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Intuition in Healing

Every one of us has intuitive abilities.  Brain researchers feel that the right side of the brain is the intuitive side and the left side of the brain is the logical side.  The right side of the brain focuses on holistic thought, whereas the left side of the brain is focused on linear thought.   During stress, the natural energetic connections between the two hemispheres of the brain can be disrupted.  This is the brain imbalance that I described in detail in previous chapters.  In order to access your intuition and act appropriately on it, you need to be brain balanced with both hemispheres communicating to each other.

I have noticed that a few weeks after my patients have been brain balancing using LifeWave Y-Age Aeon patches on a daily basis, they begin to listen to their intuition better.  Not only that, they begin acting on it.  Synchronicities seem to come more often and they become almost “luckier”.  The choices they make in everyday life seem to be more in alignment with their Higher Selves and they don’t seem to be struggling as much. 

My patient, Joan, was dreading the trip back to her deceased mother’s home to do the final clean up.  She couldn’t even think about the trip without bursting into tears.  As she put it, “I was a basket-case!”  She knew she couldn’t put off the project much longer.  She came to me to help her emotional instability.  Her brain balance test was markedly abnormal.  Within two weeks of patching her head with the LifeWave Y-Age Aeon patches, she reported that she had successfully made the trip to her mother’s home, cleaned up the place and hardly experienced any stress.  Her friends and family were dumbfounded at the shift in Joan’s attitude.  In my experience, when the brain hemispheres are balanced and the stress handling system is in “quiet” mode, we are more receptive to our intuitive messages.

Intuition can help you make healthy decisions when you are clear of attachments.  When you are attached to a certain outcome, you can cloud your own intuition and make decisions that may not be for your highest and greatest good.  Your intuition can help you, for example, with the following:

         What foods your body wants to be nourished with
         What healthcare providers/doctors would be a good fit for you
         What supplements may be helpful
         What foods you should avoid
         What relationships you need to either heal or avoid
         What healing modality is best suited to your needs and personality
         Attracting supportive people into your life

 

All of us are born intuitive.  Unfortunately, as children, we are literally conditioned to ignore our intuition.  We are forced to conform to family or society rules of behavior and conduct.  I’ll give you a concrete example.  Have you ever seen a child refuse to hug or kiss a family member?  From the parent’s point of view this refusal can be emotionally devastating especially when there is no logical reason for it.  Basically the child is energetically “turned off” and the refusal is based on an intuitive feeling.  Very few children are consciously encouraged by their parents to follow their intuitive gut feelings.  Why?  Because it makes them unpopular with other family members.  So great is this systematic deadening of our intuitive nature, that by the time we reach adulthood, we’ve all but forgotten how to access it.

When we do not remember how to listen to our intuition, we can get into a lot of trouble.  Often, chronic pain is a result of not listening to our intuitive guidance.  We may have refused to listen to our intuitive hits to take better care of ourselves.  We may have said “yes” when we really wanted to say “no” when someone asked us for a favor.  Our pain then becomes the intuitive message in order to get us to pay attention to what really serves us and what doesn’t.

Not listening to our intuition can be really costly.  It was for me.  Long ago, I was interviewed by a colleague for a job.  My husband and I desperately needed an income source because we were building our dream house and both of us had quit high paying jobs to do it.  The doctor was extremely charismatic and to my logical mind, it sounded like a dream job.  There was, however, a part of me that felt very uneasy.  I didn’t trust this doctor, but I didn’t know why.  I consulted with a medical practice consultant and she had some concerns as well. 

My husband, on the other hand, was also charismatic and convinced me to accept the job because he felt that nothing better was going to come along.  I was convinced by my husband instead of following my gut, and I signed the contract and began working for this doctor.  Within a year, I knew I had made the wrong decision.  He had lied to me about how much money he could get from the insurance companies, so I never got paid for some of the work I did.  Finally, we parted ways, but I was really mad at myself for not trusting my intuition.  Not only did I lose money, I lost self-respect which in turn, affected my health.  This is just an example of how ignoring one’s intuition can be very costly. 

