Part 13 Muscle Testing; Kinesiology; Kendall; Goodheart; Diamond; Hawkins
Performance & The Subconscious Mind- Part 13 Muscle Testing; Kinesiology; Kendall; Goodheart; Diamond; Hawkins
Posted February 19, 2011 by Richard Matteson
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Communicating with the Subconscious
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Dr. David Hawkins
We’ve learned that the subconscious is incredibly powerful. It operates our bodies with amazing efficiency. Maybe we can communicate with our subconscious through our bodies. What can our bodies tell us?
“IMAGINE-WHAT IF you had access to a simple yes-or-no answer to any question you wished to ask? A demonstrably true answer. Any question. Think about it.” [from the preface of 1995 book Power Versus Force by David Hawkins]
According to Hawkins and many others there is a way that our conscious mind can communicate with our subconscious mind- it’s through our muscles! After all, the subconscious mind runs our bodies and muscles. Verbally giving a true statement makes the muscle strong but given a false statement makes the muscle weak. Your subconscious mind is telling you what the truth is!!!
Not only can your subconscious mind tell you what it believes to be true but it is connected to a “collective consciousness” which is a vast database of human consciousness. Hawkins, who began experimenting with the muscle test truth and falsehood proceedure in 1975 says in this book Power Versus Force, ”The database transcends time and space and all limitations of individual consciousness.”
What Hawkins is saying is nothing new. This is what Carl Jung meant by the collective unconscious. Thomas Troward (covered in an earlier Blog) earlier echoed this sentiment with his collective “creative” subjective (subconscious) mind, a concept he developed in the late 1800s.
Hawkins experimented with muscle testing procedures that he learned from Dr. George Goodheart, who founded Applied Kinesiology and John Diamond who founded Behavioral Kinesiology. The following quote by Hawkins about one of his muscle testing demonstrations warrants outside scientific investigation and confirmation:
“When I was on the lecture circuit, in audiences of 1000 people, 500 envelopes containing artificial sweetener would be passed out to the audience, along with 500 envelopes containing organic vitamin C. The audience would then be divided up and would alternate (muscle) testing each other. When the envelopes were opened, the audience reaction was always one of amazement and delight when they saw everyone had gone weak in response to the artificial sweetener and strong in response to the Vitamin C.
That the body responded when the mind was naive was quite impressive…The overwhelming conclusion is that the body would indeed respond accurately even when the mind is unaware.” David Hawkins- Power Versus Force; 1995
Certainly this corroborates the information about hypnosis from Quimby (See my Blog on Hypnosis and Quimby) who realized the medical information coming from his hypnotized subject was coming from outside the realm of his subject’s knowledge. Realizing that hypnosis wasn’t the answer, Quimby simply tapped into the his subconscious and healed people- but he didn’t know how he did it.
Phineas Quimby learned this in the mid 1800s yet the scientific validation about hypnosis and the subconscious mind is still lacking. Hawkins work is also considered pseudo-science by many in the scientific community. What Hawkins did besides his muscle testing was calibrate consciousness. By using muscles testing and other methods he organized the information about consciousness from the subconscious database into his “map of consciousness” first presented in 1995 and reoccurring in subsequent books. More on that later.
In this long blog we’ll explore the hidden powers of the subconscious mind by looking at kinesiology- the study of human body movement- through muscle testing. In our last blog Harry Carpenter also mentioned muscle testing as a way to communicate with the subconscious.
Resistance Muscle Testing
Originally the purpose of resistance muscle testing, which was performed manually and much later by machines, was to determine the extent of muscular weakness as the result of an injury, disease or disuse. In 1912 Dr. Robert Lovett of the Harvard Medical School used resistive muscle testing to isolate each muscle of the body according to its individual function and apply a resistive force (either by gravity or the examiner) against the muscle as it flexes or extends.
In 1922, Charles L. Lowman, an orthopedic surgeon in Los Angeles, worked out a numerical system for grading muscle resistance. It was used with the gravity tests but covered the ranges of active motion in the joints in much greater detail.
The husband and wife team of physical therapists, Kendall & Kendall, published the landmark textbook, Muscles: Testing and Function around 1948.
Muscle testing is also referred to as Applied Kinesiology.
In the early 1960s chiropractor Dr. George Goodheart used Kendall & Kendall’s muscle testing to treat problems with his patients. Around 1964 he developed what we now know as Applied Kinesiology by testing weak muscles and trying to find different sources that made the muscles weak when they should be strong.
Here’s the key point that was used by Diamond and Hawkins:
These causes of weak muscles were the result of different stressors affecting the body’s nervous system, and the body’s organs as well. Goodheart found that the muscles of the body instantly became weak when the body was exposed to allergens or harmful substances. Emotions also effect the nervous system and muscles. Since telling the truth or a lie creates different emotional states this also effects the muscles.
Goodheart stated that AK techniques can also be used to evaluate nerve, vascular, and lymphatic systems; the body’s nutritional state; the flow of “energy” along “acupuncture meridians”; and “cerebro spinal fluid function.” The 70-page chapter on “meridian therapy” in a leading AK textbook advises that subluxations influence the status of meridian system and vice versa.
