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Techniques for Self Muscle Testing

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Melissa Smith

Muscle testing is an alternative healing diagnostic tool that allows you to ask your body yes or no questions. It works with the idea that a positive association or “yes” strengthens the muscles, while a negative association or “no” weakens them, according to the website Guided Self Healing.

Melissa Smith has been writing professionally since 1990. She began training in tai chi and chi kung meditation in 1995. She is an accredited Reiki practitioner and tai chi instructor and specializes in teaching seniors and people with disabilities. Her writing appears in "Literature and Medicine" and the "Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics and Plagues." She holds a doctorate in English literature from McMaster University.