When we’re out of practice with listening and then following through on intuitive information, we become less proficient at it.  We become just like a musician who never practices her art.  At one time, I was able to play a perfectly executed Chopin Waltz on the piano because I practiced hours every day.  But today, I can’t play it well because my fingers won’t play as fast as they used to and I don’t remember the piece.  However, if I practiced it again, even for a couple of days in a row, my muscle memory kicks in and I’m able to rapidly improve my playing.  It is the same situation with intuition.  If you practice listening to and following through on your intuition, your skill will improve.

A whole book could be written on intuition, so this chapter will provide just an introduction. 

 

Intuition Basics

In order to access your intuition, you actually have to be present in your body.  You have to be able to feel your body’s signals.  It is the easiest and fastest way to access your intuition.  People who live in their thoughts and not in their bodies are often either stressed-out or tend to daydream a lot.  One clear sign that you’re not in your body is if you’re clumsy.  I used to be incredibly clumsy.  Just ask my ex-husband.  I used to have bruises all over my body from bumping into walls or tripping over things.  My ex-husband was afraid that one day, someone was going to accuse him of abusing me!  Come to think of it, it is rare for me to accidentally bump into things these days, so I’m delighted that I’m more present than I’ve ever been in the past.

Your body is your most convenient and accurate intuition tool.  Doing the mindfulness exercises in Mindfulness and Meditation chapter will help you to get in touch with your body at a deeper level.  In this chapter, we’re actually going to practice feeling our bodies when we’re in different mind states.  Often the earliest intuitive decisions we can make boil down to a “yes” or a “no”.  Although not a perfect system, if you get to know what feels like a “yes” in your body versus what feels like a “no”, you’ll be way ahead of most folks who don’t even recognize an intuitive self.

 

What Intuition is Not

Honing your own intuitive skills takes time and patience and certainly this chapter is only a tiny introduction.  So many people get confused when it comes to understanding intuition that I feel it is important to share my perspective of what intuition is not.  Intuitive messages can come in many different forms.  Sometimes they come as emotions, but at times this can be confusing because you might not know whether what you’re feeling is intuitive guidance or just patterned responses based on your childhood programming.

Mitch, a young patient of mine, had a lifelong history of recurrent relationship betrayals.  This pattern started in childhood but he was unaware of the connection until I pointed it out to him.  When I first began encouraging Mitch to use his “senses” to guide his actions, he immediately began questioning whether he should follow his usual reaction of being suspicious of his sexual partner’s potential infidelity.  His pattern had been to date a woman, only to find out months later that she was cheating on him.  He developed a habit of looking for signs of lying and betrayal in every text message, email or face-to-face conversation with any new girlfriend. 

Unfortunately that behavior usually drove his partners away and indeed they would end up betraying him, just as he had feared.  I explained to Mitch that his reaction was not his intuition per se, but rather a programmed protective response from childhood.  I cautioned Mitch that his propensity to look for betrayal was not an accurate and beneficial use of his intuition but a habit that was personally damaging and unproductive.

Intuition is not often a feeling of intense fear or anxiety as many people seem to think.  Real intuitive data comes through one’s consciousness as a subtle “knowing” often devoid of emotional overlay.  When Mona Lisa Schulz, MD, PhD, author of Awakening Intuition and Your Intuitive Advisor, was walking across the street and got hit by a truck, her mother, who was at a dinner in another part of the country, suddenly stood up and told Mona Lisa’s father that Mona Lisa was in trouble.  She didn’t have any basis for her “knowing” and it didn’t come as an anxiety attack either.  She just knew. 

My intuition teacher, Laura Day, author of The Circle and Practical Intuition, told me in class that sometime during the early part of 2001, she decided that it was prudent to prepare for possible earthquakes.  Being an intuitive, she just followed her intuition to start stockpiling extra water, gas masks etc. in her New York City apartment.  She wasn’t fearful nor was she anxious about potential earthquakes.  She just felt the intuitive pull to take constructive action.  Unbeknownst to Laura at the time, September 11th, 2001 was going to be one of the most catastrophic events ever to happen to the United States.  When the tragedy occurred in New York City, just blocks from Laura Day’s home, she opened her doors to people who needed emergency supplies.  Her intuition prepared her perfectly to help others in need – her ultimate mission in life.

