EFT for Chronic Disease

At the gym a couple of days ago, I was stretching-and-tapping as usual after my workout. My hips have been tight lately. I started tapping on the tightness on the right side of my bottom, saying “Even though I have this pain in the ass,…” and thinking of incidents, situations, and people that could be a pain in the backside for me. Suddenly, I got the feeling that I should be tapping on something else. My groin was tight, and (sorry if this offends) I just got the feeling I must say “Even though I’ve been shafted,…” – Wow! Immediately 2 people who had taken advantage of me (pre-EFT days) came to mind. I kept tapping on this strange new statement, and my groin relaxed much further. Amazing.

My hip has been a challenge lately. A visit to the chiropractor helped slightly, but in Cape Town, all chiropractors I have experienced, however well-recommended, give a very poor service. After tapping on that for two days, I decided on attending every stretch, Yoga, and Pilates class I can, and to get regular massages. I am also using Epsom salts and progesterone cream, the combination of which is great. Every day, my hip is improving. This helps me to run, which helps my lung. I will be getting my SI joint properly sorted when I am in the UK in April, if there is any problem remaining, that is. I think it is unlikely, as today, my hip feels amazing. If you want to catch me in the UK, I will be presenting an aura scanning and chakra colour healing course for EFTers to take their EFT to new horizons.

When you have a chronic physical condition, anything that either emotionally or physically has a negative impact on you can make the condition worse. EFT is one way of throwing away the emotional rubbish collecting in your system. In the same way that we dispose of our household rubbish regularly for home cleanliness and hygiene, I use EFT to dispose of negative emotions for my optimal physical health. I call an emotion anything that your mind or body says to you, from fear to constricted airways. My health was not always as good as this. Please go back to around 2005 on this blog to get to the worst postings (when I was often bed-ridden, unable to breathe enough to get out of bed), if you are looking for how to tap for those really bad days of health.

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All of today, I have been wanting to spend what I do not have to spend. I wanted:

• An ice-cream when I was not in the least hungry.
• A magazine when I knew there was no way I could find the time to read it.
• Clothes that I simply did not have space for due to moving house and packing.

I was also considering not to place advertising scheduled for tomorrow, which would almost certainly lose me money.

The list goes on, but you get the picture. I wanted to spend, spend, spend and was reticent to make money, for no obvious reason. And then it dawned on me. I am at the start of a new phase in my business well-being. This is where I finally go one step further in moving financially forward since getting smokers lung about 25 years ago. I feel scared. All my muscles are tense. Part of the fear is in case yet again this time, I don’t make it. But that is absurd, because if I spend wisely, I will make it. And even though half my business or more is by referral, I still need to advertise. Of course, it may be that this month’s scheduled advertisement brings me nothing, but that is a risk that needs to be taken. And if I don’t take that risk, then I have to rely almost purely on referrals. I think I am so scared I will fail that I was trying to make myself fail to prevent raising my hopes up, only to be disappointed again. On a scale from 10 to zero, the feeling that I will be disappointed again is a 9. So I am tapping…

Setup
“Even though I am terrified that it is all going to fail, yet again, and I will have egg on my face, yet again, I deeply love and accept myself”
Reminder
“Terrified that it is all going to fail, yet again, and I will have egg on my face, yet again”

It’s down to a 2. So I am now tapping it again.

It is now a near-zero, and I have a plan to safeguard at least half this plan. That really helps.

When you have a chronic physical condition, anything that either emotionally or physically has a negative impact on you can make the condition worse. EFT is one way of throwing away the emotional rubbish collecting in your system. In the same way that we dispose of our household rubbish regularly for home cleanliness and hygiene, I use EFT to dispose of negative emotions for my optimal physical health. I call an emotion anything that your mind or body says to you, from fear to constricted airways. My health was not always as good as this. Please go back to around 2005 on this blog to get to the worst postings (when I was often bed-ridden, unable to breathe enough to get out of bed), if you are looking for how to tap for those really bad days of health. — EFT with Me, Suzanne Zacharia, Practitioner — Stop Smoking E-Book — Asthma and COPD Buteyko E-Book – Download and start using Now! — EFT Workshops Cape Town South Africa — Low-Cost EFT London UK — Reiki Course London UK — EFT Workshops Essex UK —— FREE EFT Teleclass-Webinar — Disclaimer – You are advised to consult with your medical practitioner before embarking on any course of alternative, complementary, or beauty therapy. Our use of systems that are trademarked or have a registered trademark represents our views and not necessarily those of the trademark owners.

