EFT Emotional Freedom Technique

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) — For some people, road rage is more than just bad behavior; it’s a psychiatric condition, according to researchers from Harvard Medical School and Chicago University. If someone has more than three explosive outbursts in their lifetime, threatening physical harm or causing damage to property, they may be diagnosed with Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED).

But there are alternatives to using prescription drugs like antidepressants or mood stabilizers, to combat road rage. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a do-it-yourself acupressure technique used by many to calm themselves in traffic and avert angry, destructive outbursts. It involves fingertip tapping on select acupressure points while focusing on the disturbance in question. This adaptation of acupressure claims an 80% success rate in calming the body and mind’s anger response. It can be learned by downloading the free EFT Manual at http://eft.gocmw.com/eft-manual.html

Seth Joyner, former Arizona Cardinals linebacker and three time Pro-Bowler, learned EFT to enhance his sports performance but uses it regularly in daily life. When using EFT as a stress reliever he found it helped him control road rage. Says Joyner, “Anger management really has more to do with your reaction to a situation than what someone else does.” He no longer gets angry when someone cuts him off in traffic; instead he taps.

“You naturally get upset when that happens, but now I start tapping right away,” he said. “It calms you right away and makes you realize you’re in control of your emotions, of how you act and react in certain situations.”

Road rage is a term used to describe drivers’ behaviors when they lose their temper in traffic. They may yell at other drivers, speed, tailgate and maneuver their vehicle dangerously. Not every road rager becomes violent, or has IED, but most drivers have experienced anger and impatience when driving in congested traffic.

Drivers who do EFT while they are stuck in traffic consistently report that their impatience and anger fades, and they find themselves calmly thinking of other things.

While medical research justifies medicating angry people, little is being done to address anger problems at their root. EFT is a notable exception. According to the EFT theory, unresolved negative emotions, trauma and a severely disrupted energy meridian system (or chi) is at the root of this intense anger. This simple acupressure technique quickly brings the energy meridians into balance, neutralizes negative emotions and calms explosive behavior. With a little practice, EFT can be safely administered while driving, making it a useful road rage antidote.

“We don’t claim that EFT is a cure-all, but when used correctly, we do get an 80% success rate, even with rage issues,” says Gary Craig, the EFT Founder. “There are no known side-effects with EFT and angry people are able to find true peace, rather than a simple tranquilizing of their emotions. I believe that, left unchecked, these unresolved emotions will manifest into illness”.

The American Heart Association links heart disease with anger in several medical studies. In fact people with high anger scores are three times more likely to suffer a heart attack than people with low anger scores. What is particularly disturbing is that excessive anger proved to be more of a heart health risk than common risk factors of smoking, obesity or diabetes.

Although most Americans have yet to hear of it, EFT may be the world’s fastest-growing self-help technique. Over 300,000 have downloaded Craig’s free training manual and another 10,000 download it each month. The official EFT Manual has been translated by volunteer practitioners into nine languages.

The EFT Manual explains the basics so that anyone can begin applying EFT right away. It can be freely downloaded at
http://eft.gocmw.com/eft-manual.html

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) — Improved vision is a possibility for the 11 million Americans with uncorrected visual impairments. Dr. Carol Look, Master Practitioner of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), conducted an experiment to determine whether or not EFT could help improve vision. The results were remarkable; of the 120 EFT users who completed the experiment, 75 percent reported a significant improvement in their vision, with many no longer needing to use reading glasses. This innovative acupressure technique can be learned freely by downloading the EFT Manual at http://eft.gocmw.com/eft-manual.html

A National Institute of Health (NIH) survey indicates that 14 million Americans are visually impaired and of those, 11 million people do not use vision correction. Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, director of the NIH stated that “uncorrected visual impairment is a major public health problem.” The NIH recommendation is for health professionals to increase awareness of the importance of eye health and that people undergo routine eye exams.

Gary Craig, the Stanford-trained engineer who developed EFT, explains, “Conventional medicine has yet to fully explore the relationship between deteriorating vision and unresolved emotional issues. EFT has been at the forefront of this viewpoint since 1997 when we started receiving reports from people who used EFT to resolve emotional issues only to find their vision had improved. This innovative approach is an emotional version of acupuncture, except that needles aren’t necessary. Instead, key meridian points are stimulated by tapping on them with the fingertips.”

