3 years ago as I just started going through my separation and eventual divorce was a mess. I was trying to get my medical practice together and deal with the transition in my practice where I was split between two offices 20 miles apart, I had custody problems to deal with my two children and two former stepsons who both had landed in jail for various reasons.
In addition, I was dealing with the recent one. It's been a long time since I've been in the singles scene. the first night I went out I was frozen. I just can not do it. I had what is called "Access to the anxiety." inability to talk to beautiful women I know because of anxiety. I'd have to say: "What would a young, beautiful women want to work with the 37-year-old man who is divorcing and has 2 children?" Every time I went to a woman, I'd stop dead in my tracks because of chest pressure in his chest that reminded me I was getting anxious and that if I was drunk and said the wrong thing, I'd lose any chance of any meaningful relationships from then. (I was really putting a lot of pressure on myself now that I look back at it!). Eventually it got easier and easier to muster the courage, but that feeling of chest pressure and anxiety lingered on, even after a year of forcing myself to approach women.
So I was happy to get some sound advice from my mentor hypnosis, Cliff Young, who told me to try EFT ... Emotional Freedom Technique. He directed me to buy books written by Magnus, the young devotee EFT movement that has learned all he could from Gary Craig, a gentleman who moved forward EFT tapping adding several eye movement exercises and some left and right brain tactics. If you read the book, "Molecules of Emotions" by Candace Pert, you would have heard about how emotions are marked on the physical symptoms. Peptides are traveling through the body to create signals that cause body changes and physiological sensations. Who has not had his face turn red when embarrassed? Or the hair stand up in the back of the neck, when scared? For me, I got the chest pressure and rapid heartbeat when anxious.
After buying the book and watching YouTube videos, I was somewhat taken aback by the request. "The cure for fibromyalgia." "Reduction of anxiety." "Cure PTSD." "Make money." "Lose weight." Really amazing because as a doctor with all my excellent training in medicine and 11 years of experience after their stay, yet I had ever seen someone "cured" of her fibromyalgia and PTSD from a short set of maneuvers. I was in for a surprising discovery for me and my patients.
Now mind you, I was skeptical of most of these techniques. I have my MD and have never heard or seen such a thing as "EFT", so it seemed preposterous that touch various body parts and buzzing and rotating your eyes, you could stop my approach anxiety, let alone their patients' fibromyalgia pain, or Vietnam vet with PTSD -a. I was in for a shock.
I followed the instructions in the book, and my chest pressure and my inability to talk with women stopped dead in its tracks. It was not fake or a placebo effect. I literally did not have a problem I've had for more than a year over the 2-minute EFT session that I did, and after using the technique, I immediately had eliminated the chest pressure and nervousness when I talked with women.
I had tried my hardest before to get rid of this anxiety by forcing yourself to talk with a woman after woman after woman, but the pressure in the chest, the inability of speech, rapid heart kept coming back. Before EFT I kept telling myself that eventually it would get better and keep telling yourself that for a year. With EFT it got better after just 2 minutes.
After reading the book, I used the technique on myself and my approach anxiety was eliminated. I could walk up to each woman, and the rest is history.
So where does this come to play with the rapid weight loss? Well I discovered that some of my patients are emotional ties with meals. When they lose weight, flood of emotions coming on. Sometimes it does not make sense, but overeating is the way they deal with feelings of anxiety, loneliness, fear, depression. You've heard the term "emotional eater" before. Well, EFT can help reduce or eliminate fears, anxieties and other emotions, so they are no longer connected with diet. You could potentially relieve their emotions than anything to do with eating, if you like to be an emotional eater.
When my patients say: "I eat because I have better things to do" or "I can relax better when I eat, " I delve into the dish that is made for relief. EFT is a way of relieving the emotions, so that it can replace the dish.
Let's face it. We relax when we eat. We work through our busy day and we take a break to unwind and snack. Some of us do not get a break and work hard until lunch time as the only time in the day we can sit back, and then not stop until you get home for dinner. There are strong connections to relax when we eat. So, here for relaxation and eating is very strong. For some people it is as powerful as taking anxiolytic as Xanax, Valium, and Ativan.
with EFT, you can eliminate the anxiety that appeared in the first place, without medication. The reason is called Emotional Freedom Technique is because you are literally alone without any connection between emotions and your physical body.
