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Emotional Freedom Technique

A while back I remember surfing on YouTube and finding Maria Andros, Video Marketing Queen. As I was watching her refreshingly wonderful videos, some about marketing, some about life itself, I saw one on the topic of getting rid of migraine headaches. I don’t get migraines but I do live with the pain of endometriosis so for the heck of it, I clicked. Now I have to admit here, like probably many others, I watched it thinking “ummmmmm alrighty then”, as I observed her tap different parts of her face, eyes, chin, and so on as she chanted something to the effect “Even though I have a migraine headache, I still deeply and completely love and accept myself.” Okay so this was EFT and I admit I thought “yeah Emotional FREAKY Technique” and left it at that and went on to watch the rest of her highly informative and inspiring videos.

Hypnosis had not yet come into my life at this time. It wasn’t until I enrolled as a student of HMI that I stumbled across EFT again, this time in the form of a Certification program by the AHA. Hypnosis has since taught me that while some of my belief systems are firmly in place, that doesn’t mean I have to immediately discount something if  it doesn’t immediately make sense. I suddenly started seeing EFT everywhere. I made a mental note that at some point maybe I’d look further into it. It wasn’t until one in particular awful night of pain and a relationship issue that I remembered EFT and wondered “can this weird tapping really  help me?” I signed up for the certification program on the spot and spent the next few days studying, learning and passed my exam with 100%.

The next night, my pain continued, as did my then breaking heart. It occurred to me “Could it be true that my physical pain is being made worse by my current emotions?” Endometriosis is so painful that you’ll try just about anything, so if all I had to do was tap, chant, tap, chant, roll my eyes, hum if necessary, count me in! At that point I’d gladly make a fool of myself in exchange for some relief! Being my first time and going by memory of what I’d learned, I barely knew what I was doing and to be deeply honest, I was in tears as I performed this odd technique on myself. I even tapped for the notion of “I don’t believe this is going to work, but I still deeply and completely love and accept myself.” I used the more advanced Gamet Procedure, not sure if I was doing any of it right. I started to say to myself “it’s not working … it’s NOT working .. I still feel …………………… (pause) … wait … um … I don’t feel anything.” I couldn’t believe it. As if out of nowhere, my physical pain was down to a 2 and my emotional heartache was just numb. I tried to conjure up my hurt. I tried to think about the person in question. I felt … nothing negative anymore. I felt calm, I felt relaxed and like I wanted to crawl into bed and have the most wonderful night’s sleep I could imagine. And I did!

Now in all honesty, it’s not worked 100%  for me every single time since that I’ve tried it but I have a sneaking hunch there were a few affirmations and issues I was leaving out. That night was enough proof for me. Some may say it’s a placebo. My answer is, and that would be a bad thing, HOW? However, I believe in this science. There’s too much astounding proof of the effectiveness of EFT that one would have to be very close minded and just not want to believe it, to not.

It’s my intention to work EFT into my hypnotherapy practice, a great way to prep the client and rid their bodies of negative energies prior to the actual hypnosis session, therefore rendering the hypnotic suggestions even more effective than they already are.

So, YES it looks silly. It even feels silly, but if silly works? You’d have to be silly to not at least give it a chance.

The official EFT Introduction Video, by creator and founder Gary Craig.
Thanks Gary for your wonderful gift to the world.

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