Developmental Kinesiology
Which picture do we have of a baby? A baby seems to us helpless and dependent. It can't move and it can't look for his own food. This is not right. A baby has already competence.
The baby is born with several abilities that help him to survive. When the baby is near the breast of the mother, it is able to find the breast and to suck. It doesn't take long and it can call the attention of the person in his surrounding to its needs. A healthy baby develops by itself as long as it lives in a surrounding that takes care for it and is full of love. It finds every day new movements, sounds and plays, nobody has to show the baby what to do.
When we are adults, we carry our childhood in us. Everything that we felt with
our senses, when we were children, everything that we
experienced, is full of life in ourselves and is the basis of our present life.
As children we had a lot of competence. This competence very often was not recognized and sometimes it was not wanted. There are probably a lot of reasons, why a child can't live his full potential in his early development, for example:
sickness that holds a child in bed, small appartments, so that there is not enough room to move, not enough places to play in nature, problems with food, insecurity in persons which live together with the child...
The different conditions in life set often borders to the development of human beings. Fortunately human beings have a lot of abilities to adapt to unfavourable conditions. So the child can survive. When we are adults we keep these mechanisms of adaption, even though they are no longer useful and sometimes destructive.
Developmental kinesiology gives the possibility to gain back our inborn experiences, competence and life energy. We work with our childhood experiences, by balancing the senses and the natural movement development.
Developmental Kinesiology is associated to the Educational Kinesiology Foundation, Ventura, California.
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