Touch for Health

When the body's energy systems are allowed to flow freely and uninterrupted,
health becomes our natural state of being.

What is Touch for Health?
Touch For Health (TFH) is a system of postural and energetic balancing techniques that encourages wellness on the body’s global level. To achieve this, TFH integrates the physical, energetic, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of health by combining the Traditional Chinese Medicine model of Chi (energy) flowing through the meridians, with Western kinesiology and touch reflexes.
 
The Western component of the TFH model includes using muscle testing and touch modalities, including neuro-lymphatic, neuro-vascular, spinal reflex and acupuncture points. This integrated East-West approach links certain muscles with specific organ systems, and these connections also interrelate with particular energy meridians, and parts of the lymphatic and vascular systems. By balancing a specific muscle, balance is restored to all of the other systems related to it, and thus to the whole body.
 
In 1970, a chiropractor named Dr. John Thie, developed Touch For Health. He envisioned it being a method for laypeople to use to take responsibility for their own health. Part of the philosophy behind TFH includes:

Today, TFH practitioners guide people through muscle balancing techniques that include:

• Creative dialogue process and goal setting
• Identifying a related emotion based on the Chinese 5- element model
• Metaphor balancing
• Emotional stress release
• Color balancing
• Sound balancing
• Food testing and balancing

What I like about the TFH method is the ability to balance a person's energy around a specific goal. This brings their unconscious into line with their conscious desires, and helps the person achieve their goal because they become completely aligned with, and supported by universal energy. This holistic clearing and balancing involves the use of the symbolic Chinese 5-Element Metaphors, as well as the Metaphors of organ function, muscle action and the 14- primary energy meridians.

Metaphors are a tool used for imagery when exploring the meaning of our experiences, feelings, imbalances and goals. For example, if we find an imbalance in the quadriceps muscle, we look at the metaphors related to the quadriceps themselves, as well as metaphors for the small intestines and Fire Element, which both relate to the quadriceps. One simple sign that a person may have an imbalance in their quadriceps is if these muscles are too tight or are dominant and over-compensate for relative weaknesses in other muscles.
 
The Touch For Health energy balancing system is based on the premise that YOU are your primary health-care provider. It encourages you to be aware of, and participate in your own experience of health. We use TFH and empower our clients to realize that they too can achieve improved health and well-being.

For more information, contact Sherry, sherry@elitephysiquesinc.com.