Holistic Kinesiology is mind-body medicine. It combines gentle, muscle-testing techniques with Chinese Medicine principles, western science (anatomy, physiology, nutrition), counselling and energetic science.

It works because it identifies the underlying cause/s to your condition or symptoms. All of you: thoughts, emotions, muscles, organs, hormones, nutrition and energy – are considered as part of a holistic context.

Once the underlying cause/s are found, Michelle can facilitate your wellbeing and vitality with deep and lasting results.

To find out what kinesiology can help with, click here on Benefits for you.

How does kinesiology work?

There are two parts to kinesiology:

Firstly, kinesiology uses a gentle, bio-feedback mechanism called muscle-testing. This allows Michelle to connect with your system and identify imbalances.

Secondly, kinesiology is a treatment system which uses a range of treatment techniques to facilitate your healing outcome. More details below.

Kinesiology and muscle-testing

In your first session with Michelle, she gives you a demonstration so you can understand the science behind muscle-testing, and see and feel for yourself how it works.

As you lie on the massage table, fully clothed, Michelle presses lightly on your raised arm. This shows you how your arm muscle responds. She then asks you to think of something stressful. She presses lightly on your arm again and shows you the change in how your arm muscle responds.

How does this work? Your muscles are connected to your brain and nervous system via the sensory-motor loop. The loop consists of the sensory nerve to the spinal cord (part of your nervous system), and the motor nerves back to the muscle.

Your nervous system (which includes your brain) registers everything that happens in your human system: your mind, body and energy. Any stress in your human system can be reflected in your muscle response because your muscle is connected to your nervous system via the sensory-motor loop.

This might make sense to you intuitively: When you feel tired, you walk in a certain way. When you feel excited, you walk in a very different way. Your body, and the muscles that help you walk, can reflect how you feel because it is all connected via the nervous system.

What does muscle-testing give you?

There is a beauty to this bio-feedback mechanism. Rather than a therapist telling you what they think is wrong, and what they think the solution is, Michelle uses muscle-testing to connect with your mind-body. It is your mind-body that shows you what is actually happening, and your mind-body that guides Michelle in developing the best solution.

Your practitioner must know what questions to ask, and what approach to take in using this bio-feedback mechanism. This is where Michelle’s skill and experience make her a leader in this field.

Please note that kinesiology does not provide medical diagnosis. (That kind of diagnosis is reserved for doctors only.) Rather, it identifies stress through a bio-feedback system and provides relief for that stress in a gentle, non-invasive way.

Holistic Kinesiology as a treatment system

There are many kinds of kinesiology. Holistic Kinesiology is very effective because it combines the best of these different techniques.

Holistic Kinesiology is a truly holistic approach to your healing. When Michelle uses muscle testing to map out the underlying cause of your symptom, she considers all of you: muscles, organs, bones, digestion, immune system, hormonal balance, emotion, thoughts, belief system, lifestyle, environment, energy, and more.

Michelle then formulates your Personal Care Plan, using muscle-testing to connect with your system. Your treatment is tailored precisely to your needs. This enables you to overcome obstacles and achieve deep, lasting results.

Your Personal Care plan may incorporate any of these treatments:

• Counselling and coaching
• Acupressure
• Chinese Medicine psychology: 5 element therapy
• Brain function improvements with neurophysiological corrections
• Nutritional information and digestion analysis
• Postural assessment and body work
• Blood & lymph reflexes
• Flower essence therapy
• Essential oil therapy
• Reflexology
• Colour therapy
• Sound therapy
• Energy work
• Take home exercises

Why does Michelle combine kinesiology and NLP?

Kinesiology brings specific imbalances to conscious awareness. It also engages with your body’s natural ability to heal. NLP engages your unconscious mind to move towards a solution. Combined, these therapies engage all of your resources: your conscious and unconscious mind, and your body. This is holistic healing at its best.

When your healing outcome is easily and effortlessly sustainable when it happens on both these levels. As an added bonus, any “healing crisis” is minimised or avoided. You are better able to manage the shifts and transitions of your healing process.

Michelle combines kinesiology and NLP seamlessly in your session. She may use kinesiology to first address a specific block, or resistance to change – so that when the transformation work happens with NLP, it happens smoothly and more easily.

Or she may use kinesiology to fine-tune a solution before using NLP to facilitate that solution. A difference of one degree at the start of a journey can result in a very different destination later. And Michelle pays attention to these details.

Best of all, by combining kinesiology with NLP, you can experience life-changing transformation in a relatively short period of time. There is no need to see Michelle week after week, for months. Better yet, the shift you experience is far deeper, and more integrated in body, mind and spirit.

You can find out more about Michelle’s success stories, or…

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