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Reading this cancer article brought great sadness. It reminded me of all those times that strictly according to my UK training, I had declined treatment to cancer clients who were refusing to use chemotherapy, and I was prepared to report parents who refused conventional therapy to their children to the authorities, regardless of the circumstances. By the way, that was years ago, and I have never reported a child´s parents for non-compliance with conventional medical treatment. The article also brought up much sadness about what I had to go through in order to get better.  A paragraph basically said that patients may pay with their lives and everything they own for this corrupt medical system that we have today. I cried as I tapped, repeating ¨pay with everything they own¨, until now I feel calm. You see, I had become chronically ill, in my opinion, not only due to mistakes I made in my self-care (that was before I had stopped handing my health over to the medics), but also due to misdiagnosis and therefore the wrong treatment. My doctor also had refused to sign me off as disabled whilst I recovered due to this misdiagnosis, which meant that I could not afford, with two young children to support, to stay at home and recover. I had to continue studying a Honours degree and work weekends, whilst too ill to do so, in order to support my children. A 4 out of 10 remains, for having to earn ever more money now. And I started to tap on it ¨Even though I need to earn ever more money…¨ and suddenly it all went, releasing bitterness, and now I am excited about the next stage in my business plan – and making more money.

When you have a chronic physical condition, anything that either emotionally or physically has a negative impact on you can make the condition worse. EFT is one way of throwing away the emotional rubbish collecting in your system. In the same way that we dispose of our household rubbish regularly for home cleanliness and hygiene, I use EFT to dispose of negative emotions for my optimal physical health. I call an emotion anything that your mind or body says to you, from fear to constricted airways. My health was not always as good as this. Please go back to around 2005 on this blog to get to the worst postings (when I was often bed-ridden, unable to breathe enough to get out of bed), if you are looking for how to tap for those really bad days of health.

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I did it!

Score so far..

Suzanne: A lot

Smokers lung: A big fat zero!

2011: Darling half-marathon, 3 hrs 14mins 47 s

EFT tapping statements used:

Oh this hill is oh so steep, but I will not break down and weep!

Oh this road is oh so long, I will I will I will be strong! [In the future tense simply because it rhymed better]

Oh my God, I´m gonna die, I deeply love and accept myself (at the beginning, whilst maintaining 7.2 km/hr for the first hour)

¨New Balance, to the side. No, New Balance, to the back¨ – this was a nasty jibe given by a group of runners who passed me and not exactly said in a nice tone of voice. After this jibe, I fell back and my speed dropped. It took me about 15 minutes to tap the jibe out of my system, and then I worked on recovering my speed again. I also tapped on forgiving them, because they are just a***holes, doing what a***holes do (taken from an original EFT DVD and very apt for the occasion)

Thank you knee, thank you hips (healing statements for my less-than-optimal zones)

This hip pain, I deeply love and accept myself (using Collarbone and 9-Gamut, towards the end, when my hip started to hurt. As a result of the tapping, I changed my running style and also walked a little more, in order to help my body, until the hip joint felt very fluid again)

18 [km] by the 15 [minutes past 11 am] (I said this all the way from the 15 km mark whilst finger-rubbing. I also planned in my head to catch up with the lady whom I thought was the last person to overtake me and offer her some sweets, as she was struggling. I found out afterwards that there had been at least three other people behind me anyway, but it was a good goal, which I achieved. She made it to the finish about 5 minutes after me. Then came the other 3)

Finish by the 50 [minutes past 11] (whilst going up the very steep hill towards the finish and then running-walking-hobbling towards that finishing line – I made it at 11:44:47)

Tapping music used:

This time, I did not bring my iPod, although next time I plan to. However, I played the theme from Superman in my head anytime I needed it, especially towards the end. I also imagined crowds cheering, and played in my head the sounds of cheering crowds. Throughout the sounds in my head, I rubbed or tapped my finger points.

