Health Kinesiology; Can it Cure My Fear of Flying?

Aspiring blogger and globetrotter. That’s my strap line. If you have ever taken a peek at my Instagram, Twitter feed, Pinterest or even my blog, you will have read this comment. It’s true, I would love to blog for my supper and travel the world. Ironically though, and I’m not sure if I have ever shared this with you, I am petrified of flying.

Now when people say they are scared of flying, most people get a little jittery during take-off or landing, sometimes both. When I say I’m scared of flying I’m talking the real deal. Shouting out at the top of my lungs that the pilot “doesn’t know what he’s doing” during landing, whilst trying to steady the plane with my own two hands, planted firmly against the overhead bag hold. Yep, it’s quite a scene. I spend the duration of the flight wild eyed, asking whoever in my circle has bravely agreed to make the journey with me, “if everything is going to be alright” and “what do they think that noise was”. Another of my favourites is to ask them to ask the airhostess to ask the pilot “if everything is alright”.

Try to imagine this type of passenger, for an 11-hour flight. My poor husband needed a holiday to recover after a trip to California with yours truly.

So we’ve established the level of the fear. It’s pretty intense. I arrive at my destination exhausted, I spend several days recouping only to begin the slow melt-down as the end of the holiday approaches thus heralding another journey in the metal cone of doom. Madness you probably think. Well yes, I would agree. The problem is just that. Phobias are nonsensical. Frustrating? Yes. Stifling? Yes. Logical? Not so much.

So there in lays the irony. “Aspiring globetrotter” too afraid to fly. Quite a dichotomy you’ll agree.

The thing is, I do love travel, the experience of different places, the emersion in different cultures, the exploration, and the unknown. I just don’t like the process of getting there.

As a Sagittarius I am quite literally born to travel so the dissonance this creates in me is quite uncomfortable. So in order to overcome this I am embarking on a journey to try and unravel this phobia, understand it and hopefully thwart it.

A colleague recommended kinesiology to me when we were discussing my fear of flying. She suggested that Kinesiology might help me to understand where the fear stems from and what is “blocking” me overcoming it. Having tried a few things such as vallium, alcohol, hypnotherapy, self help books, relaxation techniques etc, I thought, well, why not.

I began by researching kinesiology; will it actually be something that could help with this very real and deep rooted fear? From what I have read I have to own that I don’t really fully understand what it is or whether it will actually work. But I refuse to be pessimistic.

I’ll let the experts tell you:

Kinesiology

Our bodies have an innate ability to sustain health and balance. Sometimes we just need a little help to activate it. Health Kinesiologists provide this help for your body to heal itself. We balance your whole energy system and, in doing so, facilitate a self-healing process.

Health Kinesiologists use gentle muscle testing combined with verbal questioning to communicate directly with your body’s unique energy system. This highly skilled technique involves applying light pressure to a muscle (commonly your arm) and monitoring how it responds. If the muscles holds steady, the system is responding with a ‘yes’. If the muscle is spongy, the answer to the kinesiologist’s question is ‘no’. The Health Kinesiologist offers your system a wide range of powerful procedures designed to rebalance and trigger self-healing, and your body is able to select those procedures that will be the most helpful to you by saying ‘yes’ with a steady muscle response.

Each procedure your body selects via muscle testing highlights one part of the stress that has upset your system. As acupressure points are held, your body regains balance around the highlighted stress and moves back to a healthier state.

Another way to understand how Health Kinesiology triggers repair is to look at its basis in the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Both Health Kinesiology and TCM are based on the understanding that our wellbeing is dependent on the balanced flow of energy around our systems. Energy instructs the physical body about how to structure itself and function.

Many factors can upset this flow of information, or energy, around our systems and put it out of balance. Environmental toxins, allergens, microorganisms, electromagnetic fields and other frequencies, and psychological stresses like worries, fears or limiting assumptions we may have about ourselves—all of these may block the flow of information around our bodies, causing the affected parts to forget how to grow and work correctly.

Our bodies are doing their best to communicate with us—that twinge of pain, the pang of indigestion, the headache, the back-ache, the depression, the general feeling of being out of sorts—all of these are signals from the body that we need to make positive changes in our lives.

Gentle muscle testing opens a channel of communication that allows the body to select corrections from Health Kinesiology’s uniquely designed system of protocols that will rebalance it so that the flow of information about correct structure and function is restored. The body then responds to the renewed flow of enlivening information and repairs itself. 

Health Kinesiology’s balancing methods include the use of magnets, flower essences, aromatherapy oils, self-touch, body positions, thoughts and memories that mirror the traumas at the heart of the client’s mental, emotional and physical stresses.

Taken from https://hk-uk.co.uk/what-is-health-kinesiology/

So here I am, about to embark on something I know very little about but something that I am being completely open to.

I have contacted a local practitioner in the area having done some research on the Health Kinesiology UK site. This site regulates Health Kinesiology practitioners and therefore provides a list of those that are registered with them; providing you with confidence in their training and skill set.

I am due my first session today and I can’t tell you how excited I am. The thought of being able to actually travel without the sickening fear and exhaustion I create for myself (and my companion) is something I can only dream of at this present time. I am completely open to the idea of kinesiology and am trying to be positive about the changes it may facilitate in my mind-set.

What can I expect

My therapist Sarah has advised me to expect my fist session to last around 1 to 1.5 hours. She suspects that 2 to 3 sessions may be enough depending on how deep rooted the phobia is. Oh Sarah, you’re in for a treat!

So watch this space, I will keep you updated on my progress in the coming weeks. Hopefully this aspiring globetrotter will be jetting off in no time at all. Fingers crossed!