Ontological
Kinesiology
– history of –
part 2
Early history
and origins:
Kinesiology, the
study of motion and the kinetics of muscle function, was
the life work of the husband and wife team, the Drs.
Kendall, who systematically mapped out the precise way to
challenge or test the integrity of each muscle of the body.
This landmark study is the groundwork of all other
kinesiologies that have subsequently been developed. For
most clinicians, whether in sports medicine, orthopaedics
and the musculoskeletal arena, kinesiology is still seen as
a precise method to gauge muscles in motion, and their
relationship to gait and movement, and the integrity of
joints over which they act.
Applied
Kinesiology:
Over the past
thirty-five years after Dr. George Goodheart's
extraordinary observation that muscle integrity could be
switched on and off by micro trauma, emotions, poor diet,
dysfunction of the acupuncture circuitry etc., the world
has witnessed the development, often clandestinely
(initially in Applied Kinesiology within Chiropractic) a
huge plethora of mind-body processes that use within their
name, the word kinesiology.
Out of classical
Chiropractic, the allied disciplines called Applied
Kinesiology [George Goodheart] and Clinical Kinesiology
[Alan Beardall] grew. These are respectable sciences, still
seen as on the fringe even by their own profession, but
nevertheless have impressive clinical results and are
practiced by many chiropractors and others. Various other
forms have also developed: 3-in-One, NET, NAET, Behavioral
Kinesiology and Klinhardt's Neural Kinesiology and Health
Kinesiology to name but a few. The reader may find many
articles of all these types on the web.
Ontological
Kinesiology is different in many ways from the many
techniques using the name of kinesiology. Whilst all the
systems use kinesiology as their feedback mechanism, most
provide techniques to correct or balance the energy in the
body, to parse out old memories, using various techniques
borrowed from many differing systems. What perhaps is not
voiced by many kinesiologists, but certainly by our
detractors, is the variances and subtleties that lies in
this feedback mechanism. We know that 'muscle testing' as
it is more commonly known, is a variable science / art, for
the body response can change. The muscles can 'lie' even
though John Diamond's book 'The body does not lie', and
'Power versus Force' by Dr. David Hawkins do not overtly
recognize nor talk about this. The problem is that all
matter is energy. Energy is benign until it changes into a
force. Energy becomes a force when time and some additional
input is involved. That is, when we are working with a
client for example, our own consciousness will carry a
force. If we work with our own map, our intentionality can
cause the muscle feedback mechanism to change. If we have
an agenda the force of our 'map' or 'belief' carries a
force which may / may not impinge upon the consciousness of
the client, and therefore will elicit a change even though
the client's own body may not actually recognize the input
as valid, contemporary or of use.
Ontological
Kinesiology:
Ontological
kinesiology addresses the variables in kinesiology through
a fundamental understanding of the life forces, and by
inference that everything contains energy and thus may
unfluence by changing its state into a force.
Ontological
Kinesiology is based on looking for or finding the root
cause of a pattern, and its inherent force within the human
organism. There are many things outside of us that can
affect us, but they only affect us when we are out of order
within. OK helps to pinpoint the root elements taht affect
our being, and thus our constitutional, animating,
instinctual and human selves.
The standards of
training ensure the practitioner develops an awareness of
the forces, a grounded understanding of themselves and
their own natures and being, and so, in their personal
development begin to recognize using the processes taught
in OK, to be, at the least, attentive of how the body is
made to lie. This is because we are composed of differing
selves - not normally implicitly recognized by most
kinesiologists, and it is these selves - each who can speak
through you, or answer - that are part of the elaborate
reflex mechanisms that switch muscles on or off. OK trains
practitioners in their own recognition of these selves, to
be grounded in the spiritual, based on their worship to the
Creator, and that when using kinesiology are aware and
attentive of how their own minds and petty selves may
corrupt or collude with the client's own intrinsic process
to squirm, wriggly and make obtuse their own resolution.
Each part of ourselves is coded through the genome to
survive. We therefore make elaborate dances to avoid
resolution, capture, being caught. Kinesiology rarely
pinpoints the trickster which enables us to maintain our
own dysfunction even though we may seek resolution.
The use of mudras /
gestures or hand modes - a form of language is the pivotal
communication tool of this form of kinesiology. These have
been received whilst wth clients in a state of surrender to
the Creator. These are received. They have not been
fabricated, thought-up or wished for. A mudra is a
somatosensory representation of a thought-field or particle
wave form created by thought, held in the brain, and when
we use a mudra we are mirroring the exact 'shape' held in
the mind at that moment. Feedback through kinesiology
allows us to ascertain whether a particular mudra is
approriate or not. We use the work to stack or load mudra
after mudra until the client indicates, through the OK
process, that the they have articulated a sequence which
lends itself to a sentence structure. It is from these
clues that we pinpoint root patterns underneath the
dysfunction that they carry.
Some kinesiology
systems use silent questioning (the practitioner holds a
thought / question in their own mind and then challenges
the muscle for change. This is intentionality-in-thought
has not been incorporated in the framework of OK as we have
found it misleading, and often way off the mark, mainly
because it is the practitioner's own force of thought that
may or may not make the change. That is, an idea has a
force, and if the force is strong enough it may make a
change irrespective of the clients's own knowing.
In other forms of
kinesiology, practitioners will touch different locations
on the body which they have learnt, in workshops [and
through research], that these points indicate the way a
body 'maps' itself - this again is a communication display
which can be accurate, unless the map becomes THE
MAP.
Others use a form
of mudras which have been 'developed' - that is they have
'mapped out' a dialogue and discourse creating assumptive
ideas and 'models' associated with a relatively simple
series of finger positioning. This is a man-made map to
communicate with the body - these work, they have validity
and yet may be simplistic in its territorial integrity, in
that the body is forced to talk through the implied model
that this particular 'map IS the territory'.
OK uses mudras as a
language to communicate. Sometimes people are not able to
talk through this particular language, and the process
taught can illustrate the need to go far from the 'map'
provided. OK allows this human interchange, for the model
behind OK is that it is client mediated, with practitioner
as moderator, and the various skills, modalities and, with
surrender, allows the client to take the practitioner into
their own field of consciousness, to uncover what lies
behind - the ontology - their state. The modes and the
vigorous protocol which is used helps to 'edit', bring
back, cut through, see the other side, understand whose
just talked, so that the process has a veracity that is
very precise.
All this said and
done, this is not necessarily to laud OK over other
kinesiologies, for all are imperfect. This is a growing
field of mind-body sciences / art and we are learning its
width and depth but perhaps on occasion, being fooled by
the cleverness of the mind - which then can give us
erroneous information. This is work in-progress, both ours
but also all the other kinesiologies. OK however does
address the unseen elements and their attendent force that
may erroneously give us information as to patient
dysfunction, and are co-incidentally the elements that
affect us anyway. It is powerful, precise, deep and yet
gentle and non invasive. It allows us to directly connect
with the being and the subconscious, and allows the person
to really understand their 'story'.
We offer the
following workshops using Ontological Kinesiology:
Cranial Fluid Dynamics 4 part
series - a sophisticated ontological use of cranial work.
Allergy - from
symptom to Source - 2 part series
Qi - in a rhythm -
2 part series
Myths and
Archetypes - 2 part series
Djinn, jinn, genie,
gene, genome, genius - single workshop
Inner Dialogue -
initial 2 part series [introduces a further exploration of
ontological patterns in the subtle realms]