EFT for Back Pain A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques-0

需无水印完整版本请发邮件：wzxidian@gmail.com Doc uCo m P DF Tria l ww w.pd fwiz ard. com EFT for Back Pain: A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques by Gary Craig and 59 EFT Practitioners, Instructors, Students, and Users 需无水印完整版本请发邮件：wzxidian@gmail.com Doc uCo m P DF Tria l ww w.pd fwiz ard. com EFT for Back Pain: A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques Copyright 2008 by Gary Craig www.emofree.com Edited by CJ Puotinen The clip art contained herein has been provided by the following: New Vision Technologies, Inc. Corel, 3G Graphics, Inc., Archive Arts, Image Club Graphics, Inc., Cartesia Software, One Mile Up, Inc., Techpool Studios, and Totem Graphics, Inc. Important note: While EFT has produced remarkable clinical results, it must still be considered to be in the experimental stage and thus practitioners and the public must take complete responsibility for their use of it. Further, Gary Craig is not a licensed health professional and offers EFT as an ordained minister and as a personal performance coach. Please consult qualified health practitioners regarding your use of EFT. 需无水印完整版本请发邮件：wzxidian@gmail.com Doc uCo m P DF Tria l ww w.pd fwiz ard. com EFT for Back Pain: A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques A Vital Guide for Reading This Book In a nutshell, EFT is an emotional version of acupuncture, except we don't use needles. Instead, we stimulate the acupuncture meridians by tapping on them with our fingertips. This often brings forth astonishing results that are likely beyond your expectations. The procedure is easy to learn, easy to use, and easy to share with others. You will learn the basics and more in this book. EFT is good for everything. While this book focuses on EFT’s use for back pain, I must emphasize that back pain represents but a tiny fraction of EFT’s long list of successes. For example, EFT is good for pain and symptoms of all kinds and often works where nothing else will. It is also astonishingly useful for emotional issues of every type and reduces the typical psychotherapy process from months or years down to minutes or hours. Further, those wishing to improve their performance in sports, business, public speaking, or the bedroom will also find EFT a valuable aid. This book is like an encyclopedia. It is so comprehensive that it could easily be considered an “EFT Encyclopedia for Back Pain.” Most readers will not need to read it all, but every reader will want to keep it around as a priceless resource because it contains approaches and concepts that you will not find in other health-related books. This book contains creative approaches written by many EFT experts. EFT is an “open source” healing tool that encourages experimentation. This means that we start with an easy-to-learn, simple procedure that works beautifully in the majority of cases. After that, anyone can experiment with the process and develop other refinements. Thus, for your expanded education, we are sprinkling within this book the opinions, refinements, and creative approaches of dozens of EFTers. Depending on your interest level, previous experience, and individual response to EFT, there are several ways to read this book. If you are a “Newbie,” or newcomer to EFT, I hope you may wish to start at the beginning and read it all the way through. By the time you reach the end, you will have an excellent chance of being completely and permanently free from pain, in addition to having a thorough understanding of EFT and the ability to share this useful technique with friends and family. If you’re impatient to get started, go straight to my Quick Start section on page 6. The Quick Start walks you through basic EFT, which by itself has brought relief to thousands. If basic EFT eliminates all of your pain for good, congratulations. You’re one of our famous “One-Minute Wonders” and you can get on with your life. If the pain doesn’t completely go away or if it returns at a later time, the rest of this book provides all the assistance you need to improve your results and make the improvements last. If you’re interested in the background of EFT and some of the technical, scientific, or engineering explanations that I’m fond of sharing, download our free EFT Manual from 需无水印完整版本请发邮件：wzxidian@gmail.com Doc uCo m P DF Tria l ww w.pd fwiz ard. com EFT for Back Pain: A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques the official EFT website, www.emofree.com. This book was designed as a companion to the EFT Manual and you’ll learn something valuable from both. For convenience, the manual is also available as a paperback book sold