EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) was originally designed to reduce the psychotherapy process from months and years down to minutes and hours. From there it was discovered that astonishing physical healings also occurred. Symptoms faded for everything from Migraine Headaches to Cancer. Complete details are given on the EFT website right here.

It often works where nothing will.

Doctors Use Acupressure Technique Instead of Drugs to Combat Emotional Eating San Francisco, CA (PRWEB)--

Why do people eat when they are not hungry?
According to the foundational theory of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), people overeat to tranquilize unresolved negative emotions and traumas. Recent research has established that obese people overeat because their food cravings are controlled by the same part of the brain that control drug cravings in addicts. This brain circuitry located in the hippocampus is also the part of the brain that is involved with emotion.

Researchers are hopeful that these findings will point to new treatments for obesity and they acknowledge that dealing with emotions may be necessary. Meanwhile, people are already conquering food cravings and addictions by addressing their unresolved emotional issues with EFT– and they have been doing so for more than a decade.

EFT involves fingertip tapping on select acupressure points while focusing on the craving in question. EFT claims an 80% success rate in calming the emotions that trigger food cravings. It can be learned without cost by downloading the free EFT Manual right here.

Gary Craig, the Stanford-trained engineer who developed EFT has noticed a marked increase in the number of research studies that link negative emotions to physical issues. “But it is not enough to just make that link,” says Craig. “People also need reliable, inexpensive and safe treatment options that will help them address negative emotions once and for all, thereby breaking the link to physical illness. For the last decade EFT has given people an effective, drug-free healing option with an 80 percent success rate.”

Physician, Dr. Eric Robins 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."

In other medical news, pharmaceutical giant, Merck abandoned their anti-obesity drug MK-0577 when it failed to produce significant weight loss results in human clinical trials. Meanwhile, a Francais pharmaceutical company is awaiting US FDA approval for their “magic bullet for obesity” drug, rimonabant.

In one year, this drug, plus a low calorie diet resulted in an average weight loss of less than 11 pounds in obese drug trial participants. Only those on a high dose of the drug had noteworthy weight loss and the accompanying side effects included nausea, diarrhea, headache, dizziness, joint pain as well as psychiatric and nervous system disorders.

In contrast, when people use EFT for their food addictions, there are no drugs involved and even willpower is unnecessary if users connect with and resolve their emotional reasons for turning to unhealthy foods. In 80% of the cases immediate food cravings subside in moments. Craig acknowledges, “While this is not yet mainstream thinking, hundreds of doctors, psychiatrists and psychotherapists are using EFT to help their patients change their relationships with food.”

Craig reports, “I see repeatedly that emotional issues like fear, anger, boredom, shame, and resentment are the very centerpiece of someone’s weight gain. But their emotional issues have remained unresolved despite willpower and conventional therapies. This is because the emotional issues have disrupted their energy meridian system (or Chi in Chinese Medicine). Until the energy system is balanced, the emotional eating will continue.”

Over 400,000 people have downloaded Craig’s free training manual and another 10,000 download it each month, making it one of the fastest-growing healing modalities in the world. Known as The EFT Manual, it has been translated by volunteer practitioners into nine languages. The EFT website is the fourth most actively visited natural health site in the world.

The EFT Manual gives anyone all the basics so they can apply it right away. It can be freely downloaded right here.

Unique Acupressure Technique Alleviates Symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Chemical Sensitivities San Francisco, CA (PRWEB)
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) must constantly monitor their condition in an effort to cope with “the severe, changing and unpredictable symptoms of varying severity.” However, an increasing number of patients are turning to Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and getting remarkable results.

Conventional treatment for CFS is a complex combination of drug and non-drug therapies. EFT simply involves fingertip tapping on select acupressure points while focusing on the physical or emotional symptom in question. EFT claims an 80% success rate in calming symptoms associated with serious diseases like CFS and cancer. It can be learned without cost by downloading the free EFT Manual right here.

