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Moving your body can help clear your mind
Australian Financial Review
September 2005
A couple of years ago, Andrew Wreford was working 70 hours a week with no real direction in life
“A lot of companies will deny that it’s there or they’re not interested in it, but staff are generally unhappy with what they do, who they are,” Wreford says. People’s personal problems do exist in the workplace. He says, despite businesses suggesting otherwise.
“people bring them into work; it forms very much a part of the social structure of their work, how they react with other people, how they behave.”
Since seeing a kinesiologist, Wreford is now regional manager at Chartres Business Solutions, a business strategy consultant, and says his life has taken a significant turn for the better. He is also now trained as a kinesiologist.
“The benefits have been a lot more expected than I expected,” he says.
Originally developed in the 1960s by American chiropractor George Goodheart, kinesiology is a chiropractic tool says Peter Bablis, a doctor of chiropractics and a kinesiologist. It was invented, he says, “as a tool to attain specific information from the body using muscles, joints and reflexes to ascertain and validate what is actually happening in a functional and structural sense in regards to the physical, chemical and emotional status of the body.”
More simply, kinesiology is a way of talking to the body. The muscle testing is a form of biofeedback that indicates how a persons body is functioning and where there is imbalance. He says many therapists – from chiropractors to doctors to dentists to psychologists – are using this approach to help collect patient information and diagnosis.
Kinesiology is unique because it is about integrating the mind and body. Says Bablis: “A lot of people do courses to help upload their software – in other words, their mind – and doing these courses is fundamental. But unless you upgrade the hardware and do the body work to integrate the software you’ve basically got Windows 2000 on a 386 old computer. It can’t read or run the program.”