Muscle testing, not always straight forward

When the client laid herself on the table and readied herself by making herself comfortable on the table. Relaxing and waiting for the things to come. I start by testing arms, legs and feet. (Technical: deltoid anterior, quadriceps femoris, tibialis anterior)

In doing so, I frequently notice a difference in muscle testing in resulting various variations:

• arms “strong”, legs “strong” and vice versa
• arms “strong”, legs “weak” and vice versa
• left arm/leg “strong”, right arm/leg “weak” and vice versa

Well, you can figure out the possibilities, I have found  them all while muscle testing.

How do I find the right outcome to start with?

Enters the “pause lock” or retaining mode. With this method in place – frequently used in Applied Physiology – one holds the problem  in an energetic loop in such a way that there can be only one solution. The muscle test is “strong” or the muscle test is “weak”. And this is the indication you work with.

Muscle testing is not always ‘yes’ or ‘no’

When the client is deeply relaxed. Certainly not in the way I use this indicator tool, muscle testing is not always ýes’or ‘no’.  To be more specific, I even use it in a way that it shows me I am relaxed and the client is relaxed too. I ‘feel’ it when the muscle test is “weak”. You might say to use this method as practitioner one has to be in H+ (H plus).

When the client is deeply relaxed any ‘resurfacing’ from the deep relaxation is indicated by a “strong” muscle test.  So any input from information that shows a “strong” muscle test will be interpreted as being ‘not appropriate’ (Not O.K.).

By now, while you read this information, you feel yourself relaxed and have a sense of what it is to use hypnosis as a state in which the client reconnects with her subconscious.

Through muscle testing I get the information the subconscious wants to have ‘on the table’. This is useful for understanding its issues(s) as it wants to feel these resolved.

This method of working is excellent for those clients who want to get in touch with their subconcious. Be aware not everyone is ready to get in touch with their subconscious and rather live a physical life.

Huib Salomons
Prractitioner Specialized Kinesiology

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Thyroid problems can ruin your day

Sometimes you hear something and that something keeps on returning in your mind. It is like that tune you have in your mind when you stand up and you hear it all day through. That is when I heard about the thyroid and the notification of underestimated silent problems that come along.

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“Thyroid problems can ruin your day” is putting it mildly. Thyroid problems ruin your life, period. If not treated or balanced in time, finish your life before it even started. They say testing for an unbalanced Thyroid is clinically difficult to prove. It is not easy to monitor thyroid function on a blood test because the thyroid dumps its hormones into the lymph.(1) Yet circumstantial evidence can indicate indirectly there might be a problem: unexplained weight problems, flushes, muscle and joint pains, hair/skin changes, menstrual irregularities, bowel problems, fatique, depression and anxiety. (2)

In my research for the Thyroid I read many articles on the internet. I keep an open mind in my muscle testing procedure. And as such I found  Thyroid problems to be a basic health problem and should be addressed every time.

Reflex point for the Thyroid

From the point of view of Specialized Kinesiology my goal is to balance the organ. And as such I look to find indicators that help me signal the state of an organ and measure the impact this balancing act has on the whole of the person.

Riddler point for Iodine. As I started to be observant for signals and  I came to understanding that the Manubrium area of the sternum is the Reflex Point for an Unbalanced Thyroid. Further reading shows that this is a well known Riddler point for Iodine (3). In this line of research I also found Iodine light to be a good resource for rebalancing. (A wavelength between 541.2 and 588.5 nm. (4))

Using muscle testing I frequently notice problems with the TMJ, tongue. For now, I tend to categorize this as people with hyperactive thyroid. Where as those with problems with shoulder, neck, renal area, buttock, legs I find a tendency for hypoactive thyroid. Yet rarely I find a clear correction method other then holding/massaging the points and places I name later on in this article. I do not find this disturbing because everyone is build differently: genetic and circumstantial / ennvironmental.

