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Vitality
Protocols
Something to Ponder:
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or short, begins with one step.
Tools and Tips
for Your Well Being, Growth, Health and Life
How and Why to Muscle-Check
The
human body is a more amazing machine than we've been brought up to give
it credit for. For many of us, we grow up thinking of it as a
machine that has parts that function, arms and legs, eyes and mouth,
muscle and bone -- and all controlled by the intelligence of the
mind. We are conditioned to believe that all the control,
wisdom and memory within our systems resides in the brain.
Because
of that belief, we become very mental in how we go about to make our
life choices, deal with issues, try to solve our problems. We
spend hours agonizing over choices, trying to think through all the
what-ifs. But it doesn't all need to be mental! The
body has much more intelligence spread throughout into which we can tap
for assistance.
The
muscles are an ideal way to examine or confirm what is really "right"
for you. Scientifically the process is called applied
kinesiology. The muscular system can respond in different
ways to yes or no questions about what is appropriate for the
body. We're not talking about yes or no questions such as
"will my team win the Super Bowl?" What we're looking for is
an answer to a question such as "is eating this item appropriate for my
body at this time?" Other questions may be "is this
supplement for my highest good?" Answering that question can
be useful when standing in a pharmacy and seeing shelves and shelves of
products by different makers and not knowing which, if any, to choose.
What
makes muscle testing so helpful is that the body inherently will be
truthful. How many of us go through a lot of second-guessing
when trying to think through a problem? Most of us, for
sure. Somehow the brain has the ability to create doubts
whenever any solution is developed. Many times we may have a
quick intuitive feel for what to do, only to cloud the issue with other
choices and then trying to figure out the right one. By
trusting the innate wisdom of our bodies, however, there is a much more
direct and simple approach.
There
are a variety of ways to muscle check. You may have even seen
some in action. Occasionally you will see someone holding
their arm straight out to the side while a second person (sometimes a
chiropractor or other practitioner) asks questions and tries to push
the arm down. If the answer to the question is 'yes' or
'true,' the arm can't be pushed down, no matter how much reasonable
force he second person applies. If the answer is 'no' or
'false,' the arm will drop to a moderate press from the second
person. The use of muscles to help answer the question will
bypass the mind's attempt to control the answer.
Obviously
it's not convenient to ask a second person to push our arms down when
we're trying to make a decision. But there are useful ways to
do it yourself. You can just use a different set of muscles
and method to achieve the same effect. After all, if wisdom
is in the system of muscles, it is in all the muscles.
So
let's explain one simple means of muscle checking.
In
this lesson we will discuss a method that uses the fingers.
With your non-dominant hand, press together the tips of your thumb and
index finger, forming a small loop or teardrop shape. Keep a
reasonable amount of pressure -- it should be firm and
strong. Then place the index finger from your dominant hand
into the loop you just made with the other hand. Ask your
system to show you a clear 'yes' and then try to move the dominant
hand's index finger between the finger tips of the
loop. You should be able to get your finger to break through
the loop with a mild effort. Now repeat the process
and ask your system to show you a clear 'no.' Again
try and move your dominant index finger through the
fingertips of the loop. This time you should find that the
loop will stop the finger from getting through. You will feel
the dominant finger come to a stop from the bond of the index finger
and thumb.
A
caveat: because we are all wired differently, there are some people for
whom the muscle checking will respond in the reverse: that is, a 'yes'
could be indicated by the finger not
making it
through the loop and a 'no' by breaking through the loop. For
this reason, before using muscle-checking to answer any questions you
might have, you should ask first for a generic yes or no response, and
then test that response with a couple of questions about your
name. First say "my name is ______" with your correct name
and do the muscle test and you should get the same result as when you
asked for a 'yes' response. Now say it using a different
made-up name, and your system should come back with a 'no' response.
Now
you can use that method to ask the kinds of questions your body can
help reveal. It may be a question such as 'is it in
my highest and best good to drink this cup of coffee right
now?' to something more in depth.
The
benefits of asking lies in how clear and specific the question
is phrased. For example, you could ask "is it in my highest
and best good to take a vacation now?" but the response might not be
fully appropriate because the issue has other factors impacting
it. There are considerations of money, time, work
etc. So the question would be better worded "taking into
account money, time and work, is it in my highest and best good to take
a vacation trip to Rome now?" The more complete and specific,
the more useful and appropriate the response.
The
skill of asking the right question is an important component of the
process. Contact us for information about how to develop
questions in ways that will give the more helpful responses.
Like
any tool and skill, your facility gains with practice, so you should
try it out and gain some facility. When using it for more
complicated issues, the ability to trust the system and not try and
force the answer is critical. The mind will be tempted to
interfere and to force the fingers to give the answer you may think you
want. But the system is not meant to give you what you think
you want to hear, but rather to show you what's in your
highest good.
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