Woods and Gems
The Use Of Woods And Gems In AK
27/10/08 22:31
In 1967, the American chiropractor and father of Applied Kinesiology, Dr. George Goodheart, discovered a connection between specific muscles, organs, glands and the meridians described in the Eastern healing systems. When the meridian energy is balanced, the corresponding organs and glands function well and the associated muscles test strong.
When the meridian energy (Ch’I, life-force) flows freely (unimpeded) through the whole circle of meridians, clear thinking, rapid healing, resistance to disease, and strong-testing muscles is the result. The Chinese state that a free and unimpeded flow of the Ch’i or life-force through all of the meridians is the precondition for total health. When the meridian energy flows freely, it can go where it is needed to assist physiological processes such as digestion, provide protection against the elements (too much cold, heat, wind, dryness, moisture, etc.), and for healing of all kinds. When a meridian is partially blocked, the meridian energy backs-up and builds up in this meridian. This may be visualized by considering what happens to a little river when a beaver builds a dam: The water backs up and creates a lake. When a meridian has a block, an excess of energy gathers in the meridian. One result of such meridian energy imbalance is weak-testing muscles. Another result is pain.
Pain is always associated with an excess of energy in one or more of the meridians that flow through or near the area of pain. When the excess energy is dissipated (through a variety of means such as acupuncture, muscle balancing, etc) the pain is diminished or disappears completely. Dissipating excess meridian energy reduces pain.
If a free flow of meridian energy is a prerequisite for health, than any means of freeing the blockages of meridian energy will promote health and optimal functioning. Kinesiology muscle testing has revealed that touching particular substances can make weak-testing muscles test strong. This indicates that these substances bring the blocked meridian energy into circulation, which restrengthens all weak-testing muscles. Thus finding and carrying such substances can be an important step toward better health and functioning. Common substances that strengthen weak-testing muscles include herbs, medicines, essences, gemstones and woods.
However, as is the case with medicines, a substance which removes the symptoms is usually not an adequate treatment for the cause of the problem. By removing symptoms, such a substance may cause the client to ignore a problem that needs direct attention. For this reason, use all of your kinesiology techniques to determine the various steps needed to achieve optimal health and functioning. Some of these steps you will be able to perform with the client during the session. Other necessary steps (such as changing habits of posture, movement and diet, negative emotions, mental expectations, meditation, working conditions and relationships) require that the patient make basic changes in their daily habits.
These life-style changes must be performed on an ongoing basis. It takes time to change habits. In my experience, we only change habits when something better is in view. Even then, when we are stressed or otherwise not in energetic balance (when switched for example), we tend to only repeat past behavior. We need to be in balance to clearly conceive of and correctly create new conditions, internal or external.
When your client has received detailed instructions as to how to make needed changes in his life in order to create the conditions for optimal health or to achieve other goals, he will only likely follow these instructions when he is in a energy-balanced state. However, an energy balance is only temporary. After a kinesiology session, the client’s meridian system should be in balance and his thinking clear and positive. But the next stress will put him again out of balance and cloud his ability to think and be positive. In this imbalanced state, he will be less motivated and less able to actually make the needed changes that you tested and recommended to him.
One of the most important abilities of a therapist is to successfully motivate the client and help him to be capable of making the changes necessary to achieve his goals. Here is the forte of healing substances such as woods and gemstones. Carefully tested woods or gems tend to keep the meridian channels open (keep us in energy balance) and thus lesson the negative effects of stress. This can be an important assistance to the person who is attempting to make changes in his habitual life-style. With the meridian energies free-flowing, we remain clear thinking, positive and optimistic. And we remain capable of making new choices and decisions; the prerequisite for making changes that further our way to health or other chosen goals. Carrying the personally tested wood or gem can make the difference between a pleasant therapy session and one that really helps goals be reached and dreams come true.
Dr. Robert Frost discovered and researched the effect of woods and gemstones upon human neurological functioning via AK muscle testing. In doing so, he has put some solid science underneath the popular use of gemstones in healing.