Fluctuating energy levels throughout the day?

There is a normal ebb and flow of energy throughout the day which is affected by many factors including blood-sugar fluctuations, activity times of organs and many other things.

Often the loss of energy feels so drastic that one cannot properly function and many people instinctively start to drink coffee throughout the whole day. They know it's not good for them in the long term. And yet – they must go on. In fact, this is a fairly typical psychological portrait of a person who suffers with conditions like ME, Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia etc. 

To help balance the energy levels throughout the day in a more natural way I will give just one recommendation and it has nothing to do with Health Kinesiology. 

I've come across Guayusa tea which comes from the Amazonian rainforests and can be bought online at Amazon.

All the people I know who have tried it report how much more balanced and focused they feel  throughout the day. I've also tried it and I like it very much – it has quite a savoury quality to it.

There are two options – bagged and loose tea.
The tea bagged in the pyramid bags is more intense. So I prefer this. It can be poured over at least twice  without losing its quality. Also, on the third go it is still reasonably good. However, I cannot get the loose tea to reach the intensity of the bagged tea and I have tried with various methods.

So if you suffer from fluctuating energy levels or drink too much coffee or just feel like trying an interesting, tasty and healthy alternative, check it out!

If you're wondering – I do not get any commission for recommending this product. It's just an amazing product which I think can benefit lots of people.

And if you want more help with your energy levels, please contact me to book an appointment where we can hopefully bring about swift resolution.

How can Health Kinesiology help?

Health kinesiology is based on the belief that we have multiple energy pathways within our bodies. If there is a restriction or blockage of our energy, then illness, disease, and imbalances may occur.
Treatment can remove any blockages and promote a more balanced, natural state of being, which encourages our life force to flow freely again.

Don't fool yourself that its ok, woman... It's not.

Feeling sick during pregnancy is your body's way of communicating important information.

I can't shout this out loudly enough – it's an illusion to think that its ok to feel sickly in the first 3 months of pregnancy!

You've been told that it's normal. And that many women do feel sickly when pregnant..

But ask yourself why? Why would that be? And why is it that so many others don't feel that way?

What the sick feelings tell (on a physical level) is that the woman's body is so toxic that the arrival of a small, tiny foetus, creates a toxicity overload. A woman then feels sick, almost as though she had been poisoned.

I know – I am using strong words, but nowadays we are all practically living in a soup of toxicity. There are environmental toxins (heavy metals, chemicals, electromagnetical forces, microbes, fungi, viruses, molds... etc etc check www.ewg.org), and there are what our own bodies produce as byproducts of simply living. They all need to be detoxified. The detoxification organs and pathways must be in tip-top condition.

Many respected figures in the scientific community argue that the levels of our outer and inner toxicity have reached the absolute limits that our bodies can tolerate.

However, living with toxicity doesn't always noticeably impair a person's life. For a long time we can function as normal. It's something like walking along the edge of the cliff in a mist without realising where you are.

But not for expectant mothers. Her toxicity load is revealed as soon as she becomes pregnant.

The more sick she feels, the higher her toxicity.

Why would that be?

Well, first things first – the non-negotiable:

Your body's first and foremost priority is its own self-survival. Always.

And now imagine – your body's toxic load is high.

And suddenly a foetus arrives with its own needs for growth and metabolism.

The mother-to-be now has to process the metabolic byproducts of the tiny foetus. 

She also has to deal with the added toxicity the foetus brings. 

The foetus can't help because in the first 3 months it doesn't have any organs or systems of its own. And the placenta is not yet fully formed. So all the metabolic by-products of the foetus go directly into mother-to-be's bloodstream, rapidly increasing her toxic load. And so the woman feels sick.

The mother's body often perceives the foetus as a threat to its own survival in these cases..

Early miscarriages are the consequence of huge previous toxic overload, so that the body decides to expel the foetus rather than put its own survival at real risk.

But don't fool yourself if you feel better after 3 months. The toxicity has not disappeared. It is still the same – at a high level. If the pregnancy goes the full term and nothing has been done to help the body detoxify during the pregnancy, then the toxicity will be revealed during breastfeeding.

The substrate for milk is taken from blood. But if it's toxic... the newborn baby simply may refuse to drink that milk. Or vomit it out. Or do whatever else it needs to do to protect itself from toxicity..

Again – don't fool yourself that everything is ok. It is not. This can lead to increased risks of developing auto-immune disorder or other chronic diseases later in life that are fuelled by the body's toxic levels.

So if you feel sick during the early stages of pregnancy, don't just believe what you've been told and accept it as normal. IT IS NOT NORMAL!!!

Take steps to eliminate toxicity and to improve your inner environment for your own benefit and for the benefit of the tiny life that is growing within you.

