Science: Research Supporting kMMT

Muscle testing works on the fundamental concept that muscles, being controlled by nerves, will react differently based on various nerve inputs. In other words, measuring muscle strength gives practitioners insights into what the nervous system is communicating. It involves repeatedly testing a single muscle to assess the body’s response to various stimuli, such as foods, supplements, or emotional factors.

When the body perceives a stressor, the electrical signals between the muscle and the brain can be disrupted, leading to a weakened muscle response. This phenomenon is known as the Binary Biofeedback response.

Research by Monti et al. demonstrated that muscles could resist more force after articulating true statements than false ones. In their study, true statements resulted in a “strong” kMMT response, whereas false statements resulted in a “weak” response.

Real-time kMMT allows practitioners to continuously evaluate the patient’s nervous system response to a stimuli.

Emerging data suggest the efficacy of muscle testing, particularly in fostering a greater connection between body, mind, emotions, and external events. Participants in various studies have reported feeling more relaxed, stable, and at peace post-testing. Additionally, they felt empowered, more conscious of their actions, and had a heightened sense of well-being.

How We Use It In Our Clinic

kMMT is useful tool for providing information about you. This information is already known by your body. Unfortunately, we can be sorely out of tune with our body and even confused by its signals.

Is it strange that muscles could transmit valuable information? A person’s posture, which is formed by the tension or flaccidity of muscles, routinely reveals much about their internal state. For example, if you are asked to adopt the posture that expresses a fear state how would you position yourself? You may hunch your shoulders forward, curl your back and brace your neck. How about a posture that communicates someone who is hyper-vigilant and busy? You are likely to pull shoulders back, tense the muscles of your back, stick your chest out, lock your knees, resembling a soldier ready for combat. (If you did this exercise, please now relax your muscles, give a little shake or wiggle). This is a simple example of muscles communicating our internal state. Our bodies do it all the time, and it is a fantastic for us that they do.

The body is an incredible source of information and can tell you much about what’s causing you to feel out of balance. Muscle testing allows us to isolate and identify unhelpful belief patterns, and their consolidating memories in order to process the trauma, and replace it with positive belief patterns.

Our brain is constantly communicating with our body about what it feels, thinks and knows. With proper training, muscle testing we can be used to identify what causes a stress response in your muscles. The practitioner needs to be carefully trained to remove any of their own bias, and also in the art of asking objective and specific questions.

Muscle testing is used frequently in conjunction with Perception Repatterning Technique. The focus of which is to retrain your brain. By using your senses, we’ll introduce new, positive thoughts. This process helps you create new mental pathways, leading to lasting improvements.

Livvy respects that kMMT is a highly individualistic experience. While many find it revealing and therapeutic, it might not resonate with everyone. If at any point a client feels uncomfortable even with the thought of muscle testing, Livvy uses alternative methods and tools.

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