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EFT was originally developed to reduce the therapy process from months/years down to minutes/hours. As emotional problems faded, both physical health and personal performance improved (often dramatically). As a result, EFT is spreading quickly among the healing community. It is an emotional version of acupressure wherein certain meridian release points are gently stimulated by tapping on them with the fingertips.







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October 2006 - Posts

  • The Menacing Mathematics of Multiple Meds

    There's something scary about drugs that concerns a growing number of physicians and should wobble the knees of every patient on the planet.  It's obvious to any mathematician but somehow has escaped the general scrutiny of the health industry.

    It has to do with combining meds.

    Ever since I can remember I have been fed the perception that drugs are governmentally evaluated and thus are safe if taken under the guidance of competent physicians.  However, even if we accept the presumed safety for the ingestion of one drug, we must ask ourselves how might that safety change if we take multiple drugs?

    For safety assurances, proper testing should be done for every drug combination we are advised to take.  If we take Prozac and Tylenol, for example, we should be presented with all the possible benefits and consequences before allowing these two foreign substances to mix with the chemicals our bodies already create.  Same thing goes for combining Paxil with Viagra or Interferon with Lipitor.

    The list of possible problems here is monstrously long because there are a b'zillion drugs and mega b'zillions of combinations.  Nonetheless, I've never seen or heard of any studies that test any of these combinations ... have you?

    Thus, if you take two drugs, the odds of their combination having been adequately tested for safety are skimpy at best.  But if you take 3 or more drugs the danger possibilities multiply even faster.

    Here's how the mathematics work: If you take 3 drugs then adequate safety testing of the various combinations require 7 separate tests.  If you take 4 drugs the combinations require 25 separate tests.  If you take 5 drugs it amounts to 121 tests.  If you take 10 drugs the number of required safety tests total 362,881.

    The conclusion here should be obvious.  Namely, there is questionable safety testing if you take 2 drugs and nominal, if any, safety testing if you take 3.  Beyond that you are clearly into the land of, "I have no idea what these combinations of drugs will do." 

    To me, this tosses our dedicated docs into a tenuous position.  They have patients with problems who aren't willing to exercise, eat right, do EFT for emotional issues (http://www.emofree.comor much of anything else to help their own health.  Instead, the patients hope the physicians will produce a magic pill (or pills) to make their problems go away.

    I have met many patients who are on several drugs and take some drugs to counteract the effects of other drugs.  As a non-physician I look at this with a shudder.  These folks are being fed chemical cocktails with little or no safety testing behind the combinations. Maybe I need some help with my perceptions here but, to me, they are playing drug roulette.

    I don't know if lawyers have picked up on the simple, but compelling, math here.  But I do know that I wouldn't want to be a doctor in court facing these clear facts.

    In the 15+ years I have been involved in the health field, I have had the good fortune to count many physicians as my personal friends.  With few exceptions, they agree that it is our lifestyles, diets and emotional stresses that cause most of our health problems ... and ... the vast majority of these problems would vanish if people would live common sense lives.  Yet patients repeatedly abuse their bodies and ask for more and more "miracle drugs" as the convenient solution.  I don't envy the docs at all as I often hear them complain that this is a highway to NobodyWinsVille.

    Maybe what we really need are good salespeople to persuade folks to take care of themselves.  I suspect that, if truly persuasive, they would do more good than the ocean of drugs at our disposal.

    Love, Gary

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  • When Was The Last Time You Gave Away A Precious Stone?

    There is much magic in the parable below.  Without specifically saying so, it emphasizes the true rewards for having attained Personal Peace.

     

    "There was once a wise woman traveling in the mountains who found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and she opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked if she might give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But only a few days later he came back to return the stone to the woman who had given it to him.

     

    "I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I'm giving it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. I want you to give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."
    -Author Unknown

     

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  • The solution to all the world's problems

    Now that's a grandiose title, isn't it?

    Fortunately, there IS a solution to the world's problems.  Poverty, war, disease, crime and the like can all disappear into nothingness.  The solution does not involve prisons, bombs, laws and politics for those methods have, for centuries, given only the illusions of temporary fixes.

    Interestingly, this true solution is no secret.  It has occurred to almost everyone.  It is intuitive and we have a "knowing" about it.  Yet few of us take the appropriate action because hardly any of us believe in the true power of our own abilities.  That includes me ... but I'm getting there.

    The solution that we already "know" about involves a mindset and tends to start, something like this ... "If only everyone had perfect personal peace within ... if only everyone was aligned with their spiritual perfection ... if only there were no insecurities nor needs to "be better than" ... if only love replaced greed ... THEN we would find joy in each other, cooperation would replace judgement and all the world's problems would start to fade."

    But then we read of the ongoing tragedies in the newspaper and see that sort of strife and tension mirrored in our families and workplaces.  We see this negative "reality" all around us and give up on our fantasies of peace and love.  "How impossible", we think, "Just look at how thoroughly ingrained this mess is throughout the world.  How could we EVER unravel this intricate ball of twine?"