Craig continues, “Dr. Look’s EFT experiment served to validate what our case studies have been showing for years. When people using EFT address emotional issues like fear, anger, grief and guilt, many physical symptoms fade, including poor vision”.

In her experiment, Dr. Look directed 120 people to use EFT daily for 8 weeks. Each week, participants received an email with an emotional topic for the next seven days of EFT. Participants spent about five minutes per day doing EFT for a specific emotional issue like anger, fear, guilt, and hurt. Anyone can do EFT by simply tapping on a series of acupuncture points while focusing thought on the emotional issue.

As Cheri, a 55 year old woman, addressed the emotional issues outlined in the EFT experiment, she neutralized many unresolved feelings regarding her mother. As she did so, her vision improved in several categories defined in the experiment. Her perception of brightness improved, as did her color perception and contrast. Her farsighted vision also improved considerably. In Cheri’s words, “It has been many years since I’ve been able to see clearly the trees and their foliage or to determine if the rattle was a squirrel or a bird.”

Prior to the experiment, Cheri wore glasses for reading 95% of the time but now no longer uses reading glasses at all. “This is a dramatic finding for people who are conditioned to believe that as they age, they will need glasses to read,” says Craig.

An appointment with her eye doctor verified Cheri’s improvements. Compared to her appointment two years previous, she could read two more lines on the eye chart. She had been diagnosed with “vertical muscle imbalance” and “mild map dot dystrophy.” Although he could not explain it, the doctor’s tests showed that neither condition existed any longer.

Cheri’s doctor was very interested in and supportive of using EFT to improve her eyesight. He indicated that, “emotions play a strong part in the flow of blood to the retina, as well as to different parts of the brain, so increased blood flow (as a result of EFT) to both the retina and the brain would be reflected in the sharpened clarity.”

In an interview with Dr. Look, Cheri reported that in addition to the vision improvement, her ability to set boundaries with her family and to voice her concerns with her mother also improved. Two months later, Cheri writes “my vision shifts with my emotion but for the most part holds nicely. My communication skills within my family continue to improve. Clarity from afar continues to hold strong…”

Dr. Look noted that more participants reported vision improvement after working through the emotion of anger, than any other emotion. Overall, more than half the participants reported that their nearsightedness had improved, and 42% indicated that their farsightedness had improved.

Says Craig, “We recognize the limitations of this experiment and are not suggesting that it is a pristine scientific study. However, the results go far beyond the possibility of coincidence. I would encourage the 11 million Americans with faulty, uncorrected vision to see what kind of improvement they can achieve by using EFT for just five minutes per day.”

Over 300,000 have downloaded Craig’s free training manual and another 10,000 download it each month. The official EFT Manual has been translated by volunteer practitioners into nine languages.

The EFT Manual explains the basics so that anyone can begin applying EFT right away. It can be freely downloaded at http://eft.gocmw.com/eft-manual.html

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) Thirty-two million Americans suffer from chronic insomnia and sleep deprivation. Their search for sleep has made prescription drugs, special mattresses, aromatherapy products, herbs, nutritional supplements, and other strategies popular — but for most, a good night’s sleep followed by an alert, productive day remains elusive.

Now a simple acupressure technique called EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is relieving insomnia without drugs or special equipment by addressing its underlying cause. The process can be learned free by downloading the EFT Manual at http://eft.gocmw.com/eft-manual.html

“All of the discoveries of modern physics, from Einstein on, support the ancient theory that a universal energy flows through everything in nature,” says Gary Craig, the Stanford-trained engineer who developed EFT. “This energy, called Qi or Chi, flows through the body along paths called meridians. Anything that stimulates points along these meridians helps the energy flow freely. Acupuncture uses needles, acupressure uses massage, and EFT uses fingertip tapping. By combining the tapping with focused thought, you can release energy blocks that interfere with a good night’s sleep. In countless clinical cases, EFT has helped people fall asleep and stay asleep, even in times of stress and adversity.”

A growing number of health care practitioners agree. “Most doctors treat insomnia with drugs,” says Los Angeles physician Eric Robins, MD. “I’m convinced that more than 80 or 85 percent of our illnesses, including insomnia and other sleep problems, result from how we store and process stress. Stress contributes not only to insomnia but to back pain, arthritis, bladder infections, and susceptibility to colds and flu.”

