PSYCH-K™ (Psychology – Kinesiology)

By ~ Gloria Zimet

Are you frustrated because you read the books, attended the workshops or spent time in counseling, but still find yourself lapsing into old behaviors despite all the time and effort you have devoted to doing it differently?      

Certainly the insight you gained may have shed light on the origins of your problem.  You may finally understand why you behave and feel the way you do.  You may have even learned useful strategies for changing some behaviors or attitudes that are counterproductive to your well-being.  Yet if you are still in the same old rut, the knowledge you gained has not really led to meaningful improvement in your day to day life.

According to Psych-K, that is because insight, willpower and motivation work with the conscious mind, so they are unable to access and change the underlying beliefs that precipitate the repetitive behavior.   Those beliefs are stored in our subconscious minds, where hidden from our awareness, they are the force that drives our behaviors.  As newborns and young children, our impressionable minds absorbed countless beliefs instilled by our parents, teachers and clergy, as well as by our own interpretations of our surroundings.  While most of these beliefs are in complete harmony with who we want to be today, some of them reflect limiting, core beliefs about our abilities, self-worth, talents, relationships, feelings, money and health.

Psych-K offers an exquisitely simple and effective method of communicating directly with your subconscious mind in order to uncover preprogrammed beliefs from your past that may be preventing you from obtaining the success, happiness and optimal mental and physical health you seek.  How is this accomplished? Using muscle testing, followed by sitting in a cross body position while repeating the belief statement.  In a process that typically takes less than half an hour, communication between the right and left hemispheres of the brain are brought back into their natural state of balance, as the negative version of the belief is transformed into the positive. 

Unlike approaches where you discuss or analyze how and why the belief exists, in Psych-K, recognizing its negative impact and having the desire to rewrite it is all that is necessary.  The person receiving a Psych-K “balance” is fully conscious and in complete control during the process, and frequently describes feeling a sense of peace and relaxation wash over his/her mind and/or body during and after the balancing. 

Many of my clients begin to notice changes in their behaviors and habits (or health) shortly after the session, ranging anywhere from that day to a few weeks later.  Part of the variation depends on when they encounter a situation that had previously triggered the undesirable behavior. If it happens soon after the session, the opportunity to notice a change will happen earlier.  What do they commonly notice? A keen awareness of not becoming engaged by the behaviors, comments or actions that would have triggered them in the past.   As we’ve heard many times, the difficult people or circumstances in our lives don’t change.  But when our responses to them shift, we no longer find ourselves being pulled helplessly into those ongoing dramas. 

To illustrate this best, take the case of a woman who requests a Psych-K balance in order to become more patient toward her family members, since she is frequently set off by what she describes as truly little things.  She knows deep down that she can do better than this, she even uses techniques like affirmations or counting to ten before saying anything aloud, yet despite her understanding and awareness, she is still unable to control her outbursts.  She is frustrated and embarrassed that she cannot break out of this cycle.

She balanced for the belief “I am patient with the amount of time it takes for myself and for others to change.”  Nothing significant happened during the balance.  But on her way home that evening, in the middle of an unusually heavy traffic jam, she became aware of how calm she felt, the complete opposite of her usual road rage.

Later that week, rather than berating her daughter for leaving her notebook at school, her first response was to offer to drive her there to pick it up.  Not very monumental for most people, but for her this was a significant change in the way she used to react to life’s little inconveniences. When her husband was having a disagreement with their son, she let him handle the situation.  Her newfound patience allowed her to step back from, not into their discussion.  During a recent family vacation, she did not become worked up over the little things, again a sharp contrast to previous trips where spending 24 hours a day together meant frequent clashes due to her impatience.  Several months later, she continues to notice more examples of her patience, and says it feels effortless and almost normal!!

Besides using Psych-K to address behavioral and relationship issues, I have also been experimenting with it for health concerns – to determine whether or not an individual’s chronic physical ailment has a root cause in a limiting subconscious belief.  The results have been astounding.  Balancing the belief in the subconscious mind sets the stage for freeing the accompanying physical tension that had been inextricably bound up in the person’s body.  This should not come as such a surprise in light of the mind/body/spirit interconnection, yet knowing it theoretically and witnessing it firsthand is all the more fascinating. 

According to the principles of reflexology, the feet mirror the health of the body.  If Psych-K is actually able to free physical tension in the body that was associated with a subconscious belief, that change should be reflected in the reflex zones of the feet.  So I began to evaluate them before and after a Psych-K balance.  Without exception, areas of the foot that had been steadfastly rigid and unyielding were not only more pliable, but paved the way for other areas to soften and open more easily, leading to even greater physical benefit in the body.  Several clients with debilitating hip and/or low back pain have reported dramatic improvement in their level of discomfort and significantly less incidence of pain. 

So, if  you are filled with lots of insight about how and why you behave and feel the way you do, but still find yourself repeating the old behaviors and habits despite your earnest efforts to change, maybe it’s time for a new approach.    If you identify with what I wrote or with any of the following topics, a Psych-K session may be very valuable: 

Certain situations automatically trigger unwanted behavior

Repeated conflicts with family, friends or co-workers

Doubts about your worth or self-esteem

Recurrent health problems

Ongoing financial difficulties

Unresolved grief or anxiety

I have appointments on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 10:00 – 3:00, and on Monday evenings, from 5:45 – 9:00 pm.

Namaste,

Gloria Zimet