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Treating Stress Costs Billions

Medications for headaches, insomnia,


anxiety, nervousness, food cravings,
depression, aches in the body are a
multi-billion dollar industry.
The medical industry remains
frustrated while millions remain
unhealthy

How do you relax?


Meditation
Visualization
Breathing exercises (4-7-8)
Prayer
Lifestyle changes OR
Drugs, chocolate, drinking, gambling,
etc.

What do you stress about?


Do you dwell on worries while trying

to get to sleep?
Does nervousness make your mind
go blank when you need to perform?
Is your stress at Work? Home?
Finances? Kids? Health?

Physical Symptoms Often Have


Emotional Ties
Anxiety over losing your job could be

associated with growing up poor or


being fired in the past.
The 3 part brain: the reptillian brain,
the limbic (emotional) brain, the
neocortex.
We know we wont die before giving a
speech but our mind is still alarmed.
Therapy and drugs to not heal trauma.

The A.C.E. Study Proves the


Mind-Body Connection
One or more adverse childhood experiences

(physical abuse, mental illness, sexual abuse,


psychological violence against mother,
substance abuse, mental illness in parent,
parent in prison, causes the diseases below:
Increases in depression (460%), chronic
smoking (250%), alcoholism (500%), suicide
attempt (1,200%), IV drugs users (4,600%).
ACE = Emotional/Cognitive impairment = Risk
behaviors = Disease and Disability = Early
Death

The Electric Body


EFT eliminates the zzzzt in the

meridians.
Shuffling feet on carpet causes a
shock.
EEG and EKG measure brain and heart
activity
Western Medicine treats the chemical
body, not the electric body.

EFT unplugs the alarm


response
The amygdala sounds
the alarm when panic
thoughts occur.
Tapping on the acupoints while the mind
is focused on the
problem unplugs the
electrical charge of
physical/emotional
pain.

The Mind is Like a Hard


Drive
Every time we think
of a stressful event,
the hard drive spins
and generates our
mental software
program to stress
causing insomnia,
panic, headaches,
depression, food
cravings, etc.

Trace Current Stress back to


your Emotional Events in the
Past.

Strong feelings of humiliation, injustice,

abandonment, betrayal, and rejection are


associated with these feelings from the past.

Tim cheated on me = betrayal of father.


Grief from breakup = abandonment from
mom.

EFT Handout
(EFT) Emotional Freedom Technique
Combines acupuncture without needles

with cognitive psychology.


The Advanced Use page has questions
that will trigger your memory so you can
trace the association to a past event.
Use the Psychological Reversals on the
last page when no progress is made.

EFT research
The first clinical study was published
in the September 2003 issue of the
Journal of Clinical Psychology.
Internationally, more and more
psychologists and therapists are
using it as an added tool to healing.
It is fast, effective, and free!!!

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