The event I mentioned in the last post happened like this:
The class was studying all the various ways people have described human energy systems through the millenia. We addressed Chinese, Auryvedic and Native American healing traditions among others. As part of the class I introduced them to the idea of applied kinesiology (AK), also known as muscle testing.
If you’re unfamiliar with it, AK is based on the fact that our energy field is very responsive to both inner and outer influences. The classic example is having someone hold a package of white sugar and comparing the before and after strength of a particular muscle. In this example, the most common response is that the muscle becomes substantially weaker simply because the sugar is within the person’s energy field. They don’t even need to taste it.
There are other simple ways to get a weakened response when doing AK. I showed the students a couple of these, then had them practice with one another.
A few minutes later, one of the students came up to me and sheepishly told me that she couldn’t get the exercise to work. She asked if I could come show her what she was doing wrong.
Her partner was a good sized, muscular man. In my experience with energy work this shouldn’t have made a difference, so I thought I’d demonstrate to her how the exercise works by doing it on him.
Imagine my surprise when, for the first time ever, the simple techniques I used to get the weakened muscle response didn’t work! Most curious!
I looked at him and wondered why. A few seconds went by before in idea popped into my head about another way to do the exercise. So I asked him to hold his arm out horizontally and did a ‘neutral’ test, which is the usual way to begin the exercise – we want to get a general sense of how strong a person is before making any changes. He was very strong and his arm didn’t budge when I asked him to resist and then pressed down on his arm.
Then, for the testing part, I closed my eyes and did a short series of mental questions directed at him. When I got a response that seemed promising I opened my eyes and prepared to say, “resist” to him and push down on his arm. Just before I said it, he looked at me with astonishment and said, “You have good intent!”
I said, “resist” and his arm went right down with very little pressure on my part.
Okay, here’s the key question: What did I do when I asked the short series of mental questions that allowed me to push his arm down with almost no effort?
Think about it for a day or two and then come back for the answer…
Be well,
Dr. Bruce