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One of Goodheart's fans, John Thie, considered that Kinesiology "could possibly be trained to and practiced as a way of self-care for several individuals." In 1973, he and Mary Marks released a workbook entitled Touch for Wellness: A Practical Manual to Natural Health Making use of Acupuncture, Touch, and Therapeutic massage. The workbook has been recently translated into greater than a dozen languages and has sold more than 400,000 copies.

AK offers some formidable proponents, such as for example psychiatrist-cum-guru David Hawkins. He promises, among a great many other things, he has evidence that Kinesiology is really a reliable "lie detector" and may be used to look for the truth or falsity of any declaration. Hawkins also offers developed a "level of consciousness" and utilizes Kinesiology to find out how "enlightened" a reserve or one who wrote the book may be. Hawkins promises he's calibrated The Skeptics Dictionary at degree 150, "that is that of sophomoric egotism."* Just 16% of humans calibrate at above 190, in accordance with Hawkins, so I'm in great company. By 'consciousness' Hawkins indicates some form of developing spirituality. Once you score between 600-1,100 you reach "higher consciousness." George W. Bush calibrates at 450, in accordance with Hawkins, that is in the number of intellectual genius. Hawkins goes as far as to dec1are that the Wikipedia write-up on him would calibrate at 400, rather than 200, if it eliminated the hyperlinks to my criticisms.

He claims Kinesiology can be a reliable solution to determine someone's motives. Like a great many other MODERN gurus, Dr. Hawkins believes he's not only found a method to utilize the unconscious thoughts but that therein dwells an limitless database filled with amazing truths.

Here is Hawkins's explanation of how AK functions (taken from the task of Dr. John Gemstone, another fallen-away psychiatrist deeply in love with Eastern mysticism):


It requires two different people, the “subject” and the “tester.”

1. Have the topic stand erect, correct arm calm at his part, left arm kept out parallel to the ground, elbow straight.

2. Face your subject matter and place your remaining hand on his correct shoulder to stable him. After that place your right hands on the subject's prolonged left arm right above the wrist.

3. Tell the topic to resist once you make an effort to push his arm straight down.

4. Now force down on his arm rapidly, firmly, and evenly. The theory would be to push hard enough to check the springtime and bounce in the arm, not hard that the muscles become fatigued. It isn't a question of who's stronger, but of if the muscles can ‘lock' the shoulder joint contrary to the push.


Yes, that's it. That is the magical manner of AK that may unlock the door to numerous truths. The one thing missing may be the direction to handle east and wear tin foil under your cap.

There is little question that the muscle motions detected by AK are usually unconsciously triggered (Hyman 1999), but there's scant evidence they are triggered by incredible databases of truths. In a nutshell, AK practitioners are kidding themselves and mistaking ideomotor motion for usage of hidden truths.

Some readers may be convinced that Kinesiology may be the ideomotor effect doing his thing by viewing a demonstration. The initial video below demonstrates methods to consciously generate the illusion that AK does work. It must be emphasized that demonstration will not consider that the motion of the one pushing down on the other's arm could be doing so subconsciously.

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