I  just finished a preliminary kinesiology test with Schüssler salts on this reflex point. The first indication was Natrium Phosphoricum.  It is stated “Natrium phosphoricum is the remedy for conditions arising from excess of lactic acid, often resulting from too much sugar.” (5)  (I wonder if this is an indication for dysglucosis)

Rebalancing the Thyroid. In Rebalancing the Thyroid I frequently find the Triggerpoints of the Teres Minor helpful. (6) As are massaging the calves and the inner curve below the ball of the foot. (7) With respect to the latter their may be connection with the  spine, in particular C7-T1. (8) Massaging the calves. And of course not to forget to let the Iodine (blue) light shine over the whole sternum area.  (I muscle test to see what is appropriate and required)

For self help you might want to research thyroid-acupressure-points-for-self-healing. (9)

It is important to understand that there is a deep relationship between all glands (hypophyse, thyroid, adrenals, spleen, pancreas, gallbladder, gonades) and to be observant for the signals. So you can act in time as not to deplete any of these glands.

As a practitioner of Specialized Kinesiology my aim is to Rebalance the Thyroid (or any other organ/gland) and as I work I learn to discern the main techniques that will make it possible to make the best of my job.  In my work I use energy and emotional work to give my contribution to the health of my clients.

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How to start a specialized kinesiology session

A wise person observed nature and snakes. Looking for science in everything he stated “the venom is in the start”. Ohh yeah!

Whether you learn to muscle test or are a veteran in muscle testing you will soon understand the quality of you work as practitioner of specialized kinesiology, once you stand still, take the time to look back and notice the times you booked successes in your work.

Go into a state of trance first

Because when you are aware of these moments you will find that the common denominator is the fact that you learned yourself to go into a state of trance before you start doing your work.

It is this little known fact that makes the difference whether you can tune into the Mind Body mind Spirit connection of the client or you make an unconscious decision to take yourself into the equation.

Going in trance first is the duty of every practitioner

To learn how to go in trance first is your obligation to your client as they are paying good money as they expect quality of the session. The technique is rather simple but greatly effective in the final outcome in the time spent together.

While you ask your client to relax, you take the time to relax yourself too.

Breathe in, breathe out.

As you feel yourself come into the now, free from the distraction of everyday life, you will find yourself more in contact with the client in such a way you can tune into the energy of your client with ease.

Breathe in, breathe out.

And when you reached this feeling of relaxation it is time to connect with your client through communication.

You will become at ease with this state of trance more quickly when you practice this state every time you start a session. What you are learning yourself is to do self-hypnosis on the fly.

This is the little known fact that can boost your self-esteem and quality of your work dramatically. Even if it were only to take YOU out of the equation.
Start practicing this self-hypnosis and to feel you have done more in the same time and you were there for the client all the time. Time well spent.!

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Strong muscle test! A case of Catalepsy

When I did my Conversational Hypnosis for Professional Hypnotists (CHPH) may 2011 in Amsterdam it hit me! I dare to state:

A strong muscle test in the Clear is a case of catalepsy, showing the client is able to relax  and therefore in a trance.

Conversational Hypnosis for Professional Hypnotists (CHPH)

CHPH is a training seminar for you to become a professional conversational hypnotist. You get trained to feel comfortable hypnotizing people easily and quick. Plus you get to get the feel of what you might be doing next, in order for the client to overcome his or her problem.

The beauty of it all is you get to do it conversationally. This is the biggest stumbling block for many a hypnotist. Bringing it conversationally! For what do they do? They start reading scripts. While what they should be doing is go in H plus (H+) and let the words come rolling out of their mouths. It can be done, because what you read here is  a clear example of this technique you will learn at CHPH.

Go in H plus (H+), go in trance first

H+ is one of the corner stones of hypnotizing people. In other words you have to go first into a state of relaxation, a state of trance. As the saying goes “Energy flows where the attention goes”. When you go first, your client is likely to follow and go into a deep relaxed state. There are a few who do not know the feeling of feel deeply relaxed. Don’t you agree?

