An interesting text from EFT – Founding Masters – Mastering the Power of EFT
A Surprising Way to Use EFT for Insomnia
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
The method I am going to tell you about seemed impossible when I first heard about it, because it went against everything I know to be true about positive suggestions and the use of positive language, and the demonstrated negative impact of the phrase “I can’t”.
An Intriguing Experiment
The “I can’t get to sleep” method of inducing sleep seemed to work so well for me that I suggested my newsletter readers try it for themselves and report to me their experiences.
In response, 33 people wrote to me immediately with reports, and since that time many more people have responded. These latter results have been so close to those reported earlier that I feel confident reporting the investigation in this newsletter and consider that we have an adequate sample to be able to draw some tentative conclusions about how well this method works. The sample was large enough for me to get some feel for the actual numbers out there and the intelligent, thoughtful comments that I did receive lead me to believe that this tactic is clearly worth exploring. Here is what we found:
60.6% of those responding reported that this unusual method was so effective for them that they characterized it as a true breakthrough in terms of being able to get to sleep initially, or to get back to sleep later, and often they were able to do both with amazing ease.
24.2% of those responding reported that it worked extremely well for them at times, while at other times it did not work. These mixed results represented a definite value for these people, however, although the method was less reliable for them than for those in the first category.
15.2% of those responding reported that while they had tried repeatedly to make this new method work to put them to sleep, it would not work for them.
To summarize, 84.8% of those reporting had experienced positive results with the technique ranging from “remarkable” (the majority felt this) to “Mixed” results, while 15.2% could not make the method work at all.
One of the surprising things to me was the fact that several people reported that chronic sleep problems yielded rapidly to this technique although they had tried numerous other interventions unsuccessfully over a long period of time for these same problems but to no avail
Looking at the results of our survey, I can say with confidence that when this technique does work, it seems to work faster and more effectively than any other way of using EFT (or any other non-drug method) to bring on sleep.
I highly recommend you try this unconventional technique to see how it works for you. Here is a quick summary of the instructions:
When you want to go to sleep, use mental EFT only (i.e. tap in your imagination only at each spot) so that doing EFT will not awaken you as you begin to drift off to sleep.
Use the paradoxical (going opposite) EFT statement, “I can’t get to sleep” at each tapping point, using only these words.
Our body is an amazing machine, it is constantly regenerating, self-healing, self medicating and working to ensure the continual flow of blood and oxygen to all the organs and to maintain a balance of all the hormones and chemicals produced within.
Our body does this naturally............until we get in the way.
Are you aware that at least 95% of all illness and disease is caused by......
OUR PERCEPTION OF STRESS...
Stress is a natural reaction to challenges and anything that makes us feel unsafe. Stress occurs when your mind believes that you are in some kind of danger – whether emotional or physical.
Your body pumps adrenaline into your system to give you a boost.
This is called the “fight or flight” response
The ideal scenario is that only life threatening situations trigger the stress response in our body which allows us to act quickly with less thought and faster reflexes.
In our society the stress response is often triggered by a ringing phone, a deadline, a boss, a family member, watching television or any number of other non-life-threatening situations.
The long-term effects of continual stress are dangerous – even deadly – to our health and happiness, and, as you can see, stress is everywhere.