EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques Article:
The Yellow Emperor Meets Quantum Psychology
by Silvia Hartmann
2000 Year Old Wisdom Meets Quantum Psychology
From The Yellow Emperor To EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques
The Jia Yi Ying or Systematic Classic of Acupuncture is the first textbook of
this art.
Written by Huang-fu Mi in the Jin Dynasty (265-420 CE), it is composed of
excerpts from the Su Wen, Ling Shu, Nan Jing, and other no longer extant Chinese
medical classics, all arranged according to topics in a systematic, step-by-
step manner and held together by Huang-fu Mi's comments based on his own
clinical experience.
According to Professor Han Bing of the Tianjin College of Traditional Chinese
Medicine, this book is the cornerstone of this art and science.
Right up until contemporary times, no work has ever surpassed the Jia Yi Jing in
clinical or theoretical value.
As Yang Shou-zhong has said: " . . . every great master of the past and present
has expressed with deep emotion and profound understanding that, unless one
immerses oneself in and bases their practice on the classics, one's medical
erudition and skill cannot be sophisticated. It is the work of these great
masters which provide us with the indispensable nourishment for our progress and
advancement."
EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques is based on exactly these discoveries, written down over 2000 years ago by
Huang Fu Mi and used across the ages by martial arts masters and their students,
priests and secret societies - namely that if you control the energy flow in the
body, you can control your emotions precisely and exactly.
No longer do you need to be disabled by painful emotional blockages but instead,
energy runs clearly and powerfully through your systems, making you clear
thinking, powerfully congruent in your thoughts and strong and healthy in your
body - the mind and body functioning together with perfect clarity.
It took many hundreds of years after the Dark Ages for Western Civilisation to
come to terms with the fact that the meridian and energy system is there, and
that it has the most powerful effects on the body - but even more powerful
effects on the mind.
As Marcus Aurelius remarked, "It is in a man's mind that empires come into
being, and it is his will that creates his own future.".
Clearly, mind-body states of health, balance and focused clarity are of the
essence in everything we do - be it in creating empires, or in loving someone
with all our heart and without contortions, blockages, self sabotage and misery.
When Westerners think of "meridian based treatments", the first thing that
springs to mind is Acupuncture. So effective and helpful with so many chronic
maladies and diseases that even the sharpest insurance companies have cottoned
on to the fact that they save a lot of money when they send their clients to an
acupuncturist as opposed to putting them on long term drug treatments,
Acupuncture is now entirely accepted and even highly respected and valued in the
Western medical communities.
But of course, stimulating the flow of bio-electric energy through the body is
by no means limited to just using small antennae of precious metals and it never
was.
The Yellow Emperor already knew, 2000 years ago, of very many other ways of
achieving a better flow of life energy through a person's systems - massage,
yoga practises, meditation and of course, rubbing and stimulating the main
meridian junction points in many different ways.
One of the easiest of all and the most effective is to "percuss" on these points
- to tap them lightly as though one was making a drum ring out. The small and
gentle shockwaves travel into the meridian system and there, they shake loose
blockages and energise the meridian thus stimulated, making it come to life and
carrying more precious energy around the system.
When that happens, people start to feel better instantly - it's like magic, they
often say.
One moment, there are overwhelming feelings of fear or pain, and the next, they
are simply gone and there is peace and clarity instead.
That is in stark contrast to the old fashioned ideas of medieval medicine of the
Western world which holds that there is no gain without pain, that medicine must
taste bitter or it won't work, and that everything has to be done the hard way,
with much suffering, deprivation and misery.
Many people find it difficult, indeed, to come to terms with the purity and ease
of the energy based treatments because of this; but once they have understood
how useful it is, simply practically speaking, to be able to relieve stress,
fear, pain and much more with a few simple taps on a few simple, well chosen
points, even the most hard-line amongst them concede that this is worth knowing
about.
Treating 21st Century Emotional Maladies
Many societies across the ages had few or little to do with psychological
problems - this is something which has only recently become an epidemic, in the
last 100 years or so.
Different lifestyles and diets, a slower pace of life and less challenges in the
form of new or unnatural events and occurrences meant that for most of
humanity's existence, mental health was not a particularly pressing problem.
Even so, Huang-fu Mi already commented on how treating the meridian system in
very specific ways would alleviate "maladies of the mind" and thus would bring
about renewal and revival for the body as well.
It was finally in the 1920's that western psychologists began to learn the ways
of treating "maladies of the mind" in a totally different way, based on what
Huang-fu Mi would have considered to be standard good practice of health and
hygiene for mind and body.