You can contact me.

Want Your Own TUNING FORK For Life?

Lately I've found that many of my clients are entering into a deep relaxation state during their session or during certain parts of the session.

And they say afterwards:

- I did not feel that I was lying on the couch.

- I wasn't asleep – I was all the time very aware of what was going on.

- What was it? I was so much here and now – I recall every little detail what was going on within me and around me.

And so on.

I just witness their deep relaxed state of being while doing the HK corrections.

I am happy for them. According to research by Dr. Barbara Braun, if any therapeutic work is being done while the brain is working in this deeply relaxed state, aka “the alpha brainwaves”, then the rejuvenation and healing increases by up to 10 times.

But deep relaxation on its own is so very beneficial. And we all know it.

When you relax, the parasympathetic nervous system switches on and that is linked to better digestion, memory and immunity, among other things.

It is like a tuning fork for your brain and your body – getting back to normal functioning - healing and rejuvenation.

So why don't we do it?

- We don't have time for that..

So how could we get into practising the best self-help that there is?

- And find that time....

A few tips -

• allow yourself just 5 minutes a day of doing nothing. (You can read about this in my previous blog HERE....). Every day.
• and then increase this over time - allow yourself just 5 minutes two times a day of doing nothing. Every day. These 5 minutes in your day can be like a comma in the middle of the sentence separating different activities or parts of the day.

In such a way you will also learn to allow time for yourself. And not busy running around like a rabbit in spotlights.

To paraphrase a Zen Buddhist quote - allow yourself at least 5 or 10 minutes a day to relax. But if you can't find 5 or 10 minutes, then allow yourself 20.:) (I love this)

• And then learn from some guided meditations - youtube is full of them. Like Body Scan, Breathing meditation, relaxation, healing meditation... Just do it regularly so that with time you will not need the guided ones any more. 
   
  In fact, there are plenty of methods to achieve a deep relaxation. I don't know any bad ones. It is just about getting into the habit of doing them.

The trick is not to fall asleep and not to engage in any other activity.

Because deep relaxation isn't the sort of switching off you do relaxing with a cup of tea or lounging with a magazine on the sofa. 

 

What you're looking for is a state of deep relaxation where tension is released from the body on a physical level and your mind completely switches off.

Be good to yourself - commit yourself!

And come and see me if you need any help. 

DON'T FEEL THE FEAR, DON'T DO IT ANYWAY

Last week I attended an interesting event which addressed the subject of healing accumulated traumas. It was a very informative experience- just one thing did not sit well with me during the event – “Exposure Therapy”.

Let me tell you what happened in sequence.

A young woman had sat quietly throughout the evening and at the end she revealed that she suffered from social anxiety.

What happened next almost knocked me off of my feet.

She was brought into the centre of the group and we were all encouraged to say how beautiful and brave she was. We applauded her and encouraged her to enjoy being in the spotlight.

Then she was slowly turned around her axis so that everyone could see her and appreciate how good and brave she was. She went with the flow exactly of what she was encouraged to do.

Then she was asked to hug somebody. Anybody towards whom she felt drawn.

She said, “I don't give hugs”.

So the leader hugged her and she had to hug her back. She then was asked again to go and hug anybody else from the group. The young woman did not want to do it. So the leader hugged her again.

That was exposure therapy in its simplest form - Feel the fear but do it anyway.

It may work for some. But it certainly doesn't work for everyone.

For many, no matter how many times you go into a social situation with pure willpower, you will generally stumble on the same old same rake – your nervous system will automatically go into high alert: “Danger! Danger!” and you enter either freeze or flight mode.

It's just automatic response. Pure physiology. And it's there to protect you before you even “put your finger in the fire”.

When you put your finger into fire, you quickly learn to pull your finger out of danger. Learning not to put the finger in fire takes only one episode.

Social anxiety is learned over a much longer period of time - from childhood.

If you were rejected a lot, you began to feel that you weren't good enough.

If you were always blamed for everything, you started to believe you were a bad kid.

If you were never acknowledged, or always ignored, you started to believe that you were invisible. Or unimportant. That you don't count.

If you were always criticized, you started to believe there was something wrong with you.

And so on.

These repetitive negative experiences from early childhood combine to create a deep picture of oneself which becomes ingrained in one's psyche and can cause you to feel uncomfortable in your own skin or to lack self-worth.

Or even not to feel safe being who you are.

For many, these feelings cannot be overridden by willpower alone. And in fact, the reason why people seek out various therapies is because of different feelings. They are having feelings they don't like in quantities they can't handle. They can't fix the problem, and they are fed up.

