I have noticed recently that a number of my patients haven't been aware of EFT (aka the Emotional Freedom Techniques). Perhaps they had seen the acronym with a side bar of my newsletter but never inquired further. Others are conscious my spouse Alina is only one of a few certified trainers of EFT on earth with Dawson Church, director and EFT Universe, one of many three most primary certifying organizations. The rest of you could wonder what EFT and Chiropractic have to do with each other and how could they often be used in a mutually supportive way. I figured which it concerned time that i can answer that question.
As a chiropractor, I normally look for my patients' needs as to how I can help them in lessening pain and increasing their body's function. Chiropractic has always dedicated to removing nerve interference therefore the body can better heal itself. That idea goes entirely back to DD Palmer and chiropractic's inception. Coincidentally, I overheard Alina only the other day explaining EFT as a way of removing energy interference in your body any time present, lessen the body's capability to heal. Hmmm, how similar is always that? EFT can be known as an emotional version of acupuncture, but without needles. It is wonderful being a self-help technique that can be learned and applied to your own, whereas chiropractic adjustments will not be self-administered.
So one might ask why I would ever make use of a technique that could reduce the requirement of my services? The simple answer is that some physical issues I view as primarily mechanical, with a difficult or energetic component intertwined. Other patients present pain from stress, life patterns or behaviors which can be primarily brought on by past behaviors that will no longer serve them that ought to be witnessed and become a new challenge. EFT is fabulous for achieving that.
To offer you a solid idea of when I use EFT, below are a few examples. Recently someone started in with the recent start of migraines, which began in the same way their husband started having panic attacks. Another was struggling with anxiety and stress to the point that the he felt that his head would explode and that he had an upcoming long airplane trip as well as a coinciding nervous about flying. Another came in with chronic back pain that they noted increased when he thought of anger of a recent marital separation. The intertwining relationship of physical ailments with emotional stresses are infinite.
Too often patients were told that their symptoms were within their head. This was not just a complimentary diagnosis, and basically meant that this symptoms were psychosomatic, or how the physician figured the patient was "making all this up." Psyche (mind) and Soma (physical body) are needless to say related, how could they not? The moment you might have pain, you've a seriously considered it after which often follows an emotion, which then causes neurotransmitters to be removed in the brain which then causing hormones hitting theaters in the bloodstream which then has a physiological affect on things like heartrate, hypertension, immune response, etc. So obviously our physical condition and psyche journey together.
So, how do top article decide when you placed on my chiropractic hat then when do I slip on my EFT hat? There are no rules, just intuition. Sometimes, I apply it when what I thought would guidance is not helping sufficiently. Sometimes I feel that there are something not being said and it is a method for someone to share with you something important that they did not feel was strongly related their presenting complaint. In any of the ways it presents, the usage of EFT usually surprises me with its ease as well as effectiveness.