Testimonials

Smoking 40 Years

(There are just too many testimonials to list, so what I did was give a wide variety that would include both physical and emotional issues as well as sever and longstanding ones, like Manfred who smoked for 40 years.)

By Manfred Luck

Dear Gary,

Thank you for this elegant and easy to use tool you've made so available. I've been using EFT for about 3 years on myself and my Homeopathic clients with consistently good results. Recently I was reading about emotional drivers and out of curiosity addressed my pack a day 45 year long smoking addiction which I quite enjoyed and had no real intention of giving up.

With muscle testing I got that there was an incident at the age of 11, a couple of years before I started smoking, where I felt overwhelmed by my love for my cousin. In my innocence I had tried to express my love in some way to her and been rebuffed. There was a fair amount of intensity on it being not OK to have this much feeling which collapsed after a few rounds of standard EFT.

I remember thinking that I could stop smoking now if I wanted to ... which I didn't.

A few days later I was doing some work and was just about to have my morning cigarette and looking forward to it when these 3 dogs came up to me for pats and loving and we all really got into it and I allowed myself to express my love for them.

When I stood up a few minutes later the desire to smoke was gone. Three months since then, there have been no cigarettes and no effort. And it's OK to have feelings and it's OK to love.

With gratitude,

Manfred

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9 Years with Fibromyalgia

By Janet Cole

The EFT is working just great for me, it is night 13 of falling asleep without the pain of the Invisible Chronic Illness (fibromyalgia) and this is a phenomenal record for me. Since 1991, the onset of this illness, I have not had two pain free nights in a row. The tapping has been done whether there is pain or not. Your inspiration at the Las Vegas Convention and our one on one consultation was just what the "doctor ordered." You are very much appreciated and a great big "Thank you."

GC COMMENT: I met Janet at the Las Vegas Conference. She came as a non-therapist attendee who was interested in learning the energy therapies for her personal use. During a free moment at the conference she asked me if I would spend time with her in a session. I consented and we went up to my room to do some EFT'ing.

She was in nearly constant pain from her Fibromyalgia and had been tapping sporadically for her specific pains for 3 or 4 weeks prior to the conference. At best, she would get temporary relief for an hour or two. But then the pains would come back.

I chose to ignore the pains during our session because, to me, fibromyalgia (and most other physical ailments) are merely bodily manifestations (symptoms) of unresolved fear, trauma, rejection, anger, guilt and other emotional causes. Take care of the emotional causes and the physical symptoms tend to fade. That's my non-medical opinion, of course, and I have no way to prove it. Nonetheless, operating under this assumption, I have witnessed many significant physical reliefs (some were quite stunning) over the years. Many people are happy that I labor under this "unproven misperception."

So, in Janet's case, I asked her to pick out an intense emotional issue from her past. She picked one that was so intense that she rarely discussed it with anyone. She quickly went to a 10 and had body sensations at the mere thought of it. To apply EFT with minimal pain, I had her do the "narrate the movie" technique that I used in the "6 Days at the VA," videotape (part of our EFT Course).

We did a few rounds of EFT before she began her narration because just knowing she was going to verbalize the event caused her emotional intensity. I often do "beginning rounds" such as this to "take the edge off" of an intense issue. Typically, the beginning rounds start with something like, "Even though I'm anxious about telling this story...."

Eventually she was ready to narrate the story (as though it was a movie) and, as she did so, I had her stop whenever she came to any part of it that gave her emotional intensity. We stopped several times and tapped on the various issues that came up. As it turns out, we went through the story 2 or 3 times and each time we found different aspects--different pieces of the problem--that begged for individual tapping. It took 30 or 40 minutes, including restful conversation in between rounds, before she was able to tell the story with relative calm. Even then it wasn't perfect. There were still some aspects we didn't have time to cover (I had another appointment). However, it was substantially improved (near zero).

I don't recall checking her fibromyalgia symptoms at the end of our session but she left knowing substantial emotional headway had been made. She seemed much lighter.

So, when I received her message (above), I called her to learn some of the details. Here's what she said.

