How EFT, Byron Katie and Energy Medicine Saved me

Around April 27, I came down with a sore throat. On April 30, I went to see my doctor and she prescribed a very strong antibiotic Clamentin 625mg (antibiotic, amoxicillin,clavulanic acid) - a five day course. On the fifth day, i.e. May 5, I had a bad headache. On May 6, I began to fall very ill - stabbing chest pains, nausea when getting up from a reclining position, extremely low blood pressure around 90/60 when getting up in the morning. But worse of all, panic, fear, anxiety and extreme depression. It became worse and worse each day, and all I could do was just to lie down all day long.

On May 15 while lying down in bed at night, negative thoughts would keep coming up - am I going to get a heart failure, am I sufferring from anemia, etc. I then applied Byron Katie's 4 Questions from Loving What Is, Four Questions That Can Save Your Life:

1. Is it true?
2. Can you absolutely know it to be true?
3. How do you react when you believe that thought?
4. Who would you be without that thought?

I didn't apply any turnarounds. But it is enough to release the negative thoughts and relieve the onset of the panic attacks and stabbing chest pains - and I did The Work all night long until I fell asleep.

The next day, May 16, I started doing Donna Eden's exercises, including spinning the crystal over the chakra's - this is based on her Energy Medicine Kit and that helped to improve my condition further, but the weakness, malaise, and occasional stabbing chest pains were still there.

The following day, May 17, I stopped using Byron Katie's The Work and tried EFT instead. And it helped to stop the stabbing chest pains and panic. But I continued to do Byron Katie's Daily Routine.

Over the course of the next few weeks my health became better and better. I used Gary Craig's Basic Recipe EFT which I learnt from his website:  http://www.emofree.com/eft-tutorial/eft-tapping-tutorial.html.

Then, I bought the following book : Heal Yourself with Emotional Freedom Technique: by John Freedom and learnt EFT in more detail.

Then, I bought this book : The EFT Manual by Dawson Church to read more about Clinical EFT and scientific evidence of EFT. By this time, June 19, I was already well on the way to better health. I no longer felt malaise, depressed, panic attacks, and rarely have stabbing chest pains. A total reversal of the condition I was in about a month ago.

I subsequently bought this book : The Tapping Solution by Nick Ortner and its Chinese translated version: 释放更自在的自己.

The Chinese version comes with a DVD The Tapping Solution by Nick Ortner. The DVD is almost a 2 hour long documentary video of 10 people who got together to learn EFT.

Because, I am now convinced that EFT works, I subsequently bought : Tapping Into Wealth by Margaret M Lynch to see how I could remove the blocks about money matters. Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don't by Michael J Losier would be more powerful if resistance does not get in the way.

What is preventing you from feeling happy

What is preventing you from feeling happy? 

Happiness is a natural state but it is being covered by negative feelings. What is causing these negative feelings?

Feelings are the body's reaction to thoughts.

So if you are feeling bad, it is because you are thinking negative thoughts. Sometimes we are not aware of the thoughts but only aware of the feelings because the thoughts are very fast. But the feelings linger on. 

To remove the unhappy feelings, we need to identify the thoughts that produce them. And once we have identified the negative thoughts, we need to change them. Changing thoughts may not be so easy if we do not know how to do it.

To change thoughts, we need to look deeper...

What is causing those negative thoughts? The clue is the picture above - of a man being chained to a peg on the ground. Can you guess the message in the picture?

Let me explain...

The chain is the thought. The chain binds you to the peg on the ground and prevents you from getting liberation (happiness). Can you guess what the peg stands for? What are thoughts chained to?

The answer is...

BELIEFS

Your thoughts are chained to your beliefs. If you want to be free, you need to remove the pegs from the ground, that binds you by the chain.  It is difficult to break the chain - just like it is difficult to stop negative thoughts from arising. But if you look for the source of the negative thoughts, it becomes easier.

Just drop the beliefs.

Whenever there is a negative thought, there is an underlying belief that has caused the negative thought to arise.

Next time you are unhappy, ask yourself, what am I believing in that is causing me to feel bad?

Once you identify the belief - ask yourself: Can I drop this belief? What would I feel if I did not believe this thought. Belief is also a thought.

If you find it hard to drop the belief. Ask the next question. Would I rather hold on to this belief and continue to suffer, or would I rather drop it and be free? Which feels better?