Touch for Health
“Touch for Health is a compassionate tool to become a software engineer for your own internal wiring. Maybe we weren’t born with the instruction manual, but with the TFH Manual, we can access our own internal values, decisions, rules, fears, and affirmations. Imagine: you proactively align your values, emotions, and actions to be able to tackle any obstacle in your life.”
⸺Sarah J., satisfied client
What is Touch for Health?
Touch for Health (TFH) a complementary holistic method helps achieve and maintain health and improve performance, and is uniquely invaluable in emergencies. TFH integrates muscle testing with techniques from acupuncture, exercise science, chiropractic, and more—in a user-friendly, highly portable, internationally accredited and standardized TFH synthesis comprised of Levels 1 through 4. Designed with the general public in mind, the TFH Kinesiology Association is an approved provider of continuing education for nurses, acupuncturists, personal trainers and massage therapists, in California and many other states.
What is muscle testing?
Muscle testing is often explained as a form of bio-feedback, or described as “asking the body questions”. It is the art of applying pressure to a part of the body and observing the response to that pressure. (See above picture.) These simple tests give instantaneous experiences of our body’s response to what we eat, drink, think, feel and do—internalizing their impact on our vitality and health.
How is that body response observed?
When something is hard to do, the body shows effort by shaking, compensating, breathing different…or just not doing it. These familiar signs of effort can happen during a muscle test. And when something makes doing easier movement becomes easier, more coordinated…making a muscle test feel easy. This physical “ah hah” uniquely catalyzes positive lifestyle changes.
Can you provide an example of an enduring lifestyle change from TFH?
One of my favorite experiences of this transformative ability is when I run into people, at the grocery store, and hear them say I still drink more water because of what I learned in your TFH class years ago. Another is when I see the automatic use of the emotional stress release points—which do just what they say.
Why use TFH?
TFH can ease emotional, physical and transitional distress, enhance performance in any area of life and it can provide guidance when creating care plans for other therapies.
What sets TFH apart from most energetic healing?
It is an active participatory healing method in which people identify their own goals and feel their response to a wide repertoire of techniques. And with TFH, we can check in to see if results will last, or if there is more to do that can further improve or maintain results—which invokes curiosity about what more can we do for ourselves and how good can we feel. Sometimes it’s referred to as a self-responsibility approach. TFH integrates exceptionally well with other modalities; muscle testing can be a guide to the best individualized things to do for healing, and to identify the optimal order to do them in. And then there is surrogate testing.
How can TFH help in emergency situations?
One example is surrogate testing. TFH surrogate testing enables us to reach infants, loved ones with severe injuries or illnesses, even when they are non-verbal, unconscious or just too tired to respond, and to reach those other family members to called pets to discover important interventions. I and many others have used surrogate testing in ICU, and watched dramatic results. Surrogate testing relies on the basic energetic healing principles of energy can be shared, and moved. Other TFH tools to help self sooth or sooth others, reduce pain, and enhance meridian flow can help everyone cope and be helpful.
How is surrogate testing done?
In surrogate testing, someone, preferably a close relationship, makes contact with the injured person and serves as a proxy for the injured person for muscle testing, and if need be, act as a conduit for the indicated corrections as well. Surrogate testing is learned early on in the TFH synthesis.
Do you have any experience with TFH surrogate tools?
I have thankfully and joyfully witnessed significant patient improvement correlated with the timing of a TFH session—even multiple times and with multiple people in the intensive care unit!
How else does TFH help achieve life balance?
It is an experiential interaction with the interconnecting, shifting, internal dynamics that vary not only from person to person, but from session to session and goal to goal. For example, one time it’s nutrition that strengthens, another its sound, and it could need both, or one of a myriad of health interventions. This present moment insight can help increase self-awareness, develop deeper compassion, explore more options, and ultimately improve our relationships and our physical health.
Why take a TFH class?
Although muscle testing is simple, it still takes skill. In hands-on classes, you learn how to communicate about the process, discover ways to modify and individualize testing, get experience at interpreting outcomes and establishing “safety” for yourself and others. And you get to see yourself and your fellow students improve. These early successes with fellow students build confidence to use TFH. Often there are opportunities for your friends or family to come and get tested sometime during the course.
Touch for Health (TFH) a complementary holistic method helps achieve and maintain health and improve performance, and is uniquely invaluable in emergencies. TFH integrates muscle testing with techniques from acupuncture, exercise science, chiropractic, and more—in a user-friendly, highly portable, internationally accredited and standardized TFH synthesis comprised of Levels 1 through 4. Designed with the general public in mind, the TFH Kinesiology Association is an approved provider of continuing education for nurses, acupuncturists, personal trainers and massage therapists, in California and many other states.
What is muscle testing?
Muscle testing is often explained as a form of bio-feedback, or described as “asking the body questions”. It is the art of applying pressure to a part of the body and observing the response to that pressure. (See above picture.) These simple tests give instantaneous experiences of our body’s response to what we eat, drink, think, feel and do—internalizing their impact on our vitality and health.
