The Pathway Balancing Kinesiology Journey

To stay on track with your journey through life, it is important to avoid falling too far into the ditches on either side of life’s pathway. Pathway Balancing Kinesiology, researched, created and developed by Corrina Kennedy since 1996, is unique in its mapping out of a metaphorical and metaphysical journey that spirals upwards towards healing and transformation.

Getting off the ground

Sometimes life knocks us off our feet and we simply need to recover before we can make any useful changes of direction. The first thing we have to do in a PBK session is balance your basic flow of energy, so you can get going again. A PBK Practitioner uses Touch for Health kinesiology at this stage, to help improve your lymphatic drainage, blood circulation, acupuncture meridian flow and muscular posture. 

A healthy body and a nurturing lifestyle

The next stage of your treatment is about building up your health and general lifestyle, to support your journey. Here the Practitioner uses advanced kinesiology in the realms of 'Healing the Body'. The methods draw on holistic treatments common to many schools of Kinesiology, as well as methods unique to Pathway Balancing. We will ask the body about: Physical & Structural health, Nutritional & Biochemical states, Mental & Emotional balance and the Electromagnetic & Environmental fields of energy for you. A new Realm is currently coming into being : The Human Development Journey.

Overcoming the mountain

Now you are ready to begin your Journey and take your life to the next level. This where the Practitioner uses the unique Pathway Balancing materials that I started writing in 1996. The Journey describes an upwardly spiraling Pathway that rises through 7 Levels.

Level 1 The Individual - Gateways 1 to 10

Level 2 The Community - Gateways 11 to 20

Level 2 The Nation - Gateways 21 to 30

Level 4 Heaven on Earth - Gateways 31 to 40

Level 5 The Dreamweaver - Gateways 41 to 50

Level 6 Transformation - Gateways 51 to 60

Level 7 Paradise on Earth - Stages beyond the Gateways

opening to your potential

Along this Pathway there are 60 Gateways that represent the potential energy and awareness that's opening up before you. By using muscle testing, with verbal questions, we can ask the body which Gateway is the one you need to look at now. As I read out the Description of what's within this Gateway, the material will mean something unique to you and raise your awareness of what's been holding you back. To open this Gateway to your potential, I can apply basic energy balancing techniques from Touch for Health, or use holistic therapy from the realm of Healing the Body. 

Healing for your soul

Once you have reached the top of the Pathway Balancing Journey mountain, you are at a level of awareness that begins to heal and nurture your soul. This is both a high level of awareness and a deep source of healing. At this point in a session, I would use the Pathway Balancing 'Healing of the Soul' manual, which I have written over a period of many years. This rich manual contains a wealth of unique material that activates the awareness held in your soul. The beautiful, descriptive passages resonate with the essence of who you are and begin to awaken deep deposits of treasure within the subtle energy of your soul.

Rising up into the bigger picture

When the Healing of the Soul process is complete, you are ready to rise above the mountain that was standing in your way. That mountain also held the treasures of wisdom that you needed to mine out as your own personal gold. You are now entering the three Transcendent Levels of the Pathway Balancing Journey. These Levels enable you to see the bigger picture and to expand into more of your potential. I have written three manuals, all containing unique and original material, that lift your awareness and quantum energy.

Heart Consciousness - 7 Openings

Pearls of Wisdom - 7 Pearls

Completion of the Journey

living from the heart

This is a place that shifts your awareness into your heart centre. This manual brings a vision of flowing energy, in a heart-shaped pool, with seven fountains opening in constant refilling and revitalisation. Through muscle-testing, with verbal questioning, we can identify blockages in any one of the specific Openings. Once the appropriate energy balancing is applied, you are free to flow into greater heart awareness going forward. 

rewards and generosity

Having reached this stage, you have gained a great deal of wisdom from your Pathway through life. These pearls of wisdom will serve as your guides on the journey ahead. You also have something to offer others who are searching for the best way to live life everyday. You can begin to overflow with generosity. This unique manual depicts seven Pearls that you can now hold and that inform you about the manifested potential being expressed.  

Conscious embodiment of your conception journey

This is the ultimate stage of the Pathway Balancing Journey. Here your consciousness reaches the deepest awareness of your embodied energy. The material in this manual is unique  and original and is the result of my four-year study of the process of the soul coming into the body. The work is rooted in the study of the biology, psychology and spirituality of a soul coming into physical being. The session explores the layers of your embodiment journey, in order to identify and repattern the quantum energy levels.

