Your Body Doesn't Lie: Unlock the Power of Your Natural Energy!

It's a brand new book. The mass market printing is black and white except for the cover AND the pages are falling out of it.

I found the book to be repetitive and I believe there are better books out there on this subject. It is interesting to note that these issues were discussed and practiced back in the 70's also.

Waste of time reading this fantisy story. Trouble trying to decide what the point of book is???? Just another Dr. writer self absorbed thinking someone would actually benefit from his story

Bad quality of paper

this book is a lie,as was "Dr." Diamond. b.s. B>S>

The world is divided into various types of people with regards to applied kinesiology: The sceptical: Any sceptic worth their salt who spends five minutes investigating this field will become a non-believer. I have nothing to say to you. The avid believer: You can't argue with a sick mind. I have nothing to say to you. The con-artist: Anyone who perpetuates the myth for personal gain. I have nothing to say to you. The flexible: Those who may have an opinion (either way) but are still open to persuasion - all I can say to you is; do a bit of surfing for applied kinesiology first and try including the words "scam" or "sceptic". When I first heard about it I thought it was a joke until a friend of mine actually paid good money for a session. Then I heard about applied kinesiology by proxy and I was incredulous that anybody, even the homeopathic faction, could take that seriously. The bottom line is this: It doesn't work. Don't waste your money on a book sold by someone who is either a con artist or a gullible fool. My favourite quote by a chiropractor (often advocates of A.K.): "You see, that is why we never do double-blind testing anymore. It never works!" This book perpetuates the bad thinking, lack of rigorous investigation and downright lies that enables opportunistic money making out of those who are quite often ill or unhappy. By the way, I am not querying things like white sugar being bad for you or cows milk causing allergies in some people, but you don't need to buy this book to find out those kind of things.

