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What is EFT?
You might call it “emotional acupuncture without needles.” It’s a painless method that relieves emotional distress, sometimes in minutes, and can also relieve physical ailments and pain as well. Instead of using needles, you tap with your fingertips on key spots on your face, hands, and body -- spots that correspond to energy meridian points the Chinese have known about for centuries. While tapping, you repeat a phrase addressing your negative issue. This process which apparently balances disruptions in the body’s energy system, causes your emotional upset or your physical problem to fade away. I know it sounds crazy, like something that couldn’t possibly work! Everybody thinks that ... before they experience it. When I first read about EFT, I was sure it was a scam. It sounded too good to be true. And I’m sure you think that right now. However...
Keep in mind: If you’ve been looking for relief from certain emotional problems or pain for a long, long time, it just might be worth trying this simple method, no matter how crazy it sounds. What do you have to lose?
You might wonder if you have to believe in EFT for it to work. But no, that isn’t the case. Just like you don’t have to believe in electricity to turn on a light by flipping a switch, you don’t have to believe this silly “tapping” technique will do anything either. It just works! But you DO have to flip the switch! I once spoke to a relative who refused to even consider EFT because I didn’t have controlled double blind university research studies to show him. He didn’t care if I could walk him through the process in minutes and he could experience it.
I’ll admit EFT does not work on all issues all the time. And while many people experience one-minute-wonders, some issues take more work. But hey, even your car may have a problem starting occasionally. Right? It could be out of gas, or have an ignition problem. Or there might be a short in the electrical system. You get my point. We all know there are good reasons why things don’t always work, and there are usually ways to fix them.
THE EMOTIONAL LINK TO PHYSICAL PROBLEMS
If you think about it, we’ve always known about a connection between negative emotions and the body’s response to those emotions. Consider the term “stress headache.” On some level, we know stress can cause a headache. The following are other physical responses most of us agree can be brought on by emotional upset: heart palpitations, high blood pressure, neck ache, back ache, stomach ache, fatigue, sweaty hands, insomnia. EFT practitioners have discovered that many forms of pain and physical ailments disappear after underlying emotional distress is relieved with this odd looking tapping technique. In fact, when you look at a list of successfully treated negative issues, it seems beyond belief. But then history has shown many famous so-called “authorities” could not see beyond their limited beliefs when it came to new innovations.
Deadly Emotions, a book by Don Colbert, M.D. - never mentions EFT, but does explore the relationship between emotions and illness. On the book’s cover, he suggests the following:
1. Anger and hostility may trigger hypertension and coronary artery disease.
2. Resentment, bitterness, unforgiveness, and self-hatred may trigger
autoimmune disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and multiple sclerosis.
3. Anxiety may trigger irritable bowel syndrome, panic attacks, mitral
valve prolapse, and heart palpitations
4. Repressed anger may trigger tension and migraine headaches, chronic
back pain, TMJ, and fibromyalgia.
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Related note:
You might want to read about EFT as a time travel trauma relief method, especially if this process in new to you. Our ability to recreate strong upsetting emotions based on very old events and circumstances is pretty amazing if you think about it. After all, those incidents are not taking place today. They are only in your past. Yet your mind can upset you “as if” those incidents are happening again and again every time you think about them. EFT can cut that connection.
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