Muscle Testing in Question: (Technique Doesn't Matter) by Glen Pavelich

I am not trained in classical applied kinesiology although I have taken the
time to read the book by Walther. My kinesiology training comes from touch
for health, various other courses and 8 years of practice and self teaching.
In the past I have used methods of testing various muscle groups for their
related organs but found it too time consuming simply to find out (in my
case) that the adrenal was weak, or that the pituitary was weak etc. Instead
I began to simplify and use the body points to give me a working idea of
what was going on with the body.

I noticed that there are several systems of points in use, that some
practitioners touched them on their exact 'supposed' location, some merely
came close, while some didn't even make contact before they were getting a
muscle response....... and this led to the beginnings of my question.
Subsequently I worked with some of the CRA, TBM and One Brain protocols and
my question festered on. Then I took a NAET (Nabudipad Allergy Elimination
Technique) course,not to pick on any particular system,but it was then that
my question became an obsession.

At the NAET course I could see that the "technique" itself was pleasantly
simple although it was taught very strictly according to method. The
teachers were suggesting definite protocols and adherence to the technique
as they taught it, a common aspect to just about every course one can take
in our field. The courses I have done were based on complex methods and I
ended up so distracted trying to remember and learn "someone else's idea of
the steps" that I became quite disillusioned about my ability to become
proficient at the therapy. And then there was always the upgrading to keep
up with the latest developments which seemed unending.
NAET is however very simple, but again just as strictly taught.

At the time there were two main NAET teachers. The approach and method
between the two differed in many ways,but they both seemed to have the same
understanding that it was/is the "technique" that is important in order to
do the NAET allergy correction. Not only is the technique very specific (ie
- having the client hod a treatment vial and then rubbing points along the
spine, then other acupoints, etc. - simplified here but there are also
specific about the sequence in which allergy corrections (vials) should be
done. For example, it was suggested at the time that one should always clear
basics and foods first, then this changed to always the blood vial and
immune booster vials first, then it changed again to before foods etc.

One teacher has held fast to her contentions that the compulsory 25 hour
(after corrections avoidance period is essential for the correction to hold.
The other teacher has devised an enhanced method(using phases of
respiration) whereby only 4-6 hours of avoidance are necessary. At the same
time during the course there were display booths set up at the back of the
seminar room, one selling a radonic type machine which make the avoidance
period unnecessary all together. Subsequently the second teacher has
promoted a workshop where you can learn another "technique" which would make
the correction instant.

The practitioners themselves, I found, were picking and choosing which camp
they followed. I spent time at the seminar talking with one practitioner who
was getting really great results. He studied under both teachers. He hadn't
invested in a great number of treatment vials, (which becomes very
expensive) but simple followed the simple concept of correcting for any of
the 10 basic (as taught) or any of the 26 main foods a client may need to
have cleared. He emphasised that it was "this process" which got him the
best results (influenced by the first teacher).

Another practitioner never followed a sequential protocol as taught, but
asked the body what its priority for clearing was, and proceeded to correct
blockages for organs, glands, inhalants, or whatever, according to what the
muscle testing inquiry revealed. Her results were also spectacular. Neither
of these two ever used the 25 hour avoidance period, but stuck to the 4-6
hour enhanced method. One of them would correct for any number of vials at
the same time if they were compatible and if the body said it was okay.

A third practitioner I know ALWAYS (in her words) instructed her clients to
adhere to the full 25 hour avoidance period, no matter how hard that may be,
and believed that it is by following these steps "exactly" as taught, that
gave her the great results she gets.

You may already be getting the picture of where I'm going with this, but
please indulge me further. I need to make all my opening remarks.

I don't think it was any coincidence (don't believe in them)that I sat
beside yet another practitioner who would be the one to confirm my
misgivings. By relating his experiences and understanding of the process he
confirmed my thoughts that you don't need the vials, or the avoidance
periods, or the sequences, or the technique at all. He went on to say, as I
questioned him,............... that the reason our instructor was saying,
for instance, that she began to get better results when she introduced the
new 'blood vial' was because this was HER programming, and HER belief
system. However, it was that she came to believe that this addition was
needed, it worked for her based on her understanding of the process.

Further to this, the instructor can then instill her belief system to her
students (as this is what instructors do) and these students can potentially
all go home and begin doing the same thing based on newly learned and
unchallenged beliefs. It is works then why not.... But it seems that there
were always those who got better results than others, no matter what their
understanding of the technique or level of training.

