I will warn you now…  If you have no knowledge of muscle testing (also known as Manual Muscle Testing, and Autonomic Response Testing) or experienced kinesiology, you will probably think it to death.  You’ll try to make it so complicated or mysterious.  I know I did.  Truth be told, I’ve studied it for several years now and I still can’t get my mind around the unlimited power yet simplicity of it!  In the beginning,  you’ll second-guess yourself in your use of muscle testing (especially verbal).  With a little practice and experience you can begin to uncover the reasons for and remove blockages producing symptoms that have left the best of Doctors scratching their heads and shrugging their shoulders.

Inside and around your body is a network of energy and energy field.  Every process, system or item contained in your body relies on this network at all times.  To use an example you are probably somewhat familiar with…  When a virus comes in contact with or invades your body, your energy network and nerves will immediately send a query request to your nervous system.  Your nervous system will then access data stored in its database to determine things such as “what it is”, “Have I come in contact with this strain before”, “How did I fight it last time”, “was that fight successful” etc.  Then using that same network it will rally your immune troops to begin an attack.  Depending on the location of that point of contact or invasion, your immune system starts signaling or communicating across that same network cough, sneeze, close the throat, water the eyes, produce diarrhea, vomit etc.

The circuits (translated as meridians) of this energy network were accurately defined, but more importantly, mapped by traditional Chinese medicine more than 5,000 years ago.  They still use it for acupuncture today.  When some data (about a food you are eating, sight you are seeing, hormone being received, texture you are feeling etc.) comes across this electrical system and is identified incorrectly, incompatible, or unnecessarily stressful by your body it will disrupt (block completely or greatly diminish) the electrical current throughout the circuit.  Your brain and cells then stores this data for future reference.  That substance will always block or disrupt the energy circuit until the cells and brain are retrained to recognize it correctly.

You can test for this disruption by applying gentle but firm sustained pressure on a muscle while holding an apple (for example).  If the energy current through the network remains intact, the joint will lock into place and the muscle will remain strong against the gentle but firm sustained pressure.  When this happens, it means the body has properly identified (this particular) apple as a food and your body is handling it appropriately.  On the other hand, if it is seen as incompatible or mishandled, it will disrupt the current, causing it to short-circuit and block the energy flow to the muscle.  This will cause the joint to unhinge or unlock and the muscle to weaken or give way upon the same amount of gentle sustained pressure. 

If you happen to be a science nerd like me, you want to see the scientific evidence.  There are some good scientific studies validating kinesiology and muscle testing.  One study shows novice muscle testers are consistently accurate as compared to ones with vast experience.  One of the best studies to date shows that foods tested weak kinesiologically were confirmed clinically with blood antibody serum tests.  The particular summary I have of this study doesn't have the conclusion that all of the foods that the serum antibody tested reactive to tested weak kinesiologically.  However, a few other foods tested kinesiologically weak.  The researcher concluded this might indicate the possibility that muscle testing could be even more sensitive than serum antibody testing.  Another study indicates that brain function producing a weak and strong are fundamentally different.  Still another study, concludes the muscles producing weak and strong are fundamentally different and isn't attributable to typical muscle fatigue.  Lastly another study shows the consistency and accuracy of verbal muscle testing with a yes or a true statement producing a strong muscle and a no or a false statement producing a weak muscle response. 

Currently I only have summaries of these studies but plan on ordering the full articles to publish on my site.  In addition, I’ll keep scouring the medical journals to find newly published ones to add.  If you wish to see the summaries of the studies cited in the above paragraph, click here.  There are, admittedly, some poorly constructed tests out there.  One of those being a test cited by Quack Watch, which they’ve incorrectly concluded… “I've seen well-trained and well-regarded muscle testers who were unable to discern strychnine from water when put to a double blind test."

In response to this bashing of muscle testing on Quack Watch…  They have assumed that it doesn’t work if someone using muscle testing can’t determine strychnine from water.  Theoretically in perfect health and harmony you should test strong for both items.  That doesn’t mean you will.  Therefore you really shouldn’t be able to “tell” if an item is good or bad with a strong for water and weak for strychnine.  If there was a disruption for strychnine that blockage would prevent it from being fast tracked through the detox organs.  The body might even erroneously store it or try and use it in some way.  I am surprised that these “well-trained and well-regarded muscle testers” even agreed to participate in such a poorly designed double blind study!  My guess is they were unaware of the researchers misconceptions about muscle testing.

What you are “asking” the body by muscle testing greatly depends on the substance or stimulus tested.  It is not if this is good or bad, rather, does this person's body recognize, process, rid, react, believe and/or behave etc. to this item appropriately?  In other words, are you handling toxins as toxins or essential minerals like essential minerals?  Has your immune system properly identified pathogens or are they allowing or aiding them to proliferate?  Are your hormones able to communicate with glands, organs and cells effectively and efficiently?  Do certain sights, sounds, smells, textures register appropriately?  Does your body literally have emotional “hang-ups”?  I'm sure you get the jist.

Different Types of Muscle Testing

Let me clarify some of the language I might use before I go on.  If I say disruption, imbalance, blockage, stress, weakness, allergy, misidentification, adaptation, incongruence, false, no, negative, psychological reversal or incompatibility, I am referring to any substance (food, hormone, chemicals, enzymes, pathogens etc.), stimulus (sights, sounds, textures, movement, smells etc), experiences or situations (emotions, thoughts, memories, places etc) that tests with a “weak” or “unlocked” joint / muscle while performing a muscle test while in contact with the “source” or “energy” (substance, stimulus, or situation) being tested.