And from there a person can go in any type of trance, when they are willing to let them go even deeper into that so-desired state of relaxation. You know you don’t need to close your eyes to get that feeling of going into a trance. You get to find your client to relax within 60 seconds, or even better, 10 seconds. Yes, you have to go in H+ first. Are you in a trance already?

It hit me: “Strong” equals Trance-like state

When I look back and go back into my practize of Specialized Kinesiology I can see myself go into an H+-state. I already did that automatically. It hit me that this was not new for me at all, I just didn’t give it a name. So this part of the equation is already confirmed. Now the next step is – you remember: “Energy flows where the attention goes” – that the client is likely to relax with me. Following me into that relaxed state I want them to be in.

Then I test and look for a “strong” muscle test, although I have an open mind for what I might test. This is my goal. You see I look for a muscle test that is cataleptic (“strong”), and this means the client is able to relax, easily and readily. The second part of the equation has been proven too.

A cataleptic muscle test (“strong”) is a sign of a person in a trance-like state.

Note: Of course this is just one of the possibilities of experiencing a muscle test, but nevertheless it is valid and the practitioner can incorporate many different actions on this given.

This is the base for a life-changing experience. I know I have done that many a time!

When you are interested in getting as fluent in your language using conversational hypnosis I suggest you have a look at the CHPH training seminar and learn to be conversational hypnotically effective, step by step. Because you learn to do this type of hypnosis STEP-by-STEP.

Huib Salomons
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Always check the validity of the manual muscle test

Why Validity Check?

As a practitioner of Specialized Kinesiology you use manual muscle testing as the number one tool for retrieving information from the test person (i.e. Mind Body Spirit). Because you rely very heavily on this tool, it is required to always check the validity of the muscle test. Because we use the manual muscle test as an indicator muscle, we must rely on the quality of the indicator. Which means we must know in what state the nervous system is.

As manual muscle tester you know a muscle test can indicate “Weak” (over inhibited/under facilitated), “Strong” (under inhibited / over facilitated) or “Blocked” (paralysis) or the body shows “Total Weakness” (flacid). A good manual muscle test shows a “Strong” test, that shows “Weak” when physically triggered to go “Weak” (see tests below). [Richard Utt]

Being trained in Applied Physiology, I always emphasize the importance of checking the validity of muscle indicator (i.e. the muscle you are testing). Until now the only way to physically check this was by means of the Spindle cell mechanism. But that has changed now after viewing this video. on >>  Muscle testing tv.com #014

When you have watched the video you now have – as I do now – a second possibility method to check the validity of a muscle test. This second method relies on the fact that “when one muscle is contracted, the antagonist is relaxed”.

Always physically trigger the indicator muscle

Physical checks to determine the “Strong” muscle test goes “Weak”:

• Spindle cell mechanism — The Spindle cell is a proprioceptor in the muscle tissue that monitors the status of the muscle contraction. When a muscle is contracted too long and too hard, it is likely to get injured. So the antagonistic part in the spindle cell signals to the brain to relax. And vice versa.
• Muscle contracted, antagonist relaxed — This mechanism relies on the fact that agonist and antagonist never should be contracted at the time. As seen in the video: when you test the biceps brachii “strong”, this test must go “weak” when the triceps brachii are activated.

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Total weakness! What to do?!

As you know I love kinesiology. Recently I had a testperson coming into my office and after a “what’s up” talk I invited the testperson to lay down on the table. So he could relax more easy.

The what’s up talk – The “what’s up” talk has the function of pre-releasing any stress the testpersons had before s/he came to my office. S/he talks about what has happenend and what is on her/his mind. Along with this talk I use my intuition to write down some words or pictures that might become interesting to test on the white board.

