Kinesiology, a clients perspective: Jack

Kinesiology, a clients perspective: Jack An interview by Dr Anna Rolfes.

This interview is part of a series of interviews by Dr Anna Rolfes as part of her article Kinesiology, a clients perspective

Jack is a 41-year-old real estate agent who has kinesiology sessions to heal his glandular fever and recurring gout attacks.

Anna: Jack, can you recall sessions when you were muscle tested. What did that feel for you having this procedure done?

Jack: Well, initially I was referred to P by someone, a practitioner, I really trust. I didn’t exactly understand the process and I guess, I still don’t.

But what happened in the first couple of sessions were very strange because I found my body reacting to different things, different stimuli and reacting either positively or negatively.  

Well, when I say positively or negatively, the result was either weak or strong. I mean, it was perceptible. I could actually feel the result of different things. First of all I thought it was very strange, as I’ve said.

I also felt a bit embarrassed by the fact that I was actually subjecting myself to this methodology.

Anna: This procedure?

Jack: Yeah, to the procedure, exactly. But I observed my body actually responding, being able to hold and then not being able to hold.

And also, I must say at this point that throughout all the procedures or all the appointments with P I really felt relaxed. I have faith in her as a person. 

Anna: Yeah, you could relax. 

Jack: Yeah. To start with we tested food allergies because I had found out the previous year that I had glandular fever. So that was one of the reasons I was going to the doctors.

The initial reason was the fact of this lethargy. It was not exactly food allergies but it was vitamin supplements to actually get my body functioning again.

And by just trying different supplements on my body, on the chest, etcetera, the actual part would react. At first that’s quite alarming.

Because, I mean, in traditional medicine you either cut it out, or you sew it up or you give it pills but to actually ask the body what it needs was really… well, to me, it was a bit of a revelation.

Anna: Was that OK with your mind? Did you feel that your mind was coming in and editing what the muscle test was saying? 

Jack: No, my mind didn’t want to believe it. It just felt that this was some sort of craziness but I’d go along because, as I’ve said before, I’d tried traditional medicine and it wasn’t getting me anywhere. So I thought I’d try.

You know some of these things that happen in my life now if you’d told me two years ago that I’d be doing certain things, I would have said: “No way!”

Anna: So, was it educational to you?

Jack: Totally. And also what it did for the first time in years, it said: “This is your body and this is your mind and your body is reacting to this”.

First of all the mind couldn’t understand or didn’t want to believe it. And for the mind to observe the body going through this routine of being able to resist or not being able to resist, even though I wanted the body to do what the brain was telling it, it was very, very unusual.

Especially for someone like me, because my background is totally technical—you know, A plus B equals C.

Anna: Did the muscle testing enhance your perception of reality or did it shift your perception of reality in a sense?

Jack: Well yes. Yes, I believe that it was part of a shift in my perception of reality. I’ve been taught other things.

Like this is an arm, the arm is reaching for the door, O.K., and if someone wants to bend it they can’t because the arm is reaching for the door. It is not that someone’s going to bend my arm now and I’ve got to resist , but…

Anna: Yeah, you were observing what your body did in regard to certain things and certain supplements.

Jack: Supplements and also emotional stuff, a lot of emotional stuff.