From Muscle Testing to Spirit Testing: Rediscovering Your Inner Compass

Have you ever felt your stomach tighten when someone lied to you? Or noticed your whole body relax when you finally told the truth you’d been holding in? That’s not coincidence, it’s your nervous system speaking. Long before your mind catches up, your body already knows. What doctors call “muscle testing,” I call “spirit testing”, a way of listening to the quiet compass within, where your spirit and body move as one.

The Science of Truth and Lies

When we lie, or when someone projects their own limitations onto us, our bodies know. If we’re vulnerable and absorb those judgments, it creates stress that weakens the immune system. Cortisol spikes, heart rate shifts, and the body falls out of coherence.

Truth, on the other hand, strengthens the body. Studies in psychophysiology and applied kinesiology show that muscles remain strong when aligned with truth, and weaken when met with distortion. Our biology is wired to resonate with what is real.

The Body as a Living Pendulum

I see the body as a pendulum. When you tune into spirit and ask a yes/no question, your body responds, not through conscious thought but through the water within you, rippling with truth. You can’t manipulate your spirit, but you can manipulate yourself, which is why it’s important to clear interference. A simple cleansing prayer like:

“I release all distortion. Only love and truth aligned with my highest good may enter.”

sets the field so only authentic guidance comes through.

Doctors call this muscle testing. I call it spirit testing. Because what’s happening isn’t just mechanical, it’s your soul communicating through the body’s subtle movements.

Dysregulation as Sacred Signal

Your nervous system’s dysregulation does not mean something is wrong with you. It is not a defect to be fixed, it’s an alarm, a sacred signal that something or someone in your environment is out of resonance with your highest good.

When you feel your chest tighten, your stomach churn, or your breath shorten, that is your body alerting you to distortion in the field. Too often we suppress these signals, through breathwork, cold plunges, pharmaceuticals, numbing, or endless distraction. But those practices, while sometimes supportive, are not substitutes for the deeper truth: your body is speaking.

Instead of silencing the alarm, sit with the feeling. Let it reveal hidden truths, some conscious, some buried. Over time, as you learn to read these cues, you no longer need external confirmation to validate what your nervous system already knows.

After years of listening to my body, I no longer require proof in the outer field to justify my inner knowing. I trust my gnosis, even when it doesn’t make sense to others.

The Conditioning of Overgiving

For much of my life, I was conditioned to give more than I received, to place others’ needs above my own. My worth was tied to performance, competitions, achievements, being useful. No one modeled unconditional love, so I learned to chase it through approval and external success.

I didn’t know how to identify my own needs, let alone communicate them. My identity lived in what I could do, not who I was.

The truth I’m learning now is that worth is inherent. I am invaluable as I am. So are you.

The Season of Integration

And I understand why people avoid this season. When you stop over-giving to tend to your inner world, those who were used to being served often disappear. The transactional relationships reveal themselves, and you feel alone.

But it is only there, in the quiet, in the space between, where you can hear, see, and feel God moving through you.

This is where worth is rooted not in performance or perception, but in God’s unconditional love. When the applause fades and the phone goes silent, that isn’t abandonment, it’s God clearing the stage so you can remember the only voice that matters.

Light as Truth

The light is truth. Some truths are universal, love heals, fear divides, forgiveness liberates. These belong to all of us.

And some truths are personal, the ways your spirit speaks uniquely through your body, the specific path only you can walk, the inner yes or no that nobody else can hear.

Learning to discern between universal truth and personal truth is the art of walking with God. One anchors you to the eternal, the other guides your steps in the present moment.

The Compass Within

Your nervous system will always tell you the truth. External opinions are shifting weather, but your inner compass is steady. It is spirit testing, muscle testing, nervous system wisdom, call it what you will.

What matters is this: truth strengthens you, lies weaken you, and true love is unconditionally eternal.

In a world that profits off of your disconnection from your truth, learning how to reconnect to it is how you reclaim your light to fuel your life instead of others at your expense.

If you’d like to learn how to tune into your body’s yes and no, I offer guidance sessions to walk you through the practice. Book here through my bio link: https://bio.site/djonechain

This teaching isn’t only meant to be read, it’s meant to be felt. I created a song to carry its frequency into sound and presence. May it guide you back to the compass within. Listen here:

Truth Strengthens You

https://on.soundcloud.com/v24i4wqC5nUR0BU0SZ