- Articles & Ideas
- Being Specific
- Ann Adams on BEING SPECIFIC
- Using NLP to Chunk Down for specifics in an EFT session
- The importance of being specific in the EFT Setup Phrase
- Find Early Specific Events
- How to apply EFT when there are no clear, specific memories to tap on
- Tapping on specific events without knowing what they are
- What to do when you can't find your own specific events or issues
- Two cases: (1) Being Specific and (2) Being General
- EFT for the Soul - global versus specific approaches
- How to collapse multiple SPECIFIC EVENTS in one Borrowing Benefits session
- EFT for a bashful bladder - a beautiful example of going for SPECIFIC EVENTS
- Instruction
- Surrogate
- How to do Intentional (or Surrogate) EFT--a 4 Part Series
- Using surrogate EFT for easing a courtroom testimony
- A followup after a surrogate session in Albuquerque--Betsy's impressive results
- A touching story: Easing Mary's death through surrogate EFT
- Successful Surrogate EFT for Seizures
- Breathing problems, surrogate tapping, depression and Try it on Everything
- Surrogate tapping on an "Entity"
- After trying a different approach for Surrogate EFT, a crying baby quiets down
- Resolving a family fight with surrogate EFT
- Surrogate tapping on a sneezing attack, Successful use of EFT on a raspy throat AND arm wrestling success using only two fingers.
- Surrogate EFT relieves baby
- Some thoughts about surrogate (remote) EFT
- Surrogate EFT Taken Another Step - Clearing Ancestral (Foundational) Issues
- Surrogate tapping and collarbone breathing
- Helping Helpers: Using Surrogate EFT for Emergencies
- Surrogate tapping for terrorists
- Surrogate EFT for Chronic Pulmonary Obstruction Disorder
- Surrogate/distance tapping for Cassie the dog
- "Seeing" disrupted energy enhances mental (surrogate) tapping
- Solid motivation to use Surrogate EFT
- Surrogate EFT arrests a grand mal seizure
- Beth's Stalker Problem Resolved with Surrogate EFT
- Successful surrogate tapping for schizophrenic son
- Surrogate EFT to help patients going through medical procedures
- Responses to questions on surrogate muscle testing
- Simple uses of Surrogate EFT during every day conversations
- What to do in the hospital
- A surrogate EFT Teddy Bear became a special friend for a housebound woman
- Surrogate EFT substantially aids incontinence, anger, dementia and hearing loss.
- Skeptic of surrogate EFT becomes a believer
- Surrogate tapping stops serious nose bleed
- Surrogate EFT -- "The pain is leaving now through my fingertips."
- Techniques
- The Volcano Technique
- The Movie Technique for kinesthetic learners
- Behind the Scenes of the Movie Technique
- For procrastination: The "Feel the Feeling" Technique
- Creative Uses of The EFT Movie Technique
- Living your Dreams with The Hero Technique
- The Gratitude Diet - A Thanksgiving Technique
- Time and Reframing: An Easy Technique that Generates Fast Results
- The benefits of describing EFT as a relaxation technique
- Discovering "core scenes"
- A short version of the Collar Bone Breathing Technique
- Stepping back from the movie in the EFT Movie Technique
- Turning the Movie Technique into a cartoon helps with Dysautonomia episode
- EFT and the Double Bubble technique: Or how to successfully deal with chronic issues!
- Variations on EFT's Movie Technique
- Doing the EFT Constricted Breathing Technique a few times a day increased Paul
- The "Let it be Easy" Technique
- Everyday EFT to Create a Fabulous Life--The Emotional Joy Technique
- The Argument Tapping Technique
- Doing the EFT Movie Technique in slow motion -- getting to important and otherwise hidden aspects
- The Stepping into Neutral Technique
- The "Tap while you Gripe" Technique
- The EFT Imagineering Technique
- Gwyneth Moss's Imagineering Technique for Endometriosis
- The "Turbo-Tapping" Technique
- The Bundling Movie Technique for gently addressing long term abuse cases
- Refusal Tapping Technique
- General
- Ideas on Muscle Testing, EFT and Developing Intuition
- Why do we use negatives in the EFT setup statement?
- Gwyneth Moss on Reality Testing
- The Alternate Phrase Technique--tapping on both sides of a conflict.
- How do I choose the phrases to use while doing EFT?
- Soft language to ease The EFT Set-Up Phrases
- Ideas for enhancing the standard EFT Setup
- How Do You Know What To Say For an EFT Setup Phrase?
- A New Way to Use the
- A useful EFT phrase--"Reclaiming" all our possibilities
- Testing our work and personal radiation
- Useful ways to expand the EFT Set-up Phrase
- Using "It's In Here" in the EFT Setup phrase
- Touch And Breathe--TAB Paper
- Using the 9 Gamut Procedure when emotion gets "stuck in the right brain"
- Jarrod Bailey from Australia experiments with EFT Setup Phrases and explains his findings
- Injecting "want to" into the EFT Setup language
- EFT Imagineering cleared lungs and improved breathing
- Tapping on both sides of the body, on feel-good points only, then taking deep breaths after each point
- The advantages of using the 9 Gamut Procedure
- EFT to clear chakras and increase vibration
- Using the EFT setup statement as a a pledge
- Dr. Carol Look discusses the importance of testing in EFT
- Effectively using "What if" in the EFT Setup Phrase
- A creative way to develop EFT Setup statements
- Testing your EFT work - The
- Adding muscle testing to EFT
- Surrogate
- Self
- Self Image: An insightful look at the "Writings on our Walls"
- EFT for Self Confidence
- EFT for the lingering effects of a brain tumor from 12 years before
- Surrogate EFT for Yourself
- Frances Songhurst finally gets a rapid result for herself
- Developing self compassion with persistent EFT
- The 3-2-1 process: untangling yourself from others
- Mary Hunt on Intuition: Getting yourself out of the way.
- Thoughts on Surrogate EFT and "getting yourself out of the way"
- Tapping on one's self talk--a great idea for collapsing our "inner critic"
- EFT helps a man look people in the eye
- Karen's thoughts on self forgiveness
- Freeing our "Critical Mind" into Self Acceptance with EFT
- Using "I love THAT about myself" in the EFT process
- Anja shares her self-healing process
- Getting the most out of self-help books with EFT
- Self sabotage-healing the parts that don
- EFT gives relief to a self-cutter by first finding emotional causes
- Give Yourself a Gift by Creating an EFT Journal
- Resolving childhood issues with EFT increases compassion for self
- Billy McCombie self applies EFT for an impressive list of benefits
- S-L-O-W EFT for self help on broad issues
- When self acceptance becomes a problem...
- EFT for relief from feeling responsible for everyone else before taking care of self
- Tapping for negative self-talk - "I am unable to step out of it"
- Paradoxes in validating one's Self
- EFT improves self esteem
- Rue Hass on "I deeply and completely accept myself"
- The role of self-punishment in Dis-ease
- Steve Wells series on EFT and Self-Acceptance--Part 1 of 4--(subsequent parts given below)
- A Complex Case - Doubts and Self-empowerment - The Return of Hair and more
- Julie Howard uses EFT for being hard on herself
- EFT As a Conversation With Yourself
- Self acceptance without judgment
- Professional
- Dr. Patricia Carrington's use of "Choices" in the EFT Setup Phrase
- Rebecca Marina's 10 steps to building a prosperous EFT practice
- When The Client Wishes To Maintain Privacy
- An answer as to why some clients do not tap even when they know EFT will help them?
- Two successes where the client surrogate taps for other people--everyone benefits
- Tips to consider when you have had "incomplete success" with an EFT client
- Conversations with Dr. Mercola Part 3
- Do you attract clients that want everything for free?
- When should you consult an EFT Practitioner?
- The Apex Effect -- client cannot even remember the details of her former problem
- When the client won't speak about the issue
- Helping clients by using "Meta Programs"
- EFT Successfully Collapses Childhood Beliefs About Food -- Client Stops Overeating
- Enhancing the life of Burak -- a Down Syndrome client
- Using EFT for the client who feels bad about herself
- 8 tips for building your EFT practice with email newsletters
- Conversations with Dr. Mercola -- Part 4 of 7
- EFT Clients!
