How Thoughts Make You Weak
John Diamond, a psychiatrist and holistic healer, is the originator of the idea of using kinesiology to measure the bodily effect of toxic thoughts.
This test, written by John for the Living The Field course, can help to demonstrate and measure the effect of negative thinking on the body.
Get yourself a partner, friend or family member, and try the following simple test.
Have your partner stand erect, right arm relaxed at his side, left arm held straight out, parallel to the floor. Face your partner and place your left hand on his right shoulder to steady him. With your right hand, grip his extended arm just above the wrist. Tell your partner that you’re going to push on his arm while he tries to resist with all his strength. Push down on his arm quickly and firmly, just hard enough to feel the spring and bounce in the arm.
In nearly every case, the muscle will test strong. Now perform the test again, using the same amount of push, as your partner does one of the following things: thinks of something unpleasant thinks of his job thinks of needing money to repair his car thinks of someone he can't stand.
The result is usually dramatic. In nearly every case, your partner will be unable to resist the pressure in these circumstances. His arm will go down easily.
Although you are using the same amount of pressure, the arm goes weak. What has happened? Somehow, the thoughts have reduced the life energy and caused the muscle to test weak.
The same phenomenon would occur with any other muscle in the body. (In this case, the deltoid muscle is used because it is convenient to test. It’s called the ‘indicator’ muscle.) By testing this muscle, a procedure that takes no more than a minute, it is possible to assess accurately, and then correct instantly, the negative emotional attitudes affecting us at a given time.
The test is basically a test of life energy. This is a use of applied kinesiology that I adapted from Dr George Goodheart, a doctor in Detroit, Michigan, who made the discovery that muscles in your body instantly become weak when the body is exposed to harmful stimuli such as sugar or junk food, or an allergen.
Although it is now used by many practitioners all over the world to detect allergies or nutritional deficiencies, I discovered that kinesiology could also be used to identify toxic thoughts or all manner of ‘toxic’ stimuli — from emotions to the type of music we listen to. I call this ‘behavioural kinesiology’, and it is an excellent means of instantly taking stock of your response to any thought and, ultimately, overcoming negative ones. John Diamond, MD
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