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Here is an excellent TOOL to help enhance your life energy and creativity, and to stay strong and healthy in your life and in your body as we progress towards 2012 and beyond.
This invaluable TOOL was developed by Dr. John Diamond, a Pioneer of "Body Muscle Testing." He founded Behavioral Kinesiology and Energy Medicine.
Muscle Testing can be used to test your body for the things that help make your body strong, healthful, and full of life, such as food, supplements, treatments, habits, thoughts, etc. And alternatively, you can also test for those things that make your body go weak, and make you loose health and vitality. Ask your Health Practitioner to use Muscle Testing in their practice to help you make better choices for Life, Health, Vitality and Longevity.
To learn how to do Muscle Testing for your own Body, there are several links included below to help get you started. It is best to learn with another person, or a group of people if possible.
Peace and Blessings
The Homing Thought
By John Diamond, M.D. (Pioneer and Founder of Behavioral Kinesiology and Energy Medicine)
When I was a youngster growing up in Australia, I often went surfing at the Sydney beaches. Whenever there was a big wave coming, my friends and I would dive for the sand at the bottom of the water and hold on to that sand with our fingertips. The wave would pass over, and we would come up to the surface. The water would now be perfectly calm, but on all sides, there would be scattered surfboards, and people sputtering for breath and spitting out water. We had learned that as soon as we were faced with this situation of stress, we could dive down, grab on to our securing handhold, and hang on to our ‘rock’ until the stress passed.
There is a rock that each of us can have all the time throughout our lives. That rock is what I call the homing thought.
The homing thought of a young man called Peter was that he would someday be a recording star singing religious hymns in church. I demonstrated that if I pushed him, shook him, threatened him or made sudden noises, he would lose life energy. But as long as he held on to his homing thought, no stress could weaken him.
Peter learned to keep this thought in his mind as often as possible. This homing thought was more complex than his immediate goal of obtaining a psychological counseling job. His homing thought was his purpose in life. As long as he held on to that purpose – and this is greater than a goal – he could be severely stressed and yet remain strong.
I call it the homing thought because it reminds me of an airplane pilot who is lost in a storm. He turns on his direction finder and tunes in to his homing beacon, which guides him safely home. We each can have this homing beacon for our lives, and this is the homing thought. It holds us steadfast on our course.
Herbert Read’s ‘Unamuo’s Comment on Don Quixote’ is one of the best descriptions I have encountered of the homing thought:
In saying “I know who I am,” Don Quixote said only “I know what I will be!” That is the hinge of all human life: to know what one wills to be. Little ought you to care who you are; the urgent thing is what you will be. The being that you are is but an unstable, perishable being, which eats of the earth and which the earth some day will eat; what you will to be is the idea of you in God, the Consciousness of the universe; it is the divine idea of which you are the manifestation in time and space. And your longing impulse toward the one you will to be is only homesickness drawing you toward your divine home. Man is complete and upstanding only when he would be more than man.
We can all develop our homing thoughts. To begin to find yours, sit down and list some of the things that you would really like to be. Of course, these will differ from in individual to individual. You may wish to be a priest, a horticulturalist or a seamstress. You may see yourself walking through life in a monk’s habit like Saint Francis of Assisi. In your mind, you may be conducting music or playing the piano. It need not matter to anyone else – it is your homing thought. Just sit down and write down some of the possibilities to which you aspire.
As we go through life, our thinking, our desires, our aspirations and our sense of purpose all evolve and change. That is to be expected. But write down what you think are some of the most likely choices that you would work for at the moment. And then, one by one, test them. Think of each one very clearly in your mind to yourself. Picture it as vividly as you can. Hold on to one image of your homing thought and imagine yourself being stressed by something. You should be able to tell which one homing thought above all others will keep you centered, be your rock. When you find your homing thought, you will be much less vulnerable to the effects of stress.
Any sudden stress – even thinking about a stress – depletes the life energy if the subject is uncentered. This weakness, this vulnerability to stress, can be overcome through the use of the homing thought.
Recommended Book:
This book is a classic of its kind. Although it is probably best known for its discussion of the kinesiological muscle test, it is ultimately more important for showing that stimuli, whether physical or otherwise, effect our Life Energy constantly for better or worse. Furthermore, these effects tend to be the same for all observers: unconsciously, this painting, that food and so on all effect us the same, regardless of what we think in our conscious minds. This, of course, is a remarkable discovery, and the implications of it have been explored more fully by Dr. Diamond in many of his subsequent works. In short, this has to be one of the most important health books of the twentieth century.