- Kinetic tremor disappears as Turkish MD addresses client's emotional issues
- 7 Step pre-tapping checklist for client work
- EFT from a CLIENT'S POINT OF VIEW
- Hair dresser helps client raise her arm - The salon clients cheered
- How to search for an EFT Practitioner
- The client who is "Never Good Enough" and The Brick Wall Technique
- Doing EFT for the client that is afraid to get started
- How this therapist uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and EFT together
- Conversations with Dr. Mercola -- Part 5 of 7
- Improving results with dissociated clients
- What Questions Should You Ask When Seeking An EFT Practitioner?
- Thoughts on following your EFT intuition with clients
- Dr. Pat Carrington's "EFT At Work In A Hospital" Series
- Client has Somatic Release that involved shaking in a seizure-like fashion
- How to Build Your EFT Practice by Leveraging Your Biggest Resource
- Physical therapy like it should be--dramatic improvements in a rehab center
- When clients get overwhelmed or frustrated with EFT
- When clients can
- Conversations with Dr. Mercola -- Part 6 of 7
- Tips for when clients have difficulty accessing their feelings
- EFT Speeds Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy: Irene Mitchell Update
- How To Tell In Advance Whether An EFT Practitioner Has Sufficient Skill in EFT
- How to use EFT when the client won't reveal the issue
- Curtis Steele, MD shares his thoughts and experiences using EFT in a psychiatric practice
- Good reasons for using an EFT Practitioner
- Ingrid Dinter's Box Technique for helping a client wind down when time is running out in a session
- EFT used to calm down a client during a severe seizure episode
- Working through the pain and fear in the midst of divorce
- EFT'er encourages clients to find their favorite EFT points
- Conversations with Dr. Mercola -- Part 7 of 7
- The Emotional Scale in EFT Practice
- Hearing voices and multiple issues relieved: "One session of EFT does more for me than years of [conventional] therapy ever could."
- Is Your Chosen EFT Practitioner Really Helping You?
- Some thoughts about doing EFT with multilingual clients
- What stops clients from pursuing their dreams?
- Surrogate EFT used to calm down a bi-polar client
- Why see an EFT practitioner?
- Fitting EFT within the client's belief system
- Limiting beliefs may limit your EFT practice
- Making A Great Impression With Your New EFT Client
- Conversations with Dr. Mercola - Part 1 of 7
- EFT with a schizophrenic client
- A detailed EFT oriented session via email for a client with serious issues
- The Pros and Cons of EFT Telephone Therapy
- Did EFT help Gayla's client reduce the blockage in his arteries?
- Surrogate EFT brings calming effect to Schizophrenic client
- Yet another impressive use of Surrogate EFT--this time an audience sends the client out of the room and taps for her
- The Many Factors Affecting Client Motivation and Follow Through
- If the client starts shaking...
- If your client believes that the world is run by a red elephant....
- What to do when your client is beset by an "evil monster"
- Using EFT to create positive self beliefs for a client who deems herself "not good enough"
- 4 Part Series on Helping Clients with their 0-10 Accuracy
- Psychosis: Hearing Voices--EFT achieves more in one session than 13 years of medications and traditional therapy.
- Karen Donaldson Highlights Some "Slimming Down" Successes With Her Clients -- Many Side Issues Explored
- Profuse bleeding stops even though client was on Coumadin (blood thinner)
- Shaking Off Negative Client Energies Between Sessions
- Adding EFT to conventional talk therapy
- EFT aids an "energy sensitive" client
- Criminal defense attorney uses EFT to help innocent client during cross-examination
- Conversations with Dr. Mercola -- Part 2 of 7
- EFT and Time Line Therapy helps 92 year old man live in the now
- How do I use EFT for the client who has many, many, many severe issues?
- Listening to this client's words led to a surprising core issue
- Successful Surrogate EFT for a Cerebral Palsy client
- Core Issues
- A Useful Way To Find Core Issues In The EFT Process
- Ilana Weiler uses the 7 Whys method for getting to core issues
- MD resolves arm weakness problem by relieving an emotional core issue
- Two examples where core issues show up during an EFT session
- A surprising core issue behind business call reluctance
- Using the Palace of Possibilities to uncover core issues
- The "Audio Technique" for getting to core issues
- A clever way to find core issues
- Eliminating Hot Flashes With EFT Tapping -- Surprising Core Issues
- Tracing core issues back to the birth process
- Blending Redecision Therapy with EFT--a creative way to uncover core issues
- Iris finds her own core issue
- Getting To Feelings And Core Issues By Imagining You Are Writing A Story - A Version Of The EFT Tell The Story Technique
- An Impressive Search For EFT Core Issues -- Asking The Right Questions
- The "7 Whys" method for getting to core issues
- When "insignificant" childhood events are the real core issues
- In Search Of An Elusive EFT Core Issue
- Finding An EFT Core Issue -- "But What Did He Give You?"
- A self questioning method for getting to your core issues
- An extraordinary account of tapping on a prenatal core issue -- or how to change a life in moments
- Finding and Dealing with Core Events
- Barbara shares an insightful way to find core issues
- An excellent question to help find core issues
- The core issue behind Carl's inability to "perform"
- Collapsing the core issues of procrastination with EFT
- A classic case for finding a core issue
- Finding core issues when someone is emotionally flat lining
- Using Tail Enders to find core issues
- A clever method for finding core issues
- Obsession with having affairs ends after finding the core issue
- Why Cathy didn't enjoy Christmas--an embarrassing core event
- Newcomers
- Two Newcomer EFT Tapping Successes: Fainting And Shyness
- A newbie dropped pounds at a time she usually gained
- Relative Newbie's First Major Tapping Toe Stub - Foot Pain Issue
- Newbie quiets her daughter
- Doing EFT for a newcomer without having to explain it
- Easy and Effective EFT for Newcomers
- Newbie has great results with persistent hiccoughs!
- Borrowing Benefits newcomer details impressive success
- EFT Newcomer Helps Her Daughter Relieve Constipation
- Quality advice for EFT Newbies
- How watching the EFT DVDs helped a nausea case
- EFT newbie successfully surrogates for her dying plant
- A newbie with 6 rounds of EFT eliminates her bladder infection pain
- Using EFT
- Using EFT with a dementia patient: A touching story
- Using EFT over the phone
- Using EFT for bothersome noises
- Using EFT to easily learn another language
- Benefits of using EFT in a cardiac group
- Tapping on TREEs -- a metaphor for using EFT
- Using EFT for the "Grey Life Syndrome"
- Using EFT to resolve issues in your dreams
- Using EFT with massage
- Using EFT within a unique form of meditation
- Using EFT for a stroke and other issues -- In praise of the 9-gamut procedure
- Using EFT to eliminate recurring dreams
- Using EFT for Self-Doubt
- Using EFT to say Good-Bye to a dying person
- Using EFT to release "the decision to be miserable"
- Using EFT for the Inner Child
- Using EFT for Abundance releases limiting beliefs
- Using EFT to rejuvenate a withered plant
- Using EFT for Procrastination
- Marielle discovers a lifetime core issue while using EFT for a bad cough
- Using EFT for the side effects of Medications
- Using EFT for feeling like a failure
- Using EFT for cerebral palsy
- Using EFT for emphysema
- Using EFT to build emotional strength in overwhelming circumstances
- Using EFT for Menopause, Hot flashes and Chills
- Using EFT for Scleroderma
- Using EFT for preventing illness
- Using EFT for Self-Confidence in a specific area
- Using EFT for overcoming procrastination
- Personal Pleasure Procedure - Using EFT to improve your romantic life
- Using EFT for a double ankle sprain
- Using EFT to advance your business
- Using EFT for world crises
- Using EFT for clearing poltergeist energy
- After using EFT, Paul's 84 year old mum recovered very quickly from a surgical operation
- Using EFT for a choking emergency
- Using EFT to neutralize "family differences"
- Using EFT to release the pain of saying goodbye
- Using EFT for clearing clutter and organizing your life
- Using EFT to increase blood platelet count--an article with far reaching implications
- Using EFT for old and frail people
- Easy stress reducer using EFT with statements like, "The world is conspiring in my favor"
- 11 year old girl finds lost cell phone using EFT
- Using EFT for our illiterate and semi-literate brothers and sisters
- Using EFT for struggling students with ADD
- Using EFT to Trade the Market
- A successful case of using EFT for candida yeast infections
- Persistence worked when using EFT at the first signs of a cold
- Using EFT for an ailing pony
- Using EFT for wrinkles - An alternative to Botox?
