Radionics is a method of analysing and treating illness which, like absent healing, works at a distance.
Together with modern physics, Radionics regards "all as energy" and it uses as basic to it's work the concept that the electromagnetic energy patterns of the different life forms share a common ground with the electromagnetic energy field of the Earth.
A Radionic practitioner can identify and measure distortions in these energy patterns and so build a "blueprint" of the patient which incorporates his/her mental emotional and physical aspects for analysis.
A Radionic analysis is not concerned with giving the patient's condition a name as a doctor does when making a diagnosis. Rather it seeks to identify the underlying causes of the illness, which act as blockages to the free flow of Life Energy, and relate these to the patient's symptoms.
Then, by appropriate treatment, the practitioner helps the patient to eliminate these causes which results in a release of the patient's own natural healing energy.
The analysis can be used to discover the causes of functional and structural disturbances in the body. It can also discover the state of the energy centres, or Chakras, which provides a deeper understanding of the psychological or mental/emotional causes behind illness.
Radiance treatment is therefore particularly valuable for people who understand that illness arises from disturbances affecting them as a whole, and that a fundamental change will be needed to heal the cause of their problem.
Treatment is given by directing corrective energy patterns through Radionic instruments. These patterns may be those of the antidote to infections, the healthy functioning pattern of organs, homeopathic, flower, gel and colour remedies, psychological states, and any other factor that appears necessary.
Radionics always seeks to restore harmony by whichever way suits the individual best, and it works both in the directly curative and the human potential fields. The practitioner may therefore suggest additions or alternatives to Radionic treatment.
All that is needed for an analysis is a small sample of hair and a completed case history form.

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Information supplied by The Brighton Natural Health Centre

APPLIED KINESIOLOGY

by Brian Butler

Practitioners of many different branches of natural medicine are becoming increasingly interested in the application of touch, not as manipulative or postural processes for specific physical effect, but as a way of transmitting or arousing healing forces.
Applied Kinesiology, one such system, is based on muscle testing techniques through which weaknesses are identified and treated, thereby correcting imbalances in the body's energy systems.
While applied Kinesiology is practised by professionals, the aim of Touch For Health practitioners is to teach the skills of professional Kinesiologists to members of the lay public who are interested in preventive health care. In practical terms Kinesiology has affinities with therapies such as Chiropractic and Massage, whilst sharing the basic premises of Acupuncture and Shiatsu about energy.
There is a sense in which all forms of manipulative and postural therapy, acupuncture and acupressure and the "laying on of hands" can all be described as kinesiotherapies. But applied Kinesiology most often refers to methods introduced by Dr. George Goodheart, a Chiropractor from Detroit, who stumbled across the new principles by accident. He discovered that some of the standard muscle tests he used provided clues to the workings of the entire body. Goodheart went on to teach his findings to other Chiropractors, one of whom taught Brian Butler who introduced Touch For Health into Britain.
The assumption used to be that the main muscular trouble-makers in back-ache and associated disorders were muscles which were either in spasm or too taut, thus affecting the spine. In the mid-1960's, however, Goodheart began to work on a different idea. It might not be muscle tension or tautness that was responsible, he surmised, but rather (as Dr. J.F. Thie and Mary Marks put it in their book "Touch For Health") that it was "weak muscles on the opposite side (of the body) which caused the normal muscles to seem to be, or to become, tight. " Combining Eastern ideas about energy flow with his own Chiropractic techniques and other sources, Goodheart developed his new system in which muscle activation techniques are used to correct imbalances which have been identified by a method of muscle testing.
The distinguishing characteristic of Applied Kinesiology and Touch For Health, then, is the search for muscle imbalance so that it can be corrected. Clues will be looked for in the taking of your case history - Kinesiologists often find that symptoms are related to muscle weakness - headaches for example can be traced back to problems with the neck muscles. The aim, however, is not so much to correct individual weaknesses as to restore balance to the body.
Practitioners of Kinesiology vary considerably in their methods, some relying solely on techniques specific to it, others using it occasionally as an adjunct to, say, Chiropractic. Muscle tests are carried out while you are lying down. The therapist usually works first on one side of the body and then the other to detect the differences. Tiny imbalances of muscle tone will be corrected as they are found by using touch or pressure on the appropriate points.
Applied Kinesiology can be used for diagnosis in connection with other types of therapy, and for treatment when the diagnosis points to it. Kinesiologists claim that they do not rely on a knowledge of symptoms in the usual clinical sense since the patient's muscles provide them with all the information they need. They have achieved considerable success in allergy cases, particularly with food allergies.
Touch For Health is designed specifically for lay people to learn Kinesiology techniques so that they can detect and rectify muscle imbalances for themselves. The best way to learn Touch For Health is to take a short course.
This does not enable people to practise as professional therapists but will provide a sound foundation for the domestic use of Kinesiology techniques.

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Information supplied by The Brighton Natural Health Centre