My mother is incredibly intuitive.  She often refers to herself as “psychic”.  The only problem is that she is also extremely anxious.  Even though her intuition is spot on with many things, her anxiety can make her intuition inaccurate as well.  It sometimes frustrates my father when my mother focuses her intuitive sense on what might go wrong rather than on what might go right in any given situation.  When I grew up and spiritual transformation became a passion of mine, it became obvious to me that it was my mother’s childhood experiences that honed her intuitive skills to focus solely on survival and safety.  I give my mother a lot of credit, however, because she is open to change.  She now catches herself when she is spiraling down into a negative thoughts and often is able to change her self-talk to a more positive tone.

Have you ever heard of psychics who only seem to give negative predictions?  They are great at predicting deaths, cancer, job loss, divorce, but rarely give positive predictions?  These types of psychics have the same problem my mother had.  They probably grew up in an atmosphere where they felt unsafe and have thus honed their intuitive skills for survival only.  Unfortunately, they may be unable to intuitively read anything positive.  These types of psychics are dangerous and I believe should be avoided because they are not balanced in their own spiritual development and could potentially harm a client.

A good intuitive, someone who professionally reads another person’s energy field, should not only be able to sense what is true for his or her client, but also be able to communicate this knowledge with compassion and a sense for what is for the client’s highest and greatest good.  Not all psychics are good intuitives, so I like to differentiate the two terms although many people do not.  There are talented psychics who are excellent and precise in their readings, but do not have the communication skills or the compassion necessary to deliver the information that will most benefit their client.  To state it bluntly, they love showing off and being regarded as talented psychics.  A well-trained professional intuitive, however, is someone who reads energy accurately, but also knows how to communicate the information appropriately to best serve the client’s highest interest.

As you develop your intuitive skills you will be increasingly accurate as long as you consciously continue working on shifting your negative childhood programming.  That’s not to say that your intuition won’t ever evoke feelings of anger, fear or anxiety, but it is safe to say that if you are only relying on these emotions to give you information, you’ll be missing a large portion of useful intuitive guidance.  We are all human which means that our experiences will color, or filter, our intuitive guidance.  Sometimes following one’s intuition may lead to uncomfortable circumstances and yet, these circumstances may be for our own highest and greatest good.

A good beginner’s guide to using your own intuition is to keep a private journal and write your experiences down so that you can understand yourself better.  Just being open to intuitive guidance makes you much more likely to receive it than if you weren’t.  Keep in mind that few young musicians can play the violin like Yo Yo Ma, but with decades of dedicated practice and focus, they may be able to.  Be patient with yourself and understand that sometimes you’ll be “wrong”, but know that every experience helps you become a better intuitive.

 

Intuitive Exercise #1

In a quiet place, sit comfortably, close your eyes and tune into your bodily sensations.  Become aware of the feeling in your chest, your stomach, your jaw, your neck and shoulders, your muscles.  Scan your body so you get a baseline of how you feel before we proceed to the next step.

After you’ve done a quick body scan, which should take no more than a minute or two, I want you to bring up a situation in your mind that really bothers you.  It could be a recent stress or a situation in the past.  If you had or have a conflict with someone close to you, use this situation.  If you have stress at work, you can use that situation.  The more intense the level of stress, the easier it is to work with in this exercise.

Once you have the situation in your mind, go over the details until the experience is feeling real and vivid.  If anger pops up, just let it.  Now, once you feel it become as real as its going to be for this exercise, scan your body again.  Tune into different parts of your body and see how your body feels compared with your baseline.  How does your breath feel now?  Your jaw?  Your stomach?  Your neck and shoulders?  Your muscles?  What else do you notice?  As you notice these sensations, don’t judge them.  Just notice them.