- Using EFT to overcome the resistance to exercise
- Using EFT while you are in an argument
- Using EFT for Chronic Problems
- Heaviness in both legs disappears after using EFT on "These Growing Pains"
- Some thoughts on using EFT for personal peace
- Using EFT for the Holidays
- Using EFT for Poison Ivy
- Using EFT over the phone for on-the-spot issues
- Thoughts on using EFT for procrastination
- Using EFT for "Everything is my fault!"
- A guy thing: Tips on using EFT for male ED
- Using EFT for Tachycardia
- Using EFT for Chemotherapy symptoms
- An encouraging example of using EFT for Crohn's Disease
- Suggestions for using EFT with a Mother
- Using EFT for Alzheimer's disease
- Many benefits in 3 months using EFT's Personal Peace Procedure
- Using EFT for Muscular Dystrophy
- Some tips when using EFT by yourself
- Using EFT to bring up core memories
- Using EFT for Herpes
- Using EFT on Asperger
- How to Handle Self Sabotage by Using EFT
- Using EFT from pre-birth to the present
- Using EFT to enhance persuasion skills
- Using EFT with our "internal parents"
- Using EFT for spiritual issues
- Using EFT to Create
- Success by using EFT while reading our Newsletter articles
- A subtle, yet powerful self-image benefit from using EFT
- Using EFT to avoid tears while chopping onions
- Using EFT to reclaim our personal power
- Using EFT for inanimate objects may point to your own issues
- Using EFT to avert an amputation
- A method for using EFT regarding the "difficult people" in your life.
- Using EFT to relieve a cold sore (Herpes HSV-1)
- Using EFT to learn foreign language pronunciation
- Specific couple techniques using EFT
- Using EFT for Jet Lag--even with 4 time changes
- Using EFT to manifest your goal more easily
- Using EFT with a Skeptic
- Using EFT for Premature Ejaculation
- Using EFT with computers, web-cameras and microphones
- Using EFT to cut "energetic cords" of attachment to people
- Using EFT for Goal Setting
- Using EFT for motivation to exercise
- Follow up on "Using EFT to avert an amputation"
- Using EFT for Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Using EFT for changing habits and more
- Using EFT in singing lessons
- Using EFT to Enhance Bedroom Romance
- Using EFT to find (and collapse) a limiting belief
- Using EFT for mother issues
- Using EFT for Plantar Fasciitis
- Using EFT with a Survivor of Domestic Violence
- Using EFT to better enjoy certain foods and expand sensory experience
- Using EFT for forgiveness
- Using EFT with A Course in Miracles teachings
- Using EFT for racial prejudice
- Lifelong car sickness disappears--but only after using EFT on the real issue
- Using EFT to bring us back into balance during challenging situations
- Using EFT for a clogged ear
- Using EFT in the Emergency Room: Raging bladder infection subsides
- Q & A Series on using EFT
- Using EFT to start the day
- Passing a driving test using EFT - a case with many aspects
- Using EFT for your Biggest Problem
- Ideas for those using EFT to further their own personal development
- Using EFT on imaginary parts
- Classic case of using EFT for the child within
- Using EFT for Dreamwork
- Using EFT for Marathon Training and difficult things to do
- Using EFT when a specific word triggers you
- Using EFT to support the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) process
- Using EFT to regain Laurence's sense of taste.
- Big benefits from using EFT on an "irrelevant memory"
- Tips and strategies for using EFT with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
- Using EFT to reduce our judgment of others
- General
- Persistence and EFT homework help a woman embrace her femininity
- A quality use of our Borrowing Benefits DVDs
- Some thoughts on secondary gains - and what to do about them
- Including the word
- EFT improves hearing by 25%
- Successful EFT without knowing the details
- Psychiatrist gets to the real reason his patient couldn't say "NO"
- An EFT Meditation
- Food stuck in the throat goes down easily after EFT
- Critical Questioning While Doing EFT
- In Praise of Continual Tapping
- MD uses EFT to treat Sjogren
- Scientific evolution of EFT from TFT
- Many successes doing
- Does EFT compete with God?
- Jo Huntsman takes EFT into her own hands and has success with Lupus like symptoms
- A metaphor for introducing EFT
- EFT in a plane for scary facial paralysis - a doctor on board said it was Bell
- EFT enhances the "Artist's Way" work
- Do we need to heal the past so that we can move into the future?
- Are you getting the most out of EFT?
- The benefits of tapping along with our DVDs--core memories uncovered
- Allowing EFT to come THROUGH you rather than BY you
- How to know when the healing is done
- Clearing past issues from the walls of our mind
- The ABC approach to EFT
- Ideas for winding up EFT sessions
- How to Get Into Businesses and Organizations By Getting Welcomed Through the Back Door
- Metaphors, Humour and EFT
- EFT on the move -- for busy people
- Use EFT when you are afraid to speak up
- EFT for Speech Loss following a Stroke
- Success via tapping on a two-sided conflict
- Discovering the cause of humming in the ears
- Validating EFT with Neurofeedback
- Did EFT clear a 90% blocked artery?
- After 9 years suffering with polycystic ovary syndrome, Jenn finds relief with EFT
- EFT for forgetting lines in a school play
- EFT for calming while being strapped down on a hospital gurney
- Acupuncturist uses EFT and eliminates her own shingles in three days
- For those who have difficulty telling left from right
- Marketing EFT as a business--Cultivating important Centers of Influence (COI)
- Learning, intelligence and "emotional static"
- Psychiatric Nurse gives pointers for dealing with severe emotional disorders
- Thoughts on an emergency tapping point
- The value of taking dead aim at the negatives
- EFT's Borrowing Benefits collapses 36 issues in 2.5 hours
- Circumcision at the root of writer's block
- Problems that are difficult to assess in the here and now. (Several responses follow)
- The Salesman who didn't want to cold call
- A tapping tip to lighten the load
- Try EFT on everything--even an oncoming fainting spell
- EFT helps an 8 year old with a concussion
- Am I a failure at EFT if there is no miracle?
- Surprising insights than can occur while tapping
- Healing families with EFT - a historical approach
- A physicist speaks
- Why couldn't Jason make a simple decision?
- A New Way to Express Gratitude with EFT
- Resolving many impediments to a satisfactory "bedroom experience"
- Sometimes slowing down EFT can provide quality benefits
- MD uses EFT to clear many issues in 15 minutes
- A simple way to handle Shingles -- no drugs involved
- EFT for severe MSG reaction
- Finding the real issues behind what appeared to be a "Bedroom Romance" problem
- Borrowing Benefits gets impressive results on TV
- Clever use of EFT clears issues for baby, mother and grandmother - follow-up included
- Re-evaluating the Apex problem
- Did Mary
- Handling vertigo symptoms over the phone
- Calming effects of EFT during an emergency on an airplane
- EFT brings benefits for leaky gut syndrome and ASD (a form of autism)
- EFT clears nausea - but not in the expected way
- Stronger orgasms with EFT
- Gratitude tapping
- EFT in Kenya
- Are you suppressing your EFT talents?
- EFT as a cure for boredom
- Improving intimate moments with EFT
- Dispersing 50 years worth of suppressed emotion
- A brief heat exhaustion case
- Messages from an oven
- How Dawn Norton used EFT to collapse her own "horror" issue
- Five-for-one benefits from an introductory EFT group
- Susan de Tarr eliminates her 54 year old motion sickness in 10 minutes
- Making EFT a routine
- How to convince an entire audience about EFT
- Using "Inner Dialogues" with EFT
- Psychiatrist relieves sexual exhibitionism with EFT--4 year follow-up
- EFT relieves an unusual
- Emotion and Perception: EFT makes it a two way street
- How I grew my bustline with EFT
- An 8 year old boy with very strange eating habits finds a new menu with EFT
- Jeff Lipnick uses EFT to keep from blacking out
- EFT, ED and related bedroom issues
- Daily tapping lowers blood sugar
- Borrowing Benefits while watching The EFT Course
- Who do YOU think you are?
