The Triangle of Health is a map for understanding the balance of the body:

Health Comes From Within

Even in the case of infectious disease, the health of the body is usually more important than external exposure. We all know people who seem to get every cold that comes along while others with the same exposure never get ill. We have all grown up under the influence of a mechanical disease model inherited from Louis Pasteur. But this model says nothing about the importance of the state of health of the immune system. Marcel Beauchamp lived at the time of Pasteur and had the idea that what was going on inside the body is at least as important as what we are exposed to from the outside. He talked about the importance of the interior mileau, the health environment inside the body, which either supports or resists infection. The pendulum of scientific thought seems to be swinging back towards supporting the healing process.

This is not to say that drugs such as antibiotics are never needed. Mainstream medicine is now recognizing that antibiotics are used much too frequently. One consequence is that bacteria are becoming increasingly more resistant to even the new, powerful and increasingly toxic antibiotics. And conventional medicine is silent about building immune strength before exposure.

Health is Your Birthright

Our ancestors were the survivors - those who had weak immune systems probably didn't live long enough to pass on their genes. Our bodies have evolved to be self repairing to a remarkable extent. In the medical literature there is at least one case in which someone has had a complete remission from every disease including metastatic cancer without medical intervention. It is common experience that when you cut your finger or even break a bone, healing occurs without our having any thought. All we have to do is support the tissues and allow them to heal. But very weak or debilitated or nutrient deficient people heal much more slowly. So if you are having a health problem, the question is: where is the block in the normal healing process? And the function of the doctor is to find the block and help the body overcome it.

Balancing the Sides of the Triangle

The triangle of health is a way of thinking about where blocks to healing can occur: It is also a convenient way of thinking about overall stress - challenges to the normal functioning of the body.

STRUCTURAL BALANCE

This includes mechanical stresses and their effects on body structure and the nervous system.
Balance is the key.
In modern society we tend to sit too much and exercise too little.
And then we do too much on a weekend.
Applied Kinesiology is used to detect and correct imbalances in opposing muscles.

Muscle imbalances can be caused by injury, mental tension or referral from internal organs.

BIOCHEMICAL BALANCE

Imbalances caused by too much or too little of key chemicals in the body can cause disease.

The body requires a wide variety of nutrients in the right amounts to function.
Too much or too little of anything, even water, can cause disease.

Our food supply has been radically changed by the industrialization of agriculture over the past century. This results in gross imbalances - for the most part too many calories especially as carbohydrates (sugar, corn syrup, white breads), too few vitamins and minerals and an alarming imbalance between omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids.

Poor dietary choices, beginning in infancy, results in overgrowth of semi-pathogenic bacteria and fungus in the gut (stomach, small and large intestines) which breaks down the natural barrier between undigested and partially digested food. Food proteins leaking into the bloodstream are recognized as foreign protein and attacked by the immune system resulting in allergies.

We are all exposed to thousands of man-made toxic chemicals and heavy metals. There is good evidence that these are stored in the body, are found in every American and have serious health consequences, in mental health, immune function and hormonal imbalance.

Clinical nutrition offers solutions by suggesting better food choices, making up for deficiencies caused by imbalances in the food supply and addressing the need for detoxification and specific supplementation to deal with more complex biochemical imbalances.

MENTAL/EMOTIONAL/SPIRITUAL BALANCE

There is increasing evidence and a growing recognition that how we feel, what we think and our sense of connection with a larger reality have a direct and profound influence on the physical body.

It is no secret that life in our society is stressful. Everything around us is changing at an exponentially accelerating rate. How long can this go on? How can we keep up? We are constantly at the mercy of new and unexpected threats to physical, financial, and emotional well being, and there is the sense that there are probably things we should be worrying about but just don't know about yet. These fears are amplified by the media. At the same time family, social and religious structures are fragmenting. More and more people find themselves without good social support. Studies show a very direct link between the mind and body -mostly through the autonomic nervous system - that part of the nervous system that controls breathing, heart rate, blood pressure and digestion, but also secretion of all hormones and overall muscle tone.

Like everything else, stress is a matter of balance. Boredom is stressful. The worst punishment we give criminals next to execution is solitary confinement. Each person has an optimal amount of stimulation. Too much or too little is stressful.

Too much stress directly affects every organ system - reducing immune function, increasing blood sugar, decreasing healing, weakening joints, and on and on.
Because stress acts on the physical body through the autonomic nervous system Kinesiology can monitor the effects of thought as it affects muscle stretch reflexes. For this reason it can be used to monitor the effect of any technique that shifts the stress pattern.

ENERGETIC BALANCE

The energy balance of the body is represented by the Tai Yin symbol in the center of the triangle. Body energy or Qi flows through the electromagnetic structure of the physical body and unites all three sides of the Triangle of Health.

• Imbalances in any side of the triangle can affect the other two sides.
•  Imbalances in any part of the triangle can disturb the flow of Qi through the meridian system. This can be measured electronically and corrected using the tools of acupuncture and Kinesiology.
•  Meridian energy is closely coupled with the autonomic nervous system. So most people in our society are out of balance.
•  We are continually bombarded by man-made electromagnetic energy.

No other generation in history has had this level of exposure and the level of exposure continues to increase. Our homes and offices are inside the electromagnetic grid of the electrical power system, switching on and off 60 times a second. Computers, cell phones, electric motors, copying machines, microwave ovens, radio and television stations all send out electromagnetic radiation.

There is now clear evidence that electromagnetic radiation has harmful effects even at relatively low doses but we really don't understand how it causes harm or what is really safe. My clinical experience is that people who are healthy, have energy and vitality, are better able to tolerate the unavoidable stresses of electromagnetic pollution.

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