A common question I get asked is about Food Allergies and and Food Sensitivities.

Here’s my answer that I recorded while I am on a walk – multi tasking as ever.

Systematic Kinesiology is all about finding out what is stressing you, and food can be a common stressor. It’s not the only thing, and often when we become sensitive to a lot of foods, it more of a sign that the body is out of balance and responding to a lot more stresses than just food. So while it can be helpful to avoid certain foods for a certain length of time, and it’s only part of the path to recovery.

Stress is the #1 cause of chronic illnesses in the modern world. Your body is designed to be respond to stress in a certain way – the fight/flight response. When your body is responding to a stress (like running away from danger) it turns it’s attention away from other less essential “in the moment” needs – like digestion, fighting infections, even logical thinking can be affected – because if you’re running away from danger you haven’t time to think about it you just have to respond. So we spend our lives responding to stressful stituations, not always feeling like we’ve time to think about it.

In the Balanced Health Course, we teach you how to reduce the effects of worries and stresses of today, and how to do test foods. People’s lives can literally be changed because they find out that some of their symptoms are related to the foods they’re eating, and that they are constantly in a stress response place.

The video is much shorter than what I’ve written above – it’s really about the question, but that has inspired the above post now.

Enjoy, and the bird song 🙂

How to Reduce Emotional Stress with Kinesiology

Stress makes everything worse. Long term stress does damage long term. When we feel stressed and are constantly confronted with unpleasant, worrying, difficult situations, our body energies can respond by moving in the body – ever felt butterflies in the pit of your stomach, your shoulders tense up, going weak at the knees? That’s the energy moving, getting blocked.

Depending on the severity of the problem, the body adapts its system to deal with a crisis.

Firstly, it shuts down digestion so that blood goes to the main muscles to prepare for action – like the fight/flight syndrome. The frontal lobes of the brain shut down more than that back. The fore brain is involved with forward thinking and new ideas. When we are upset or frightened, we reply on our back brain’s old records of how we previously reacted to a crisis.

There are various physiological and psychological effects of chronic stress on the body, including effects on the immune system, hormone levels, and cardiovascular health.

So How Can Kinesiology Help Stress?

In Emotional Stress Release (ESR) the vascular points for the stomach and the brain are held, to help draw the blood back into the frontal lobes, while the clients thinks about the stress.

ESR, a simple, yet very powerful technique will help anyone face a problem no matter how serious. Most people gain immediate relief from the anguish they may be suffering. Nothing could be simpler to do, for it is merely the extensive of a natural gesture.

Video demonstration on ESR

Watch the video above to see how easy it is to do, and how testing before and after, shows that the effect on the body has changed.

Give it a go yourself. And if you’d like to experience the technique visit one of our practitioners – a listing is here

The Role of Chronic Stress in Anxious Depression: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219927/

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Food allergies vs food sensitivities. And Systematic Kinesiology