- Headache relief over the phone
- Claude improves his fishing
- Using humor with EFT
- How to handle a "vague feeling" with EFT
- Eight Easy Ways to Remember to Do EFT
- EFT on an inanimate object: The car that wouldn't start
- Tapping to improve your intuition
- Combining EFT with Humor
- The acute sinusitis case that wouldn't budge until....
- EFT helps remove "stuck ring"
- It's never too late to clear useless childhood beliefs
- Key Concepts in Mastering EFT
- EFT for the emotional aspects of a Cesarean Section
- Ten steps to changing your limiting responses to a falling economy
- EFT for stammering
- Dr. Barr used EFT after cutting off the tip of his thumb
- Judi thinks that doing EFT for others helped her - winning in Las Vegas
- Borrowing Benefits with EFT improves communication at a committee meeting
- Thoughts about inheriting illness from our ancestors
- Twelve years of facial numbness eliminated with 2 rounds of EFT
- A Lesson in EFT Intuition--Letting it flow through you
- EFT brings relief for ALS
- How to tell others about EFT
- Some thoughts on when to use "I choose" vs. "I prefer"
- Borrowing Benefits in the Criminal Justice System
- EFT for changing entrenched habits
- The "proper words" to use for the EFT Set-up Statement
- Experts point to dramatic changes in brain waves as a result of EFT
- Borrowing Benefits hastens the healing of mystery thumb sores
- John
- Continuous tapping resolves an intense abreaction
- Did 20 minutes of EFT straighten bones that had knitted improperly 50 years before?
- EFT and the right to be happy
- EFT for feeling unqualified to be successful
- EFT relieves a case of the Hiccups
- EFT for facing those who caused you pain
- Did EFT bring this man out of a coma?
- "It was impossible for the testicle to descend on its own."
- The Merits of Daily Tapping
- Is it safe to change?
- Processing your life's key words with EFT
- Brain dumping with EFT to get started on global issues
- Breaking habits
- EFT helps salesman double his sales
- Relaxing a dying man
- An EFT Procrastination case
- We are babes crawling on the floor of the Universe
- From a 38 B to a 38 D/DD while losing 20 pounds
- Thoughts on Psychological Reversal from Rue Hass -- with an ADD example
- What would happen if this problem wasn't there any more?
- EFT for food poisoning
- Two cases of doing EFT in public without looking silly
- Improving romantic openness and enjoyment with EFT
- EFT for Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) - "You can't make me!"
- EFT brings beauty to a hospice setting
- EFT collapses competing thoughts and thus aids The Law of Attraction
- How to transform disappointment into gratitude
- EFT Question Tapping
- Helping a 97 year old man to die peacefully
- Successful EFT phone work makes major shifts for overwhelmed mother
- Thoughts on resolving difficult physical problems
- A unique way to expand EFT
- Wisdom from Mair Llewellyn regarding the "Writing on our Walls"
- EFT removes a pesky "phantom itch"
- Incorporating EFT into Corporate Programs
- Tips for conducting intensive EFT sessions -- a several day case regarding Bulimia
- EFT -- a quality aid for Shingles
- Create acceptance of your life with EFT
- Strong correlation found between EFT and Dr. Emoto's work with water
- Clearing a food aversion in 5 minutes
- What would appear to be the main issue may not be so
- How long should the flu last?
- EFT for making your voice stronger
- A new kind of mosquito relief?
- Try fork bending with EFT
- A clever approach to finding core memories
- An adventure within the Palace of Possibilities
- Injured toe gains relief using two important EFT concepts
- Sarah Jordan makes progress after realizing a childhood need
- Aiming EFT at our Future
- What to do when the "Bedroom Spark" goes out
- EFT and The Power of Reframing
- Tap on experiences that are stuck in parts of your body
- EFT and insights (cognitive change)
- The young woman who kept quitting her jobs
- Giving more meaning to the 0-10 intensity rating
- How to create empowering reframes (seeing things differently) with EFT
- MD Applies EFT to Successfully Relieve Urethral Pain
- Praise for tapping along with the EFT DVDs
- EFT for a spider (and mosquito) bite
- EFT helps Elaine learn the clarinet at 50
- Two stories to create a bridge between your audience and EFT
- Two cases: Putting on needed pounds with EFT & Holding water for an ultrasound
- Mom doing EFT for autistic son yields enormous changes in one month
- A touching story about Michael, his ailing aunt and EFT
- Letting intuition flow with EFT
- A lesson in "letting go"
- Can we learn to be grateful no matter what?
- Improve your EFT sessions by waking up your senses
- Severe lung congestion clears with persistent daily EFT
- Borrowing Benefits: My Jury has returned with a verdict
- Was prostate cancer really the cause of Sam's Low Libido?
- How to Identify and Correct Psychological Reversals
- EFT for the Sensitive Person -- Awakening the Wild Pony Within
- Dr. Carol Look's Top 10 Tapping Tips
- EFT helps release nervousness before an important meeting
- Impressive results with autism
- Releasing chaotic behavior through EFT
- EFT hat dance
- Deserving to live -- an intense memory resolved
- EFT helps with hair loss, facial blemishes, hay fever, smoking and PMS
- Expert gives us an inside look at Group EFT
- Baerbel Borrows Benefits in her own EFT group and dissolves her creative blocks
- When EFT Doesn't Seem to Work
- Motion sickness averted through "Chasing the Pain."
- More on EFT and Reframing by Tania Prince
- Consistent and Impressive results from EFT group work
- Gordon was in a psychiatric hospital for two years and was released two weeks after one EFT session
- How do I introduce EFT to skeptics? (Building Bridges to Believability)
- How feelings in the body are related to emotional clearing
- Why do people resist EFT?
- EFT for the Inner Child
- Technical evidence of the link between emotional causes and physical ailments
- EFT stops a blood blister from forming
- Borrowing Benefits and an Acute Respiratory Disorder
- Taking the edge off intense emotions--Putting them in a box and tapping on them
- Attracting Abundance by Shifting Your Energy
- Tapping with good photos and bad photos
- Improving the ability to laugh with EFT
- A tapping song
- EFT on autopilot
- EFT resolves limiting childhood beliefs
- Medical transcriptionist says that in thousands of serious medical cases, she never saw a cure for anyone
- A short woman no longer feels intimidated around tall people after one EFT session
- Tapping along with a prayer
- Rapid Relief for Herpes
- Peak Performance Series
- A solid "Doing Business with EFT" idea from Rebecca Marina
- Emphatic EFT dramatically shifts many things--use this on stubborn issues
- Finding the root of the problem
- EFT for eliminating barriers to our psychic abilities (and intuition)
- Thoughts on dealing with corporations
- Using onomatopoeias with EFT
- MD provides secretary with "The Incredible Shrinking Hemorrhoids"
- Roxy gets multiple "Bedroom O's" with EFT
- Lindsay Kenny answers Frequently Asked Questions about EFT
- EFT for severe cerebral palsy
- Rue Hass blends EFT with the wisdom of
- A woman with scoliosis finds balance with EFT - follow-up included
- EFT and Ho'oponopono
- Blood improves after a few minutes of EFT
- Thoughts on mental tapping and reframing
- Tapping back your sense of taste when you have a cold or flu
- Feeling and observing emotions
- EFT engages inner child to relieve indigestion (dyspepsia).
- Eric no longer hears voices
- EFT assists Polio patient
- EFT for eliminating hiccups changes a skeptic
- About Voice Technology...
- EFT eases nausea
- EFT and sex
- EFT is helpful when you are afraid to speak up in bed
- A "Hard to Swallow" case
- How racism can lead to health problems and what to do about it
- Healing the "Missing Mother Syndrome" with EFT
- EFT helps a Premature Ejaculation (PE) problem
- Laura Orchard uses EFT during a dream
- Bedroom frustration resolved - including follow-ups
- Suzanne Lerner gives her thoughts on diagnosis
- Building confidence and releasing the inner critic
- Nothing in my traditional medical training in Anatomy, Physiology or Pathology even hinted at what I am now witnessing (with EFT) - Chuck Gebhardt, MD
- More successful cases from Dr. Eric Robins
- Can EFT tele-classes cause problems for some participants?