Regarding the vials: At the seminar practitioners were scrambling to obtain
the latest packet of vials for the treatment of various conditions,
according to what the instructor had suggested was needed (based on her
experience). You can end up with thousands of vials because they are so
convenient and apparently allow you to correct just about anything the
client might present you with. More to the point, is you subscribe to the
need for vials, you¹re ability to help the client with a formaldehyde
allergy, or hydrocarbon allergy or perichiloroethylene allergy??, can
potentially be limited by whether or not you have that vial. Some people
purchase expensive machines so they can make the vials,and thus never be
without the needed one.

I developed several arguments relating to vials:

1. The vials can lose their energetic charge (as I was told by a
practitioner who tests his regularly), yet practitioners use their vials for
years and years, assuming that the original encoded energy is still intact.
How is it that their ³faded¹ vials continue to work?... how is it they
continue to get great results/ (Remember that in NAET the vial is held
during the correction steps and not just for testing - you are presumably
holding the energy of the item you are allergic to during the treatment and
for 15 minutes after)

2. The vials can become contaminates. If you assume that a very subtle
energy can be encoded vial radionics, homeopathy, or whatever, into the
water of the vial,then you have to also assume that a similar subtle energy
can be attached to the vial by all different contaminants on all the hands
that hold the vials - bacteria,energies, virus energy, what you had for
lunch energies, human emotions energies. What exactly are you testing when
you give a client a vial to hold?......what exactly are you treating while
the client continues to hold the vial?...Perhaps,...what you "intend" to
test or treat...or what is "suggested" to you by what is written on the label.

3. Language is extremely powerful. The written or spoken word alone has
tremendous frequency and suggestibility. Some teachers suggest, in the
absence of a vial, to simple write the word or item to be treated on a piece
of paper, and test or treat as you would a vial. This came up during my TBM
and NAET courses and when my question began to come together I was floored
regarding the ethics of the very lucrative vial business. We were being
influenced to buy vials (if only for their convenience), but at the same
time this little titbit, subtly slipped in, was missed by most. If a piece
of paper worked for these rare needs then why wouldn't it work for all
occasions. What was the supposed need of the energetically zapped vial?
However, remember also the client doesn't get to know, in most cases, what
is written on the piece of paper so is it the energy of the word on the
paper (or vial or is it the practitioners question, that is being tested?

Words are powerful things. Read the book "The Message of Water" by Dr Masaru
Emoto. Emoto suggests that the energy of a written word placed on a vial of
water consistently changes the crystal structure of the water depending on
the word used.

4. Water is a universal dissolvent. Water is a homeopathic dose of
everything. Water could perhaps be thought to contain the energetic memory
of everything it has every washed or dissolved. When you are holding a vial
containing a zapped energy frequency, and it is also full of
water........what are you testing?

5. I noticed I could unintentionally hand a client a wrong vial, assume that
I was testing for "carrot", and later learn that I had tested for (handed
the client) cucumber and found it to be fine, yet the answer to my muscle
test when it unknowingly became the carrot vial was a "positive allergy to
carrot" - the same vial gave me two answers. I assert that I was never
testing the vial in the first place,but rather I was testing my question.

6. The vials are mechanically encoded via a machine that zaps in the
frequency derived from either the substance itself (ie carrot) or the
digital code of the carrot from a computer data base. If the body is
expected to know that one vial contains the code of "carrot" , another vial
contains the code of "cucumber" and the difference between them, then the
body has to also know all of the other bazillion codes that the vial it is
holding is not - ..... that it is not estrogen, that it is not helicobactor
pylori, that it is not a chemical apple spray, etc. From were are we
accessing this information? How does our hand holding the vial (or our auric
field, or the brain,or the internal computer, or the practitioner, or
whatever) know this language of energetic frequency to be able to
differentiate one vial from everything else when it has supposedly never
been exposed to everything else?

Read Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot to get a picture of the
universal hologram of human information storage that is available to us all.

7. During the NAET course the "word written on a piece of paper technique"
was used primarily to treat emotions. There were however vials containing
emotions which could be obtained. I believe that emotions have frequency,
but I'd like to witness the process by which these digital codes are made
differentiating between sadness, abandonment, despair, sorry etc.. How are
they obtained, and how can one be sure he is capturing that emotion, even if
it is being streamlined directly from a distraught individual? during
demonstrations the instructor did not use vials for testing emotions but
simply went over the names out loud (which could become suggestions) , or
silently in her head. What was she testing and from where was she accessing
this information?

