Muscle Testing for You, Your Family, and Your Pet: Biofeedback for the Layperson or Pet Parent

Muscle testing is a form of biofeedback that reflects subtle changes in the body’s energy systems. It’s a “detector” of sorts—one that costs nothing, is noninvasive, and can give us valuable information to help us and our pets live healthier, happier lives.

What You’ll Learn ...

• How muscle testing enables us to obtain information from the body or subconscious mind.


• Several muscle testing techniques that are easy to do for yourself or others with no special training or equipment.


• How to adapt muscle testing techniques for use with pets.


• Ways to fine tune your muscle testing to gain confidence and improve accuracy.


• Practical applications for muscle testing, including evaluating food and supplements, supplementing medical care, and supplementing veterinary care.

The Chapters

Chapter 1 contains an overview of one self-testing method that you can use for yourself or your pet, giving you a tool that you can put to use immediately.

Chapter 2 provides background into how muscle testing works, including types of muscle testing, communication with the subconscious mind, vibrational resonance, and accuracy of muscle testing.
Chapter 3 contains general guidelines that apply to most of the muscle testing techniques, including balancing pressure and resistance, obtaining permission to test, refining questions for muscle testing, and learning to gain confidence and improve accuracy.

Chapter 4 provides instructions for a number of muscle testing techniques. Most are self-testing techniques, any of which can also be used to do surrogate or proxy testing for pets and other people.

Chapter 5 contains practical applications for muscle testing, for example, evaluating food, supplements, and other items; supplementing medical care; supplementing veterinary care; and communicating with dying loved ones. Although muscle testing is primarily a tool to be used for health and wellness purposes, it can also be used to communicate with one’s pets and to tap into one’s own subconscious mind to enhance creativity and get unstuck when the conscious mind is suffering from analysis paralysis.

Chapter 6 provides an introduction to energy healing through Emotion Code®, Body Code™, and Belief Code® developed by Dr. Bradley Nelson. Each modality uses muscle testing to obtain feedback from the body or the subconscious mind as part of the energy healing process.