- EFT approaches for "Loose Ligaments" that can apply to countless other issues
- Asking good questions to elicit tappable issues
- EFT for elderly people who stuff their feelings
- EFT with hypnosis provides long term benefits for abandonment issue
- Borrowing Benefits from Sacramento to the United Kingdom
- Have you noticed the important feedback you get while doing EFT?
- Quadriplegic feels "bubbles" during EFT session
- Leslie Anne Lackman successfully uses humor and takes aim at neuropeptides
- When you are in traffic and REALLY have to pee....
- TAPPING
- EFT for disliking someone shifts resentments to acceptance -- a major result
- Combining EFT with Dialoguing for impressive results
- Did Karen
- EFT for those who grind their teeth
- Healing the wounded Inner Child with EFT
- EFT after a horrible nightmare
- 25 Ways to be a Fantastic Therapist
- Knocking down the negative walls to let the garden grow - a tale of fertility
- Using movies to enhance and test our work.
- When Your Intensity Level Goes UP Instead Of Down With EFT
- Combining EFT with Timelines
- Many benefits from watching our EFT-Beyond the Basics DVDs
- 10 minutes of EFT put 10 years of Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) to rest
- Curse words aid the clearing of emotional issues
- EFT in Daily Life
- The Human Brain and Law of Attraction: Optimizing Brain Function with EFT
- Cold Calling: "I'm a second-class citizen, and I have to keep my mouth shut!"
- Try a motivational Power Hour to improve your business
- It is your response that counts.
- Let it be easy
- Improve your success rate by asking the right questions
- Banishing the Barriers to having a thriving EFT business
- How to handle emotions about the cheating spouse
- Cascade tapping
- EFT turned Masha into a runner - an interesting side effect
- 200 people watch as EFT improves Range of Motion for a Nurse's arm
- Blending NLP with EFT
- More thoughts about stopping colds with EFT
- Using
- An MD successfully uses EFT on a Hiatal Hernia and Candidiasis
- Technical article: Influencing peptides with EFT
- Can You Influence Another Person To Use EFT If They Are Reluctant To Do So?
- EFT for faulty beliefs
- Interview with Gary regarding EFT and yeast problems
- EFT and Reframing using Counter-Examples
- I simply could not dance with Gary!!
- What do you do for friends who incessantly bend your ear while venting their problems?
- This is simply priceless to a mother of a 16 year old
- EFT for people who go blank when asked to speak
- A Useful Method for "Private Tapping"
- EFT for sciatica and a 6 year old wounded thumb
- EFT helps a young musician stop shaking
- Tapping with a poem as inspiration
- EFT helps a boy who has many health challenges
- Barb St. Dennis had severe Hepatitis C but now has completely normal blood tests
- Using a metaphor to handle stubborn emotional issues
- Treating negative beliefs with EFT
- Who do YOU think you are?
- An EFT method for installing new behaviors
- Two ways to use EFT for Restless Leg Syndrome
- Did EFT cure Lupus?
- Insights on Borrowing Benefits with EFT
- Why do we sometimes avoid tapping?
- Hearing the energy shift while doing EFT
- Resolving emotional causes for erectile dysfunction
- A clever combination of tapping and visualization
- EFT substantially aids swallowing problem
- Introducing EFT to kids by way of their "magic fingers"
- Methods for working with pain
- EFT for Celiac disease -- no symptoms for 4 months and counting
- EFT and "being the bee"
- EFT helps a serious infection - the redness subsides before their eyes
- EFT for the mental game of poker
- Methods for getting to deep issues, even in a group setting
- Using silent tapping in cases where speaking out loud is too loony
- Taking "The Secret" for a walk with EFT
- Removing the blocks to your goals with EFT
- Manifesting the life of your dreams with EFT
- Can EFT be used to manifest what you want in your life?
- Inner Child Expert uses EFT for her own healing
- Symptoms quickly fade for a child with a Bi-Polar Diagnosis
- Borrowing Benefits for a seemingly unrelated issue
- The "Gratitude for My Mistakes" method
- Questions on PR as well as possible dangers. (Other responses follow)
- Professional writer uses EFT to overcome writer's block
- Tuning in to the problem
- EFT helps a bullied woman stay at her job
- Talking to Christians About EFT
- Warming up to "cold calls" with EFT
- An interesting way to do EFT in a group
- EFT for discomfort with networking - an interesting solution
- The Value of Matching and Pacing Belief Systems in Group Training
- Do you have difficulty receiving positive feelings from others?
- A Conversation With Your Body
- EFT provides benefits using Future Tapping
- A New Moment in Science -- useful EFT article for distribution
- What the Bleep do We Know about EFT?
- A journey through an important piece of our "newthink."
- Addressing the "Why Bother?" syndrome
- Creating a happy future
- The Vibration of Abundance
- How to have a happy day
- MD uses EFT for common colds and canker sores
- An experiment on how EFT statements affect our bodies
- Rhythm, Pulse & Percussion In Tapping Treatments
- Three possible reframes for people struggling with sadness
- A clever "Chasing the Pain" case
- Did Erika
- Tap while listening to music that makes you cry
- EFT helps calm an autistic boy after he accidentally hurt his mother
- Untangling two events with EFT leads to business freedom
- Louise's skeptical dad warmed up to EFT
- Tapping for the United Nations
- EFT helps with repulsed feelings about unwanted advances
- Don
- 3 Items and some Holiday advice
- Phobia relief on TV in the UK
- EFT appears favorably in a German TV sitcom
- Gwyneth Moss discusses Support for Therapists
- Acupuncturist gives his view of EFT and Classical Chinese Medical Aspects
- Adding
- Thoughts on EFT and Intention
- Collapsing a lifelong belief that her mother had tried to harm her in the womb
- EFT methods for "Smokers Lung" that apply to most chronic conditions
- How do you do EFT to fit a time slot?
- Can EFT fix a computer?
- Clearing clutter for clarity and confidence
- "God Tapping"
- Loving your feminine body
- Having trouble "letting go" in the bedroom
- Getting EFT Blocks and Barriers out of the way - a list of questions
- EFT fixes car to pass inspection
- Ted Robinson's tips for doing Borrowing Benefits groups
- Visualizing and tapping on limiting beliefs
- Ann Adams on getting EFT accepted by Institutions
- Eliminating shingles pain in 1/2 hour
- Why People Sometimes Have Negative Feelings After Doing EFT
- Tapping while traveling can improve your mood
- Feeling woosy from Alcohol
- EFT calms elderly woman
- Erica gets a complete overhaul through EFT
- For the skeptics--Is EFT a placebo?
- A common sense procedure for getting EFT results
- Marie's "molestation secret"
- Persistent EFT helps with unnecessary worry and a feeling of always being responsible -- many side issues collapse as well
- A very useful method for getting to important issues
- EFT for an aversion to stuff that disgusts you
- Karen helped her father recover the use of his fingers after a stroke
- EFT for feeling overly responsible
- Tell your friends, there is, at last, a cure for the common cold!
- Positively adjusting the perceptions of others with EFT
- A clever combo of EFT and Essences
- Paralysis finally overcome after everything else failed
- An important case on aspects--Martin's learning challenge
- EFT relieves "incurable" Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS)
- How a physician uses EFT
- EFT for Boredom and Loneliness
- A Useful Series on Borrowiing Benefits
- Low Libido is not always as simple as it appears
- EFT methods: Questions, One-Point-EFT and Mental EFT
- Facial paralysis clears in one
- Tapping via typing--email sessions
- EFT for the complexities of a single, dating life
- Dawson Church successfully applies EFT for his episode of gout
- Persistent, quality EFT adds 5 inches to Gillian's bust line
- Taking EFT into the Corporate Market
- Did EFT keep Wayne from getting more grey hair?