EFT works because it addresses the unresolved negative emotions that may be contributing to the illness. When anger, guilt, shame and fear are repressed and unchecked, the stress of these issues weakens the immune system, thus making way for illnesses like CFS to develop. When EFT is used to collapse the negative issues, the body’s immune system is able to do its repair work. Symptoms typically subside, sometimes immediately and often permanently.

The Center for Disease Control maintains, “Unresolved emotions and stress can make symptoms (of CFS) worse, interfere with pharmacological therapies and make recovery harder.” But EFT theory goes one more step to say that the unresolved emotions and stress are the root cause of the symptoms.

Dr. Eric Robins, who uses EFT in his daily medical practice, agrees with this theory. He says, “At least 85% of medical problems are physical manifestations of how stress, anxiety, and past traumas are held in and processed by the body. I recommend that patients ask themselves questions like: a) what unresolved issues exist in my life that may be contributing to this disease and b) what kinds of things am I stressing myself out over. The best technique to address these issues and to clear them out of the body is EFT.”

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome symptoms may include severe sleep problems marked by complete exhaustion but an inability to sleep well. CFS sufferers may also have physical aches and pains, cognitive dysfunction as well as depression and allergies. A recent study indicated that 14 months of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy reduced fatigue severity in CFS patients.

However, after just over two hours of on-camera EFT to treat her CFS, Annie Fisher reported, “I felt fantastic … there was no pain, no heaviness and my energy was very high.” Two weeks after the treatment she claimed she was “a different person”; she slept like a baby every night; sometimes for ten hours. She no longer had allergic reactions to household cleaners and her persistently aching legs had cleared up.

EFT founder, Gary Craig recently released 40 hours of live seminars throughout which he demonstrates how this simple acupressure procedure alleviates symptoms associated with most serious diseases. To witness Annie’s on-camera EFT sessions, the combined set of DVD’s, which contains 40 hours of instruction and demonstrations, costs only $72 right here.

The Chronic Fatigue Association of America (CFIDS) is “dedicated to conquering chronic fatigue syndrome.” Craig says, “We have spent a decade chronicling cases where people use this simple procedure to gain complete relief from the symptoms of serious diseases such as CFS, MS, diabetes, arthritis and cancer. It is time for the associations representing people with these diseases to explore ways that EFT can be used to benefit their membership.”

Over 350,000 people have downloaded Craig’s free training manual and another 10,000 download it each month. Known as The EFT Manual, it has been translated by volunteer practitioners into nine languages. The EFT website is the fifth most actively visited natural health site in the world.

The EFT Manual gives anyone all the basics so they can apply it right away. It can be freely downloaded right here.

Unique Acupressure Technique is Credited with Relieving Prostate Cancer Symptoms San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) In May 2004, Jonas Slonaker participated in a nine-day, on-camera retreat to focus on using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to address his symptoms of prostate cancer. He continues to do EFT daily; and today he is still free of any cancer symptoms, and his last three PSA (prostate-specific antigen) counts were “barely over two”.

EFT involves fingertip tapping on select acupressure points while focusing on the physical symptom or unresolved emotion in question. EFT claims an 80% success rate in calming symptoms associated with serious diseases like cancer. It can be learned without cost by downloading the free EFT Manual right here.

“What is remarkable about using EFT for serious diseases,” says EFT Founder Gary Craig, “is that when we persistently address unresolved emotional issues and traumas, the symptoms associated with the disease tend to fade … often permanently. In Jonas’s case, he was harboring a deep and unresolved anger at his abusive father. In about 40 minutes of doing EFT together, he no longer felt the explosive anger towards his father.”