1. Our session "opened the door" for her and gave her the means and understanding to work on more of her underlying emotional issues. She is having some friends (who were also at the conference) help her as well.

2. As she worked on these issues, her fibromyalgia pains subsided. She is pain free all day and all night. Occasionally, she will wake up in the morning with a little stiffness but just "taps it away." She has some pain if she undergoes a massage because it involves pushing on her body. Under normal circumstances, however, she says, "I forgot what pain is about (her words)."

So what happened? How did all this pain relief come about without medicine, surgery or other conventional methods? To me (and to Janet) it seems quite obvious. We took aim at the underlying emotional causes and, as they left, so did the physical pain. Does this mean she is pain free forever? Who knows? Maybe she needs to tap persistently the rest of her life. Maybe not. Maybe she has many more emotional issues that are waiting to show up as pain in her body. Maybe not. These are things we don't know yet.

But whatever happens in the future, one thing is clear. Addressing Janet's emotional issues with EFT has given her a level of both emotional and physical relief that she has not experienced for many, many years. No drugs, injections or side effects, either. Here in EFT Land, this type of thing happens much too often to call it coincidence.

If you want to review more EFT case histories regarding pain just enter the word "pain" (without the quotation marks) in our web site search engine. You will then be presented with many articles on physical ailments and pain.

These results are beginning to get the attention of other healing institutions. Psychotherapists are making the main use of EFT for now but chiropractors, massage therapists and acupuncturists are coming right along. The sports performance field is just beginning with it and we have a glimmer of interest from the medical profession. We have a growing number of MD's using EFT. In fact, we've had more MD's come on board in the past 6 months than in the previous year and a half.

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Fifteen Years of Therapy for Depression

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For ANY emotional or physical problem you may have, contact Craig at: Email: eftcyprus@yahoo.com   Call to discuss any questions you might have.

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Watch how Jane Nash guides her depressed client towards emotional freedom. After applying EFT she says, "Each time I asked him to return to any of the traumatic memories, he just kept repeating that he couldn't find it anymore He said, "I know it happened but I can't see it -- " I can't find it.""

By Jane Nash

Members of my adult class are working their way through the first EFT DVD course as part of their own personal development program. This week one of the students came to me and asked to see me privately.  He confessed that he had been raped 20 years previously, when he was 18, by a male colleague.  His life was a mess as he had never recovered from this trauma.  He asked me if EFT would work, and then he put his head on the table and began to weep, as if this had taken every bit of courage for him to approach me.

We tapped: Even though I am really upset about this… After one round, he was calm and the tears had stopped.  He said he felt much better and surprised himself with the calmness of his own voice.  He didn’t want to continue tapping at that time but said he would return.

When he did return, he looked exceptionally unhappy and I reminded him that he didn’t have to relive the trauma.  He spoke of the 15 years of therapy he had been through since his breakdown; he'd even had electric-shock therapy for his depression.  He’d been on endless antidepressant pills and was suicidal two years previously.  His breakdown and access to his traumatic memories had happened shortly after his divorce and his immigration to Australia.

He asked me to tap with him, just in case he got it wrong and said that he had been rubbing on the sore spot all morning in preparation for this session with me – just in case it made a difference.  So if he had any resistance, it was pretty much gone by the time he arrived that morning.  I asked him if he wanted to tell me what happened.

He said that when he was 18, he went to a party and got drunk and couldn’t get home.  His breathing changed and his eyes filled up with tears.  His level of intensity was 10 on a scale of 0 to 10.  We tapped on the phrase, I couldn’t get home… and after 2 rounds, his level of intensity was zero out of 10.

He began the story again, getting further this time and saying that a male colleague drove him home. He stopped when he said, “then he kissed my genitals.”  His level of intensity was 7 out of 10 and we tapped 3 rounds to go to 3 out of 10.  He stayed at this level of intensity and another aspect had come up – that he couldn’t tell anyone about it.  There were several aspects that we tapped on: I lost my memory … I don’t know what happened … the damage done.