in retail bookstores and online. Look for The EFT Manual (EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques) by Gary Craig, published by Energy Psychology Press, 2008. If you’re an experienced EFTer, peruse the Table of Contents and go where your curiosity and interest take you. One of my goals in writing this book is to provide as many interesting examples as possible, so that all of us – including EFT instructors and practitioners – can add to our repertoire of approaches and strategies for making EFT more effective and versatile. Our DVDs are vital to your complete comprehension of EFT. I would like to emphasize that this book and the EFT Manual do not contain everything there is to know about EFT. For example, there is no substitute for the demonstrations on our DVDs, which show EFT in action in seminars conducted throughout the United States. The DVDs offer many live demonstrations of pain relief, including back, hip, and shoulder pain. For a complete description of the contents of each DVD, go to www.emofree.com/EFTStore/ and click on “full details” for any of the collections. Once you understand the basics by watching the first hour of the first DVD in our introductory set, you can simply tap along with an endless number of sessions designed for your use. While doing so, you will learn as you go, you’ll be entertained, and, without much effort, you will collapse or neutralize issues that have until now interfered with your recovery. As I like to remind everyone, there is more human drama, inspiration, and humor in our videotaped seminars than there is in any reality television show! 需无水印完整版本请发邮件：wzxidian@gmail.com Doc uCo m P DF Tria l ww w.pd fwiz ard. com EFT for Back Pain: A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques Table of Contents A Vital Guide for Reading This Book Table of Contents Notes and Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 3 Quick Start 6 Chapter One: Welcome to the world of EFT 8 What exactly is EFT? 9 How to learn EFT 11 Why EFT often works where nothing else will 12 Pain’s emotional causes 13 Chapter Two: EFT for Back Pain 16 Acute and chronic pain 16 Pain and emotions 19 Pain and anger 20 Using EFT 23 Defining the problem 23 Measuring Intensity 23 The “Basic Recipe” 24 Ingredient #1 – The Setup 25 The Affirmation 26 Ingredient #2 – The Sequence 30 Ingredient #3 – The 9 Gamut Procedure 33 Ingredient #4 – The Sequence (again) 35 The Reminder Phrase 35 Subsequent round adjustments 37 How to use EFT for back pain that returns to the same place 39 需无水印完整版本请发邮件：wzxidian@gmail.com Doc uCo m P DF Tria l ww w.pd fwiz ard. com EFT for Back Pain: A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques Chapter Three: Optional Points and Refinements 40 Optional points 40 Possible outcomes 40 Two helpful additions 43 Emphatic EFT for low back pain brings dramatic shifts 43 Touch and Breathe (TAB) method 47 One-minute wonders 47 Year-long nagging back pain gone in 30 seconds 47 Basic EFT quickly alleviates long-term back pain 48 Chapter Four: The Acceptance Phrase 50 Paradoxes in validating the self 51 A self-acceptance experiment 56 Soft language to ease the EFT Acceptance Phrase 61 Chapter Five: Tap While You .... 64 The tap-while-you-gripe technique 65 Can you do EFT incorrectly? 67 Finding your “personal” EFT points 69 How to tell whether EFT is working 70 Chapter Six: Exploring Underlying Issues 73 Introducing aspects 73 Be specific 74 Defining the pain 76 The “core issues” of back pain 81 The Personal Peace Procedure 83 The Watch a Movie and Tell a Story Techniques 84 Visual, auditory, and kinesthetic experience 85 The Movie Technique for a kinesthetic back pain patient 86 The Tearless Trauma Technique 87 Using the Tearless Trauma Technique 89 Chapter Seven: Choices, Solutions, and Tapping Tips 91 Dr. Patricia Carrington’s “Choices” Method 91 EFT tapping tips 95 Incorporating several approaches in one EFT session 95 Top ten tapping tips 96 When EFT doesn’t work 101 How perseverance and a very long setup cured my back 105 When EFT doesn’t work at home 108 需无水印完整版本请发邮件：wzxidian@gmail.com Doc uCo m P DF Tria l ww w.pd fwiz ard. com EFT for Back Pain: A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques Chapter Eight: EFT in Action for Back Pain 112 Three methods for working with pain 112 Pain from severe lower back injury is resolved with three rounds of EFT 113 Relief for 30 years of back pain from a car accident – no more Vicodin 114 Eight months of chronic back pain disappears in 20 minutes by phone 116 Attorney relieves client’s back pain 118 After three years of back pain, skeptic tries EFT and is now pain-free 119 My sister’s hip pain vanishes despite her skepticism 119 