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Emotional Freedom Technique / EFT
A Technique to Change Health & Emotions
A Technique to Change Health & Emotions
by Mary J. Shomon
I know you're going to think I'm losing my mind. Because I truly can't explain how or why the technique I'm going to tell you about works. Frankly, when I first read about the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) at Dr. Joseph Mercola's website, I thought he'd lost HIS mind! Tapping on the head and face points on the body to change emotions, or even health issues? It sounded ridiculous...
But I'd heard from a few people who had good experiences with EFT, and so I decided it was worthwhile to at least review the concept of EFT. I figured I could look into it, quickly determine that it was worthless, and move on to something else. Instead, I ended up becoming more interested...
EFT was created and pioneered by Gary Craig over a decade ago. It's based on the same general concepts that acupuncture and acupressure rely on -- that energy that flows through the body and regulates our health can be channeled and directed to places where it is most needed, physical AND emotional. As a fan of acupuncture, I figured I couldn't totally dismiss the idea, but it sounded pretty wacky, to be honest.
The way Dr. Mercola and other practitioners describe it, EFT is a sort of a psychological acupressure, based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments for over five thousand years, but without the invasiveness of needles. Instead, tapping with the fingertips is used to input energy onto specific meridians on the head and chest, while at the same time you think about your specific problem - whether it is a traumatic event, an addiction, a craving, pain, etc. -- and you voice positive affirmations. This combination of tapping the energy meridians and voicing positive affirmation is meant to clear the "short-circuit" - the emotional block -- from your body's bioenergy system, thus restoring your mind and body's balance.
All right, sounds a little bit far out there...but again, I wasn't going to completely write it off until I had a bit more information.
So I had an opportunity to review Dr. Mercola's DVD course on EFT. After watching for about an hour, I was still convinced that it was fairly nuts. But I'd watched him walk through the technique several times on the DVD, and try it on various volunteers that were taped at one of his in-person seminars, and decided that before I spent any more time viewing, I would try the EFT technique myself.
My objective? To treat an incredibly annoying eye tic that had been plaguing me for months. This irritating tic in my left eye started almost as soon as I woke up in the morning, and there it went, tic tic twitch twitch, all day long until I went to sleep. Nothing seemed to help it, and I was seriously thinking about going in to my doctor to have a shot of Botox put into it to calm down the muscle, as it was causing headaches and eye strain. As I watched the DVD, the eye was twitching and tic-ing away -- quite irritatingly.
So after watching for about an hour, I had mastered the tapping spots for EFT, and figured out an affirmation that fit with my eye tic problem, and followed the process, which took less than a minute. I stopped. I waited for the tic to start back up. No tic. I waited for a few minutes, full expecting the tic to pick back up. No tic. I went back to watching the DVD, fully expecting that once I diverted my attention from the tic, it would come right back. I watched for another hour, and no tic. Three months later, it still hasn't come back.
A few weeks later when some heart palpitations were bothering me (I have mitral valve prolapse) I again thought about the EFT technique. I'd taken a beta blocker, and done some relaxation exercise, and nothing was helping. I tried EFT, and within minutes, my palpitations were gone. I've now also used the EFT to also successfully deal with a craving for chocolate, and for stress. I've used it on my husband, and child, for assorted ailments and stressors. And it worked every time.
And guess what -- my eye tic STILL hasn't returned since that first attempt at EFT.
You can learn how to do EFT simpy by reading the free manual at Dr. Mercola's site, you don't need to watch the DVDs or videos, as I did.
But if you want to really delve into it more fully, the DVD or videos really can take you to the next level.
 | Emotional Freedom Technique 5 Video Tape Set, $97.00 plus $10 shipping and handling. | 5 Disc Digitally-Enhanced DVD Set, $97.00 plus $10 shipping and handling |
You also have a one-year, no questions asked, money-back guarantee from Dr. Mercola himself, so it's a no-risk situation.
I know some of you are going to think I'm definitely headed for Looney-Land ;-) -- and as I did, you are going to think that on first glance, EFT sounds pretty crazy. But seriously, I would feel as if I was doing a disservice if I didn't share information about something that really worked -- even if it sounds a bit off!
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