EFT and Me

If you happen to see me driving to work in the morning, you might notice something that looks strange. You'd likely see me using my fingers and tapping on various points on my face, talking aloud to myself. Odd looking? To be sure, but I've long gotten over worrying about what other people might be thinking of me. So just what am I up to? I'm tapping! I'm doing EFT. I'm preparing myself to have the most wonderful day that I can. EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques, and it's like an emotional form of acupuncture, without the needles. EFT is changing my life. Let me tell you how my path crossed with EFT, and why I am so glad that it did.

About a year and a half ago, I was experiencing some anxiety around some stuff that was going on in my life. It wasn't like I was experiencing a major disruption or anything, I just needed to adjust to some changes that were occuring in my life. I was feeling somewhat anxious and off course. One Saturday morning after a particularly awful night's sleep, I found myself at my computer browsing my usual health related sites, http://www.mercola.com/ being one of my favorites. Dr. Mercola often refers to EFT in his many writings, but I had never felt the pull to explore what EFT was in the past. Until this particular morning when I felt a curiosity to click on the EFT link. I found my way, to Gary Craig's infamous web site http://www.emofree.com/. For hours I explored, and read, and was fascinated by what I learned about this strange therapy called EFT. Gary generously offers his 87 page EFT manuel to everyone, so I decided to download my own copy, and withhold any judgment until I knew and experienced more...

It took about a week to read the entire manuel. I learned the Basic Recipe, and started practicing. And yes, I did feel absolutely foolish as I tapped and hummed and rolled my eyes, and counted, and tapped and said the phrases over and over. I wanted to get the technique down pat befor putting EFT to the test. Once I felt I had a grasp on how to do mechanical EFT, I decided to see if I could eliminate some of my own things that got in my way. As my family witnessed me enthusiastically tapping here and there, they just rolled their eyes and said the usual "there she goes again.....this time it's tapping, and please don't tap on us".

I went right for the big stuff, too. The big heavy baggage that I carried valiantly for many years. The huge resentments. The major guilts. The paralyzing fears. The big emotional gorillas that traveled with me in my circus for many moons. I figured, if EFT is really all that it cracked up to be, then I was going to experience somthing of major proportions. All alone in my bedroom, I started....."Even though I have this..........." And so it began. One by one, I pulled out the old story that kept my negative emotion alive. And I tapped on it until I would have a cognitive shift for the better. One by one, story after story, I opened the cage for those gorillas, and let them go free. The freedom was for me. I was in the course of an hour and a half, becoming emotionally free of my negative emotions!

And after that experience, I decided I wanted to learn everything I could about EFT. I would immerse myself by buying EFT books, and studying Gary's DVDs that he sold on his site. I was tapping on all sorts of things now, even physical things like headaches. It was such a fun and easy tool, I knew I was on to something great. And no one I knew had heard if it either. Eventually I found my way to various EFT related sites, Carol Look's being one of them. Carol Look (http://www.carollook.com/) is one of the EFT Masters, and is quite remarkable in her style and presentation. I also found my way to Bob Doyle's Wealth Beyond Reason site http://www.wealthbeyondreason.com/ . Bob Doyle, who was in the movie "The Secret" is a Law of Attraction expert, and I was learning a lot about The Law of Attraction by studying his course. I was finding that as my tapping continued and I stayed focused on what I wanted rather than focusing on what I didn't have, life was opening new avenues to me, and rather quickly.

A month or so later, I noted that Bob Doyle and Carol Look were teaming up in Atlanta in January to do a combined seminar limited to 50 people, called "EFT and The Law of Attraction". It was almost too weird, but since I was so immersed in both of those subjects, I knew I had to be one of those 50 people in Atlanta with Bob and Carol. So I went. I spent four days with 49 other people from all over the world, with Bob Doyle and Carol Look, learning both EFT and LOA with the experts. How fortunate I felt. It was a totally wonderful life altering experience for me. And it was there where I not only decided to really begin utilizing EFT for myself, but I set an intention that I would bring EFT to the world. There was no reason for me to not become an EFT Master someday.

As a psychiatric nurse, I see the emotional pain that people are in day after day. Talk therapy and mediction, while helpful, sometimes takes a long time before people get any noticeable improvement. EFT can shift energy in minutes, oftentime resulting in immediate positive and lasting effects. I am totally in love with EFT. Over the past year, I completed two certificates of completion in EFT, EFT-CC, and EFT-ADV. I recently attended the EFT Masters Showcase in Boston, where I met Gary Craig himself. I also joined ACEP, the Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology http://www.energypsych.org/ , attended their yearly gathering in Virginia last April, and met many wonderful energy therapists and practitioners who integrate EFT or some other energy modality in their counseling or therapy practice. As Gary says, "We're on the ground floor of the healing highrise" We really are. I'm not suggesting that we throw away the drugs and the therapy, not one bit. What am suggesting is that we in healthcare remain open to new ideas. If EFT can speed along a person's progress, or help them use less medication, would that not be welcome? I believe that 5-10 years from now, we'll look back to the straight drug/talk therapy model that we have as the primary treatment modality for emotional difficulties and say, "What were we thinking??" To learn more about EFT, do what I did and get started right at the EFT site, http://www.emofree.com/. Then start tapping.