He looks into my eyes, wondering if it worked. I hand him a book and he slowly opens it. He stares for just a moment then looks me straight in the eye with a startled expression. "I can see the page," he says, amazed. He then proceeds to read a paragraph out loud at about twice the speed and with four times the clarity of his reading just two hours before. His mother just looks on with astonishment. Robert had been diagnosed with scotopic vision. This meant that when he looked at a page he saw swirls and lines running down the page. Very little was clear, which made it very difficult to read. Now that has all changed with the help of the holistic medicine of kinesiology.

It's difficult for me not to be passionate about holistic kinesiology. A few years ago my wife had a severe and potentially life-threatening illness that left her unable to speak or hear well. After nine months she seemed to be getting worse. Looking for answers, I read a book on kinesiology and thought it might help her. In the first session with the holistic kinesiologist, one of the questions he asked her was what was her favourite flower and she replied "yellow". She had been thinking of a "white daisy" but this was the best she was able to articulate. Within five one-hour sessions she was significantly better. Her fits had stopped and she could speak more fluently. Today she has fully recovered. For us it was a miracle. It gave us our life back.

After this experience I became so interested in holistic kinesiology that I went from my career as a chief economist to embark on one in holistic kinesiology. In my practice now, clients come in and start crying because they cannot believe they are free of pain. Others laugh as they feel like they are finally getting their life together; others write and say how grateful they are to be free of their chronic fatigue or depression or whatever condition they had.

These results come because of the effectiveness of holistic kinesiology. Anyone with the proper training and dedication can achieve the same results. I'm not claiming it's the answer for everyone and every condition. No one type of natural or Western medicine can claim that. In many cases, particularly with chronic illnesses, a combination of different therapies serves the client best. However, holistic kinesiology in my experience is very effective for a wide range of conditions, particularly chronic pain, headaches, migraines, depression, learning difficulties (including attention deficit syndrome), back pain, chronic fatigue, bed wetting, sleep difficulties, asthma, and blood sugar disturbances. It can also help with relationship difficulties, stress, anxiety, fears, phobias, allergic reactions, and setting and achieving goals.

Origins of holistic kinesiology

Kinetics is the study of movement, and 'kinesiology' was originally used as a term to describe the study of movement dynamics of the human body. In the early 1960s a chiropractor named George Goodheart formed the science of applied kinesiology, now practised by many chiropractors around the world. This was a marriage of Eastern energy principles, muscle feedback and Western developments in structural and reflex sciences to monitor the body's response to various stimuli.

Dr. John Thie, an American chiropractor, created Touch For Health, a kinesiology system for laypeople based on applied kinesiology research. This system was soon taught throughout the world to improve health and wellbeing in the community. Many forms of kinesiology have developed from there, so kinesiology became the generic term for this natural therapy. Holistic kinesiology has evolved from the integration of specialised forms of kinesiology with anatomy and physiology, nutrition, communication studies, counselling skills, energetic sciences, business and practice management training. Holistic kinesiology is a modality with great breadth and depth that uses feedback from your own body to gain greater understanding of your problem/s and to guide the practitioner to the best solution for you.