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Behavioral Kinesiology
Behavioral Kinesiology was developed by John Diamond based on the philosophy of Applied Kinesiology.
Each muscle is believed to be related to a particular organ, but a special focus is put on the thymus gland that plays a key role in regulating a person’s psychic energy.
Behavioral Kinesiology assesses and evaluates the effects of all stimuli on the body, internal and external, in order to arrive at a new understanding of the body energy system.
The degree of stress under which a patient is functioning is assessed and a rebalancing of the body energy is facilitated by showing the patient how to reduce stress and how to correct emotional attitudes.
The Five Principles of Behavioral Kinesiology
- All disease is seen as resulting from stress, causing an imbalance in the body. The reduction of stress and the associated emotional attitudes are of utmost importance.
- Primary prevention – prevention before illness sets in, be it mental or physical – plays an essential role.
- The patient has to take charge of his own treatment. The role of the Behavioral Kinesiologist is merely that of a teacher, showing the patient how to alter his behavioral pattern in order to reduce stress and thus leading him back to a healthy state.
- Great natural healing forces exist within us and around us that set in once stress is reduced and behavior is corrected. Synthetic drugs are seen as unnatural methods that diminish life energy, retard the healing process, and do not help to reduce stress or correct the behavioral problems.
- All problems begin at the energy level and corrections are only possible at that level.
Behavioral Kinesiology Treatment
Behavioral Kinesiology is based on the theory that if we are using or thinking something that is good for us, our muscles will be stronger and if we are using or thinking something that is bad for us, our muscles will be weaker. Now, how is the muscle strength tested?
The client stands erect, his right arm relaxed at his side, his left arm held out parallel to the floor with the elbow straight and both hands open. The practitioner faces the client and places his left hand on his right shoulder to steady him. He then puts his right hand on the client’s extended arm just above the wrist. Now, he tells the client that he is going to try to push his arm down as he resists. He quickly and firmly pushes down on the arm, just hard enough to test the spring and bounce in the arm, but not so hard that the muscle becomes fatigued.
As thoughts and intentions are powerful, both the practitioner and the client should try to stay open and curious about what will be discovered with each muscle test. They should try to avoid to prove anything or to verify some assumptions about the likely result of the test.
The Behavioral Kinesiology muscle testing allows the practitioner and the client to get to the core of the stressor very quickly, and then to release the true cause of the problem gently and effectively.
Applied Kinesiology:
"Applied Kinesiology, AK" was founded in 1964 by the American chiropractor George Goodheart and is now used by chiropractors, osteopaths, medical doctors, dentists and others with a license to diagnose. Dr. George Goodheart found that evaluation of normal and abnormal body function could be accomplished by using muscle tests. Since the original discovery, the principle has broadened to include evaluation of the nervous, vascular, and lymphatic systems, nutrition, acupuncture, and cerebrospinal fluid function. The international organization of Applied Kinesiology is called International College of Applied Kinesiology. (Source: http://www.kinesiology.net/kinesiology.asp)
To Learn More:
Recommended Book:
The Ultimate Healing System: The Illustrated Guide To Muscle Testing & Nutrition by Donald Lepore, ND
Dr. LePore describes his completely holistic healing system, based on Biokinesiology diagnosis and drugless therapies which include vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, herbs, amino acids, cell salts and bath therapy.
The Ultimate Healing System is a comprehensive guide to biokinesiology and nutritional therapy. The LePore Technique includes therapy with vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids and homeopathic remedies. This easy-to-understand, fully-illustrated guide is a must for anyone interested in alternative healing.
Recommended Book:
Power vs Force by David R. Hawkins, MD
The following is excerpted from the book Power vs Force by Dr. David R. Hawkins: Details of Kinesiologic Testing.
Scientific validity depends upon replicability. To ensure reliable duplication of results, the kinesiologic testing techniques used for all of the research cited in this book [Power vs Force] is described in detail below. It's essentially the same method developed by Dr. John Diamond in his pioneering work, Behavioral Kinesiology.
Step 1
Two people are required (see note). To determine the suitability of a test subject, the tester presses down quickly with two fingers on the wrist of the horizontally extended arm of the subject, simultaneously telling them to "resist" (against the downward pressure). A normal subject is able to resist the pressure and keep their arm extended parallel to the ground.
