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Me (on the right), Akemi San (left) and Matthew Thie (centre) in Atami, August 2016.
I went to the TFH Kinesiology course in Tokyo and Atami, Japan, in August this year, which was held by the Japan Kinesiology Organisation and taught by none other than Matthew Thie, of Touch For Health, and author of the book, Touch for Health. Over the course of 8 days, I saw people recover from months if not years of pain, both physical and emotional, in a matter of minutes. These were not fakers, they really experienced healing, right there and then in the room.
It’s true that Matthew Thie is charismatic, and he was preaching to the converted. Out of about 40 people in the room, 5 (including myself) were beginners, and the rest were TFH teachers and professionals; there were shiatsu practitioners and chiropractors, all of whom use and teach TFH in their daily lives, so you bet they believe in it. But this is what I mean about the placebo effect of healing: “whatever works”. Would you rather have painful, expensive surgery over months, with no guaranteed result at the end, or would you rather have half an hour of Kinesiology in the expert hands of lovely Matthew Thie?
History & development
George Gooheart was the first chiropractor to accompany the US Olympic team, in 1976. He noticed that when you balanced muscles, it corrected your posture. Chiropractors say: “If you spine is in line, you’ll feel fine”. He palpated the spine and found that if you massage the spine you find tender points. The tender muscles are not the weak ones, though. In fact, the tender muscles are the strong ones. He found that after the muscles had been massaged, they became stronger, and most of the time the posture of th
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Like what you hear? See all my podcast episodes HERE, and don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE on the iPlayer site and leave me lots of STARS!
Me (on the right), Akemi San (left) and Matthew Thie (centre) in Atami, August 2016.
I went to the TFH Kinesiology course in Tokyo and Atami, Japan, in August this year, which was held by the Japan Kinesiology Organisation and taught by none other than Matthew Thie, of Touch For Health, and author of the book, Touch for Health. Over the course of 8 days, I saw people recover from months if not years of pain, both physical and emotional, in a matter of minutes. These were not fakers, they really experienced healing, right there and then in the room.
It’s true that Matthew Thie is charismatic, and he was preaching to the converted. Out of about 40 people in the room, 5 (including myself) were beginners, and the rest were TFH teachers and professionals; there were shiatsu practitioners and chiropractors, all of whom use and teach TFH in their daily lives, so you bet they believe in it. But this is what I mean about the placebo effect of healing: “whatever works”. Would you rather have painful, expensive surgery over months, with no guaranteed result at the end, or would you rather have half an hour of Kinesiology in the expert hands of lovely Matthew Thie?
History & development
George Gooheart was the first chiropractor to accompany the US Olympic team, in 1976. He noticed that when you balanced muscles, it corrected your posture. Chiropractors say: “If you spine is in line, you’ll feel fine”. He palpated the spine and found that if you massage the spine you find tender points. The tender muscles are not the weak ones, though. In fact, the tender muscles are the strong ones. He found that after the muscles had been massaged, they became stronger, and most of the time the posture of th