Dr. Robins encourages insomnia patients to tap on their meridians while thinking about their sleepless nights. “The best advice I can give,” he says, “is to go beyond the medical diagnosis and ask what stresses, traumas, and issues might be interfering with their ability to fall asleep and stay asleep. By combining these insights with tapping, they can neutralize emotional issues, release stress, relieve physical symptoms, and get a good night’s sleep.”

Nearly 60 percent of America’s adults report trouble sleeping at some time in their lives. Chronic sleep disruption can affect learning skills, memory, stamina, health, and safety – and it’s the single most important trigger for depression. Insomnia goes hand in hand with irritability, headaches, and muscle pain. Job injury rates increase 400 percent in sleep-deprived workers, and 16 percent of absenteeism at work can be linked to insomnia. Sleep deprivation contributes to automobile accidents, household accidents, and a compromised immune system.

Thanks to EFT tapping, people of all ages, including children and the elderly, can fall asleep more easily, sleep more soundly, and stay asleep longer. In some cases relief is instantaneous, while in others it comes after repeated treatments. Craig, who has collected reports from EFT practitioners for over a decade, estimates that between 70 and 80 percent of those who try EFT for insomnia experience significant improvement.

EFT has become known as a Universal Healing Aid because it provides relief not only for insomnia but also for trauma, phobias, grief, anger, depression and pain management.

Because it’s new, EFT is not yet familiar to most doctors and patients, but word is spreading. Over 300,000 have downloaded Craig’s free training manual, which provides all the information needed to try this do-it-yourself technique, from
http://eft.gocmw.com/eft-manual.html

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) — According to University of Michigan researchers, do-it-yourself acupressure can keep students awake in class without caffeine or high-sugar snacks. Their results, reported in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, agree with what acupuncturists have been saying for millennia – that stimulating key acupuncture points improves the body’s flow of energy for optimum health.

But the student alertness study used only physical stimulation. Students tapped on the tops of their heads and on their legs, feet, and hands for several minutes at a time. Practitioners of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), which combines acupressure tapping with focused thought, report significant results for not only mental alertness but relief from pain, stress, anxiety, phobias, and other problems. Anyone can learn EFT by downloading the free EFT Manual at http://eft.gocmw.com/eft-manual.html.

“It’s always good to see modern science examine ancient healing techniques like acupuncture or acupressure,” says Los Angeles physician Eric Robins, MD, “because these techniques do work. But when you add intention or focused thought, they work even better.”

Dr. Robins, a urologist, teaches EFT to patients who suffer from chronic infections and other problems that don’t respond to conventional treatment. “Western medicine ignores the mind-body connection,” he explains, “but our emotions are at the root of almost every illness. Past traumas can be stored in the body, and if you don’t have a way to release them, they can cause all kinds of symptoms.”

Dr. Robins’ patients respond so well to EFT, which he teaches them in five to ten minutes, that in some cases their scheduled surgery gets cancelled or they no longer need medication.

EFT’s basic premise is that the underlying cause of every negative emotion and almost every physical symptom is a disruption of the body’s energy flow along the same meridians that were mapped over 4,000 years ago by Chinese physicians.

“Acupuncturists use needles to stimulate key points along the meridians,” says EFT’s founder, Gary Craig, “but in EFT, we tap on these points. Tapping requires less precision, so it’s easy for almost anyone, including children, to get good results.”

Craig, a Stanford-trained engineer, has collected thousands of reports from EFT practitioners around the world. In most cases, he says, people using it for the first time for pain, impaired range of motion, stress, phobias, physical symptoms, test anxiety, sports performance problems, or other conditions report significant improvement.

“EFT is one of my favorite healing tools,” says Dr. Robins. “It’s the perfect complement to conventional medicine, and I strongly recommend it for everyone.”

Complete instructions are provided in the free EFT Manual, which over 300,000 have downloaded from the EFT website. Another 10,000 download it each month. The manual, which has been translated by volunteer practitioners into nine languages, explains everything one needs to know in order to try EFT. It can be freely downloaded at http://eft.gocmw.com/eft-manual.html

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