QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Q: WHAT IS HK?

A: Imagine if you could ask your body what you needed to enjoy vibrant health and well-being, and actually have your body answer back.

This is the founding principle of Health Kinesiology (HK) - A long established therapy system that combines the ancient wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine with the modern technique of muscle testing.

HK is a very gentle, non-invasive system of holistic health care and is suitable for all ages from a new born baby to 100+. It accesses your body's unique inner wisdom to find out exactly what you need to help you restore balance and feel truly healthy, both inside and out.

Q: WHAT CAN HK DO FOR ME?

A: Because HK does not focus on specific symptoms but corrects imbalances throughout the whole body/mind system, the list of health problems which it can help or alleviate is literally endless! HK removes excess stresses from the client's life, which then frees the body/mind to tap into it's innate ability to heal itself.

Q: WILL YOU NAME SOME OF THE OF THINGS HK CAN HELP?

A: HK has successfully helped many people address their physical ailments - both specific and systemic. A few of these are listed below.

Allergies, Arthritic Pain, Chronic Fatigue, Diarrhoea, Digestive Problems, Emotional Distress, Eye Problems, Headaches, Hormonal Problems, IBS, Insomnia, Menopause, Migraine, Mood Swings, Muscular Pain, Phobias, PMS, Poor Memory, Poor self-Esteem, Skin Problems, Stress, Tension, Unhappiness, Sadness and many, many more.

Q: DO I HAVE TO BE ILL TO EXPERIENCE HK?

A: As well as an effective therapy that could address your physical symptoms, HK could help you to learn to:

Q: DO HK PRACTITIONERS DO AN AFFORDABLE ALLERGY TEST IF I WANT ONE?

A: YES. Many HK Practitioners run allergy awareness clinics and have days where they do Affordable Allergy Testing on its own. It is then up to the client to carry out the advice given.

Q: HOW DOES HK WORK?

A HK uses a muscle-testing technique that accesses the body's own inner wisdom to determine where blockages lie along the body's 14 energy meridians. Using this information, your HK practitioner will perform a range of correcting techniques specifically tailored for your concerns and for your overall health and well-being.

Q: WHAT IS THIS MUSCLE-TESTING TECHNIQUE?

A:The client lies down fully clothed on a couch, with one forearm resting at right angles to the couch. The HK practitioner gently exerts a light pressure on the arm to ascertain the level resistance that the client's muscle is able to give.

If the muscle relaxes and 'gives way' this is interpreted as a 'NO' response. If the muscle remains strong and rigid, this is interpreted as a 'YES' response.

By presenting the client's body with various stress items and then testing the response of the arm muscle to see whether it relaxes or remains strong ( NO or YES ), the practitioner can discover what weakens the client's energy system and more importantly what strengthens it!

The HK practitioner then follows a tried and tested series of questions, interpreting the answers each time from the client's muscle test. This allows the practitioner to identify precisely what is stressing the client's system at that time, and then to perform the energy corrections necessary to relieve that stress. By relieving the stress on the system, the body/mind will be freed to implement its own self healing mechanisms, and the symptoms will diminish and disappear.

Q: WHAT SORT OF STRESS ITEMS MIGHT BE FOUND?

A: The most common stress item is simply a particular thought or emotional feeling. The client may be asked to think about a particular situation in their life that they find distressing or difficult to cope with. While the client is thinking, the practitioner will hold some acupuncture points (No needles) to relieve the blocked energy that has built up in their meridian energy system in regards to that stress. Other common stress items used during an HK session are magnets, flower essences, foods, chemical substances or homoeopathic substances.

Q: HOW MANY SESSIONS WOULD I NEED TO HAVE?

A: The number of sessions needed varies from individual to individual and depending on the reasons for you wanting to come to see us. The average is 4 or 5 sessions but it may be less & it may be more. Your practitioner will be able to give you an approximate number at your first session.

Q: HOW LONG DOES A SESSION LAST?