Jonas reports, “I urinate just fine and have no pain down there. I stopped taking the medication that helped me urinate. My story is simple. I use EFT everyday to release emotional energy blocks in my system. If I don’t have a particular issue or emotion to release, then I tap and sing the word Love over and over. I tap every morning for fifteen minutes to get my day started. Then I tap whenever the need arises. If someone snaps at me at work, I tap and let that go before it can become a repetitive resentment. Many of the times when I tap, I go into a deep state of peace and now and again I experience radiant joy. EFT helped me reach a place of great love and acceptance and I honestly don’t believe the cancer can survive in that environment.”

To witness Jonas’s on-camera EFT session, the combined set of DVD’s, which contains 40 hours of instruction and demonstrations, costs only $72 right here.

More than a decade of reports from thousands of EFT users has convinced Craig of the connection between people’s unresolved emotions and their physical issues. Now an increasing number of medical studies are making the same connections, but EFT claims to offer a simple solution to resolving the emotional component of disease.

Craig says, “We are not advocating that people adopt EFT instead of conventional medicine to treat serious diseases. But medical research is consistently showing that unresolved emotional traumas, anger, and resentment contribute to disease. EFT provides a drug-free way for people to permanently clear the unresolved emotions that are disrupting their energy systems, taxing their immune systems and causing disease.”

Belgian physician Dr. Tania de Winne uses EFT in her medical practice and sees consistent evidence of the mind-body connection with her patients. “While I have no proof that EFT prevents cancer,” she says, “I’m convinced that it does just that. Negative thoughts are a major cause of not just cancer but all illnesses, and since EFT quickly eliminates the energy blocks that contribute to negative thoughts and emotions, I believe cancer and most other diseases can ultimately be eradicated by using EFT on a daily basis.”

According to the National Institutes of Health, about 1500 people in the U.S. die of cancer each day and another 3400 are diagnosed with cancer daily. “In my view,” says Craig, “people are dying needlessly from unresolved emotions like anger, fear, guilt and resentment.”

Physician, Dr. Eric Robins adds, "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 still a new procedure, but already over 350,000 – including thousands of health care practitioners have downloaded Craig’s free training manual and another 10,000 download it each month. EFT often works when nothing else will, even on serious diseases like cancer. Word of mouth is making EFT a top self-healing modality. The EFT website is the fifth most actively visited natural health site in the world.

Acupressure Technique Alleviates Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) -- While researchers search for elusive causes and cures to serious diseases, people all over the world are using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to reduce and eliminate their disease symptoms. EFT is a do-it-yourself acupressure technique that anybody can use to provide relief from the physical and emotional symptoms associated with diseases like Parkinson’s.

It involves fingertip tapping on select acupressure points while focusing on the symptom in question. EFT claims an 80% success rate in calming symptoms associated with serious diseases. It can be learned without cost by downloading the free EFT Manual right here.

Researchers recently discovered that the development of abnormal clumps of protein in the brain may contribute to symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Their goal is ultimately to develop drugs to hinder the development of these proteins. Another study links exposure to pesticides with a 70% higher risk of developing PD.

According to the theory behind EFT, a major and often overlooked cause of diseases are the unresolved emotional issues and a disrupted energy meridian system (Chi or Qi). When emotional issues are resolved using EFT, physical symptoms associated with serious diseases have been shown to clear, sometimes immediately and often permanently.

Gary Craig, the Stanford-trained engineer who developed EFT, demonstrates on-camera how EFT calms symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. Dave Rogan, a gentleman who attended an EFT workshop, was hoping for relief from his symptoms of PD, COPD, asthma double vision and neurogenic bladder.

While Craig worked with Dave on stage in front of a seminar audience of 400 people, Dave’s Parkinson’s tremors faded to nothing within just moments of EFT tapping. Craig explains, “Dave was a great example of how unresolved emotions show up in our bodies as illness. As you see on film, as soon as we mentioned Dave’s abusive father, his tremors were so strong that they were visible on camera. A few moments of tapping stopped the tremors.”

