EFT Blog

This blog is for those concerned about the poorly based rumors that (1) Gary is taking away your EFT freedoms, (2) no one can use the EFT brand name any more unless they do only "Official EFT" and/or (3) Gary is going to sue anyone who does not comply with his "restrictions". 

These are all absurd.  I never said any of them, publically or privately.  I have never even thought them.  In fact, they are the exact opposite of the truth. 

These rumors apparently came from misinterpretations of the EFT Open Hand Policy.  These interpretations were then exaggerated out of proportion and spread around the internet.  The new MTT (Meridian Tapping Techniques) group is seen by some to be the savior from these false dangers. Some are even considering giving up their usage of the well established EFT brand name in favor of the enthusiastic promises of MTT.  In fact, no saving is necessary because the rumors and so-called restrictions are but a puff of smoke. While MTT may well have an honored place in this movement, it is not necessary to give up the highly recognized EFT name and make an "EFT to MTT switch" based on these rumors and resulting fears.

The EFT Open Hand Policy is a one-of-a-kind work in progress whose design is to give you unprecedented freedoms while still maintaining the essential integrity and credibility of EFT. It is being gradually revised to make sure it is clear.  Eventually, it will be replaced by a concise document that reflects all the inputs I am currently collecting.  While the current EFT Open Hand Policy should be read in its entirety, let me summarize its main points:

1. All previous freedoms are still intact.  You are still encouraged to create EFT oriented websites, books, workshops, innovations, etc. The only difference is that you are also asked for a routine acknowledgement that www.emofree.com is the main source for EFT. Properly done (see below), this allows you to attractively distinguish your unique offerings while respecting your customers with full information.  It also provides a courtesy to emofree.com as well as to other EFT'ers on our team.  It gives us a united front for the world to see and allows us to work together synergistically as teammates.  It also helps establish your credibility as this sort of acknowledgement is common courtesy. To eliminate it may be considered poor taste in the eyes of some customers.

Further, you are encouraged to make this acknowledgement creatively using your own words so that you can attractively portray your offerings.  Several examples are given in our Open Hand Policy for your use.  Here's another:

"My EFT approach is unique, yet draws heavily upon core EFT principles as provided at www.emofree.com.  I have hundreds of [students, clients] who love my XXXX innovative approach to these astonishing techniques.  Here is what they say....[include testimonials]" 

Tip: ask your webmaster to includeTarget="_Blank" in your link because doing so will open emofree.com in a new window.  This way you will never lose a customer because  the relatively few customers that actually click on this link will always be returned to your site.

2. Obsolete EFT credentials must be replaced:  A major concern here is the EFT-ADV designation.  This designation portrays that one is "Advanced" but yet the knowledge to pass it consists of a relatively easy test on the second of our nine DVD sets.  Through no fault of the holders of this designation, it has become highly misleading and could serve to erode the credibility of anyone using it.  It is no longer advanced and has been rendered embarrasingly outdated by our newer DVD sets.

For instance, the "Advanced" implications of EFT-ADV do not reflect the major advances in (1) The Palace of Possibilities DVD set (writing on your walls, tail enders, relationship work, doing business with EFT), (2) The Specialty Series DVD sets (wherein 13 EFT experts show how they use EFT in specialized areas including trauma, relationships, allergies and addictions), (3) The Borrowing Benefits DVD set (a solid new discovery allowing the effective use of EFT for entire groups) as well as (4) The Serious Diseases and (5) Mastering EFT DVD sets (featuring highly sophisticated uses of EFT for the most complex issues imaginable).

The fault for this regrettable problem is mine because I should have done something about this (and other outdated credentials) years ago.  However, the problem has been solved by the introduction of our long overdue EFT Certification program.  This allows everyone to have ONE source of credible and recognizable certification and eliminates the problem of having a hodgepodge of credentials from a variety of sources.  This is vitally important to us all as our credibility into the future will help us stand out when the Big Doors (corporations, military, schools, medicine, sports, etc.) come knocking.

