By Christine Wheeler, MA

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is an innovative new approach to healing that is gaining attention from medical professionals and laypersons all over the world. 

It is becoming popularized for its simplicity and drug free effectiveness in eliminating the symptoms associated with illnesses of all kinds.  It has achieved noticeable improvements in a wide range of conditions and diseases, from the common cold to multiple sclerosis.

EFT has taken Einstein's discoveries (that everything is energy, including the human body), married them with the ancient tradition of acupuncture, and formulated a modern approach to dealing with illness.  The success of EFT lies in the balancing of the body's subtle energies that flow through the body in much the same way as blood flows through veins. 

This balancing is done with an elegant sort of emotional acupuncture.  Instead of using needles, specific release points are stimulated by tapping them with the fingertips.  The basics of EFT can be learned by anyone and can be self-applied (usually in minutes). 

When the subtle energies of the body are balanced, symptoms associated with illness are often corrected ... usually quickly and often permanently.  Clinical results indicate that EFT is effective 80% of the time.  While EFT does not offer perfect results, it is without known side effects, can be learned by anyone and gives people control over their own health situations.  It often works when nothing else will ... even if there is no known cure, as with the common cold.

Here is a synopsis of an actual case where a retired medical doctor relieved his own common cold symptoms with EFT.  It can be read in its entirety on the EFT website. 

Physician used EFT
to stop his oncoming cold.

William Schenker, MD, a retired family physician described himself as having a lifelong history of severe common colds.  When he was younger, the cold would leave him feeling miserable for 6 to 8 days.

As he approached middle age, the colds worsened remarkably, sometimes lasting 2 weeks and often leaving him bedridden for the first week. 

At age 78, after a lifetime of severe colds, Dr. Schenker used EFT one morning when he awoke with the telltale signs of another cold.  He had all the symptoms ... congestion, runny nose, scratchy throat and a tired, achy feeling.  In his experience, these symptoms were just the beginning of two weeks of feeling miserable.

Within the first hours of noticing the cold symptoms, he performed 3 complete applications of EFT ... a total of about 9 minutes of EFT.  Normally, his colds would develop quickly but this time, within an hour his symptoms still hadn't worsened. 

At noon he did another set of 3 complete applications of EFT and reported, "I noticed a radical decrease in symptom severity, maybe 50% improvement."  After just 15 minutes of EFT, his cold symptoms were cut in half.

In the evening, he did another set of 3 EFT applications and afterwards, the symptoms from the morning were 95% gone.  The next morning, he awoke with mild sniffles and did EFT three times again that day ... morning noon and night.  After that, no more EFT and no cold developed.  During the next week he would occasionally get a bout of sniffles "But that's about it" reported Dr. Schenker "otherwise, the problem was wiped out!"

Dr. Schenker was accustomed to a minimum of two weeks of suffering each time he contracted a common cold.  Using EFT, he balanced his subtle energy system and eliminated his body's typical reaction to being infiltrated by a cold virus.

Please note that, in addition to improving cold 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 numerous clinical cases regarding people who have effectively used EFT to eliminate their fears, phobias, emotional traumas and physical ailments.

Please consult qualified health professionals before putting EFT into practice for yourself or others.