Dr. George Goodheart DC started Applied Kinesiology. I have been very fortunate to learn many of these modalities from a genius in them. Here’s the story.
Today I am starting a series on how I do healing work, my general approach and the things that most people tend to need in order to heal. Some of what is involved is controversial, but much of it has a basis in biochemistry. And, I will discuss the modalities that I use, there are several.
The main method I use is called Applied Kinesiology, or AK. Kinesiology is a medical method that has little to nothing to do with AK. Today I am going to tell a very brief version of how AK started and start the story of how I was fortunate enough to get involved.
AK was started in the 1960’s by a chiropractor named George Goodheart. What a great name! He knew something about Traditional Chinese Medicine — TCM as well.
He was working with TCM and muscle strength and started noticing that when certain acupuncture meridians were out of balance that specific muscles would be weak as well. He wondered if doing something to strengthen the muscle might affect the meridian and thereby the person’s health.
With some experiments he developed a method of strengthening these muscles, and the patient would get better. Something that Deepak Chopra later called Quantum Healing, or taking someone from a state of ill health into a state of health in a moment, a quantum leap.
Doctor Goodheart found a dozen or so practitioners that were interested in his work which he started teaching to them. Each of these people were brilliant as well, they had to be to see such an amazing opportunity! They all went on to create a different type of kinesiology coining their own terminology for what they were doing.
That was the beginning of energy medicine as some people call it. It has since grown to huge proportions with more methods than anyone could possibly learn. But, most have certain characteristics and similarities.
It was my great fortune to meet a chiropractor who knew at least a dozen of these different methods. A very good friend of mine was working for him. When I went in to visit my friend for lunch or whatever, the chiropractor would notice me, and eventually took a liking to me. One day he invited me in to watch him work.
Dr. G is a bit of a nerd. A great and brilliant guy, but quirky as brilliant people often are. All my friends are a little weird as am I, so this didn’t bother me at all. I recognized an opportunity and took it.
Fortunately, I worked for myself and my job had many gaps in it, so I was able to spend a considerable amount of time in Dr. G’s office observing. Also, he likes to talk about almost nothing but healing. This made for some wonderful lunches and after work dinners as well.
That is how AK was first started, and how I got involved with one of the most brilliant practitioners of AK in the world. This is my opinion of course, but I have only seen Dr. G fail at curing one case in years of observing him work.
Next time I’ll tell you more about how I learned from my mentor, and tell you more about the different types of energy medicine there are.
