muscle test troubleshooting

Some people have had some trouble muscle testing. Here is how to get it to work for you.

Here are the requirements for accurate muscle testing.

Hydrate! Image here. 

1. You must be adequately hydrated. If you're having trouble muscle testing, the first thing to do is DRINK UP!
2. You must be grounded. Here is how to ground. 
3. You must be north-south polar. I didn't mention that in my previous post because fixing it is a little more complicated. Also, this is a step that's left out of literature like The Emotion Code. But it's still important. So far, if grounding or hydrating doesn't fix the problem, fixing a person's polarity tends to do the trick.

So if your muscle tests tend to be inaccurate or inconsistent, it's likely your polarity that's the problem.

Human polarity

Everything has an electromagnetic field, including humans. Magnets have polarities, and people have polarities. I am not a polarity expert, but I do know that if your personal polarity is off, your muscle testing will be consistently inaccurate. 

How polarity gets off

I don't know how or why polarity switches from north-south to south-north, or east-west or west-east or any of the other combinations I've seen. I suspect that trauma can switch the polarity, or at least cause it to be more open to altering position, if that makes sense. Now that I am consistently grounded and hydrated, I find that my polarity has not been another other than north-south in well over a year. 

What it looks like

Like this. Except inside your head. Yeah, I know that's weird.
Image here.
You want the thick end towards the forehead.

To me, human polarity looks like a screwdriver-shaped magnet inside a person's head. If you are north-south polar, the handle of the screwdriver-shape is towards the forehead, with the slim side pointing out the back of the head. South-north polarity looks the opposite, with the handle in the back of the head and the slim side of the magnet pointing out the front of the head.

East-west and west-east polarities look like a sideways screwdriver-shaped magnet in the head. 

Occasionally I run into people whose polarities are not steady at all. I don't know why this is. But it looks like the screwdriver is spinning in the person's head, back and forth. Sometimes people's inner magnetic fields just really want to do this, I guess. I've had a few people whose polarities just would not stick for more than a few minutes. If this is the case for you, you will have a difficult time muscle testing. I don't think that this is a permanent problem--which is to say, I believe there is a solution--I just haven't experimented enough with it. 

How to fix it

There are a few ways to fix polarity. The first way is to just say, "I AM NORTH-SOUTH POLAR!" three times or more, very loudly, commanding your body to comply. When you muscle test to confirm that this change has taken place, be sure to face North (you can get a compass app on your phone or iPad). You should swing forward if you are north-south polar. 

The only other way I do it is in theta. I put myself into a theta state, command the person's polarity to become north-south, and then envision it happening. I watch as the screwdriver-shaped magnet assumes the proper position, and then envision it being rooted into place so it doesn't move around anymore. 

One particularly memorable time, my first time trying this, I tried mentally "tugging" on the magnet to make sure it stayed in place. The person I was working on jerked forward every time I tugged! Whoops! So now I don't do that anymore! I just envision the magnet properly polarized and rooted firmly in place.

You may be able to do this yourself by first putting yourself into a comfort or imagery state--getting deeply relaxed, and then, when you're in that place of deep relaxation, commanding the change to go through and then envisioning it while you are still relaxing. If anyone tries this, I'd love to hear how it goes in the comments. 

Conclusion

If you are hydrated and grounded and still can't muscle test reliably, try fixing your polarity. 

5 ways to get grounded

Being grounded is crucial to accurate muscle testing and to being able to fall asleep easily at night. Whenever your brain seems to be going into overdrive, it's a good idea to ground. Grounding helps you feel calm, centered, and competent. The more grounded you are, the better able you are to handle the stressful stuff that comes up in life every day.

So how do you do get grounded?

Grounding basically is the art of reconnecting your body's energy to the earth's energy. So one easy way to do this is to go interact with nature.

But if you're not able to go hug a tree or take a walk, there are other ways to ground.

1. Eagle Pose 

In Eagle Pose, you cross your legs and ankles and arms and hands. This gets the right and left sides of the brain working together.

