reduce their stress to recognize it, reduce it, and then go from there so it’s not spiking again. People do it (hold their ESR points) naturally, it’s an instinctive reaction, so in nature we already knew there was something there. The other study I would like to see done is perhaps touching a different part of the body or the face and seeing: does that have an effect on blood pressure? That could be a control. A lot of people hold their chin for instance when they’re thinking. Does that have an effect? Those kind of studies are what I would like to see – to have a comparison. A: Anything else you would like to share? G: If anyone would like to get involved in doing these studies… (For a full study) they were looking for 4,500 people: for the initial study we had 1500 with high blood pressure where we worked with ESR, but then there would be 1500 where we used a different point and then 1500 people where you did nothing as a control group. That’s a huge undertaking and a huge expense and will take
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Health Threats from High Blood Pressure Image: www.heart.org
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G: When I was doing my study there was a guy there who was a tai chi master and he was able to put himself almost comatose with tai chi, and yet when he did that, his blood pressure didn’t drop one iota. He was totally still, in a meditative state, and yet it didn’t reduce his blood pressure – but holding ESR points did significantly. It looks like the key there is adrenaline. You can be absolutely still, but your adrenaline can be running very high – it’s like the possum effect where you freeze. For ESR, you would need to take blood samples and test various levels to see if it has an effect on the adrenaline levels in the blood and if the adrenaline/ noradrenaline levels are changing. That would be a really nice study for somebody to do! Because I suspect the results we got have more to do with adrenaline than the vascular system. A: That would make sense, and would also explain why it doesn’t hold, since when people think of the stress again, the adrenaline would respond.
G: There’s a bigger study to be done there. All TFH has ever claimed is that when you are thinking about stress and hold these points, the stress comes down. We knew these points were related to the vascular system from the original research from Bennet. But what’s changing the blood flow? And I would be interested to see what the adrenaline levels are. I suspect that’s the difference. And if anyone wants to do some research studies, I am happy to be in touch on that! Ger Casey B.Sc. MKAI, M.P.R.K.C.I. is the Founder and Principal Tutor of the Kinesiology College of Ireland. She has been a practicing kinesiologist since 1992, having trained extensively with many of the world's top Kinesiologist, in Ireland and abroad. She's a registered Touch for Health Instructor with the International Kinesiology College since 1995, and has been the IKC Faculty for Ireland since 2002, and Caretaker Faculty for Spain since January 2017. She teaches in Ireland, Spain, The Netherlands and Finland. Ger has served on the Executive Board of the International Kinesiology College Australia and has been the Dean of the Personal Development School of the IKC, since January 2009. She also served three years as the Dean of the Touch for Health School from January 2009 - August 2011. She is Faculty for Wellness Kinesiology, and also is a registered P.R.A.N.A. Instructor since 1999. www.kinesiologycollege.com ger@kinesiologycollege.com
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How are you using your
Stress Relief Tools?
By Michelle Greenwell
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eading by example is one of the ways that we share our love for bioenergetic wellness tools, but also to be at our best for ourselves and our clients/students. As we look at the topic of Stress Relief and our needs in the present worldly situations (illness, politics, environment etc.), we need our tools now more than ever. So, the question becomes: How are you using your bioenergetic wellness tools daily to reduce the stressors in your life? The first thing I do in the morning is breathe deeply. When I wake, I make a point of noticing how deep my breath is and the space between my breaths. Because I can feel the bed touching my back, I can also notice if my breath is expanding through my ribcage and all the way around my ribs, or if I am only breathing through the front. This is my first check in.
