Behavioral Kinesiology was developed by John Diamond based on the philosophy of Applied Kinesiology. Each muscle is believed to be related to a particular organ, but a special focus is put on the thymus gland that plays a key role in regulating a person’s psychic energy. Behavioral Kinesiology assesses and evaluates the effects of all stimuli on the body, internal and external, in order to arrive at a new understanding of the body energy system. The degree of stress under which a patient is functioning is assessed and a rebalancing of the body energy is facilitated by showing the patient how to reduce stress and how to correct emotional attitudes.

The Five Principles of Behavioral Kinesiology

1. All disease is seen as resulting from stress, causing an imbalance in the body. The reduction of stress and the associated emotional attitudes are of utmost importance.
2. Primary prevention – prevention before illness sets in, be it mental or physical – plays an essential role.
3. The patient has to take charge of his own treatment. The role of the Behavioral Kinesiologist is merely that of a teacher, showing the patient how to alter his behavioral pattern in order to reduce stress and thus leading him back to a healthy state.
4. Great natural healing forces exist within us and around us that set in once stress is reduced and behavior is corrected. Synthetic drugs are seen as unnatural methods that diminish life energy, retard the healing process, and do not help to reduce stress or correct the behavioral problems.
5. All problems begin at the energy level and corrections are only possible at that level.

Behavioral Kinesiology Treatment

Behavioral Kinesiology is based on the theory that if we are using or thinking something that is good for us, our muscles will be stronger and if we are using or thinking something that is bad for us, our muscles will be weaker. Now, how is the muscle strength tested?

The client stands erect, his right arm relaxed at his side, his left arm held out parallel to the floor with the elbow straight and both hands open. The practitioner faces the client and places his left hand on his right shoulder to steady him. He then puts his right hand on the client’s extended arm just above the wrist. Now, he tells the client that he is going to try to push his arm down as he resists. He quickly and firmly pushes down on the arm, just hard enough to test the spring and bounce in the arm, but not so hard that the muscle becomes fatigued.

As thoughts and intentions are powerful, both the practitioner and the client should try to stay open and curious about what will be discovered with each muscle test. They should try to avoid to prove anything or to verify some assumptions about the likely result of the test.

The Behavioral Kinesiology muscle testing allows the practitioner and the client to get to the core of the stressor very quickly, and then to release the true cause of the problem gently and effectively.

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