What I did with all this theory regarding vials was to go home from the
course, order hundreds of "empty" vials from a supplier, print nice labels
for them which I spent hours doing, filled them with distilled water and a
drop or two of alcohol (to prevent moulds?), and put together my own test
kits. I use the vials as prompts to help me keep track of what I was asking
the body, and also to increase client confidence. I mostly forget that my
vials are just water with a level because I treat them with the same
assumptions that practitioners expect from the zapped ones, and trust in the
energy of the written word and my own intent. For the vials that contain
complex combinations of things I made up a very elaborate binder of all my
vials and what they have in them. The hormone combination vial, the virus
mix, the genetic factors vial, the night shade vial, etc.

A silly exercise you might think considering my theory - but I did this to
develop consistency and confidence, and to keep myself from having to "think
or remember" a whole lot of data. I unconsciously set my muscle testing
question to "what my book says is in this vial" because I know at some level
I know what my book says about this vial. Sometimes I will scan a list to
set it more firmly in my intent and question. My vials and my lists have
become "my system" (easy for me to adhere to because it's my system as I
understand the body and health) and to ensure the questions I ask don't get missed.

And regarding muscle testing itself:

1. Have you ever noticed how a practitioner can have a concept wrong
(scientifically speaking.... say regarding the nature of enzymes or the
digestive process) and get the answers confirming as true what he of she
misunderstands? Have your ever watched a practitioner use muscle testing to
sell a product to see if you need, for example, his magnetic insoles or
herbal product as opposed to another brand. Have you ever noticed how
everyone is apparently stronger with the magnetic insoles....the
water....the herbal product?

2 Have you ever noted that some teachers are very specific about where the
acupoints or testing points, for say liver, or spleen, or kidney, are on the
body suggesting that if you touch that reflex point you are accessing
information about the related organ. Then you observe another practitioner
who has a completely different series of points for the same organs (this is
ok) but some of the practitioners points are now reflex points for other
things, what is being tested?....again I say the practitioners question.

3. If we ask the indicator muscle (arm) silently , in our head, to give us a
"no" and then a "yes" and if we can get a response change - how are we doing
this? To whom are we asking the question?

I usually get a feel for the clients arm and strength by asking silently
what a yes feels like. Or what a no feels like. I sometimes get very
dramatically different responses between weak and strong. Sometime I will
confirm an answer by asking the question in another way which should give me
the opposite indicator change. In other words, after doing one particular
question or test repeatedly I will silently ask "if positive" (instead of
strong) change the response to weak, and lo and behold the arm responds
weak. Who am I talking to? Am I simply manipulating the chi of the muscle's
strength in my mind...how can this be objective? Am I connecting with a
higher self or fields of knowledge regarding this person?

4. Continuing along this vein I can sometimes get the most surprisingly
correct (as it turns out) answers, and then again I can get answers that are
simply,plainly, embarrassingly dead wrong. Are there practitioners out there
who can honestly and CONSISTENTLY getting correct answers. If you are I
believe this speaks more about your psychic potential or ability , your gift
as a healer and your spiritual connections, than your adherence to any
particular method.

A bit more on this point. I have learned for my own purposes that a wishy
washy indicator response (with repeated tests) can mean I¹m asking the wrong
questions and if I were to redirect my thinking I might come up with a
question more appropriate for the client.
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I believe that since there are so many ways to understand an illness, and so
many ways to be trained regarding assessment, that we tend to get answers
that are meant for us, ones that can "speak" to us ...that will lead us ,
the questioner . to more detail. The same line of questioning may not lead
each practitioner in the direction that is right for them since it may not
meld with their thinking and understanding of things....... or even how they
process information. An answer that the kidney or spleen is weak may be
meaningless for some of us and leave us empty as to why this is relevant .
No practitioner shares the same history, experience, knowledge base or
intuition as another.....which means that I may get an answer that suggests
the client takes certain herb or be corrected for ragweed, while you might
get an answer that suggests the client do breathing exercises or be
corrected for the lung or the emotion of fear or as, Edgar Cayce came up
with in one of his readings regarding a particular illness...the patient
must leave the marital partner.

Do you realise that Edgar Cayce rarely came up with the same treatment for
the same illness across patients? Does this not leave you daunted as to how
much knowledge one practitioner (without exercises inner sight) must acquire
in one lifetime in order to come up with the supposedly correct treatment.
In order to give a diagnosis based on a wide spectrum of knowledge we could
essentially be expected to specialise in everything from emotional therapy,
physical therapy, spiritual therapy, supplement/nutrition therapy, stress
therapy, biochemistry, microbiology...on and on and on......... Aren't you
glad you practice kinesiology and can potentially find out what the priority
and focus might be just by asking?..... But seriously....who are you asking/
(not that it matters if you are a good at just assuming that the information
is there and is available)

Henry Read, author of Channelling Your Higher Self,, says we must be careful
to be centred and in a higher space when doing this type of testing since we
can easily fall prey to testing within the clients emotional/subconscious
area which is fraught with delusion,unfinished lessons and wishful thinking.
He states that instead we should be sure to connect with the higher or supra
conscious area which will give us more reliability. But, no matter, how much
can we clear ourselves for objectivity how can (most of us) be sure we are
centred and balanced and accessing the correct levels of information? We
continue to work as if the answers we are getting are true although it may
well be that they have come from these lower, muddled areas of
consciousness...ours or our clients.