Have you seen the movie, "There's Something About Mary"? In it, Cameron Diaz is Mary, and has a stalker named "woogie" Chris Elliott played. As he gets closer and closer to her in the movie, he gets more and more skin rashes on her face and starts itching. Neurodermatitis is a medical term for this situation. There are many people in the world who suffer from skin rashes that come from emotion. It is much more extreme and serious form of turning red when embarrassed. I've had several patients who have this condition and were treated with various ointments and creams, steroids, a dermatologist recommendations. I have used EFT on these patients and see the problem completely disappears. Woogie needs of EFT.
then fibromyalgia. It is very difficult to deal with the diagnosis. medications reduce the pain, but not great, there is usually a strong emotional component to pain, and most doctors have thrown their hands wondering what to do. Fibromyalgia is diagnosed when there is a set of points that trigger the inflammation. When you look at the trigger points, they coincide with the meridian lines discovered that Chinese doctors have developed accupuncture.
Now we realize, "Chi", a meridian line as shown through the book "Molecules of emotion" as a way in which electricity and peptides travel quickly to rapid changes in macrolevel. We used to think that the nerves were the only way for quick information to be exchanged in the body. Now we know that there are macrolevel power flow and the changes that occur with emotions. Peptides get released in waves, and a link to their receptors and cause widespread changes in physiological. Some people are emotional and have migraines. Some people have an emotional and neck or back pain. Some people get nervous and shake. Others feel depressed or numb their muscles get catatonic. All of these changes in our bodies that come from the emotions flow through these meridian lines.
Fibromyalgia patients, for the most part, have the emotional changes that cause pain down the meridian line. They usually lack of sleep, and it makes the problem worse. Then, less sleep, the worse the pain gets. I see it as a dream to meridians and areas of trigger points to rest. So, one of the pillars of treatment is sleep medicines and gabapentin or Lyrica, two drugs attack the area that allow you to relax. Depression drugs also are the mainstay of therapy. Despite these medications, I'll have to know that most family doctors like me really frustrated by the lack of good treatments for fibromyalgia. patients are desperate and will try drugs, physical therapy, biofeedback, acupuncture. For the most part I have found biofeedback and acupuncture a little more successful.
The issue of EFT in my practice. I use it on my fibromyalgia patients, and the results are stunning. One patient became pain and drug free within a week. She found an emotional connection to past sexual abuse is experienced, and when we release the emotions of her fibromyalgia pain, fibromyalgia is cured. I never in my experience seen a medical cure someone of their fibromyalgia? Her activity level goes up, and she quickly lost weight she gained from being active.
The second patient came to me like a second opinion. Her situation was difficult and it is difficult to depressed from her fibromyalgia pain. Her pain was so severe that her primary doctor she was escalated up the ladder pain medication, and was on methadone. But, as happens with all opiates, more remained to medicine, it is less work for her pain. She has built a tolerance. So, at this moment that I first got it in my office, had the worst pain of fibromyalgia has ever had, and had built up tolerance and dependence on methadone when he was never addicted to anything.
We are not EFT, buy her books, and the results, again, are stunning. Within a month she became pain free, so much that she wanted to come off methadone. We had to admit her to the rehab facility she wean from methadone, it has become so used to, but I'm happy to say today that one years later, she was still pain free and out of methadone, as well as 10 other drugs was on for fibromyalgia. She sleeps like a baby too, and it is less affected by their physical movements. And on top of that, she was on five Bite Diet (TM) by my colleague Dr. Alwin Lewis, MD, and lost huge amounts of weight.
successes go on and on. I hate to say it, but I'm glad I went through my divorce and got back into the singles scene, or I would have never been exposed to hypnotherapy and Emotional Freedom Technique. Imagine if you were to learn EFT, and suddenly find you have questions dealt with the whole life suddenly disappears. That is what happened and is happening every day with my patients. If your mind remains skeptical, it's too bad that he could not allow myself to get rid of the locked box thinking and experience new directions. I've had hundreds of patients to learn the technique now, and I am amazed at the results they are getting. It is a scientific journal that explored the EFT and found that maybe it was placebo effect, because most changes are subjective. But in a few patients of mine who have lost weight or eliminate long-standing problems such as fibromyalgia and gained control of his emotions, it was certainly worth it.
I learned the technique a few doctors and they are too stunned by the additional healing they can provide the technology. They are also now keen understanding of the chi force and meridian lines and acupressure points. EFT brings together meditation, acupressure, eye movements, both left and right brain activity, so that they now have a better understanding of the mind-body medicine. We simply do not have the tools and techniques to measure what we do. Duke University doctor shows me a small machine that can help youyou find the trigger points and accupuncture meridian where the energy flows . So we are now just beginning to find a technology that helps to explain 3000 years the Chinese doctor know-how.
If you think you can not lose weight because you're an emotional eater or have other issues with your emotions create physical problems, I highly recommend looking into EFT. You May also experience the wonderful relief of physical symptoms related to your emotions and suddenly find themselves able to avoid emotional eating. If you want to learn more about EFT and weight loss, please go to my website and see how technology has helped so many of my patients.
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