The Touch for Health methodology grew out of Applied Kinesiology Techniques, first developed by the chiropractor George Goodheart in the 1960's.
Touch For Health is a system to improve posture, attitude and life energy, to reduce pain, tension and stress, to feel and function better, be more effective and to clarify and accomplish ones goals and true potential with goal specific balancing.
This process helps a person achieve an aim they have set for themselves. It identifies the meridian and organ systems that are not supportive in realising this goal and then strengthens these, such assisting the person to move forwards in the direction of their choice.
It is an approach to restoring natural energies that combines ancient Chinese energy therapies with recent Western developments in Kinesiology.
Touch for Health is recognised and respected as the fundamental training for other kinesiology systems as well as a healing modality in it's own right. It is a key source for the emergence of Energy Medicine, Brain Gym, Energy Kinesiology and Energy Psychology.
Using muscle testing, benefits are attained by balancing acupuncture meridian energy, identifying foods that raise the body's energy, reducing stress and pain, enhancing physical performance, improving vision, sensory input and brain function, and by improving posture, co-ordination and learning difficulties.
The Dorn Method is a gentle and holistic technique for the realignment of the spine, pelvis and joints developed by the German Dieter Dorn in the 1970's.
The method consists of a range of unique manual techniques, movements and exercises allowing joints and vertebrae to slip back into alignment. The technique is gentle and safe and applicable to all ages, even for the elderly.
Assessment of the different areas like leg-length, pelvis alignment, the neck as well as other joints is done in cooperation with the patient.
The dynamic motion techniques are designed to help vertebrae and joints slip easily back into their natural positions without using any heavy force.
The Dorn Method works on multiple layers. The physical structure, organic connection, emotional balance and energetic flow are all addressed.
As part of the treatment the client is shown simple self-help methods to maintain the beneficial effects achieved during the treatment.
The Dorn Method is greatly complemented with a Breuss Massage, but both techniques work also independently.
The Breuss Massage is a gentle Spinal Massage that safely stretches, aligns, energises and nourishes the spinal column using St John's Wort oil. The technique was developed by the late Austrian Healer Rudolf Breuss.
It is a soothing intervertebral disc massage along the spine to dissolve blockages, gently stretch the spinal column and decompress the vertebrae.
Emotional Kinesiology was compiled and written by Gudrun Lauterbach and reviewed and edited by Andrew Verity.
The aim of this process is to dissolve the connection between a past event, the emotion/s felt and a subsequently formed perception.
The purpose is to find all the triggers that contribute in maintaining a situation that no longer serves the person, thus enabling positive change.
The facilitator assists the client in making a conscious connection to how a past event has set up a reaction pattern.
This allows the person to discontinue the associations formed in their subconscious and change their perception. The method frees up energy held in a non-supportive pattern to be used more beneficially elsewhere in their life.
The process is helpful in all extreme stress reactions, including emotionally induced allergic reactions and compulsive stress or pain reactions like phobia and addiction.
Neural Organization Technique is a specialised branch of Kinesiology, which works through the central nervous system to restore structural, biochemical and emotional balance.
It is a 'systems oriented' approach to body structure and function designed by Dr Carl Ferreri with the aim of getting the neurological pathways to function optimally.
This discipline uses physical adjustments like acupressure, reactive muscle monitoring and co-ordinated respiration to address areas of concern. It works far more gently than direct chiropractic work.
Neural Organization Technique re-organizes a person's nervous system when locked into a fight, flight or freeze response and is very effective after any injury or trauma, both physical and emotional.
Other imbalances where the N.O.T. procedure is highly beneficial include compromised immune function, cardiac and circulatory stress, digestive disorders, hormonal imbalance, conditions of scoliosis, as well as learning difficulties like dyslexia, ADD and ADHD.
Techniques for emotional clearing release deeply embedded emotional patterns from the subconscious and create a new framework to provide a healthy body, mind and spirit.
The underlying philosophy of N.O.T. is that in order to understand how our basic physiological functions work today, we must look to our primitive origins and reflexes.
We were after all, created to exist and survive in a hostile environment. Therefore, essentially everything we need for survival, with the exception of food, air and water, must be found within the body itself.
Our neural organisation is what enables us to survive and function in every possible situation and is a self-healing, self-regulating and self-perpetuating system (replacing its own tissues).
It can however be compromised and thrown off balance by physical or emotional trauma as well as poor diet.
Deficits create disharmony and stress within the body and can cause extreme disorganisation in our overall structure and function.
Dr Carl Ferreri combined his knowledge of Chiropractic, Sacro Occipital Technique, Cranial Technique, Applied Kinesiology and the ancient wisdom of both Acupressure and Ayurvedic body mind concepts.
He developed a procedure for the organisation of the central nervous system based on his observations of how the body's primal survival systems of feeding, fight, flight, reproduction and immune system are organized.
This procedure provides the N.O.T. practitioner with a profound technique to be used for almost all client problems.