12 Layers of Embodiment

12 Layers of Soul Consciousness

The patterns laid down during the formation of your body at conception are repeated throughout your growth and development. There are twelve stages to The Conception Journey, according to my training in his pioneering work with Karlton Terry of the USA. In my own work, I have described the embodiment process from two perspectives - the body and physical substances, the soul and quantum energy. The Completion of the Journey manual specifies the Layers of Embodiment and the Layers of Soul Consciousness. By working with this material, you become conscious of the kaleidoscope of your own ancestral and divine patterning. With energy balancing techniques, you can then repattern that original template. This is deeply transformative work and enables you to embody more of your ancestral jewels and divine gifts, in order to fulfill your God-given destiny in this life.

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The Definitive Guide to Kinesiology

The word kinesiology means ‘the study of human muscular movement’. So there might be a module of study called Kinesiology in a training course for fitness instructors or physiotherapists. Kinesiology, as a study in itself, looks at where the muscles attach to our bones and which direction the muscle fibres are running. This attachment, and direction of muscle position, will determine how our body will move.

Each muscle attaches to a bone with one non-moving end. This non-moving end of the muscle is called the origin. It is the root or base of the muscle. The other end of the muscle is the one which will move the bone that it’s attached to. This mobile end of any muscle is called the insertion. So each muscle has an origin and an insertion.

A muscle is just a piece of meat, with no ability to move by itself or of its own free will. Without a nerve attached to it, the muscle would remain lifeless and limp. My understanding of muscle testing is that we are really testing the nervous system. The muscle only contracts, or switches on, when the nerves send a signal to fire up the muscle. By testing this switched on/switched off response we can ‘ask the body’ to reveal its inner wisdom about health and wellbeing.

When a muscle contracts to produce movement, another muscle has to relax to accommodate the movement. For example, if you contract your bicep, your tricep must also relax and allow the back of your arm to stretch. So the ability of a muscle to go weak, switch off or soften is also observed in kinesiology.

Positioning and testing muscles

Kinesiology is all about muscle-testing. A kinesiology practitioner will be trained in accurate muscle-testing and this use of muscle-testing is what defines a kinesiologist. 

From the study of kinesiology we can establish how each muscle, and muscle-group, works to move certain bones in particular ways, ensuring the smooth movement of the whole skeleton and the human body as a whole. By positioning the body in a certain posture, a kinesiologist can see which muscles are working effectively in achieving and holding a posture or limb position.

Once a kinesiologist has positioned the body in a specific way, they can further check the effectiveness of the muscular movement by adding manual pressure. For example, a kinesiologist might ask their client to raise their arm in front of themselves. The person’s arm would be raised from the shoulder, keeping the arm straight, and stopping with the arm at a 45 angle from the front of the client’s body. This movement would show the kinesiologist that the person was able to contract their anterior deltoid muscle — a rounded muscle at the top of the arm, in front of the shoulder.

This use of muscle-testing, in the study of human muscular movement, is called kinesiology. A kinesiology practitioner will not only be knowledgeable in the positioning and movement of muscles but also skilled and sensitive in the art of accurate muscle-testing.

What muscle-testing tells us

So when a kinesiologist positions and tests a muscle, with a specific direction and gentle pressure, the muscle response tells us something. If the muscle holds its position strongly, we can say that this firm muscle-response is a ‘switched on’ muscle-response. This is because the nerve has fired a signal, or switched the muscle on, in response to the stimulus of the practitioners applied pressure. So although it’s called muscle-testing, in kinesiology, it’s perhaps more accurate to say it’s the nerve or nervous system we are testing. The muscle shows the positive or negative response of the nervous system to a given stimulus.

The key to unlocking the body’s wisdom

Because muscle-testing shows us the response of the nervous system to a specific stimulus, position or pressure, we can begin to ‘ask the body’ to reveal its innate wisdom. If a person cannot hold up their arm when pressure is applied by the kinesiologist, their nervous system may be unable to hold up under pressure in other situations.

This muscle-response, nerve-impulse or neurological response, can be tested against a variety of stimuli. Clients can be tested for their automatic response to smelling a food, looking at a colour or holding a particular remedy. The electromagnetic field of a person can be tested by running the acupuncture meridians with light contact, or simply waving the practitioners hand in the aura surrounding a person’s body.

This ability to test the body’s physical, muscular, neurological response to pressure or stimuli can give the kinesiologist vital information. This can help the client unlock their inner wisdom and find out what weakens and switches them off, and most importantly, what strengthens and fires them up with flowing energy again.

