RE: muscle testing / intuition

[Guest guest]

Belatedly, I have

looked through the posts on muscle testing and felt it might be of value to chime

in:

 

1) Muscle testing was taught in my required

acupressure classes at California Acupuncture College in LA around1981. There was a book on acupressure that

included this technique (can’t recall the title), so we were all

exposed. It seemed novel, puzzling,

yet intriguing, as did most of the “TCM” information being taught.

2) Muscle testing is not one thing any more

than palpation is one technique. It

is merely another attempt to obtain information from the body. The methods or protocols with which it is

used vary as much as the many ways palpation is employed. Some are relevant to TCM dx and tx, yet most, I believe, have little relevance.

3) There are specific reasons that people get

false positives and negatives with this technique, regardless of the protocol

used. But the reality is that most

people do not account for nor understand the factors that cause this to happen,

so they cannot compensate for this in order to reduce the percentage of

incorrect responses. Most people

who use muscle testing will get inconsistent and false information without

knowing it.

4) Is there information that can be gleaned or

embellished about TCM by properly employing certain muscle testing techniques, that cannot be obtained using traditional

methods? In my experience, yes. Can it be used to replace the information

obtained by the look-ask-listen-feel approaches to TCM diagnosis? No, it cannot, IMO.

 

Regarding the incorporation of intuition,

James and Marne have promoted the banning of its use. I don’t understand how this is

possible. To me it is like requiring

someone to eliminate the use of one part of their brain. Intuition is an integral part of human

intelligence, so how can one shut it out? If a practitioner notices something about

a patient on an intuitive level shouldn’t the practitioner be encouraged

to use rational deductive thought to explore the “sense” perception

obtained intuitively?

 

Stephen

 

 

AFAIK the O-ring

test doesn't get used much outside of Shinkyuu

Topology Gakkai (Manaka, Irie, etc and their students like Miki Shima)

or Omura's group, two practitioner organizations out

of a hundred or so

in Japan.

 

robert hayden

>>>>Robert i

know that. But how excepted the O-ring is test is in general? How much

discussion is there on its usefulness? Since it is not different then any other

" muscle testing " and there have been good studies in the US on muscle testing (not orthopedic) and all the good studies are

negative. Did anybody outside the group in Japan studied these?

 

Thanks Alon

Actually, there is a pretty big following

in the AAMA for the " o ring " test, and someone from that group

might chime in here.

To me, it sounds like some sort of Irish tinnitis examination.

David Molony

 

 

 

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