I tried EFT ten years ago but apart from me making feel relaxed, I can’t say it had much benefit. However, that could have been my fault because I was quite negative towards it, thinking this is a rip off, it will never work, so I may have blocked it somehow.

These days I am much more positive, open and inquiring about such matters and thought I should give it another go. 

I would be interested to hear if anyone on here has had EFT or healed themselves with EFT.

Full article below:

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB): -- Medical experts agree that no one knows what causes rheumatoid arthritis, other autoimmune disorders, or chronic pain. They say there is no known cure or way to prevent Parkinson’s disease, ulcerative colitis, multiple sclerosis, osteoarthritis, or dozens of other illnesses. Modern medicine doesn’t attempt to cure these conditions. Instead, it manages them for as long as possible with symptom-suppressing procedures and drugs.

But a growing number of physicians, medical experts, and health care practitioners believe they know how these illnesses begin and progress. It’s not all in your head, they say – but it is in the muscles and organs that store past traumas. Releasing stored traumas releases the illness’s underlying cause and helps the body heal from the inside out. The method they use is EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), a do-it-yourself acupressure technique described in a free manual from http://www.emofree.com/downloadeftmanual.asp

Los Angeles physician Eric Robins, MD, explains, “Stress and negative emotions are often stored in the body’s smooth muscles, which function automatically, without our conscious control. Stress stored in smooth muscles of blood vessels going to the head might produce a migraine headache, while stress stored in smooth muscles of air passages of the lungs can produce asthma, and stress stored in smooth muscles of the digestive tract can produce Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Stored emotions also affect our immune systems.”

Dr. Robins teaches his patients how to tap on key EFT acupressure points while focusing on past traumas or stress, and in most cases, he says, symptoms of chronic diseases improve significantly.

North Carolina radiologist Larry Burk, MD, is another EFT practitioner. “It is instructive to note that many ailments which seem to have an underlying anatomical cause may also have a deeper emotional root,” he says. “There are many scientific studies indicating that a surprising number of people with no symptoms whatsoever have dramatic abnormalities on MRI scans obtained on a volunteer basis for research purposes. Equally puzzling, many patients with severe debilitating pain from conditions such as fibromyalgia have no abnormalities. These findings support the concept that deep emotional issues are at the root of the illness. As soon as you address these emotional issues with EFT, the physical condition improves.”

Gary Craig, the Stanford-trained engineer who developed EFT, has collected thousands of reports documenting its health benefits from practitioners around the world. “We make no specific medical claims for EFT,” he explains, “but we agree with medical experts who say that by relieving past traumas and improving the body’s flow of energy, EFT can help most patients improve their health.”

when i had double pneumonia 10 years ago i was sick(deathly) for more than 3 months (and it took me three years to get over it). anyway i was sitting with two friends and one said to me that pneumonia was an emotional sickness and the other said well i wouldn't entirely agree i would say its caused by emotional disturbance which releases chemicals which then store in soft tissue and then break your resistance thereby causing disease and furthermore if you think of them as stored emotions then you are releasing more chemicals and hence you have a catch 22..

i had to ring my friends last night to remember how that conversation went and got more than i asked for, but anyway the lesson i learned was that if you think of them as stored emotions i think you are attaching more value to them than they really are, if they are just chemicals? maybe looking at them as just chemicals and then all you have to do is release them could be more productive from an emotional point of view. that might be being just too clinical i suppose. but if you approach each emotional problem systematically and then move on and not focus on storing every trauma up even once you've worked through them would seem more helpful to me.

Hi Fbi,

I think your friends were off the mark here because they first of all haven't experienced this practice, so their statements seem too philosophical and superficial to me.  Pneumonia is not just an emotional thing but also a result of a bad diet since it usually happens to old folks, with exception of course.  But, the lungs are in touch with a sadness response, so releasing sadness will open up more areas to facilitate health, although what level of health is gained is open to determination due to diet and lifestyle.  And, if we give the chemical reason like your second friend, we can attribute everything to chemicals, even love, and say everything is deduced to sub-atomic particles with no meaning.  Well, somehow there is a variety of energy levels and meaning and truth and lies, so it is more than a simple viewpoint like this one.   

Trauma happens to children beyond what we have consciously attributed to it, so it does get stored, and the fact is that we must get in touch with it now to process what we never could before and then effectively let it go; then, we will be able to not let anything traumatic affect us in the same way because we can now see the bigger picture.  Your second friend doesn't seem to understand that putting our ego state toward the unconscious without effectively seeing the unconscious picture and FEELING it does not really release those "chemicals".  Our ego state cannot do everything and is often incorrect with its assumptions. 

"If you believe you can make yourself ill...do you also believe you can heal yourself?"

I've often felt like I can heal myself. (Sounds all ooooo and woow)

I think illness can be majority psychological; there are some instances where it can’t be avoided though.

I can walk around all winter in shirts, shorts, and no shoes and not get sick. I heard Dr Karl say on Triple J the other week that: "The flu virus is covered in a fatty gel, it needs heat to melt the fat then and only then can the virus take affect. If you have the virus in your system (i.e. the flu vaccine) and you stay rugged up (fire, warm clothes) and have teas, coffees and warm type foods that is all the virus needs to take hold."

I defiantly feel my immune system is allot healthier since being raw

The Vegan Wolf

How do you heal childhood trauma???

Gosia

i healed myself many times in Life very successfully trough Fasting , Meditation, Melting with Higher Vibration...,
trouble is i then got 'sick' (emotionally lets say) in one or other way afterwards (every bit of Unconscioussnes in Mind can let you fall from the Stars)..., but its part of the Learning Process on Earth...
Life is a hardship ... to manage... and often i believe in struggles is found the very way out to heal ourself ,as MissGiggles says, theres always an opportunity waiting for you...
finding constance and stability is not an easy job again, very rare beings are capable of this...,
but keeping the Vision of yourself 'Healed' is the most important thing you have to do even when sick...
one day you will get there... as long as you believe... and keep walking...
you are preparing the way to unfold it...

Touchy...so i tread with caution. Please take this with a grain of salt...only my current-evolving experience on the matter....is....you can't heal it.

Some things you just cannot heal...(I assume you're talking about emotional trauma gosia...) at least not in the "I had the flu and now it's gone/healed" sense...what do you mean by "heal" anyway?

Some wounds "heal" and leave a scar. A leg removed cannot be "healed" as such...(unless...well that's another discussion).

The real question here is surely what is healing?

If it's a traumatic event or series of events that is still causing pain then obviously it's still an open unhealed "wound"...or a partially healed wound...or a "healed" wound that is so raw and tender it can be re-opened at any time yes?

Sometimes in life...there are burdens to be carried that cannot be "healed" whether they were caused by our actions or others actions towards us. All that can be achieved over time are the skills necessary to understand and cope with and forgive...and that can be, in some circumstances, a daily matter.

The word "healing" seems to have at it's core a finality...a degree of final resolution that immediately removes the burden from the suffering individual and all is now well.

Rather "non-trendily" I completely disagree with that view and believe it only promises the seeker of instant healing (in some situations) nothing but dissapointment and further pain.

In some situations and circumstances....healing is a journey...an ongoing journey.

I'm sure will many will disagree with my views...all i can say is...well...dun matta...

John

Sorry I haven’t signed up for the email yet, although I expect they won’t give you “really free” information.