To pave the way for this opportunity and so that no one is disadvantaged, I am happy to announce that the $300 fee for the EFTCert-I designation is now being waived for anyone with previous EFT credentials, including EFT-CC, EFT-ADV, Workshop Levels 1, 2, 3, etc.  Details are given in the Certification section of the EFT website.

Hope this helps.  I will be pleased to read your comments to this blog.  It will help me formulate a workable solution for everyone.

Hugs, Gary

PS: A more detailed discussion of these issues is given in an 84 minute recorded discussion wherein Betty Moore-Hafter and Jade Barbee interview me on these topics.

An influential man in your life died recently.  His name was Coach Ben Hammerschmidt (Coach Ben).  He was my high school baseball & football coach and, whether you are aware of it or not, he was YOUR coach as well ... and still is. Why? Because his principles have made EFT what it is.  They permeate every corner of it.

Let me explain.

In my teenage years, Coach Ben was the centerpiece of my life. At first, I didn't get his true teachings because I thought pursuing trophies was what life was all about.  Excel in sports. Win some blue ribbons. Gather hardware and statues for your mantlepiece so you can display your greatness in the years to come.  Do so and people will admire you. They will will go "oooh" and "ahhh" at your trophies and will love you.

Sigh!

Coach Ben helped me get those trophies and even helped me get a Stanford football scholarship.  For that I am forever grateful.  He was a disciplined man, as a coach must be.  But he was also a man with an open hand and a soft side that understood the true meaning of his job. He understood giving and fair play and integrity.  For him, life wasn't about trophies or money or any of that stuff.  It was about helping young men along life's many paths.  It was about the power of teamwork and how pulling together brought rewards that individual prima donnas could not achieve on their own.

He lived these principles without really talking much about them.  His life was an example for us all and touched multitudes by his presence. He was love personified in a sturdily built German body.

It took me many years and a lot of maturing to finally get Coach Ben's true message. EFT is built on that message because the "trophies" of EFT have nothing to do with certificates on the wall, awards, money, fame and the like. Our trophies are all about...

• healing and spiritual connection
• emotional freedom and walking out of our own prisons
• turning anger into forgiveness and replacing pain with peace
• love and making sure everyone has access to the EFT process in a quality and consistent way
• the comraderie within our growing EFT Community and the teamwork that Coach Ben taught so beautifully.

These are the trophies that really matter. 

Saturday, May 23, 2009 is the date of Coach Ben's memorial service in my home town of Riverside, California.  I am honored to have been invited by his family to address hundreds of his athletes and friends by reciting a poem that I wrote for his retirement dinner 30 years ago.  I put it on the internet and, if you wish, you can view my Coach Ben Tribute now.

Sooner or later, we all come to the end our lives.  When people attend your memorial service which of your life's "trophies" will they remember?  Will they even care about the hardware on your mantlepiece or the certificates on your wall?  Or will they remember the times you made a difference in the lives of others?  Your softness, your smiles, your encouragement.

What better time than now to touch our brothers and sisters and collect a few more of those trophies that really matter.

Love, Gary

Will EFT help with the Swine Flu?  Probably.  In fact, this brief post may represent a profound answer to this problem.  It's drug-free and simple.  However, please recall that I have no medical training and thus I am simply giving you my experience.

That being said, I have personally used EFT 5 or 6 times for flu symptoms over the last dozen years and, in each case, my symptoms lasted a few hours rather than a week or two.  Some symptoms vanished in minutes. 

I'm not alone here as we have similar reports on our website.  Just enter "flu" into our on site search engine and read the articles.

Nothing magic about the EFT process for this problem.  Start with simple approaches like, "Even though I have this [sore throat, headache, lethargic feeling, etc]...."  If that doesn't work, look for recent recent, resentments, guilts, and other negative emotions that may be compromising your immune system.  That's it.  Pretty simple.

Should you get vaccinated?  That's a medical question and one that I'm not qualified to answer.  In my experience, though, EFT is likely to be useful whether or not one goes the vaccination route.

