What are the benefits of kinesiology
for your health ?

Kinesiology, a preventive approach

Kinesiology as a tool for prevention

Kinesiology does not replace conventional medicine. It can help with the everyday aches, strains and stresses that may not have a medical label attached to them. When the answer is “it’s nothing, it’s just stress”, kinesiology can offer support. Left unaddressed, these small issues may gradually develop into functional disorders or more serious health problems.

So why wait until you are unwell before choosing to feel better?

Kinesiology is for anyone who wants to improve their quality of life, develop their skills, abilities and potential, and maintain a high level of wellbeing. As we will see below, this may relate to physical health or to any aspect of your personality. In kinesiology, the client is always fully involved in their own transformation. They do not hand responsibility over to an outside authority. They remain the author of their own progress and the one who makes the decisions.

As a complement to medical care

Kinesiology is not about diagnosing illnesses, and even less about replacing any medical treatment that may be essential. By helping to balance emotions and energy, kinesiology may support the body in making the most of its natural self-healing potential, and may help to ease certain conditions.

Undergoing surgery, having physically demanding treatments, or receiving difficult medical news are all necessary steps in restoring health, but they can also create a great deal of stress and unexpressed emotion, which kinesiology may help to release. In cases of serious illness, it is advisable to mention any kinesiology support to the medical team.

The mental benefits of kinesiology

Managing stress and emotions

Stress is part of life, and indeed essential to survival. However, in today’s Western world, human stress is mostly psychological in nature. Our stress responses are no longer always appropriate. It is important to regulate these responses and interrupt the stress cycle in order to protect balance, health and the ability to make conscious choices.

Life is constant change: moving house, ageing, starting a new school, taking on a new job, entering new relationships, and so on. Any change can be experienced as a threat, unsettling our balance and our homeostasis. Kinesiology helps to reduce the impact of these disturbances and to ease the emotional burdens we accumulate throughout life.

The benefits of living with less stress

What does it mean to live in balance, without becoming trapped in a stress cycle?

First and foremost, it creates space for the development of cognitive abilities and therefore learning capacity:

• improved awareness through the body and the five senses;

• better attention and concentration;

• greater emotional balance;

• improved memory;

• better motor control and coordination;

• clearer communication;

• stronger reasoning abilities, including organisation, planning and abstract thinking.

All of this helps to build confidence, to make the most of your potential, to become more independent and to find your place in life more easily. It can strengthen motivation and help you put every chance on your side, whether professionally, in sport or in your personal life.

Managing stress and not being swept away by emotions also makes it easier to accept situations as they are. We become less confined by our belief systems and more open to what is new and changing. We become more adaptable, and we handle situations and relationships with greater ease, detachment, tolerance and generosity.

Rather than being overwhelmed by a situation or life challenge, we can choose to see things positively and welcome them with calm, enthusiasm or even joy.

Calm, inner peace and serenity can then transform our relationship with what truly matters, leading to greater wonder, harmony, fulfilment, unity and creativity. Life becomes more easily a conscious choice at every moment.

The physical benefits of kinesiology

The physical effects of stress on the body are wide-ranging. Stress has short-term physiological effects, while chronic stress can lead to long-term consequences such as cardiovascular risk, diabetes or accelerated ageing.

Releasing stress through kinesiology can therefore help reduce the risk of certain long-term health problems.

In the short term, releasing stress may bring many benefits:

• better sleep quality;

• more energy and vitality;

• improved digestion;

• muscular and joint relaxation;

• relief from pain;

• improved organ function;

• regulated blood pressure;

• healthier skin;

• a stronger immune system;

• reduced inflammation;

• better weight regulation.

Find out how a kinesiology session works here.

“If you listen to your body when it whispers, you will not have to hear it scream.” — Tibetan wisdom