Dr Wayne Topping
from W

www.wellnesskinesiology.com

 Stress Release 1 & 2  24 – 25 June 2012   Cost $380 (No pre-requisites)

What does stress do to us and what are the long-term consequences if we don’t address it? We will use body awareness and muscle testing biofeedback to identify what is causing stress and to confirm when the stress has been eliminated. Working with statements allows us to identify causes of stress. Then we go on to address orthodox stress management procedures such as goal setting, time management and procrastination with the added advantage of including muscle testing. Learn how to break habitual patterns of behaviour and thought.

 Nutritional Testing & Allergies Review      26 June 2012   Cost $95 (Repeaters only)

 Eight Extra Meridians 27 – 29 June 2012   Cost $570 (Pre-requisites TFH K 2)

The Eight Extra Meridians are believed to originate in the foetus before the 12 Regular Meridians (TFH wheel). They are regarded as reservoirs of energy that get tapped into whenever imbalances are developing within the 12 Regular Meridians. Therefore, keeping the Eight Extra Meridians balanced can keep all 20 meridians balanced. Biokinesiology research relates these meridians to organs such as the hypothalamus, anterior and posterior pituitary, pineal and thymus which help regulate many of our other organ functions. You will learn a number of ways to balance the eight indicator muscles for the Eight Extra Meridians using procedures from Biokinesiology, Touch for Health, and acupuncture.

 Venue: 9 Kirkwood Pl, Avondale, Auckland. Contact: Marion Miller.

Email: mamiller@xtra.co.nz  Ph: 09 828 4539

spaces limited – $20 will secure you a place.

This simple exercise, Hook Ups, is known all round the world for its ability to calm our human response to stress and shock. It is particularly useful for the effects of stress following the Christchurch earthquakes and aftershocks.

Download Hookups Instruction Sheet

What is stress?

As far as the brain is concerned, ‘stress’ is an overload of sensory information arriving to be processed. An unfamiliar situation generates new sights, sounds, and also new feedback about where we are in space. This applies whether the new situation we are in is ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Add in a deluge of messages of fear or panic as well, and the brain really does have a lot to deal with!

Response to Stress:

Technically known as the reflex producing ‘fight or flight’, this is the instinct all mammals have to move – to run or to fight – when our senses tell us we are in danger.

Whether it’s fighting to protect our young from attack, or running for cover when the ground shakes (again), our system goes on alert, sending extra blood to prepare our limbs for action!

The responses are generated in the unconscious part of the brain. If the eyes, ears, and /or sense of balance send information that adds up to danger, we are wired to respond all other mammals with the fight or flight response.

Once the fight/flight response has served its purpose we may need help to calm down. This especially applies when aftershocks go on for months, and we’ve already done all there is to do to be safe.

Here’s how to relax again:

You can be sitting, standing or lying down in bed. You might have a small child in your lap while you do the exercise around them with your own hands and legs. As you calm down, so will they.

Hook Ups Reduce Stress by enabling you to:

1. think clearly and decide what to do now
2. relax, and focus on what’s appropriate right now – which may be to  rest and sleep.

The first position works with the Acupuncture energy lines to clear stuck energy patterns. This position has been found to direct our own energy to travel more directly in the pathways that cover the torso, starting and ending in specific locations on the fingers and toes.

The second position re-engages the full range of the brain’s ability to process and respond. When we experience the symptoms of stress, human beings react by becoming over-focussed on either

• The details: taking things slowly, one step at a time. Or
• The ‘big picture’: moving swiftly and randomly, scanning the whole pattern, and jumping to conclusions.

To respond well, we need access to both ways of processing.

Using these moves has been found to bring relaxation and relieve the effects of stress – whatever its source.  Do each exercise for at least a minute and continue as long as convenient. Watch your breathing to deepen and your heart rate slow as your body and brain relax.

Submitted by Marion Pawson

Hi Marion

I want to thank you for yesterday.

Something neat happened last night. Up until I was about 5 or 6 yrs I had a happy place, where if I closed my eyes I could make beautiful pictures and colours on a screen. I got a lot of comfort from that. Around the age of 5 or 6 yrs I lost that ability, I closed my eyes one day and could only see black, and all my dreams have always been black with very vague shadows. I missed that ability and comfort terribly right up until my twenties when I finally gave up on it.

Last night I had a dream which started off as normal which is (uncomfortable and me in a bad situation) but then it turned into the most wonderful dream full of beautiful colours. I was in control of what happened to me in the dream. I couldn’t describe the dream in a million years but I do remember lots of little snippets of the dream where there was violence and just plain conflict between people but I was able to avoid them and stay in my own happy place.

The other great thing was, when I woke up at 1.30 am I felt as though a giant knot had been taken out of my body, mainly my tummy.

I wrote this email by hand at 3.30 am last night and the amazing thing is I wrote it totally effortlessly. Which is amazing because writing has been a real hassle to me for years.

