Healing energy can rebalance any energetic imbalances that its vibration accesses.

If the muscle is hypertonic (over tight), the healing energy can relax the muscle. If the muscle does not have enough tone, (hypotonic) the healing energy can balance the muscle to optimal tonicity. The muscles and ligaments around the TMJ need to be in perfect balance.

Universal energy flows through the practitioner’s hands and the vibrations of this perfectly balanced and complete energy affect every cell, atom and subatomic particle that it flows into. The body can then use this energy to rebalance itself. It has been scientifically proven that energy from healers’ hands alters in its frequency of vibration depending on the body’s needs.

When energetically balancing in RESET the energy is most concentrated through the fingertips. When energising with the whole hand, the palms need to cover the centre of the area and the fingers need to be together.

How RESET works

The TMJ influences the body as a whole, including the body’s skeletal, muscular, nervous, meridian systems and hydration.

1. By relaxing the jaw muscles the TMJ is correctly reset. The TMJ, due to its central role in cranial and spinal dynamics, affects the quality of the brain/muscular feedback system. The slightest tension in the jaw muscles can alter the normal ‘balanced’ position of the TMJ, causing confused electrical messages to be relayed throughout the body.

2. The Trigeminal nerve is the largest of the cranial nerves, from its sensory nuclei in the cerebral hemisphere, to C2, then the rest of the body. It has a myriad of transportation routes, interconnections and sensory distribution to and from most areas of the cranium including the TMJ. It has proprioceptive input from, and motor innervations to, the Temporalis, Masseter and Pterygoid muscles. It is intimately connected to the Lateral Pterygoid and the complete cranio sacral system, so any imbalance in the TMJ will have widespread repercussions. The Trigeminal nuclei have numerous interconnections with other central nervous tract systems, one of which is the Reticular Alarm System (RAS). This primary defense and survival system initiates tension of the muscles of mastication, the spinal and cranial Dura, and the body fascia, to hold the face and head together, and to stabilize and protect the brain, spinal cord, and the sacro iliac and pelvic structures. In an accident the jaw muscles will therefore tighten to protect the brain and spine, a response Dr. Carl Ferrari, calls “Defensive Jaw.” This emotional stress could still be held in the muscles years later, resulting in a chronically “tense” jaw. RESET not only releases the muscle tension, but often results in a release of long-held subconscious emotions.

3. The body’s energy flow has been mapped out in the Meridians of Chinese Acupuncture. The Stomach, Small Intestine, Triple Warmer, Gall Bladder and Large Intestine Meridians run over the muscles around the TMJ. Touch For Health teaches 42 major muscle tests, correlated to the 14 meridians. Ninety percent of these muscles can be corrected with RESET.

4. Empirical kinesiology testing has shown that energizing the jaw muscles balances the Psoas and Sartorius muscles which relate to the Kidneys and Adrenals, allowing the body to utilize water more efficiently. Hydration influences nerve impulse conduction, biochemical reactions, and the whole body, as water is the medium in which our bodies operate.

5. The dynamic interactions between the TMJ, Sphenoid bone, and Atlas (C1), affect the whole body via a variety of mechanisms (e.g. Lovett Brother, sacro-occipital, vestibular-ocular reflexes and respiratory and pelvic diaphragms). Any hyper tonicity (tightness) of the jaw muscles, especially the Lateral Pterygoid and Temporalis, may cause “torqueing” or twisting of the Sphenoid bone. The Sphenoid is the key to cranial bone dynamics, as it is the only bone in the cranium that articulates with every other cranial bone except two of the facial bones. The Sphenoid is also the “hanger” from which the skeletal system is aligned. Resetting the TMJ muscles has a far-reaching impact on conditions ranging from headaches to neck and lower back pain. Hiatal Hernia, digestive valve function (ICV, etc.) and sequencing the digestive tract function, are all affected by the integrity and balance of the TMJ.
John Upledger’s statement in his book Cranio sacral Therapy II, is of great importance in relation to the TMJ System. “We have found that the temporo mandibular joint possesses remarkable ability to adapt and reconstruct, given the chance.”