EFT - Refining my use of this amazing tool

Trust me - this is a valuable use of the next 7 minutes of your time. I've been refining and re-focusing my use of this incredible tool for well-being recently, and when I happened upon this video I felt that I should share it. There is no-one who cannot benefit from this.



EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is something I have dabbled with for a number of years. Funnily enough, for a long time I forgot to use it on myself except in moments of extreme emotional crisis...usually in the middle of the night, when my troubled mind whirled and fought sleep. It has always given me relief.

My greatest success with it has been in using it with children. Firstly, on my stepson when he came to stay with us, and was anxious and homesick at bedtime, and inclined to have nightmares. I taught the routine to him, and his anxiety subsided, and he slept well from then on. He continued to use it after he went home, and would occasionally mention it to me casually over the phone. (I was thrilled and proud that he has continued to explore its uses.) I have only recently started teaching the wee man how to do it, again for night-time anxieties, and he also has taken to it well, though he doesn't always want to "do tappings" when I suggest, so I surrogate tap for him which seems to work too.

Gary Craig's website (www.emofree.com) is a wealth of information and ideas and case histories, as well providing the free PDF manual and the training CDs (not free, but they can be re-distributed by people who have bought them, and a lovely friend of mine is passing copies on to me shortly). Dr Mercola is a big fan of this technique, too, and has been advocating its use on his website for some years

You have nothing to lose. Check it out - I'd love to hear from any of you who have a particular experience with EFT you'd like to share.

Lily knows where Mongolia is

I'm not sure which I was more astonished at - the amazing geographical recall of the exceedingly cute 2 year old Lily in this clip I received through Dr Mercola's newsletter, or the fact that the good doctor claims that "80 percent of American families did not read or buy a book in 2006, and 70 percent of U.S. adults haven’t visited a bookstore in the last five years"?!?

It seems Lily's family have more than peeked inside the covers of the odd book, and while it's a bit of a party trick to have a child so young recall places when she may not even grasp the concept of "country", it's still a fine thing to develop memory and encourage learning outside the box. I found her habit of rolling her favourite place names around in her mouth, and giggling, totally endearing - the wee man has always enjoyed shaping new and unfamiliar words. In a world where many are reducing communications to gr8 nu wayz 2 say c u, it's nice to think there are still going to be those who appreciate the way words are formed, and seek to use them artfully.

The Gratitude Dance

Good old Dr Mercola....apart from his impressively informative website and newsletter, he's a great Net surfer with lots of interests I can relate to, and he often includes great links like this in his newsletter. I definitely had to smile at this clip...though, despite being a morning person, I can't see myself jumping around like this as soon as I get out of bed every morning. Maybe that's what I'm doing wrong?!