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Another very important practice is the act of classifying food reactions. Whole Health subscribes to what it calls Traffic Light Classification. That is, over time, every food will ultimately fall into one of three categories: red light, yellow light, or green light. Foods that continually fail are considered “red-light” foods. These must always be avoided. Red-light foods should be thought of as energetic allergens.

The foods that constantly ping-pong back and forth from pass to fail are “yellow-light” foods. This category of foods must be rotated.
Rotating
specific yellow-light foods, means they shouldn't be consumed more frequently than once or twice a week. Foods such as olive oil and garlic are typical yellow-light foods, but are almost never rotated because they are thought to be such healthy foods. As such, they tend to be overconsumed. I suggest that you find three oils and rotate them. One week use olive oil, the next week use organic canola, and the next week use flaxseed oil.

The foods that pass every time they are tested are “green-light” foods. After several tests indicate a pattern, I suggest you color-code your food charts accordingly with colored markers. Traffic Light Classification allows you to chart what I like to call the patient's Food Map.

Rotation of foods is a very important aspect of the Whole Health system. We must remember that our bodies have evolved through thousands of years of genetic programming. Our ancestors ate indigenously and seasonally. They ate only what could be grown or found in their local environment. Their dietary rotations were limited by what the seasons and weather patterns dictated. Thus, while our genetic maps are designed for food rotation, our modern ability to transport and preserve food interferes with our natural genetic programming. The Whole Health System has confirmed this to be a key reason for the growing presence of digestive inflammatory conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, type 2 diabetes, gallbladder disease, and Crohn's disease. Once you have pass/fail tested your subject's food allergies, it's time to pulse test them for their foods.

Pulse Testing Foods
—If a food passes for your partner, it is important for them to know just how positive an influence that food has on them. Likewise, if a food fails, it is important for your partner to know just how detrimental that food is for them. Like vital organ pulse testing, food pulse testing is also based on a plus/minus 1–10 score.

Let's say your subject's arm grew weak when you exposed them to a test vial of wheat or simply called out the word
wheat
. They just failed wheat. Keep in mind, this is a straight pass/fail test, but to what degree is wheat potentially compromising their health? Pulse testing allows you to test the specific degree of energetic negativity wheat poses for them.

Inform your partner that you are about to pulse test to learn just how detrimental wheat is for them, from minus 1 to minus 10, with
minus 1 being the least detrimental and minus 10 being the most. Call out numbers from minus 1 to minus 10 as you simultaneously pulse-push on their arm after each counted number. If their arm drops at minus 1, it represents the least sensitivity to wheat. If their arm holds strong until the minus 10 is called out, it represents the greatest degree of negative reaction to wheat.

What the pass/fail testing technique initiates is enacted by the EMT pulse testing technique. If you decide not to employ vial testing, “call out” testing will suffice. Your partner's unconscious sixth sense will easily adapt to these changes, provided that you clearly and audibly state the intention of the pulse testing. It takes the unconscious mind only seven-tenths of a second to adapt its neural feedback response.

EMT
Food
Combination
Testing
—Over the years, there have been many studies substantiating the validity of proper food combining. Dr. Herbert M. Shelton compiled more than fifty-three years of research data on the topic (between 1928 and 1981). Dr. Shelton's research was first noted by Dr. Philip Norman, in the
Journal
of
the
American
Medical
Association,
in 1924. Norman also supported the theory of proper food combining, often citing its validity as a science.

The concepts of proper food combining are very simple. The theory is that one should not combine proteins like meat, fish, dairy, eggs, beans, and legumes with starches like potatoes, bread, pasta, and grains. Proteins combine well, however, with low-starch vegetables like broccoli, green beans, spinach, and salads. Fruits should be taken alone, between meals, and if eaten as a fruit salad, combined only within their own groups—acid, subacid, sweet, and melons. So, what's the point of all this?

First, all foods have varying degrees of density. For example, a cut of prime rib is denser than a green bean, and cheese is denser than an apple. Varying degrees of density result in different times necessary for digestion and absorption. Next, when it comes to digestion, proteins, carbohydrates, and fats all perform different
tasks. Proteins provide building and repair, while carbohydrates provide fuel and fats as stored energy. Not every human being executes each of these tasks with equal efficiency. For example, those who are diabetic or hypoglycemic tend not to digest and/or assimilate carbohydrates efficiently, while those with gout tend to struggle with protein digestion.