Have you read the book "The Healing Mind" by Oyle (not a great book, but one
point stand out) Oyle observed having been the type of practitioner who got
great results by doing everything correctly and conscientiously - and by
learning and using elaborate and meticulous methods, that others could get
the same great results while being extremely sloppy and naive with their
technique. He began to analyse why this was so and came up with the answer
that (in my words) "technique doesn't matter".

Have you never noticed how novice partitioners can get great results when
they know only a fraction of what they will know down the road - because
they are innocent enough at their beginnings to believe everything they were
taught and to have such strong bias towards their choosen therapy?

Have you paid attention to the fact that the same type of cure can occur due
to a wide range of therapies - homeopathy, acupuncture, herbs/diet and
nutrition, body work, prayer and hands on healing, drugs and surgery. Will
power,laughter, emotional release...and that the practitioners who most
believe in their work (sometimes even arrogantly so) get the best results.
I¹m convinced that, beyond pure psychic abilities, it is our confidence in
ourselves as practitioners, often instilled by our instructors and training,
that helps us the most. The book Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes (an
author light years ahead of his time) was adamant that the practitioner need
to KNOW that the healing is done. He believed that our confidence and very
strong KNOWING (not wishing or hoping) could do miraculous things.

Have you read the book "Mutant message down Under" and noted the part were
the tribal healing women healed a broken leg, with the jagged bones
protruding through the skin, in a matter of minutes, and the injured man got
up and walked the same day as if no break had occurred. Hundreds of similar
"miracles Πare recorded in the book Holographic Universe.
The book Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot ........ is an absolute
must read. Carefully consider his theories regarding why healings (and other
miracles ) occur. If you read this book you will understand much of my
theory regarding how we accessing the answers to our questions.

As tools Kinesiology and energetic healing have no limits...once we move
beyond the constraints of the technique and the vial, and the confusion set
up by having to learn a supposed theory of protocol set up by someone else.
What is technique/ does the technique really matter or is it simply
something we needed up to now in our more spiritually primitive stages.
Is it merely a motion to perform, one that supports our mental notion of cause
and our Newtonian explanation of our world?
Does healing occur because the practitioner believes what he /she is doing
is what is making the difference? Does healing occur because the client
believes that what the practitioner is doing is making the difference? Both?
some would say yes,others no. Perhaps it's an agreement between the two at
some,yet again, intangible level.

I'm suggesting that we are testing our question and not what is in the
person's hand, or body point being touched,or a related organ associated
with a muscle and I've suggested that we don't need vials for the energetic correction......

I have come to believe that we are accessing levels of information within
the hologram of the client, or from their higher or knowing selves, or from
our higher or knowing selves, and have permission between the two to
proceed. (without permission, the work is not helpful). I believe there is
great potential to becoming confused, but I believe the greater hologram is
where the information is coming from...... not the vial and not the body
responding alone in isolation from the higher mind.

I'm abstracting that working in unison in our INTENT, the clients
willingness and readiness,the confidence we elude to our clients, the
expectations set placed into the 'hologram' by the human community, and most
of all, using all of this, the astounding ability that humans unknowingly
have to manipulate energy with our minds and that this, our birthright, is
what does the healing.

What do you think?

Quotes: "what is the veil that keeps us from seeing and living this great
truth? It is the belief patterns we hold that limits us .....all psychic
energy comes down to two parts, attention and intention. Where the mind
places its attention and whatever intention the mind has, that is what will
happen. Of course, one's belief systems control the possibilities......What
you believe to be true is always your limitation. If you do not believe in
limitation......The technique simply gives the healer a structure for the
mind of that person to focus on, but the real healing comes from the love
that healer is giving to the person being healed. The healer's love for that
person heals, not their knowledge. So speaking of healing without speaking
of love will always evade the truth .....healing people, healing villages,
or healing the entire planet is all the same. The only difference is simply
the greater degree of love......The mind has the knowledge to manipulate
matter, but love has the power to not only manipulate matter, but so
effortlessly create matter from nothing. No matter what the problem is that
needs to be healed , love can always find a way. True love has no limits......."
Quotes from the Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: volume 2.

Glen Pavelich, Saskatchewan, Canada