How is that body response observed?
When something is hard to do, the body shows effort by shaking, compensating, breathing different…or just not doing it. These familiar signs of effort can happen during a muscle test. And when something makes doing easier movement becomes easier, more coordinated…making a muscle test feel easy. This physical “ah hah” uniquely catalyzes positive lifestyle changes.
Can you provide an example of an enduring lifestyle change from TFH?
One of my favorite experiences of this transformative ability is when I run into people, at the grocery store, and hear them say I still drink more water because of what I learned in your TFH class years ago. Another is when I see the automatic use of the emotional stress release points—which do just what they say.
Why use TFH?
TFH can ease emotional, physical and transitional distress, enhance performance in any area of life and it can provide guidance when creating care plans for other therapies.
What sets TFH apart from most energetic healing?
It is an active participatory healing method in which people identify their own goals and feel their response to a wide repertoire of techniques. And with TFH, we can check in to see if results will last, or if there is more to do that can further improve or maintain results—which invokes curiosity about what more can we do for ourselves and how good can we feel. Sometimes it’s referred to as a self-responsibility approach. TFH integrates exceptionally well with other modalities; muscle testing can be a guide to the best individualized things to do for healing, and to identify the optimal order to do them in. And then there is surrogate testing.
How can TFH help in emergency situations?
One example is surrogate testing. TFH surrogate testing enables us to reach infants, loved ones with severe injuries or illnesses, even when they are non-verbal, unconscious or just too tired to respond, and to reach those other family members to called pets to discover important interventions. I and many others have used surrogate testing in ICU, and watched dramatic results. Surrogate testing relies on the basic energetic healing principles of energy can be shared, and moved. Other TFH tools to help self sooth or sooth others, reduce pain, and enhance meridian flow can help everyone cope and be helpful.
How is surrogate testing done?
In surrogate testing, someone, preferably a close relationship, makes contact with the injured person and serves as a proxy for the injured person for muscle testing, and if need be, act as a conduit for the indicated corrections as well. Surrogate testing is learned early on in the TFH synthesis.
Do you have any experience with TFH surrogate tools?
I have thankfully and joyfully witnessed significant patient improvement correlated with the timing of a TFH session—even multiple times and with multiple people in the intensive care unit!
How else does TFH help achieve life balance?
It is an experiential interaction with the interconnecting, shifting, internal dynamics that vary not only from person to person, but from session to session and goal to goal. For example, one time it’s nutrition that strengthens, another its sound, and it could need both, or one of a myriad of health interventions. This present moment insight can help increase self-awareness, develop deeper compassion, explore more options, and ultimately improve our relationships and our physical health.
Why take a TFH class?
Although muscle testing is simple, it still takes skill. In hands-on classes, you learn how to communicate about the process, discover ways to modify and individualize testing, get experience at interpreting outcomes and establishing “safety” for yourself and others. And you get to see yourself and your fellow students improve. These early successes with fellow students build confidence to use TFH. Often there are opportunities for your friends or family to come and get tested sometime during the course.
What is your background in TFH?
At community colleges and private massage schools, I have taught people as young as 10 to folks up in their 90s. I integrate TFH into my life and healing sessions. I am so glad that I have not missed out on this on this wonderful life-changing gift.
I am a certified TFHKA Consultant and Instructor (since 1977). Inspired by Touch for Health practices, I sought out and completed more Kinesiology related courses, including Professional Kinesiology Practitioner 1 to 4, multiple courses in HypertonX and Educational Kinesiology, Dr. John Thie’s 6-day intensive, and Matt Thie’s classes in LA. I have had the opportunity to attend on-going study groups and conferences.
Where else can I learn more about what TFH is?
There is a wealth of professionally written information about TFH including the internationally standardized class syllabuses, and links to other informative web-sites on the Touch for Health Kinesiology Association website. And you may call me with any questions.
At community colleges and private massage schools, I have taught people as young as 10 to folks up in their 90s. I integrate TFH into my life and healing sessions. I am so glad that I have not missed out on this on this wonderful life-changing gift.
I am a certified TFHKA Consultant and Instructor (since 1977). Inspired by Touch for Health practices, I sought out and completed more Kinesiology related courses, including Professional Kinesiology Practitioner 1 to 4, multiple courses in HypertonX and Educational Kinesiology, Dr. John Thie’s 6-day intensive, and Matt Thie’s classes in LA. I have had the opportunity to attend on-going study groups and conferences.
Where else can I learn more about what TFH is?
There is a wealth of professionally written information about TFH including the internationally standardized class syllabuses, and links to other informative web-sites on the Touch for Health Kinesiology Association website. And you may call me with any questions.
“I am so glad that I have not missed out on this wonderful life-changing gift.”
⸺Janine Moniot, Body of Knowledge
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