By Gary Craig, Emotional Freedom Techniques

Dear Dr. Mercola,

I read an article in one of your newsletters about hypertension and how using garlic can be a life-saving preventative method for high blood pressure. Because high blood pressure can easily develop from unresolved emotional issues, not only is EFT another great preventative tool for hypertension, it can also provide significant results at any stage of the disease.

The following case history comes from Peggy Thiel, who downloaded my free EFT manual and used the basic EFT technique on her physical symptoms.

"Tonight, I sat down in my recliner and took my blood pressure (I have a very accurate home measurement unit with a cuff). It was 144 over 92 -- the fact that it had come down from my doctor's previous reading might be attributable to the two weeks I've spent off work, perhaps.

Then I did the Basic Recipe, focusing my energies on my high blood pressure. One minute after performing the Basic Recipe, I took my blood pressure reading again. In the space of less than 10 minutes, it had dropped from 144 over 92 to 121 over 86. Oh my God! I am a rank beginner, having never even heard of this process until last night, I've only done it now a total of three times, and it's stabilized my heart rhythm and lowered my blood pressure over 20 points!

How absolutely incredible -- I am absolutely in awe. I have experimented with probably not as many healing modalities as you have (but a lot of them nevertheless) and I have never seen anything work like this.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

Unlike other energy methods, EFT addresses the emotional events that wreak havoc on energy meridians in the body, and that, quite often, cause the symptoms of high blood pressure. Proper EFT application would initially focus on the physical symptoms themselves, and begin with a simple tapping procedure to start realigning the disrupted energy meridians. If the symptoms haven't vanished after the initial realignment, or if they reappear, then there is almost always an emotional factor at work.

Usually with high blood pressure, patients are aware of the recurring events that cause them emotional stress. Using EFT, as the patient revisits the event(s) in question, the energy meridians are thus re-disturbed. That's when the physical symptoms caused by that particular disturbance can be healed by correcting the meridians with EFT.

Sometimes, high blood pressure symptoms are caused by a number of emotional factors, and each of those can be addressed individually by EFT. Fortunately, each application of the EFT procedure can be done in less than a minute, so many emotional factors can be addressed in one session.

The effective way EFT works on blood pressure issues -- for both high and low blood pressure -- is often astonishing. In most cases, blood pressure readings improve within a few minutes of applying EFT. For those who don't achieve instant results, however, EFT is still likely to provide relief. In these cases, more sophisticated approaches are usually necessary (you can find a practitioner anywhere around the world who can apply his or her experience to your issues), but in every case, EFT offers significant healing potential without drugs.

With increasing evidence that our state of mind plays a significant role in our physical well-being, EFT is becoming a household tool for daily emotional balance. For blood pressure issues in particular, it is actually easier to address daily upsets with EFT before they manifest in the body as a life-threatening condition.