Mary Shoman on EFT-I (Mo) am actually doing this now. Has anyone else tried it?

[Mo]

NOTES FROM MARY
I know you're going to think I'm losing my mind. Because I truly can'texplain 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! Tappingon the head and face points on the body to change emotions, or evenhealth issues? It sounded ridiculous...

But I'd heard from a few people who had good experiences with EFT, andso I decided it was worthwhile to at least review the concept of EFT. Ifigured I could look into it, quickly determine that it was worthless,and move on to something else. Instead, I ended up becoming moreinterested...

EFT was created and pioneered by Gary Craig over a decade ago. It'sbased on the same general concepts that acupuncture and acupressurerely on -- that energy that flows through the body and regulates ourhealth can be channeled and directed to places where it is most needed,physical AND emotional. As a fan of acupuncture, I figured I couldn'ttotally dismiss the idea, but it sounded pretty wacky, to be honest.

The way Dr. Mercola and other practitioners describe it, EFT is a sortof a psychological acupressure, based on the same energy meridians usedin traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments forover five thousand years, but without the invasiveness of needles.Instead, tapping with the fingertips is used to input energy ontospecific meridians on the head and chest, while at the same time youthink about your specific problem - whether it is a traumatic event, anaddiction, a craving, pain, etc. -- and you voice positiveaffirmations. This combination of tapping the energy meridians andvoicing positive affirmation is meant to clear the "short-circuit" -the emotional block -- from your body's bioenergy system, thusrestoring your mind and body's balance.

All right, sounds a little bit far out there...but again, I wasn'tgoing 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 wasfairly nuts. But I'd watched him walk through the technique severaltimes on the DVD, and try it on various volunteers that were taped atone of his in-person seminars, and decided that before I spent any moretime viewing, I would try the EFT technique myself.

My objective? To treat an incredibly annoying eye tic that had beenplaguing me for months. This irritating tic in my left eye startedalmost as soon as I woke up in the morning, and there it went, tic tictwitch twitch, all day long until I went to sleep. Nothing seemed tohelp it, and I was seriously thinking about going in to my doctor tohave a shot of Botox put into it to calm down the muscle, as it wascausing headaches and eye strain. As I watched the DVD, the eye wastwitching and tic-ing away -- quite irritatingly.

So after watching for about an hour, I had mastered the tapping spotsfor EFT, and figured out an affirmation that fit with my eye ticproblem, and followed the process, which took less than a minute. Istopped. I waited for the tic to start back up. No tic. I waited for afew minutes, full expecting the tic to pick back up. No tic. I wentback to watching the DVD, fully expecting that once I diverted myattention from the tic, it would come right back. I watched for anotherhour, and no tic. Three months later, it still hasn't come back.

A few weeks later when some heart palpitations were bothering me (Ihave mitral valve prolapse) I again thought about the EFT technique.I'd taken a beta blocker, and done some relaxation exercise, andnothing was helping. I tried EFT, and within minutes, my palpitationswere gone. I've now also used the EFT to also successfully deal with acraving for chocolate, and for stress. I've used it on my husband, andchild, 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 simply by reading the free manual at Dr. Mercola's site, you don't need to watch the DVDs or videos, as I did.

Butif you want to really delve into it more fully, the DVD or videosreally can take you to the next level and get the 5 Video Tape Set, or5 Disc Digitally-Enhanced DVD Set, for only $97.00 plus $10 shippingand handling.

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I know some of you are going to write to me and tell me I'm definitelyheaded for Looney-Land ;-) -- and as I did, you are going to think thaton first glance, EFT sounds pretty crazy. But seriously, I would feelas if I was doing a disservice if I didn't share information aboutsomething that really worked -- even if it sounds a bit off!

Live well,

-- Mary

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[Deborah2008]

You haven't lost your mind.
 
I've tried it for many things and it has worked.
 
It also worked for jet lag for me and several people I know.  I went to London with no jet lag symptoms!!
 
The future of medicine is energy medicine.