One of the major contributions to Kinesiology by Dr Ferreri is his groundbreaking research in the area of cranial function.
Deficits in cranial function can occur through trauma to the head,either physical or emotional, as well as through birth injury. Another contributor to cranial dysfunction is stress, especially if it is long term or unresolved.
Symptoms of this disorganisation can be huge, including disorientation, headaches, dizziness, lack of focus, reading, learning and cognition difficulties such as Dyslexia, ADD or ADHD as well as seizure activity, muscle Dyspraxia and emotional and mood changes.
In many cases Neural Organization Technique in combination with other Kinesiology techniques, especially those that interface with the brain, have had profound results.
The method focuses on correcting imbalances within the jaw by relaxing the muscles,ligaments and nerves of the jaw through gentle touch.
Temporomandibular joint disorder, more commonly known as TMJ, is a condition that affects the joint that opens and closes the mouth. This painful disorder can influence either the joint or muscles that surround it.
The most common symptoms of TMJ are pain or loss of movement in the jaw, earache, headache, popping noises when opening and closing your mouth, facial pain and dizziness, among others.
The TMJ (jaw joint) influences the body as a whole, including the body's skeletal, muscular, nervous and meridian systems as well as hydration.
The TMJ, due to its central role in cranial and spinal dynamics, affects the quality of the brain/muscular feedback system. The slightest tension in the jaw muscles can alter the normal balanced position of the TMJ, causing confused electrical messages to be relayed throughout the body.
The Trigeminal nerve is the largest of the cranial nerves, from its sensory nuclei in the cerebral hemisphere, to C2, then the rest of the body. It has a myriad of transportation routes, interconnections and sensory distribution to and from most areas of the cranium including the TMJ. It has proprioceptive input from, and motor innervation to, the Temporalis, Masseter and Pterygoid muscles.
It is intimately connected to the Lateral Pterygoid and the complete craniosacral system, so any imbalance in the TMJ will have widespread repercussions.
The Trigeminal nuclei have numerous interconnections with other central nervous tract systems, one of which is the Reticular Activating System (RAS). This primary defence and survival system initiates tension of the muscles of mastication, the spinal and cranial dura, and the body fascia, to hold the face and head together, and to stabilize and protect the brain, spinal cord, and the sacro iliac and pelvic structures.
In an accident the jaw muscles will therefore tighten to protect the brain and spine, a response Dr. Carl Ferreri, calls "Defensive Jaw."
This emotional stress could still be held in the muscles years later, resulting in a chronically "tense" jaw.
R.E.S.E.T. not only releases the muscle tension, but often results in a release of long-held subconscious emotions.
The body's energy flow has been mapped out in the Meridians of Chinese Acupuncture. The Stomach, Small Intestine, Triple Warmer, Gall Bladder and Large Intestine Meridians run over the muscles around the TMJ.
Empirical Kinesiology testing has shown that energising the jaw muscles balances the Psoas and Sartorius muscles which relate to the Kidneys and Adrenals, allowing the body to utilise water more efficiently.
Hydration influences nerve impulse conduction, biochemical reactions, and the whole body, as water is the medium in which our bodies operate.
The dynamic interactions between the TMJ, Sphenoid bone, and Atlas (C1), affects the whole body via a variety of mechanisms.
Any hypertonicity (excessive tension) of the jaw muscles, especially the Lateral Pterygoids and Temporalis, may cause twisting of the Sphenoid bone.
The Sphenoid is the key to cranial bone dynamics, as it is the only bone in the cranium that articulates with every other cranial bone except two of the facial bones.
Resetting the TMJ muscles has a far-reaching impact on conditions ranging from headaches to neck and lower back pain.
Hiatal Hernia, digestive valve function (ICV) and sequencing the digestive tract function, are all affected by the integrity and balance of the TMJ.
Gudrun is a Professional Specialized Kinesiologist and an internationally recognised teaching facilitator for various branches of Specialised Kinesiology.
The process involves a re-patterning and integrating of the faculties required to optimise information processing, learning and recall.
It takes the different styles of information processing and learning into account and the fact that each person is 'wired' uniquely to achieve this.
Based on individual stressors associated with the process of learning, we find ways to compensate and cope.
A stressor is an external stimulus or event, a chemical or biological agent or an environmental condition that causes stress.
Understanding our styles and those of others puts us in a position to better assist where stressors in processing and learning arise.
Learn to Learn can aid both children and adults with finding supportive measures to ensure optimum learning opportunities and skills.
Neuro Training is an innovative, solution oriented process developed by Andrew Verity, an Australian Neuro-linguistic programming master (NLP), Naturopath, Homeopath
Neuro Training aims at retraining the nervous system to adapt and function more effectively and appropriately by 'defusing' restrictive habits, patterns, emotions, limitations or behaviour.
This allows people to access more beneficial 'ways' and redirect their energy, facilitating positive change. Special attention is given to restrictive inherited patterns called 'genetic references'.
