Touch for Health® Kinesiology (TFHK) is a system of balancing posture, attitude and life energy for greater comfort, vitality and enjoyment of your life.
Touch for Health falls under the branch of alternative and complementary therapy known as kinesiology – a system of healing that use manual muscle monitoring as a bio-feedback mechanism to determine which stimuli stress the body-mind system, and how that stress can be decreased.
The Touch for Health model does not treat or diagnose symptoms, but works with the energy, lifestyle and aspirations of the client, offering a safe and effective way to maintain health, enhance well-being and upgrade performance. Touch for Health is the most widely used system of kinesiology in the world.
TFH is an easy, simple, safe system of Energy Kinesiology (muscle-testing and energy-balancing) with goal-setting and creative visualization. The Touch for Health hands-on, practical workshops will train you to:
The Touch for Health model does not diagnose or treat named diseases, or focus on treating symptoms. Touch for Health was designed to be complementary to appropriate professional health care. TFH does not help any and every human situation all by itself. A person might also benefit from drugs, surgery, vitamins, minerals, psychological counselling, chiropractic, etc., in addition to Touch for Health balancing. Balancing the energy of the body encourages and supports the intrinsic healing process, allowing the body to heal itself more effectively & more rapidly.
Touch for Health has been safely used since 1973 in over 100 countries and the Touch for Health manuals have been translated into many languages. TFH encourages proactive and timely consultations with qualified healthcare professionals to determine if you have a medical condition, and whether balancing the posture, emotions & energy is appropriate for your condition. We rely on the individual being healthy enough to determine for themselves if TFH is beneficial and whether they need to seek expert care. For serious illness, injury, or continuing, worsening or severe symptoms, always seek the services of a health care professional.
Touch for Health is the most widely used system of kinesiology in the world. Millions of people have experienced and benefited from TFH.
In Touch For Health we use muscle testing as a method of biofeedback to identify imbalances in the body’s energy system. Using a holistic approach, we rebalance the body’s energies and activate the body’s intrinsic healing process so that the body can better heal itself, creating that sense of effortless effort, and being in the flow of life.
Touch for Health is a synthesis of ancient knowledge of the Chinese acupuncture meridians and techniques derived from chiropractic, naturopathy, osteopathy, and even person-centred counselling, including acupressure, a variety of touch reflexes, meridian tracing, nutrition and a variety of mind-body techniques for balancing the subtle energies while focusing on meaningful, personal goals.
Touch For Health Kinesiology has its roots in the work of Detroit chiropractor, George Goodheart. Dr Goodheart began using muscle testing to evaluate muscle strength or injury in relation to postural imbalances, but soon found that muscles dramatically improve function in response to a variety of touch reflexes, including acupuncture points and meridians. Goodheart developed a system called Applied Kinesiology which he shared with physicians who are licensed to diagnose (medical doctors, chiropractors, osteopaths, dentists, etc.) and assistants under their supervision.
John Thie, D.C. , one of the early promoters of Goodheart’s work and the founding chairman of Goodheart’s International College of Applied Kinesiology (ICAK) had the vision of sharing this information with the wider population so they could learn to help themselves. Dr. Thie released the book Touch for Health in 1973, and developed the Touch for Health training program which has been administered by the IKC since 1990. TFH was designed to empower every person to become active in the creation, maintenance and restoring of their own health and well-being, and to allow families to enhance their self-care.
(From John Thie’s, Touch for Health, the Complete Edition (2005))
I treasure the Touch for Health Synthesis. I see it as a candle lighting others the way to better health and living. I believe each of us holds such a candle, perhaps as yet unlit,that can serve to guide those we cherish safely toward a more abundant life. I hope through Touch for Health, to pass my light along to you, so your candle in turn may illuminate the way for others.
