Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Applied Kinesiology Debunked


The Truth About Kinesiology

Applied Kinesiology


The Truth about Kinesiology - basically debunked Kinesiology. Applied Kinesiology was founded in 1963 by Chiropractor George Goodheart.

He invented a method of both diagnosis and treatment. He used his own methods with oriental practices combining chiropractic, muscle-testing, nutritional evaluations, and other preventive and health maintenance methods.

“Applied kinesiology uses the application of muscle testing to diagnose physiological conditions and anatomical problems of the human body. (accomplished by) ... identifying the links between the energy pathways known to the Chinese as meridians and specific sets of muscles. ...” Once the problem is pinpointed by muscle testing, energy-rebalancing therapies can be given, which will begin to reverse the process and allow vital body energies to flow normally again within the distressed system. This brings energy to the organ, strength to the related muscles, and relief from symptoms” (The Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine and Self-Help, Malcolm Hulke, editor.

Kinesiology claims to evaluate and correct problems of the nervous, circulatory, lymphatic, even musculature, and “meridian systems by treating the muscle imbalances, thus maintaining health. Its practices permit the even flow of cosmic energy throughout the body, nurturing individual organs and systems with the proper supply of chi energy.

This is how it is conducted -- One puts out their left arm laterally and lets their right arm at their side. The doctor then pushes down on the left arm to see its strength. Then, the patient is asked to repeat this process with a particular food or product held in his right hand at his side. The doctor then pushes down on his left arm to see if it is weakened or strengthened. By this, he knows whether this food or product benefits that person. They claim the energy is absorbed just by touch. This becomes sheer wizardry, like holding a crystal over food to see if it circles around or goes side to side. Some have the person ingest the food and do the testing to diagnose whether it suits the body. But food can take at least a half hour, if not hours, to be absorbed into the bloodstream, so this testing has no validity either.

We all touch things in our everyday life. If energy transference was a reality, as we are told, by handling something poisonous, even with gloves or a closed container, we would all either be sick or dead, and probably the latter. Think of all the toxic cleaning fluids or even toothpaste that, if taken internally, can make you sick. If, by handling it, the energy is absorbed, we cannot do any of the standard functions we are accustomed to each day.

As with the other new-age therapies that claim to manipulate or diagnose energies and their flow, this likewise helps to bring what could be more excellent and balanced into its proper order. When does medicine or healing become occultic? When a physical method is used to heal the spirit or when one employs a spiritual method to cure the physical. Natural medicine is physical work on the body. These techniques work with an energy that science has not proven to exist nor works the way practitioners claim.

by: Traci Morin

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