Instant relief of back and hip pain astonishes nurse 120 EFT for a friend’s back strain 121 Three-week incapacitating back pain relieved in one phone session 122 Chapter Nine: EFT as First Aid 127 Back pain subsides and spine goes into alignment 127 EFT for a painful spinal disc 128 How I fixed my dentist’s back pain 130 Relieving the postman’s pains 131 Treating upper back pain in an EFT seminar 132 EFT takes care of a headache, knee pain, and back pain while on vacation 133 Releasing old memories eliminates pain from disc disease 133 Terri’s pain relief 134 “Bedside EFT” for patient pain relief 136 EFT cancels an ambulance call 140 EFT and my car crash 141 EFT prevents bruising and pain after a fall 142 Chapter Ten: The Search for Core Issues 144 Core issue questions 145 Core issues release severe back pain 147 Back pain and a painful anniversary 149 Back pain from scoliosis and spinal bifida disappears 151 Neck pain relief after finding the emotional core issue 153 Back pain: Even though this should be working and it’s not 155 Back pain disappears after doing EFT for entrepreneurial worries 156 How cats became the core issue behind lower back pain 158 Clarifying core issues on paper 158 Journaling and core issues 159 Bypassing core issues 160 Sneaking up on the core issue 160 需无水印完整版本请发邮件：wzxidian@gmail.com Doc uCo m P DF Tria l ww w.pd fwiz ard. com EFT for Back Pain: A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques Chapter Eleven: Eliminating Self-sabotage 162 Using EFT to overcome the resistance to exercise 163 Conditions that interfere 164 Psychological Reversal 164 Self-talk and the writings on your walls 165 Tail-enders 165 Secondary gain 166 Saying goodbye to the past 168 Then what? 169 What if? 169 Effectively using “What if?” in EFT Setup Phrases 170 Chapter Twelve: Improving Results 172 Chasing the pain 172 Chasing spinal stenosis pain 173 Woman says “EFT doesn’t work for me” 174 Incorporating parts 177 Communicating with myself 178 Think in pictures 179 Try mental tapping 180 Surrogate or proxy tapping 180 Borrowing benefits 181 Borrowing benefits from DVD eliminates shoulder and neck pain 183 Additional tapping procedures 184 The floor-to-ceiling eye roll 184 Collarbone breathing 184 More about the 9 Gamut treatment 186 Advantages of the 9 Gamut procedure 186 Reframing the Pain 188 Chapter Thirteen: Pain, Anger, and Metaphors 192 Metaphors and back pain 192 Clearing a back pain metaphor 193 Shooting back pain metaphor 194 She stabbed him in the back 195 Sadness and a 17-year-old back pain 196 Range of motion metaphor releases shoulder pain 197 Letting go of anger 199 Severe back pain subsides after anger issue uncovered 201 Anger and rage are at the root of this back pain 203 When it’s impossible to forgive 205 Letting go of anger that feels necessary 206 What your aching body has to say 207 EFT and skillful metaphors for Rheumatoid Arthritis pain 210 需无水印完整版本请发邮件：wzxidian@gmail.com Doc uCo m P DF Tria l ww w.pd fwiz ard. com EFT for Back Pain: A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques Chapter Fourteen: The Art of Forgiveness 214 Add “understanding” 214 Replacing “forgiveness” with “understanding” 215 Release “a little” anger 216 Using EFT for forgiveness: The one-percent solution 217 A forgiveness exercise 219 EFT gratitude protocol 222 Tapping on gratitude with EFT 223 Flooding the mind with affirmations 225 Phrasing affirmations as questions 226 Chapter Fifteen: Helping Animals with EFT 229 Helping a dog with an arthritic back 230 Surrogate tapping for Cassie, the dog 231 EFT for a dog’s back injury and cataracts 232 In Conclusion.... 233 EFT Glossary 234 Appendix A: Three detailed examples and a technical report 237 Irene Mitchell’s story 237 Releasing seven years of pain and much more 245 Relieving pain with EFT using persistence, metaphors, chasing the pain, reframes, and creative language 251 Technical evidence of the link between emotional causes and physical ailments 257 Appendix B: Improving EFT’s results with self-tests 262 The Pulse Test 262 Do-it-yourself muscle testing 265 Testing yourself with kinesiology 266 EFT’s acupuncture points 273 Appendix C: Charts and forms 274 Using the 0-to-10 intensity scale 275 EFT’s Basic Recipe 276 My back hurts: Defining the pain 277 Personal Peace Procedure 279 The writings on your walls 281 Tail-enders 283 Choices phrasing setup cards 284 需无水印完整版本请发邮件：wzxidian@gmail.com Doc uCo m P DF Tria l ww w.pd fwiz ard. com EFT for Back Pain: A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques Resources 284 Recommended reading 285 EFT report authors and their contact information 286 Index 291 需无水印完整版本请发邮件：wzxidian@gmail.com Doc uCo m P DF Tria l ww