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EFT®: The surprising natural healing aid you can use for almost everything

Editor Speak: I recently discovered this technique through a fortunate stroke of serendipity. Without the resistance of my ‘jaundiced eye’ skepticism sprinkled lavishly with cynical reservation, I began reading about EFT and playing with the technique on low level anxiety and minor physical disturbances, such as a headache. I achieved immediate relief and no recurrence.

The essence behind EFT is in this Discovery Statement:

“The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.”

… it highlights the awesome story of discovery in 1980 by a psychotherapist, who was one in a long line of therapists who worked with a woman to clear her intense water phobia. After 18 months of conventional psychotherapy, she’d made no progress. She suffered from frequent headaches, nightmares and one day, she complained of stomach discomfort. As a student of the body’s energy system, the therapist decided to step outside the box and tap with his fingers under her eyes (an end point of the stomach meridian). She immediately announced that her disturbing thoughts about water were gone!. The story goes that she raced to a nearby swimming pool and began to throw water on her face! No fear, no headaches or stomach ache and the phobia never returned.

How it works

When the woman was experiencing her fear … thinking about water … the energy flowing to her stomach was disrupted and the energy imbalance caused her emotional intensity. Tapping under her eyes sent pulses through the stomach meridian and balanced the emotional intensity and the fear dissolved. SO, now you have learned something about your negative emotions: They are caused by energy disruptions.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is “an emotional, needle free version of acupuncture that is based on new discoveries regarding the connection between your body’s subtle energies, your emotions, and your health. EFT has been reported successful in thousands of cases covering a huge range of emotional, health and performance issues. It often works where nothing else will.”

Learn the Basics for FREE Online

You can download a manual of the basic technique (disclaimer: Nothing contained herein should be considered a medical claim or medical advice) on the EmoFreedom website , where you will also find video shorts of EFT in action. You can also subscribe to a weekly eNews EFT Insights, which is packed with useful information, links to short videos and articles posted by EFT practitioners around the world.

INVITING NEW POSSIBILITIES … So, as the days grow longer and you can make time to invite new possibilities into your life, take a venture into EFT and discover it’s effectiveness for yourself. The EFT website gives access to practitioners … many do tele-sessions. My experiences with EFT, both on my own and with a practitioner, have been astounding and in a future article, I will share about it. Meanwhile, if you are interested, send me an email and I’ll be happy to speak from my personal experiences or provide a reference to my very skillful and wise practitioner.

EFT is a highly regarded healing tool now used in combination with other conventional and alternative modalities. It gives you a skill to tap away negative emotions, resolve mild and severe physical symptoms and realize the freedom that each of us is born with and intended to share through our unique gifts in this lifetime!

LAST WORD: Please note that “Try it on everything” does not include inexperienced people applying EFT on psychotic patients or otherwise “going where you don’t belong.” Although the EFT Basic Recipe is effective, complex healing issues require guidance by a practitioner with a higher level of understanding and sensitive, professional skill.