This website was created for professional practitioners who use manual muscle testing (MMT) as a method of evaluating their patients and seek excellence in doing so. MMT as developed by George Goodheart is one of the true triumphs in the healing arts. Its inter examiner reliabilty is high.

Yet like any other manual skill there is plenty of room for error. Some are consciously observed and are most easily correctable. Others like automatisms and the related ideomotor effect are non conscious and therefore more difficult to remedy. This website is dedicated to making the phenomena of automatisms more aware to the dedicated practitioner and presenting strategies for minimizing these errors.

Have you even been to a seminar and had a practitioner muscle test you and could discern a change in the muscle test in vector, pressure, etc.? That each test was different where the pressure varied.

By the way, the practitioner that did that test on you… there is a 99% chance that he/she was NOT conscious that he/she was changing the vector, the speed, pressure, etc.

In any case I’ll bet you a dollar that you didn’t bring this disparity up to the treating practitioner. Why? Because you didn’t want to hurt his or her feelings and there was always somebody else you could workshop with. But did you ever that you, too, might be varying the pressure in your muscle test? Heaven forbid!

What happens in your office is that your patients, like you, don’t want to say anything to hurt your feelings and often they (now skeptical) just drop out of care and you don’t have any idea why.

Of course you don’t have any idea why. Especially if you are doing automatisms. By definition automatisms are non-conscous! Only your best friend would tell you. I’ll be your best friend today and at least tell you there is a high percentage chance that if you are doing manual muscle testing (MMT), you, like the rest of us, have almost certainly allowed (but not consciously experienced) automatisms.