Testing arms, legs and feet

So when the testperson is lying to relax, I start testing muscle testing arms, legs and feet. Ergo the muscles related to these movements. And in doing so over time I have experienced different qualities: all is “strong”, left is “strong” and right is “weak” and vice versa. And sometimes crossing over. Most often I experience arms “strong” and legs “weak”.

In the case of the latter. You might ask “where to start next?”. Well, I came up with the statement “what first is to be focussed on!?”. And then agian I test arms, legs and feet. I experienced that the “strong/weak” displays now changes in all or “strong” or “weak”. And from there I continue my work.

I might take something s/he talked about, something I wrote on the white board and emotional stress release that. Or I simple – as I always do – listen to the body.

Emotional Stress Release – ESR is figuring out what the body expresses, what emotions are playing, what is related and then holding or tapping points like in Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or massaging the calves, Achilles tendon and or feet. And always retest, to observe the difference it made.  To complete the TOTE (Test-Operate-Test-Exit) routine.

Total Weakness or Universal Weakness

But this time I felt “total weakness” or “universal weakness”. In the past – as you can read elsewhere on this blogsite – this was the reason for my quest into kinesiology, but now I am calm and relaxed and started to figure out what the problem was. When the muscle test was functioning normally and the muscle tests now shows “total weakness”, this indicates this state is subconsciously driven rather then functionally. At such a moment you just change from indication. (Start from “weak and test for “strong”)
I started with a positive “water” test and let the testperson drink some water. For me water indicates “information”. And so I tested all possibilities that came up in my mind (something along the line of body, mind, spirit) and worked with the one that held the information.

Read the information the body offers

This time the subconscious wanted me to “read” the information that was presented as “hot”-spots that I was to touch or massage. And here comes the beauty I found that the “hand on the base of the skull” (cerebellum and brainstem) for this testperson was an indication for “need for becoming aware of the situation”, of integration and understanding the information the subconscious wanted the testperson to become aware of. I came to this conclusion because of a statement of the testperson “I want to understand the process” and the observation that it happened three time during this session.

I know I have done enough for this session or subject when the subconscious signals me I have done enough. This of coarse is a agreement with my subconscious. And so it is in this moment as I have nothing more to tell for now.

Huib Salomons
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Surrogate testing: focus is key

The goal of Applied/Specialized Kinesiology is stress management and restoring the imbalance as it is reflected in a “weak” or “blocked” muscle test.

“It was George Goodheart who inadvertently discovered surrogate testing, even before he learned of therapy localization. The teres minor of a woman tested strong. He was interrupted by a phone call. When he returned, he tested the teres minor again en it tested weak. She now was holding her child. So he had her put her child down and retested the teres minor. It was again strong. He suspected that the weakness had to do with her holding her child. To test this hypothesis, he had her simply reach out and touch the child with on hand. The teres minor again tested weak. Further experiments revealed this to be a demonstrable and repeatable phenomenon. He reasoned that some kind of energy transference was taking place.

Note:

1. The chances of error with surrogate testing are greater than when testing a patient directly.
2. Care must be taken that the surrogate does not have a reaction to the therapy localization (TL) or challenge. This may be interpreted as the patient’s reaction. This means: you have to have at least a balanced testperson before you can implement this technique.
3. A change in posture or other parameter may also change the results of the muscle test.

…” [Applied Kinesiology]

In general surrogate testing is teached as testing a person through a surrogate (an intermediate) as you have read in the previous paragraph. It is some kind of interpersonal testing.

What he did was testing the energy information of one person while testing another. Focus is key. The woman was focussed on her child.

What is the goal of this method? In this way one can test a person through another when s/he is to small, to sick, to …

I found this also to be possible in intrapersonal testing, i.e. you can take over the energy field of the muscle/organ/structure in the body on a muscle, which you test. Also known as Body Scan. Again: focus is key.

You have better result applying a technique called “pause lock” or “circuit retention mode. As the name-giving indicates using this technique you are able to retain (hold) the energy in a circuit.