Three months later, in another on-camera EFT seminar, Dave demonstrated significant improvement when he worked with Craig on stage. His demeanor changed, he said he was happier and more able to find the fun in life, his tremors remained at bay, his double vision had cleared and his breathing had improved.

To witness Dave’s on-camera EFT sessions, the combined set of DVD’s , which contains 40 hours of instruction and demonstrations, costs only $72 right here.

Dave had been on what he described as “a complicated schedule of medications”, taking at least 15 different meds that caused horrible side effects. His physicians predicted he would die with or without the drugs so he stopped taking all medication. Accordingly, he was drug-free when he participated in the EFT seminars, so could not attribute the easing of his symptoms to drug therapy.

The mission of the American Parkinson Disease Association is to "ease the burden and find a cure". While EFT doesn’t claim to cure any diseases, a decade of reports of people finding relief from symptoms associated with serious diseases are testament to this simple do-it-yourself technique as easing the burden. Craig makes the EFT Manual available at no cost in an effort to help people who have been diagnosed with an illness.

Dr. Eric Robins, a California physician uses EFT in his medical practice. He says, “I would recommend all patients, when given a new diagnosis of anything, first ask themselves questions like: a) what unresolved issues exist in my life that may be contributing to this disease, and b) what kinds of things am I stressing myself out over. The best technique to address these issues and to clear them out of the body is EFT.

Over 350,000 people have downloaded Craig’s free training manual and another 10,000 download it each month. Known as The EFT Manual, it has been translated by volunteer practitioners into nine languages. The EFT website is the fifth most actively visited natural health site in the world.

The EFT Manual gives anyone all the basics so they can apply it right away. It can be freely downloaded right here.

Anger and Hostility are Proven to Damage Lungs;
Simple Acupressure Technique Offers a Solution San Francisco, CA (PRWEB)

-- Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) has been successfully addressing physical illness by getting to the true cause of illness – unresolved emotional issues like anger, fear and hostility. This is done without lengthy psychotherapy or medications. When unresolved negative emotions are neutralized with this needle free acupuncture technique, symptoms associated with asthma, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, and even cancer tend to subside or disappear, often permanently.

EFT was initially developed to accelerate and improve the psychotherapy process. Soon EFT users were reporting that addressing their emotional issues resulted in a reduction in their physical symptoms. Thousands of case studies have shown an 80% success rate and it often works when nothing else will. It can be learned freely by downloading the EFT Manual right here.

Harvard researchers recently published findings from a study that explored the link between anger and hostility and lung function. Even at the beginning of the study, men with the highest anger and hostility ratings had the poorest lung function, and their condition deteriorated over the period of the study.

According to Dr Paul Lehrer, one of the authors of the study, "Stress-related factors are known to depress immune function and increase susceptibility to, or exacerbate a host of diseases and disorders," he said. "Indeed, it is hard to find a disease for which emotion or stress plays absolutely no part in symptom severity, frequency, or intensity of flare-ups."

The scientists did not know how unresolved negative emotions contribute to the physical deterioration of the lungs but expect that this question will be the topic of another study.

Dr. Eric Robins, a medical doctor who uses EFT with his patients offers a possible explanation … and a simple solution. "At least 85% of medical problems are physical manifestations of how stress, anxiety and past traumas are held in and processed by the body. Stress and negative emotions are frequently stored in the smooth muscles that function automatically, without our conscious control. If people store tension in the smooth muscles of the blood vessels going to the head, we might call this a migraine headache. If they store tension in the smooth muscles of the air passages of the lungs we might call that asthma. The best technique to address these issues and to clear them out of the body is EFT.”

Gary Craig, the Stanford-trained engineer who developed EFT, recommends that researchers who are exploring the link between emotion and physical illness become familiar with EFT. “We have filmed more than 120 hours of EFT demonstrations where people are addressing their emotional issues and measurably improving their physical conditions,” says Craig. “This collection, which is available from the EFT website, includes forty hours of people using EFT to address symptoms associated with serious diseases like prostate cancer, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis and diabetes.