A: The 1st session can last from 1 hour to 1½ hours, thereafter sessions last approximately 1 hour.

Q: HOW LONG IS IT BETWEEN SESSIONS?

A: On average there has to be period of 4 to 5 weeks between sessions. This period allows the corrections from one session to process through smoothly before starting on the following session.

Q: HOW MUCH DO HK SESSIONS COST?

A: This varies from practitioner to practitioner and from region to region round the country and also sometimes the cost will reflect the level of expertise and experience of the practitioner. As a rough guide sessions can be in the bracket of £30 to £55+ per session. Some practitioners do offer concessions in some instances. Your practitioner will only too pleased to tell you of their fees.

Q: ONCE MY SESSIONS ARE FINISHED WILL MY PROBLEMS COME BACK AGAIN?

A: Once your problems have been correctly dealt with, and the practitioner has muscle-tested that no more work is needed, then your problems should not return. However, life traumas or changes in circumstances can stress the body once again, and so we would recommend regular once or twice-yearly 'top-up' sessions as a preventative measure.
HK can also help with Geopathic Stress, which is negative energy emanating from the earth. This is more prevalent in some places than others, so if you move house, or change your place of work, and then start to see a recurrence of your symptoms, it may be time for some more HK work to deal with the Geopathic Stress.

Q: WHAT IF I AM ON MEDICATION WILL IT STILL WORK?

A:  Prior to your first HK session you will be asked to complete a Personal Information form which includes a question asking about any medication you might currently be on. In Health Kinesiology sessions all corrections are completed to work alongside Allopathic Medicine. It is a good idea to take any medicines you are currently taking along with you to your first session.

Q: WILL THE HK PRACTITIONER DIAGNOSE WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?

 A:  Health Kinesiology practitioners do not diagnose what is wrong with you. Instead HK accesses your body's unique inner wisdom to find out exactly what you need to help you restore balance and feel healthy, both inside and out.

Q: WHAT ARE 'ENERGY MERIDIANS AND WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT TO OUR HEALTH?

A: The Ancient Chinese discovered subtle pathways of energy that run around the body just under the surface of the skin. They mapped these pathways and marked various points along the pathways as being particularly significant. They found that by inserting needles into these points, they could release excess, blocked energy from the pathways, much in the same way that a convenient slip-road can release excess traffic from a blocked motorway!

There are 14 main meridians on the human body - two of them run directly up the centre of the body, one at the front, one at the back, and the remaining 12 meridians are bi-lateral - i.e. they are in pairs, one on the left and one on the right of the body.

The Chinese discovered that each of these meridians directed energy into one of the main organs of the body (for example, we have a pair of meridians each for our Liver, Heart, Lungs, Kidneys etc.). If the meridian becomes blocked, or malfunctions in some other way, the organ does not receive its usual amount of energy and becomes 'under-energised', and therefore does not work as well as usual, causing symptoms in the body. An organ can also become 'over-energised' when too much energy is directed into it by the meridians.

The Chinese also found that certain emotions tended to under- or over-energise particular meridians, and so our thoughts and our emotions can influence the functioning of our internal organs. For example, the Kidney and Bladder meridians are particularly influenced by 'fear' and 'anxiety'-type emotions, and I am sure we can all remember occasions where we have felt fearful and have had to visit the toilet more often than usual!

Q: WHERE DID HK COME FROM?

A: Health Kinesiology was invented by Dr. Jimmy Scott (an American who now lives in Canada ). HK was originated from principles developed from the ancient Chinese art of acupuncture and from Applied Kinesiology as used by chiropractors.
Instead of using needles or manipulation, the HK practitioner simply holds various energy-points on the body to bring the body's energy system into harmony and balance. This allows the body's natural healing mechanisms to work more effectively with the result that the client's health problems start to disappear. HK is a very powerful system that looks at the whole person - their psychological state, their spiritual and emotional state, their physical condition and also the condition of their subtle-energy system and chakras.

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