How Kinesiology Helps Kids
Kinesiology is a powerful modality that can help babies, children and teens to heal a broad range of issues. From emotional dysregulation to stress, anxiety, low self esteem, learning difficulties, developmental issues, illness and more.
It offers a very unique path to healing and is probably unlike anything you and your family have experienced.
How Does it Work?
The defining feature of a kinesiology session is muscle monitoring. This is a way of working with the muscles in order to gather information from the innate intelligence of the patient’s body.
Your practitioner will use Muscle Monitoring to gather information from your child’s body related to the underlying causes of their presenting challenges. This information is then used to release the stress in a gentle and effective way.
Each practitioner may have a slightly different range of tools and techniques to resolve the stress the body is holding. Applied Kinesiology practitioners commonly draw upon principles and philosophies from Eastern Healing Traditions including Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hinduism, Daoism and more.
A few of the reasons it is that kinesiology is a great fit for children.
It is gentle, non-invasive and flexible. In sessions, we work to uncover the root cause of the challenges, illnesses and other issues through Muscle Monitor which involves only light touch. If your child is comfortable to do so, they are invited to lay on the treatment table - patients are fully clothed for treatment.
And if your child isn’t keen to be in the session, we can treat the parent as the surrogate. Wondering how a surrogacy really works? Sorry, quantum physics is above my pay grade to explain but I have a bank of testimonials I can offer you if in doubt.
Kinesiology bypasses the conscious mind. Traditional talk therapy can be more challenging for some children. Perhaps in instances where the child’s consciousness is still developing or the mind is blocking out the information needed to get to the root cause of the issues. Kinesiology bypasses the mind and lets the body deliver the vital information to conduct the treatment.
The child’s body is directing the healing process. A very unique aspect of kinesiology is that we are able to let the body dictate exactly what is needed for the individual’s healing journey. Through Muscle Monitoring, your child’s body will bring forward any related stress to be shifted in order for the self healing ability to fully activate. This means there is no guess work, just specifically tailored treatments to meet their needs.
Kinesiology is incredible to treat the nervous system.
Kinesiology can very quickly and effectively regulate children, bringing them out of the “fight or flight” response.
When they are in fight or flight, the child is using all of their energy to try and maintain control of their bodily function, which can leave them falling behind in other areas. This is especially true for children experiencing symptoms aligned to an ADHD diagnosis.
Kinesiology allows us to identify trapped stressors and gently release them from the body. When the body (conscious and subconscious) knows that it is safe it is able to maintain regulation and natural developmental processes which may have been inhibited can gently resolve without interference.
In kinesiology, once the nervous system is regulated, we can progress to working on brain integration which will rapidly assist the child in their developmental process.
Treating Babies & Toddlers
As mentioned above. In kinesiology we can surrogate the treatment from the child to the parent. This is what makes treating babies and young children so effective. Although quantum physics is beyond my reach to outline here, it allows us to access your child’s energy field by muscle testing on you.