“EFT is a simple solution,” says Craig, “that many health professionals are incorporating into their regular practice. Surgeons use EFT to avoid unnecessary surgery, chiropractors use EFT to correct misalignments and therapists use EFT to avoid lengthy and costly psychotherapy sessions. And every day people are using EFT to address their own physical and emotional issues.”

Over 350,000 people have downloaded Craig’s free training manual and another 10,000 download it each month. Known as The EFT Manual, it has been translated by volunteer practitioners into nine languages. The EFT website is the fifth most actively visited natural health site in the world.

The EFT Manual gives anyone all the basics so they can apply it right away. It can be freely downloaded right here. What Really Causes Disease? Experts Blame Stored Emotions and Recommend New Acupressure Technique San Francisco, CA (PRWEB): -- Medical experts agree that no one knows what causes rheumatoid arthritis, other autoimmune disorders, or chronic pain. They say there is no known cure or way to prevent Parkinson’s disease, ulcerative colitis, multiple sclerosis, osteoarthritis, or dozens of other illnesses. Modern medicine doesn’t attempt to cure these conditions. Instead, it manages them for as long as possible with symptom-suppressing procedures and drugs.

But a growing number of physicians, medical experts, and health care practitioners believe they know how these illnesses begin and progress. It’s not all in your head, they say – but it is in the muscles and organs that store past traumas. Releasing stored traumas releases the illness’s underlying cause and helps the body heal from the inside out. The method they use is EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), a do-it-yourself acupressure technique described in a free manual right here.

Los Angeles physician Eric Robins, MD, explains, “Stress and negative emotions are often stored in the body’s smooth muscles, which function automatically, without our conscious control. Stress stored in smooth muscles of blood vessels going to the head might produce a migraine headache, while stress stored in smooth muscles of air passages of the lungs can produce asthma, and stress stored in smooth muscles of the digestive tract can produce Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Stored emotions also affect our immune systems.”

Dr. Robins teaches his patients how to tap on key EFT acupressure points while focusing on past traumas or stress, and in most cases, he says, symptoms of chronic diseases improve significantly.

North Carolina radiologist Larry Burk, MD, is another EFT practitioner. “It is instructive to note that many ailments which seem to have an underlying anatomical cause may also have a deeper emotional root,” he says. “There are many scientific studies indicating that a surprising number of people with no symptoms whatsoever have dramatic abnormalities on MRI scans obtained on a volunteer basis for research purposes. Equally puzzling, many patients with severe debilitating pain from conditions such as fibromyalgia have no abnormalities. These findings support the concept that deep emotional issues are at the root of the illness. As soon as you address these emotional issues with EFT, the physical condition improves.”

Gary Craig, the Stanford-trained engineer who developed EFT, has collected thousands of reports documenting its health benefits from practitioners around the world. “We make no specific medical claims for EFT,” he explains, “but we agree with medical experts who say that by relieving past traumas and improving the body’s flow of energy, EFT can help most patients improve their health.”

EFT is a new procedure, but already over 300,000 – including thousands of health care practitioners – have downloaded its free manual right here. and an additional 10,000 download it every month. The manual is available in nine languages, and EFT practitioners around the world, especially in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, and Australia, teach EFT classes and work with clients.

Do-It-Yourself Acupressure Technique Helps Protect Patients Against Medical Mistakes San Francisco, CA (PRWEB: -- Every year over 100,000 Americans die because of medical mishaps, and millions more are harmed. According to a report released July 20 by the Institute of Medicine, medication errors alone injure 1.5 million patients and cost the nation at least $3.5 billion annually. Drug errors are so widespread, the report says, that hospital patients should expect to suffer one every day they remain hospitalized. Everyone agrees that avoiding unnecessary hospitalization and unnecessary prescriptions is an excellent idea.