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The second thing I do is to settle into the Cook’s Hook up postures with my ankles and wrists crossed. I breathe deeply and consider what kind of day I want to have. It might be a picture of what I plan to do for the day, it might be a project I am thinking about and what I want to accomplish on it, or it might be something with words, like, “I easily and gracefully open my mind to new possibilities on my project.” Then, I breathe deeply until a big sigh arrives and then I change postures. With my fingertips together and my feet side by side I then consider what needs to happen first. I picture what I want for breakfast, watering the plants, doing some Tai Chi and which sets, answering some personal messages, and then beginning my workday. Once I get out of bed I can just continue through that plan and I minimize distractions without actually being aware that I have done that. These items seem so simple and yet they are so profound. I have minimized the stressors in my life with just a few simple gestures. On the mornings that I listen to the news on the radio, skip breakfast and my routine, I am distracted before I settle into any work, and I am less efficient at what needs to be accomplished. For those of us who work with clients in a facilitating situation, what is your approach to reducing the stress for your client before you begin a session? Have you introduced them to how ESR’s can assist them daily? In AK Shortcuts, Dr. Sheldon Deal shares that he has always started a session with a relaxation period for his client. He uses a sound therapy bed to produce this state. It would be possible to use a meditation exercise, singing bowls, specific music, or some time alone in the waiting room with a cup of tea, (as they often do in the naturopathic offices). Whatever the tool, Dr. Deal
Image of Cook’s Hook Ups, Brain Gym International
stressed the importance of at least 10 – 15 minutes for the body to enter a relaxed state where change would be possible.
Many clients will finish a session and leave out the door with a phone in hand and an appointment to catch. What is the lasting effect of the session they just completed, and have they maximized their session? Often, they feel it is the time we spend “working on them or with them,” but in the selfcare model it is also about what they do. In a study conducted by Natascha Polomski, a BioEnergetic Vibrational Tuning facilitator who specializes in singing bowls, she found that it was equally
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This transfer of energy brings space between the joints where resonance can happen for the body to find homeostasis. This state is important for a balanced flow and function through the spine, as well as the neck, knees, elbows, ankles and wrists. These are places where people will feel tension and often complain of challenges. “When the vertebra is resonating to its optimal frequency, the surrounding muscles respond with a relaxation that helps to correct the subluxation. In addition, harmonic waves are reverberated throughout the spine, creating coherent harmonic messages that are transmitted through the central and autonomic nervous systems. These harmonic waves help to balance that system, which controls the breath, heart rate, digestion, and other physiological activities.” “There is evidence that a healthy spine can generate its own harmonic waves to meet the neurophysiological demands of a task at hand. Standing waves that exist between the vertebrae and the heart and brain have a direct impact on the degree and extent of spinal neural integrity.” important to provide a relaxation period at the end of a session. Exploring a singing bowl session, and a Therapeutic Touch™ session, live blood analysis revealed that there was a continuation of balancing happening after the treatment. To take time to let the biofield create homeostasis is important to a long-lasting session as well as continued results. One of the activities that we strive to achieve in Tai Chi is to bring ourselves into a deep breathing state through our moving meditation. When we have filled our lower dan tien with surplus energy, it can then flow into our joints to be stored there.
Sometimes referred to as “Stillpoint,” the space between is more important than the tissue of structure itself. We know that when we relax, we find a state of being that is calm and rejuvenating, open for possibility. When the breath deepens, we have more pause at the beginning and end of an exhale or inhale. When we have a release of tension in the body, there is an opening that is created and this can be all that is needed to begin to reduce pain and stiffness. All of this before doing a balance. What a great way to create space for a successful session and balance.
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As we promote self-care and a self-responsibility model for wellness, by providing these insights to our students and clients we can help them with tools for home, situations, and pain or stress. How might you be assisting your clientele to optimize stress relief tools? Michelle Greenwell is a doctoral student at Akamai University, studying Integrative Health, and who specializes in using movement to heal the body. Combining her tools for Touch for Health™, Therapeutic Touch®, Qi YINtegration and Raising BioEnergetic Awareness with Dance or Tai Chi, she brings the tools and protocols to life for her students and clients. You can find different examples of these programs on her YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEPG1vTQ71ZSEuM2GgmgaDw, as well as on her blog and resource page at www.dancedebut.com To offer more to your clients and students, be sure to check out the webinar videos posted on Youtube: CanBeWell, https:// www.youtube.com/channel/UCZDoqRrESB-06JRt-H32yGA. The organization devoted several webinars to Stress Release techniques in August, as well as for First Aid in September. These may be a helpful resource to offer those in your area of influence. Footnotes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137272/ The Integrative Effects of Leading by Example. Dr. Sheldon Deal always wears a color bracelet to help balance energy flow. Dr. John Thie offered weekly balance sessions for groups. Brain Gym promotes the use of P.A.C.E. at the start of the day. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27995346/ The Role of Deep Breathing on Stress https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27995346/ The Physiological Effects of Slow Breathing in the HealthyHuman My awareness of a relaxed deep breath also means that when I begin to feel stressed, I can go back to the deep breath and immediately bring awareness to the tension and invoke relaxation. Brain Gym exercise John Thie and Matthew Thie, Touch for Health, the Complete Edition, (California, USA: DeVorss and Company, 2005) pp 38-39. The use of Emotional Stress Release Techniques “allow you to feel calm, think clearly, and function effectively in times of stress, trauma, overload, accident, pressure from work, relationships etc.”. Mantak Chia and Juan Li, The Inner Structure of Tai Chi, (Vermont, USA: Destiny Books, 2005), pp 28-58.