- Expanding Your Comfort Zones: The key to your success
- Ten minutes of EFT restores healthy performance in the bedroom - eliminates the need for the little blue pill
- Resolving nightmares...and more
- Aiming EFT at the FUTURE
- Gratitude and Coach Ben Hammerschmidt
- EFT and Nightmares
- A successful use of EFT for Hasimoto
- Five extreme behavior patterns related to organizing and how to address them with EFT
- Daily EFT creates calm under explosive family circumstances
- Your Vibration Always Comes First
- EFT assists conception
- EFT and future pacing
- Using Role Playing With EFT
- EFT for people who are sensitive
- MD uses EFT for a demented woman
- EFT for painful cramping
- WHO AM I NOW??? How Identity Issues Block Abundance
- Kelly Meisak uses a unique approach for her ADD prone brother
- This lady had not been out of her house for two years because she suffered from chronic burping
- Reiki Master uses EFT in the Republic of Mauritius
- Creating a remarkable bridge to our former history
- Here's a textbook EFT case for using persistence, reframes, chasing the pain, metaphors and creative language
- Carol Look Shows us How to Release Procrastination with EFT
- Helpful hints for the Holidays.
- EFT and visible changes in physical appearance
- EFT assists young boy in taking his Ringworm medicine
- EFT works for cellulitis on 3 separate occasions
- Gayle Waxon learns to stop her own epileptic seizures with EFT
- Connecting to our Birthright of Fertility
- Does language matter when doing EFT?
- How to tap into the
- Using the term "somehow..." within the EFT process
- Tapping for being "able, willing and worthy" may help boost EFT results
- Blending EFT with Homeopathy
- Creating positive affirmations with EFT and your senses
- EFT for painful menopause symptoms
- An interesting EFT approach for getting beyond "glass ceilings"
- EFT using teddy bears
- Victoria's 10-day EFT blood pressure experiment results
- EFT and The Law of Attraction - A Perfect Match
- Tapping with tunes
- Do you have emotional difficulty with the standard EFT phrasing?
- Jewels in the junkyard--the prison population
- EFT improves a mentally disabled young man
- Can You Do EFT With Eyes Closed?
- Not finding the right words for EFT is a block that can be overcome
- A quality look at "The Apex Effect"
- High blood pressure recedes - and remains normal a week later
- Psychiatrist relieves sexual exhibitionism with EFT--4 year follow-up
- Deborah Miller beautifully reframes an assault issue into a new personal identity
- Tap and be rich
- The many benefits of EFT circles--and how to do them
- Why does tapping on the side of the hand work?
- EFT for a numb face and tongue - instant relief for a skeptic
- Suzanne Zacharia finds the root causes of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
- EFT to help heal fruit trees - a major new business waiting to happen?
- Mental Dental EFT - for the dentist and the patient
- Sneaking Up On The Problem When You Do EFT
- EFT enhances many things
- EFT for bladder control when on the road
- Silent Night Sadness -- when certain music gives you the blues
- Mary Pellicer, MD, on Intuitive Diagnosis
- EFT provides instant relief for Poison Ivy itching
- Quieting down an elderly stroke victim in a nursing home
- Three Keys to EFT Mastery
- EFT helps relieve blushing
- Painful mastitis clears after EFT
- Quickie pain relief--A "one point wonder".
- How to get non-profit organizations to host EFT group meetings--and pay you as well
- Helping mother and her unborn baby with EFT
- A creative approach to psychological reversal
- EFT as a morning eye-opener
- EFT for night time trips to the bathroom--including follow-up
- Aparna
- EFT for resistance to doing EFT
- "I have to lie constantly to live my life as I know it"
- Further bridges to our history
- Stress and Me and EFT
- New Uses for EFT
- EFT helps alleviate several issues associated with infidelity
- Using Galvanic Skin Response to validate EFT
- NLP procedures enhance anyone's delivery of EFT
- "Helpless to get what I want" - Using intuition to get at important issues
- MD writes article on Emotions, Energy, and Healing
- Katie's posture and her many emotional issues
- Tapping on "what didn
- When conflicting beliefs keep us stuck
- An aneurism left a man's hand shaking, unable to write for 12 years.
- Rehana Webster teaches the details behind a successful blushing case
- How to use EFT with your dreams to collapse important emotional issues
- Resentment gets in the way of abundance
- Resolving two bothersome tics with EFT
- Saying "goodbye" with the
- An at risk coronary patient has normal arteries and flawless angiogram after persistent EFT for two months
- Tapping while responding to a nasty comment from the past
- EFT for looking forward instead of backwards
- How Do You Know You Are Benefiting From EFT Much As You Can?
- EFT and the taming of the tongue
- Gwyneth Moss on The Importance of Rehearsal in an EFT session
- How do you feel ABOUT your body having pain?
- Was this a negative reaction to EFT?
- Many benefits from tapping on a prayer
- Future tapping to get what you want
- Changing a man's life with EFT--including pain, emotions and bedroom romance
- How to get EFT into Schools
- EFT in the snow -- creating comfort in the cold
- EFT collapses seasickness and Rosa becomes the life of the party
- Stopping the flu in its early stages
- What is your body trying to tell you?
- "How do I get really good at EFT?"
- An extraordinary example of the real power of EFT's Borrowing Benefits procedure -- a bridge phobia disappears "behind the scenes"
- EFT for past life issues
- EFT for Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and a host of other issues
- Prenatal EFT improves hemoglobin count with before and after test
- Getting to the real reason behind Janet's "bedroom inhibitions"
- Tapping on gratitude for EFT
- After EFT, Kay
- A procedure for dealing with the resistance to heal
- To Lead or Not to Lead...
- Looking waaay in the past for the cause of a physical symptom
- Overcoming a lifelong fruit revulsion and some side benefits
- One person
- Relief for Bashful Bladder
- EFT is effective despite language barriers
- When Positive is Negative - Accepting Your Light
- Shingle symptoms gone in just two EFT sessions
- Tapping through a beginning seizure
- Two examples where working on one issue provides relief for another
- Important EFT topic: Doing the best we can
- Useful thoughts on integrating EFT within the military
- Eckhart Tolle
- Daily uses of EFT with A Course in Miracles (ACIM)
- EFT for helping a mother bond with her child
- How EFT unclogged my toilet
- The Inner Committee
- Can we affect inanimate objects better with EFT? - Rebecca's engine light
- A humorous reply to an EFT skeptic
- EFT enhances math scores
- Praise for EFT from a Buddhist Monk
- EFT calms an autistic boy in school
- Cognitive Shifts (Belief Changes) That Work
- Teresa Knezek treats her own Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) -- including a 3 year followup
- EFT: The Gift to Unwrap and Use before the Holidays!
- Raising your metabolism with EFT
- Another successful hiccoughs (hiccups) case
- When EFT gives only temporary results
- Did EFT help relieve menopause symptoms?
- EFT for addressing what happened in your day -- use it daily for solid long term benefits
- EFT for economic stress -- using "I prefer peace"
- A Psychologist in India uses EFT for suicide intervention
- Demonstrating EFT to a mental health support team
- How to remember your dreams with EFT
- Being Specific
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EFT Speeds Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy: Irene Mitchell Update
Important Note: This article was written prior to 2010 and is now outdated. Please use my newest advancement, Optimal EFT. It is more efficient, more powerful and clearly explained in my free e-book, The Unseen Therapist™. Best wishes, Gary
Hi Everyone,
Here is an EFT story that is hard to beat. Irene Mitchell was in an accident and her leg was so badly injured that the doctors thought she would never walk again. She was subsequently introduced to EFT by CJ Puotinen and, together, these two ladies unfolded a series of events that included everything from Irene's ability to go dancing to improvement in her diabetes related blood sugar readings.
Hugs, Gary
Dear Gary,
Two years have passed since a truck crashed into Irene Mitchell’s car, shattering her left hip and femur. She lost more than half of her red blood cells and barely survived. After surgeons reassembled her leg with steel pins and rods, she was sent to Ramapo Manor Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Suffern, New York, for physical therapy. Doctors told her she would probably never walk again – but, thanks to EFT, she went home months ahead of schedule.
