- packets of frozen foods
- plates with different foods
- a variety of herbs, drugs, medicines, homoeopathic remedies
Basically, try anything – ordinary and extraordinary.
Tips
- The technique known as ‘muscle testing’ is based on the idea that
the force of a muscle is stronger when you think of something
true or when you hold a substance that is ‘good’ for you. On the
contrary, the muscular force is supposed to drop if you are
holding the wrong remedy, or if you think of something that is
untrue or not beneficial to your health.
For instance, patients are asked to hold different bottles with
their left hand, in front of their heart, and to stretch their right
arm horizontally. The practitioner pushes the hand down to test
the strength of the deltoid (shoulder muscle).
The technique has its limits, and I don't think it is reasonable to
try to make it a universal method of knowledge, as some seem to
be doing. Yet it is a surprising fact that the resistance of the
muscle is sometimes significantly stronger or weaker, depending
on what the person holds or thinks of.
As soon as you begin perceiving auras you will discover that clear-
cut differences can be sensed in a person's energy when they
think about different things or while they hold different
substances. To perceive this you don't even need to ‘see’ auras, just
feeling them is enough.
7.10 Vata, pitta, kapha
Ayurveda, or traditional Indian medicine, is based on recognising
the interplay of three principles in the body:
- vata, or wind (all that moves in the body)
- pitta, or fire/heat principle
- kapha, or water and earth principle, force of inertia.
In Ayurveda, diagnosis rests on discerning which of these three
principles (called the three doshas) predominate in a patient.
Patients are classified accordingly as ‘vata’, or ‘pitta’, or ‘kapha’, or
‘vata-pitta’ (if the two doshas are over-active, vata more than
pitta), or ‘pitta-vata’, or ‘kapha-vata’, and so on. The Ayurvedic
method of reaching this diagnosis is to take the pulse.
I was once working with an Ayurvedic physician in Calcutta, and
we had designed a procedure (it was a game, really) in which he