Minutus

Dear all,
This is a question about muscle testing, with some explanation.
For those of you who have watched me treat myself and have WARNED me
against same, you'll be glad to know I went to my homeopath recently and feel much
better on the prescriptions he gave me -- yes, two, one to take up to 4x day
and one once a week for up to 3 weeks. I don't know what they are because he
won't tell me (he would if I REALLY fussed) because he knows I also treat
myself.
So, I've been doing just as he prescribed for a change, but last night I
got nat mur cold symptoms -- begins with sneezing, for one. So I muscle
tested nat mur (30) and it came up positive. Then I muscle tested for the
once-per-week rem my homeopath gave me and that also came up positive. I took nothing
(it took a lot of personal discipline but I did it!). Instead I took a lot
of vitamin C, some other sups, and feel better today.
So I'm wondering -- when should muscle testing be heeded? Especially
when two remedies test seemingly the same in terms of efficacy?

Thanks very much,
Margaret in Boston

--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, ForumGal@a... wrote:
Especially

*** Here's a thought that might not be terribly popular: Maybe you
need both.

Toni

........or maybe they are both the same.........
Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind"

Hi Margaret,

For many years I've done a *lot* with muscle testing (with several variants
of approach), and here are some conclusions I've reached:
Muscle testing is pretty much a yes/no thing, and that isn't ideal for a
question that encompasses degrees of "yes"! I have found that (unless you
put an effective "filter" in place) you'll get "yes" for anything from,
"Yeah kinda good, but you might not actually notice any difference", to
"yeah good, tho it won't hold for very long", to "Wow, YEAH! simillimum
response!" I've had good results (tho still not flawless) from adding a
"filter" by using a 1 - 4 scale, where one is "yeah kinda good but..."; 2
stands for helpful but not very; 3 stands for good solid help (probably good
enough for an acute or for palliation), but not simillimum; and 4 stands for
simillimum response (or something tantalizingly close to it). I don't know
if this is a generally reliable approach and no doubt there are better ones,
but I did find that this has made my "yesses" a *LOT* more useful!

Another thing I've learned is that if the results contradict common sense,
you're (usually) better off going with common sense, because there are (at
least as I do it) pitfalls and subjectivity issues with muscle testing--tho
I also think it's fabulously better than nothing, in a pinch! (Actually
it's helped me out a great deal on several occasions.)

You also need to be sure you have a way to check for "reversal" (and maybe
there are other names...).

Best wishes!
Shannon
on 1/25/05 6:55 PM, ForumGal@aol.com at ForumGal@aol.com wrote:

another thought, that the muscle test came out with the desired result.!

At 7:55 PM -0500 1/25/05, ForumGal@aol.com wrote:
Ok. You went to your homeopath, and he gave you something.
Do you treat yourself without consulting the homeopath? Sounds like
you do. So why are you wasting money on a homeopath?
The perennial problem raises its head-- wanting to prescribe for
every little change. NOT a good thing to do.

The purpose of going to a homeopath is to let someone see the case
with the clarity you cannot bring to it. Ideally, you choose a
homeopath that you can trust to do so. Then, you LAY OFF taking
anything unless it is either prescribed by the homeopath OR OK's by
the homeopath.
If you do NOT do this, then going to someone else is a waste of your
money and a waste of their time.
As someone pointed out, since you did not know the remedy prescribed,
they MIGHT have been the same.
I would trust muscle testing ONLY when it has shown me that the
selection is truly curative. So far, it has not done so.

JW

Dear all,
I've been using the form of muscle testing where you stand, hold the
remedy/food/whatever to your thymus area and wait to see if your body leans
forward or backward. What I've found is that sometimes I lean left or right as
well. Does anyone know how to interpret that? Does it mean the substance is
useful or no? Many thanks for info, direction to a website, etc.

Margaret in Boston
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There was an interview with Dianne Fuller by Elaine Lewis. She has a lot of experience in this field.
http://www.hpathy.com/interviews/dianefuller2.asp
Best,
Feras

ForumGal@aol.com wrote:
Dear all,
I've been using the form of muscle testing where you stand, hold the
remedy/food/whatever to your thymus area and wait to see if your body leans
forward or backward. What I've found is that sometimes I lean left or right as
well. Does anyone know how to interpret that? Does it mean the substance is
useful or no? Many thanks for info, direction to a website, etc.

Margaret in Boston

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