Everyone is unique. Each one of us has our own specific biochemical makeup so what’s good for one person isn’t necessarily good for another. But how do we know what our bodies need until we try things out or go to a doctor and get tested? Muscle testing is the answer!
Our bodies know what promotes health and vitality. Many say the body communicates with us via our intuition but who can hear that with all the noise in our heads?
Instead, we get aches, pains, itches and the like, and by then it’s too late. These are the effects of damaging the body.
Muscle testing: a non-invasive method used to communicate with the body in assessing imbalances and needs using a large muscle, usually the anterior deltoid or shoulder muscle. When the muscle stays strong, the body is saying “yes” or “it’s beneficial for me”. A weak muscle response is a “no” or “it’s harmful to me”.
At it’s most basic, muscle testing is biofeedback without all the bells and whistles!
Related to applied kinesiology (which was developed by chiropractor Dr. George J. Goodheart, Jr.), muscle testing is used by a wide variety of health practitioners and is used to “evaluate structural, chemical and mental aspects of health”. (Source: The International College of Applied Kinesiology)
Before you jump the gun and dismiss muscle testing as new age hooplah, check out this published study which helps validate muscle testing in chiropractic care.
What part of the body are we communicating with through muscle testing?
This answer is a tad confusing since everybody seems to have their own thoughts on the subject. Here’s what I’ve found so far:
- The subconscious – as in PSYCH-K
- Our energy field in relation to the energy of the objects or ideas being tested
- Our electrical system
- The autonomic nervous system which, interestingly, controls the parts of our body functioning below the level of consciousness
- Our heart instinct or emotional center
- The Superconscious or what Carl Jung called the Collective Unconscious. The spiritually-minded folk might call this our `Higher Self’ or `Creative Source’, the part of us that connects all life.
Keep in mind that it’s highly possible several or most of these are actually describing the same thing! On review of this list, muscle testing appears to detect physical, emotional, mental and spiritual stress in the body.
Muscle testing has many potentially diverse applications and implications
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