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In dialogue with your subconscious

There is muscle testing and muscle testing. Is there a difference? You bet, you can muscle test to determine the functionality of the muscle or the muscle group. What is the strength or range of the muscle or muscle group enough? And you can also muscle test to identify the quality of muscle testing. You then test the muscle on its “ideomotor response”, on quality of impulse conduction.

The ideo-motor response (or “ideo-motor reflex) [abbreviated: IMR] is a concept in hypnosis and psychological research. It is derived from the term “ideology” (idea or mental representation) and “motor” (muscular action). It refers to the process by which a thought or a mental picture produces a seemingly  “reflexive” or automatic muscular response, often tiny change out of awareness of the subject. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideo_motor_response]

Here is how to muscle test. The muscle test is relatively easy to perform.

1. Bring up the muscle in shortened position by moving the limb in the correct position.
2. Move the limb as to move the muscle from shortened state to its lengthened position.
3. Do you feel resistance or not! (“Strong” is resistance, “weak” is no resistance).

Do not mistake the simplicity, as there are more variations.

The muscle test indicates your limits

When the muscle test is performed on you, you notice you do not have to do anything to feel the muscle test “weak”, or “strong”. First you start experimenting with thinking of an emotion, or a memory good or bad. Often times the association is: “weak” is a charged emotion; “strong” is an emotion without unpleasant meaning. Again: in principle.

Do you see how the muscle test can be used as “ideomotor response”?! Do you see the possibilities to research what makes you “weak”, what brings you out of “balance”.

The power of Applied / Specialized Kinesiology is: using the muscle test and offering that correction that will make the muscle test indicate “strong” where it first was “weak”. This means that the body (subconscious) indicates a shift in energy pattern by means of change in muscle test indication. This may indicate that a body “balance” is established (homeostasis) and the charge of the emotion is removed.

Your body does not lie

What you feel, you feel! – The muscle test is the mechanism to make contact with your subconscious. But there is more, muscle testing also gives an indication of nerve conduction in the form of flow in acupuncture meridians. In Touch for Health we recognize the Muscle – Meridian combination as a fact. Thus, the latissimus dorsi muscle (latissimus dorsi) is associated with the Spleen-Pancreas meridian and the subscapularis (under shoulder blade muscle ) with the Heart meridian.

Does it mean you have problems with your spleen or pancreas when latissimus dorsi tests weak? Not a first, but when the problem stays too long then it can be the case at the end. Usually  the energy in the meridian is not flowing properly or an emotion associated with that meridian shows a the problem. All in all, it means you must learn to interpret the information – given by the body through means of the muscle test – in combination with the excellent questions. Because your body does not lie!

Het begon met Touch for Health

Touch for Health was – the first offspring of Applied Kinesiology – developed as a first aid method for the non-professional. My first muscle test experience was with a Touch for Health -workshop in “De Hof van Axen, Drenthe”, The Netherlands. In general it still is the best approach to get a good feel for Specialized Kinesiology’s muscle testing approach.

Are you thrilled as I am? Do you also want to start exploring the muscle test experience, my advice is: Start with Touch for Health I and see if the fire for muscle testing also ignites within you . (Just like it was the case for me years ago!)

Living in Apeldoorn, I work from home.

Huib Salomons
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Total Weakness in muscle testing drove me to explore

Can you imagine you learning a technique and when you think you’ve got it …

you find you did not get the right spark. Well I had this problem with learning muscle testing. I remember the first time, I was so glad to have experienced muscle testing. In such a way, that when I got home I wanted to show the World what I had learned. How bitter it was to find that I could not reproduce the ideal state of a muscle test.

Total weakness – In fact what I found was that the ones I tested I only found “Weakness”. “Total Weakness” in matter of fact. It drove me crazy. It startled me to want to learn more. So I went the whole gamma of workshops as it was presented to me at that time. And I stopped when gathering this type of information as soon as I realized “I must trust what I sense happening.”