Usually the body’s reaction to something the mind considers negative will be one of contraction.  When I’ve done this at group seminars, many of the participants responded similarly: “my jaw is tight”, “my stomach feels queasy”, “my neck and shoulders feel tight”, “my muscles are tight”, “my breath is really shallow”, “and I’m tired”.  It’s a lot of fun to witness people noticing their body signals for the first time.  They almost seem surprised and most don’t realize that these are part of their intuitive feedback system.

 

Intuitive Exercise #2

Clear your mind from the first exercise, and keep your eyes closed so that you’re not distracted by your surroundings.  Your body should return to a neutral state.  Now shift your mind and think of a very positive situation in your life.  It could be a past event that was very positive or a current situation that you are enjoying.  You could imagine playing joyfully with your children for example.  You could also recall the time when you received a promotion or award.  Once you’ve decided on the situation you wish your mind to focus on, start imagining it as if it were happening right now in the present.  When it feels real to you, tune into your body and notice what it feels like.  Scan your various body parts to get intuitive feedback.

When people perform this exercise, they often remark how “full” their body feels.  Some feel expansive energy in their body.  Others remark how deeply they are breathing and still others notice how relaxed their midsection feels compared to how it felt in the first exercise.  I don’t know how you will feel exactly, but if you’ve done both exercises correctly, your body should feel different now.

 

Interpreting Your Body

When the body is in a contracted state, it is also in a low Qi (energy) flowing state.  It is a way in which the body says “no”.   When the body is in an expanded or relaxed state, it is also in a higher Qi flowing state.  It is a way in which the body says “yes”.  When you learn how your body feels when it is saying “yes” versus when it is saying “no”, you can use this to help you make healthy decisions in your life.  The more you follow through on your body’s signals, the more accurate the feedback will be with time.

If you are presented with a situation where you have to make a choice but don’t know how to make it, you can try tuning into your body signals for inner guidance.  For example, if you are given choice A or choice B, you can imagine yourself in each situation (“futurizing”, I call it) and then tune into your body to see if you get a “yes” (relaxed) or “no” (contracted) reaction.  Let’s take a real-life example so you can see how this can play out. 

Imagine that your doctor has given you the choice to pursue surgery versus conservative care.  Now, imagine yourself pursuing the surgical route.  How does the body react to the idea of preparing for and going through surgery?  Contrast that with imagining yourself pursuing the conservative route.  Which feels more relaxed in the body?  Although you may feel that everyone would choose the non-surgical route, it is not necessarily the case. 

When my father told me he was going to have to undergo cataract surgery, I diligently looked up non-surgical approaches to reverse the cataracts.  Although the non-surgical approach seemed low risk and simple, my father chose the surgical route.  I clearly felt in my body his increased level of comfort when he chose the surgical route.  Would I have chosen that for myself?  No, probably not.  I would have preferred less invasive and more natural options long before considering surgery.  As for my father, I felt he made the right choice for himself.  The stress of having cataract surgery was probably less than trying an alternative therapy his doctor didn’t approve of.

 

Dreams as Intuitive Guidance

A very easy way to learn to connect with your intuition is to have a dream journal.  Dreaming is a way in which your subconscious can work through issues without the interference from the logical mind.  Of course, sometimes we dream about what happened during our waking hours, but more often, dreams reveal a deeper message. 

There are books dedicated to dream interpretation.  Occasionally, I’ll look things up in the book just to see if it resonates with me.  For example, I was having lots of dreams about food, which could be interpreted as issues revolving around feeling nourished.  Recently I began having dreams about bees.  In my dream, bees were flying around me.  I was afraid they would sting me, but they never did.  Because of these dreams I decided to rent a movie on bees and I loved it.  In the movie I found out that the bees were disappearing most likely due to the toxic effects of Round-up ready genetically modified plants they were pollinating. 

The movie gave me great respect for the role of bees in our lives.  In addition, the dreams inspired me to try organic raw honey (unheated) for the first time.  My previous attempts at eating honey left me hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) and tired.  To my delight, the raw honey was well tolerated in my body.  Clearly, the biochemical response of my body to unpasteurized, raw organic honey was completely different from regularly processed organic honey.  Once I began eating the raw honey, I stopped having dreams with bees.

