Jessica has been having a harder time taking supplements. Her doctor tells us that as she gets a little older, she will fight it more and more. She’s 2 ½ years old right now and we have started to run into her fighting more.
I was thinking about the possibility of EFT helping. EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique or Tapping. It can be used for many different health issues. Dr. Joseph Mercola explains it this way, “EFT is a form of psychological acupressure, based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments for over 5,000 years, but without the invasiveness of needles. Instead, simple tapping with the fingertips is used to input kinetic energy onto specific meridians on the head and chest while you think about your specific problem — whether it is a traumatic event, an addiction, pain, etc. — and voice positive affirmations.” https://eft.mercola.com/. The first thing on the list from Dr. Mercola’s website says it can help eliminate negative emotions. I think it has helped Jessica do that to some extent when we tap while taking her vitamin C.
Nick Ortner from his book The Tapping Solution says, “Tapping can provide relief from chronic pain, emotional problems, disorders, addictions, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma, and many others. Tapping halts the fight or flight response and retrains the brain to act and react differently. The Tapping Solution by Nick Ortner pg. 2, 4, 7.
For many months we struggled with Jessica to take her vitamin C. vitamin C seemed to be the worst one because she has to take other supplements that don’t taste great either. I kind of don’t blame her for hating the vitamin C. It tastes quite sour. So even though tapping helps with past traumatic memories usually it still seemed to help Jess. Listen to what Charity Virkler Kayembe and Sherrie Rice Smith say in their book EFT for Christians about tapping, “Tapping relaxes us, raising our DHEA level, while telling our amygdala and hippocampus that the harmful harsh events of the past are over and done with, and informing our mind we are safe today.” Pg. 58
If you are a Christian and have doubts about this, EFT and especially acupuncture or acupressure points and their validity I understand that completely. I highly suggest you read the book The Genie in Your Genes which gives a pretty good and detailed explanation of not only tapping but many mind body healing techniques. Dawson Church the author of the above book makes a few observations when he says that if we actually have these meridians running through our bodies shouldn’t we find some kind of anatomical structure within the body. But there are no energy meridian structures described in any conventional anatomy textbooks. Scientists also don’t agree about these meridians because when people a cadaver is dissected there are no acupuncture meridians found. But listen to what was found, “…very careful microdissection is now showing that tiny, threadlike anatomical structures are indeed present. They were first discovered running inside blood vessels, and are called Bonghan ducts.” Pg. 135. Bonghan ducts are extremely tiny tubular structures. “Bonghan Kim, who stained and traced them throughout the body, and concluded that they were the physical channels of the meridian system.” Pg. 135
Since tapping uses some acupuncture points it might be useful to understand acupuncture just a little. Bonghan ducts are not only inside blood vessels but also on the surface of organs. They actually form a web on the surface of organs. Church says, “If healing signals do indeed travel through this system, we then have a physical model of how acupuncture, acupressure, EDS machines, and other meridian-based therapies work.” Pg. 137
“In hundreds of clinical studies acupuncture has been proven effective for a wide variety of ailments, from reducing the chest pain of heart pateints who have been unresponsive to drugs to the restoration of fertility in men to the control of chronic tension headaches…acupuncture appears to affect a wide network of brain regions, including those involved with the processing of emotions and thoughts, involuntary action, and pain…the same effect can be obtained without acupuncture needles. The massage technique of Shiatsu or acupressure stimulates acupuncture points with a practitioner’s fingers, using pressure or tapping.” Pg. 138
I am not even completely sure I did the set-up phrase properly with Jess when we used this for her vitamin C but it seemed to work anyway.