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Kinesiologist - Nicole O'Neill
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WORKING in the area of kinesiology gives Nicolie O''Neill a positive attitude towards life and enables her to detach herself from the negativity and stress of the modern world.
Kinesiology is a complementary therapy that combines muscle monitoring techniques with massage, acupressure, counselling and energy work to relieve stress and pain.
''I have been learning kinesiology for seven years and I am more fascinated and interested now than when I started,'' Ms O''Neill said. ''It is great to love what you do for a living.''
''Kinesiology not only addresses your physical symptoms for optimum health, it can change your life for the better in ways you could never imagine.
''It is a fantastic experience in personal development that can give you a greater outlook on life.
''My life is full, rich and exciting every day now from the work I have done in kinesiology.''
Ms O''Neill, who has been running a full-time kinesiology practice for four years, said regular kinesiology ''balances'' offered prevention rather than cure.
''Benefits include emotional well-being, pain relief for all parts of the body, learning enhancement, the removal of blocks that are keeping you stuck in old patterns and fears, and personal and spiritual growth.''
In one-hour sessions with clients she helps them through a variety of issues including stress release, postural balancing and enhanced physical performance, jaw corrections and pain relief, migraines and headaches, energy balancing, relationship guidance and balancing, dyslexia and learning disabilities, and allergies and food sensitivities.
Ms O''Neill has been teaching kinesiology for five years to the community and professionals in small workshops, and was also involved in the introduction in Perth of the kinesiology diploma.
Her therapy career is a liberating change from her previous office job.
''I was doing an accounting degree as a mature-age student and working as an accountant at Curtin University until I started my kinesiology practice.
''I have been interested in complimentary medicine since I was 21 and finally found something I really wanted to learn. I was prepared to trade the security of an office job to do what I love.''
Ms O''Neill has always felt there was another way to optimum health and vitality than what we have in our traditional health system.
''I have had such amazing results in the balances I had. The work empowered me in a way I had never experienced before and I wanted to help other people do the same.
''In kinesiology you have to want to make a difference for people, and need to be interested in how the body/mind/soul is integrated and fits together.
''Kinesiology is about holistic health working with all of these areas.
''It is important to want to go on your own personal growth journey in all areas of your life. You get growth in the kinesiology training as you learn to do the balances.''
Ms O''Neill has done more than a thousand hours of kinesiology training in 11 different modalities of kinesiology. She has also studied anatomy and physiology, as well as done training in structural, emotional, nutritional, electromagnetic, energetic, metaphysical, physiological, anatomical and psycho-spiritual areas.
''I love my job because I am working with people who have a positive attitude towards life and want to make a difference for themselves and usually the people around them.
''The people I see and have in my groups and kinesiology classes are usually very positive people. I do not have to get involved in the negativity and stress of our modern world.''
Ms O''Neill believes the community is becoming more aware of kinesiology and its benefits.
''The results are so great that people always refer their friends and family.
''Where once people would ask me what kinesiology is, now they seem to know what it is when I tell them my profession.''
Kinesiology was developed by Californian chiropractor Dr George Goodheart in the 1960s.
Ms O''Neill said much of kinesiology was based on the ancient Chinese healing model that was at least 2,500 years old, working with acupuncture points, meridians and using the psychology of the five elements for balancing.
''Chinese medicine works with the concept that the universe and everything in it is fundamentally made up of opposites (yin and yang) and for good health to exist there must be a balance between these forces.
''When one has too little or too much of something in life, there is a shift from the harmonious balance of the yin and yang and poor health will arise (in the mind and/or body).
''Kineisology combines Western techniques originating with the chiropractor muscle testing and Eastern wisdom to promote physical, emotional, biochemical and spiritual health working with the stress in the body to release untapped potential for each individual.
''It focuses on balancing dis-ease in our bodies and lives and bringing us back to homeostasis, a condition of equilibrium and optimum level of function,'' Ms O''Neill said.
''At times we need some nutritional support to help with emotional stress. The use of muscle testing, a process refined to by-pass left brain control and access right brain awareness, gives bio-feedback from the body to find the individual''s real problem.
''It is working with this holistic approach to health that gives long-term lasting benefits.''
Ms O''Neill is also the president of the Australian Kinesiology Association (WA) and vice principal of the Kinesiology College of Energetic Sciences.
The college was founded in Melbourne in 1995 and opened in Perth in July last year.
It is the first of its kind to offer a government accredited two-year diploma in Health Sciences (Holistic Kinesiology), combining human biology, nutrition, communication and business skills with nationally recognised kinesiology training.
Graduates of the advanced diploma can enrol in the Bachelor of Complimentary Medicine.
''Working with the people in Melbourne at the Kinesiology College of Energetic Sciences to bring the kinesiology diploma to Perth has been a highlight of my career.
''The college addresses holistic kinesiology training, and integrated are specialised subjects such as clinical practice, research, nutrition, communication, energetic sciences and anatomy and physiology.''
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Content courtesy of Louise Allan-Johnson. |
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