How Kinesiology can help with headaches

Hi everyone,

I hope you had a great Easter and managed to enjoy some treats somewhere along the way :)  I have to apologise for my lack of emails lately - it's been an extra busy start to the year and here we are in April already...whaaaat?!

Today I wanted to share a bit about how Kinesiology can help with headaches.  I gave myself a Kinesiology balance recently as I've been having a few more headaches lately and the things that came up were really interesting and not on my conscious radar at all.

Headaches are something that a lot of people get regularly and some people don't get at all.  There are so many different types of headaches and sometimes it's really difficult to work out what's causing them.  There are often multiple contributing factors that have to be worked out over time but sometimes there are some quick fixes too.  I've had headaches on and off since I was a teenager.  Sometimes they're mild and don't affect me much but at times in my life (not now thankfully) they've been associated with nausea and an inability to function.

With my headaches there is often a structural element such as my spine (I have scoliosis), posture from sitting at the computer, sleeping funny, tight neck and shoulder muscles.  I also worked out at the beginning of this year that chocolate on a regular basis was contributing to headaches (that was a very sad day.)   Thankfully I can still have it once or twice a week so I'm grateful for that!  But my most recent balance was very different and I thought I'd share it as it shows just how amazing and interconnected our bodies are and how helpful Kinesiology with muscle testing is to work with underlying causes that we wouldn't otherwise consciously think of...

The issues that were connected and worked with were:

• hormonal regulation (reproductive hormones, stress hormones, digestive hormones)

• lumbar vertebra 3

• temporal bones (the bones around the ears)

• past generational stuff or inherited cellular memory issues

• kidney drainage

While these things may all seem pretty random at first glance they all make sense to me - here is how I linked them together.  

• The hormonal regulation makes sense as I'm in the perimenopausal stage which is when the oestrogen and progesterone can be fluctuating wildly.  This makes the pituatary and hypothalamus glands in the brain - the master hormonal regulators have to work very hard to try and balance things out.  These master glands also control the thyroid, adrenals (stress hormones) and digestive hormones - so the whole hormonal system is under more stress than usual.

• Lumbar vertebrae 3 is in the middle of the lower back and because I'm sitting more than usual doing study this area will get more compressed than usual.  The nerves that come out at the L3 level go to the reproductive organs too - so again links back to hormonal regulation.

• The temporal bones around the ears are likely to be jammed because I'm listening to so much information through my study and trying to make sense of it all (and often getting frustrated with the way it's presented!).  If the temporal bones are jammed the rest of the cranial bones can be affected with lack of movement which can link with headaches.  It will also compress the sphenoid bone which houses those master hormone glands!

• Past generational/inherited cellular memory - we can inherit a predisposition or susceptibility to certain physical and mental/emotional issues.  In a Kinesiology balance we don't necessarily know the exact issue or stress that we've inherited but we have a technique where we can go back in time and help the body resolve something that it's holding onto which is now unhelpful for us moving forward.

• Kidney drainage is an ongoing issue for me as I have a kidney issue from birth and if the kidneys aren't happy our electrolyte balance can be off linking into dehydration headaches even when I drink enough water.

So a lot of hormonal stuff, some structural, some inherited and some kidney.   What was interesting about the hormonal regulation was I wasn't really aware of it as the headaches weren't happening at a particular time of my cycle - I was being too logical about it, hormones are changing all the time - particularly during puberty and perimenopause.  The Kinesiology balance itself has helped with all these aspects and for home support I've been more diligent with my electrolytes and my pilates-scoliosis exercises.

This is what I love about Kinesiology - it can work with the triad of health - the structural, chemical and mental/emotional.  It helps give us a picture of what's going on as well as helping to shift the energetic blockages that have created symptoms.  It's very empowering as we then have more understanding and clarity about what we can do differently to help prevent those blockages returning so we can move forward into better health.

Hopefully that gives an insight into how Kinesiology might help with headaches (or anything for that matter!)

Happy Kinesiologying!

Carla :)

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