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Excerpt
from the book, Switched-On Living
by Dr. Jerry V. Teplitz
Description
of how to use muscle checking
to determine the stresses in daily life...
Here
is a unique and simple way to determine exactly what
forces, both external and internal, are stressful to
you. Since this body-checking system involves applying
physical pressure to your arm muscle, you'll need someone
to participate with you. You don't have to be physically
strong to do the check or to be checked. The key concept
in the checking is that stimuli affect muscle strength.
When you apply pressure on your partner's arm, her
arm will remain strong when she is exposed to a positive
stimulus; and her arm muscle will be weakened when she
is exposed to a negative one. This will make more sense
as you proceed further.
As
a professional speaker on stress management, I use this
behavioral kinesiology (BK) muscle-checking technique
in my seminars. Audiences have found it amazing and
exciting. I have conducted muscle checking on hundreds
of thousands of people, including presidents of corporations,
top government officials, office workers, sales personnel,
homemakers, and students. Everyone receives a first-hand
experience with this amazing technique because I have
all my audiences participate and do the muscle checking
on each other.
BK
muscle checking is something you must experience in
order to believe, so now you need to find someone to
be your partner. By following these instructions, you
will soon discover for yourself the amazing ability
your body has to simply and easily tell you what it
finds positive and beneficial and what it finds negative
and detrimental.
The
Muscle-Checking Method
Read
through these instructions for BK checking first, and
then follow them on your partner. It is extremely important
for you to do the muscle checking now in order to understand
this concept as it appears throughout the book.
BK
Check: Finding Normal Resistance
1.
Face your partner.
2.
Your partner should raise one arm up from the side of
the body so it is at a right angle to the body and level
with the shoulder, with the thumb pointing toward the
floor. Imagine a bird with a wing outstretched, and
you'll have the correct arm position. The other arm
should remain at the side of the body.
3.
Now place one of your hands on your partner's
extended arm, just above the wrist. Place your other
hand on your partner's opposite shoulder.
4.
Instruct your partner to resist as you push down, firmly
and steadily with a hard pressure, on the extended arm.
Say out loud, "Ready-resist," as you are about
to push down on your partner's arm. You are not trying
to force her arm down; her arm should stay fairly level
during the pressure; however, you want to place a hard,
steady pressure on the arm in order to measure her normal
level of resistance. You should press firmly for several
seconds, and then release.
Finding Normal Resistance
I
call this checking in neutral. It is important
to check a person in neutral before doing any other
checking so you can determine her normal level of resistance.
Note:
If you push her arm down more than an inch or two, you
have pushed through her ability to resist. Press again
with a bit less pressure. Always follow this concept
of checking in neutral to check a person's level of
resistance. Just remember to exert pressure based on
the person's level of strength. For example, you would
press harder when you are muscle checking a super-strong
football player and more gently if you are muscle checking
a petite person.
Now
you're ready to do the BK muscle checking procedure
called the Stomach Meridian Check which I demonstrate
on my TV show.
Stomach
Meridian Check
1.
Do the BK check for Normal Resistance.
2.
While your partner keeps her arm extended,
use one of your hands to trace a straight line, from
her eye to her foot, down the same side of her body,
without touching her body at all.
3.
Immediately check the resistance in her arm
by telling her to resist as you push down. Her arm should
go down easily. Cutting the line has briefly switched
off her energy.
4.
Have your partner extend her arm again. This
time, trace a line from her foot to her eye, without
touching her at all.
5.
Immediately re-check your partner's ability to resist.
You will find her checking strong again. You have now
increased her energy flow and she is switched-on.
6.
Have your partner check you.
Almost
all people check weak when the line is traced downward,
from the eye to the foot, because that motion is cutting
the stomach meridian line. Then, when the line is traced
in the opposite direction, from the foot to the eye,
they check strong because that particular meridian line
runs upward. Tracing a line in the direction the line
naturally runs is strengthening to that particular meridian
line and to the entire body. When you trace this meridian
line upward from the foot to the eye, you are following
the direction in which it flows, and you are strengthening
both that meridian line and the entire body. By moving
in ways that go with your line's flow, instead of against
it, you wind up actually strengthening your body.
Why
BK Checking Works
Now
that you have experienced BK checking, let me explain
why it works. Your body is a complex organism
that is programmed to strive for wellness. It has an
incredible intelligence and an ability to respond to
the unique ways you program it.
The
actual muscle group we are body cheching is the deltoid
muscle. When you are doing the checking procedure and
the arm goes down easily, the deltoid muscle signifies
that the entire body's energy level is in a weakened
and switched-off state. When the arm stays up, it indicates
that the person's energy is strong and switched-on.
While you can do the BK checking on other muscles in
your body such as the leg muscles, we use the deltoid
because it is more conveniently located.
If,
during the muscle checking, the person's arm becomes
tired, you can simply switch to the other arm. Just
be sure to check the "new" arm first for its
normal level of resistance before you begin any further
checking.
Reprinted
from Switched-On Living®
by Jerry V. Teplitz. Ph.D., J.D. with Norma Eckroate,
© 1994.
Published by Hampton Roads Publishing.
