What Is Manual Muscle Testing?

Manual muscle testing is a type of functional neurology that checks to see what idea or things are distracting for the brain.

Your brain has an idea about how everything inside your body should work, and about how everything outside your body should work.

If something doesn’t meet up to the brain’s idea of what reality should be, for a second it is distracted and there is a delay in the muscle response.

Does Manual Muscle Testing Check for Truth?

No. There is no neurologic tract in the body for veracity.

The body is only able to perceive.

Sometimes we perceive correctly, sometimes we perceive incorrectly.

How Do You Use Manual Muscle Testing?

I use manual muscle testing several ways

1. As adjunctive care with other diagnostics like lab

Sometimes I will use muscle testing to determine which brand of supplement I might suggest or something like that

2. As a tool to determine perceived stress with the treatment modality neuroemotional technique (NET)

With NET we are looking at what emotions or situations are distracting for the brain.

We will have a weak muscle test when the brain is distracted because the person is experiencing stress over a situation.

Manual muscle testing is helpful for finding the stressor and then figuring out the best way to fix it.

3. As a distraction for the mental mind

I will sometimes use muscle testing to help me during energy work.

In this case, I feel like the muscle testing is a sort of automatism that helps to shift away from my mental mind into my third eye so I can see the relevant stories more quickly and more clearly. I don’t think it is necessary, but simply a teaching aid for me at this time of my development.

I am not trained as a talk therapist, so I address the emotional body using a mind-body therapy called neuroemotional technique (NET). Neuroemotional technique (NET) is like EMDR or emotional freedom technique. It seeks to influence behavior and thought subcortically using reflexes. It combines the concept of the conditioned response from behavioral psychology, the understanding that certain organs process out certain emotions from five element Chinese medicine, and the treatment is the chiropractic adjustment of the levels of the spine that innervate the involved organs.

The conditioned response from behavioral psychology is based on an erroneous current association of two things that did go together sometime in the past, but do not necessarily go together now. In NET our treatment is to disarticulate those two independent things so we can have a new experience now, instead of being looped into a repeating pattern of behavior or thought that are a defense or coping mechanism from the past.

Five element Chinese medicine teaches emotions should come into us and go out of us. Each organ is responsible for helping to digest and excrete emotions. So for instance, the lungs help metabolize grief, the liver metabolizes anger, the colon metabolizes stubbornness, and the kidneys metabolize fear. If an emotion gets stuck in the body, that is not healthy for the body. Using muscle testing NET identifies where an emotion is stuck, which emotion is stuck, the first time the emotion got stuck, and what the event or experience was associated with that initial trigger.

The treatment to release the stuck emotion and invite reprogramming of the nervous system around that original event involves touching the emotional reflex point on the forehead and the reflex point for the involved organ while the levels of the spine that innervate that organ are tapped or adjusted and a restorative breath pattern is practiced.

In NET our idea is that there is no bad emotion. All emotions are totally fine. But, an emotion should come in and go out. We should not have any go-to emotions or steady state emotions.

With NET we want to help move people from a place of survival to a place of thriving. To do this, we must embrace flexibility.

In a survival state, people believe control keeps them safe. But the fact of the matter is that we are not in control, therefore control cannot keep us safe.

To thrive, we must be flexible because we cannot control what happens to us, we can only determine how we respond.