hesperis, if memory serves LH told me some time ago that acupuncture treatments had helped relieve your allergies a few years back. Could you tell us a bit about that?

Ebbie, thanks for posting the info about Dr Hawkins and about smoking too. You know just where my "buttons" are, don'tcha? ;-)

She takes her clients through various checklists and questionnaires, using mucle testing to obtain the answers, and prescribes various "treatments" based on the results. A treatment might be, for instance, repeatedly listening to a particular tuning fork (she has a whole set) or staring at a particular color. Whatever principle it might be based upon, the practice of it seems to me to resemble so much hocus-pocus, and I have a hard time getting beyond that.

Well, I don't blame you Sue. For one thing, "muscle testing" is only as reliable as the people doing the questioning AND the appropriateness / validity of the question. If the intentions of the tester/testee or the question itself are not integrous (ie aligned with love and truth for the greatest benefit of all), any "answers" gleaned will be conflicting and inaccurate.

Secondly, imo and personal experience, "color and tone" therapies like the one you described may be fun and even relaxing, but they have no lasting health benefits. These therapies are meant to stimulate, balance and align one's "chakras", and they can do just that - temporarily.

The chakras are really no more than a diagnostic tool for the endocrine system (for those trained to recognize/use them this way, that is). The condition of the chakras may indicate the symptoms of the problem, but the chakras themselves are not the cause of it. Treating the symptoms (ie "adjusting" the chakra through color/sound etc) may afford some temporary relief, but unless and until the underlying cause is uncovered and addressed, the problem remains and will inevitably recur.

"Chakra therapies" are like taking a hypertensive medication without also changing the emotionally repressed, angry patterns of thought/emotion/behavior that caused the high blood pressure in the first place. The medication may "work" in the moment, but until the person changes their approach to life the song WILL unfortunately remain the same.

It's interesting to note that while Dr Hawkins and applied kinesiology ("muscle testing") are inextricably linked, I've yet to find the good doctor prescribing (or even mentioning) "chakra therapy" in any of his books to date!

daylia