Hope this helps, Gary

IMPORTANT NOTE:  Although I write this in a free speech effort to promote world healing, I am not a physician and have no medical background whatsoever.  Always seek qualified medical help for serious diseases. 

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The headline of a 4/24/09 New York Times article reads....

 In Long Drive to Cure Cancer, Advances Have Been Elusive

This well written article by Gina Kolata, laments how the death rate from cancer has improved by only 5% from 1950 to 2005 while over $100 billion was spent in this near-futile effort. 

Similar things could be said about other serious diseases for which there are apparently no cures (at least not via the medical approach).  I speak here of Multiple Sclerosis, Scleroderma, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and a long, long, long list of other ailments.

Could it be that the medical researchers are looking in the wrong place for cures and that's why they are coming up empty handed?  They look where they are taught by the medical schools, of course.  They look at cells and DNA and intricate body chemistry.  They look at blood and body parts and so on.  They act as if the causes involve body chemistry, although they admit to being baffled by the true causes of a long list of diseases.

Here in the EFT Community we see frequent jaw-dropping evidence that a major cause for serious diseases involves unresolved emotional issues. Many medical researchers don't see that but we have known it here at EFT for a decade. We find with reasonable regularity that people who harbor long term fears, guilt, anger and the like usually improve physically after we EFT the emotional issues away.

This link between emotions and diseases is also becoming clear in the scientific realm.  The ACE study done by Kaiser points to compelling evidence in this regard.  Here is a brief synopsis of the larger ACE study.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is a major research study that compares current adult health status to childhood experiences decades earlier. With the cooperation of 17,421 adult Health Plan members ... the ACE Study reveals a powerful relation between our emotional experiences as children and our adult emotional health, physical health, and major causes of mortality in the United States.

So what does this mean to the EFT Community?  How can we help sail the EFT ship into the medical harbor?  Easy!  Write Gina Kolata, the author of the New York Times article.  She is a science writer and is no doubt looking for useful stories.  Give her loads of input.  If she only gets one email from us, it probably won't mean much.  But if she gets multitudes, we will be hard to ignore. 

One of our biggest assets is our numbers.  Together we have much more influence than we think.  If this effort with Gina Kolata doesn't get her attention, then so be it.  However, this effort WILL get the attention of another media writer on another day.  Together we can eventually get some of the world's largest publications to feature EFT.

To write Gina:

1. Go to http://www.nytimes.com/gst/emailus.html and start your message with Dear Gina Kolata. 

2.  Create an intro regarding your experiences with EFT and thenCopy and Paste this message below your intro.

3.  Press the "Click to Send Message" button.

That's it.  Five minutes on your part may help bring healing to thousands or millions.

Love, Gary

My gratitude for your many responses as they have created this opportunity to share my perspective in a positive light.

But first, a little history.

When EFT was first created in the ‘90's, it was but a dream in my mind ... an inspiration ... a spiritual undertaking that could bring healing to the world in ways previously unknown.  Further, most people could do the basics for themselves and the costs would be minimal.  EVERYONE could use it ... from the ultra rich to the poorest people on the planet.  It is an exquisite thought ... and one that I cherish.

I imagined a world where anger, greed and trauma would eventually be replaced by love and cooperation.  This is possible, of course, but only if we can neutralize our resentments, fears, etc. with a tool like EFT.

It is also necessary to have cooperation among multitudes (you).  Without a cohesive band of dedicated souls working TOGETHER, this dream would lapse into chaos. 

So the EFT Community was born in 1997 with an email list of 20 people.  It has been a beautiful experience to watch that initial seed grow into rose gardens and majestic forests.  Today, even though we have never advertised, our email list has grown to 440,000 and the free EFT Manual has been downloaded over 1 million times.  We are now appearing regularly in the media and are developing an impressive array of validating research.

In short, we have hit critical mass and the EFT phenomenon is poised to explode worldwide.  I expect we will have a commanding presence in the world within 5 years.