Other techniques used:

The Buteyko breathing method – I kept my mouth closed (except to speak when necessary) throughout the race, monitored my CP before the race, and did my Buteyko exercises at the warm-up and warming up to almost every single training session in the last 8 months.

When you have a chronic physical condition, anything that either emotionally or physically has a negative impact on you can make the condition worse. EFT is one way of throwing away the emotional rubbish collecting in your system. In the same way that we dispose of our household rubbish regularly for home cleanliness and hygiene, I use EFT to dispose of negative emotions for my optimal physical health. I call an emotion anything that your mind or body says to you, from fear to constricted airways. My health was not always as good as this. Please go back to around 2005 on this blog to get to the worst postings (when I was often bed-ridden, unable to breathe enough to get out of bed), if you are looking for how to tap for those really bad days of health. — EFT with Me, Suzanne Zacharia, EFT Practitioner — Stop Smoking E-Book – Guaranteed — Guaranteed Asthma and COPD Buteyko E-Book – Download and start using! — Asthma and COPD Buteyko DVD — EFT Workshops Cape Town South Africa — Low-Cost EFT London UK — Reiki Course London UK — EFT Workshops Essex UK —— FREE EFT Teleclass-Webinar — Disclaimer – You are advised to consult with your medical practitioner before embarking on any course of alternative, complementary, or beauty therapy. Our use of systems that are trademarked or have a registered trademark represents our views and not necessarily those of the trademark owners.

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I got a knee injury. So I set forth tapping for the pain, doing stretches, strengthening exercises, low-impact training, compression, etc, and it was gradually getting better.

Then today, as I was at the gym doing yet another low-impact cardio workout and tapping, it just popped into my head why I got the injury. OK, so this was my weak knee, and OK, it was prone to trouble, but I got this latest injury on the day of the Two Oceans Half-Marathon that I was supposed to be initially running. If you have been following my progress, you will probably remember that this is the race I had decided I was not quite ready for, and that I had chosen the Darling Half-Marathon instead, a less formal race a month later. Well, on the day of the Two Oceans half, I was out training, and some youths made fun of me, making remarks about Two Oceans and that I had wandered off the track. I did not realise at the time just how deeply hurt I was. As soon as I realised it today, my knee suddenly stopped hurting, and I wanted to run again. I kept tapping on the incident until zero. And then I closed my eyes and vividly imagined it to test if it was really gone. I then heard one of those teens in my mind saying “Two Oceans” sarcastically, in that teenage-boy voice. It was a 3 out of 10. So I kept tapping as I remembered the voice. Then I closed my eyes and tried to vividly imagine it again, and all I saw was fluffy balls of white cotton wool instead! It was gone. I went to the treadmill and ran 2.23 km.

I will increase gradually and carry on with the knee care. Apart from a tiny bit of soreness in some positions, the pain has gone. Like magic!

By the way, my breathing is doing wonderfully with all this training. Roll on the 21st May, the day of my first half-marathon.

When you have a chronic physical condition, anything that either emotionally or physically has a negative impact on you can make the condition worse. EFT is one way of throwing away the emotional rubbish collecting in your system. In the same way that we dispose of our household rubbish regularly for home cleanliness and hygiene, I use EFT to dispose of negative emotions for my optimal physical health. My health was not always as good as this. Please go back to around 2005 on this blog to get to the worst postings, if you are looking for how to tap for those really bad days of health. — EFT with Me, Suzanne Zacharia, Practitioner — Stop Smoking E-Book — Asthma and COPD Buteyko E-Book – Download and start using Now! — Asthma and COPD Buteyko DVD — EFT Workshops Cape Town South Africa — Low-Cost EFT London UK — Reiki Course London UK — Our UK Courses are featured in UK Therapist Directory — FREE EFT Teleclass-Webinar — Disclaimer – You are advised to consult with your medical practitioner before embarking on any course of alternative, complementary, or beauty therapy. Our use of systems that are trademarked or have a registered trademark represents our views and not necessarily those of the trademark owners.

