Improving sleep quality with kinesiology

Learn how kinesiology practices can enhance sleep quality, promote better rest and provide insomnia relief

Improving sleep quality is extremely important. Those nights when you’re tossing and turning and can’t switch off, or are waking in the night are horrible. It may not sound like a big deal to some, but feeling inadequately refreshed affects how we function in the world. (Major accidents have happened when someone has quite literally ‘been asleep at the wheel’. And let’s not forget that sleep deprivation is still used as a form of torture). In daily life, feeling tired can make us forgetful and lethargic or tense and snappy. So if you’re not sleeping well, it needs to be addressed. The good news is that kinesiology can bring your body back into balance, so that sound slumber can become possible again.

There are many factors that can affect our ability to sleep, from anxiety and stress, to blood-sugar spikes, hormonal imbalances, inadequate nutrition and insufficient sunlight exposure. Quite often it’s a mixture of these and more, as many of these factors can compound the other. In a kinesiology treatment, we look at insomnia or poor sleep holistically, and use muscle testing to find out what is going on beneath the symptoms.

We consider lifestyle, nutrition, emotions and the piezo-electric element, so that we can provide your body with what it needs and build you up. It may be that your system requires more magnesium and B-vitamins, or calming herbs like Hops, Valerian and Passion Flower, or other nutrients (that you’re not getting from food) to support your health. Within the treatment, we would also consider your gut and hormonal health, and provide relevant nutrition to balance these sophisticated systems, as well as stimulate the relevant neuro-lymphatic points to enhance lymph flow (which feeds the cells and cleans the tissues).

Each treatment is bespoke, so we find exactly what your body wants, through muscle testing and other techniques. Once your body has what it needs, ‘bad habits’ like eating sugary snacks before bedtime, or relying a little too much on caffeine, tend to drop away. (You can still enjoy things you love, like a morning coffee, but you will find yourself not needing to rely on them so much).

Kinesiology encompasses Traditional Chinese Medicine techniques too, so if you are waking in the night, we will ask at what time, as this can lead us to another cause. On the TCM Harari clock, waking between 1am and 3am is connected with the liver. This may indicate a resentment or anger towards someone. If you find yourself waking between 3am and 5am, this is connected with the lung, and could be a consequence of grief or not wanting to let go of something or someone. Clients tend to immediately recognise a situation that has led to this. We are then able to clear stuck emotions energetically by working on specific meridians and by using calming and stress-release techniques. There are also various acupuncture points, which when held, can relax your body and enhance your quality of sleep.

Good sleep hygiene also includes external factors, such as the amount of daylight you are exposed to or blue light (from phones and screens) at night. The pineal gland produces melatonin (the sleep hormone) and takes instruction from light. Not enough natural light during the day (especially before midday), can affect your ability to sleep at night. Conversely, too much (blue) light (from LEDs and screens) at night inhibits the pineal gland from secreting melatonin, as it interprets blue light as daylight. So consider swapping bulbs to those with a warm orange glow in the evening, and using screen filters or blue-light blockers. If you’re still struggling with insomnia or poor sleep, book a kinesiology appointment, or a free discovery call, and we can dig deeper into the causes for you. Kinesiology offers a tailored, multi-pronged approach to bring your body back into balance nutritionally, emotionally and energetically, so that you can sleep soundly, feel rested and recharged, and enjoy your life again .

Disclaimer: This post is not intended to be a substitute for medical advice provided by your doctor.