Getting Answers From The Inner Mind
Please note that it is always possible to test an untestable person by testing on yourself if you are practiced at it. You can also work around this problem by using surrogate testing, which we’ll discuss in more detail in chapter 8. Instead of testing the subject directly, surrogate testing allows you to test a third person and still tap into the subconscious of the subject to get the desired answers. If someone is determined not to be muscle tested, they will usually succeed.
But that means they’re deliberately being uncooperative and don’t want the testing to work. They’ve got their own agenda. If that’s the case they’re not an ideal candidate for the Emotion Code. Now and then, I’ve run into people who have already made up their minds that muscle testing doesn’t work. And wouldn’t you know it? It doesn’t work on them! They make sure of that. As you’ve seen, these tests are not about sheer physical force. I have seen cases where a person’s muscle went so weak that they literally could not resist the slightest downward pressure, but that’s not usually the case. More often, what you will detect is a slight change in muscle strength, the difference between the muscle being ‘locked’ or ‘mushy’. Muscle testing works on most of the people, most of the time. But other things can come into play. Sometimes it doesn’t work because they’re just not 179