June Weider, Song of the Spine: Sound Healing and Vibrational Therapy, (SC, USA: Booksurge Publishing, 2004), pp 56-57.
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A Time of Transformation and Change
By Alexander Kuhlen
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t is beyond question that the year 2020 has turned the kinesiology community in Germany and the rest of the world upside down. Remote instructions – for most kinesiology practitioners and schools unimageable in a world pre-COVID19. Kinesiology was formerly seen as a hands-on method that can hardly be delivered online without losing its essential qualities. When the impact of the lockdown brought in-person seminars to a halt, everyone had to react and search for solutions that enable us to continue our work. It was a logical and necessary consequence that almost all institutes in Germany switched to remote learning. One
result of the rapid change was the rapid oversaturation of the market, with digital offers popping up everywhere. You could find anything - free seminar series, trial courses, conferences, summits and all that advertised on all social media platforms. One task in Germany, but certainly also in other or all countries of the world, is to create a new market with online and in-person offers, in which the quality is maintained, and a new market can be addressed at the same time. The professional Association for Kinesiology in Germany (DGAK), approved remote learning during the lockdown, as did most of the method owners. The feedback after the first runs was consistently astonishing.
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All of them reported that remote learning works and both lecturers and participants discovered advantages that they could not see before. After a short time, there were clear tendencies of what worked well and what did not work well and what advantages and disadvantages the new form of learning entails. It should be mentioned here that the more advanced users are currently benefiting greatly from the new online lessons, while highquality entry level opportunities are still in the development stage. In-person instruction will definitely always remain an important part of our work. The distribution, however, is likely to change fundamentally in the next few years. As a shareholder of the IAK GmbH – Forum International, I can say that we have entered a phase of restructuring. For us, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic brings our fundamental concept into question, which lives from the personal presence of both the participants and the lecturers. We are very committed to the conception of the new business model. We are not just very optimistic that we can but also that we want to continue making an important contribution to the kinesiology world. We see it as an opportunity, even if it is sometimes accompanied by the loss of what we have loved. We all know too well that change also means letting go and that the new usually comes differently than you previously understood.
For me, this ultimately means that kinesiology is now receiving the important external impetus to be able to survive in a time of ongoing and upcoming changes. Professionally, I don't remember having had such a free creative opportunity. The obsession with optimization of the last few decades left hardly any room for anything really new and a causal, conservative narrative was always followed. Now in a rather chaotic state, new paths are emerging everywhere, and we notice once more what a valuable tool kinesiology is. If we manage to keep up with the pace, the kinesiology world could benefit from a new wave of innovation and awareness. The emerging visible potential and the consciousness changed will bring a new language with it, and I think that is the key for us. Alexander Kuhlen; Shareholder of the IAK GmbH – Forum International Boardmember of the professional Association for Kinesiology in Germany (DGAK e.V.)
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Loneliness Depletes Self-Love We need Connection
AL BERRY’S BODY MANAGEMENT The art of “body Mechanics”
By Sylvia Marina
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n the studio of my mind, I walk across the earth today visiting with you over there, and you up there, and you across there…wherever there is, I am and you are, we are not distant from each other.
When we connect, I feel your laughter and you feel mine. We remember the times we were together, in conferences, real classrooms, virtual classrooms, café’s, in my home or yours with our feet under the same table, perhaps between pages of written words we met, or stories from the lips of friends or colleagues. If this is our first encounter, welcome to my world. No matter where in our world you are, your energy joins our morning meditation prayer, we are one. When you feel anxious, you remember to let go of the subconscious thought about the very thing you don’t want. Stop thinking about what you don’t want. Remember we attract our dominant thought! Give yourself permission to allow yourself to let go of anxiousness and choose to trust your own inner strength. You’ll not only feel better, but you’ll also find you are actually more at ease. Everything begins to feel more possible.
