Have you ever had a moment where your body seemed to know something before your mind did?
Maybe you walked into a room and instantly felt calm.
Perhaps you heard hard news and felt a heaviness in your chest.
Or maybe you saw someone you love and felt your heart open.
This is the science of how your body responds to external feedback.
It responds to what you se, what you hear, and what you feel.
It responds to stress, safety, emotion, and connection.
Despite modern medicine separating the mind from the body, both are part of the conversation all the time.
What is Muscle Testing?
This is my favorite question, primarily because I light up with joy when I get to talk about it. Muscle testing is a way of checking how the body responds to a person, thought, food, supplement, emotion, or situation.
In an in-person practice, a practitioner subjects the body to an input (an idea, a thought, a question, holding a food, holding a supplement, etc.) while using gentle pressure on a muscle to observes how the body responds. Muscle testing is a way to gather information about stress in the system.
The idea is that the muscle is giving feedback through strength to communicate a message.
When something feels safe, supportive, or in alignment, the muscles in the body strengthen 17%. When something feels stressful, irritating, or off, the body weakens by 17%.
Muscle Testing in Real Life
Think about a little kid in a classroom.
When the teacher starts talking about something the child loves, the child leans in. Their eyes get bright. Their body gets more awake. They might put their elbows on the desk and move closer because they’re interested AND because their muscles are tightening, which draws the body forward.
Now think about that same child listening to something that doesn’t connect with them at all.
They lean back. Cross their arms.
Their energy drops.
And their body starts to close off.
When we feel happy, excited, loved, or safe, there is a sense of openness in the body.
When we feel sadness, fear, or stress, there may be tightness, heaviness, or a sinking feeling.
So when people talk about muscle testing, they are really talking about listening to those kinds of body responses in a more direct and intentional way.
How Does Muscle Testing Work?
The basic idea behind muscle testing is that the body reacts to information.
That information could be physical, like food or supplements.
It could be emotional, like a memory or a stressful thought.
It could be environmental, like being around something that feels supportive or something that feels irritating.
A practitioner (like me) brings an object or idea into the client’s awareness, applies gentle pressure and watches whether the body holds steady or gives way more easily.
Why People are Drawn to Muscle Testing
Plain and simple, people are tired of guessing.
They’re eating well.
Taking supplements.
Trying to manage stress.
They’re doing their best.
And still something feels off.
This was me to a T.
In 2017 I started having health issues that doctor’s didn’t have answers for.
I was passed from doctor to doctor, had surgeries I didn’t need, and was given medications that didn’t help, but made my symptoms worse.
After realizing the conventional way of treatment wasn’t helping me, I started seeking out other modalities. In 2022 I found muscle testing and that changed the game for me.
Despite having had bloodwork multiple times a year for the preceding 5 years, it wasn’t until I found muscle testing that I learned of all the hidden things in my body that didn’t show up in my bloodwork.
Like lyme disease.
Like ropeworm and liver flukes…even though these didn’t show up on the stool and parasite tests I had taken previously.
Muscle testing was the thing that changed my life…
…and now I can’t stop talking about it.
Muscle testing appealed to me, and appeals to others because it feels like a way to bring the body back into the conversation.
Not just lab work.
Not just logic.
And not just more information.
The body. And the body keeps the score, so why not listen?
What You Can Do Now
Despite what you may have been told, your body isn’t broken. It is wise.
You just need to uncover what it’s missing, or what’s there that shouldn’t be. And there are many things in the body (or lacking in the body) that just won’t show up on bloodwork.
If you’ve ever felt like your body was trying to tell you something, that’s your intuition asking to be listened to. The question is simply whether you’re ready to listen.
What has your body been trying to say lately? If you’ve felt stuck, curious, or quietly frustrated…muscle testing might be exactly what your body has been waiting for.
The best part is, muscle testing can be done virtually as well. In fact, that’s the primary way I run my practice.
So, if you’re ready to stop guessing, and to start listening, let’s uncover which of your organs are stressed, if you have nervous system or brain inflammation, or if your body is being impacted by metals, parasites, mold or other stressors during a Body Insight Session.
Or, if you don’t know where to start and you’re not yet sure about muscle testing, let’s have a no obligation chat!