This fancy picture I found is good, but for our purposes you don't need to do it exactly the way described. No squeezing legs or ribs sucked in. Just crossing the arms and legs. You can do it sitting. Sometimes I do it in bed, lying down.

Do it one way, then uncross and do it the other way, 20 seconds on each side, with deep breaths. Keep muscle testing for if you are grounded in between. Usually a few cycles of this will ground you well.

2. Visualize roots. 

One thing I often do is visualize myself growing roots into the earth. Okay, I am not a very visual person, actually. How it really works for me is, I close my eyes and decide that I am now growing roots into the earth, and then I attempt to picture something like this:

From someone's pinterest.

You don't have to be sitting, though. Sometimes while standing I imagine roots growing out of my feet into the floor. It works!

3. Cocoon in the earth. 

I just started doing this in the past week, but I already love it! It's perfect for when you're trying to sleep but just can't. I imagine my energy wrapping around me like a cocoon, and then I imagine me in my cocoon, in the middle of the earth, underground. It's very calming. If I were a better artist I'd draw you a picture of what I envision. It's beautiful.

4. Command yourself to ground.

Sometimes I just say out loud, with intention: "I command myself to be grounded now." Say it three times and re-test. Sometimes this works.

5. Do something that reconnects your body to your mind.

For example, I've read of people who ground by mindfully putting on lotion, or taking a bath. It all comes down to connecting your body and mind to each other and to the earth. So living more mindfully will help you spend more of your time grounded.

Next time you muscle test, go ahead and ask if you're grounded. If you're not, try out one of these techniques! Find what works for you. It's a good thing!

how to muscle test

I use muscle testing a lot! This post is intended to explain the basics of it. Obviously a muscle test does not take the place of a medical diagnosis, and if you need medical attention you should seek it. You are responsible for your own health.

That being said--muscle testing!

The theory

The theory is that your body is actually physically stronger when something is true or good for you, than when it is false or bad for you. I don't know why this is, but it seems to work in practice, so I use it.


Getting started

Hydration is crucial for accurate results when it comes to muscle testing. So drink up! In my understanding, this is so important because water is a conductor, and muscle testing uses the body's ekectromagnetic field. I could be wrong about this, but what I am not wrong about is that dehydration, even slight dehydration, can tamper with accuracy here. Drink up!

Testing: The Body Sway

From here.

In this form of muscle testing, you stand and let your body sway. I like this one best for accuracy because when you test with your fingers (as will be explained below), you can accidentally tighten your fingers such that it tampers with the accuracy of the test. With the body sway, though, you can be certain that if you're not consciously interfering with your body's motions, you're getting a good answer.

Stand up. Close your eyes and say, out loud or in your head, "I am [your name]." You should feel your body almost independently move forward after a moment. Forward is "yes." Then try thinking, "I am [a name that is obviously not your actual name]." Your body should lean backwards as "no."

 If for some reason your body sways backwards for yes and forwards for no, or even from side to side during the control questions, it means that you are not properly polarized.

Testing: Linked Fingers

From here.

I like this test because it can be done while sitting. It takes some practice to determine how strongly to hold your fingers; you want your fingers just loose enough that when something is a no, they easily pull apart. I recommend practicing on control questions (like your name) until you know exactly how tightly to hold your fingers when you test.

Here's how to do it: make the AOK symbol with both hands and link the loops of your index fingers and thumbs, so you're kind of making a Figure 8 with your fingers. Say "I am [your name]" (or think it) and pull your fingers away from each other. They should be strong; the loops should not break. Strong = yes.

Then try "I am [a name that is not your name]." Then pull your fingers apart again.
They should be noticeably weaker. Practice with this until you know how strong to keep your fingers so that when something is weak, the one hand that breaks lets the other hand go completely (so it's easy to know the answer right away!). Play with it!

From here.

Testing: Prying fingers

This one has the same rule as the last one: practice on control questions until you easily know the difference between a yes and a no answer.