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Stress Release The isolation and loneliness is less dense as we allow our mind to travel the world connecting to each of our friends and colleagues and sending love and connectedness to their endeavours. As you tend your garden, imagine friends and colleagues, their foods growing in gardens large and small. Reach out, there are online educational courses, many of our followers discovered they are able to future proof their career and in as short as three months are already benefiting. https:// www.facebook.com/HumanBehaviourSpecialist Their moral lifted, optimism reset from hopeless to possible, dismal to doable, monotone to happiness. Acknowledging your stress can really help lift the weight trauma and burdens, off your shoulders. Let it be the first step to asking for help. info@SylviaMarina.com to hear another’s voice on Skype or Messenger cheers the heart reminding we are not alone. My Kinesiology colleagues will write on hormones and stress. I specialise in the emotional trauma and influences that contribute to physical disfunction.
If you notice a change in your patience or find yourself more easily triggered by slight noises or simple mistakes, consider whether you need to calm your mind, or is the mind too calm, do you need to make music, stretch, do yoga, tend the garden? Loneliness depletes self-love. Love is a gift we give ourselves. It is a myth thinking that love is a gift another gives you. People spend their entire lives directing love to another person, a cause or a community, for it to be of value there must be a recipient. Look in the mirror, let love radiate in you, others then feel that love and breathe as the fragrance of a beautiful flower. Colour radiates love. Bring out your colours, drape your scarves and fabric over chairs and around the base of vases, invite brightness into your home and into your heart. Sylvia Marina is a Human Behaviour Trauma Specialist, author, creative director, speaker and mentor. Her core passion is working with individuals, adult education schools and academy’s, business and communities to help them attain a perspective about their lives, make better decisions, engage their entelechy and maximise their potential.
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Psychobiotics for Stress Here I share with you scan sheets from the upcoming Gut-Brain Axis Collaborative Workshop. Psychobiotics are strains of bacteria that have been shown to have an affect on mood and behaviour when taken in sufficient quantity. My research on the subject for this workshop makes me believe that the best thing we can all being doing to support ourselves right now is to take care of the microbiome.
Correcting with food and supplementation:
Specific:
Use the following list as a scan sheet to determine if probiotics in general are needed and if there is a specific strain that would be beneficial to the body. This list can also be used to hep determine areas of body chemistry stress as the health of the microbiome relies n the proper balance of the various players: strains that are harmful in large quantities can be helpful in small amounts and strains that we think of as beneficial can take over and create problems. That is why we have the option here to check for a state of excess or deficiency. (https://knowlative.myshopify.com/discount/
Excess/deficiency
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Bifidobacterium bifidum
Lactobacillus acidophilus Lactobacillus brevis Lactobacillus bulgaricus Lactobacillus casei Lactobacillus helveticus Lactobacillus plantarum Lactobacillus rhamnosus
Prebiotics and fermented foods:
Enterococcus faecium
FOS, acacia gum, chicory root, Jerusalem artichoke, raw dandelion greens, onions, garlic and leeks, other fiber, other sugars, protein, fat
Candida albicans
Kombucha, kimchi, sauerkraut, pickles, miso, tempeh, yogurt, keifer
Bifidobacterium breve Bifidobacterium infantis Bifidobacterium longus
Fermented meat, fish and eggs
Streptococcus saliverius
Excess/Deficiency
Streptococcus thermophilus
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Law of Gentleness for healers and coaches
Is this body ready, for this intervention, at this time? Safety for all clients Best Practices in Holistic Healing By Bruce Dickson
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t medical, nursing and chiropractic colleges, students are encouraged to “allow the body to heal itself.�
Humility requires health practitioners to acknowledge the possibility of making errors, making interventions that accidentally retard our client's healing process. This is why the Law of Spiderman is relevant: "With great power, goes great responsibility."
