At Enjoy Better Health, we believe that experience can give rise to a sub-conscious memory that stays with us.  However, we generally hide or ignore this facet of our awareness.  Sometimes, there may be triggers, associated with an event, sound, scent, music, etc., that can give rise to a a reaction in our bodies.  These may manifest themselves in to an allergic reaction, pain, discomfort or an unsuitable emotional response. For most, exposure to the routine virus, bacteria, germs, natural or chemical environmental elements, vaccines or even food, does not have to manifest into an illness.  For others, more susceptible, such activities or actions can cause unpleasant symptoms.

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An individual can potentially be allergic to any substance under the sun, including sunlight itself and the body's own organs and tissues.  These many not always be regarded as common allergies, such as nuts, dairy and seasonal, but as a result of modern day living.  This faulty perception may be due to both cellular mutations or damage which has taken place over several generations and to the difficulties the human body encounters when it has to adapt to a constantly evolving environment.

 

From a Western medical point of view, an allergy is an over-reaction by the immune system. In NAET®, an allergy is considered to be an unusual sensitivity, an adverse physical, physiological, and/or emotional response, of an individual towards one or more substances from their living environment which may be harmless or even beneficial to a majority of other individuals.  The adverse response is an energy imbalance caused by two or more incompatible energies clashing, including bacterial and viral infections and other factors such as: heredity, toxins from various sources, deficiency and malabsorption disorders, emotional factors, traumas and radiation.  This incompatibility is considered a threat to the body’s well-being by the brain and blockages are created in the energy pathways, called meridians.  They disrupt the normal flow of energy through the body’s electrical circuits causing interference in the communication between the brain and body via the nervous system. Blocked energy flow is the first step in a chain of events which can develop into an allergic response, leading to a diminished state of health in one or more organ systems causing various complaints and pathological conditions.
 

Conventional Western medical tests for allergies are several but up until recently, there has been no satisfactory method for treating them.  The most effective treatment option was complete avoidance of the offending allergen.  This can be difficult at best and impossible in some cases. 

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NAET® was developed in 1983 by Dr. Devi Nambudripad. The unique treatment combines oriental medicine principles, blending energy balancing, testing and treatment procedures from acupressure, allopathy, chiropractic techniques, nutrition and kinesiology.

 

Applied kinesiology is the technique used for testing allergies.  It involves measuring muscle strength while in contact with an allergen.  This method of testing can determine whether the allergy in question is imprinted in the body at a physical, physiological or emotional level (or a combination of all three). Allergens are treated one at a time and best results are obtained if they are cleared in a specific sequence, starting with basic essential nutrients during the first few visits.  Each item treated must be completely avoided for 25 hours following, to allow the 'reprogramming' to be imprinted in the brain, after which the incompatibility or mismatch of energies, disappears and no symptoms will manifest, next time the allergen is present. This is because NAET® treats the cause of the allergy not the resulting symptoms and constitutes the core part of the NAET® methodology. The theory behind the technique has been extensively verified for more than two decades, with highly satisfactory, long lasting results. NB: Individuals who are highly sensitive may sometimes require additional combination treatments.