But this would be impossible without a cohesive EFT Community.  One man cannot do this alone.  It takes all of us.  It takes your dedication and enthusiasm and your joint voices to echo this message to every corner of the world.  You are doing this from San Francisco to London to New Zealand and beyond.  I sit in gratitude and awe at what you are doing and have been doing so for over a decade.

There is nothing more powerful than a team that works seamlessly together.  The coach (me) helps guide the team.  I create the plays and provide tools and inspiration.  But the team (you) plays the game.  Our joint accomplishments to date have been stunning.  Together we have provided an ocean of personal peace and healing not to mention the personal satisfactions you have generated for yourselves.

Life isn't perfect, however, and not everyone is a team player.  That is why I legally registered the terms Emotional Freedom Techniques EFT in the US and elsewhere around the world many years ago.  Initially I did this to keep disreputable interests from registering the terms for themselves.  If I hadn't done this, exploiters would have registered the terms and would now have the right to control use of the terms, potentially interfering with your ability to conduct workshops and use the terms in your websites, books, etc.  They could also put you out of business for trespassing on these terms. 

I have these same rights but, as you know, I choose to use them quite differently.  In my hands, my trademarks are a guiding mechanism.  A rudder to guide this ship into the waters of integrity and spiritual wonderment.  I call it the Open Hand Policy.

At first the Open Hand Policy gave very wide latitude, asking only that "Emotional Freedom Techniques" and "EFT" be used ethically.  I could not have known in advance what liberties people would take with this generous permission and so I waited and watched how things unfolded.  Over time I noticed that people were using the EFT logo improperly so I adjusted the Open Hand Policy to create appropriate rules.  Later, there were questionable activities regarding workshops, websites and practitioner listings associated with EFT.  Accordingly, the rules were adjusted again.  More recently, we developed an official EFT Certification program to bring consistency to the credentialing process and adjusted the rules yet again.

Whenever I make these necessary adjustments they are always made for the overall good of the EFT Community.  That's what must be understood by everyone.  Without them, chaos would reign and our team would fall apart. 

I am always amused at how these adjustments lead some folks to say, "Gary has changed."  Not so.  It is the EFT landscape that is ever changing.  This is inevitable as we grow.  For example, you live in a country where the laws are forever changing to reflect the changing social, financial and political atmosphere.  Where would your country be without these laws?  Would you like to live in a country where everyone could do as they pleased without any rules?

I am pleased with the overall acceptance and compliance with our Open Hand Policy.  Most people recognize both the legal and ethical need to comply and I have yet to take any one to court for enforcement.  That doesn't mean that everyone has complied yet.  Some people, for example, don't read our newsletter or website and aren't aware that they are out of compliance.  Later this year, I expect to assemble a team to bring these rules to the attention of everyone.

I appreciate Mr. Ortner's cooperation and understanding in the matter of the proper use of the EFT trademarks and agreeing not to mis-use the EFT trademarks in the future (i.e. using another term such as "tapping").  He has graciously even agreed to pass his new material by me to ensure he is in compliance with our policies.  Accordingly, I consider this whole EFT World Summit matter as a "mistake of enthusiasm" and am letting it be.  Investing more energy on this serves no useful purpose and distracts us from moving forward with the many exciting projects in front of us. 

Onward.

Love, Gary

PS:  There are a some clarifications needed regarding the previous communications.

First, I was not objecting to anyone making money as a result of selling EFT products.  I have promoted this ability for years, so long as it is done ethically and according to our Open Hand Policy.  My point was not that Mr. Ortner was earning money but rather HOW it was being done ... AND ... that these marketing methods were being done under a presumed EFT banner.

Second, some concluded that I was casting dispersions on the integrity of the presenters.  This was not my intention and I apologize for any misunderstanding.

Third, Mr. Ortner DID offer me a place on the EFT World Summit.  This was done after the announcement was made and after I objected.  I declined his offer as my appearance could be seen as an endorsement.

