San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) — Stanford Engineer Gary Craig introduces a new approach to help turn the epidemic tide of childhood obesity. While many blame this problem solely on fast food and a lack of exercise, Craig maintains that there are also important emotional and anxiety factors that propel children (and adults) toward overeating.

Craig’s solution is a self-help procedure called EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), which combines fingertip tapping of key acupuncture points with focused thought. This simple procedure has helped thousands to quell the cravings that cause them to raid the refrigerator when they aren’t even hungry.

“In EFT workshops around the world,” says Craig, “people are amazed when their out-of-control cravings disappear after a minute of tapping. It has nothing to do with will power. It’s all a matter of energy.”

The energy Craig refers to is qi or chi, which flows through the body along paths called meridians, mapped thousands of years ago by Chinese physicians. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, disruptions of qi can trigger overeating, unhealthy food choices, and physical inactivity.

EFT stimulates these meridians so that the disruptions subside. The result is a lessening of the anxiety states in many children and, accordingly, a lowered need to tranquilize those states by overeating.

Researchers using World Health Organization data announced this week that if trends continue, half of America’s children will be overweight in less than five years. Public health officials predict that increased heart disease and diabetes will lower this generation’s life expectancy and overwhelm the public health-care system.

“This is truly a preventable tragedy,” says Craig. “EFT is a new technique, but it already has a phenomenal track record in helping people lose weight, get in shape, stay active, and improve their overall health. It actually neutralizes emotional factors that trigger overeating, and it’s easy for kids of all ages to learn and use.”

Hundreds of reports and case studies from EFT practitioners, including licensed health care professionals, testify to the procedure’s effectiveness. Craig’s EFT Manual provides the basics for free and has been translated by volunteer practitioners into nine languages. His EFT website is the sixth most actively visited natural health site in the world.

The EFT Manual can be freely downloaded at http://eft.gocmw.com/free-eft-ebook-download/

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New Asthma Treatment Provides Impressive Relief Without Drugs

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) — Stanford Engineer Gary Craig introduces a new “acupuncture without needles” process that has generated impressive success for Asthma.

EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) was originally designed by Craig for emotional issues. However, it was soon discovered that many asthmatics, while using it for their emotional problems, simultaneously experienced improvements in their asthma symptoms. For some, their asthma cleared up completely.

“This is striking evidence that Asthma has emotional causes,” says Craig, “and we may have hit upon an important factor that I would urge the medical profession to explore.”

This is not just Craig’s opinion as many other health professionals are discovering an even wider use of EFT for physical issues. Southern California Urologist Eric Robins MD says, “Some day the medical profession will wake up and realize that unresolved emotional issues are the main cause of 85% of all illnesses. When they do, EFT will be one of their primary healing tools …. as it is for me.”

EFT is modeled after acupuncture but doesn’t use needles. Instead, one simply stimulates certain meridian points by tapping on them with their fingertips. Properly done, both emotional and physical issues often subside in moments.

EFT does not require years of training, and it can be performed anywhere by anyone. Even children use EFT to stop asthma symptoms as soon as they begin. Anyone who knows the procedure can demonstrate it to someone in the early stages of an asthma attack, or they can tap directly on someone who is incapacitated. It should not be used, however, in lieu of proper medical advice.

In one case, Ed Leshin, DC, LAc, was visited by a woman three hours after she used her asthma inhaler. Despite the medication, she was wheezing, pale, and sweating, her lungs were congested, and she was close to needing hospital emergency room care.

Dr. Leshin showed her how to do EFT, and after several rounds of tapping (each taking less than a minute), her wheezing disappeared and she did not need emergency room treatment.

“I am continually amazed at how well EFT works,” says Dr. Leshin.

Over 225,000 people have downloaded Craig’s free EFT training manual from the official EFT website. It provides all the basics so anyone can begin using it immediately. It can be freely downloaded at… http://eft.gocmw.com/eft-manual.html

March 27th 2006 Posted to EFT Articles

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Psychotherapy Dramatically Improved By New ‘Acupuncture Without Needles’ Technique

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) — Stanford Engineer Gary Craig brings a new Acupuncture finding to the psychotherapy field. It is called EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and is based on the discovery that the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s “subtle energies.”

The entire body of Chinese Medicine is centered around these minute energy flows but, until recently, their use for emotional issues has gone unnoticed. “Conventional psychotherapy takes a long time to do very little,” says Craig, “and that’s because psychologists have been looking in the wrong place for centuries.”

According to Craig’s findings, traumatic memories from the past cause a ’short circuit’ in the free flow of the body’s Chi (energy) and that is what causes current forms of anxiety, nervousness, depression, headaches, phobic responses and the like. “Once you realize this,” maintains Craig, “psychotherapy becomes easy.”

EFT repairs this short circuit by stimulating precise meridian points via tapping on them with the fingertips. This simple process can be learned and applied by anyone.

“I believe that acupuncture and EFT work well together,” says Tashi Rabten, ND, LAc. At the Lhasa University School of Traditional Medicine in Tibet, where he received advanced degrees in medicine and acupuncture, Dr. Rabten attended over 4,000 hours of acupuncture classes and clinics. He is president of the International Tibetan Medical Association.

