What you appreciate...appreciates

Gratitude:  the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.

Someone I worked with a long time ago recently posted on Facebook an idea which really appealed to me.  A gratitude box.  He wrote that he and a friend had decided to start January with an empty jar, and every time something good happened in their lives they would write it down and put it in the jar.  Then on the following New Year’s Eve they would open it up and read all the entries to remind themselves of the amazing year they had had.

I love this idea.  It is so simple and yet so profound.

And so I have decided to mark the start of 2013 with my own gratitude box.  Well, a gratitude jar actually:

 

It’s pretty simple but I’m super excited to have it.

The reason I love this so much is because I know this seemingly simple idea will be very powerful.  It will help me realised how much I have to be thankful for.  Gratitude will shift my focus from what is lacking in my life to that of  the abundance already present.

Research has shown life can improve from the practice of gratitude. Being grateful makes people happier,  it strengthens relationships, improves health, and reduces stress. 

Gratitude attracts what we want.  My kinesiology teacher often reminded me “Energy follows thought”, which is a little bit along the lines of “Law of Attraction”.  The Law of Attraction says that we will attract into our life the things we think about and focus on.  So, being aware of the good things, people, experiences, and being grateful for them, we focus on what we want in our lives - rather than the things that make us unhappy or that are missing.

You are the master of your thoughts and your thoughts create your reality.  So aim to manifest more of the things you enjoy and love in your life by being grateful for what you currently have.

And if you are finding it hard to see and acknowledge the good in your life then book yourself into a kinesiology appointment to help you clear the mental and emotional blockages that are stopping you from being the person you want to be with the life you want to live.

Supplementation - for or against?

I have a confession. Until just recently I was quite anti-nutritional supplementation. I was of the opinion that supplements were an unnecessary, expensive ‘luxury’, sold by a money making industry disguised as ‘do gooders’. I also thought it was unnecessary if you were on a good diet.

 

Then, while I was pregnant with my second child and studying kinesiology, I found myself in front of a teacher covering the subject of nutrition and supplementation. “Supplementation is no longer a luxury but a necessity” I was told. “The less-than fresh food we eat, the oxidative environment we live in, the stress of our lives, etc etc. means we can no longer afford NOT to supplement.” 

 

As many of you might know, pregnancy is a time when most women will take supplements. I was on a number at the time, and all of a brand I thought were of good, reputable quality. Yet I was feeling exhausted and emotional but who doesn’t when they are pregnant right? And then on that day I was muscle tested… 

 

It turns out the supplements I was taking did not agree with my body and I was not taking nearly enough to keep up with my pregnant body’s needs. I was quite annoyed by the finding. I thought I had been doing the right thing. Not only was I not taking the right products but now I had to go and spend more money on a new range of products. Since I was feeling fatigued and emotional (and not particularly enjoying it) I decided to implement the recommendations. 

 

I notice the difference immediately. I had more energy, less mood swings, zero cravings, and I stopped putting on excess weight. It was a great improvement in the pregnancy and I was very grateful. 

 

They say gratitude is the shortest lived emotion and so it was with me. Fast forward a couple of years later and again I found myself tired and emotional. This time I was NOT pregnant. I suspected I needed to supplement but was in denial about my body’s need for it. I muscle tested myself to see what exactly I needed, how much and for how long. It was a lot, it was expensive but it made me feel unquestionably better. 

 

I’m still on this regime of supplements and I’m still genuinely surprised by how good I feel and how well I’m coping with stressful episodes if they pop up. I’m going through a very intensive, stressful project at the moment and I’m focused, my energy is good and best of all, I’m not irritable or snappish. 

 

So next time you visit your complementary therapist - hopefully a kinesiologist – don’t brush off their suggestions to supplement with vitamins/minerals/proteins etc. There are, however, three things I’d like you to keep in mind; 

1.  Even though a product is labelled a nutritional supplement, it doesn’t mean it is good for you. Choose only wholefood supplements which are free from synthetic ingredients and ‘fillers’. Do a little research before committing to a brand.
 

2.  Beware the bargains. Supplements that can be bought in bulk, at super cheap prices, should be given the wide berth. Cheap products can often mean cheap ingredients and 'fillers'. These keep the costs down but the quality is compromised.

3.  If you are on supplementation and you’re not noticing a difference/improvement then you should a) check they are the right supplements (for you) and b) check you’re taking the right quantity at the right time of day (A kinesiologist can help you with this).

