Working with your body

Today, I am healthy and energetic, with a confidence and direction in life that I never dreamt possible. Kinesiology was the key. I was so impressed with it that I became a Kinesiologist myself.

Kinesiology, (pronounced kin-easy-ology) is an umbrella term for a group of therapies that all use muscle testing as a way of gaining information from the body about the imbalances and blocks which prevent fulfilling our potential.

Every cell in the body is in constant communication both with your internal and external world. We are conscious of only a very small part of this communication, but our bodies and minds are handling pieces of information and responses to stimuli all the time.

The busier our brains are with the stresses and strains of everyday life, the less aware we are of this communication.

I use muscle testing as a way to illicit information from those parts of us that our conscious minds find difficult to understand, never mind voice.

For example, if a client wants a fit and healthy digestive system, with the help of symbols that provide a shorthand for the body, I can provide the means for it to communicate what the blocks are and what the client's body feels it needs to help it.

Our bodies are designed to be self-healing, and by working with the body's natural intelligence, which resides in every particle of it, I help to establish healthy communication for the client.

The basis of any relationship is good communication. I am a mediator - a kind of Relate counsellor for your relationship with your body.

Like any relationship, things break down when we resist and start to fight. Nowhere is this more evident than in ourselves. How many of us fight ourselves about the food we eat; about doing a job we dislike because we need the money; about what we judge as our bad habits and beliefs; about our weight or appearance?

Most of us are constantly, if not at war with ourselves, at least in a state of conflict. How can this be a basis for health, wealth and happiness? It can't.

But it can change once we realise what is going on and begin to grasp the bigger picture more clearly. It is amazing how much energy and creativeness is released if we are prepared to change. To become what we could be, instead of what we have been.

Treatment is gentle and non-invasive. Most of the session is information gathering, understanding the issues from the body's point of view and focusing the energy on achieving the client's desired outcome.

In my toolbox I have essences, light, colour, sound, theta healing, meridian energy work, acupressure points and chakra visualisation.

It is the body itself that indicates, through muscle testing, what it wants to be treated with.

Kinesiology is a form of re-centering' the self. Many of my clients have told me that as they have worked with me, they have begun to recognise and trust their own inner voice and are less confused by the overabundance of information about what they should do or try. No-one knows better what is best for you than your own body. You are in a constantly creative relationship between your soul and nature.

Once you begin to work with this powerful dynamic, and cease to resist it, you begin to realise that less is truly more. One drop of flower essence can move mountains, where months, and thousands of pounds worth of other treatments have failed, if it is what your own natural intelligence requires.

Rebecca Johnson qualified as a healer in 1993. She began learning Kinesiology in 1998 and is now an accredited Touch for Health instructor, Optimum Health Balance practitioner and instructor and Creative Kinesiology and Quantum Sheng practitioner. She also uses Neural Organisation Technique, Body Math and Theta Healing. Much of the actual treatments she gives are vibrational in nature and may include healing, flower essences, light, colour, sound and meridian energy work. Dietary changes or supplements may be recommended if the body requires them. To make an appointment call the Bell Tress Clinic on 01865 200365.