Finally, our Open Hand Policy is a work in progress and I will be coming out with a significant revision later this year.  In the meantime, here is the current version.

http://www.emofree.com/FAQ/open-hand-rights.htm

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This is a story about Bob (a Vietnam Vet) and me.  It's a touching story, a sort of "guy thing" that transcends normal expectations.  It's about an unusual affection between two men, despite our conditioning to be tough and not show emotions.  It's about the love and respect that can only come about when we "connect" in that special way ... a spiritual way.

You can meet Bob on film.  He is one of the vets featured on our 20 minute PTSD video. When I first met him he had daily suicide thoughts and suffered from paranoia.  Most nights he would wake up from his nightmares and swing his fists.  His sheets were wet from sweat every night.  Such is the life of all too many soldiers.

We had a rocky beginning.  I invited Bob and several other vets to a 5 day "EFT for War Veterans" gathering in San Francisco.  Despite the fact that all expenses were paid, Bob didn't want to come.  He said, "This whole thing is Bull ***!"  I've tried them all.  I've been in and out of psych wards much of my life and I will just be wasting my time.  Besides, I'm afraid of flying and I'm not sitting in a f-----g airplane across the country from Pennsylvania to California." He also said, "I have some memories behind my personal wall and nobody is getting to them."

So I asked Miguel Vazquez, a Vietnam Vet who I personally helped with his PTSD, to call Bob and preach the EFT Faith.  It worked and Bob reluctantly got on that airplane.  Unbeknownst to him, however, I did several rounds of EFT surrogately for his fear of flying and, of course, he had no problem with the flight.  But that's another story.

Even though we had 5 EFT experts present in San Francisco, I chose to take Bob under my wing for personal attention.  Despite his vocal abuses about the stupidity of this event, I saw the tenderness underneath.  It's there with most vets.  It's the little boy inside crying out for attention ... for acknowledgement ... for love ... all the while taking shots at anyone who tries to "get close."  In a way, I think we all do this, including me.  I saw him as a challenge and as a brother.  We somehow had something in common.  There was something in Bob that I recognized in me.

So we started slowly.  We worked on a height phobia and that went poof in 30 minutes.  Then we worked on some "small war memories" and those subsided as well.  After 2 days, he slept the night through.  No nightmares. No sweats. No swinging fists.

Now I had his attention.  He was relaxed and smiled a lot.  No longer was he critical of this event or EFT.  He didn't understand it, of course, but the results were undeniable.  He softened and the first trickle of our friendship began .  That's how it is with vets.  There are rivers of contained love that can flood souls once the dam has been broken.

Then we worked on those "memories behind his personal wall."  Despite some difficult moments during the sessions, EFT brought him to peace and those memories have not bothered him since (his paranoia and suicide thoughts have vanished as well). 

Then he turned to me with gratitude written all over his face and gave me the words that echo in my being to this day.  He said...

"I love ya, man!"

I puddled up inside.  Suddenly, nothing else mattered.  There it was ...  the connection we all strive for but don't know how to voice.  A spiritual experience from the most unlikely of places.  What reward could possibly transcend that?  I choked back a tear and he could see that he moved me.  Actually, we moved each other.  There was a silence between us that allowed the moment to engrave itself on our beings.

Bob and I remain friends to this day and we call each other from time to time to catch up.  Sometimes, amidst the pressures of this growing EFT movement, I lose sight of the human reason I am here.  But all I need to do is remember the many "Bob experiences" that I have collected over the years and I am right back on purpose.

I Love ya, Gary

PS:  Bob welcomes your phone calls.  570-489 1414

Today I found myself in "EFT Gratitude Mode" and this poem was the result.  It is all about you so I hope you like it.  You are changing the world are are a treasure to me.  Just keep on being you. 

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This instructs Health Professionals and Do-IT-Yourselfer's to use our DVDs efficiently.  Note the caveats included at the end.

Do you look at the size of our DVD Libraries (140 hours in total) and say, "This is too much!" or "This must be too complicated"?  Many do, at least at first glance.  Actually, they are neither too much nor too complicated.  The proper phrase is "Easy, Fun and Thorough," as a proper look at them will reveal.