“It takes years of practice to become an expert acupuncturist,” he says, “but with EFT you can learn to tap on key points in just a few minutes with no experience or training. Acupuncture is still the best way to treat specific health problems because it works deeply and precisely, but EFT is an excellent support therapy, and it helps bring lasting results by removing the emotional causes of many illnesses.”

Dr. Rabten has witnessed the physiological changes EFT can produce first-hand. In one case, he held the wrist of a congestive heart failure patient to monitor his pulse, which was fast, weak, and erratic. Dr. Rabten asked the patient’s wife to tap EFT points on her husband’s face and torso, and within 20 seconds, the patient’s pulse slowed and became strong and steady.

Hundreds of reports and case studies from EFT practitioners, including licensed acupuncturists and health care professionals, testify to the procedure’s versatility. All of the conditions treated by conventional acupuncture are represented, along with psychological issues like post-traumatic stress disorder, phobias, anxiety, and psychosomatic illnesses. Even reading comprehension problems and golf games improve as a result of tapping.

Craig’s EFT Manual provides all the basics for free and has been translated by volunteer practitioners into nine languages. His EFT website has risen from obscurity to the sixth most actively visited natural health site in the world.

The EFT Manual can be freely downloaded at http://eft.gocmw.com/eft-manual.html

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New Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Delivers Rapid, Long Lasting Results for Iraqi War Veterans–No Drugs Necessary

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) — Stanford engineer Gary Craig introduces EFT, a new “acupuncture without needles” technique for helping Iraqi War Veterans gain relief from their Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques and involves the stimulation of certain meridian points on the body by tapping on them with the fingertips. This stimulation has been clinically shown in thousands of cases to dramatically reduce, or completely eliminate, the sting of trauma.

“Conventional psychology has been looking in the wrong place for clues to the PTSD puzzle,” says Craig. “We have found repeatedly that the nightmares, sweats and intrusive memories of our war veterans occur because their war memories disrupt the proper flow of their bodies’ subtle energies.”

“Once these energies have been properly balanced,” maintains Craig, “the war veteran couldn’t get upset about the memory if s/he tried. This is also true for other emotional issues including phobias, grief, rape, depression and anger.”

Susan Hannibal is a San Diego therapist and consistent user of EFT who often feels frustrated with the military’s use of conventional and ineffective methods for PTSD. “One of the biggest problems facing our military today is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,” she says, “but no one in authority wants to break new ground and use the most effective treatment available.”

“Even when they don’t sustain physical injuries,” says Hannibal, “their lives can go into a tailspin. Traumatic memories are an underlying cause of health problems, social isolation, domestic violence, divorce, alcohol and drug abuse, and shattered families.”

Everyone agrees that conventional treatments do little to help. Psychiatric drugs can dull or numb PTSD symptoms, but drugs have side effects and do nothing to address the disorder’s underlying cause. Conventional talk therapy can even make the problem worse by reinforcing traumatic memories.

But Hannibal and other EFT practitioners worldwide routinely neutralize haunting memories - in soldiers, accident or abuse victims, and survivors of disasters - in record time. The simple EFT process often does its job in one or two sessions and, in some cases, has done it in minutes.

One of Hannibal’s clients is Navy Corpsman Wilbur Hurley. Just before leaving Iraq, he had to deal with a young Marine’s suicide. That event triggered memories of a murder-suicide Hurley witnessed as a child, and he began having vivid nightmares. Returning home, he isolated himself from friends and family and suffered debilitating anxiety attacks, flashbacks, auditory hallucinations, anger, and irritability.

Hurley’s symptoms disappeared when Hannibal taught him EFT. After his first session, which Hannibal videotaped, Hurley left her office singing. “It was pretty much the greatest day of my life,” he said. Even when he concentrated on the worst events he witnessed in Ramadi, he couldn’t find a single memory that bothered him.

Corpsman Hurley has remained free of PTSD symptoms since his three-session treatment in December 2004.

Results like these don’t surprise Gary Craig. In 1994, Craig and a colleague visited a Veterans Administration hospital in California, where they worked on-camera with six Vietnam War veterans.

“These men hadn’t had a moment’s peace in 20 years,” says Craig. “Their lives revolved around their terrifying memories.” But after just a few minutes of tapping, all of the men experienced profound release.

“Traumatic memories and phobias usually respond quickly to EFT,” he says, “and the results are often permanent. EFT not only prevents post-traumatic memories from causing problems, it successfully treats memories that are decades old.”

Despite the dramatic results achieved by patients at the VA hospital, says Craig, none of the staff were interested.

Today the Department of Veterans Affairs pays compensation for PTSD to nearly twice as many veterans as it did six years ago, at an annual cost of $4.3 billion. Most recent applicants are Vietnam War veterans.

“It would be wonderful if military chaplains, counselors, and psychologists learned EFT and taught it to everyone,” says Hannibal, “but it’s so different from what they’re used to that no one knows what to make of it.”

In addition, she says, there is still a bias against seeking help in all branches of the military. “It’s cultural conditioning,” she says. “It’s unfortunate.”

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