My first medical job was working for a naturopath and her D.O. husband. He was bad at it, but she was amazing. (They used applied kiniseology (sp?) which was done through muscle testing then). I learned how to do it too, (muscle testing) but never got it down cause I didn't practice it. There is a lot to being subjective with that, too. Dr. Seeman use to "find" that people needed to buy lots and lots of his supplements he happened to sell, LOL. Now, they have these electronic things that actually pick up energy levels physically which works the same way so it doesn't have to be such a skill and it is (and seems) more scientific. I guess the point is I started out aware of some of that stuff - but most around me have been skeptical even though I saw it in action and most importantly felt it. It was great, though. They use to be able to tell me exactly what my body needed, what it was deficient in, when I needed to cleanse and what to use to cleanse. Of course it had to be within the scope of whatever they knew of to test or within the energy meridians. I was leery of getting my daughter's ear rings pierced because there is a meridian that runs through the ears that it interferes with. (Although mine are). I still remember the points to rub if I feel sluggish (which meant my energies were running backwards? something like that) and they are sore sometimes like now. I had a brownie for breakfast : ) Heaven help me through the holidays. I just dropped a bunch of weight cutting out sugar but I fear I will put at least some back on with the holidays. We also have an anniversary soon and 2 birthdays between Halloween (which I don't really do anything about although our neighbor sure does - they have a ship the heighth of their house built onto the side with a Pirates of the Carribean theme - the guy use to work for Disney - its a veritable spook walk) and Thanksgiving. I felt so sick, though..... I had a stomach virus this past week so that was really really dumb. We accidentally bought them last night. They must've been the person's before or after ours. The check out lady always talks to us about her son who just got back from Iraq, and must've spaced it. I wanted to take them back from John tore in to them : ) I'm gonna take the other box back. Maybe some of us ought to share some healty versions of what we make for Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. I have a few I use..... (Sorry - O.T. again).

Anyway - I've also asked people who knew a little at Herb Shops to test me before if I wasn't sure I needed to take something. Its pretty handy if you know how to use it.... Not sure if you're talking about exactly the same thing - but its all related I think. My brain is fuzzy lately.... I am not thrilled to be working lately either cause I haven't felt good. I can't do it and keep up with everything else and sometimes I long for days of having only the house to worry about. However, I'm soon to have an empty nest - after Erica graduates at least, so its best I stay busy. I heard a CD she had in the cd player in the car the other morning and I went into mourning thinking about it. It is HARD. And my husband and I have to get used to being just us again, too. Either way - we're both kind of independent and need lives outside just each other. He told me years ago to "get a life" when we first got married and I was overly dependent on him for my social needs so I delved into home schooling or whatever I felt the need to do. He doesn't like it when I'm not there at his beckon call, but you can't have it both ways now can you? : )