Verbal Muscle Testing

Verbal muscle testing is the most powerful tool for health and harmony that I have found.  As a person plagued for years with numerous chronic illnesses, working and studying nutrition and natural health, and mother of a fully recovered autistic child, needless to say, my search has been extensive indeed.  Since learning these methods that I hope to teach you, there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t use them.  It has had, without a doubt, the greatest impact on my life and that of my daughters.  I will forever be grateful to the powers that be.  For the details on our personal success stories see the Personal Journey page.

Any yes or no question can be tested for the purposes of measuring disruption or determining the best course of treatment for an individual.  "Yes" will indicate a strong muscle response and "No" will register a weak muscle response.  The only issues that, in my experience, can’t be determined are matters of time and space.  This is because as Quantum Physics proves these things don’t exist in the linear fashion that we know them.  Early on, I would try to use verbal testing to look for things in my home.  “Where is the power bill – Is it in the office?”  I would get a yes then a no then what I call the “hesitant no”.  (A "hesitant no" roughly translates maybe, could be if put another way, or ask a better question.)   All of these answers are technically correct.  Yes the energy exists here and now, no its not here because it hasn’t been “intended”, “realized” or “observed”, and the maybe because it has as much existence probability here and now as not.  I did warn you that I am a science geek.

Forming good yes/no questions sounds so easy, I know.  However, it is the most difficult part of verbal questioning - Forming and asking pertinent questions and having a good source of knowledge to draw your questions from.  Your sessions will only be as good as your questions.  You can not ask questions you don’t know to ask.  This is why it is so very helpful to network with others using these methods.  Others will be drawing from a different knowledge base.  Therefore, they may teach you some better questions or methods.  You will need to practice your skills to become proficient.  Things like testing with a clear mind, not answering your own questions, not skipping ahead of yourself, asking very unambiguous and very specific questions and building your confidence which only comes with experience.  However, sometimes experienced testers have a tendency to get lazy or less mindful of the questions.  Sometimes novices are more aware of their techniques so may produce great sessions.

The individuality of verbal testing is why I am convinced that once you learn some good systematic verbal methods, you will be your own best healer and that of your family especially children.  The fact is, you know and care for yourself and your children more than any doctor would or could.  Plus how many times have you thought...  "that (symptom) was kind-of weird" - "I need to remember to tell the doctor about that when I see him/her next.  Then you forget.  Muscle testing is something you can do right on the spot. Not have to remember down the road or wait sometimes weeks (or even months) to get results back from traditional testing methods.  You will test in your own language not medical jargon you may or may not understand.

Localized Muscle Testing

Localized testing generally refers to one of two things.  The first is placing the energy signature of a substance or the substance itself into your your energy field while testing.  This is the most common type of testing amongst energy medicine practitioners (NAET, BioSet, BRT etc).  The use of energy vials is standard practice.  However, the combination vials used by some methodologies may not be combined in the most relevant and natural ways.  For example combining every possible energy or form of  vitamin C or calcium would not be as natural as mixing these nutrients with digestive enzymes, saliva, bone, cells, blood, joints, other minerals etc. Furthermore, the energy contained in the vial for "apple" may not be an energetic match to the Fuji or Golden Delicious you buy in your grocery store.  In addition, if you shop in different stores they won't necessarily be an exact energetic match either because they might come from different farmers who use different processing chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, or have regional soil and rain variations. 

Localized testing would also include experience or situational testing.  For example you can test for disruption to certain lighting, colors, sounds or emotions while you are in that situation or having that experience.  You can test memories.  Memories that you get "hung-up on" are typically those that are stored as stressful.  Every time you recall a memory that produced an energetic disruption, you relive the actual stress.  That stress/disruption, of course,  has the capacity for causing diseases.  This is widely known and accepted even in traditional western medicine.

The second type is focusing your intention by touching certain spots on the body while testing.  This is used to find problem areas or organs that are out of balance.  These problem areas could be a meridian or circuit, organ, or areas where toxins or other substances are being stored.

Surrogate Muscle Testing

If you are working with children (especially very young or uncooperative such as autistic or ADHD), the severely injured, pets (yes you can do energy work on your pets too!), or handicapped individuals this becomes critical.  Think of a surrogate as nothing but a human energy conductor.  All the surrogate needs to do is "plug into" them by touching them or being in their energy field.  I recommend actually touching since different people have thicker or thinner fields.  Using a surrogate the "subject" (the person being tested) doesn't even need to be awake.  When I first started energy work on my daughter, she was still autistic.  The rocking and lack of ability for sitting still was bad enough that I had to work on her while she slept.  In addition, she was so sensitive in the beginning to the energies in the vials, often she would scream as if in pain or arch her back or body to try to get away from the substance.  She was so reactive, I almost didn't need to perform the muscle test.  After some treatments that sensitivity and extreme reactivity went away.  It was a real blessing to be able to do the treatments while she slept.

Remote Muscle Testing 

Without going into yet another Quantum Mechanics lesson...  It is focusing your intention to connect to someone's energy who is not directly in your energy field.  Think of this as your wireless network access.  This is done by simply using someone's name or perhaps another qualifying description like husband or mother etc.  The more intimately you know the person the less specific you need to be.  However, you must have a clear concept of who you mean.  For example if I were to ask "Is Hannah allergic to apple?" and test, there is a clear concept that I mean my daughter.  If I knew several people named Chris and I wasn't more intimate with one more than another, I would need to say Chris my baker or use a full name.  

These things sound more complicated and complex than they really are.  I could probably teach my favorite muscle test named the O-Ring method to a child of about 7 (give or take a year for maturity and/or ability to follow simple directions) in a few minutes.  Actually children are probably even easier to teach muscle testing than adults.  Let's face it...  They are usually more eager to learn, more open minded and less likely to let their cynicism, pride, or ego get the best of them.  

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