Mrs.Tigersoap
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Following a thread I answered on What's on your mind about personality and molds, and answering Deckard's request, here is a brief post about Applied Kinesiology.
As some of you know, I'm a Health Kinesiology practitioner. Health Kinesiology is directly derived from Applied Kinesiology but is a little different. The system remains the same, however: you address the body directly to check its level of health and more importantly, to see what can be done to remedy any problem. So the explanations I'm gonna give are for HK.
The best definition for me is taken from the founder of Health Kinesiology, Jimmy Scott: http://www.subtlenergy.com/about_hk/what_is_hk.htm
The method involves muscle testing, which is the tool by which the communication is operated. After making sure that the client's energy system (i.e. system of meridians) is balanced, the practitioner selects a muscle (very often the brachio-radialis, on the forearm), check that it is functioning properly and take this muscle as representative of the whole system. It is called the indicator muscle. This muscle tests strong when you simply apply pressure on it. It is like locked in position. When this muscle is stressed (or when your system/body is stressed) for example by being pinched, it unlocks and when you apply pressure on it, it tests weak. The person will have to make a tremendous effort to keep it into position to resist a simple pressure. So, the practitioner asks the person to put their hand on their navel (because the meridians used in kinesiology (we use 14 of them) all go through that part of the body, and so you can test the whole system by putting your hand there) and tests the whole system. There are also points around the navel that acts as reflex points which either test strong or weak, and that way you can know what meridian needs balance. Once you know that, there are reflex points on the torso which tell you what kind of points you should be holding (neurovascular, neurolymphatic, end points, sedation or activation points).
Then, and that's the big difference i would say with Applied Kinesiology, a HK practitioner can actually talk to the body. It is to my knowledge, the only kinesiology which actually asks oral questioning and not a system of papers put on the body, nor by simply touching a part of the body to check its energy. So, the practitioner asks a question like "Is the diet Mr. X is following the best diet for him?". Should it be the case (the diet is the best), the energy/body of the person will be in accordance with what you say and will have no stress linked to that question. The indicator muscle will then test strong. Should it not be the case (Mr. X is eating something that's not right for him, or, from my experience, almost nothing that is good for him ;), the body will be intensely stressed by this question and the stress involved with this issue plus the pressure put on the indicator muscle will be too much to bear and the test will test weak.
But what is answering? Is it the client? Is it the brain? How can a body know something what we don't? Here is a link to a partial answer: http://www.subtlenergy.com/articles/articles/clinical_abstracts.htm
Some (like Jane Thurnell-Read in her great book about Health Kinesiology called 'Health Kinesiology - The muscle testing system that talks to the body') say that part of the answer lies in the homeostatic mechanism of the body (the mechanism which monitors body processes, adjust hormone levels, etc. in an attempt to maintain an optimum environment). I agree, but I think that when we ask questions in HK, we tap into something bigger than the physical body, because, I have more than once had answers which at first baffled me and my client, but once I did some research on the subject, understood why the body answered that way. For example, one of my clients had to eat apples, a lot of them, for a while. She did not particularly like them. At first, I thought that maybe she simply needed the pectine for some reason. And later on, i stumbled upon an article about how apples help your body to get rid of lead. When I asked that person several sessions later, surely enough, she had been diagonosed as having a high level of lead in her body. I did not know that nor did she when I tested. But her body told us.
From this conversation (which is, it's true, limited, because, all you can get is a yes or no answer but still), you can determine the best choices for your body, and when necessary, the best HK procedures. Everything is made to measure, so to speak.
The muscle testing has undergone a lot of double blind test with success (Laura talks about it in one of her posts). I conducted a lot of these experiments. It has convinced me that a lot of what is said to be good (or bad for that matter) for you might not be. So, to me the SOTT forum is invaluable because, everything that is said about health issues, I test. I tested that pure nicotine was indeed good for some people, that most of the diet I was personally recommanding to clients was in fact the Blood Type Diet (about which I had heard but never read before coming here), etc.