I highly suggest that you purchase a beautiful journal just to write your dreams in.  Don’t use it for anything else like your grocery list or your to-do list.  Keep it sacred, just for your dreams.  Pick a nice pen as well and maybe have a few different colors available.  Each morning, when you first wake up, write down everything you can remember about your dream.  Draw pictures if you can.  Use whatever color pens you feel drawn to.  Most importantly, write down the emotional tone of the dream.  How did you feel?  Sad?  Excited?  Angry?

Once you’ve written down the content of your dream, then you can start interpreting it.  Sometimes having a dream book helps, sometimes it doesn’t.  Having a dream-journaling buddy is loads of fun, so if you have a close friend you can trust, you can do this together.  Don’t fret if you’ve never done this before and can’t make heads or tails of your dreams.  With time and practice, you’ll begin to notice patterns and themes that stand out.  Those repetitive patterns often represent very significant life themes that need attention.  Bringing them into consciousness will hasten their resolution and healing.

So, will writing down all your dreams miraculously heal your chronic pain?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  Healing by accessing your intuition, your subconscious, may mean healing other parts of your life as well, not just your body.  Let me give you a personal story about a repetitive dream I was having when I was still married to my first husband. 

In the dream, I was kissing him, but yet, it seemed that my mouth was always full of food.  The food got “in the way” of the kissing.  It was only after we chose to divorce that I realized that my intuition was trying to tell me that I wasn’t speaking the truth of my soul.  This inability to speak my truth was the real cause of my unhappiness and prevented me from experiencing an authentic relationship with my husband.  Since that time, I’ve been more aware of my dreams.  Listening to your intuition may save you years of heartache and pain (even physical pain!).

 

Dream Requests

One way of consciously using your dreams once you’ve gotten used to remembering them and journaling them, is to make a dream request.  There are two types of requests you can make according to intuitive healer, Judith Orloff, MD.  One is to request guidance around a certain situation.  You could ask for guidance regarding your health, your finances, your relationships or your career for example.  It is important to already be in the habit of journaling your dreams so that you remember most of them. 

The other request you can make is requesting a healing.  Now, here’s a word of caution when requesting a healing through your dreams.  Sometimes the healing can take a form that we do not expect.  For example, Dr. Orloff notes that if you ask for a healing and you wake up with a panic attack, you should accept this as a sign of your healing and work with it.  Healing doesn’t always come in the form we expect.  See if you can trust in the Universe to bring you the type of healing you need.

 

Muscle Testing as an Intuitive Tool

Another way to use your body as an intuitive tool is something called muscle testing.  Chiropractors use the professional term, Applied Kinesiology, and use this technique to uncover all sort of information including environmental sensitivities, organ dysfunction, functional imbalances and even nutritional deficiencies.  Although it takes some practice to do it on yourself, it is very easy to learn how to do muscle testing on someone else.

You can test whether something is for your highest and greatest good by determining whether your energy flow is affected by whatever you are testing.  Most commonly, we use the shoulder muscle for testing.  If your energy flow remains clear, then your shoulder muscle will “lock” or test strong when the tester is pressing down on your outstretched arm.  If your energy flow becomes blocked because whatever you are testing is affecting you negatively, your muscle will “unlock” or temporarily weaken instead. 

Say you wish to test whether or not a supplement is good for your teenage daughter.  By having her hold the supplement to her chest, you can muscle test her response to having that frequency inside her energy field.  If her test muscle (shoulder) remains locked, it means that the supplement supports the natural flow of energy in her body and will likely be helpful.  If, however, the test muscle unlocks, i.e. weakens, it means that the supplement caused a stoppage of energy flow and is thus harmful to her.

