I was trained in what I call "Nutritional Muscle Testing" by an herb company over 15 years ago. I attended three separate seminars at that time. Since then I have attended the school of life in learning the simplest ways in which the body has the ability to heal itself. Most of my learning has been from on the job training with clients and my family. They are my greatest teachers. The rest is through seminars and classes that I attend as they are put in front of me. Some I have been drawn to; others I have not. Kinesiology is used more extensively with chiropractors. They seem to be the biggest supporters of this system.

I do need to share with you, however, that the first time I was asked to attend this seminar (it was by invitation), and I was given an explanation of how it worked, I thought that this whole idea was crazy and I refused to go. A second time, I was invited to this same type of seminar and again I refused. The third time I was approached, I decided it was time to give in. Although I had my doubts about how it all worked, upon completion of the first 6-hour class, I went home and was asked by friends and relatives to try it out on them. They began to feel better. I took two additional seminars and friends told friends and the word spread that I had this unique gift to read muscle response. More people began to feel better. The rest is history. Today, I work five days a week and see clients from all over the northeast coast. It is a joy for me to see people ready to work to heal. Healing does not come from a pill, it comes from commitment.

Muscle testing reminds me of a lie detector test. Muscle testing reads positive-negative reflex from brain to muscle. The idea behind muscle testing is to "feel" what the body is trying to communicate to us. I use the left arm where the person holds it straight out to the side and holds the muscle tightly to avoid having me push them down. I explain to the client that this is not a tug of war. I want them to give me the same resistance each time. If they get tougher, I get tougher and eventually we begin to hurt the arm muscles. It goes without saying that the muscles in the arm will get tired. These are muscles most of us don't use on a constant basis and so they are perfect for what I am trying to accomplish. As I became more adept at the procedure, I realized that I did not have to push hard on a person's arm, I just had to be consistent in my pressure. Once a person gets comfortable with the procedure, their energy will flow with mine.

When I am working with a person, we are asking about functioning levels of the body. The body understands percentages, and so I will go through the whole body for the functioning of glands and organs, vitamins, minerals and the chakra system. Most recently I have also begun to ask about metal toxicity. If I get a weak response, in other words, if the arm goes down upon asking a specific gland or organ, the body is telling me that something is not quite balanced. If the arm stays strong, the body is happy with that particular area. A negative response does not necessarily indicate that there is illness, just that the body is out of balance. Illness is simply an indication from the body to let us know we need to put our energy into healing.

It is important to understand that I don't work with illness. I work with teaching you how to balance your body out. And from my experiences, the more you become balanced on the physical and emotional levels, the more your symptoms will balance out as well. It is in this way that we become more in tune with our own healing energies. When the body is in balance, it becomes easier for us to communicate with ourselves. The body has a language all its own. Once we learn our own body language, we can also learn how to bring ourselves back into balance. This is the true beauty of this type of healing. It makes you responsible for yourself. What a concept!

Once I get a "reading" from the body, I then begin to ask the body how it wants to heal you. The information I have acquired the past 15 years is recorded in the sections entitled "Candida", "Healing the Glands and Organs", "Healing the Emotions", and "Important Food Facts". This is information that I have received consistently over the years. It is important to note here that not everything is 100% in every instance. We are unique individuals, and what might be right for one, may be completely wrong for another. This is the beauty of muscle testing - it gives us an opportunity to speak through ourselves. I am used specifically as a tool to get you to do just that. Over the years, I have become very adept at reading positive and negative responses. The actual information comes directly from you. I am only your instrument to hear it. Your healing has nothing to do with me.. it is all based around you.

What I have learned from this type of healing is that for the most part, the emotional and spiritual states of the body dictate our health. A smaller aspect of this truth is our environment. We are our greatest liabilities when it comes to healing. It is our belief system that plays a huge role in our ability to heal ourselves. It comes down to faith. I was brought up in the catholic religion and never understood how it played a role in my life until now. This upbringing has shown me how our faith in ourselves is our greatest gift to healing. It is our gift of seeing our truth and of really knowing what is possible that makes all the difference. Our greatest enemy in healing is fear. And we all know how fear based our society is. We live in fear of illness, in fear of poverty, in fear of doing something wrong. What we need to learn is that there is no right or wrong.. there is only experience. And once we grasp this concept, we can rid ourselves of fear and replace it with trust. Then you begin to see real healing take place.