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Absolutely.
EFT as in Emotional Freedom Technique (not ‘electronic fund transfer’ for you finance types.)
There is just one little caveat. You must be able to establish a heart connection with the other person. That is why I find it works like magic between mothers and children.
Hear Michele’s story about her 6 year old. This is one of many she shared with me.
“Jake’s teacher called me and said he was coughing really badly at school. I had to go to town anyway so I stopped by and gave him a couple of shots of herbal throat spray and 2 Melaleuca cough drops. He did not want to come home.
We went out to eat that night and stopped at a park afterwards. He wasn’t coughing at all. He fell asleep about 8:15 and we were all in bed by 8:30! From 8:30 to 9:15 he hacked and hacked and hacked and never stopped. My husband finally tried to give him some throat spray and Jake kicked the walls and screamed and freaked out and refused the throat spray. He was SO TIRED!! Mark came back to bed completely irritated and said “Jake wants you.” He also refused to let me use the throat spray and when I tried to balance his energy he kept trying to kick my hands. I tried rubbing down his back along both sides of his spine to calm him down and he wouldn’t let me do that. As he was yelling I tried to tap on his collar bone meridian. He would not let me tap on him either. So, I just stood over him and said to myself “I am Jake” and started tapping on myself using 2 rounds of statements for his cough, irritation, and tiredness (I can’t stop coughing, I can’t sleep with this bad cough, my throat feels bad, I am so tired, etc). I then did 2 rounds of positive reframes (my throat is fine, I am healthy, I can go to sleep now, mommy is nearby, I am safe, etc.). After those 2 rounds he stopped kicking and screaming and was out like a light and he never ONCE coughed the rest of the night and he slept straight through until 7:00 am! Even I was completely shocked. I myself did not hold the belief that this would end Jake’s coughing but the EFT WORKED ANYWAY!!
Regardless to say, I am very excited! EFT has given this once frazzled and very tired mom a way to get more sleep and more peace!”
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Always fun to hear testimonies directly as experienced. Here is Kim’s story.
Today I had my annual health assessment at Principal Financial Group. My company requires their employees to get these assessments once a year in order to give them discounts on their benefits. Basically it goes over cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure readings. My cholesterol and triglycerides are consistently AWFUL every year thanks in part to bad genes from my father and grandpa (they are both on cholesterol medication). Mine is bad enough I could qualify being on medication myself…..at least, that is what they tell me every year. Each year, my labs keep going higher and higher and I have 5-years of atrocious results in my health file to prove they’ve never gone down; only up.
Well, I receive the weekly EFT newsletter and I remember reading about a case of a man who used EFT to bring his cholesterol readings down and thought, “Well it can’t hurt as bad as mine are. I’ll give it a try.” So yesterday and this morning, I started tapping on the acupressure points saying the appropriate affirmations needed, imagining my cholesterol was really low while I tapped.
I also inherited high blood pressure from my father and grandpa as well. They are also on medication for this. If I exercise, my blood pressure is very good. But if I do not exercise, it shoots right up. It is VERY sensitive. The problem with my blood pressure today is I am just getting over a bad cough. And another thing that tends to affect my blood pressure is cold medicine. It also quickly raises my blood pressure (last week when I took my blood pressure after taking some over-the-counter medicine it was 133 over 95) I thought, there is no way I’m going to be able to get a good reading after taking my cough syrup this morning. So I did EFT tapping this morning to counteract any affects of my cold medicine. And even while the technician was taking my blood pressure, I visualized tapping on all my acupressure points saying to myself, “my blood pressure is within the normal range. It is 120 over 70.”
So what were the results? My blood pressure was 122 over 70. Pretty darn close to what I was telling my body. But sometimes I do have good blood pressure so I might be able to explain that away. But there is no way I can rationalize this next part…… My triglycerides dropped 45 points from last year. My bad cholesterol (LDL) dropped 60 points. My good cholesterol was great – they say that only marathon runners have that kind of HDH cholesterol. Let’s not forget I’m overweight so that’s working against me too. I haven’t changed my diet; I haven’t changed my exercise habits. The medical tech who went over my results also had all my prior years tests in front of her and she was shocked and wanted to know what I had been doing to change my numbers so drastically. Well, I just smiled and said that I’d be doing some alternate healing work and just left it at that (she had other patients waiting after all). Just when I was wondering if any of my tapping was doing any good. I feel I have the confidence to keep using EFT and experimenting with it for other things.
When it rains, it pours!