You published my first report about Irene and her EFT success a year and a half ago. I’ve stayed in touch with Irene and would like to bring you up to date on her adventures, both because it’s an inspiring story and because she demonstrates so well what one can do with EFT, perseverance, and a little imagination.
In her first EFT session, when she was trying to move her left leg, Irene tapped on her karate chop point while saying, “Even though my leg is stuck and won’t move... Even though I’m terrified of being stuck here the rest of my life because my leg won’t move... Even though my stuck leg is keeping me stuck in this wheelchair, and I’ll still be here when I’m a hundred years old, I love and forgive myself, I forgive anyone who had anything to do with my being here, and I choose to let all this restriction go and enjoy a strong left leg.”
She tapped three rounds of the EFT points using “stuck” as her reminder phrase, then replacing it with “release” That brought improvement, but her motion was still very restricted. When I asked what was interfering with her movement, she said it was the pain, so we tapped on the pain using similar setup phrases. Then when she tried lifting her left leg, it went past its original high position (a few inches off the floor) and kept going up, up, above her waist, over her shoulder, and over her head. At that moment, Irene realized that the doctors were wrong and that her body could heal itself from the inside out.
At first, Irene used EFT for pain control. She said that whenever she tapped, the pain stayed away for about 20 minutes. Then it would gradually come back, and after an hour or two, it would be sufficiently intense so that she would tap again. She used no pain medication.
The day after her introduction to EFT, Irene was given a quad cane and taught how to use it, but putting weight on her injured leg was so debilitating that she literally couldn’t move. She said, “I tapped on how much I hate the pain, the pain is terrible, the pain limits my ability to walk, I want the pain to go away. Then I did a totally positive statement about how I’m free from pain and I will walk with the cane. Then on the third round I alternated back and forth. The final thing I said was that even though I had this pain, which I put in the past tense, I truly and deeply love myself, and even if it comes back, I accept myself, forgive myself, and forgive anyone who had anything to do with this pain. I said that I want to release this pain and I will release this pain, I’m releasing it, it’s gone. Then I stood up and walked – not the way I’d been taught to use the quad cane, but swinging it like a regular cane and taking big, huge steps.”
It helped that Irene was totally focused. Nothing distracted her from concentrating on what she wanted and whatever prevented her from getting it. She has a lively imagination, and she used it to have meaningful conversations with herself. She let go of any expectations, kept her ego out of the way, and just let the energy flow. Irene is a devout Jehovah’s Witness, and when I first explained how EFT works, she had misgivings, but she decided to wait and see if it required her to do or think anything that conflicted with her religion. It didn’t, and Irene has volunteered to assist any EFT practitioners or clients who have questions about its compatibility with the Jehovah’s Witness philosophy. It also helped that she didn’t hold grudges. Irene completely forgave the truck’s driver and sincerely blessed everyone who had anything to do with her injury and recovery. Last, once she got the hang of EFT, she used it all the time, as often as a hundred times a day.
“At first,” she says, “I considered EFT my private business. I did it in my room, and I didn’t mention it to my doctors or the staff. But after that first awful session with the quad cane, where my body shook and vibrated with pain and my clothes were wet with sweat, I didn’t care who saw me tapping. It was definitely worth a try. And when the pain completely disappeared and I was able to take those amazing giant steps, I never looked back. I tapped all the time.”
Unlike most patients with her type of injury, Irene spent only two weeks with the quad cane before she was given a regular walking cane for assistance. She had been fitted with orthopedic sandals, as her left leg was now substantially shorter than her right. Irene is generously proportioned, so the combination of her new walking shoes, her weight, and the cane put stress on her arm.
A week after she got her cane, I visited Irene and was startled to find her looking sad and depressed. She held out her arms, one straight, the other bent, and said, “Would you believe I was just diagnosed with tennis elbow? It’s from putting all my weight on the cane. I’ve been tapping and tapping and nothing’s changed. This elbow hurts so much that I can’t straighten my arm out, I can’t turn it over, I can’t use the cane, and I can’t do anything.”
Irene reviewed the setup phrases she’d been using, and they were as imaginative and thorough as usual, but they just weren’t working.
I said, “Let’s try something. Sometimes if another person taps on your karate chop point and the top of your head, it helps complete the energy circuit and gets things flowing again.” I’ve done this many times with my husband, Joel, who has congestive heart failure. Irene thought this was worth a try, so I stood beside her and with one hand tapped on her left hand’s karate chop point while the other hand tapped the top of her head. As I tapped, Irene did her setup phrase, talking to her cane and her elbow. I continued tapping her karate chop point and the top of her head while she used her right hand to tap three quick rounds of the EFT points on her face and torso
The whole thing took less than a minute. Then she reached straight ahead with both arms, elbows straight, and turned her hands upside down, right side up, and upside down again. “Isn’t that the darndest thing?” she exclaimed with a grin on her face. “It always surprises me.”
Once Irene got rid of her tennis elbow, she was walking everywhere. I knew what was coming next. She would soon want to dance.
My husband and I practice ballroom dancing at Ramapo Manor once a week, and Irene never missed a session. I knew that one of her daydreams was to dance with Joel, and from time to time he would ask if she was ready. She would always smile and tap and say, “Not quite yet.” But one night her tapping seemed a little more energetic and focused, so when a rumba started to play, Joel held out his hand and Irene stood up. For the next three minutes, Irene and her cane danced the rumba. The news quickly spread, and soon a dozen staff members had gathered to watch. Several were crying. It was sooo exciting! This woman who wasn’t supposed to walk again was doing underarm turns!
Irene’s next challenge was to walk hands-free, without her cane. She was able to take three or four steps as long as she had something to grab onto, like a chair or table, but it was a struggle. It also annoyed her that her gait was uneven – she lurched and felt awkward. When I stopped by to visit, Irene was sitting at a large round table looking dejected. If we had been sitting side by side, I would have tried tapping on her head and hand again, but we were on opposite sides of the table. So I asked her to describe everything she experienced while walking without a cane, and that led to a fresh perspective.
We said together while tapping our karate chop points, “Even though I’m just not able to do this, even though I can’t walk without holding onto something, even though I’m afraid of falling, my depth perception is all off, everything looks unfamiliar and strange, even though my left leg is shorter than my right and I’m wearing these orthopedic sandals that feel weird, even though I’ve gotten used to walking with a cane and now I have to balance my weight entirely differently, even though the whole thing makes me dizzy and the room starts to spin, and even though I’m afraid, truly afraid, that I’ll never be able to walk without a cane, I fully and completely accept myself, I love and forgive myself, I forgive the cane for not being here to support me, I forgive my leg for being so messed up, I forgive my physical therapist for pushing me to do this, I forgive myself for not feeling ready, and I choose to set all that aside, I choose to be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to let go of the fear and hand this whole problem over to my brilliant mind. My brilliant mind is constantly gathering information through my nerves and muscles, through my foot’s contact with the floor, through my eyes and ears, through everything that affects my balance and coordination, and it’s processing that information better than any supercomputer on the planet. It’s making infinitesimal adjustments, and information is going back and forth from the floor to my brain through my perfectly functioning nerves, keeping my energy flowing and balanced, telling my muscles exactly what to do, so that I gracefully and effortlessly glide across the floor, and I enjoy walking fearlessly without a cane.”
Irene did three quick rounds of tapping, using a different reminder phrase at each tapping point, starting with problem reminder phrases (can’t walk, no cane, no help, I’m afraid, dizzy, room spins, no support, worried, fall down, hurt myself) and ending with solution phrases (walking is easy, I feel terrific, pain-free, coordinated, energetic, graceful, going places, gliding, smooth, effortless, wonderful).
Then she stood up and – you guessed it – walked smoothly across the room. Her physical therapist came into the activity room just then and stood with his mouth open, not believing what he saw. She smiled, waved, and glided past him.
Irene’s recovery was expected to be slow not only because of her age (54) and the seriousness of her injuries but because she had just been diagnosed with diabetes, an illness that tends to delay the healing of broken bones. The staff tested her blood sugar five times a day to adjust her insulin, and she was on a restricted diet.
Then one night someone had a birthday party. Irene still hasn’t told me exactly what she ate, but it had something to do with cake, ice cream, chocolate, and more chocolate.
