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History of Health Kinesiology™
The Health
Kinesiology™ System After earning my Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology at the
University of North Carolina in 1966, and spending four years doing research
at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, I found
myself on the faculty of the University of California Medical School, first
at the Davis campus, later at the San Francisco campus.During this time I
published over 30 research papers in scientific and medical journals and
developed an international reputation in both sleep research and biofeedback
research. Of course, my scientific training included maintaining a skeptical
attitude, careful clear thinking, evaluation of available facts, and
disbelief of anything not “scientifically proven.” When I first saw a demonstration of muscle-testing in the early 1970’s I was both fascinated and highly skeptical.Over the next few years, I observed several more demonstrations, some at professional meetings I found them interesting, but on the basis of those demonstrations, I did not see how kinesiology could be useful for me. In the meantime, I made considerable changes in my professional life. While still at the University, I became licensed as a Psychologist and started a professional practice doing biofeedback and relaxation training with clients. I became increasingly frustrated with academic / medical school politics, so I left the University about 1975 to pursue independent efforts. As a result of working with my clients, I became more
interested in what “health” really is. Clients told me stories
about how they were getting healthier in ways not obviously related to what
we were doing, and I began to analyze what factors contribute to health. This
led me into nutrition work, among other things, and the formation of a new
non-profit health education foundation.One of the evening lecture programs
sponsored by the new foundation was – you guessed it –
Kinesiology. We somehow made contact with Chris Harrison, a chiropractor and
a Diplomate in the ICAK (International College of Applied Kinesiology). His
excellent presentation made it clear how I might utilize these unusual
techniques – if they really worked! Chris suggested I begin learning
kinesiology by reading some Applied Kinesiology material and taking the Touch
for Health (TFH) course (at the time there was only one, two day, TFH
course). Even before I attended the basic TFH course and the TFH Instructors courses in 1978 I was creating new procedures, the foundation of Health Kinesiology™.I had soon discovered that existing kinesiology techniques, although powerful, did not fill my needs. For example, I not only wanted to identify which nutritional supplements a client needed, but also exactly which product would be the very best for them. I wanted another way to assess the progress a client was making, independent of their own subjective report. I wanted to know the most important therapeutic program for my client. I wanted to know the best time to do a procedure. I wanted to know the source of their energy disturbances. And on and on and on. I soon found ways to use kinesiology to obtain information
directly from the “body.” At first, I used it for nutritional
testing. I stopped doing chemical hair analysis, because kinesiology gave me
equally valid information, on the spot. Nutritional supplement schedules
became truly individualized, something we could only “guess”
about otherwise. As a result, my work became far more effective and popular.
My goals were to develop the most effective, robust,
permanent methods for change that I could, using my scientific analytic
training. With my new version of kinesiology I had a method to compare
procedures. I could determine which of two or more approaches was best, not
just whether a procedure “worked.” I soon discovered that many
commonly used techniques, although temporarily affecting energy, do not seem
to have much lasting effect. Because the methods I devised were so simple, I did not at
first believe how incredibly powerful and effective they were. However, as I
continued to work with my procedures, they demonstrated continued
effectiveness. Within a couple of years I had fully developed the HK™
Paradigm – an approach which allowed me to discover any information I
needed from the client's own body to help them achieve greater wellness and
functioning. Next was to systematize this material so that anyone could
follow the same procedures and achieve comparable results. The basic
structure of the HK™ System was in place by 1981. Since then many
refinements and additions have been made, but the systematic, comprehensive, holistic
approach is still exactly the same. Although careful readers will notice the philosophy
underlying HK™ is similar to other, more recently published, material,
HK™ did not “borrow” its attitude. Except for some concepts
from Traditional Chinese Medicine, muscle-testing itself, and some uses of
various energy reflexes (all pre-dating kinesiology, itself), almost
everything else about HK™ is original, created by imagination, clear,
careful thought, research, and thorough empirical and theoretical analysis
and evaluation. HK™ is unlike all previous Kinesiologies. HK™ has produced numerous innovations, many of which
have now been incorporated into other schools of kinesiology. Despite this
incorporation of HK™ techniques into kinesiologies, HK™ remains original
and unique, and I think it is the most comprehensive, powerful, effective
system of kinesiology ever devised. HK™ offers an approach, a method of
discovery, a way of thinking clearly and logically, a philosophy: The
HK™ Paradigm, The Health Kinesiology™ System. It is an extremely
extensive system, even though each component itself is simple and easy to do.
Some of the major keys to how HK™ works include:
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