I am just getting over a bad cough. Its pretty deep in my chest. I ran out of antibiotics a couple days ago. So I was debating about going back to the doctor to get more. I know there are some lung issues going on already. Whenever I run outside in the cooler months, I notice it helps to develop a deep cough in me that shows up primarily in the mornings and evenings. Its been like this for several years. Most websites refer to this as exercise induced asthma. It only happens when I run outside and it’s cool. But on the flip side, I’ve had a couple medical intuitives tell me that while back, I inhaled something into my lungs that caused some damage (a chemical or molds). That doesn’t really surprise me – my old apartment building that I lived in always seemed damp (mold? Or who knows maybe lead paint or asbestos with it being an old building?) When lung cells are destroyed, they cannot be re-grown. Its just one of those things. Well since I got this bad cold and cough, the nagging deep cough has returned. I don’t know if my illness inflamed an already existing problem, or if I have scar tissue in there, or what’s going on but its been pretty bad lately since I’ve been sick. The antibiotics were helping but I ran out of those 3 days ago and so its been getting worse.
I was coughing so bad last night. I had no cough syrup to take and figured I keep Joe awake all night and had to try something before I went to bed. I used Reiki first on my lungs for healing. Then I used EFT to get rid of my nagging cough. And then using EFT, I ordered my body to start reproducing lung cells to return normal lung capacity and function. Even though medical science says it can’t be done (Matthew 19:26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”) Of course I also use prayer whenever I’m doing Reiki and EFT. I don’t do any of the healing modalities I’ve learned without prayer because…..well, I just don’t. These are healing tools from God so it only makes sense to include him in what I’m doing.
By the time I was done, I could tell something had happened. Instead of a wheezing in my chest, I felt this stillness in my lungs. And I never coughed again before going to bed. As always, I received confirmation in my dreams last night of what is happening. The entire dream was about snakes…..snakes around me and one even bit me. To most people, this dream might not mean anything. But snakes are a very powerful symbol of transformation and healing – think of a snake’s skin. Shedding of the old to make way for the new. And healing has often been associated with snakes (for instance, there’s the medical symbol of 2 snakes intertwined on a staff)
Today, I woke up and the constant coughing is gone. I have a very shallow, dry cough. Its certainly not the deep cough I had yesterday and I’m not doing it very much. Its not completely gone but it’s a very different feeling. The true test will be this evening as that is when my cough is typically the worst. But something definitely happened last night.
This is getting kinda fun! If I can do this with my body, then I should be able to do this with my finances. Its no different….only in my mind have I convinced myself its different. So perhaps I need to do some EFT to remove that programming.
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Posted by: Malabika in Uncategorized, tags: Emontional Freedom Technique
Hello Gary,
I have just returned from two weeks of vacation. I wish to share some short and sweet experiences with surrogate EFT during my travels – all involving little children.
The first was at the airport as we were beginning to board. There was a family with three young children. One of the boys, my guess of around two and half or three, seemed to be in absolute despair at the prospect of going into the plane. He was flat on the ground, flailing his hands and legs refusing to get up and screaming. The mother was trying to console him. His dad stood by looking rather helpless and a little embarrassed, and the siblings bewildered.
I was attracted by all the commotion. I walked up to the Dad and said ‘ask his Mom to gently tap on his collarbone’ (for some reason I intuited that would help). You can imagine the Dad’s confused expression at this strange woman asking to do something quite bizarre. “Tap on what….?” He asked. I repeated “collarbone”. And then as if to demonstrate, I stood right there and tapped on my own collarbone repeating in my head “even though I am really scared to get in that plane, it’s ok, I’ll be safe”, “My Mom is right here, I’ll be ok”, “It’s very scary, I’ll be ok”, ‘my Dad is right here, I’ll be safe”, and so on. I couldn’t tell whether the Mom actually tapped on him or not.
It would have taken about a minute, you could see the sudden shift. This child who was quite inconsolable till now sat up determinedly and between sobs said to his mother, ‘ok. I will go with you. Hold my hand, I will go with you”. That’s what I heard and saw the immense relief on both parents’ faces as they collected their belongings and headed for the plane.
The next incident was on a different flight. Again there was an infant some rows behind me crying quite inconsolably. I couldn’t see them but heard the Mom getting rather desperate. I tuned in and employed the surrogate technique and again it took less than two minutes to become quiet. I got a sense that the baby was asleep.