Hope this has provided Deckard with some answers, and maybe interested others to check this great method.
As some of you know, I'm a Health Kinesiology practitioner. Health Kinesiology is directly derived from Applied Kinesiology but is a little different. The system remains the same, however: you address the body directly to check its level of health and more importantly, to see what can be done to remedy any problem. So the explanations I'm gonna give are for HK.
The best definition for me is taken from the founder of Health Kinesiology, Jimmy Scott: http://www.subtlenergy.com/about_hk/what_is_hk.htm
The method involves muscle testing, which is the tool by which the communication is operated. After making sure that the client's energy system (i.e. system of meridians) is balanced, the practitioner selects a muscle (very often the brachio-radialis, on the forearm), check that it is functioning properly and take this muscle as representative of the whole system. It is called the indicator muscle. This muscle tests strong when you simply apply pressure on it. It is like locked in position. When this muscle is stressed (or when your system/body is stressed) for example by being pinched, it unlocks and when you apply pressure on it, it tests weak. The person will have to make a tremendous effort to keep it into position to resist a simple pressure. So, the practitioner asks the person to put their hand on their navel (because the meridians used in kinesiology (we use 14 of them) all go through that part of the body, and so you can test the whole system by putting your hand there) and tests the whole system. There are also points around the navel that acts as reflex points which either test strong or weak, and that way you can know what meridian needs balance. Once you know that, there are reflex points on the torso which tell you what kind of points you should be holding (neurovascular, neurolymphatic, end points, sedation or activation points).
Then, and that's the big difference i would say with Applied Kinesiology, a HK practitioner can actually talk to the body. It is to my knowledge, the only kinesiology which actually asks oral questioning and not a system of papers put on the body, nor by simply touching a part of the body to check its energy. So, the practitioner asks a question like "Is the diet Mr. X is following the best diet for him?". Should it be the case (the diet is the best), the energy/body of the person will be in accordance with what you say and will have no stress linked to that question. The indicator muscle will then test strong. Should it not be the case (Mr. X is eating something that's not right for him, or, from my experience, almost nothing that is good for him ;), the body will be intensely stressed by this question and the stress involved with this issue plus the pressure put on the indicator muscle will be too much to bear and the test will test weak.
But what is answering? Is it the client? Is it the brain? How can a body know something what we don't? Here is a link to a partial answer: http://www.subtlenergy.com/articles/articles/clinical_abstracts.htm
Some (like Jane Thurnell-Read in her great book about Health Kinesiology called 'Health Kinesiology - The muscle testing system that talks to the body') say that part of the answer lies in the homeostatic mechanism of the body (the mechanism which monitors body processes, adjust hormone levels, etc. in an attempt to maintain an optimum environment). I agree, but I think that when we ask questions in HK, we tap into something bigger than the physical body, because, I have more than once had answers which at first baffled me and my client, but once I did some research on the subject, understood why the body answered that way. For example, one of my clients had to eat apples, a lot of them, for a while. She did not particularly like them. At first, I thought that maybe she simply needed the pectine for some reason. And later on, i stumbled upon an article about how apples help your body to get rid of lead. When I asked that person several sessions later, surely enough, she had been diagonosed as having a high level of lead in her body. I did not know that nor did she when I tested. But her body told us.
From this conversation (which is, it's true, limited, because, all you can get is a yes or no answer but still), you can determine the best choices for your body, and when necessary, the best HK procedures. Everything is made to measure, so to speak.
The muscle testing has undergone a lot of double blind test with success (Laura talks about it in one of her posts). I conducted a lot of these experiments. It has convinced me that a lot of what is said to be good (or bad for that matter) for you might not be. So, to me the SOTT forum is invaluable because, everything that is said about health issues, I test. I tested that pure nicotine was indeed good for some people, that most of the diet I was personally recommanding to clients was in fact the Blood Type Diet (about which I had heard but never read before coming here), etc.
Hope this has provided Deckard with some answers, and maybe interested others to check this great method.