Wishing you good health. 

 

   

www.kinesiologyaffect.com.au

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My preferred nutritional supplements are those from the GNLD range. This brand consistently tests up positive with my clients and is the brand I have taken since studying kinesiology. If you are interested in purchasing anything from the GNLD range, please contact me. Please note this article has not been sponsored by GNLD nor have I received a financial contribution for mentioning their products. This is my opinion based on my own experiences and training.

Why is meditation so hard?

I’m no expert when it comes to meditation.  In fact I used to avoid it like the plague.  Much to my annoyance, it used to keep popping up in my kinesiology balances as something I needed to do.   I had many excuses as to why it couldn’t happen “I don’t have enough time”, “it’s impossible with my children”, “I’d have to get up at 5 a.m. and I’m not a morning person!”.  So I never did it. And as a result, my life continued to be chaotic and stressful and I was constantly irritable, angry, unfocused and it didn’t take much to make me fly off the handle.  It wasn’t much fun….not surprisingly I wasn’t much fun to be around either.

Kinesiology has been fantastic for helping me cope with stress, but avoiding the recommendation to start meditation was basically erasing all the good work of the kinesiologist and not doing me any favours.  (It’s a bit like going on a weekend retreat to detox and then returning home to all your bad habits…benefits are short lived).  So, it was time to implement change!

My first few meditation sessions were far from perfect; my mind would mull over a million and one things, or  I’d doze off, or I’d be restless throughout the process.  Yet despite this, I still felt good after each attempt.   I only ever tried to meditate for 15-20 minutes and I found I quite enjoyed these little mini-meditations.  I looked forward to them and relied on them for some much needed ‘time out’.  My sleep also improved. I was sleeping more deeply and waking more refreshed.

I also found that I needed to meditate to music.  I am a fan of Tom Kenyon and his unique and unusual healing sounds*.  I found that if I played his music in the background it gave my busy mind a focus and it helped me get into the meditation 'zone'. 

I can’t say I’ve turned into a serene yogi (not yet anyway), but I am definitely calmer about life and nicer to be around.  If I try to skip a meditation (or a couple) then things begin to go haywire for me again and I know I need to get back into my routine!

I’m not suggesting everyone should meditate but I find it fascinating that it comes up so often for my kinesiology clients.  Many of us live busy, stressful lives and often don’t make the time to switch off mentally and physically. Sometimes the idea of fitting another activity into our already jam-packed  lives seems impossible.  But, if you feel your life is a little crazy; you’re overly stressed, irritable, unable to handle life’s little upsets, then maybe meditation might be something worth considering? 


*Tom Kenyon is a sound healer.  He offers many of his healing sounds for free on his website.  His sounds won't be to everyone's liking but I find his music powerful and have experienced dramatic shifts / insights. http://tomkenyon.com/

It's time to lift your water restrictions.

If I had a dollar for every time someone told me how important it was to drink water, or read a health column in a paper or magazine that stated the generic “you should drink 1-2 litres of water a day” I’d be a very rich lady.

And yet close to 95% of my clients fail to drink the required amount of water every day and take on a pained expression when I inform them their body is dehydrated and they need to drink more of it.

Is water really that important?  Absolutely. 

In a PKP kinesiology session, testing a client’s level of hydration is one of the first few things that I check.  Aside from all the biochemical reasons why our body needs it (and which I won’t go into here), a dehydrated body is unable to hold/maintain any corrections made during a kinesiology session.

The type of dehydration I am normally dealing with is chronic dehydration.  Some of the symptoms of chronic dehydration* are fatigue, headaches, loss of brain function, inability to concentrate and tiredness. (Note, acute dehydration is quite a different condition and can quickly become a serious medical condition).  

Often people don’t absorb the water they need because their body has become accustomed to functioning on a lower water tolerance.  It’s like the body puts in place a drought management program. And just as rains after a drought will often result in floods,  large, sudden intake of water after years of low water intake can see a person spending much of their day at the toilet rather than absorbing it.

People who aren’t absorbing their water should consider adding a “catalyst” to help their body’s cells start to the reabsorbtion process.  Catalysts include apple juice, aloe vera, lemonade and coca cola  (Yes, you read that right!)  I muscle test my clients to see which catalyst is needed and the ratio of the catalyst to water.  There often needs to be a discussion about water needs and a reminder that coffee, tea and coca cola, on their own make the body lose water because they are diuretics.