Then the rape stopped being an issue and his fear of pubs and public places came up.  At this point I was surrogate muscle testing (just learning it) and so felt that his collarbone and under eye were particularly strong points for this for him and so we just moved between the two for a few times as this seemed to get a quick result.  The names of these aspects were: I felt afraid … scared of men … feeling anxious.

GC COMMENT: No problem if you don't know how to surrogate muscle test. Just tap all the points (it only takes seconds) and the the same result will occur.

JANE CONTINUES: He went from a level of intensity of 10 out of 10 each time a new aspect arose and then quickly down to a 3 and then zero out of 10.  For these secondary issues he seemed to get the biggest response and relief at the collarbone and chin points.

After about fifteen minutes, the intensity in his manner had disappeared but I could sense there was still something – so I asked him if he could try to make himself feel bad.  I asked if he could tell the stories again.

Each time I asked him to return to any of the traumatic memories, he just kept repeating that he couldn’t find it anymore  He said, “I know it happened but I can’t see it – I can’t find it.”

He was then happy to leave and said, “Really sorry Jane but to be honest I found the last ten minutes a little bit boring!”  I laughed and said that that was quality evidence that EFT worked!

We then discussed that because he had some memory blocks, he might have repressed memories surface at another time.  I suggested that he ignore the content but to tap for the emotion attached to them – he was happy to go with this plan of action.

A week later he didn’t turn up for class.  I was worried that other aspects had surfaced.  However, he rang to say that he was having a bad day.  I asked if he was still dealing with last week’s issues.  He said he was dealing with a current issue - something he was just disappointed with.  I asked how he was doing with the issue we had worked on.  He said  it was gone … "It’s funny I don’t know why I was so stuck for all those years about it.”

Now, this is a man who had acute agoraphobia because of his fears … had never gone for a pint in a pub because he was scared of men … had not been able to stand in a line at a checkout of a supermarket for fear of people behind him … and who cried at any problem.  Now he just has bad days like the rest of us!  I finished the conversation by suggesting that he tap for his frustration in the present situation and he said, “I don’t think I need to do that - it’s not that bad!”

Jane

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Dyslexia Gone

By John Blosse

One of my wife's massage clients named Winston expressed an interest in EFT and asked me if it would work on a dyslexia problem that had held him back all his life. I told him that EFT can be used on everything and he booked a session with me.

During the session I asked him if he could remember a time when he had been dyslexia-free. He told me he'd always had the problem and had many fears around reading. I asked him how it would feel to read from a book right now and he said that he was quite scared but would give it a try. I told him that when using EFT we don't need to be brave and force our way through the fear, we can tap to reduce the fear (which was 8 out of 10). We tapped on:

Even though I have this fear of reading…

After one round the fear had gone and Winston was able to pick up the book and start reading. He began to read but stopped after a sentence and a half. "The words are moving," he said. He attempted the word four times but couldn't get it right. He told me he also felt scared.

I said that we would come back to that word later and asked him if he felt fear anywhere in his body - he said he felt it in his stomach. We tapped on:

Even though I have this fear in my stomach…

I asked him at what level the fear was at now. He told me it was much lower, about a 3 on a scale of 0 to 10. I then asked him if he could remember a specific event in the past when he felt this fear in his stomach. He told me about a time when he was eight years old and had to read in front of the class. He had a lot of fear around this event but we cleared it to a zero using the Movie Technique. He then told me he has been terrified of his dad as a child and still felt this fear when he was around him. We tapped on specific events and memories from his past. He told me that he had a BIG secret which he'd kept inside for over twenty years. He said that he'd never told anyone about it but trusted me enough to tell me. We went to a zero on that one and Winston had a big emotional release and cried for some time.

At the end of the session I asked him if he would like to read from the book again and he jumped at the chance. He read from the beginning again, past the word he had previously got stuck on and after almost completing the whole paragraph he announced that he could never remember reading so well.

Three weeks later I had a call from Winston's partner who also wanted to book an EFT session with me. I asked her how Winston was and she said "Oh, he's great. He's reading all the time now - the dyslexia's completely gone."