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I am a relatively novice runner training for my first half-marathon. And I had to tap as I ran yesterday, as usual, on the shame of being overtaken by another runner. Then I carried on as normal, this time tapping to the theme from Superman playing in my head, with me as the superhero. I was also chanting cheers in my head like “Yes, I CAN”. When I was nearly back home again, the same man stopped me to say that he was impressed with how I overtook him and had so much stamina! I was astounded, and said that I was surprised, because he had overtaken me!

It turned out that his sprint was faster than mine, but he struggled to recover from each one, and his stamina suffered. I actually had overtaken him and run overall faster and further. Wow! And, he was a seasoned half-marathon runner. He said that I was ready to run a marathon and kept marvelling at my stamina.

When he explained how he found it hard to recover from his sprints, he breathed heavily in and out through his mouth. So I gave him a tip for stamina; keep your mouth closed and try to just breathe in and out through your nose, and you will go further. It is just a simple Buteyko thing that I have learned. I chose not to tell him about the tapping, as I felt it would have been too far out there for him to swallow, all in one conversation. Maybe next time, if we meet again.

I use a combination of simple Buteyko breathing techniques and EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) tapping to help me run. The fact that I am training for my first half-marathon is nothing short of a miracle to me, as I had been seriously ill with smokers lung for many years. The combination of these two methods works on all my physical and emotional blocks and enables me to run at my optimal best. I am truly blessed to have these skills.

When you have a chronic physical condition, anything that either emotionally or physically has a negative impact on you can make the condition worse. EFT is one way of throwing away the emotional rubbish collecting in your system. In the same way that we dispose of our household rubbish regularly for home cleanliness and hygiene, I use EFT to dispose of negative emotions for my optimal physical health. My health was not always as good as this. Please go back to around 2005 on this blog to get to the worst postings, if you are looking for how to tap for those really bad days of health. —

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I have a slight chest infection. And If I were to go to the doctor with every chest infection, I would be there once every two months. I cannot take the stronger medications that the doc can give me, due to side effects, so I continue my fitness regime in order to strengthen my lungs. And I ran out of colloidal silver, which I use sparingly, maybe one week a month, in order to control chest infections. At the moment, my optimal chest health is essential. I am training for a half-marathon, and my training has slipped back with this infection. I am back to running only 30 minutes at any one time.

Yesterday, I ran by the beach whilst rubbing the finger points (since I couldn´t tap in public) and simply kept pondering my dilemma over and over again. I had bought olive leaf extract simply because my spouse can take it and not the silver (we both have a slight chest infection). The rubbing whilst focusing on my issue helped me with a great insight. I had been worried about buying two things, the olive leaf extract and the colloidal silver, because of budget. We had a lot of payments going out at the end of the month and had to be careful. However, it was a false economy, because it would be cheaper for me to have the silver and my spouse to have the olive leaf extract. This is because the silver is cheaper. So instead of us both using an expensive product, I could use the cheaper one which my chest does much better on. The colloidal silver works for me within 20 minutes. So if one day I wake up with the slightest chest infection, I can take the silver and run.  And then my chest is fine.

Of course, I´m not a doctor or herbalist and so I am not giving any advice here. Rather, I am sharing my experience of how tapping helped me to gain insights and solve a problem.  I went running this morning and the only reason why I had to be limited to half an  hour was that it was all the time I had available 
When you have a chronic physical condition, anything that either emotionally or physically has a negative impact on you can make the condition worse. EFT is one way of throwing away the emotional rubbish collecting in your system. In the same way that we dispose of our household rubbish regularly for home cleanliness and hygiene, I use EFT to dispose of negative emotions for my optimal physical health. My health was not always as good as this. Please go back to around 2005 on this blog to get to the worst postings, if you are looking for how to tap for those really bad days of health.

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Decision-time came today, where I had to decide whether to enter for the Two Oceans half-marathon or do a smaller half-marathon as my first. Of those, I fancied the Darling half-marathon on 21st May 2011, and called and got the details for comparison.  So I am tapping as I read and re-read the following factors.

