TOUCH FOR HEALTH

Touch for Health is a practical guide to natural health using acupressure and touch to improve postural balance and reduce physical and mental pain and tension. When using Touch for Health, you can expect to have more vitality, bolster your immune system, improve stress tolerance, increase performance levels and endurance, and speed up recovery from illness and injuries.

Touch for Health was developed from a subfield of chiropractic called Applied Kinesiology (AK). The creator of AK, Dr. George Goodheart, discovered ways to balance the body's muscles and energy through various reflex techniques. In addition, he discovered that there was a direct relationship between the acupuncture energy and specific muscles.

Dr. John F. Thie, who worked with Dr. Goodheart, saw the potential for presenting these powerful, yet basically simple skills in a way that could be understood and utilized by everyone. His system of natural health care through touch integrates principles from acupuncture with Western methods. Thus, he designed a holistic system with the lay person in mind, using simple techniques to balance the body's energies to release pain and enhance the body's natural healing ability. John called it Touch for Health (TFH). "I wanted people to understand there is always hope -- no matter what their age or physical condition," Dr. Thie said. "Chiropractic, kinesiology, nutrition, acupressure -- all the things I'd studied and practiced -- could be synthesized into practical techniques people would use with themselves and their loved ones at home. All that is needed is a pair of loving hands."

These procedures, described in the 1973 book Touch for Health, are complementary to other health interventions and may be all that is needed to help restore the body's natural recuperative functions. No matter what the person's symptoms are, TFH techniques balance the body's energies and strengthen any weak muscles found, which also improves posture.

Certain muscles are related to a specific organ system because they share an acupuncture ~;" meridian relationship. Improving the muscle by restoring its energy flow also gives relief II to the organ, which shares that system, but TFH is not treating the organ as such, nor the disease or the symptom. It is helping the whole person by integrating many different systems and functions. The body itself performs the healing process, facilitated by proper balancing. Even without understanding precisely how this process works, it is clear that by balancing the energy flow and posture, we position the body in the best possible state from which to heal itself
TOUCH FOR HEALTH KINESIOLOGY LEVELS I-IV

TOUCH FOR HEALTH I
  • Muscle testing... a Biofeedback Indicator of Energy
  • BalanceMeridians... Acupuncture Vessels, Pathways of Energy
  • Understanding the Energy Systems of the Body and their Relationship to Specific Muscles
  • 14 Muscles... and how to test them
  • Balancing the Body's Muscles and Energy Flow through Various Reflex Methods
  • Simple pain relief skills
  • Right/Left Brain Integration and its Relationship to Specific Learning Difficulties
  • An Emotional Stress Release Technique
  • Posture Awareness
  • Goal Balancing... the Concept
  • ... and More
TOUCH FOR HEALTH II
  • 14 New Muscles
  • Goal Balancing with 14 muscles
  • Circuit Locating... to find the body's preferred correction
  • Gait Testing... for disturbance in coordination of muscles used in walking
  • Time of Day Balance... a short cut, yet powerful 14 muscle balance
  • Balancing using the Wheel: Beaver Dam, Triangles & Squares
  • Alarm Points... finding out if a meridian is overenergized
  • Spindle Cell and Golgi Tendon Proprioceptors... another correction procedure
  • Cerebra-Spinal Technique... for persistent imbalance of abdominal muscles
  • Figure 8 Energy Flows... when needing to be connected up . Biogenic Food and Supplement Testing
  • Cross Crawl for Integration... a repatteming technique
  • The 5-Element Theory
  • Acupressure for pain: meridian walking
  • Other Simple Pain Relief Techniques
TOUCH FOR HEALTH III
  • 14 more muscles
  • Chinese Pulses... to check for Under-energies
  • Acupressure Holding Points to Tonify and Sedate muscles
  • Five Element Balance... a One Point Balance
  • Five Element Basic Emotions... Adding the Emotional
  • Component to the Balance
  • Goal Balancing with Emotions... Increases the Effectiveness of a Balance
  • Balancing with Sound... Reaching a Greater Understanding of our Dis-ease
  • The 5--element Color Balance... a Good Balance for Emotional Pain Relief
  • Pain Tapping... Acupressure for Pain
  • Postural Stress Release... Emotional Stress Release Taken a Step Further
TOUCH FOR HEALTH IV
  • Review Touch for Health I-III
  • 42 Muscle Balance... a Balance from Head to Toe
  • Facilitation/lnhibition... The Body Mechanics
  • Circuit Retaining Mode... Testing in Relation to Infonnation "on Hold"
  • Reactive Muscles... one Reason Why Balances Don't Hold
  • Luo Points... to Balance Couple Meridians within the 5-Element System
  • 5-element Nutrition... Using the 5-Element Law & Nutrition to Balance
  • Neurolymphatic Release... an Alternative to Rubbing Neurolymphatic Reflexes
  • Postural Analysis... Balancing 42 Muscles in Relation to Each Other.
  • Putting it All Together

CONTINUING EDUCATION CERTIFICATION

Leila Turner-Parker and Mary Huggins are certified Touch For Health instructors, registered with the Touch For Health Kinesiology Association, approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education provider under category A. The TFHKA is also an approved continuing education provider to Registered and Licensed Practicing Nurses via the California Board of Registered Nursing CEP#lO439 in all states BUT Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota and Wyoming.


For information and registration,
Mary Huggins
512.255.4019
maryfhuggins@aol.com




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