The Whole Health EMT system adds yet another consideration when it comes to proper food combining. Not all food energies combine well with the energies of individual people. The Whole Health system is truly customized to the individual. It offers one the opportunity to utilize the medicinal properties of foods at their maximum potential. I recommend the EMT Food Combining protocol only for those who are extremely sick or terminally ill.

This procedure is easy. Once again, assume the tuning posture. By now your partner has already been fully pass/fail food tested, so simply call out possible food combinations and strength test your partner for each one. For example, call out “Red meat with potatoes” and test their strength. Next call out “Red meat, potatoes, and green beans,” and strength test them again. Remember, your unconscious minds are employing the sixth sense, and your electromagnetic fields are relaying the energetic response through your nervous systems and muscles. I always remind my students and patients that I have observed the accuracy and reliability of this sixth-sensory energy system for more than three decades. Your mind/body knows the answer!

Testing for Raw Versus Cooked Food
—The question of raw versus cooked food has become a debate of epic proportion. The raw food advocates remind us that enzymes are the vital catalysts of life force and abundant health. The cooked food advocates suggest that the spleen and lymph system function more efficiently with warm, cooked foods. Who is right? Whole Health says they can be both right and wrong, depending on the circumstances and for different people. Whole Health is a system that ascribes to energetic
individuality. We are comprised of a myriad of subtle energies and we are all very different, as well as ever changing! Whole Health therefore suggests that the question of raw versus cooked food be individually tested and retested each season. As the seasons change, we change. Simply use the EMT pass/fail (yes/no) testing technique. Hold up your partner's arm and test their strength response when calling out “Cold, raw food” and “Warm, cooked food.” You will end the great debate in a swift moment!

EMT Meal Plan Testing
—One of the most important EMT protocols is meal plan testing. This is where you can provide your partner with their very own customized diet plan with the optimal recommendations for specific foods and for amounts to be taken at each meal throughout the day. You can even test for how long they are to implement such a diet before it requires updating, as is often necessary, especially during seasonal changes.

Once again, assume the tuning position. Now simply strength test your subject for their daily meals, one meal at a time. Then, muscle test them for each food category at the top of the page. Finally, call out the amounts of each positive food in ounces and muscle test your partner's strength reaction to each amount. For example, call out “Breakfast.” Then call out the words
protein, vegetables, fruits,
and
high-starch
carbohydrates. Next call out amounts for whichever foods passed at breakfast. If protein passed, then call out “Three ounces” and strength test them, “Four ounces” and strength test them, and so on. As soon as you find a strong breakfast food and amount, mark it down on your chart. Test for all meals, foods, and amounts until their EMT Meal Plan Map is completed. Last but not least, test them for how long this diet plan is to be adhered to in terms of weeks. Retest their meal plan at that time.

EMT Food Supplement Testing
—Nutritional supplements have become an important part of American life. According to the CDC, approximately 50 percent of all Americans take nutritional supplements on a daily basis. That means that millions of Americans are consuming nutritional supplements every day, but few have a solid basis for determining whether what they are choosing to take is in their best interest. Whole Health reminds us that, no different from “potentially” healthy foods, food supplements may actually deplete one's energy. The EMT Food Supplement Testing protocol offers one a customized approach to zeroing in on the safest, most energizing food supplements.

 

Prepare a blank meal plan chart that looks something like this:

Before you begin this procedure, make a comprehensive list of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, herbal, and homeopathic supplements they currently take, or may appear to need. (Appendix A presents the entire Whole Health Apothecary of nutritional supplements.) At the top of the page, create four categories: Potency, Dose, Frequency, and Duration. Your list might look something like this:

Now, once again interface with your partner, assuming the proper position. Then muscle test them in a pass/fail manner for each supplement on your list. Following pass/fail testing, you will pulse test your partner for each food supplement. It's only essential to test them for the positive food supplements that they've already passed. As with foods, pulse test them from 1 to 10. Verbally announce your intention to test the positive food supplements in degrees from 1 to 10, and then begin.

The Whole Health protocol recommends that they be instructed to take only those nutritional supplements that pulse higher than five. Anything less than that is simply not worth taking as a supplement. Another note: if you wish to pulse test the negative numbers for those food supplements that failed the pass/fail test, feel free to do so. It can be helpful to demonstrate to your subject that a nutritional supplement they have been taking may actually be depleting their energy. It may make them feel better to stop taking it! Once again, as Whole Health reminds us, one size doesn't fit all! Everyone assumes that all nutritional supplements are good for everybody. When it comes to getting a nutritional supplement plan right for each individual, EMT enables us to thread the needle. That is exactly what you are going to do next.

