Kinesiology and Past Traumas

Kinesiology and Trauma
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Kinesiology and Trauma
Physical education has been an essential component of the modern education system for quite a long time. It was until the late 20th century that the term kinesiology, to represent the study of movement (Schultz, 2018), became prevalent among scholars. The term consolidates the various domain areas of physical education and also recognizes the study as a discipline and a profession (Schultz, 2018). Other than being a profession and a discipline, kinesiology has some heath significances as well as the potential to relieve one from the detriments of past traumas. Being able to cope with the distress is a significant step towards healthy living and physical healing.
Stress is one major causative factors of trauma (Mansfield & Neumann, 2018). Battling life-threatening illness, experiencing repeated unpleasant events, or even residing in crime-laden neighborhoods give rise to stressful thoughts that have the potential to escalate to trauma. When a person has a fragile emotional and psychological mindset, such a setting may lead one to feel insecure and disconnected from the physical world, often amounting to psychological trauma that is hard to revert the damages. Kinesiology greatly and rapidly ameliorates the mental wellbeing of an individual by alienating them from stressful and depressing emotions (Mansfield & Neumann, 2018). Also, as a result of engaging a kinesiologist, one is compelled to unmask mental clarity and potential, significantly decreasing the time one is preoccupied with stressful emotions and eventually avoiding trauma. Besides, kinesiology is often regarded as a holistic treatment capable of putting the emotional, physical, and nutritional aspects of the body in perfect sync, and thus generating healing power.
Kinesiologists employ their professionalism to ensure the patient attains maximum relaxation, necessary for stre...