Before you start muscle testing another person or teach another person to muscle test you, you need to understand a few precautions.  First you and the person you are testing must be adequately hydrated.  If either of you are not, you can get inaccurate results.  Second I have found it very helpful that both parties are brain balanced.  It may be helpful to first learn how to test someone’s brain balance first and vice versa in order to get the most accurate results.  You can watch my video on YouTube which shows how to do the testing.  If either or neither party is brain balanced, you can either place a LifeWave Y-Age Aeon patch behind the right ear before muscle testing or say Dr. John Diamond’s affirmations several times before muscle testing.  There are other methods to ensure more accurate results available from the Touch4Health organization.  These methods are referred to as the Zip Up, Switch On, and Tune In, and are available for free on the Touch4Health website.

I often find that it is important to clear any overt biases you may have when testing another person.  Strong preferences from either party can override the results when one or the other person has a vested interest in the outcome.  Many mainstream doctors consider Applied Kinesiology and muscle testing too “woo woo” to be taken seriously, so it doesn’t help when an unethical practitioner abuses it just to sell more supplements.  Luckily these practitioners are rare.  In my experience, muscle testing is a valuable method to obtain intuitive information when done correctly and with the subject’s highest and greatest good in mind.  Obviously common sense should prevail.  No one can guarantee 100% accuracy with any intuitive tool, so keep that in mind as I teach you how to do muscle testing. 

 

Muscle Testing Technique

Please note that this technique was already taught in an earlier chapter, but I am repeating it here just in case you didn’t read that chapter.

1.        Ensure that both you and the person you are testing are hydrated and preferably brain balanced.
2.       Choose a test muscle.  Often the shoulder muscles are used because they are easily accessible and easy to test.  If you are muscle testing another person, you need to ask if she has a shoulder injury.  If she does, you avoid using the injured shoulder for testing.  Using other muscles other than the shoulders is more difficult and beyond what we can cover in this book.
3.       Stand to the side of the person you are testing and have her stretch her arm in front, hands in a fist with the thumb facing the skyward.
4.      Gently rest your fingertips (usually I use my left hand if the person’s left arm is extended) just above the wrist bone in an adult.  In a child or small adult, you may wish to move your fingertips further up towards the elbow to avoid pressing down too hard.
5.       Instruct the person you are testing that when you say the word, “resist” or “match my pressure”, you will begin to direct force downwards on the wrist while her job is to resist upwards with equal pressure.  Do press down gradually, over a count of three, as any person will not be able to resist if you press down on her wrist too suddenly.
6.       Begin by practicing a few muscle tests “in the clear” meaning you’ll be muscle testing that person without her holding any object next to her energy field for testing.  The muscle you are testing should stay locked.  If you feel a bounce or she weakens, you are either pressing down too hard, too quickly, or the muscle is an inadequate test muscle.  If the latter is the case, change sides and see if the other shoulder tests better.  If she does not “lock” when you do the muscle test in the clear, try to have her say her name, such as “My name is Mary” and then repeat the test.  She should be strong (locked).  If not, she may not be a testable.
7.       Once both you and the person you are testing get a sense of how much pressure is necessary to feel a “lock”, you can test what an “unlock” feels like by repeating the muscle test while the person is holding a cell phone (turned on) to her stomach or chest.  Alternatively, you can ask the person to say a false name, such as “My name is Bob”.  Most people will immediately “unlock” in the presence of cell phone radiation even if they are not talking on the phone.  Same goes for saying a false name.
8.      Once you have practiced what an unlock feels like you’ll want to get that person’s energy field back to its baseline by removing the cell phone and turning it off.  For some people, it can take a few minutes to return to a strong state, so I often quicken the process by having her say her name again.  This usually strengthens her energy field immediately, and causes the test muscle to “lock” once more. 
9.       Once you’ve established a normal muscle “lock” in the clear, introduce the object or frequency you’d like to test.  For example, if you’re wondering whether cheese is harmful, you can either have them hold a small piece of cheese in their hand close to their chest or have them write the words “cheese” on a piece of paper and hold it up to their chest.  If they are sensitive to cheese or if cheese will negatively affect them, their muscle will “unlock” on subsequent testing.  The effect is immediate.
10.    On the other hand, if you are testing to see if a course of action would be beneficial, you can have your test subjects write down what it is they propose to do and then muscle test it.  If they muscle test strong, then it may mean that this particular course of action may be beneficial.  If they muscle test weak, it may mean that it might not be.  Remember to try to consciously let go of any biases you may have during the testing.