The third incident was at a restaurant during the same trip. A family of four was dining and their little girl on a high chair suddenly let out an almighty scream and proceeded to bawl. The parents tried to console her but she went on. Our attention was drawn. I remembered my airplane incidents, and asked my 14 year old niece who was with me “you want to help quiet this child?” She has learnt basic EFT from me. I told her to tune in to the kid and follow what I was doing. We both did a couple of rounds on ‘even though mommy won’t give me that thing, it’s ok, she loves me’. My niece kept grinning as she watched this child quiet down.
I have to smile each time this happens. Skeptics may think it’s a series of coincidences. I am ok with that. Who knows. I know that I’ll tap whenever the opportunity arises and let the happy coincidences bring the parents some peace.
Thanks Gary.
Malabika Shaw
http://www.VisionWholistic.net
Creating the ability to see Wholeness
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Posted by: Malabika in Uncategorized, tags: Emontional Freedom Technique
Dear Gary,
(This is addressed to Gary Craig, EFT Founder and Master Tapper at www.emofree.com)
It really has been so wonderful to have entered the world of Emotional Freedom Technique a few short years ago. Among all the energy tools I use in my practice, this is my favorite. EFT burrows its way underneath the conscious mind and somehow digs up the issues related to the problem – kind of lets it bubble up. There are many wonderful experiences I could share, but today I want to tell you mainly about my success with surrogate tapping. (Names have been altered to protect my clients’ privacy).
The first case is about Jean. Jean is in her 60s but has carried an enormous amount of ‘mother damage’ all her life. Her life was focused on getting approval from her ever critical mother as she was growing up. Then, as often happens, she married men who displayed the same disapproving characteristics like her mother. When she came to me, Jean had been through three marriages and still bitter about her mom, though mom had passed more than ten years ago. We did several sessions around ‘even though my mother didn’t approve of……etc’, chopping the trees as we went along. Jean was feeling better but I kept thinking that the releases were painfully slow.
That was until we did the surrogate tapping. I was inspired to ask Jean one day to pretend that she was her mom Rose and we both started to tap. I tapped on myself as if I was Rose, as did Jean. We tuned into the energy of this dead lady and let the thoughts and the word come out as they did. It was as if a volcano was waiting to erupt. Jean quickly tuned in emotionally to Rose’s feelings of being trapped in a loveless marriage, her frustration, her anger, her sense of helplessness, her need to please everyone, and the near complete erosion of her sense of self. The most touching piece was that Rose who had been raised in a faith different to her husband’s had to hide her practice because he did not approve. This had filled Rose with a tremendous sense of guilt and a belief that she was rejected by God beyond any hope of redemption. Though Jean knew the history, it was the first time she was able to emotionally experience the utter desolation her mother must have gone through. She wept copiously as we continued to tap. Slowly as the energies shifted (about 45 mins), Jean was able to regard this woman that she had always viewed as selfish and manipulative, with compassion. In the last part of the session (25 mins) we tapped on forgiveness. “I forgive my mother, she was doing the best she knew” and “I forgive myself (Jean), for my inability to understand you, Mom. I love you Mom”.
Jean says she feels more at peace with herself now than ever before.
The second case is about Linda whose 24 year old son Ron was in a graduate program 1500 miles from home and was suffering from prolonged bouts of depression that was affecting his academic performance. He was very uncertain about his future. Linda was concerned for her son, but also filled with guilt around her divorce from Ron’s father when Ron was 8. She felt this was the root of Ron’s depressions.
We first tapped on Linda’s guilt around the divorce. The tapping seemed to take Linda deeper into sadness around in how many ways she may have failed her son.
At one point I suggested we switch to surrogate tapping for Ron. And we did that. “Even though my parents have no time for me…….” “Even though the only time I got attention was when I was ill. ….” And so forth. When I felt that the energy had shifted and Linda was considerably lighter, we tapped in positive reframes on Ron’s behalf. “I am young, strong and healthy. I love what I do. I love my courses. I am really good at these subjects. I am one of the best. There is a great future waiting for me. I am worthy and deserving of it….” And so forth. Now there was a palpable shift in the energy. The session was about 90 minutes long. Linda was feeling calm and hopeful about her son.
Later she reported that Ron’s depression had dissipated almost immediately. He was soon enthusiastically applying for jobs. In less than a month, Ron was accepted as an intern in a prestigious technical institute on the east coast.
Thank you Gary, for teaching this marvelous tool that can change the quality of one’s life so powerfully.
Malabika Shaw
www.VisionWholistic.net
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