With that in my mind I was getting confident in my testing more and more. Recently I again stumbled upon that “Total Weakness” experience. I can now work towards the “Total Weakness” experience and do something about it. This shows how much confident I have become don’t you think. But more on that later.

“Total Weakness” experience

The strangest thing about muscle testing is that you can muscle test and test a muscle to be “weak”, when you ask the person to do her daily job you find “All is OK.” This also is the case with the “Total Weakness” experience with muscle testing. The person shows no problem after lifting her butt of the table.

Survival mode – My explanation for this “Total Weakness” experience is that the person has gone in survival mode. Survival mode is the state in which the person is acting on autopilot.. A state where the person is doing the things, acting the way the Other-then-Conscious is trained to act. This is not bad, this is not good, this is a state of No Choice. And we want to have choice, don’t we!

Working towards Choice

As I said, this is a state I work towards. I do this with the sole purpose to give the Conscious a chance to stay in the Present by Choice. The intervention is done by reading the infromation the Other-then-Conscious presents and tell the story. And I know I have “read” te information when “Total Weakness” disappears and the muscle tests as though nothing has happend. Yet we know! And the person has lost her trigger to go into that state again … when done properly.

Now, looking back at  my first muscle test experiences I think you can follow my reasoning that the former people in the World I tested – when I returned home – were all in survival mode. And so was I, because when I got my introduction my arms to went down too!

Now I have given you my explanation and I am sure you can understand that it truly believe that “Specialized Kinesiology is the best thing that happend to me!” I thrive to make it happen for my clients as well!

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When muscle testing becomes muscle monitoring

Muscle monitoring was the term coined by Richard Utt. Here you can read there is a difference between muscle testing and muscle monitoring.

Muscle testing basics – With muscle testing in general we position the limb in such a way the muscle to be tested is in its shortest position. And to perform the muscle test we push the limb in the direction of the maximum lengthening of that muscle. We look for resistance, under isometric pressure. After which we declare a state of  “strong”, “weak” or “blocked”.

Correction method – We also have the axiom of George Goodheart that any given muscle is related to one acupuncture meridian, a certain neurolymphatic point, a certain neurovasculair point, a basic meridian emotion. Knowing this we can test for a best correction method.

Triad of Health – We also know the “Triad of Health” within Applied Kinesiology, where the side of the triangle are made up of Structure, Mental, Chemical. Fields in which an inbalance may occur, where one of these fields may get the focus for administering a correction.

Muscle monitoring versus Muscle testing – This is where Applied Kinesiology stops, and where Specialized Kinesiology kicks in. (According to the writers Walter H Schmitt, Jr & Scott C Cuthbert.) Because when you really observe when muscle testing with a very light touch, you notice you are not testing the strength of any muscle, period. You find that you are really experiencing the reaction of the nervous system in basic. This is why muscle testing really should be called MUSCLE MONITORING.

Body Mind Spirit – Going back to the “Triad of Health” of Applied Kinesiology, you easily can see this is made up with Muscle in mind. Now when you read previous you may start to realize this approach makes the nervous system basic (muscle monitoring) and not the Muscle. You can easily make a picture of another “Triad of Health” where the sides are made up of … Body Mind Spirit Connection.

Holistic approach – Keeping what works and letting go what does not work, brings us in a situation where  we offer correction within one of the fields: Body. Mind (Feeling-Thinking) Spirit (Intuition-Intelligence) Connection (Energy-Vitality). It is easy to see the holistic magnitude this picture gives you.

Ofcourse one should not see the differences in black and white. Just for the sake of explanation is has picture been this way. Because there is not a practitioner of Applied Kinesiology who does not work within terms of Specialized Kinesiology and vice versa. The main difference you might find is the amount of pressure that is being used for getting the wanted information.

Note: Realizing the importance of the Nervous System (it is really phenomonal) I put a note out for clients in The Netherlands to let me help experience their problems with Migraine, Whiplash, Coma, Fibromyalgia etc.

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