Occasionally, there are people who are unable to keep their arm extended when any downward pressure is applied due to previous contact with weakening energy fields or negative health conditions; these aren't suitable test subjects. Some of these subjects can recover by thumping themselves over the Thymus gland (at the top of the breastbone) in a "one-two-three" rhythm, while they smile and think of someone they love. They'll then "go strong" and respond normally, but the "fix" may last for only four hours and this "thymus thump" will then have to be repeated.
(Note: Some people are able to get good results just by themselves by making an "O" ring with their thumb and forefinger. When the results are "true," the "O" is strong and it's difficult to pull the thumb and forefinger apart; a "no" makes them relatively weak and easy to separate. If an important decision is to be made, it's best to verify the answer by the 2-person method described above.)
Step 2
Keep the testing situation impersonal -- refrain from smiling or making personal comments; keep the environment free of noise, background music, or distractions such as pets, or intrusive children. Remove metal objects, such as eyeglass frames, from the test subject's body midline. Also remove watches or jewelry (including necklaces). Be aware that aberrant stimuli, such as a tester's perfume or aftershave lotion, may affect the test results. To improve concentration, have the test subject close their eyes.
Step 3
If subjects repeatedly go weak, evaluate the examiner's voice. The voice that makes others go weak disqualifies its owner as a tester under ordinary conditions.
Step 4
Do a trial run with the prospective subject. Ask the candidate to think of someone they love, then press down with two fingers on the wrist of the arm extended out to the side, parallel to the ground. A normal subject will go quite strong and be able to resist firmly. Next, have the party think of someone they hate, fear, or have resentment toward. ( Aldolf Hitler will alternative work) A normal subject will go very weak and be unable to resist downward pressure on their wrist. Run through a few more contrasting pairs of stimuli to establish consistency or response and to develop a rapport between tester and subject. Some sample ideological, visual, and auditory stimuli with predictable responses are:
Test Weak .................... Test Strong
Hate...............................Love
Swastika........................American Flag
Joseph Stalin..................Mahatma Gandhi
Gangster rap music.........Classical Music
Step 5
After establishing that the test subject reacts reliably and is in a normal state, proceed with the topic under investigation by making declarative statements. Questions should always be posed as a declaration of fact; it's useless to ask questions about the future, as the test results will have no reliability. Always preface the investigation with the statement,
"I have permission to make inquiry into _____________________ (the specific topic)." (yes/no?)
The line of questioning itself can be checked by stating, "This is the correct form for the question." (yes/no?)
The statement -- such as "The accused committed the burglary." (yes/no?) -- may be made by either the questioner or the test subject.
Each time a question is stated, the test subject is told to resist and the tester presses down quickly with two fingers on the test subject's extended wrist.
In our research, we frequently used teams of test subjects. For example, 20, 30 or up to 1,000 people were divided into two-person teams who took turns as tester and test subject. The entire group was asked the same question at the same time, or was divided into subgroups for independent research projects. In a group of 100 people (50 two-person teams), perhaps one or two will have difficulty obtaining the same results as the others. They can be taken aside to do the "thymus thump" [described in Step 1], which will return their responses to normal, and they can then rejoin the group.
Using the above method, test results are 100 percent replicable over the course of time so that any group of people anywhere will always produce the same results; for example, the image of Adolph Hitler will make everybody go weak, even if they've never heard of him or think that he's a great national hero.
Step 6
The test can also be performed by holding test objects next to solar plexus of the test subjects. They'll be found to go weak in response to artificial sweetener, pesticides, or even a picture of Hitler concealed in a manila envelope. They'll go strong in response to nutritious food, beneficial medicines and nutrients, a concealed picture of Abraham Lincoln, and so on.
Step 7
Test results can be verified to be independent of the test subject's knowledge, opinions, belief systems, or attitudes. For example, an image of Nelson Mandela will make all test subjects to strong, even racists who resent him. The music of Bach makes everyone go strong, even if they don't like it, just as heavy metal music makes all subjects go weak, even if they personally prefer it.
This confirmability of results by thousands of clinicians using kinesiology in their everyday clinical practices or for research. The results, in fact, are more consistent than conventional diagnostic methods used in traditional medicine (that is, a weak heart never tests strong with kinesiology, but may give an erroneous normal EKG tracing -- this is a well known fact).