Diet, exercise, and good relationships boost immunity and improve health – and so does a simple do-it-yourself acupressure technique called EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), which a growing number of health care practitioners are adopting. EFT is explained in a free manual that can be downloaded right here.

“At least 85 percent of medical problems are physical manifestations of how stress, anxiety, or past traumas are held in and processed by the body,” says Los Angeles physician Eric Robins, MD. “EFT is the best technique for addressing these issues and clearing them out of the body.”

Dr. Robins considers the official estimate of 100,000 deaths per year because of medical mistakes conservative. “When you add in side-effects from drugs, adverse reactions, inadvertent overdoses, and under-reporting, which is a serious problem in America’s hospitals,” he says, “the death rate is much higher.”

Dr. Robins, a urologist, routinely teaches EFT to patients who have chronic infections or other conditions that don’t respond to conventional treatment. “Time after time,” he says, “they respond in just a few minutes. In some cases, we have cancelled surgeries when chronic problems resolved themselves thanks to EFT. What happens is that the tapping releases old traumas or stresses that are stored in different parts of the body, and as soon as the underlying problem goes away, so do its physical symptoms.”

Texas emergency physician Thomas Flowers, D.O., agrees. “The pharmaceutical industry has become one of our biggest health care expenses,” he says. “But most diseases have a significant emotional component that is completely ignored by conventional medicine. I’ve been using EFT for years, and I’m continually impressed by how effective it is at clearing emotional issues and improving overall health in the process. I’ve seen it work on migraine headaches, chronic neck and back pain, phobias, panic attacks, cravings for cigarettes and caffeine, and even for relief from the pain of broken bones or tooth extractions. I have no doubt that people who learn EFT and use it routinely enjoy better overall health – and a much lower risk of being harmed by medical mistakes.”

Gary Craig, the Stanford-trained engineer who developed EFT, has collected thousands of reports documenting its health benefits from practitioners around the world. “We make no specific medical claims for EFT,” he explains, “but we agree with medical experts who say that by relieving past traumas and improving the body’s flow of energy, EFT can help most patients improve their health.”

EFT is a new procedure, but already over 300,000 – including thousands of health care practitioners – have downloaded its free manual right here and an additional 10,000 download it every month. The manual is available in nine languages, and EFT practitioners around the world, especially in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, and Australia, teach EFT classes and work with clients.

Many Stressed Women Abandon Healthy Lifestyle Habits: Simple Acupressure Technique Offers a Solution San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) -- British researchers discovered that women and men respond very differently to working long hours. When stressed, women tend to eat more unhealthy snacks, rink more caffeine, smoke more and exercise less. The researchers emphasized the importance of adhering to a balanced diet. However, they did not have solutions for women who use food to help them deal with stress. A simple acupressure technique may be that solution.

Women have been using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to address the effects of stress, and to curb emotional eating for more than a decade. It involves fingertip tapping on select acupressure points while focusing on the stressor in question. EFT can be learned freely by downloading the EFT Manual right here.

Fortunately, a growing number of medical practitioners are addressing the emotional roots of stress using EFT. According to Dr. Eric Robins, a California urologist who uses EFT in his medical practice, “Whenever we are pushed above our threshold we become stressed and anxious. We then try to deal with that stress through a variety of coping mechanisms learned during childhood. These include anger, depression, fear, substance abuse, and overeating.”

According to Gary Craig, the Stanford-trained engineer who developed EFT, “This technique balances the body’s energy meridian system (Chi or Qi) which becomes disrupted when under stress. We focus on the emotions that may be triggered by stress and when anxiety, frustration and fear are dissolved with EFT, overeating stops being the automatic response.”

Researcher on this study, Dr. Daryl O'Connor of Leeds University says, "An overwhelming body of evidence shows the importance of maintaining a balanced diet, including eating a low fat diet and five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. Yet our study points to a clear link between stress and a tendency to eat more unhealthy snacks and consume fewer vegetables and less of a balanced main meal."

