Episode 27 Integrating Muscle Response Testing into Practice, with Angela Santiago

Have you heard of muscle response testing? How can you use muscle response testing to do deep trauma healing work with your clients? What are some self-care tips that you can utilize at work?

MEET ANGELA SANTIAGO

Growing up in Germany, Angela lived on the outer skirts of a small town in Bavaria, where using holistic remedies was just a daily way of living.

After moving to the US at age 24, she slow and steadily pursued her passion to learn more about herbal tinctures and holistic remedies, mainly for her own family.

In the mid-nineties, the path to her healing practice expanded while studying the gentle art of Healing Touch, EFT, Touch for Health, and eventually Emotion Code.

In addition, Angela's deep-rooted love for herbal medicine has also lead her to become a certified Aromatherapist, which she specializes in for over a decade, to support and balance client's emotional ups and downs, safe and naturally.

Angela is the mother of 3 children and 7 grandchildren, that continued on the same Holistic Path that she instilled in them.

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IN THIS PODCAST:

• What is muscle response testing?
• Conscious and subconscious mind
• Angela's self-care tips for therapists

WHAT IS MUSCLE RESPONSE TESTING Muscle response testing is an energetic modality where I can check on myself … it's called a ring-in-ring method. (Angela Santiago)

I take the tip of my pointer finger and the tip of my thumb, and I put it together as a ring on both hands. I open the ring on my right hand and lock it into my left-hand ring.

The ring in ring method is when you:

• Connect the tip of your pointer finger with the tip of your thumb, creating a ring.
• Create a ring on both hands.
• Open a pointer finger and interlock it with its thumb through the other ring, so that your rings on both hands are interlocked with one another on each side.
• If you ask a question and the ring breaks, the answer is no.
• If you ask a question and the ring remains in place, the answer is yes.

You can use the ring method to find if there is still trauma in the body from past experiences that have not been resolved.

CONSCIOUS AND SUBCONSCIOUS MIND I have to say with some clients you achieve results quicker [than] with others, and it has to do with … are they receptive? Do they want to release their stuff? (Angela Santiago)

Some people may have suppressed their feelings and thoughts so deep that their conscious mind and their subconscious minds are not able to hear one another.

In this case, using muscle response testing can help you to get your clients to find the place in their memory or trauma that they have missed that is still being triggered, and work through it.

SELF-CARE ADVICE FOR THERAPISTS

• Breathing deeply with your hand on your forehead,
• Sitting quietly with your hand on your heart and taking intentional deep breaths,
• Take a walk around the block on your break to calm your mind from work and to revitalize your energy,
• Place a diffuser in your office for using essential oils.

[Self-care] is imperative, to keep our mind clear, calm, and collected, because it's very easy to get overwhelmed and go down the rail with a client sometimes. (Angela Santiago) Connect With Me

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