Make an AOK symbol with one hand, using the ring finger instead of the index finger. Place your thumb and index finger from the other hand inside the loop of the AOK. When asking your control questions, spread your thumb and index finger to test the AOK loop. A yes should leave the loop intact, while a no should break the loop apart.


Questions beyond controls

After you've established that all is as it should be with your control questions, you can get started. I always start my testing by stating my name and getting an answer, and then asking "Am I sufficiently hydrated to get accurate results?" and "Am I grounded?"

If the answers to either of those is no, then I either drink up, or ground, depending. An easy way to ground is to imagine yourself growing roots down to the center of the Earth, and pushing all negative energy out of your body and into the Earth for cleansing via these roots. Another easy way to ground is to go on a walk outside. Keep grounding and testing until your body says it is grounded. Once it is, you can ask the real questions.

Also note that for some reason, leather interferes with accuracy and in some cases prevents muscle testing altogether. Always remove leather paraphernalia before testing.

Limitations of muscle testing

Muscle testing only works to uncover the truth as it is believed by your subconscious mind. In other words, your body does NOT know all truth. It will give you its opinions on whatever you ask it about, but that does not make it automatically correct.

The subconscious mind is not always right! Image here.

For example, one thing I work with a lot is subconscious programming. You can test your body for any sort of belief, such as "I need to be fat" or "It is bad to have enough money to provide for my family." It is doubtful that anyone NEEDS to be fat, and I suspect many of us will agree that it is not wrong to have enough money to provide for one's family. But the subconscious can still believe this is the case (in which case, the program can be changed, if you work with someone trained to do that. I am trained to do that).

So if you're thinking you can muscle test to discover Absolute Truths, such as the veracity of a book of scripture or if there's a storm going on in Mexico or something, you will get an answer when you muscle test, but there are ZERO guarantees as to actual accuracy of the answer you get.

Your body is most accurate--you could say, only accurate--at providing answers to clearly stated yes-no questions that directly relate to your own body and your own subconscious mind (because the subconscious mind runs and regulates the body). Testing to know the outcome of future events will not work because of how many factors there are involved with the future, and the fact that the future is not yet set in stone. Even testing on how your own body will react to something in the future will lead to most likely inaccurate results, because your body will calculate based on how things currently are, which will change the next time you take a drink, go to sleep, or use a restroom.

You cannot accurately test for information that relates to other people (at least, not while you are plugged into your own energy). As a brief example, I was once muscle testing to discover if an issue was affecting one of my loved ones, and I kept getting conflicting answers. As soon as the person I was testing about gave me permission to muscle test on her behalf, when I plugged into her energy and muscle tested on myself as a proxy for her, I got an entirely different (and more accurate) answer to the question.

Basically, your subconscious will give you the answer it believes to be true, without any regard to actual truth. So you need to be careful of that.

Uses for muscle testing

One popular way to use muscle testing is to touch or think of particular foods you like to eat and muscle test on them. Strong or forward means they are good for you; weak or backwards means they are bad for you.

I often use muscle testing to uncover bad subconscious programming, like "I need to be poor" or "I don't deserve to be happy." Your subconscious does its best to make sure your programs come true, so if you have things like that running, your life will be sub-optimal! I like to identify these things with muscle testing and then test again after I've made changes to be sure they came through.

You can use muscle testing to identify trapped emotions, and any number of body-related issues.

You can test your character with muscle testing (for example, I recently started creating scales of attributes and testing myself to see where I stand with them--one scale is a faith scale, with 0 being no faith and 1000 being the Brother of Jared seeing the hand of God). You make your scale and then test, "I have more that 500 units of measure on this scale," "I have more than X units on this scale," until you find out how many units you have. One very faithy day, I realized that by the end of the day my faith measure had jumped by 5 units! I was so happy.

Conclusion

Muscle testing is a great way to identify subconscious beliefs about your body and mind. It is not accurate outside that field, but inside that field, it's great. It requires hydration, grounding, and practice, but it can be a skill worth developing.

EDIT: Check out my page on troubleshooting the muscle testing process if you have any troubles.