Even more – the reason why for many people willpower does not help much is because a lot of processes for action actually happen outside of our conscious awareness.

Instead of “Feeling the fear and doing it anyway”, first of all, you need to deal with resistance and with a network of different un-named fears and triggers which can cause your nervous system to go a bit haywire before entering a challenging situation.

That is how Health Kinesiology and many other therapies tend to work with people with anxiety.

This may not be as dramatic as simple exposure. It can be a longer journey and a deeper process but usually with much better and more lasting results. You may be surprised how different a situation feels then. And you will feel good about yourself whatever happens.

Otherwise the whole thing about “Feeling the Fear But Doing it Anyway” simply reinforces the idea that one cannot be helped.

A very special July offer

Only £ 30 for a session for one week starting July 10-17. 

Celebrating your birthday this month? Many happy returns!What do we know about the general health and health risks for babies born in July?

Based on statistical research by the University of Columbia, covering almost 2 million people's medical records between 1900 and 2000, there's some great news::

• babies born in July are, along with May babies, statistically less at risk of contracting any specific major illnesses than those born in other months.

One or two smaller clouds on the horizon :

• there is a slightly higher than average risk of developing asthma
• and women born in July are slightly less fertile. Very slightly.

Of course, the risk of disease depends on a huge number of factors, not just the environment that we are born into, or the actions of our parents while expecting us.

July can be a funny month here in Belfast.

Some people will be out enjoying the 12^th celebrations while others will flee the city, even the country, to get away from it. But if you are still at home and not out marching and you have any health concerns that you haven't resolved, you can always contact me to book an appointment where we can address these issues and bring about the resolution you need.

In addition, with this being a quiet time of year for businesses here – I still have a few slots available next week- so I am making a very special July offer – only £ 30 for a session for one week starting July 10-17.

Amazing bodies

How amazing it is when you have a little epiphany and make a discovery about yourself and what you do!

It's common for people starting out in many vocations and professions to view their role in a certain way. And then as time passes to gradually realise that what they are doing is actually quite different from what they had first assumed.

Initially, I saw my role as a health kinesiologist as being like a translator of what your body wants or needs to be healthy and happy.

Now, I'm beginning to feel more like an exorcist. An energy exorcist :)

There is plenty of knowledge about energy channels and meridians and about blocked energies and so on. But nothing compares to the actual experience of freeing that blocked, trapped energy from tissues, cells and energy centres.

And this is why I feel a bit like an exorcist: I can hold a magnet (just as an example) over some point and the client just tells me what is going on – e.g. internal heat, shooting pains, moving stomachs, twitching legs and hands, 'arctic' colds in head or feet... you name it!

And the body is so happy to release all that trapped energy and to be back in its proper, natural flow again.

Meanwhile, I stand to one side and observe... And I am still in awe of what people's bodies are generating.

And that's why I love doing Health Kinesiology!

One for you to try at home... This really works!

 So you or somebody around you has some pain. Or discomfort. 

As many times – it appears unexpectedly. Things happen. Or maybe you need to wait for help. And you would like the pain to go away. Or, if it's a regular occurrence, to get instant relief until you find a lasting resolution.

So in Hawaii, where alas I have never been, there is a simple yet effective method. It can be used with children and adults or as a self-healing technique. All you need to remember are the power points of the body and three steps for use.

Power points: 

crown, 

brow, 

chest, 

back of neck, 

navel, 

base of spine,

shoulders, 

hips, 

palms and soles. 

They are easy to remember, since they correspond to the seven major chakras, plus the 'corners' of the trunk – hips, shoulders – and the extremities – palms, soles.

The three steps to do is:

1. Energise yourself – that is , get your own energy flowing well. A quick method is to rub your hands together briskly.
2. Put one of your hands on the affected area (wherever the discomfort is), and the other hand on a distant but comfortable-to-reach power point. This power point must be pain-free. For example, it it's a child with a bruised knee, put one hand on the knee, and the other on the child's forehead or shoulder.
3. Focus on your hands and breathe normally Don't try to send energy, or try to do anything. Continue for a minute or two. If the person doesn't feel any change within twenty seconds or so, try another power point.

Why it works?

Healing occurs simply because you are completing a circuit of energy, so that energy starts to flow through the affected area again. You are restoring the flow - and when you are in the flow, as I say, you notice good things happening again. If energy flows normally, there will be no symptoms.

That actually, very shortly put, is what  I do when doing Health Kinesiology – restoring the flow. I just help it by removing anything that stands in its way. The body has an extraordinary ability to heal itself and it knows how to bring itself back to 100% functioning given the proper conditions.

Surely, if the pain is regular, give it a go and contact me and let's see what we can do using more 'advanced' methods.