They have been designed to get you started quickly and then move you toward more sophisticated uses as your interest appears.  In one evening, for example, you can have this lifetime tool at your fingertips and you can apply it anytime, anywhere for just about any issue you can name.

Just read the EFT Manual and watch the first two videos in the EFT Course (part of the EFT Foundational Library),  This will give you a thorough grounding in the basics that you can use immediately on family, friends and clients.  You don't need to attend a class or get someone's approval or take a test.  Nor do you need a college degree.  Just start doing it.  You may stub your toe a time or two at first but a little practice should improve your results quickly.  We have children who use these basics to provide impressive benefits.

So that's how anyone starts, whether you are a health professional or a do-it-yourself'er.  From here our DVDs will move you well beyond the basics and will take you as far into the sophisticated levels as you choose to go.  There are two easy ways to proceed.  Health professinals should use the first method but do-it-yourself''ers can use either one.

Easy Procedure #1 -- Proceed through the rest of the DVDs as your time and interest allows.

Although it is possible to skip around within the DVDs, it is best to view them in order.  Along the way you will gain insights into creative uses of EFT that include Doing EFT over the Phone, EFT for War Veterans with PTSD, The Palace of Possibilities, Specialty Uses of EFT, EFT for Serious Diseases and a fascinating concept called Borrowing Benefits. This list represents about 1/3 of the important contributions these DVDs will make to your success rate.

While you can buy the DVDs one Library at a time, there is a major discount if you buy them all at once.  Professionals will want them all eventually so proceed as your budget allows.

Easy Procedure #2 -- Ignore any further instructions and simply tap along with the live sessions contained within the DVDs.  This is called Borrowiing Benefits.

 We have found through years of experience that you can tap along with someone else's issue and still get improvement for your own EVEN THOUGH YOUR ISSUE APPEARS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM THE PERSON ON STAGE.  Example: You may have never been in war so you might think that tapping along with a war veteran's issue would be useless. Not so. That war veteran is likely dealing with trauma, guilt, physical pains, anger, fear feeling violated, etc.  While you may not have had the exact same war experiences, you HAVE had your version of all those issues.  Have you not? 

Accordingly, your system can automatically pick up the necessary parallels and bring you relief while you tap along with a wide variety of issues on your TV screen.  Further, the numerous and diverse sessions available to you on these DVDs are quite entertaining.  There is more humor and human drama in them than in any reality TV show.  I once use this procedure with an audience of 500 people and 499 reported impressive results.

Interestingly, yoiu can use these "tap along" sessions repeatedly for thousands of issues.  And, as you do this, you will gradually learn the fine points of EFT.  Why? Because they are demonstrated repeatedly in the sessions.  With this type of exposure, you can't help but expand your sophistication with this method.

You can apply this process using only the sessions contained in the EFT Foundational Library.  However, you will have a much wider diversity of sessions at your disposal (and you will learn much more) if you buy all 3 Libraries at the same time.  A large discount applies for this group purchase so proceed as you budget dictates.

Caveats

The internet is loaded with many "quickie" forms of EFT that give the impression you can learn all the EFT you need by attending a workshop or by viewing a few minues of online videos or by following the instructions following a tapping points diagram.  This is inaccurate.  None of these things (not even my own workshops) can come anywhere close to covering all the material in our DVDs. 

On the other hand, there is something to be said for the hands on nature and supervisorial features of a quality EFT workshop.  These features cannot be provided by our DVDs and so I encourage workshops done along these lines.  Please know that I have not trained any workshop presenters and thus I cannot endorse any of them.

There are two types of workshops that I encourage, neither of which replace our DVDs: (1) Those that offer condensed versions of EFT (and state that's what they are offering) and (2) Those that augment what is taught in our DVDs -- e.g. specialized approaches for things like weight loss, relationships, etc.  I have provided an ethical and common sense document along these lines.