Keep in mind that muscle testing is not a magic crystal ball.  You can’t use it to win the lottery and you shouldn’t use it to make an important life decision.  You can, however, use it to test for food sensitivities as well as for beneficial supplements.  If someone tests weak for a particular environmental stressor, such as a food allergy, it is possible to retrain the body to accept this frequency as neutral rather than harmful by re-wiring the nervous system, which is an integral part of the energy field.  I have found that the combination of muscle testing and the Uhe Desensitizing Method has greatly enhanced my patient’s ability to heal from chronic pain by neutralizing environmental sensitivity symptoms.

Muscle testing can be useful to confirm intuitive hits versus non-intuitive programming.  My patient Tate admitted to being disturbed by issues of erectile failure during sexual intercourse with his girlfriend.  I asked him if he were to guess (i.e. use his intuition) whether the problem was physical or emotional, which one would it be.  He quickly answered, “Emotional”.  Given what I already knew about him, I asked him to write down a couple of statements on separate cards:

         Frequencies related to childhood betrayal
         Frequencies related to romantic betrayal

Tate found this exercise very interesting so he wanted to add his own statements:

         Frequencies related to childhood sexual abuse (he thought of this one because others had asked him about it but he couldn’t remember any happening in his childhood)
         Frequencies related to religious beliefs about sex (because he grew up in a religious household and thought maybe this programming might be affecting his sexual performance)

We shuffled the cards face down and muscle tested him with each statement.  He went weak on the first two but not the latter two.  The benefit of this testing was to make Tate aware of the subconscious frequencies that may be negatively impacting his health and happiness.

 

Self-muscle Testing

Self-muscle testing is a little trickier because it requires a well-practiced ability to sense your body.  People who do not energetically inhabit their bodies on a regular basis will have a difficult time learning self-muscle testing.  Body awareness is the key to being successful at self-muscle testing techniques.  If you don’t have a willing person at home to perform muscle testing with, you may wish to learn self-muscle testing as a way to access your intuitive self. 

Aside from the technical difficulty in doing it well, a major downfall in testing yourself is that you can get inaccurate results if you can’t remove your bias.  In other words, you can change the outcome of the test if you have a vested interest in a particular test result.  For example, if you’re allergic to gluten but you absolutely love bread and cannot fathom a happy life without it, you may muscle test yourself as being able to tolerate bread. 

Another pitfall of self-muscle testing is testing separate things, such as supplements, not knowing whether the combination will produce different results.  For example, say you muscle test strong with supplement A, supplement B and supplement C.  It is possible that with the combination of A, B and C, you may muscle test weak because there might be some overlap or negative interaction. 

It is a good idea for you to practice self-muscle testing until you are confident that your results are consistent.  When you ask your body, “Show me a yes”, you should self-muscle test strong.  When you ask your body, “Show me a no”, you should self-muscle test weak.  You can also use your name and a false name, respectively, to get used to what a locked and unlocked self-muscle test feels like.

Teaching muscle testing, especially self-muscle testing is a little challenging in a book.  As one of my friends likes to say, it’s sort of like trying to give a haircut over the phone.  For an example of how I do self-muscle testing, check out my YouTube video.   Dr. Bradley Nelson teaches six different ways of self-muscle testing in his Emotion Code workshop which is available on DVD.

 

Chapter Summary

         Intuition is a natural in-born ability that we can learn to tap into to help ourselves heal and live happier lives
         Your body is one of the most accurate intuitive devices.  Feeling your body’s responses to different situations may help you take appropriate action for your highest and greatest good
         Intuitive hits differ from anxiety attacks and pre-programmed responses from childhood
         You can learn muscle testing and teach it to others as a tool to help you access your body’s intuition
         Muscle testing can help you determine whether a course of action or a supplement may be beneficial for your health
         Muscle testing should not be used to try to win the lottery or to make major life decisions
         Self-muscle testing is more challenging than muscle testing another person, but with practice, can be an extremely valuable self-healing tool