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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery.

There is always more mystery.”  - Anais Nin

Energy Kinesiology

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."  - Carl Jung

If you have the unpleasant task of telling someone some bad news, what’s the first thing to say to them?  “Maybe you had better sit down…”  Why sit down?  We know instinctively that the impact of stress on the body, in this case receiving some bad news,  often involves a momentary loss of muscle control and if we’re standing up we might collapse and get hurt.  Our muscles react to stress!

Muscles react to the world by turning “on” or “off.”  I may need only a small percentage of my muscle fibers to turn on to pick up a pen from the table, but those that fire are totally on.  If I’m going to pick up an Acme anvil, I will need more muscle fibers.  And they will be totally on.  Think of a room with twenty lamps in it.  If you’re reading a book in one corner of the room you may only need to turn on one or two lamps.  But if you’re playing a board game with friends you will need more light, so you turn on more lamps and the room gets brighter.

So a small amount of pressure exerted on an arm or leg in a particular position will likely show that the arm or leg is strong.  If you introduce a thought or activity, maybe have the person do some math while you exert the pressure, if that process is stressful to the person, the previously strong muscle may now seem to be weak!  What happened?  The level of stress of that activity or thought was “moderate to severe” and that threshold of stress was reflected by the lack of muscle strength.  The stress made a strong muscle weak.

This is the basis of Energy Kinesiology.  Using the muscles’ natural tendency to react to stress with weakness allows us to get all kinds of valuable information about the state of the body and how best to help it move back toward balance.

This is information directly from the source.  While intuition and the skill of perceiving the subtle energies of the body are very useful, it’s the body itself that gives us the authoritative view of the situation.  This is a trustworthy source!

If you’d like to read more about Energy Kinesiology, click here to read the article I wrote for Massage Magazine in 2014.  It was an update of an article I wrote in 1997 for the same publication.

Flower Essences and Essential Oils

“Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.”  - John Donne

How many of us get enough time in Nature?  Not many I’ll bet!  And yet, She is our sustaining force.  Author and teacher Martín Prechtel refers to this relationship as our “mutual indebtedness.”  Nature provides us not only with food, shelter and clothing, but with remedies and medicines that help us maintain our balance.  It’s important to remember that we have an obligation to ask permission to use plants, not simply take what we want.  They are alive and deserve our respect.

One way that we can look at plants and how we use them therapeutically is by the frequency we are using based on its preparation:

Herbs — the physical material of the plant in an infusion or decoction.  The densest (physically) of the preparations.  Great for physical ailments especially and can also affect the nervous system which in turn can affect mood.

Essential Oils — the volatile oils extracted from the plant.  You can see that this form is less “dense” than the whole plant or any part of it.  Oils have impact on the physical body, usually based on their frequency or “speed” of vibration.  For example, Birch is a “slower” oil and may have an affinity for the bones, whereas Rose is a “faster” oil and has an affinity for the heart, the emotions, and what the Chinese call “the Shen.”  Some oils have properties that approach the spiritual realm as well.

Flower Essences — this is the “essence” of the plant imprinted into the storage medium of water.  Some people use the plant to infuse the essence into the water, some simply “invite” it into the water while leaving the plant intact.  Flower essence author Gurudas describes flower essences as “the process of transference of consciousness from the natural world to the human system.”  This faster vibration addresses emotions, mood, thoughts and spiritual experiences.

Homeopathic preparations — Fastest of all, these preparations of plants (and animals) move through all levels of human experience, even potentially intergenerationally.

I am neither trained as an herbalist nor a homeopath so while I may use both in tending to myself and my family, I do not use these in my work with clients.  I do, however, use many different essential oils and flower and vibrational essences.  I find that these two preparations add enormously to the energy work and can even reveal an aspect of the issue of which the client was previously unaware.  They are also powerful as homework!  Energy testing allows the body to select exactly the vibration it’s looking for in the situation.

Tuning Forks

Just as plants can be potent helpers for changing limiting patterns, sound, too, can have a big impact.  Applied Physiology tuning forks, created to resonate with the meridian system, can amplify and deepen corrections, as can forks tuned to the frequencies of the organs themselves.