It's time to begin testing each of your partner's passed nutritional supplements for potency, dose, frequency, and duration. Simply call out the questions and muscle test for each question. Let's take vitamin C, for example. Call out doses beginning with 500 milligrams and test their muscle strength. Call out higher potencies until the arm drops. Find the highest potency that produces a strong muscle response. This represents proper potency for them.

Next, call out doses, or the number of times per day they take their properly dosed vitamin C. Call out “Once a day” and test, then “Twice a day,” and test, and so on, until their arm drops. Find the highest number of times that produces a strong muscle response. This represents the proper dose.

Now the number of days per week the vitamin C supplements are to be taken is tested in the same manner. Strength test your partner as you call out, “One day per week,” “Two days per week,” and so on, testing after each, until you arrive at the most days per week that produces a strong muscle response. This represents the optimal frequency for taking each of their supplements.

Finally, you test your subject for duration: the length of time your partner will remain on this particular nutritional supplement protocol. Simply call out and strength test them for one week, two weeks, three weeks, one month, and so on, until you arrive at the highest number of weeks that produces a strong muscle response. This represents the long-term duration of their nutritional supplement protocol. Duration often manifests in cycles. In other words, sometimes the entire protocol will test positively for a month or so, but the subject may need a week or two off, and then begin a new supplement cycle. An example of a duration cycle may be one that lasts for, say, eight weeks followed by a two-week period of rest from the nutritional supplement. This cycle of eight weeks on and two weeks off may continue repeating ad infinitum, or it may need to be altered at some point. This can all be asked aloud and muscle tested.

Qigong
Testing
Your
Foods
and
Supplements—
By now, you are all tested up and balanced. If you are a bit upset at having to avoid some of your favorite foods because you learned that they either drain or overcharge your energy, fear not. A number of years ago, a friend of mine who is a Chinese master asked me to give a presentation with him at a seminar. He called for several volunteers to come forward. He then asked me to test them for several foods and teas. Next, he asked me to set aside a box of tea that one woman had a very weak reaction to. He then grabbed the box of tea and began moving his hands and his thoughts in a manner intended to infuse the tea with energy. He had an intense, determined look on his face. His mental intention to inject energy into that box of tea was
ever clear. His hands kept throwing energy into the box, similar to a chef throwing grains of salt into a skillet. In effect, he was demonstrating how a beverage/food that was devoid of energy for a given person could be infused with energy by performing Qigong (an energy mastery exercise) on that particular food or beverage. Following his energy boost on the box of tea, he asked me to retest her. She passed with flying colors! It was an important lesson about the ways of energy for all in attendance. Energy is everywhere, and it can be dramatically altered with strong mental intention.

The Two Secondary EMT Applications

1.
Testing the Four Energy Quadrants
—There are two additional short-form EMT procedures that support the process of assessment. The first of these is Testing the Four Energy Quadrants (see Figure 4.6). Remember, energy is not only generated and absorbed within the body's internal glands and organs—energy is also collected all around the body's outer field. Outer-field energies are generally derived from all the positive and negative influences around you. By testing the quadrants first, you can establish the energy state of the external body.

This is a relatively simple test. First assume pass/fail position. Next the practitioner should simply place their free hand in the direction of the subject's upper-right quadrant. The motioning of the practitioner's free hand in this upper-right quadrant is a way of asking the subject's field if there is sufficient energy present in that quadrant. If the subject's arm drops, it means there's a deficiency in that quadrant. Then, repeat this procedure in sequence for the upper-left, lower-left, and lower-right quadrants. If the subject's arm drops while testing any of these quadrants, it indicates a deficiency. This test initiates the Whole Health EMT diagnostic process by determining the energy deficiencies in the outer body field.