According to Gary Craig, “In my experience, when patients seem to have an inability to adhere to healthy lifestyle choices, in spite of the dire consequences, it is because they have a severely disrupted energy meridian system. This disruption may be caused by unresolved negative emotions or past traumas. EFT is one of the only treatment options available to address this disruption, correct the self-sabotaging behaviors, and allow people to choose healthier alternatives.”

Dr. Robins says, "At least 85% of medical problems are physical manifestations of how stress/anxiety/past traumas are held in and processed by the body. The best technique to address these issues and to clear them out of the body is EFT.”

Although most Americans have yet to hear of it, EFT may be the world’s fastest-growing self-help technique because people are getting results where nothing else has worked for them. Over 350,000 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 right here.

Depression Drugs and Migraine Drugs Don’t Mix: Treat Both with one Drug-Free Alternative San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) -- When news breaks that drug interactions pose significant health risks, patients seek healthy alternatives to help manage their symptoms. The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) website reports significant increase in traffic, making it the fifth most popular alternative health website on the Internet. EFT is a do-it-yourself acupressure technique that claims an 80% success rate in reducing symptoms associated with migraines and depression. It and can be learned freely by downloading the EFT Manual right here.

A recent FDA Public Health Advisory warns that mixing certain antidepressants, including Prozac and Zoloft, with a certain migraine drug, Triptans, could cause serotonin syndrome, a life-threatening condition. Patients are advised to meet with their doctors before stopping medications. There may be a natural treatment option for people with depression and migraines.

The theory behind EFT states that migraines and depression are symptoms of a disrupted energy meridian system (Chi or Qi) which is put out of balance by unresolved emotional issues. When negative emotions like fear, guilt, and anger are addressed with EFT, the energy meridian system balances, and symptoms of depression, and migraine pain dissipate. Complex cases may take several applications of EFT but most people report an immediate improvement in their depression, and pain symptoms.

Dr. Joseph Mercola uses EFT in his busy medical practice to treat patients with migraines as well as depression. According to Dr. Mercola, “Migraines are another example of a physical problem that usually has an underlying emotional cause. It is very rare where EFT is unable to completely remove the pain of this type of migraine. It usually works within seconds and the relief tends to be permanent.”

Dr. Mercola indicates that at one time, he prescribed antidepressants to thousands of patients. “They seemed to work well for many however; in not one single case did they solve the underlying foundation reason as to why the person was depressed. In 2001, I learned how to use EFT to treat depression and it is very rare where I need to use antidepressants for any patient. I believe I can count the number of prescriptions I have written for them on one hand since I started using EFT.”

One EFT user, Kimberly, wrote to the EFT website with her story of how EFT helped her migraines and her depression. Kimberly had been hit by an SUV while crossing the street. She turned to acupuncture and that helped control her pain where conventional medical treatments had not. One the day of her acupuncture treatment, she developed a serious migraine.

On a scale of 1 to 10, her migraine pain was an 8 and acupuncture needles brought the pain down to a 5, but no further. Her acupuncturist also practiced EFT and asked Kimberly if there was any emotional issue tied to the migraine. Kimberly says, “Suddenly it was as though my brain was screaming at me ‘I HATE MY JOB!!!’ and it took me totally by surprise.”

The acupuncturist did EFT on Kimberly for several minutes and eliminated the migraine pain. Kimberly realized that she was not only pain free, but had an enormous amount of energy, although she usually felt drowsy following acupuncture.

Kimberly says, “I realized something else -- I was actually happy. I hadn't felt happy since the accident. I had been suffering from PTSD and depression, which I had gone to biofeedback therapy for and had "under control" but it wasn't gone. I was just dealing with it. Again, even though we hadn't tapped for the depression, I think a lot of it was tied up with my job issues, and seemed to have cleared up.”

