Body/Mind Information and Concepts
When either physical and/or emotional  trauma occurs that is so overwhelming that the mind is unable to integrate the experience, a disconnect or disassociation occurs.  A part of the consciousness stands apart form the rest.  When this happens we become vulnerable to physical and emotional ailments or dis-ease.  These ailments are a break in the psyche somewhere.  We develop certain thought patterns that may not serve us. These thoughts produce energy fields of their own.  When there is a great deal of stress, or struggle behind a particular thought, it is possible that disruptive and chaotic patterns may be produced.  When there is a significant level of such chaos, there may be an energy loss.  Psycho kinesiology is a tool that demonstrates this energy loss.  When your attention goes to these thought patterns, there may be a sudden loss of strength. This will show up as a weak muscle test. Although there may be no way to completely eliminate the stressful life events that trigger these reactions, it is possible to change the reaction and the effect they have on a person. Old patterns are released and new insight is achieved and personal power and strength is reclaimed.

Dr. Candace Pert states that "buried painful emotions from the past make up what some psychologists and healers call a person's "core emotional trauma."  The point of therapy - including bodywork, some kinds of chiroparctic, and energy medicine - is to gently bring that wound into gradual awareness, so that it can be re experienced and understood. Only then is choice possible, a faculty of your frontal cortex, allowing you to reintegrate any disowned parts of yourself; let go of old traumatic patterns; and become healed, or whole."

Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d, 2006, p48