| Mind Body Research
The ONE Research Foundation Validates
Semantic Muscle Testing
The ONE Research Foundation, established on
May 24, 1993, is proud to have spearheaded support for the
research study, Muscle Test Comparison For Congruent And Incongruent
Self-Referential Statements, published in Perceptual Motor
Skills (rated in the top 5% of all psychological peer-reviewed
journals). It is the first of its kind to validate the affect
of congruent semantic stimuli (statements we believe to be
true or would like to be true) on the muscle test and be published
in a scholarly journal. Confucius once said, "Without
knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men."
To lend some historical perspective, we must
acknowledge the contributions of so many great scholars of
the past. Alfred Korzybski coined the phrase semantic reaction
to denote the physiological response of the organism to symbols
and words which he elicited using the skin galvanometer. Since
that time, scientists have measured physiological responses
to emotional stimuli via blood pressure, heart rate, skin
reaction, etc.
George Goodheart, in 1964, used the manual muscle
test as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the integrity of the
nervous system and organ function, which led to the developed
of Applied Kinesiology (AK). AK holds that physical, chemical,
and psychological/emotional stimuli act as indicators of the
functioning status of the patient's physiology.
In 1988, Scott Walker, D.C. founded Neuro Emotional
Technique (NET). NET is briefly defined as a methodology of
finding and removing neurological aberrations, Neuro Emotional
Complexes (NECs), in the human organism. He used the muscle
test as a basis for locating and correcting NECs via various
modes of entry. The method most relative to this study is
the semantic mode for evaluation of the physiological response
to emotional congruency, or emotional reality.
Thanks to the dedication and hard work of Dan
Monti, M.D. and his colleagues at Jefferson Medical College,
this much-needed study confirms the use of the semantic muscle
test as another diagnostic tool for the field practitioner.
They employed the Power Track II Dynamometer with Tracker
software to measure total force (examiner pressure plus subject
resistance) and time to muscle give-way, thusly diminishing
the chance for variance via human error.
Prior to this landmark study, which is the first
to use instrumentation to eliminate the subjective, examiner-induced
bias, the major support for this procedure was anecdotal.
According to Monti, "Our data definitively demonstrates
the difference in muscle strength/reaction between two different
semantic stimuli." This study lends scientific support
to the use of the muscle test for any technique that uses
muscle testing and is a valid tool to measure the physiologic
response to both congruent and incongruent semantic stimuli
thereby promoting optimum emotional reality and integrity
of the nervous system. |
