Kinesiology to Support Cancer Treatment
It’s important to note that kinesiology does not treat cancer – or cure it. Your oncology team will guide you through your options and help you choose the most appropriate medical treatment.
However, as a complementary therapy kinesiology can ‘turn down your internal thermostat’, which may improve your quality of life and overall feeling of wellness through removing additional stress burdens on you.
Kinesiology may support you through:
- Balancing your emotional state.
A cancer diagnosis is often an emotionally intense experience. It can trigger a range of feelings, depending on past experiences and available coping strategies.
This emotional intensity can dysregulate our nervous system which disrupts our biological processes, redirecting energy to navigate the emotional challenges faced.
These disruptions can be helpful in the short term – moving to a ‘fight or flight’ state can mobilise the energy needed to get to appointments, or even just face the day.
But if nervous system disruption continues for too long or is too intense, it can lead to chronic dysregulation: either stuck in fight or flight mode where the body’s ability to rest and heal is compromised, or in a ‘freeze’ state where we dissociate from our bodies’ missing important internal cues guiding us on how best to care for ourselves. - Calming your nervous system to help your body return to a ‘rest and digest state’.
Kinesiology may help create space to take a step back from the whirlwind of appointments and interventions, which allows you to return to a calmer state. The parasympathetic (rest and digest) state is where deep healing can occur. - Unscrambling your thoughts to unfold a sense of clarity. Overwhelm is an exhausting and unpleasant state to be in. Kinesiology may help clear your thought processes so you can focus on what is most important to you at this time.
- Addressing any unhelpful patterns that can form barriers to healing
If we have assumed a caregiver role throughout our life, it can be difficult or uncomfortable for us to accept help. Reducing or removing this internal stress frees up energy that would otherwise be tied up in those emotions. - Balancing your hormones and metabolic processes to help your body adjust to internal and external changes
Through returning your body to a rest and digest state regularly, your body may be able to redirect more energy towards cell regeneration, digestion, and hormonal balance – essential biological processes your body needs for wellness.