Q: What criteria works to determine if an intervention is aligned with how my client's body wants to heal? A: The best way is to establish safety and "trust in the process" with the client's Child Within. Best way to do this is to align yourself with the client's own Higher Guidance, especially her Higher Guidance in Soul and Above. For the past 20 years, my ecumenical intention to acknowledge and accept the guidance of the client's own Highest Guidance, voiced in a simple threshold prayer, has been sufficient. Checking, verifying client readiness via indicator muscles is the second best way I know.
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Stress Release Our immune system is the real expert on our physical body, not our rational mind. Our immune system is living being; call it Immune System Self, if useful to you. This internal part overlaps 50% or more with the client's inner child. You do not have to know every answer ahead of time. All you have to to do is ask. So please, DO ASK. Q: What happens if I don't ask? A: Sooner or later you will be assuming and expecting. This is a slippery slope. Do you need to be the Kinesiology expert? Go farm vegetables; you are needed there and will be safe there. Don't work with invisible energies unless and until you are ready to be no more, nor less, than the delivery person for therapeutic direction coming from client's own High Self or from their innate wisdom. The Law of Gentleness asks only one question Simply ask: Is this body ready, for this intervention, at this time?
The question applies equally well to this herb, vitamin, intervention, technique, operation: Is it safe-beneficial-true for this body, at this time? If this question is not asked, a great downfall of effective practitioners is risked: doing too much, producing too much change, too quickly: showing off. Practitioners and clients both buy into over-doing, doing too much, out of eagerness to 'make something happen.' Q: Why do we like dramatic, impressive "gosh, wow!" effects? A: Because it feeds our lowest ego self, our ego -survival self. It craves self-hood so it can survive after our last physical out-breath. In
this it will be disappointed. Teach this part how to connect with and be of One Accord with the client's own High Self. This can reduce much fear in your survival-ego as it plans for your last breath approaches. It will understand it has served its purpose as chief of your physical-material body while you were inhabiting it. Our survival-ego can better understand our Self is going somewhere positive, beneficial, healing. Q: Why should I hold back on producing the maximum possible positive change I can in my sessions? A: When you raise frequency in any portion of the body or psyche, the entire hologram, body -mind-spirit, has to adjust upwards in frequency. As it raises vibration, it may wish to, want to, have to, detox. To hold a new higher frequency, most of us need to shed old
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Q: What happens if I try to detox my client faster than cells in one part of their body can handle?
A: You open the door to a healing crisis. I have never seen any healing crisis which was karmically determined. Every healing crisis I have observed was due to poor management on the part of client, practitioner or both. Kinesiology as "power tools" Kinesiology tools are "power tools" compared to talk-only methods. Please be careful with these tools. Like a two-edged sword, they can cut for the good or cut for unnecessary experiences (evil). This is why every K-practitioner, with decades of experiences, I've learned from, recommends not over-using the tools--just because you can. We want users of power healing tools to observe the Law of Spiderman: "With great power goes great responsibility." Thanks to his mother, Bruce is a second-generation nutrition, health, wellness, dowser. Bruce worked mostly in schools doing K-5 Waldorf stuff and special ed. Then he worked as a Health Intuitive. He's self-published several series of books-booklets: - Best Practices in Energy Medicine, - Holistic Brain Balance, - Best Practice in Group Process, - Growing Sustainable Children and Schools Worthy of Our Affection, - Stories of Restoration for Planet Earth 2020-2070. Coming: Common Sense Health 2020 and Beyond. https://medium.com/search?q=%22bruce%20dickson%22 https://holisticbrainbalance.wordpress.com/ http://blog.GoetheanScience.net
“The greatest weapon against stress is the ability to choose one thought over another.” - William James “It is not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.” - Hans Selye
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The General Adaptation Syndrome was first described by Hans Selye as the three distinct stages that any organism goes through when experiencing stress. Selye explained his choice of terminology as follows: “I call this syndrome general because it is produced only by agents which have a general effect upon large portions of the body. I call it adaptive because it stimulates defense…. I call it a syndrome because its individual manifestations are coordinated and even partly dependent upon each other.” He defined these as the alarm, resistance and exhaustion phases. We can see the way that this works with muscle testing by examining the way that a muscle responds to a specific stress. Often in a Touch for Health class, we have someone think about a stressful situation while checking an indicator muscle as a way of determining whether or not the body will respond to an emotional stress. When we do this as a precheck, we expect that the previously balanced muscle will immediately go into under-facilitation, becoming weak. This
coorelates with Selye’s first stage of stress – an ‘alarm’ response. In the alarm stage, we immediately go into a dip as our body grapples with the new stressor. Soon however, our body adapts and begins to compensate for the new stress and we enter the second phase which is ‘resistance’ and can also be referred to as a balanced-imbalance. The individual is managing to cope, but it is taking more energy to do so than is optimal as they have to go into a compensation pattern. In muscle testing, we often see this as a stressed, over-facilitated muscle – something that is incapable of relaxing properly. It can look like it is fine when we simply run through basic muscle-testing protocols, because it is compensating, but looking a little deeper tells a different story. When the compensation has gone on over a long period of time, eventually the body can no longer keep it up. At this point, it goes into the third stage ‘exhaustion’. Here we see the muscle go back into an underfacilitated state, but it is more dangerous this time. The body no longer has back up reserves that it can draw from and is falling apart.