History and origins of kinesiology

A system for testing and grading the functioning of muscles was carried out by an orthopaedic surgeon, R.W. Lovett, in the 1920’s. This work was further developed by Henry and Florence Kendall and published in their book, Muscle Testing and Function,  in 1949.

Kinesiology as a therapy began in the 1960’s when a US chiropractor, Dr George Goodheart, had a major insight into the relationship between back pain and weak muscles. At that time back pain was understood to be the result of muscle spasm, or over-tight muscles, and treatment focused on stretching or relaxing the tight muscles. However, Dr Goodheart discovered that strengthening the weak, over-relaxed or stretched muscle resulted in the tight, painful muscle being able to let go of its tension.

His next major insight occurred when he applied firm finger pressure to the muscle insertion of a man unable to move his shoulder, and therefore unable to work. This man was immediately able to move his shoulder in a way that had been impossible for fifteen years!

This concept of finger pressure was also understood from the work done by osteopath Frank Chapman in the 1930’s. He discovered, and then mapped, a whole series of reflex points on the body that stimulated and strengthened specific internal organs via the lymph system of drainage. Over time, a whole range of therapeutic techniques were linked to the testing, and then strengthening, of weak or switched off muscles.

In 1973 the book Touch for Health was published by US chiropractor John Thie. This simple-to-follow book clearly showed, through photos and diagrams, how to correctly position and test a range of 42 muscles of the body and then apply simple, safe techniques to strengthen any muscle that tested weak. This manual is the foundational text for basic energy balancing in Pathway Balancing Kinesiology.

Growth and development of kinesiology

The Touch for Health manual was designed as a safe system for lay people to use at home, helping those around them to have better health and more energy. In 1975 the Touch for Health Foundation was formed and began a training programme to go with the manual. Many people who trained in Touch for Health began to explore and discover more ways to strengthen muscles and improve energy flow and general wellbeing. In time, many of these discoveries became systematised into different forms of kinesiology. 

By the 1990’s it was recognised that these systems needed to be formalised into standardised professional methodologies. There are now many clearly defined branches of professional kinesiology in the UK. Pathway Balancing Kinesiology is among those which meet the UK National Occupational Standards in Healthcare. To find out more about kinesiology, and the various branches within the profession, read Jane Thurnell-Read’s book Kinesiology, published in 2011.

The power of kinesiology

The essence of kinesiology is to strengthen the body’s ability to hold energy, with a flowing and balanced posture. The muscle-responses are balanced to allow strength and natural tension to work in harmony with relaxation and flexibility.

The aim is to enable a person to hold up under pressure, because they have the natural resources to do so. When we lack energy, whether physically, emotionally or more subtly, it can feel like it’s an effort just to get through each day. We can feel tired, heavy, demotivated or even depressed. At this level of low, or out of balance energy, a person may have to force themselves to get out of bed, do their work or make contact with other people. So in this state we could say this person is living by force.

Our energy levels, and the ability to exercise the power of choice, affects our individual life but also the lives of those around us. We begin to create, and move within, a field of energy and behaviours that produces waves and consequences. We start to associate with particular individuals and groups that reflect our own state of awareness. We are attracted to, and can contribute to, dynamics of behaviour that can heal and enliven us. Much more is being discovered about this energy potential, in the unmanifested realm, through the fascinating work of quantum physicists like Albert Einstein.

These fields of awareness and dynamics have been analysed and described in the excellent work by David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., in his book ‘Power vs Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behaviour,’ first published in 1995. His thoroughly researched work is a key source used in Pathway Balancing Kinesiology. He has calibrated energy levels and human dynamics of behaviour that accurately chart a person’s capacity to live by force or live in power. This scale measures, from 0 to 1000, the level of awareness and energetic tone of any individual, with 0 to 200 being the level of force and 201 to 1000 being a state of power.

Freedom through kinesiology

Going through life by forcing your way through the day, with low energy and troubled emotions, can take its toll on a person. Whether the difficulties are current or past, kinesiology can help you to move on and leave the past behind, heading towards a better, more empowered place and more balanced way of life.

It is such a relief to let go of, and resolve, old emotions still trapped in layers of the body structure. Once these trapped emotions are dissolved safely, with kinesiology balancing techniques, that energy can flow again, into a creative and sensitive awareness of being fully alive. For an excellent study in this area of kinesiology, read The Emotion Code by Dr, Bradley Nelson published in 2007.