UNIT I Lesson 3
Types of muscle response
Dr. Isaac Goiz Durán, from the beginning developed a technique to find the patient's muscular response through the lower extremities. As we know, placing the magnet, with negative polarity on the different test points, and in each case checking the length of the legs, for which the patient's ankles are taken and a few centimeters are raised at each test point.
This movement makes the shortening of one of the extremities (usually the right leg) more evident. Or the testing can be carried out in a bioenergetic way, just through "mental effort" as Dr. Goiz called it, which consists of mentalizing the testing points, that is, mentally asking for each one of them and in each case raising the legs. The question can be asked in a low voice, but in reality it is not necessary, it will be enough to formulate it mentally.
With time and practice, this form of work becomes extremely fast and the therapist only needs to lift the legs a few centimeters to detect the muscular response. Actually, it is not about raising the legs too much, but mentally asking the patient to relax, this relaxation is also facilitated by manipulating the patient's legs in a rhythmic way, making a slight turn of the ankles outwards with each movement, as fanning the feet, instead of lifting the legs. This also represents a saving in physical effort, which is important when several patients need to be treated in a single day.
Most of us learned this work technique in the course with Dr. Goiz, however, it does not suit everyone. Some find it very tiring or uncomfortable to grab people's ankles and manipulate their legs. Over time, many therapists have adopted other techniques from other authors that are equally effective. This has also allowed us to know a little more about what the intelligent muscle response is.
In reality, it is a reaction that does not only occur on a physical level, nor is it limited to the muscles of the leg. As Dr. Goiz intuited, it is a phenomenon that affects an entire hemibody (the right), so it can be measured in any muscle of that half of the body, but it is more palpable in the extremities. So you can also use your arms or fingers, using various techniques for this purpose.
Now we also know that the answer is not limited to the patient's body, also the therapist or a third person (antenna) can manifest the answer, at the request of the therapist. So we can consider that the answer manifests itself, not only on the physical plane, but also on the energetic and mental planes. Hence we could also call it a holo-intelligent response. We look at some alternative techniques that allow us to get answers without using the patient's legs.
Test with arms
It is very similar to testing with the legs, only in this case the length of the arms is measured, for which the hands are fisted and placed next to each other. When asking each question, they separate their hands a little and bring them back together, trying to perceive the gap in the hands that occurs when an arm is shortened.
For some people this testing modality is easy, but for most it is difficult, since the arms are shorter than the legs, the difference between both arms is smaller, and therefore, less perceptible. Few people use this form of testing on a regular basis, but it can be useful in some particular cases, we mention a few:
As we already mentioned, the intelligent muscle response is manifested in the entire hemibody of the person so other body parts or variants can be used to test, as Dr. Goodheart discovered, who developed Applied Kinesiology. That's why many now call muscle testing generically "kinesiology."
There are several types of tests that are carried out in kinesiology based on muscle response, in principle each muscle group was associated with a specific organ, so the muscle can also indicate the state of health and energy of the respective organs. Actually, these variants are not regularly practiced by biomagnetists, but they might work at some point.
Test using hands.
In this technique, the therapist usually uses their own hands to do the testing. Therefore, this modality has the advantage of being less invasive, since physical contact with the patient is minimal. In addition, it also represents less fatigue compared to the technique of manipulating the legs, which are often heavy, especially if the patients are corpulent. The therapist can end up with back pain.
Thumb testing is done by clasping one hand over the other and leaving both thumbs spread over the rest of the fingers. The therapist makes a continuous movement, fanning his thumbs and when finding an affirmative answer, this will manifest with the contraction of one of the fingers. With a little practice, some therapists find this modality very effective and reliable and adopt it as their main tool of work.
Other modalities include forming two rings with the fingers of the hands, applying the minimum force to keep them together, when asking questions and obtaining a muscular response, one of the fingers of the hand will weaken and the ring will break. It is also a simple method, although less practiced.
One-handed testing. It consists of placing the middle finger, slightly flexed on the index finger, the therapist makes a continuous tapping movement of the middle finger on the index finger. When there is a response, the weakness in the index finger will be felt, or also a gap between the two fingers. Somehow the therapist will be able to feel a difference in the strength and movement of your fingers. This technique is widely used, especially widely used by practitioners of Theta Healing. The advantage is that it requires minimal physical effort and the therapist only uses one of their hands. Since the difference in the strength and disposition of the fingers is minimal, the therapist is required to develop a certain sensitivity in order to be sure when they receive an affirmative answer.
The techniques with the use of hands are also mentioned in Bradley Nelson's book "The Emotion Code" so we can consider them in the public domain.
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