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The best example I have for this is what happens when a family member is in the hospital for an extended period of time. At first, everyone panics and runs to their side in a typical alarm reaction. Very quickly though, the hospital becomes the ‘new normal’. It exists in a state of balanced/imbalance as the family takes turns bringing things, dealing with doctors, exchanging news, etc. This compensation can go on for quite a long time, until eventually, the strain of the situation becomes too much, the ‘exhaustion’ phase. The GAS is one of the reasons why, in a Touch for Health Wheel or 5-Element balance where you are charting a pattern of over and underenergies, if a muscle both unlocks and shows an indicator change when you touch the alarm points, it is counted as a stress. It means that the stress in that particular area is so great that compensation patterns are beginning to become difficult to maintain and it is slipping towards the third stage of stress.
The real problem here of course is that we do not experience stress in our lives in one area at a time. It’s not like we get to recover from one before the next stress comes along – instead, we are often in all three stages, dealing with many different stressors, from the physical to the mental and emotional. If you have several systems that have been in the resistance phase and heavily compensated for a long period of time, it doesn’t take much more to push them into the final stage. We sometimes call this, “the straw that broke the camel’s back”. You hear people say, “He was never sick a day in his life!” describing someone who has suddenly died of a heart attack, but what is more likely true is that he had many systems highly compensated and the heart was not able to take the last bit of stress. Knowledge of the GAS allows us to take our muscle testing a little deeper. When you find stress in a specific meridian/organ/tissue, etc. you can challenge further to see what stage the stress is in. This could be as simple as offering a verbal challenge, or if you use a modality like SIPS (Stress Indicator Point System), you could use light and deep touch on the point to see which gives you an indicator change. If you are familiar with Powers of Stress from Applied Physiology, this is another way of gauging just how much stress the system is under. All of these are ways of making sure that we get to the root of the matter and help to reestablish balance in the body on the deepest level.
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Classifieds:
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Class listings online for each National Association, Conferences, Products and More Class listings for individual countries
Upcoming SIPS classes
Australia: http://www.kinesiology.org.au/page-1712619 Canada: https://canbewell.org/ Denmark: http://kinesiologiuddannelse.dk/kursuskalender/ Ireland: http://www.kai.ie/kinesiology-training-in-ireland
There are classes coming up in Canada, the US and Europe – visit the website to find courses near you. http://www.sipskinesiology.com
UK: http://www.kinesiologyfederation.co.uk/training/coursediary-search.php USA: http://touchforhealth.us/classes/classes-by-state/ USA: http://energyk.org/training-events/
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Note: It has been difficult to list Muscle Testing events and classes this year as schedules are uncertain and many events are cancelled or changed last minute due to changing regulations. As you can see, I have removed conference listings from this page for the time being. I apologize if any of the information about events / classes / services that you have found here in this issue is incorrect.—Alexis
Online, November 13-15
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This section is a work in progress! If you are a kinesiology association and would like to have your events (conferences, demo days, etc) mentioned, please email us. There are far too many classes internationally for us to list them all, but please send a link to the page on your website that shows upcoming classes and we will add it here. If you would like to advertise your conference, presentation or post-conference workshop, please contact us for details.
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