When we react to life with fear, focus on defending, justifying and compensating for the things we feel we cannot change; when we think or feel we have no choice and suppress those things we have no solutions for - we are surviving.
When we focus on solutions to our challenges, when we retrain our neurology to positive expression, focus on our potential, our opportunities, our life direction, our healing and our quality of spirit - we are living.
Neuro Training uses many techniques, skills and references together with an artistry of applications to find the most appropriate way to retrain a person's neurology to be solution oriented.
Solution oriented means becoming aware of the limitations, fears, the negative motivations. Instead of focusing on how to defend against these challenges we focus on finding solutions.
Imagine being able to redirect the energy invested into anxieties, fears, suppressions and compensations and freeing that energy up for solutions to the challenges in life.
Envision the benefit of focusing all that released energy into dreams, plans, and personal potential. Consider having access to inherited resources and a positive expression of the unique person that you are.
Kinesiology is a unique communication tool, using a person's muscle reflexes to access information about their body/mind via the central nervous and meridian systems.
The process is gentle and non-invasive and offers a holistic approach to well-being and health by encouraging the body's self healing ability.
A Specialised Kinesiologist works with and through the body's energy field, affecting the immune, digestive, endocrine and meridian systems as well as muscles, bones, glands, chakras and organs. The aim is to balance the physical, mental, emotional or energetic systems of a person.
'Muscle monitoring' provides the practitioner with a biofeedback system used to identify the nature of distress as well as the optimal balancing method.
The human body is self-regulating, self-healing and self-perpetuating. In order to survive, it maintains balance by monitoring the internal and external environment via the nervous system and making appropriate adjustments.
Signals are sent between the muscles and brain via neural pathways. The cerebellum responds by initiating the appropriate physical adaptations. Muscle testing taps into this adaptive system, giving the practitioner information to facilitate changes.
A fundamental premise of Kinesiology is that the body has innate healing ability and is doing it's best to care for itself, but sometimes needs assistance to achieve this state.
"Kinesiology is a communication tool that enables the practitioner to assess and upgrade a client's performance in all areas of their life. It is the science of energy balancing and is grounded in the study of anatomy and physiology.
Kinesiology uses muscles as monitors of stress and imbalance within the body and enables the practitioner to detect and correct these imbalances that may relate to stress, nutrition, learning problems, minor injuries and other issues in their daily life."
Kinesiology as we know it today was originally developed in the 1960's by the American chiropractor Dr John Goodheart to enhance and improve the quality of his treatments.
Since then it has evolved into many different branches, all based on the scientific, neurological workings of the body.
The method draws together core elements of various complementary health therapies such as the 5 Elements model
from Traditional Chinese Medicine, aspects of modern Chiropractic Medicine, Acupressure Therapy, various Stress Release methods, Brain Integration Techniques, Meridian Balancing Techniques as well as Homeopathic Information, merging eastern and western health philosophies.
Specialized Kinesiology is a stand alone practice but can comfortably work in combination with conventional medical treatment.
Like it or not, emotions share some very real biochemical links with your nervous, endocrine, immune and digestive systems.
Research scientists have now been able to demonstrate how thoughts and emotions cause distinct neuron-firing patterns within various parts of the brain. They can also observe how these patterns coincide with chemical releases and reactions throughout the body.
The science behind all this is fascinating, and the conclusions are staggering. It turns out that biochemical reactions to mental and emotional stimuli – your everyday thoughts and feelings – occur not just in the brain but also, often simultaneously, in virtually every system of your body.
We also now know that the brain and nerves, and the immune, endocrine and digestive systems are in fact capable of releasing and receiving many of the same peptides.
Thus, all these systems are inextricably linked in a sort of secondary, chemically based nervous system, one that is intimately connected with (but not exclusively controlled by) the electrically based central nervous system with which most people are more familiar.
When you are feeling stressed, have a problem to solve or when you are looking for new ideas or options, ESR can help.
Find a place where you feel safe and can relax. Sit or lie in a comfortable position and take a few deep breaths.
ESR can be used to deal with stress related to present issues as well as stress associated with Past Trauma and Future Performance.
Place one hand across the back of your head - this is your occipital lobe - associated with visual processing.
With your other hand, lightly touch the frontal eminences of the forehead with your fingertips or use the whole hand across the forehead. This is your frontal lobe - associated with reasoning, planning, short term memory, motivation and problem solving.
Allow yourself for a moment to feel and think about the the stressful experience or event. Continue breathing deeply.
The light touch on the reflex points brings increased blood flow to the areas and has a harmonizing effect on the brain, where new options and ideas are processed. The brain can be creative and think of new solutions without old emotion being involved.
Often a change in mood can be felt within a few minutes. This is effective both when someone does this for you or when you do it for yourself.
We do this instinctively in times of stress and may recognize this as a response to stress in others, but when done consciously the effect is more beneficial.