 Love, Gary

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Last week I was in Atlanta , Georgia attending a conference. While I
was in the airport, returning home, I heard several people behind me
beginning to clap and cheer. I immediately turned around and witnessed
one of the greatest acts of patriotism I have ever seen.

Moving thru the terminal was a group of soldiers in their camos. As they
began heading to their gate, everyone (well almost everyone) was abruptly
to their feet with their hands waving and cheering.

When I saw the soldiers, probably 30-40 of them, being applauded and
cheered for, it hit me.  I'm not alone.  I'm no t the only red-blooded
American who still loves this country and supports our troops and their
families.

Of course I immediately stopped and began clapping for these young
unsung heroes who are putting their lives on the line everyday for us so
we can go to school, work and home without fear or reprisal.

Just when I thought I could not be more proud of my country or of our
service men and women, a young girl, not more than 6 or 7 years old ran
up to one of the male soldiers. He kneeled down and said 'hi.'

The little girl then asked him if he would give something to her daddy
fo r her.

The young soldier, who didn't look any older than maybe 22 himself,
s aid he would try and what did she want to give to her daddy. Then
suddenly the little girl grabbed the neck of this soldier, gave him the
biggest hug she could muster and then kissed him on the cheek.

The mother of the little girl, who said her da ughter's name was
Courtney , told the young soldier that her husband was a Marine and had
been in Iraq for 11 months now. As the mom was explaining how much her
daughter Courtney missed her father, the young soldier began to tear up.

When this temporarily single mom was done explaining her situation, all
of the soldiers huddled together for a brief second. Then one of the
other service m en pulled out a military-looking walkie-talkie. They
started playing with the device and talking back and forth on it.

After about 10-15 seconds of this, the young soldier walked back over to
Courtney, bent down and said this to her, 'I spoke to your daddy and he
told me to give this to you.' He then hugged this little girl that he
had just met and gave her a kiss on t he cheek. He finished by saying
'your daddy told me to tell you that he loves you more than anything and
he is coming home very soon.'

The mom at this point wa s crying almost uncon trollably and as the young
soldier stood to his feet, he saluted Courtney and her mom. I was
standing no more than 6 feet away from this entire event.

As the soldiers began to leave, heading towards their gate, people
resumed their applause. As I stood there applauding and looked around,
there were very few dry eyes, including my own. That young soldier in
one last act of se lflessness, turned around and blew a kiss to Courtney
with a tear rolling down his ch eek.

We need to remember everyday all of our soldiers and their families and
thank God for them and their sacrifices. At the end of the day, it's
good to be an American.

Note:  Outrageous EFT Ideas are designed to initiate thinking outside the box.  They are launching pads for innovative thinkers and, properly used, will propel our imaginations into new territory.  Please comment only on what exciting new vistas they inspire and toss any thoughts like "this won't work" in the trash.

EFT should become a Cosmic Law

So check it out.  EFT's results as a self-calming technique are legendary and every seasoned EFT'er can fill encyclopedias with pristine examples of this feature.  With impressive consistency, EFT converts upsets into tranquility and usually does so in moments.

But despite the striking benefits of this self-calming feature, it is usually confined to EFT sessions for "bringing a client down" after s/he tunes in to an upsetting event.

That's a big oversight because It has much broader uses than that.

EFT should be used for EVERY upset whether or not the upset occurs during an EFT session.  I mean every anger ... every rejection ... every insult ... every resentment ... every trauma ... every fear ...whenever or wherever they appear.  They all need to be resolved with EFT on the spot.  This should become a Cosmic Law.

Here are some of the benefits for doing so.

• It would almost instantly defuse the vast majority of our upsets.
• Domestic violence would fade.
• Our crime rate would decline.
• So would our automobile accident rate.
• Our prisons would have fewer inmates.
• Our currently overburdened courtoooms would be looking for something to do.
• Our health expenses would drop substantially

Does anyone doubt this? 

Making EFT a Cosmic Law may take a while because there are still some people that don't know about it.  However, we can always start with ourselves.

