By Christine Wheeler, MA

Why do some people who work long hours at a keyboard (or other repetitive activity) suffer from the symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome while others escape it completely? 

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) has a new answer to that question. According to this intriguing theory, people working in high-risk repetitive stress industries are more at risk for developing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome if they have unresolved negative emotions or energetic imbalances in their body. 

Hmmm! 

You won't find that in medical books so the important question, obviously, is whether or not this theory brings about benefits. Apparently so, because 80 percent of Carpal Tunnel victims achieve nearly instant relief from applying EFT.

This is refreshing news to people with this type of chronic pain but who still have to work at their injurious jobs. EFT frequently diminishes (or eliminates) the chronic pain, tingling, numbness and burning associated with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, sometimes in as little as three minutes.

EFT is a new procedure that borrows from the much heralded discoveries of Albert Einstein (everything, including your body, is composed of energy) AND from the ancient wisdom of Chinese acupuncture.  In essence, EFT is an emotional version of acupuncture except that needles are not necessary. 

Instead, certain release points are stimulated by tapping them with the fingertips. Further, the basics of EFT can be learned by anyone and can be self-applied (usually in minutes).

Using EFT to Eliminate Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

In 1998, Mary Kuriger eliminated her Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in 10 minutes and it has never returned. Here's her story. (From an actual case on the EFT Web site.)

For about eight years, Mary Kuriger suffered with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and spent a small fortune on chiropractic and physical therapy treatments. While she did believe that these treatments had helped her to avert surgery for her severe case of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, she was still plagued with the chronic pain.

She heard that EFT often works where nothing else will and, since nothing else had worked, Mary found an EFT practitioner to work with her on this painful and debilitating problem. Interestingly, she had resigned herself to living with this pain for the rest of her life so she certainly didn't expect to have complete relief in just 10 minutes! 

The EFT practitioner gently guided Mary through the EFT procedure while she tapped on her own acupuncture points. Her EFT session for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome lasted for about 10 minutes. Then the pain was completely gone! And it never returned.

She remarked, "I had absolutely no pain! I couldn't believe it! I kept mentally searching throughout my body for the pain. It just wasn't there!" This startling result is quite common for people using EFT to heal any issue -- physical or emotional.

Mary was so inspired by the quick relief rendered by EFT for her physical pain that she turned her attention to a deep-rooted emotional grief that she had been carrying around since her sister's passing in 1989. Mary reported, "Within minutes, I felt the weight lift from me. I have been able to remember my sister fondly and nostalgically but with no pain of grief ever since!" 

Be assured that you can use EFT on any kind of physical or emotional pain and the process is the same no matter what the condition. There are no side effects and you can do this gentle technique by yourself.

You can read Mary's full magazine article that she wrote about her experience using EFT to eliminate her Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

While a complete description of EFT is beyond the scope of this article, you can learn all the basics from the free EFT Get Started Package, including a free download of the 79-page EFT Manual (it includes all the basics). Those wishing to save time and dive right in can get the very affordable training DVDs. 

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