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Copyright 2014, Judith A. Swack, Ph.D.
II. Muscle Testing. Explain to the client, “there are two ways to muscle test, the easy way which is easy, and the hard way which is foolproof. Say to the client, “I prefer the easy way, but I’ll show you both so that we can decide how we want to do it.”
The facilitator presses gently on the client’s arms just above the wrists using either the flat palms of the hands or the finger tips. Ask the client what he prefers. Press until you feel muscle resistance. On a yes, we expect the client’s arms to hold strong (and not move). On a no, we expect the client’s arms to float down all the way to the side of their body without resistance.
How do you know that the client isn’t consciously answering the muscle testing? On an unconscious yes, the arm holds firm. If the conscious mind is answering, the arm jerks up. On an unconscious no, the arm doesn’t move down until the facilitator presses on it. On a conscious no, the client throws their arms down.
The facilitator faces the client squarely, places one hand on the client’s shoulder to stabilize himself, and presses firmly on the client’s arm just above the wrist using the flat palm of the hand. Press until you feel muscle resistance. On a yes, we expect the client’s arms to hold strong (and not move). On a no, we expect the facilitator to be able to press a client’s arm all the way down to their waist while feeling muscle resistance all the way.
How do you know that the client isn’t consciously answering the muscle testing? In this position as long as the client is consciously holding muscle resistance, he can’t consciously influence the answer. Remind the client periodically to hold his arm strong. If that arm gets tired (isn’t holding strong on yes after a while) switch to the other arm. If the client cannot muscle test the easy way, i.e. is rigid on yes and no, or controlling the muscle testing consciously, or doesn’t trust their conscious mind not to interfere, use the hard way. If the client muscle tests well the easy way, suggest that we use the easy way which requires less physical effort, and if there is any uncertainty about an answer, double check it the hard way.
IV. Unexpected Results. If the client gives muscle testing signals that are different than what you expect (as described above), go to the muscle testing trouble shooting guide and heal the client’s body and energy field to correct the muscle testing. Facilitators, do not surrogate muscle test yourself for the client and give the client answers from your body. The client may begin to suspect that the therapist is imposing the therapist’s answers upon the client and doubt that the answers are really coming from within himself. The real work here is to unblock or repair the client’s energy field so that he can get real answers from within himself.
INDICATOR MODE
For counting lists or numbers of things we switch into Indicator Mode. Say to the client, “In indicator mode, your arms hold strong while we count and go down when we get the right number. Then we’ll double check the answer in yes/no mode.” Then state the question as follows, “ _____, in indicator mode (and then start counting).
Examples:
“This trauma occurred at what age, going for indicator, between conception to birth, 0-10 years old, 11- 20 years old, 21-30 years old, …”
“What is the priority intervention to use, going for indicator, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, …..”
Until the client is familiar with switching modes, during the first few sessions, remember to look the client in the eye while saying, “In indicator mode…” and wait till they nod to let you know they’ve switched modes. Then say, “double checking with yes/no…,” look the client in the eye and wait till they nod to let you know they’ve switched back into yes/no mode.
Handy tips for keeping yes/no and indicator modes distinct. Some of our colleagues like to say, “In indicator mode, counting 1,2,3, etc.” Some of our colleagues like to say, “Drop to indicate, 1,2,3, etc.”
Never say, “Going for indicator is it 1,2,3, etc.” “Is it” is a yes/no question, and mixes the two modes creating confusion.
1. The client tests strong on yes and strong on no. Say to the client, “you have a blocked energy field. This is caused by one or more phobias. It can be difficult to function when your energy field is blocked so, let’s clear it now.” The client agrees. Do the Unblocking Procedure below.
Note: I have had several clients for whom it took three or four sessions of tapping to unblock their energy fields.
2. The client tests strong on yes and tense or sticky on no. Ask the client by muscle testing, “does this being have any partial blockages in your energy field?” If the answer is yes, say, “this block is caused by one or more phobias. It can be difficult to function when your energy field is partially blocked so, let’s clear it now.” The client agrees. Do the Unblocking Procedure below.
3. The client tests strong on yes and stronger on no. Tell the client that this usually means that he has a phobia of saying “no” or a phobia of weakness. Ask the client if he recognizes that as a problem in his life, and discuss. Do the Unblocking Procedure below and word the phobia, “I’m afraid to say no because…” or “I’m afraid to feel weak because…”
4. The client tests weak on yes and strong on no. Say to the client, “you have a reversal. That means you have a limiting belief that is affecting you strongly. A limiting belief is a one sentence structure that you feel is true even though you know better. What is the limiting belief that is up for you now?” Have the client speak the limiting belief and locate it in the body. Treat the reversal with Natural Bio-Destressing (EFT). Retest the client, and if he now muscle tests normally i.e. strong on yes and weak on no, muscle test and ask if there are any remaining blocks or partial blockages in his energy field. If yes, treat all the phobias until he tests that his energy field is completely unblocked.
5. The client tests weak on yes and weak on no. It could be low blood sugar or malnutrition. Ask the client when was the last time she ate. If it was several hours ago feed the client a beverage with sugar or a starchy snack. If the client has an eating disorder, discuss the eating disorder and tell her it will be the first thing we treat. Tell her that she must eat more the week before she comes in because her body is too weak to muscle test.
6. The client tests weak on yes and weak on no. If it isn’t low blood sugar, say to the client, “you have a blown energy field. This is caused by one or more phobias that caused you to blow a fuse. It can be difficult to function when your energy field is blown so, let’s turn the circuit breaker back on.” The client agrees. Do the Unblocking Procedure below.