In kinesiology, the metaphysical meaning of dehydration is “how are you not nurturing yourself or your thirst for knowledge?” Many clients are very good at putting the needs of others ahead of their own (think people who can’t say no and mothers !). 

So, how much water do you drink? Are you nurturing yourself in all areas of your life?

Are you sabotaging yourself?

Everyone does it sometimes. Some do it regularly, others at critical moments in the life.  Self sabotage.  Also known as ‘shooting yourself in the foot’, procrastination or putting obstacles in your own path.  It’s like a virus on the hard drive of a computer.

What is self sabotage? Self-sabotage is when you know what to do, yet you don’t do it. Or you don't think through the consequences of your actions to end up with the results you want.

Do you go on diets, start to lose weight and then find yourself deliberately eating some calorie rich snack even though you know it will undo all the great progress you’ve made?  Do you desperately want to be healthy and yet find yourself prone to accidents or illness? These are just two of many examples of how people sabotage their health.  They are reoccurring patterns of mishaps – physical, emotional, nutritional and so on.

A sabotage program is always triggered by a survival adaptation.  Sometime in the past, most often in your childhood, a stressful situation occurred and you responded either out of fear or anger.  How you judged this situation became a locked pattern of behaviour in your mind and it no longer serves you because it often runs against your conscious desires.  For some people it can end up governing their life.    

Sabotage programs inhibit the healing process. They act powerfully while hidden but fade away quickly once revealed and balanced.

In a PKP kinesiology balance I not only check whether a sabotage program is on board but I also find out when it started and use a specific technique to clear it at the causal time.  This is a powerful correction which frees up a huge amount of life energy to help my client’s work towards their goals, and achieve the life they want.

I never stop being amazed by what comes up for clients and how relevant it is to them.  Take for example one client who I was seeing.  At the start of one of our sessions we had joked about her tendency to apologise for everything.  She had a tendency to apologise for things that were not her fault or had control over.  She always wanted to please people.  When clearing sabotages relating to her career the sabotage that showed up for her was "My life is not an apology".  We were both awestruck with how relevant this was, and once cleared, she was able to move forward in her life and do the things that were important to her without the need to apologise to others.  She found this incredibly empowering.

Clearing a sabotage program is always an exciting and humbling process because I know my client will be liberated – it allows them to get on with their life in the way they were meant to, and most importantly, how they would like to live it.

Are you carrying any sabotage programs?

What's so special about kinesiology?

Amongst the many and varied choices of natural therapy treatment options, why should someone have a kinesiology balance and not naturopathy, massage, acupuncture, reiki, energetic healing, bowen therapy, just to name a few?  There is absolutely nothing wrong with these therapies, in fact, they are all wonderful when a person finds the right treatment (and therapist) for their health issue.  But here is where kinesiology has an advantage, particularly with professional kinesiology practice,  because it incorporates elements of all these therapies and more.  It's like having a smorgasboard of treatment options which a person’s body, through its innate intelligence, decides what it most needs.

Kinesiology is a therapy that is difficult to explain because it can sound weird and “out there” and anything that is written doesn’t do the experience of having a kinesiology treatment justice.  In simple terms, it uses information gained from muscle testing (a bio-feedback mechanism) to identify those things preventing a client from having optimal health or reaching their full potential.   Kinesiology aims to uncover and treat the cause behind presenting symptoms. I like to compare muscle testing to a computer and mouse.  You need the mouse to click on the screen to access the information stored in the computer’s hard drive or memory.  A body’s muscles can be used like the mouse to access all the information stored in the person’s “hard drive”.  The kinesiologist is like the IT specialist on the “help desk” – they know how to search through the information and find out what is not working right with the computer and offer solutions to make it run more smoothly and efficiently. 

It is difficult to explain or appreciate how at any moment of a kinesiology balance you suddenly have a profound realisation why some area of your life is not working for you and then work through the best solution or changes that will help you get the outcome you want. 

Kinesiology can work on structural, emotional, nutritional, mental and spiritual issues.  Consultations can be made for (but not limited too): muscle pain, injury, tightness or trauma, jaw problems (grinding, clicking, locking, pain), joint issues (shoulder, hip, knees), learning difficulties, nutritional issues including immune mismatch responses, stress management , unresolved trauma, vocal cord problems, poor vision, anxiety, nervousness,  and irritability.

So, why not try it sometime? 

Susan

Kinesiology Affect

www.kinesiologyaffect.com.au

info@kinesiologyaffect.com.au