While I try to teach self-muscle testing to many clients, most clients never end up using it because they don't trust they are objective and detached enough to get accurate results. However, if you wish to learn muscle testing and to try it first, please see my blog on muscle testing here >> .

The main thing muscle testing is used for in EFT is for the detection of what is called "Psychological Reversal" ~  another word for blocks. Sometimes, tapping on an issue without first clearing a block in the way can make the person performing EFT feel like they are getting nowhere or that it is taking a long time to see results. One way to work with this dilema without having to know how to muscle test for blocks can be to add into your EFT statements whatever blocks comes to mind. Then, keep changing your set up statement to encorporate any blocking issue you may feel come up. For example, if I work with the EFT set up statement: "Even though I dont live for life and live for death, I deeply and completely love and accept myself" , I could change it around and just throw in whatever my mind feels might be in the way such as "Even though I dont live for life and all its many miracles and blessings, I have no gratitude and always see the negative, I deeply and completely love and accept myself". "Even if I dont think I am even willing to change this in myself, this living for death more than life, I can still deeply and completely love and accept myself."  "Even though I dont live for life, I live for death cause everything has to be hard and a struggle,  nothing is ever easy, I deeply and completely love and accept myself." "Even though EFT probably wont even help this issue, Im so stuck with it, I on some spiritual level of my being deeply and completely love and accept myself." Later moving to postives: "Thank you God that I dont have to lose my identity, Im still me, if I live for life and all its joy and abundance, and I deeply and completely love and accept myself." Just keep doing it and letting the blocks just come to mind and tap on anything coming up. For my blog on "What is Psychological Reversal" click here >> . It lists many of the main reversals.

A second way to test for psychological reversal is to use cards / divination. I use them sometimes in addition to muscle testing because I can pick up something I missed, or that I needed to tap first or needed to keep tapping and working on.

If you wish to try using cards, they are really easy to make. You can use a package of business card stock that you would buy at a store like business depot. Such stock is use to print business cards on a home printer. They all are perforated so you dont have to do any cutting.  Then you write the names of the reversals on the cards. How I made my deck was as below:

  • 3 cards with "I deserve"
  • 3 cards with "It is safe"
  • 3 cards with "It is safe for others"
  • 3 cards with "I am willing"
  • 3 cards with "It is possible"
  • 3 cards with "I will allow"
  • 3 cards with "I will benefit"
  • 3 cards with "Others will benefit"
  • 3 cards with "I have what it takes"
  • 3 cards with "I don't have to feel deprived"
  • 3 cards with "I don't have to lose my identy"
  • 3 cards with "I don't have to never"
  • 3 cards with "I am ready"
  • 3 cards with "I choose"
  • 1 card with "I can"
  • 1 card with "I want to"

You can write the blocks in a different way if you wish. I made three cards for each block so that each block would be available to be drawn from three different card pulls (just in case the mind doubts itself or gets in the way of pulling what would feel like the "right card").

I also made other cards for my deck which are optional, but useful if you are someone who tends to heal slowly and who feels blocked using the EFT (you might find out why):

  • 3 cards: "Tap main issue" ~ if it isnt necessary to tap on blocks or one can move on towards tapping the main issue
  • 1 cards: "You need to tap another issue before this one" ~ such as if your tapping on a health issue and you should be tapping an emotion around it. If you have angel cards you can ask the angel cards what the other direction entails. I also have "The Chakra Energy Cards" by Walter Lubeck. I describe them more below, but they are great for finding things to tap on or for what chakras need to be cleared most. The deck has 126 cards and includes minor chakras and levels of the aura.
  • 1 card:  "fear of change: ~ can often be an issue that is needed to be tapped before another issue can be more successfully transformed.
  • 1 card: "Tap in positive way" ~ in case tapping set-up statements as a positive affirmation would yeild better results than a negative set up statement.
  • 1 card: "Clear Chakras and Energy First" ~ in case you would get better results clearing the energy field. See my blogs of clearing the chakras and energy field using EFT or use your own techniques
  • 1 card: "I live for life and not for death" ~ This is a massive psychological reversal correction, meaning the client has to shift their attitude towards life and living before tapping on other issues will yeild much progress. If someone has a chronic physical or emotional condition (like PTSD or Chronic Depression), this is something that might help to be tapped first to help other issues be cleared more easily. Or this card drawn can mean you've had a really bad day and your higher self thinks lightening you up would help with any other tapping. There can also be blocks on this issue, so use it as your main set up statement and test for blocks around it.
  • 1 card: "I deeply and completely love and accept myself with all my weaknesses and limitations" ~ is for clearing a generally psychological reversed / pessimistic state prior to clearing an issue.
  • 1 card: "I am forgiven by all, including myself, who have blamed me for this issue." ~ means that your sense of feeling unforgiven by others for this issue is blocking you.
  • 1 card: "I forgive anyone who I have blamed for this issue, including God and myself." ~ means your lack of forgiveness of others is blocking resolution
  • 1 card: "All parts of myself that get something out of holding onto this issue are healing now"
  • 1 card: "Cause" ~ so go back to set up statement and work on the cause and test for blocks to releasing the cause.. ie. "Even though I dont deserve to release the cause of this issue, I deeply and completely love and accept myself" 
  • 1 card: "All the places in my body, mind and life where this issue has resonated are healing now"
  • 1 card: "Tap on memories rather than issues" ~ sometimes we cant shift the main issue unless we go back to the trauma or memories where the issue arose - like if fear of failure or fear of success, one would go back to the first time one felt these fears and memories involved and tap on these memories.

Another thing I added to my deck are cards to know when to tap on blocks on releasing a block. This is optional, but I actually find these cards come up the most with stuck clients or clients who have really stubborn negative states. If you are someone who feels stuck a lot in healing or have a general negative state to getting well, these are cards to think of adding. All I did was add "blocks to" and the name of the reversals as above.

  • 1 card with "Tap on blocks to deserving"
  • 1 card with "Tap on blocks to it being safe"
  • 1 card with "Tap on blocks to it being safe for others"
  • 1 card with "Tap on blocks to being willing"
  • 1 card with "Tap on blocks to it being possible"
  • 1 card with "Tap on blocks to allowing"
  • 1 card with "Tap on blocks to benefiting"
  • 1 card with "Tap on blocks to others benefiting"
  • 1 card with "Tap on blocks to having what it takes"
  • 1 card with "Tap on blocks to not feeling deprived"
  • 1 card with "Tap on blocks to not losing identity"
  • 1 card with "Tap on blocks around never being able to"
  • 1 card with "Tap on blocks to readiness"
  • 1 card with "Tap on blocks to choosing."

I write "Tap on" on the cards to keep it positive so its not like you pull a negative card and feel despondent cause its saying your blocked, but rather suggesting that by tapping on the blocks you can resolve the problem.

Other cards I added were "meditation" (incase its better not to do EFT right then and to meditate), "phsycal issue / diet" (incase there is a physical or diet issue connected), "Exercise" (incase its better to exercise and get your body moving), "Cross Crawl" (is an exercise to which if people are really blocked in an issue sometimes can correct energy so that issue can be unblocked easier). For a blog on what the Cross Crawl Technique is, see the blog here>> .

The Chakra Energy Cards ~ By Walter Lubeck

These card works great if your stuck in a healing session working on yourself or someone else, and want to figure out what to tap next or what set up statement will help to break through a sticky issue. 126 cards, several cards per each chakra, even minor chakras, as well as cards for energy field layers and bodies. Each card  contains an affirmation.

I bought my deck at Amazon.ca.