    So, even though we know it is wrong, we continue fruitlessly with our prisons, bombs, laws and politics.

    Yet the possibilities for achieving that delicious spiritual awareness are very real.  We need only start with that well accepted phrase passed down through the ages that says ... "You are what you think."  From there we can step up to the basic truth that rings throughout my series on The Palace of Possibilities that says ...

    "Your consistent thoughts become your reality." (for those familiar with it, this is a simplified synopsis of the Law of Attraction).

    To launch us in the proper direction, we need only combine this simple truth with the startling findings from Quantum Physics that (1) we are immersed in a sea of infinite possibilities (God?) and (2) our thoughts are the means by which we travel within that sea.  This literally means that we can be, do or have ANYTHING we want.

    Depending on your current beliefs, that statement could be tough to swallow.  Maybe you believe it is possible to change your thinking and thus make more money, achieve an hourglass figure and cure a disease.  But do you believe that you can live a life of non-stop joy ... or ... transport yourself over thousands of miles without the use of planes, trains or automobiles?

    See, there are always limits to our thinking.  What is fascinating, though, is that our "limits" keep expanding as we approach them.  For example, earning $100,000 per year may seem impossible for someone earning $30,000.  They can't see that far ahead.  However, they can see $40,000 and, once achieved, they can then see $50,000 ... and then $80,000 ... and then $150,000 ... and beyond.  After awhile, even Donald Trump seems small.  Actually, compared to Bill Gates, he is small.  But you get the idea.  Our "limits" are more dependent on our thinking than on outside "barriers."

    Expand this idea so that everyone shares in the "sea of infinite possibilities" and we will make obsolete the need for prisons, bombs, laws and politics to solve world problems.  For if everyone is loaded up with all the possibilities they can handle, then what need is there for poverty, war, disease and the like?

    So how do we achieve these mental states and thus create a world of joyous people?  Do we just practice positive thinking?  Well, that's a start.  However, positive thinking like, "I am always joyous and see nothing but the beauty in this world" is a real challenge to do if we have competing thoughts like, "But I hate that @#$%^ who abused me as a child."

    These competing thoughts are rampant in this world and they often become our dominant thoughts that, in turn "become our reality."  They permeate our financial, social and health circumstances and stop us at every turn.  They are the main deterrent to realizing our possibilities.

    Fortunately, EFT can collapse all of them so that each becomes "just another thought."  With the competition out of the way we can now soar through The Palace of Possibilities with ease.

    Will this solve the world's problems this week?  Probably not.  But this effort starts with each of us individually.  And as the benefits become apparent to others they will follow.  And as the wave continues to other parts of the world, our seemingly insurmountable problems will eventually fade.

    Nice idea, don't you think?  But does it seem too grandiose?  Too idealistic?  Well, use it for yourself.  Expand your possibilities.  Expand your joy and then recognize that everyone can do this.  Then notice how the idealistic label changes to "possible" and then to "realistic" and, finally, to the only true solution.

    Joy, Gary

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Borrowing Benefits - A new kind of Reality TV Program

    Pardon my commercial but the EFT Borrowing Benefits DVD set has produced spectacular results and there is no other way to properly champion its benefits then to come right out and say it.  Not only is it highly therapeutic, it's entertainment value parallels that of most popular TV programs.

    So....Instead of subjecting yourself to the non-stop negativity of CSI or the 6 o'clock news, try our stimulating EFT Borrowing Benefits DVD set.

    Just pop one of the discs into your DVD player, choose a personal specific issue and tap along with one of the entertaining sessions on your screen.  When I say entertaining, I mean you will experience humor, inspiration, intrigue, mystery and a whole gamut of emotional wonderments that only the best of the Reality TV programs can match.

    It's a  very simple process and, properly done, the success rate approaches 100%.  Thus you can laugh, cry and be inspired while conveniently tossing your emotional ballast.  What TV program can match that?

    Here's what professional nurse and seasoned EFT'er Karen Ledger says about it.

    I recently spent about 6 hours with Gary Craig's wonderful set of DVDs known as The Borrowing Benefits Series. I have taught EFT for 10 years and have tapped along with hundreds of clients in my private practice and thought I had lots of benefits and healed almost every issue I knew of.

    But did I find a Gold Mine when I decided to watch the Borrowing Benefits DVDs. The idea is to pick issues you want to work on, identify some old "movies" from your past, of events you wished hadn't happened and then tap along with some of the full demo cases Gary is working on.

    When I started I didn't have a specific movie in mind, but the first case immediately brought up some issues and I got right into it. I was truly amazed at the power of this process and the deep healing I did on issues that I hadn't even realized were so influential. I cried, raged and laughed my way through the demos - even one of Gary being very honest and vulnerable working on his own Spiritual issues!

