Although less well understood, the energetic systems of the body also interface directly with muscle function,

and imbalances within these energetic systems can directly alter muscle function.
Likewise, our emotional states directly affect our muscle function such that changes in emotional state
result in changes in muscle tone and tension. Muscle biofeedback can also provide direct information about
our mental processing and even our level of spiritual awareness, although the mechanisms are not currently
well understood. Because of this unique multifactorial interface with the major systems of the body, muscle
biofeedback provides the keys to the kingdom of understanding physical level phenomena, such as
musculoskeletal problems, as well as emotional, mental and spiritual issues.
The philosophical basis of kinesiology supports the Hippocratic principle of ‘doing no harm’ by applying
only non-invasive techniques as directed by the client’s own biofeedback. Hippocrates perceived the flow of
physis, the natural vital force flowing within each person, to be a ‘healing power’ or ‘self-adjusting power’
within the body that ‘though untaught and uninstructed, does what is proper to preserve a perfect
equilibrium’.
However, at times this self-adjusting or healing power is reduced because of blocks in the normal flow of
physis via events that create a breakdown in the normal feedback needed to provide the data for these healing
powers. Therefore some external system is necessary to provide this information feedback to the system, with
which it can then self-correct. We know of no better biofeedback system than muscle monitoring as applied in
Energetic Kinesiology!

Client-based therapy
Kinesiology is inherently a client-based therapy, because it is totally reliant on biofeedback from the client to
direct the therapy. For instance, once a stress issue has been identified by muscle biofeedback, the nature of
the factor creating this stressor is then identified by further muscle biofeedback, and finally the actual therapy
to be applied is also identified by muscle biofeedback. Therefore the client totally directs the therapy by the
feedback they provide via muscle monitoring.
When a kinesiologist begins a session with the client, they have the information the client has provided
regarding their presenting issue, but they do not know a priori the causal factors underlying this issue.
However, quite quickly the client’s muscle biofeedback can identify the type of stressor involved and the
therapeutic techniques required to effectively address this stressor. Thus, each session is unique to the
individual being treated, rather than based only on practitioner knowledge and application of a standard
technique or protocol.
A kinesiologist does not ‘heal’ or ‘fix’ their client by application of their knowledge; rather, they participate
with their client in a journey of exploration to discover the factor or factors creating the symptoms that they
presented with. The kinesiologist does need to have considerable knowledge and skills to both uncover these
factors and then apply effective therapies to resolve the presenting issue. That is, the more in-depth
knowledge and skills the kinesiologist has, the more effectively they can understand the information that
muscle monitoring provides and the more techniques they will have at their disposal for this feedback to select
as therapy.

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