By Christine Wheeler, MA
Emotional Freedom Techniques reduces or eliminates the intensity of your symptoms, often in just minutes.
EFT is the new way to spell relief from menopausal symptoms. If you are between the ages of 40 and 58 menopause is either approaching or already staking a claim in your life.
Will you do what many women do and resign yourself to suffering through this troublesome time? Or would you rather approach menopause with a proven healing tool at your fingertips so you can minimize those hot flashes, night sweats, chills and other debilitating symptoms?
EFT is a new procedure that borrows from the much heralded discoveries of Albert Einstein (everything, including your body, is composed of energy) 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).
Menopausal relief is likely for 80% of women. It doesn't have to be all downhill from here
The concept behind EFT is that many of our physical ailments, including excess menopausal symptoms, are often caused by (1) interruptions to the free flow of the subtle energies in our bodies and/or (2) unresolved anger, guilt, fear and trauma that manifest as physical symptoms.
Using these important ideas, EFT reduces -- even eliminates -- the intensity of your menopausal symptoms as you go through this natural life process. EFT will not make you younger, of course, but with it you can collapse your hot flashes and night sweats, counteract weight gain, mood swings, and loss of libido and enter the next stage of your life with health and vitality.
Read about how Nancy O'Hanna used EFT to eliminate her hot flashes, night sweats and chills
From an actual case on the EFT website. Nancy O'Hanna found herself in the midst of menopause and described her hot flashes and night sweats as "horrible, annoying, exhausting, tiring, and embarrassing". While every woman experiences menopause differently, most menopausal women can identify with Nancy's emotional reaction to her own intense and out of control symptoms.
First, Nancy addressed her hot flashes with EFT and, after administering the protocol several times, they quickly went from sizzle to fizzle. They diminished in every way, including frequency, duration and intensity. When they eventually re-appeared, they were less intense and rapidly subsided after a few more applications of EFT (a few minutes).
Nancy was excited to get the hot flashes under control but, like most menopausal women, she was also plagued with night sweats. After one brief session with EFT she said, "It is with sheer delight that I can say that the night sweats diminished substantially the first night after that one session of tapping."
A little more EFT and the second night Nancy slept like a baby -- no night sweats! She had the same great results using EFT to eliminate the cold sweats and chills that would normally follow her hot flashes. Two months later she reported, "I am basically without hot flashes or chills. If I do get a "flare-up" I simply do a round or two of EFT and they are history.
Though Nancy's results may sound remarkable, even unbelievable to those unfamiliar with the simple elegance of EFT, many women have achieved the same type of relief from their out of control, and unnecessary menopausal symptoms.
Please note that, in addition to improving menopausal symptoms with EFT, it has been a consistently effective healing tool for hundreds of other physical, mental and emotional ailments. For more information, you can explore the EFT website and read through some of the thousands of success stories from people who have effectively used EFT to eliminate their fears, phobias, emotional traumas and physical ailments.
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. Those wishing to save time and dive right in can get the very affordable training DVDs.
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