The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #76327   Message #1353412
Posted By: GUEST,SueB
10-Dec-04 - 04:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mind-Body health connection
Subject: RE: BS: Mind-Body health connection
I find stuff like the Gresham and Nichols very confusing. On the one hand, compelling, and appearing to make a great deal of sense. On the other hand, I balk at statements like "Every site on or in the human physical structure is predisposed to resonate with specific other sites," which is the assumption on which the whole structure appears to rest. I'm not sure what it actually means, scientifically speaking. I'm prepared to accept it as a metaphor, but as a "scientific or medical" principle? What proof exists for this statement? Can it be proven? Is it fact or speculation? Even if it's just a theory doesn't necessarily invalidate it, but some theories are good theories, some not so good. Since I have no way to evaluate the statement, I can't really get beyond it.

"Resonance" seems to be the latest thing. I have a neighbor who is an HR practitioner - Holographic Resonance. She takes her clients through various checklists and questionnaires, using mucle testing to obtain the answers, and prescribes various "treatments" based on the results. A treatment might be, for instance, repeatedly listening to a particular tuning fork (she has a whole set) or staring at a particular color. Whatever principle it might be based upon, the practice of it seems to me to resemble so much hocus-pocus, and I have a hard time getting beyond that.