Love to all, Gary

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Note:  Outrageous EFT Ideas are designed to initiate thinking outside the box.  They are launching pads for innovative thinkers and, properly used, will propel our imaginations into new territory.  Please comment only on what exciting new vistas they inspire and toss any "this won't work" thoughts in the trash.

An Outrageous Idea - Mandatory EFT for all war veterans

Send this to your elected representatives, your local Veterans Administration and anyone else who wants to help lift the burden of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from our soldiers.  The cost of this affliction, in both dollars and disrupted lives, is immense and is clearly displayed in our headlines.

Conventional therapies don't even dent the problem. If they did it would be fixed by now.  Instead, they tend to cover it up with drugs or employ endless "go-nowhere" sessions that are often re-traumatizing.  These things may help but, by and large, they are not doing the job and veterans are left to endure their debilitating symptoms.  By contrast, EFT often works beautifully where these efforts have failed and has brought impressive relief in a high percentage of cases.  So, let's make EFT mandatory for all war veterans. Here are some of its advantages:

• It's easy to use.
• It's rapid and relatively gentle.
• It's inexpensive.
• Nightmares and intrusive memories usually fade.
• Physical symptoms subside.
• No drugs or endless therapy sessions involved.
• Properly done, it can be applied to large groups of vets at one time.

EFT should be made mandatory for all war veterans and has certainly "earned its stripes" in this regard.  Here's why...

• We profusely demonstrated EFT's profound uses in our hour long video "6 Days at the VA."  This was done at the Los Angeles Veterans Administration in 1994 and yet EFT still has not been adopted by the VA.
• EFT has been scientifically verified and has appeared in several peer reviewed journals. See http://www.emofree.com/res.htm.
• We have a new video out showing EFT with vets that displays unmistakable benefits. See http://www.emofree.com/splash/video_vets.asp
• Tapping therapies such as EFT have been recommended for many years by The National Veterans Foundation.

Governments like to throw endless amounts of money at problems such as PTSD in hopes that "new research will find an answer."  This is unnecessary.  The "new research" is already here and is right under the government's nose. 

It is up to us to help them see it.  So send this message to your elected officials. Send it to your local VA.  Do it repeatedly.  Send them to www.emofree.com for our free EFT Manual and tell them of your own EFT experiences.  They are busy and unaware of EFT's potential ... BUT ... if you persist and persuade, they will come around.

Think about it. If all 400,000 of us on this EFT Insights Newsletter List did this, we could move this mountain and get EFT in the hands of our deserving vets. Are you going to help or will you be watching from the sidelines?  Our vets are depending on you. Let's take care of this NOW so our vets don't needlessly spend decades with their pains, traumas, nightmares and destroyed lives.

Love, Gary

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EFT contains a clear spiritual element that enhances the effectiveness of our prayers. There are, for example, countless examples on the EFT website of people performing EFT in behalf of others surrogately. This is a form of prayer (positive intention) that doesn't require the presence of the other person. As an example, here is an excerpt from an article on our website entitled "Surrogate tapping for a 2 year old with Cancer" by Julia Allen.

"They "gave her" 1 year to live, as the type of cancer was very aggressive ... I have been tapping (at first with the help of a counselor, and later on my own -- for all kinds of things). I did not tell her parents that I intended to do this, but I did do some tapping for the little girl ... 1 week later our friend called saying they re-assessed her condition and determined she might live 3 years ... Well, about 1 week later she had another check-up and as her dad put it, "they have cleared her", she is free of all cancer, not remission, and is expected to live just as long as anyone else. Her doctors say it's incredible. A mystery. In fact the family is coming to visit us for 4th of July (which is a huge deal, as they haven't done anything in years!)"

Please note that while not all EFT applications provide such spectacular results, we get enough such examples to motivate us to try EFT on just about everything, regardless of our ingrained beliefs about what is, or is not, possible.

Remember this...Those who say something can't be cured are those who can't cure it.

Love to all, Gary

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PS: Those interested in the permission issue for surrogate EFT are invited to read this discussion.