Autonomic Response Testing
Dr. Klinghardt uses Autonomic Response Testing (ART) to evaluate the patient. ART is the author’s advanced composite of hands-on examination techniques that uses changes in the autonomic nervous system as the primary indicator of practitioner-elicited stress responses in the client’s body.
The “direct resonance phenomenon” (ART II) allows the practitioner to scan the body for specific infections, toxins and other “invisible” problems.
ART Basics:
In ART the body is stressed with different modalities:
- Electromagnetically (placing substances in the field)
- Psychologically (APN)
- Structurally (pushing on a teacher area, squeezing an organ or gland, stressing a joint etc.)
- Bio-chemically (giving a medication orally, i.v. or via other route)
The ART practitioner then assesses the organism’s response to the stressor usually by muscle testing.
Then the practitioner interprets the stress-response. The guiding principle is as follows:
- If a mild stressor causes a stress response, the organism is already under severe stress regarding this variable (substance, psychological issues etc.).
- If a moderate stress is causing a response in the absence of response to a mild stressor, the organism is under moderate stress.
- If only a severe stress is causing a stress response, the problem of the organism related to this issue is only mild.
Now therapeutic modalities are tested. Whatever neutralizes the stress response is an agent or a method that will help the organism cope with the underlying cause of the stress (unless it is determined to be an allergen).
The stress response that is used in ART is most visibly expressed by the autonomic nervous system.
ART is different from other forms of muscle testing in that it uses the latest findings of quantum and biophotonic physics to aid in the assessment of the body. This allows for a much deeper level of testing not available before to traditional kinesiologists. Tools such as a polarization filter and signal enhancers are used to get stronger, clearer feedback from the body. ART often finds things that are missed with traditional kinesiology. ART practitioners in general also have the ability to test for a wider variety of root causes of illness, including specific infections, toxins, and emotional disturbances.
ART is used along with traditional tests to determine the root causes of illness. It is not used to diagnose diseases.
ART has been shown to be the most accurate of all kinesiology techniques, with the best reproducibility and inter-examiner reliability.
ART Laws
- The First Law of ART - the law of resonance between two identical substances ( this law has been most clearly identified by the research of Y.Omura, MD): if a substance is held in the energy field of a person and the indicator muscle weakens, the identical substance is in the body (resonance between two identical substances). If the substance is only in a particular organ, ganglion or other structure, the test substance has to be held exactly over this area. A variation of this test is the most common A.R.T. test: the examiner finds a structure that therapy-localizes (while holding it, the indicator muscle weakens). The indicator-muscle becomes strong, when the resonating substance is placed anywhere on the patient.
- The Second Law of ART - 2-Pointing: if the examiner therapy-localizes more than one structure, ganglion etc. during the A.R.T. body scan or examination, two structures (or more) may be affected by the same toxin or infection, or one structure may affect one or more others. If the indicator muscle weakens while holding one of these structures but strengthens while holding another (which weakened when held alone), there is a) either a cause/effect relationship between the two or b) they are both affected by the s toxin/infection . The 2nd law of A.R.T. is therefore really a variation of the 1st law.
- The Third Law of ART- Resonance between the examiner and the patient: the examiner's body acts exactly like any other substance held into the energy field of the patient. If the doctor is toxic with the same substance that is causing the patient's illness or that is stored in one or more of the patient's tissues, the test will be affected as outlined in the 1st and 2nd law of ART. Therefore, the 3rd law is really a variation of the 1st law also (but overlooked in any other school of kinesiology).
As outlined in the ART manual, the patient also has this effect on the examiner. Therefore no two examiners can find the same problems in a given patient, unless both examiners are free of stored toxins, infections, root canal filled teeth, untreated scars, active psycho-emotional conflicts, have not recently consumed foods they are allergic to etc. The 3rd law results in a simple postulate: the ART practitioner has to continuously strive to improve their own health. The practitioner should be "ahead" of their healthiest patient (Quote: Ann McCombs, D.O.).
The Klinghardt Academy of Neurobiology offers several Autonomic Response Testing courses each year. Descriptions are in our Course Catalog.