According to Gary Craig, “We see this phenomenon repeatedly when people do EFT for physical symptoms – their emotional symptoms subside or they address their emotional issues and their physical symptoms disappear. I know of no other self-help tool that gets these consistent results.”

Over 350,000 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 right here.

Self-Applied Acupressure Technique May Prevent Tobacco from Killing One Billion People, San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) -- An easy to learn acupressure technique could curb the tobacco-related death toll. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) addresses the root of cigarette addictions, believed to be unresolved emotional issues. Gary Craig, the Stanford-trained engineer who developed EFT, explains, “In my experience working with smokers for more than a decade, they use cigarettes to tranquilize emotions. But conventional smoking cessations programs do not address smoking addictions at the emotional level.”

EFT claims an 80% success rate in reducing these emotional issues and a curbing of addictive urges are the frequent result. It can be learned freely by downloading the EFT Manual right here.

Recently, the American Cancer Society (ACS) predicted that tobacco will kill 1 billion people this century. Tobacco is responsible for an estimated 100 million deaths since 1900. According to John Seffrin, chief executive officer of the ACS, reducing tobacco use would have the single largest effect on global cancer rates.

“Despite dire warnings that more than half of current smokers will die, only 16% of smokers quit successfully using conventional methods,” says Craig. “In my experience, this is because emotional healing is not addressed in smoking cessation programs. When smokers use EFT to address depression, anxiety, anger, guilt, grief, and fear – the emotional drivers that fuel their cigarette addiction - their need to self-tranquilize diminishes. We also use EFT to minimize the discomfort, and the tendency to overeat that can be associated with cigarette withdrawal.”

According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, sponsor of the world’s most visited natural health website (www.mercola.com), “Researchers are actually documenting neurochemical effects which support the concept that cigarettes may actually be a drug that smokers are using to treat their underlying chronic anxiety and depression.

“One of the best routes to quitting smoking is through complete abstinence,” says Dr. Mercola. “This means cold turkey and not gradual reduction. But that can be tough for anyone. That's why I recommend using energy psychology tools. I find Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), to be highly effective.” Dr. Mercola has been using EFT successfully since 2001 to help his patients quit smoking and adhere to healthier lifestyle choices.

Dr. Inci Erkin, a medical doctor in Turkey, worked with a patient who was a heavy smoker, unable to quit. While doing EFT together, Dr. Erkin’s patient realized that his heavy smoking was emotionally linked to his father’s death from respiratory problems. He remembered being at his father’s deathbed, and despite his desire to kiss his father goodbye, he was repulsed that his father smelled like an ashtray. Nicotine was escaping from his father’s pores and the smell made him nauseous. He ran from the room without a proper goodbye. He smoked heavily for the next ten years.

According to Dr. Erkin, “Thus being a heavy smoker and smelling badly, was a way of punishing himself.”

Having identified the core emotional issue driving his cigarette addiction, Dr. Erkin worked with her patient using EFT. “It took us about 90 minutes in one session and he quit smoking right then - throwing his last pack in the garbage box. What is most important, however, is that he now feels good because he got over that feeling of guilt, which he did not recognize before, but was disturbing him at a subconscious level.”

Anybody can learn to use EFT to eliminate cigarette cravings and even to quit smoking entirely. Gary Craig explains, “Smokers generally expect to fail when they set out to quit. But when they use EFT, most experience an instant reduction in their cigarette craving. Their level of hope increases as their cravings decrease. If they persistently use EFT to address the emotional component of their addiction, they are likely to have a high success rate.”

If smoking cessation programs incorporated the proper use of EFT, Craig predicts that their success rate would be about between 50 and 80 percent - instead of the current 84% failure rate.

Over 325,000 people have downloaded Craig’s free training manual and another 10,000 download it each month. Known as The EFT Manual, it has been translated by volunteer practitioners into nine languages. The EFT website is the fifth most actively visited natural health site in the world.

The EFT Manual gives anyone all the basics so they can apply it right away. It can be freely downloaded right here.

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