by CJ Puotinen
Few things in life are as terrifying as an asthma attack. No matter how hard you try, you can't catch your breath.
Prescription inhalers don't always work and severe cases require emergency medical attention. Further, asthma can be fatal.
When Sandi Radomski took her daughter to an ice skating competition, one of the 10-year-old skaters had an attack. "Her mother was giving her the usual inhalers to no avail," Radomski says. "Her color was off, her breathing was very labored, her eyes were glazed, and she was beginning to get agitated."
Radomski is a practitioner of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), so when the skater's mother turned to her for help, she knew exactly what to do.
EFT is an energy-balancing procedure that involves gentle fingertip tapping of key acupuncture points, most of which are on the face and torso. A round of tapping usually takes less than a minute and it can be applied to almost every emotional and physical issue.
Tapping on the girl, Radomski went through the cycle several times. "At first she was almost unaware of what I was doing since she was so distressed," Radomski reports (complete case on the EFT Web site). "Then she seemed to calm down and her breathing and color returned to normal."
The skater and her mother were absolutely amazed at how rapidly she recovered. Her mother said that she responded to the EFT more quickly than if she had had an injection in the emergency room.
It's hard to imagine how tapping on your head and facial points can make an asthma attack go away, but the foundations of this technique were laid down thousands of years ago by Chinese physicians when they mapped the body's energy meridians.
The same points that release energy blocks when stimulated by acupuncture needles respond to tapping. According to EFT founder Gary Craig and the rapidly growing network of EFT practitioners around the world, an estimated 80 percent of those who try it experience improvement. See EFT's official Web site for a complete description of the technique and additional asthma reports.
In addition to relieving asthma and other symptoms, EFT has been a consistently effective healing tool for hundreds of other physical, mental and emotional ailments. For more information, explore the EFT Web site and its numerous success stories regarding fears, phobias, emotional traumas and physical ailments.
While a complete description of EFT is beyond the scope of this article, you can learn the basics from the free EFT Get Started Package on the EFT Web site. This includes a free download of the 79-page EFT Manual. Those wishing to save time and dive right in can get the affordable five-star training DVDs.
Please consult qualified health professionals before putting EFT into practice for yourself or others.