    Advantages for newcomers and lay persons:

    • After some simple instructions you can dive right in and begin collapsing your issues.  Relief is usually immediate.
    • No need to formally learn EFT.  Results can be achieved by someone with no understanding of EFT whatsoever.  You may wish to formally learn EFT later if you are a professional or a serious student and wish to take EFT to even higher levels.
    • These videos are capable of very deep work and have collapsed many, many issues that conventional techniques couldn't touch.
    • They are Universally Useful.  Each of them is capable of addressing thousands of different issues.
    • They are re-useable.  Pick out your favorite sessions and use them over and over again for as many issues as you wish.
    • Each video is engaging and entertaining.
    • You can go even further with the aid of a proficient, highly skilled EFT practitioner.

    Advantages for professionals and serious students:

    • In addition to the above, over 30 different creative approaches and reframes are displayed for your study.  Adopting them is almost certain to enhance your practice.
    • The videos often serve to uncover hidden issues.  Thus loaning copies of these videos to your clients for homework will often result in their bringing back core issues for quality work.  This substantially reduces the time necessary to do "detective work."
    • You can effectively use these videos in your own Borrowing Benefits workshops.  They are ready made for this and highly efficient.

    Contents of the videos:

    • Instructions
    • Stacey: Money blocks
    • Roger & Mary: Couples counseling
    • Kim: Molested at age 6
    • Betty: Putting herself forward--"Mr. Smythe dealt me a mortal blow"
    • Gary: Spiritual growth
    • LaVern: Rejection--"I don't want to dance!!"
    • Kathy: Fear and dread of making presentations to unknown people.
    • Andy: "I could never do anything right."
    • Patricia: Social discomfort & "Momma didn't want me"
    • Yvette: Overweight & "I don't want to be controlled"
    • Lucille: Claustrophobia and related items
    • Tam: Repressed memory--childhood school trauma
    • Sarah: Alcoholic mother & "I must fix the world"

    Also:  Borrowing Benefits works whether or not your issues match the issues on the videos.  In fact, it is often preferable that they don't match.

    Hugs, Gary

     

  • The Hot Air Balloon and The Palace of Possibilities

    This may not be the most attractive thing I've ever asked you to do but I would like you to think of yourself as a hot air balloon.  I know you won't make the centerfold of a magazine with that image but it DOES have some appeal.  Why? Because this hot air balloon is filled with the potential to roam the skies in complete freedom.  It is your potential ... your joy ... your success ... your life.

    Also consider that you aren't up in the skies yet.  Instead, you are tied to the ground by your emotional ropes ... the doubts, insecurities, angers, traumas, fears and the like that keep us unnecessarily bound to our earthly "comfort zones."  We can cut those ropes, however, and that is where EFT comes in.

    As any seasoned EFT'er will tell you, it is a superb "emotional rope cutter" and has set many free to reach new levels.  Our website is filled with so many examples of this that EFT should be a candidate for Time Magazine's "Person of the Year."  It may have already done as much for humanity as many of the previous recipients.

    So, master this extraordinary process and join all those free folks in the clouds.  The air is fresher up here and it is much easier to breathe.  There's joy here and life has much more juice in it. 

    But with all this emotional freedom (and resultant physical healing) where does one go while floating in the blue yonder?  Do you have a goal?  A purpose?  Or is it just simply enough to be free?

    What would you like to do with your freedom?  Magnify your bank account?  Be a famous actor?  Develop a sexy figure?  These, and more, are do-able when you combine EFT's freedom with The Palace of Possibilities.  This is a combo that, properly applied, can take you anywhere in the sky you wish.

    I have written a Palace of Possibilities series on our website that gives you the details.  The essence of it is that ... "Your consistent thoughts become your reality."  This fundamental truth, also known as The Law of Attraction, insures that your properly focused thoughts show up in your life.

    This is a monumental concept that is understood by many but consciously acted upon by very few.  The idea is always in operation ... it is even even working right now as you read this.  Your consistent thoughts are shaping your future.

    However, the thoughts we harbor tend to be mixed and thus they don't often aim us in focused directions.  And even when we do consciously focus our thoughts on something we desire, that focus is often on what we are lacking instead of what we want e.g. although we desire more money, we tend to focus on our lack of it.  That is why "lack of it" tends to show up in many lives.

    Also, if we create an affirmation that says, "I earn easily and consistently a million dollars a year", we are likely to have negative "tail enders" that may say...

    • "But you have to work too hard to make that much money..."
    • "But your friends will no longer like you if you are rich...."
    • "Only greedy people make that much money..."

    These tail enders become the true focus and thus become the "consistent thoughts that become our reality."  You need only to look at your current financial, relationship and health circumstances to know that this is true.

    We create our reality with our thoughts and the combo of the Hot Air Balloon and The Palace of Possibilities can adjust those thoughts and move us in new directions.  We can not only cut our emotional ropes (tail enders) but we can now aim our freedom focus wherever we want.

    The outside world isn't "doing it to us."  Rather, it is our own "inside job" that is shaping our lives.  And with our new tools, we are in control of our own directions.

    See you in the skies.

    Love, Gary

    PS:  Newcomers to EFT can get started for free by downloading the free EFT Manual at http://www.emofree.com/downloadeftmanual.asp