Eft & Psycho-Somatic Problems

What may heal the wound that was inflicted  by a fire onto a flesh

Yet what may never heal is a scar inflicted by a tongue onto a soul

-The Sacred Kurral

Physical pain and wounds heal with time but emotional hurt doesn't heal easily. If your hand has been burnt by someone, the wound will heal but what may never heal is the hurt inflicted by the person who burnt your hand. The physical pain will be gone after sometime but the emotional pain will remain. These emotional ‘hurts' are lodged in our memories and make us wince whenever we think of them.

However, there is one thing that can be changed now with EFT; the healing part …the ‘scar by tongue' can also be healed now with EFT!

Psycho-somatic - the very name suggests physical problems (somatic) caused by psychological/emotional factors.  Given below are some of the psycho-somatic problems that people suffer from.

v     Abdominal, chest & back pains

v     Dizziness

v     Visual Blurring

v     Weight loss

v     Anorexia

v     Nausea

v     Food allergies

v     Asthma

v     Migraines

v     Skin Problems

v     Circulatory problems

v     Menstrual irregularities

v     Hormonal imbalances

v     Gastrointestinal Symptoms

v     Etc - the list is endless.

Many of these symptoms suggest a medical condition but no medical condition, organic or neurological, can be found upon testing. These fall in the category of non-organic symptoms (These are caused by psychological reasons and have no identifiable physical causes). However, many of the symptoms given above are also caused by organic disorders and therefore sometimes it may be very difficult to differentiate between the purely physical from psycho-somatic problems.

Even the physical symptoms that have physical causes get aggravated due to the emotions attached to them. For e.g. when we have a sore throat or fever or pain we start attaching emotions to them. We think – "Why do I have this pain? Why can't it just go? Oh it's so bad! I hate this! My body has just given up!" It's human nature to react to problems. EFT helps in reducing and eliminating the reactions to physical and psycho-somatic problems. The tapping procedure armed with the affirmations helps in decongesting the jammed energy channels in our body and make us accept ourselves the way we are.

How can EFT Help?

Make a list of all the emotional events that still bother you from your past and start using EFT on them. If any event gives you some emotional intensity then apply EFT on that. But please be sure that you can handle the emotions which may get triggered when certain events are tapped upon. New aspects of the problem may rise to the surface and could disturb you if you don't clear them properly.

You must also start addressing the emotional causes of physical symptoms. Finding emotional causes for any event requires some detective work. The best way to do this is to remember what you thought of or what happened just before you got the physical symptoms.