Introduction:

Hello and welcome to my blog!   I thought I would take the opportunity presented in this first entry to intoduce myself and why I chose practice Kinesiology and then discuss the concepts behind the way I like to practice and chose the name “True Point”.

In later entries I plan to discuss a variety of concepts related to healing and Kinesiology with perhaps some anonymous case studies.    I will introduce some concepts that I believe would be of great benefit to people if they were common knowledge and other related topics.   Your feedback will always be greatly appreciated and may influence the shape of future entries.

Why Did I Choose Kinesiology?

My introduction to Kinesiology was a moment of synchronicity, a twist of fate.   After 10 years of working in the corporate IT industry and becoming dissatisfied with the lack of inspiration and joy I was feeling in my life, I won a competition that gifted me with an introductory Kinesiology course at what is now known as the Australian College of Complementary Medicine in Carlton.  This was a new area for me, a new way of thinking, although I have always been interested in the idea of healing but I had never indulged myself to investigate it further.  Three weeks into the course, I realised the amazing gift I had been given:  the potential inherent in Kinesiology to help people, but most importantly for myself, I had discovered what I wanted to “do”.  I had found my place – coming from a mainstream background I dived into the deep end and was rewarded with the honour of being named Dux of my class.  Living and breathing Kinesiology has opened up new era of joy, health and fulfilment in my life.  I now want to share this power for positive change with others.

Why “True Point”?

Pain and anger are almost always caused by expectations (conscious or unconscious) not being met.  These expectations stem from ‘irrational’ beliefs.  The definition of an irrational belief can be explained as follows: it is where we confuse the way would like things to be with the way they really are.  The key words to identify such a belief are “ought” and “should”.  E.g. the belief “Everyone should be nice to me”, is actually irrational. This sounds like a lovely way to live, but it’s not a true reflection of how the Universe works – people do not have to be nice to you. If you hold this belief however, when someone is not nice to you, the expectation built upon this belief has not been met and anger / pain ensues, because to you a Universal “law” has been broken.  It is not Right.  If, however, the underlying belief is based on the idea that not everyone you meet will be nice to you every moment of your life (hopefully they will for the majority at least!), then you can deal with the situation more effectively – even to the point where you may feel compassion for those that are treating you less well than you would like.   You learn to see that this person has their own issues and stresses that influence their behaviour towards you.

There is a difference between living from “spirit” or “soul” as opposed to living from the mind / survival system (identifying with whatever emotion we feel).  When living from the mind, we are continually “re-acting” (i.e. acting again) to stimuli in our lives – we do not choose our behaviour based on the parameters of the current situation and how they may affect us now, we instead behave in a way that our brain has used before in a situation that had parameters that were perceived by the brain to be similar to the current.  We lack the perspective required to find a new, better way to deal with the situation because the survival systems in the brain can actually “switch off” the higher reasoning centres!  Even though these survival systems are a product of evolution for the protection of our physical being, a “danger” to the ego is treated in exactly the same manner by these survival systems.  The same hormones are released, the same physiology is triggered.

We can however become cognisant of our stress reactive behavioural patterns and learn to identify when we are acting them out.  When that happens, we have the power to begin changing them.  We can (it’s easier said than done, of course) take a step back, take some deep breaths and gain some better perspective on the situation.   Understanding that at the core, every single human is a being of love, that at the core, all of us wish to love, be loved and live a good, useful life in peace; teaches us something.   This is: what gets in the way of living that life of love are our stress reacting patterns.   I.e. all of us respond to life situations in ways that are less than optimal because of stress.  Often, the worse the behaviour, the worse the stress the person is under.  This suggests that “poor” behaviour does not mean a person is inherently bad – merely that they are under stress.

When we are in the mindset of having taken that step back and gained the higher perspective, where we are viewing the world and ourselves from a place of love, we are living from Spirit or Soul. This is the seed of nearly all spiritual pursuits (all of those I have come into contact with at least).    It is that point where our spirit, the seat of the love that is our truest essence, is working as one with our mind.  It is known by many labels, “living consciously”, “living authentically”, “being present” in the words of Eckhart Tolle and being the “true self” in traditional Chinese medicine.  It is the state to be reached through meditation.   It can be reached through many, many different paths.   Just as true healing can occur via many different paths.  This state of being is what I like to call the “True Point”.  It is the place where we are being our true self and where we are behaving and expressing as our true self, rather than “re-acting” to life’s stimuli. There is a dual meaning to the word “Point” here, also:  “place” and “direction”.  The latter is taken from the navigational concept of the compass (which can be seen as part of the True Point Logo) and meaning that once we know we are in that true place, we can then choose and follow the direction we would like our life to move in.

How I use Kinesiology to help find your “True Point”.

As I mentioned above, there is one primary force that makes it difficult for us to be in that space: Stress.  The underlying goal of Kinesiology is primarily about identifying the stressors that cause our “diseases” or complaints and then finding the way to resolve or remove the underlying stress.   By working on each of our “diseases” and issues and also learning the lessons about ourselves that each can teach us, we resolve the stresses that underlie them.  By removing those stresses we allow ourselves to more easily live life from that place of Love.

This does not mean we have to be constantly dealing with only the spiritual catastrophes in our life to achieve growth and happiness.   Simply working on poor sleep or a back pain or one of the myriad of other common complaints we are subject to, is enough to provide positive impetus towards growth and happiness in our lives.  Even a small step like this is a step in the right direction and therefore an improvement in your life.  We all of us each have a pace of growth and change that we are comfortable with.  If you make improvement in your life so difficult and uncomfortable that it exceeds the threshold of what you are willing to deal with, then you will not seek that improvement and you are no better off than not trying to begin with.   It is essential that we find that optimum pace for ourselves as well as the optimum path if we are to achieve our greatest results.

Until next time!

David.