UNBLOCKING PROCEDURE
Special Case Example I. A client tested weak on yes and weak on no; the fear was located in her solar plexus. When asked what the fear was, she said there was nothing there, she was blank. I took her answer at face value; there was nothing in the solar plexus. Since the solar plexus is the will center, I concluded that it was telling us that she had no will of her own. I said angrily to the client, “yes and no are irrelevant if you have no will of your own. Who did this to you?” She replied, “I don’t know. My father?” I said, let’s test that. She stood up and muscle tested beautifully strong on yes and weak on no and confirmed by muscle testing that her father had taken away her will. In that instant, she decided to take her will back!
Special Case Example II. A client tested weak on yes and weak on no. He seemed unable to lift his arms. I asked him why he was so passive; what traumatized him so badly that he couldn’t even lift his arms? He replied that during divorce proceedings his ex-wife threatened to take away his children. Although he got joint custody, he hadn’t been the same since. I told him it was time to get his power back. He immediately lifted his arms and muscle tested accurately!
The Moral of the Story: The first step of HBLU is to access the client’s deepest wisdom through muscle testing. Assume that if you get anything other than strong on yes and weak on no, the client is showing you something important about himself that needs immediate healing! This trouble shooting guide is meant to help you figure out what you are seeing. If the client is doing something other than the common examples in this guide, use your intuition, powers of observation, and your client’s insights and guesses to figure out what the client is showing you and treat it. Remember, the unblocking process itself is tremendously healing, and may even take 3-4 sessions to complete.
A phobia is an exaggerated, irrational emotional (and physical) reaction that is out of proportion with what is happening in reality. People with phobias find that they can’t mentally control or permanently talk themselves out of this reaction. Phobias range in severity from mild (i.e. the person may not even realize his anxiety is phobic) to severe (enough to send someone into a panic or freeze them up completely). I usually ask people to rate their phobic response on the following scale of 1-10+:
DISCOMFORT SCALE
10+ I am numb, frozen; I feel nothing.
10 Panic. The discomfort is the worst it can possibly be. I can’t tolerate it.
9 Discomfort is very close to intolerable.
8 Fear is very severe.
7 Fear is severe.
6 Fear is very uncomfortable.
5 Fear is uncomfortable, but I can tolerate it.
4 Fear is noticeable and bothersome, but I can deal with it.
3 I feel a slight degree of fear, but I am totally in control.
2 I’m rather calm, quite relaxed, with no fear.
1 I am perfectly calm – totally relaxed.
How do people get phobias? A phobia is a conditioned response of the fight/flight/freeze reflex that starts when a person experiences a traumatic shock (physical or emotional). At the time the flight/fight/freeze reflex fired off, anything that was in the environment can get associated with that memory. Later on these associations can trigger this original reflex reaction, (like a body flashback) resulting in a phobic reaction, even when nothing dangerous or upsetting is occurring in the present moment. Depending on the circumstances the shock may imprint as a phobia, or in more severe cases, a trauma.
Fear phobias imply an outcome that is life-threatening and end in some form of death, eternal torment, or rejection. For example:
Shame phobias involve character assassination, i.e. there is something fundamentally wrong with me that I am ashamed to admit. For example:
A fear and shame hybrid phobia example is:
“I’m ashamed and afraid to speak in front of a large group of people I don’t know because I’ll forget what I’m saying, look foolish/stupid be rejected.”
A person can have more than one phobia on the same subject. In the case of fear of driving over bridges, I often see, “I’m afraid to drive over a bridge because it will collapse under me and I will die” and “I’m afraid to drive over a bridge because I will drive off the edge to my death.”
In order to clear a phobia it necessary to use accurate wording. Phobias are extreme, black and white statements of the very worst things the client’s unconscious mind and body imagined at the time of the initial shock. There are no maybe’s, would’s, could’s, or mights. Phobias are statements of certainty. If the client does not name the most extreme version that his unconscious mind and body imagined (imagination is a two edged sword) you cannot clear the complete phobia. So, in order to lighten up this process, I tell the client we are going to play a television game show called “Name That Phobia.” I remind the client not to give me any limp wording; phobias are very electric.
Note: There is no such thing as a fear of the unknown. This is a strategy to consciously avoid where the unconscious mind went because it’s too painful/scary. Remind the client that the unconscious mind knows what it imagined and will tell us exactly what the phobia is so that we can clear it.
We ask the client to name the phobia precisely. Then we determine which example of the reaction would be the best one to use. It is usually the most charged example, either the worst example, or a recent example that makes it easy to recall the feeling. Note: When you clear the most emotionally charged example it clears all the other repeats of the pattern through all time (forward and backward). Then the client concentrates on the feeling that memory evokes and uses a technique, typically an energy psychology technique like Natural Bio-Destressing. These techniques activate the calming reflex, and clear the phobia by neutralizing the fight/flight/freeze reaction and deactivating the triggering stimuli. When a person has cleared the phobia he is now normally cautious as opposed to phobic. So if you have a fear of snakes, you will no longer react to a picture in a book or seeing them in a zoo. This does not mean that you’re going to go handle them if you’re not trained. Remember, you don’t have to be frightened to be cautious.
How are Phobias structured?
Phobias commonly come as a two-part structure.
CIRCLE AND PRESS:
CIRCLE AND POINT:
FINGER RUBBING:
ONE HANDED:
LEG TESTING:
STANDING TILT TEST;
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