• My spouse has lost an important contract as an IT contractor three months ago (when the company went bust owing 4 months pay), and although we are recovering well from it, and I am blessed with an abundance of lovely clients, I am loathe to spend the Two Oceans entry fee just now when it is needed for other things (as has been the case for the last two months).
• Although I am making phenomenal progress with distance and stamina, my speed is still slow (though improving).
• The Darling half-marathon is:
  • About a fourth of the price for me as a non-South African.
  • Only about 700 entrants compared to 11500.
  • Three weeks later, which means three weeks extra training time working on my speed. And since I am progressing 0.1 km/hour faster per week, that means an extra 0.3 km/hour added to my speed).
  • Starts at 8:30 instead of 6 am (a big plus for a non-morning person).

OK, decision made. My first half-marathon will be at Darling on 21st May 2011 

When you have a chronic physical condition, anything that either emotionally or physically has a negative impact on you can make the condition worse. EFT is one way of throwing away the emotional rubbish collecting in your system. In the same way that we dispose of our household rubbish regularly for home cleanliness and hygiene, I use EFT to dispose of negative emotions for my optimal physical health. My health was not always as good as this. Please go back to around 2005 on this blog to get to the worst postings, if you are looking for how to tap for those really bad days of health.

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I am currently training for a half-marathon as part of my way to breathe more easily with smokers lung. I am enjoying the running tremendously, using EFT to make it all much easier. When you have a chronic physical condition, anything that either emotionally or physically has a negative impact on you can make the condition worse. EFT is one way of throwing away the emotional rubbish collecting in your system. In the same way that we dispose of our household rubbish regularly for home cleanliness and hygiene, I use EFT to dispose of negative emotions for my optimal physical health. My health was not always as good as this. Please go back to around 2005 on this blog to get to the worst postings, if you are looking for how to tap for those really bad days of health.

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This morning, I walked to the gym then started on the bike for 15 minutes, taking it easy on not usually anything more than 80 spm. But, my spouse had promised me to put a great piece of music on the iPod and it was only then that I discovered it was not on there, after promising myself it to listen to at the gym all the day before. So I tapped on that on the bike, but it was not enough. So I went to the toilet and tapped for about 5 minutes properly things like:

¨Even though I´m bitterly disappointed, …¨

I tapped it down from an 8 to zero and then went up to the treadmill. After a few minutes, I started feeling breathless, so I walked while using my Buteyko exercises. At the same time, I tapped with my Thumb points on the bar of the treadmill, although I usually just rub my Thumb with my other finger points while I run. There was no need for words. The feeling was one of panic and ¨I can´t breathe¨. It soon passed and the exercises worked.

Then I started my second run interval. It was supposed to be 3 minutes. At the beginning of it, I remembered my daughter´s advice to run on the road too, and, planning to do it at least at the end of my 8-week beginner´s training (leading up to running 30 minutes straight) , I panicked thinking how on earth would I manage to run half an hour straight on the road. I tapped as I ran thinking about that. Again, no need for words, I just let the thoughts come to me as I rubbed my finger points together. And then, a strange thing happened. I watched the clock go past 3 minutes. I was feeling fine. Then it went past 3 and half minutes, four minutes, and then I made myself stop running at 5 minutes. It was so very easy! I am sure it was as a result of tapping on my fear of running half an hour straight. I did one more stint of 5 minutes in that session at least.

I also did some Buteyko exercises whilst rubbing the finger points during each walk. At the end of that session, I was breathing very easily and continued to do so for hours afterwards 

When you have a chronic physical condition, anything that either emotionally or physically has a negative impact on you can make the condition worse. EFT is one way of throwing away the emotional rubbish collecting in your system. In the same way that we dispose of our household rubbish regularly for home cleanliness and hygiene, I use EFT to dispose of negative emotions for my optimal physical health. My health was not always as good as this. Please go back to around 2005 on this blog to get to the worst postings, if you are looking for how to tap for those really bad days of health.

— EFT with Me, Suzanne Zacharia, Practitioner — Stop Smoking E-Book — Asthma and COPD Buteyko E-Book – Download and start using Now! — Asthma and COPD Buteyko DVD — EFT Workshops Cape Town South Africa — Low-Cost EFT London UK — Reiki Course London UK — FREE EFT Teleclass-Webinar —

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