| Because I sometimes wanted someone to energy test me when no one was
available, I hit upon a solution while I was first experimenting with energy testing. I
went to a sporting goods store and found a barbell that I could lift if I held it straight
out in front of me when I was holding a comforting thought but could not lift when I was
holding a depressing thought (thoughts generate subtle energies that impact our bodies,
and comforting as well as depressing thoughts affect the muscles).
I placed the dumbbell on a dresser that was
the height of my shoulders. I would put my arm out in front of me, grab the dumbbell, and
try to lift it. If I wanted to energy test for a specific food or vitamin, I would hold
the substance in one hand and try to lift the dumbbell with the other. The energy of the
food would affect my energies as decisively as an uplifting or a depressing thought. I
could find out whether the substance was having a positive or negative impact on my
energies by my ability or inability to lift the weight.
Because dumbbells exert a steady pressure
downward, they can provide a reasonably objective measure of what is being tested. The
critical physical factor for this self-test is finding a dumbbell with the correct
weight-a weight you can lift while holding it straight out in front of you and thinking
a positive thought but not while thinking a negative thought. A recent technological
innovation that makes it easier to get the exact weight you need for this test is the
one-gallon water jug. Experiment with the amount of water needed to just be able to lift
it when holding a comforting thought but not while holding a disturbing thought. For
testing substances, I suggest using the spleen test. Place your arm at your side with the
weight in your hand, touch the substance with your other hand, and see if you can pull the
arm with the weight outward, in the motion of a normal spleen meridian energy test (as
described in Chapter 2 to of Energy Medicine or the Appendix of Energy Medicine
for Women).
Numerous other ways for energy testing
without a partner have been devised. Because most of them require the person to
simultaneously exert and resist pressure, to be both the tester and the tested, it is very
difficult to assure an unbiased result unless the person is highly experienced. One I have
found that people can do reliably after practice--and which doesn't require any equipment,
such as a weight--has you use your body as a pendulum rather than to exert pressure on a
muscle. While standing, place the item being tested at your stomach, holding it evenly
with both hands, and bring your elbows in so the sides of your arms touch the sides of
your body. Then bring your feet together, facing straight ahead. Take a deep breath,
become still, centered, and as you release your breath, release all thoughts. If after a
few moments you feel yourself pulled toward the item, that is, falling forward, it
indicates that the item is in harmony with your energies. If you find yourself falling
backward, away from the substance being tested, it indicates that the item is in conflict
with your energies. It is as if, at a subtle level to which you must attune yourself, a
substance that is in harmony with your energies has a magnetic attraction pulling you
toward it while a substance that is in disharmony repels you. In this test, you need to be
particularly careful about your wishes or preconceived ideas influencing the results, and
the instructions for fine-tuning your energy-testing abilities with a partner in Chapter 2
of EM (or the Appendix of EM4W) can be adapted for this test as well. |