“I was so worried,” she says, “I couldn’t believe what I’d done. I knew that first thing in the morning they’d draw my blood, stare at the monitor, frown, scowl, and give me a lecture. I knew what was coming because it had happened before when I’d had a tiny piece of cake or a cookie or something. This was a lot more serious. I just didn’t want to think about it. Then I remembered you telling me that EFT can balance blood sugar, so I tapped and tapped on how I can’t believe I ate all those things, my blood sugar is probably spiking off the charts, I’m definitely going to get a lecture, but I love and forgive myself, I forgive the birthday party and everything I ate, I forgive my pancreas for being in a state, I bless and love my body and EFT, and I choose to be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to let my body repair itself and bring my blood sugar back into balance, tap tap tap tap tap.
“Sure enough,” she continues, “when they drew my blood, they stopped and frowned, double-checked the results, and frowned again. Uh-oh, I was in trouble for sure. Just as I was opening my mouth to confess, they said, ‘This is very strange. Your blood sugar is 40 points below where it usually is.’”
Irene didn’t mind receiving insulin injections – she just closed her eyes – but shortly before her discharge date, one of the nurses said, “OK, it’s time to learn how to do this yourself.”
Irene nearly fainted. She felt weak and shaky. She was deathly afraid of needles, and she said, “I can’t. It’s impossible.”
“Well, none of us are going to come to your house to do it for you,” the nurse replied.
Irene went through a serious bout of anxiety before she remembered to tap. “It took less than a minute,” she said. “I tapped on how the needles were keeping me healthy and saving my life. The needles were my friends. And when the nurse gave me my next lesson, I just followed her instructions and gave myself the shot. I couldn’t believe how easy it was. I kept asking myself, ‘OK, what was the big deal?’”
One morning at breakfast, Irene felt an excruciating pain behind her eye. She described her symptoms to the friend sitting next to her, and her friend asked, “Did you tap on it?”
It hadn’t occurred to her, but she wasted no time getting started. “I had gotten so used t getting fast, almost instant results, “ Irene says, “that getting rid of this headache seemed to take forever. I must have tapped for 5 or 10 minutes. Finally the pain disappeared. But 10 minutes after that, the oddest thing happened. I felt this whoosh of water. I grabbed a napkin and held it to my ear, and it was soaking wet. Suddenly I realized what must have happened. The night before, I had washed my hair in a sink with one of those hand hoses, and I must have gotten water in my ear, where it stayed until the tapping released it.”
When she left Ramapo Manor months ahead of schedule, Irene stayed with one of her daughters in New York. Helping her daughter and taking care of her grandchildren took up most of her time, but Irene found a ballroom dance class and started lessons. She discovered that out in the real world, she needed her cane and occasionally her wheelchair, and she didn’t have as much time for uninterrupted tapping as before. But she had no trouble traveling and soon resumed her busy life, spending half the year at her home in California and the other half with her daughter in New York with visits to family members in Texas and other places in between.
In September of last year, I taught a Level 2 EFT workshop in New York that Irene wasn’t able to attend, so she sent an email. She wrote, “I know that many are interested in how I am doing, particularly the kind folks I have met at previous workshops. If you like, you can read this update to them and be sure to send them my best wishes. Here is what has been going on with me.
“In March, my daughter invited me to go on a cruise with her. She said that I had to lose at least ten pounds, though, as one gains a lot of weight on a week-long cruise. I had never practiced EFT for weight loss before, I was just resistant to it for some reason. I think that’s because it isn’t as dramatic as the effect as on my leg. I decided to try it, though. I kept at it and tapped every time I wanted to eat things I shouldn't. Sometimes I had to tap for the desire to tap. "Even though I don't want to tap about this weight problem because I really want to eat what I want..... ' After two months of tapping all the time and following a balanced diet, I dropped 25 pounds!! I have NEVER had such a dramatic weight loss, ever!! Aside from the weight loss, there were unexpected benefits. Naturally, I could get around better. I had less pain in my leg (which makes sense when you are lugging around less weight) and navigating in the shower was a lot easier. The best, though, was the fact that my sugar readings went so low that I had to go from 25 units of insulin each night to only 5! My doctor is thrilled! So am I!
“I went on the cruise and gained 9 pounds, but that was expected and I am back on track. My leg is doing OK. I still tap on it when it hurts a lot. I particularly have problems with sitting on surfaces other than my bed or my wheelchair. If I sit on a chair in a restaurant, I have a great deal of trouble getting up. It hurts and my leg gets very stiff. No problem, tap tap tap and I get right up! My brother-in-law can't get over it. Neither can I ...you know, I still don't believe it! By the way, I am doing so well with my leg that while on the cruise, I went parasailing!! What a thrill!! And they didn’t think I would ever walk again!! Well they didn't say anything about parasailing or dancing.
“This year while in California, I was in a dance recital doing a VERY FAST jazz type dance...cane and all. Also I took and continue to take ballroom dance classes twice a week. I am getting pretty good, too, if I may say so myself. Watch out Joel, I am going to have you spin me around the floor!
“Another interesting thing happened last spring. My next door neighbor had her house painted and I got violently ill. I was actually crying out in a very loud panicky way for hours. My sister stayed with me overnight, threatening to take me to the hospital. I couldn't stay out of the bathroom for more than 10 minutes at a time. I did not want to go to the local hospital. Finally, one of us got the idea for me to tap. Before I could finish the first round, my sister said she could see that I was starting to calm down. The pain was so intense, I couldn't believe it! I was yelling in a very loud voice, ‘Even though I have this severe pain in my intestines,....’ After 40 minutes of constant tapping (which felt like forever – you know how spoiled I am with the magic results on my leg) I actually got the pain down to a dull roar. I went to bed and was able to get some sleep. When I woke up, the pain was not so bad and I tapped again and again and I then fell asleep and got a good sleep. The next day, I had pain when I ate or drank anything so I tapped when I ate and drank. Thanks to tapping, I had a complete recovery and didn't have to go to the hospital.
“Now for my final EFT story. As you may remember, my cat Fuffa (the joy of my life) has a condition known as interstitial cystitis. This is due to a birth defect in his bladder that results in bouts of running to the litter box and bearing down in pain. I have to take him to the vet for expensive steroid shots and sometimes antibiotics. Last September, a year ago, I went to your EFT for Pets seminar and learned how to tap on and for him. He used to have at least five or six bouts of this every year, particularly when he would have allergy symptoms or the stress of the cross-country plane ride twice a year. Two months after the workshop, he had another bout of it. I tapped and tapped on him. His symptoms seemed less intense than usual and he recovered faster than usual. Now I tap on him a lot even when he is fine. I particularly tap when he seems stressed or has allergy symptoms. I also tap before we travel. I am happy to report that Fuffa has not had one single bout of this problem since that last one a year ago. This is unheard of for him and we are both so very happy.”
Six months have passed since Irene sent that report, so yesterday I called her for an update. Not only is Fuffa thriving, but Irene attributes a change in his behavior to his EFT tapping. From the time he was a kitten, Fuffa has hated to be groomed and would always fight to avoid being brushed. Now whenever Irene holds a brush at his grooming table, he jumps up purring and never wants the brushing to stop. “It has to be the EFT,” says Irene, “because that’s the only thing in his life that’s different. I never tapped on this grooming issue, it just happened.”
Irene is thriving, too. In fact, on Sunday, May 21, Irene will one of a group of nine dancers from Cat Orlando’s “On Your Feet Dance Productions” performing at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. “We’ll be dancing a jazzy cha cha,” she says, “and I’ll be the dancer in the middle.”
Does Irene have any final advice for people interested in EFT?
“The one thing I can tell you,” she says, “is that it doesn’t matter whether you believe in EFT or not, it will still work. I feel guilty admitting that I still can't believe it myself! Every time I start to tap and the results are great, I still get pleasantly surprised and say, ‘Isn't that the darndest thing!’ But facts are facts and one can't deny reality. So to all you believers and all you non-believers, I say: Keep tapping and tapping and tapping. Don't give up. It is well worth your efforts.”
On behalf of Irene Mitchell,
Sincerely,
CJ Puotinen, EFT-ADV
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