The Role of EFT in Health Care

We all have wants and desires. We want to be rich or thin of both. We want to be healthy. We may even make goals or resolutions. Yet rarely do we take action, and even more rarely to we sustain action. We know we should eat better, lose weight, exercise more, but day after day we do what we've always done and we get more tired, gain more weight, and feel worse. We blame it on getting old, but deep down we know that we are causing our own pain.

Yet we eat the same comfort foods and make the excuses that we don't have time to take 20 minutes a day to exercise. We are creatures of habit and we are naturally resistant to change.

Moreover, we have fears that talk us out of trying. If we don't try, we can't fail. For some of us, our shame is so ingrained that we can't imagine, strike that, we won't allow ourselves to imagine, what it would be like to be thin, rich, and healthy.

Some of us have become addicted to foods: sugar, salt, chips, fried foods. They are our "comfort" foods. We use them to ease our fear, forget our shame, swallow our sadness. But they only allow us to stuff our emotions, and then we need to eat again.

What EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique can do is help release the emotions that get in the way of our goals. If we eat to forget our shame, EFT can be used to release that shame so that only the habit remains. Furthermore, EFT can also be used to release the craving for the food to which we are addicted. ( See my eBook, The EFT Quick Start Method.) EFT is based on the idea that all negative emotions are stored our bio-field and that by tapping on certain points on the body, the energy will be straightened our and the emotion will no longer exist. Think of two copper wires placed near each other so that a spark leaps from wire to wire. If the wires are moved a little bit apart, there is no longer a spark. Nothing was actually done to the spark, but it simply no longer has a path to take. EFT does the same thing with emotions.

We know that emotions effect our health. For instance we know that anger affects our liver, gall bladder and thyroid. We have expressions: "Full of bile." "That really galls me." "That really sticks in my craw." Likewise, sadness affects our pancreas, forgiveness issues affect our kidneys, fear affects our adrenal glands, and holding on affects our intestines.

Since we can use EFT to release these stored emotions, we can take the energy out of the dis-ease process.

So we have discussed two ways that EFT is used in health care:

• To help break through the habits that are sending our health in a downward spiral.
• To release the underlying emotions that are fueling the disease process.