FIGURE 4.6
The Four Energy Quadrants

1.
The upper-right quadrant reflects the outer-field energy strength of the right lung, liver, and gallbladder.

2.
The lower-right quadrant: right kidney and adrenal glands.

3.
The upper-left quadrant: left lung and spleen.

4.
The lower-left quadrant: left kidney and adrenal glands.

2.
Finger Zone Organ Testing
—The second EMT short-form assessment technique is called finger zone organ testing. Most ancient energy healing systems place great emphasis on the hands and feet, as it is believed that their respective nerve endings correspond with the same nerve networks as all the vital glands and organs. Chinese medicine generally correlates the hands and feet with the meridians of the small intestines, heart, pericardium, large intestine, and lungs. The Korean Koryo Sooji Chim system
of hand acupuncture links the hands with virtually every part of the human anatomy. Similarly, the Ayurvedic system of reflexology links the hands and fingers, feet, and toes with all of the vital glands and organs. Whole Health EMT hand zone organ testing is an accurate, simple, short form of diagnostic muscle testing that works very effectively. The Whole Health EMT System of hand/organ mapping between individual finger phalanges and specific organs has been repeatedly tested for pinpoint accuracy.

The human hand has fourteen phalanges—three sections for each finger and two for each thumb. Each section of every finger corresponds energetically with a vital organ (see Figure 4.7). The simple procedure requires the practitioner to muscle test the subject's arm strength while applying light pressure to (pinching) each of the subject's phalanges, one at a time. Anytime the arm drops with sudden loss of energy strength, it signifies deficient energy in the corresponding organ.

FIGURE 4.7
Finger Zone Testing

The Two EMT Self-Testing Forms

1.
Grasping the Ch'i
—I am often asked if it is possible to pulse test oneself in the absence of a partner. The answer is a resounding “Yes!” I call this technique Grasping the Ch'i. Although not an actual muscle-testing technique, Grasping the Ch'i does require considerable skill and energy sensitivity. The way it works is really quite simple.

Keep in mind that when muscle testing, you are engaging in a biofeedback technique that analyzes the human body's energy field via the neuromuscular system. Anytime we think of anything, either positive or negative, our nervous system is responding at subtle levels that we are not generally tuned in to. These same subtle neurological responses we produce when thinking about good things or bad things may be felt in the palms of our hands. When thinking about something positive or affirmative, there is a light pitter-patter, like light raindrops, in the palm of each hand. When thinking about anything negative, on the other hand, there is no response in the palms at all, just a dead feeling. The Chinese recognized this pitter-patter of neurological excitement in the hand as the movement of ch'i, or life force.

As with all our previous energy protocols, Grasping the Ch'i begins with tuning. Begin by rubbing both palms together vigorously, thirty times. This activates the energy in the palms. Next, close your eyes and think about a positive reference, such as the phrase
I am powerful
. Now draw all your attention to the palms of your hands and try feeling the light pitter-patter of energy. Try several times to Grasp the Ch'i. You may also try focusing on other positive words, phrases, or images. You might try picturing in your mind someone you love very much. Once you have successfully Grasped the Ch'i, you must then experience the difference—the absence of ch'i.

Once again, with eyes closed and palms facing up and open,
think of a negative word, phrase, or image. As you do, feel the clearing out, or absence, of ch'i in your palms. As with the positive exercise, make several attempts. Note the distinct difference between the presence and absence of life force in your palms. Grasping the Ch'i should be considered a pass/fail test. If you become accomplished, you may also master the art of pulse counting while grasping.

2.
Punch-Pushing the Fist
—Grasping the Ch'i demands a great deal of personal ch'i to be effective. A much easier method of EMT self-testing is Punch-Pushing the Fist. I have seen a number of techniques that suggest testing finger strength and leaning forward and backward, but I feel they have very poor reliability. The Punch-Pushing technique is a simple and reliable pass/fail technique that seems to work very well and can be effectively performed while standing or seated.

First, make a taut fist with your nondominant hand. Then, with elbow bent, place your fist directly in front of your heart, approximately two inches away from your chest. Now call out your contrasting positive and negative tuning words or images. Be sure to tune for as long as you need to. It is important to establish a baseline for your testing. Once you are properly tuned, begin calling out the vital organs one at a time and, as you do, try pushing on your fist with your dominant hand. Make sure you push firmly and quickly. Be sure to reset your nondominant hand in place with a taut firmness after each test. A failed response should result in the nondominant fist being easy to push into the chest. Don't make it too difficult for yourself. Simply give in if you sense a natural failed response. This is generally a reliable self-testing technique that you can improve upon easily. You can pass/fail test organs and foods with this technique. As with all these EMT procedures, it is important to practice, practice, practice!