The efficacy of Kinesiology results from the way it works with the body's innate healing intelligence. It aids the body in its natural drive to restoring balance, and thus health, to neurological and physiological function.

When everything is functioning well in our system, theoretically we feel well; we are well beings.

Kinesiology practitioners undertake years of training to be able to access the movement of energy - or what the Chinese call Chi - around the body and brain. The analogy of a bio-computer illustrates rather crudely how it works.

When there are blocks or stresses preventing smooth energetic transmission, in turn affecting smooth functioning of our bio-systems, there are under-energies or over-energies. Both can add up to stresses that can eventually overwhelm the body's compensatory mechanisms and have their read-out in physical pains, mental discomfort and the myriad expressions of dis-ease: allergies, depression, postural problems, poor performance levels, learning and relationship difficulties, digestive and nervous disorders. Whatever the presenting problem the system is saying it is malfunctioning.

Kinesiology encompasses a breadth of therapeutic aids but the real goal of any 'balance' is to identify the bottom-line cause of this malfunction and then to resolve it. It might be nutritional, emotional, structural, electrical or even spiritual - something as simple as an "attitude" or a forgotten memory.

The essential tool upon which Kinesiology relies is the muscle feedback system, a handy piece of human wiring that gives instant access into the holistic information held by the core operating unit of the entire body-mind system - the subconscious brain.

This normally inaccessible neural substrate holds all of our memories, all the information about physical, emotional and mental states and it also determines our muscle tension. A weak muscle test can therefore be an indicator that stress is having a tellingly negative effect somewhere in the system.