What is Muscle Testing?

FAQ on Kinesiology- Muscle Testing

What is Kinesiology-Muscle Testing?

Muscle Testing, or Applied Kinesiology (AK) is based on the concept of internal energy fundamental to Traditional Chinese Medicine. AK uses the Triad of Health. That is Chemical, Mental and Structural factors that balance the major health categories.

AK is a noninvasive way of evaluating the body’s imbalances and assessing its needs. It involves testing the body’s responses when apply slight pressure to a large muscle (usually the left arm) to provide information on energy blockages the functioning of the organs, nutritional deficiencies, and food sensitivities, among other things. It can also be used to test the body’s response to herbs and other natural remedies.

How does muscle testing work?

Everything is energy; everything we see, taste, touch, smell and hear is a vibration. These vibrations either make our body strong—or weaken it.

Some foods make us feel sleepy after eating. We are attracted to certain colors. You work with someone that makes you feel happy.

The goal of muscle testing is to find those things, foods, people, and external influences that strengthen your body and limit exposure to those things that weaken.

Physiologically speaking, the body is an interacting whole. Muscles, organs, and glands are interconnected via energy circuits of nerves, lymphatics, energy meridians, and blood vessels. These circuits “turn off” when imbalanced or blocked by illness, injury, or toxin overload. By balancing the body’s energy systems, we are able to heal and return to feeling healthy and joyful.

The AK practitioner Muscle Tests your body by using an indicator muscle, which is used to test  “yes” and “no” questions. A negative answer to a question gives a sagging, clicking, or spongy feeling to the indicator muscle by short-circuiting or overloading the system. A positive response is signaled by a strong indicator muscle.

Will muscle testing work for me even if I don’t understand how it works?

The conscious mind wants to control and hold onto old belief systems, but your body does not lie. It will honestly assess what it needs when asked directly.

How effective is muscle testing?

It is a truly holistic system because it assesses the Triad of Health. Most of the people Skye treats have tried many other types of health care professionals such as conventional doctors, chiropractors, massage therapists, osteopaths, and naturopaths. Muscle testing is an effective way to treat any imbalance in the body, whether it be emotional, structural, or physiological. The guess work is removed–your body is being asked directly what it needs to thrive.

While some therapies provide temporary improvement, it is very difficult to achieve permanent healing without knowing the source of the symptoms.

Kinesiology is different from other forms of natural healing because:

1. It uses muscle testing, an incredible way for the body to communicate directly with you.

2. It looks at whole body systems.

3. It looks at all causes of health problems including emotional, nutritional, chemical, structural, and electrical causes.