In reading John Diamond's "Your Body Doesn't Lie", I wasn't too familiar with Applied or Behavioral Kinesiology and wasn't sure what the whole thing was about. Here's the book in a nutshell: 1. All illness starts as a problem on the energy level; as energy imbalances that ultimately are manifested as physiological illness. (27) - ""The controlled of energy flow in the body is the thymus gland. Day after day, moment by moment, it monitors and rebalances our Life Energy. If it is not doing its job correctly and an imbalance develops, ultimately there will be physical damage to a particular organ. This is organic disease." (61) 2. Each large muscle relates to a body organ. A weakness in a muscle usually means that there is a problem at the energy level in the associated organ. (32) 3. The manual muscle test is a method of direct interaction with the body, so one can directly engage the body to discover what the problem is on an energy or physiological level. (32) 4. Not only does the body directly diagnose the illness/symptoms (via the manual muscle test), the body also directly prescribes treatment. (33) 5. The responsibility for sickness and wellness now resides directly with the patient. (33) 6. The thymus gland is the organ that regulates the chi flow in the body. (37) 7. "Our Life Energy is the source of our physical and mental well-being, of glowing health, of the joy of living. Throughout recorded history it has had many names. Hippocrates called it the Vis Medicatrix Naturae, the healing power of nature. Paracelsus called it the Archaeus; the Chinese, Ch'i; the Egyptians, Ka; the Hindus, Prana; the Hawaiians, Mana. It is all the same thing." (54) 8. One can weaken their chi via almost anything: thoughts (85), body positions (89), other peoples energy levels (107), sunglasses (123), wristwatches worn in the wrong position (123), high heels (124), ice water (127), fluorescent lights (128), symbols (139), all forms of rock music (160), etc. 9. You can change the way that you live; changing diet and your surroundings, and you can heal yourself from whatever ails you. This will involve using organic bed sheets (127), eating whole wheat bread (169), and generally eating natural foods (171). As far as literature is concerned, the book is relatively well written and is fairly easy to follow. It's written for a lay audience and tries to refrain from being too technical, as well as offering relatively clear explanations of concepts and ideas. Diamond is actually a decent writer and I imagine that, in person, he's quite a good speaker. But style isn't all there is in a book like this. What is the merit in Diamond's claims? Should I buy into his take on whether or not my body can lie? I have 4 comments: 1. Testimony and Anecdote are not solid evidence. Diamond completely ignores the critical questions and provides no actual documentation beyond the speculative findings of other applied kinesiologists. He completely ignores the issues of whether or not the meridian system and chi have been shown to exist. If a person is a medical doctor and is exploring this stuff (as if MDs read these kinds of books looking for medical advice...), they'll leave with every question they show up with. Diamond simply assumes all his foundations (the existence of chi and the meridian system, the reliability of the manual muscle test, his infallible interpretations of his experience, etc.) and builds his arguments without any substantiation whatsoever. 2. Chi is neither "bio-electricity" nor electromagnetism, at least according to the eastern worldview from which it springs (and definitely given Diamond's explanation of it...). That being said, who concept of chi has not been empirically established beyond testimonial and anecdotal evidence. Though many suggest that chi is bio-electricity or electromagnetism, if this were the case it would be relatively easy to detect. Sadly, some of the people who are the most `rational' in other areas throw reason to the wind because of personal experience with chi and eastern medicine. I do believe that people have authentic experiences and are told that what they experience is chi, but as a biblically informed theologian I can confidently suggest that the interpretation of the experience is quite inaccurate...getting into that is far beyond the scope of a book review though. 3. As far as modern medicine is concerned, neither Applied Kinesiology nor Acupuncture have been shown to do what they claim to do despite the claims of both camps. Although, to be fair, Acupuncture is miles ahead of Applied Kinesiology in establishing that it actually does something at all. There have been clinical studies that have shown how acupuncture does offer some limited anesthetic effects and also limited abilities to relieve pain. (Here's one example of recent clinical research on this issue, from 2009: [...] Applied and Behavioral Kinesiology don't have any clinical support at all to suggest that they're anything beyond ideomotor function (and yes, I've read and interacted with Scott Cuthbert and George Goodheart's "landmark study" in March 6th, 2007 article in Chiropractic & Osteopathy). Both Applied and Behavioral Kinesiology's bread and butter is testimonial evidence, which is neither reliable nor objective. When it comes to serious facts and clinical study, all I've ever seen presented by the spokespeople for the International College of Applied Kinesiology (and all the sub groups I've explored) is smoke and rhetoric. 4. I definitely know Koine Greek and know a bit of history, and one of his supporting arguments is complete bogus. Diamond claims that the Thymus gland is the regulating agent of the whole chi network in the body, and claims that the ancient Greeks knew this. He says "Interestingly enough, the word thymus is derived from the Greek thymos, or (greek text), which is untranslatable into modern terms but denotes life force, soul, and feeling or sensibility. As Onians points out, thymos originally referred to the breath. It was the stuff of consciousness, the spirit, the breath-soul, upon which depended a man's energy and courage. Even the earliest origins of the word implied rising into flames, as a cloud, spirit, which relate it to the concept of soul and Life Energy." (page 62) Diamond is either lying through his teeth here or did some elementary-school level sloppy research. The Greek word thymos does mean "breath", but every use of the word I've found (i.e. using lexicons and looking up every reference in context) always has to do with an expression of passionate wrath or indignation, and the idea of "breath" is not parallel to "spirit", but with the panting and heavy breathing that accompanies wrath and rage. The meaning is nothing close to the esoteric meaning Diamond gives it, and every Greek lexicon I consulted had the same information. This also explains the idea of "rising into flames", and not in some `spiritually ascending' way that Diamond suggests, but rather `burning with anger'. If I was a betting man, I'd simply say that Diamond doesn't know a lick of Greek and got his information 3rd hand, or worse: simply looked up the word and saw "breathe" and "rising into flames" and didn't pay much attention. It sounds deep, and who knows Greek these days? In Christian circles, I see abuse of Greek daily and in much the same way. Judging by how poorly he did his research on his support for one of his main points (and his talk about the morphology and lexicography of the word "thymus" on page 62 was a supporting argument for a main point; that the thymus gland regulates chi and this has been known about for thousands of years), I'd really question how reliable the rest of his research was. Your Body Doesn't lie is definitely not a recommend.

Extremely helpful

Very interesting book. Now use muscle testing to choose my cancer alternative therapies and doseages and foods etc.

Esta molt bé. Es centra bàsicament en la glàndula Thymus, que és la responsable de la vitalitat (energia) i defensa (sistema immunològic). Explica tècniques per activar-la i que no s'atrofie.

It’s an invaluable resource..

This wasn’t the book that I thought I was ordering but my sister got a hold of it and wouldn’t give it back because she was reading it so it must be good, and I will have to wait a while to read it…

This book has been a longtime fave of mine. I recommend it for folks to learn about taking the best care of themselves by understanding first that "Your Body Doesn't Lie".