w.pd fwiz ard. com EFT for Back Pain: A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques E.F.T. for BACK PAIN 需无水印完整版本请发邮件：wzxidian@gmail.com Doc uCo m P DF Tria l ww w.pd fwiz ard. com EFT for Back Pain: A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques 1 Notes and Acknowledgements The list of individuals who contributed to the development of EFT can never be complete because most of them lived over 5,000 years ago. Those are the brilliant physicians who discovered and mapped the centerpiece of EFT, namely, the subtle energies that course through our bodies. These subtle energies are also the centerpiece of acupuncture and, as a result, EFT and acupuncture are cousins. Both disciplines are growing rapidly here in the West and, as time unfolds, they are destined to have a primary role in emotional and physical healing. In the 20th Century, other dedicated souls advanced our use of ancient techniques that utilize the body’s energy. Principal among them is Dr. George Goodheart, who developed Applied Kinesiology, a forerunner of EFT. In the 1960s, Dr. Goodheart discovered that muscle testing could be used to gather important information from the body, and he went on to train many health care practitioners and publish important books and papers. Dr. John Diamond’s work deserves applause because, to my knowledge, he was one of the first psychiatrists to use and write about these subtle energies. His many pioneering concepts, together with advanced ideas from Applied Kinesiology, have formed the foundation upon which our work is constructed. Dr. Diamond’s best-sellers include Life Energy: Using the Meridians to Unlock the Power of Your Emotions (Continuum International, 1990) and Life Energy and the Emotions (Eden Grove, 1997). Dr. Roger Callahan, the clinical psychologist from whom I received my original introduction to “emotional acupressure,” deserves all the credit history can give him. He was the first to bring these techniques to the public in a substantial way and he did so despite open hostility from his own profession. As you might appreciate, it takes heavy doses of conviction to plow through the ingrained beliefs of conventional thinking. Without Roger Callahan’s missionary drive, we might still be sitting around theorizing about this “interesting thing.” It is upon the shoulders of these giants that I humbly stand. My own contribution to the rapidly expanding field of meridian therapies has been to reduce the unnecessary complexity that inevitably finds its way into new discoveries. EFT is an elegantly simple version of these procedures, which professionals and laypeople alike can use on a variety of problems. I also owe a special debt of gratitude to Adrienne Fowlie, who, through a friend, introduced me to meridian tapping techniques and helped me develop EFT. 需无水印完整版本请发邮件：wzxidian@gmail.com Doc uCo m P DF Tria l ww w.pd fwiz ard. com EFT for Back Pain: A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques 2 Many EFT students and practitioners helped make this book possible. I am grateful to all who contributed case studies and reports. Most of the examples given here were published in our email newsletter and are posted in the newsletter’s archives on the EFT website, www.emofree.com. To contact any of our report authors, see the Resources section at the end of this book. The names given in the reports presented here have often been changed to protect the privacy of those involved. This is especially likely if only first names are given. All of the names given here are as they originally appeared in reports published in our newsletter and on the EFT website. When a person’s full name is given, it has not been changed and is used with permission. In the interests of editorial consistency, reports from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and other countries that use British spelling and punctuation have been changed to conform to standard American English. Like most topics of special interest, EFT has its own language, words or abbreviations that have special meaning for its students and practitioners. You’ll find a list of EFT terms and their definitions in the Glossary on page 234. 需无水印完整版本请发邮件：wzxidian@gmail.com Doc uCo m P DF Tria l ww w.pd fwiz ard. com EFT for Back Pain: A Specialized Use of Emotional Freedom Techniques 3 Introduction This book will open your eyes to a new way of health and healing. It will most likely alleviate your back pain and keep it from ever returning while simultaneously improving your love life, your finances, your golf game, and your personal happiness. I know that sounds like hype from an infomercial. But it’s true. EFT can do all of these things and more. EFT’s