I was learning lessons during the dream. I learnt that I don’t have to walk with people every step of the way and try and rescue them. I don’t have to feel responsible or guilty because they are not happy or coping. I am allowed my own happy place. I don’t have to be attached to people at the hip for the relationship to feel real. I feel free.

This is a great gift I have received. If it wears off over time I will return for another session. I feel so good today I cant believe it.

Megan

“Believe it……achieve it”

Vaughna Park, Auckland

Aug 31 – Sept 2

Mark it on your calendar now, to come reach for the stars with us for the eighth annual KANZ Conference.

Watch this space for more information on our speakers as we confirm them.

Practitioner: Marion Miller

We just wanted to pass on our sincerest thanks to you for the time you spent with our son (two sessions).

He has blossomed both at home and school….NOTICEABLY!

He is managing more order and personal responsibility in his daily routine. He happily and regularly does his 5-minute exercise plan as he has made the connection with this and a successful day at school.

As a family we have also found it wonderfully manageable and all enjoy participating each morning.

The difference in our son feels like a blessing for us all but of most importance is the harmony and happiness that is evident within himself.

Many, many thanks.

Check out dates for workshops in your area.
If none are listed for your area, contact the secretary (mamiller@xtra.co.nz) and we can see what can be organised.

Do you have students who never sit still? Are they constantly turning their heads, moving or wriggling? Do they delight in rocking on the back legs of their chairs? But then, when they’re working, they suddenly droop over their desks?

These children quite often have no appreciation of the space their bodies take up and will invade others’ without realising it. Think of the child who jostles other children when sitting on the mat or joining a line, because he just didn’t realise that he wouldn’t fit into that small space. They might even have been labelled as ADD or ADHD children.

Read the entire article by Marion Miller – Activating the Brain's Starter Motor (379)

There are many aspects that can be looked at, yet we could be missing a crucial part of the picture. If this child is stuck in ‘survival mode’, none of these external factors are going to have the impact we would like.

Read the entire article by Marion Miller – The Tiger in Your Classroom (411)

His grip is so tight that the whites of his knuckles show; he presses so hard that the indentation goes through three or four sheets of paper? He may even rotate his page by up to 90 degrees. Does the intense concentration he need to simply manipulate his tools hinder his creative process?

This could be the result of the lack of inhibition of the Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (ATNR), which is one of the primitive reflexes.

Download the entire article by Marion Miller - Gripping Issue in the Classroom (353)

Previously published: In Touch #7, Spring 1988 when I was practising at Centrepoint Community. Still one of my proudest wins. (Names of clients in all instances have been changed.)

Marjorie came to see me about a check up. She was six months pregnant and beginning to change shape with dramatic swiftness after the gradualness of the preceding months.

More to the point, her bedroom was at the top of the hill – about eighty brick and railway sleeper steps to climb to get there. The winter has been wet and the steps are often slippery, as are other steps and decks around the community sleeping, living, and working areas.

She felt fine, she said, but no longer felt confident of keeping her balance. Her changing centre of gravity and changed posture had left her uncertain and fearful of falling. Her worst days were those which she described as when she “felt really pregnant all day”.

I did a brief Touch for Health balance which confirmed her visible good health. I then carried out a full Hyperton-X balance, following each correction with a re-test, thumb and ring finger joined, to isolate any emotional content. Most of the corrections were free of emotional content, and those that weren’t related mainly to the anxieties surrounding a first pregnancy.

I was left with the feeling that I still hadn’t addressed the original problem. These tend to disappear in the course of a session as other stuff gets dealt with, but this time my doubt remained.

I asked her to imagine herself in one of the places she felt unsafe, and check out how she felt. I tested a double anterior deltoid IM, which collapsed. I carried out an alarm point check, which came up HEART. Subscapularis stayed strong through an “I feel angry/scared” affirmation (ex John Diamond – Life Energy). Not emotional.

At this point, as I neared the end of what I knew that I knew, I had a picture of myself walking a slippery surface with my arms out to help my balance – with the subscapularis contracted, arms abducted, bent forward at the elbows. Reactivity??

Sure enough, subscapularis turned off gluteus medeus and a number of other major walking muscles.

I stretched subscapularis and activated the walking muscles. The HEART alarm point was no longer active, but the visualisation still tested weak.

This time the alarm point test came up KIDNEY. Psoas was the villain this time. Correction as for subscapularis. Visualisation still weak. Recheck alarm points.

CIRCULATION-SEX and piriformis this time. Correction as before, and this time the visualisation tested strong.

I checked visualisations of several other areas in the community which she had said made her feel uneasy, and all of these now tested strong.

When I asked her to walk about a bit, her comment was that “she didn’t feel pregnant at all.” Success! (I shall have to do some more work next time reframing the word pregnant to have pleasant associations, or she may unwittingly set herself up for a very small family.)

I saw her the next day, after she and her husband had hiked two miles across muddy farmland. He, she remarked with satisfaction, had fallen over three times. She hadn’t slipped once