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The Hidden Wisdom of the Body
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Muscle Testing or Applied Kineseology
There is a vast reservoir of intelligence, power and soul deep within each of us. This power and this soul are very logical. Our right brains actually have both the ability AND motivation to make things happen at will.
Contrary to popular belief, emotions and logic are not opposed to one another. They’re not mutually exclusive. But they must come to the same conclusions in order to work well together . . . to agree to the same life decisions.
I’ve found in my years of work as a chiropractor, patients were not getting better. I used to agonize over this failure: “Why aren’t they getting well? I’m doing all the right things. My technique is flawless. They’re eating all the right things!” Everything on the surface seemed to be falling into place, but on some deep level the desired results were being blocked.
So what was I missing?
At the time I was practicing something called applied kinesiology (AK). For those of you not aware of this process is simply called “muscle testing,” a simple built-in biofeedback mechanism that anyone can learn to use.
Try muscle testing with a partner, spouse or friend. Test any convenient muscle – say an arm muscle – by holding up their arm while using a few fingers to press on the arm after saying “Hold.” If their arm tests strong (i.e., does not give under the pressure), that indicates a “yes” by the body. If the arm tests slightly weaker or rubbery (i.e., goes down), this may indicate a negative finding.
By testing this way, I was able to get feedback from the body that either this is a yes or a no (or “not yes”).
Many doctors and therapists use this technique to get feedback from the mind/body to determine hidden incompatibility disorders, i.e.
(a) a certain substance or vitamin is good for the body or
(b) this substance or vitamin is not good for the body.
I started using muscle testing for a different reason. I wanted to test for overall congruence of personal statements and affirmations.
After testing this way for several years, I became aware that the “yes” and “no” answers from the body begin to follow a predictable pattern. There was a kind of Morse code being transmitted here. It was as if our subconscious mind – mine and the patient’s – were instantly revealing a sub-stratum of thoughts and decisions we had never known before.
Excited, I started testing more and more on people. I also avoided attending other seminars and workshops while doing this research. I wanted to find out what the body, subconscious, or right brain was saying to me directly . . . NOT what someone else told me they were saying.
I learned that the body gathers up the sum total of all inner decisions and generates an outcome, either “yes” or “no.” I also learned that the answers to these statements told of the immediate outer condition of the person as it pertained to the particular statement.
If, for example, you had problems with money, statements like “I choose to be a millionaire” would test false (weak). If you actually had the capacity within yourself to become a millionaire, however, that statement would be true (strong).
More trials and errors led me to find the secret to discovering the access to any inner (hidden) decision AND change them to be in alignment with current stated goals and affirmations.
Author’s Note: I use A.K. for a particular limited purpose of affirmation feedback, and neither condone nor condemn its use for other purposes. Obviously, any technique so open to interpretation should be considered experimental and not relied on solely as a regimen to diagnose and treat serious diseases or disorders. Consult with your physician or primary health practitioner before undertaking any such regimen.
The Logical Soul: Cycles of Manifestation
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The “Santa Claus Theory of Reality” states that whenever you have a desire, you get a result. This is what a lot of folks – particularly in New Age affirmation circles – believe.
Unless you are already established where you have a big staff working out all the details, however, the “Santa Claus Theory” has no teeth. Depending on the strength of your innermost thoughts and desires, your results will either be
a) strong and focused, or
b) weak and scattered.
If your Soul is in turmoil, your results will be also. Conversely, if your Soul or Being is dynamic, strong and clear, the resulting thoughts, actions and achievements will be also dynamic, strong and clear.
Assuming you are strong and clear, your INSIDE (thoughts and desires) will naturally express itself through your ability to manifest OUTSIDE (Results). The process flows simply and directly from thought to action to fulfillment, and would look like the normal cycle below . . .
Normal Cycle of Manifestation (Congruent):
Thought —> Desire —> Intent —> Action —>
Results —> Fulfillment —> Thought (etc.)
This flow from Being and Thought to Action and Results has only two outcomes. Either it
a) lines up with our conscious DESIRE and INTENT, or
b) fights it.
If both our inner (subconscious) desire/intent and external (conscious) desire/intent are in alignment with one another, I call them congruent.
Congruent intentions are ones that resonate positively on all levels: mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. There comes an “inner knowing” that automatically translates into external results. Successful people naturally have (or have developed) this power.
Incongruent intentions, on the other hand, create errors and self-sabotage. Mixed intentions simply fight one another and waste energy, life, and results. There is no “inner knowing” since there is little connection between with the real source of one’s power and the ability to express it. These folks – the vast majority of humans, by the way – stumble through life and are never able to quite “get it together.”
They remain unfulfilled . . .
Error Cycle of Manifestation (Incongruent):
Thought —> Desire + Hidden Decision —>
Mixed Intent —> Action w/Hidden Agenda —>
Stop Action or Self-Sabotage —> Un-Fulfillment —> (etc.)
A goal or statement that “speaks to your soul” is considered a congruent statement. It provides a powerful basis for fulfillment of that same goal or statement. Powerful thoughts naturally lead to powerful actions, achievements, and fulfillment. Such is the nature of success.
The world of success is populated by those I consider “The Great Ones”: the Tiger Woodses, Tony Robbinses, David Schwartzes, Robert Kyosakis and Oprah Winfreys we all know and love. It is a world where opposites co-exist: wealth and poverty, winning and losing; and health and sickness. This world can reward you abundantly OR it can lead you to loss, fear and poverty IF you don’t know how it works.
The Great Ones have learned to navigate within this world effortlessly by becoming congruent or aligned with their real intent. They naturally focus on what they want and conceive of owning it right now, not months or years. While it may take longer to physically arrive, the object of their intention has already manifested . . . much like ordering a gift item over the phone and giving them your credit card. It is done. Move on to the next item.
Once Tiger Woods dials up a Birdie on the fourth hole in Augusta, there’s little doubt he will get it! When Tony Robbins chooses to have perfect health, he not only finds a way to bring it about, he enrolls thousands of other people into this idea as well! Such is the raw power of congruent intent, or clear focus.
So how do the Great Ones “get congruent” and develop such focus?
In a word: Instinct.
Next: How to cultivate a “success instinct.”