Dr. John Diamond – Behavioral Kinesiology
The founder of Behaviorial Kinesiology, John Diamond, MD, (born August 9, 1934) graduated from Sydney University Medical School in 1957 and was awarded his Diploma in Psychological Medicine in 1962. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, a Foundation Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, American Holistic Medical Association, a Diplomat of the International College of Applied Kinesiology and is a Fellow and past-president of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine. [Wiki]
“His development of Life-Energy Analysis in the 1970s (originally called Behaviorial Kinesiology) and his discovery of the link between the meridians and the emotions, are just two examples of a remarkable body of work embracing a wide range of disciplines, the result of over forty years of research and clinical practice. … Diamond was the first medical doctor trained in applied kinesiology to become a Diplomate of the International Board of Applied Kinesiology (1976) and he is the only doctor trained in applied kinesiology to have studied personally with Florence Kendall, publisher of Muscles-testing and Function that first inspired George Goodheart. ”
—”John Diamond: The Third Side of the Triangle”
Diamond’s book, Your Body Doesn’t Lie (originally released as Behavioral Kinesiology), has a procedure for using muscle tests to answer questions from the subconscious mind. It’s described by Hawkins in Power Versus Force:
In the late seventies Dr. John Diamond refined this [Goodheart's] specialty into a new discipline he called Behavioral Kinesiology. Dr. Diamond’s startling discovery was that indicator muscles would strengthen or weaken in the presence of positive or negative emotional and intellectual stimuli, as well as physical stimuli.’
A smile will make you test strong. The statement, “I hate you,” will make you test weak. Before we go any farther, let us explain in detail exactly how one “tests,” especially as the reader will certainly wish to try this himself.
Here is Dr. Diamond’s outline, from his 1979 book, Your Body Doesn’t Lie, of the procedure adapted by him from the classic description in H.O. Kendall’s Muscles: Testing and Function (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 2nd ed.,1971).
It takes two people to perform a kinesiological test. Choose a friend or a family member for testing. We’ll call him or her your subject.
1. Have the subject stand erect, right arm relaxed at his side, left arm held out parallel to the floor, elbow straight. (You may use the other arm if you wish.)
2. Face your subject and place your left hand on his right shoulder to steady him. Then place your right hand on the subject’s extended left arm just above the wrist.
3. Tell the subject you are going to try to push his arm down as he resists with all his strength.
4. Now push down on his arm fairly quickly, firmly and evenly. The idea is to push just hard enough to test the spring and bounce in the arm, not so hard that the muscle becomes fatigued. It is not a question of who is stronger, but of whether the muscle can “lock” the shoulder joint against the push.
Assuming there is no physical problem with the muscle and the subject is in a normal, relaxed state of mind, receiving no extraneous stimuli (for this reason it is important that the tester not smile or otherwise interact with the subject), the muscle will “test strong”-the arm will remain locked. If the test is repeated in the presence of a negative stimulus (for instance, artificial sweetener), “although you are pushing down no harder than before, the muscle will not be able to resist the pressure and the subject’s arm will fall to his side.”
A striking aspect of Diamond’s research was the uniformity of response among his subjects. Diamond’s results were predictable, repeatable, universal. This was so even where no rational link existed between stimulus and response.
You can see the John Diamond muscle test (above) performed by Hawkins and his wife on YouTube. There are also various self-administered muscle tests you can try by reading on-line or watching on YouTube. Certainly all of them take some practice. What you are trying to do is bypass the ego (conscious) and get information directly from your subconscious- which according to Hawkins is also connected to or part of the universal database.
By using muscle testing to get answers from universal database (collective subconscious) Hawkins has constructed a “map of consciousness” calibrating 17 different levels of consciousness assigning the levels a number from 1-1000. The lowest is Shame (1-20) then Guilt all the way up to Joy, Peace and Enlightenment (700-1000). You simply ask, “Is my level of consciousness above 100?” If the muscle test answer is “yes,” you increase the number until you find your level.
Hawkins “map of consciousness” is beyond the scope of this blog which is investigating the subconscious mind to understand how we can perform better. Established scientific clinical studies have yet to conclusively endorse Applied Kinesiology and Behavioral Kinesiology. It’s being used today by thousands of chiropractors and wellness healers. Unfortunately, science is not yet able to understand the complex workings of the mind.
Applying muscle testing to get answers about our performance situations is just another way we can use our subconscious to find out truthful answers to questions.
Am I ready to perform?
Do I like performing?
Have I learned to play this piece well enough to successfully perform it?
Once we know answers from our subconscious mind we can work on the problem areas by changing limiting beliefs and aligning or balancing our sub-conscious and conscious mind.
There are many different branches and methods that use muscle testing including PSYCH-K® also known as Psychological Kinesiology and Touch for Health which was created by John F. Thie, DC (1933-2005) in 1973.
Hope you’ve enjoyed this blog. Are there more blogs to come?
Find the answer in….your subconscious mind!
Richard