Asking my body what it needs

Today I began a one week mini-cleansing diet, including no caffeine, alcohol, or sugar. I try to periodically take a break from coffee, but I guess it had been a long time this time. I had a headache all day, and I was grumpy! It was hard to pass out the normal round of cookies to the rest of the family this evening, and not have something sweet myself as well! It all makes me want to have a glass of wine, sigh...

Yesterday I had an appointment with my friend who practices a form of alternative medicine called Kalos. We worked through a whole series of tests, using Muscle Response Testing (I think that's what they call it - and I think it's a form of Applied Kinesiology), to determine what my body's nutritional needs were right now. I have never done a full nutritional work-up with my friend before, but my husband and one of my daughters have - and it was amazing how she was able to identify foods that they are sensitive too, and how much their health improved when those foods were eliminated.

In Kalos, they believe that the "electrical field" of the body contains all the information about everything the body has ever experienced, and that it is possible to ask the body what is going on, when it began, and what it needs to heal (in emotional, as well as physical/nutritional areas). I find this so very hard to understand and be comfortable with - and yet I have experienced myself how accurately my friend was able to help me identify some deep hurtful issues from my past, and pinpoint the year that I had had a painful and shaming experience that I had long forgotten about.

Ten or fifteen years ago, I would have thought this was completely crazy, and possibly "of the devil". Electrical energy fields? Asking the body what it needs or when something happened? This stuff is hard to swallow. I believe in a God who heals and transforms, but this stuff is way outside my experience of healing prayer. I should mention that my friend is also a Christian, and I have known her for many years - much of the time we were in the same church. She tells me that the woman who developed the Kalos system is also a Christian.

I don't know what to think of all this. Many of my old boxes of black and white understanding have been blown apart in the last few years. There is more that I don't understand than what I do. One thing I do know - God is bigger than the old box that I tried to keep Him in.