EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)

I am a Certified EFT Practioner, EFT Cert-I. EFT is a very flexible improvement tool that can be used for just about everything.  I am using my version of it here and have had extraordinary results and urge you to contact me for more.  The original version and complete training can be found at http://www.emofree.com

EFT is a relatively simple method that can be effective with a number of issues, including:

• stress and trauma, both physical and emotional
• pain and illnesses
• addictions
• weight issues
• depression
• anxiety
• phobias
• poor self-esteem
• and more....

EFT is an "energy psychology," whose premise is that our bodies have meridians through which energy flows. When we're healthy emotionally and physically, it means that the energy is flowing freely. When we're ill or experiencing various forms of emotional discomfort or pain, something has short-circuited in the energy system. Asian medicine has realized this for thousands of years, and has pioneered the use of acupuncture for anesthesia and to heal a number of illnesses.When your energy system short-circuits, negative emotions result that can manifest as anxiety, fears, depression, PTSD, and so on. They can also manifest as pain, illnesses, addictions (which are actually attempts to tranquilize negative emotions), phobias, etc.

One problem that occurs frequently with most healing methods--be it medical, alternative, body therapies, or psychotherapy--is that people try these methods for a long time and nothing much changes. This is because, for many of us, we definitely want to and intend to get better and heal, but there is also a part of us that is somehow against getting better or is afraid to get better for some reason. For example, we may feel we don't deserve to feel good, or our parents told us we were not good enough in various ways and we've internalized that, or--in the case of chronic illnesses or addictions, for example--we would have to make major changes in our lives if we heal. EFT calls this "psychological reversal." These are all unconscious resistances, not conscious. They don't mean we're weak or have a character flaw. They are basically the result of being alive on the planet, where we receive all kinds of criticisms and negative actions coming our way, and we develop negative beliefs about ourselves because of them. EFT has a built-in way to deal with these psychological reversals.

The EFT method is quite simple, and you can learn to use it yourself to work on your issues. We first tune in to the issue and then balance the energy system by (manually, not with needles) stimulating  various energy meridian endpoints. To use an analogy: think of a TV set. When it's functioning normally, it has electricity flowing through it. If you take a screwdriver and touch parts of the insides, however, it will short circuit and the best you'll get is static. This will continue until you take the screwdriver out. We can make a parallel with our own body's energy system. Sometimes something happens to "short-circuit" it; the result is some kind of "negative" emotion--fear, anxiety, sadness, anger, for example. The factor that short-circuits us could be a traumatic event or something else that we may not even remember. The result can be emotional or physical. If we tune in to the event, the emotion, or the physical pain, using EFT, we can correct the short-circuit. Often, the issue will clear up quite quickly. Other times, it takes some persistence to alleviate the issue.

As mentioned above, EFT is effective with traumas. I single this out just to explain what I mean by trauma, because it may not be entirely clear what is included under "trauma." Trauma can be caused by injury to the physical body, such as accidents, falls, being hit by flying objects, surgeries, assaults, physical abuse, etc. It can also be caused by emotional events or patterns in one's life, such as emotional, sexual and psychological abuse; parents or others who often criticized us; seeing someone else being hurt, or even hearing about someone getting hurt; or accidentally or purposefully hurting someone else ourselves--for example, war veterans who had to hurt or kill the enemy.

There have been several scientific studies showing that EFT is an effective method. Although it has had great results for many people, there is, of course, no guarantee that it will be as effective for you.

Examples of EFT's effectiveness:

A client suffering for years from constant constricted breathing due to asthma had her breathing dramatically freed-up during her first EFT session.

A client suffering from serious sensitivities to chemical fragrances: he would get severe headaches within a short time of breathing in chemicals common in his everyday environment. Within moments, his headache disappeared.

A client suffering from 6 years of grief over the death of her mother had significant relief in one session. She said, "Thank you; I'm sincerely very blessed to have chosen you from Gary's newsletter articles (the founder of EFT) to utilize your expertise in my healing."

A client with a stubborn pain in her mid-back was completely pain-free in ten minutes.

A client who had experienced two brain injuries and many cognitive, work-related and relationship difficulties for many years experienced significant improvement in all these areas in 6 sessions.

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