This was developed further and in the early 1980's, the first systems of
directly treating psychological problems, emotional problems, and neuro-somatic
problems (illness that is caused by ongoing stress rather than by an accident or
infection) with energy based therapies.
The Power Points To Health & Happiness
Luckily, there is and was a vast reservoir of practical knowledge about the
meridian system, how it works and where its "power points" can be found already
at hand.
The main points were tried out, and in the late 1980s, not a doctor or
psychologist but a Stanford Engineer, Gary Craig, designed the first ever self
help system based on the most powerful of these major meridian junction points
in an entirely logical and practical fashion.
He named this system EFT - Emotional Freedom Techniques - and right from the
start, designed it so that one person can use this by themselves.
After all, who knows better than the individual themselves what their problems
are, and who is better placed to "give the treatment" EXACTLY at the right time,
at the right moment, when it is needed?
Twice The Treatment - More Than Twice The Power!
The most radical change and discovery is not that by tapping on special points,
energy flows around the body better and people start to feel brighter, more at
peace, heal faster and live happier lives.
Huang-fu Mi knew this 2000 years ago and a glacier corpse found that was nearly
6,000 years old with the acupuncture points for his specific illness marked out
in tattoo format so he could give himself treatment when he needed it attests to
that fact most profoundly.
The central difference and addition that makes what were already HIGHLY
effective treatments go through a threshold and become "nearly miraculous" and
quite unprecedented was the addition of INTENTION.
Everybody knows that the mind has everything to do with how a person feels, and
that decides how they act, what they do and what kinds of lives they lead.
"Cheering someone up" in hospital leads to their wounds closing faster and
having statistically very significantly less infections and complications. When
the mind co-operates with the body, something happens that becomes more than
just the sum of the parts - miracles can occur.
In EFT, we don't just lie somewhere and think of our shopping or random events
whilst someone taps on us.
In EFT, we focus the mind on one particular problem and THEN we deliver the
treatment - so that the treatment goes directly to that ONE problem and resolves
THAT particular problem, targeted and powerfully, directly and without a doubt,
at the energetic level.
This is why EFT works so powerfully and with 85% of people who try it for the
first time, reliably, time and time again.
A Healing Technique Like No Other
We are used to having a little green pill for this, a little blue one for that,
a couple of big white ones for the next thing - one disease, one cure.
EFT is totally different from that approach because it gives the person a
structure that is applicable to *every* problem and the EFT user adds their own
content, thus making every treatment exactly made to measure for that one person
who is using it on their own absolutely unique problem.
Rather than forcing someone to spend a lifetime studying the meridian channels
and the cause-and-effect of this and that before they can start to heal, Gary
Craig used the brilliant concept of "Total Redundancy" in his design of working
with the body's power points.
He took *all* the most powerful points and so, for every problem, all of them
are stimulated - and so the right one(s) are always covered and it is impossible
to get it wrong!
All that is required to deliver a powerful meridian based treatment to clear
your own problems is to learn the 14 points of the Classic EFT Sequence - and
with the help of a simple diagram that shows where they are, it takes about 10
minutes or less.
Now, to this overall clearing sequence we add our own intention and focus by
saying out loud what it is that troubles us - and the powerful healing effects
of the meridian treatment go to work, instantly!
A Hundred Thousand People Tapping ...
By now, more than a hundred thousand people have learned EFT and they are
treating their own energy systems for their own problems - they are FREE to help
themselves and help others too to relieve burdens of fear, trauma, anxiety,
hatred, sadness, bereavement and chronic pain and illness.
Over a hundred thousand people are tapping.
In refugee camps in Cossovo, in AIDs clinics in Africa. In Trauma Centers in the
UK and in clinics specialising in addictions, eating disorders and for sexual
abuse survivors.
In the offices of the World's most famous and expensive psychotherapists; in the
offices of small local healers and counsellors.
But much more importantly, as you are reading this, there are people of all
walks of life, of all ages, of colours, races and sexes, children and teenagers
and old folk, housewives and executives, a single lonely person in their
basement flat - one person at a time, finding a whole new sense of power, of
freedom and of destiny in their own ability to help themselves, by themselves,
with what troubles them most.
Just The Beginning ...
But that is just the beginning.
EFT is in many ways, just a beginning. Something to show us that there is help
and hope for a better future for every single one of us, regardless of who we
are or what we have been through so far.
This beautiful, simple and profound self help treatment opens the door to so
much more.
EFT is not called Emotional FREEDOM Techniques for nothing.
The freedom to create your own life, to break free from the chains of the past
and from the cages of our own self limitations, is a gift of the most
profoundest proportions and in the years to come, the world will acknowledge
Gary Craig's amazing contribution in making EFT available to everyone, just for
the asking.
I invite you to seriously come join this revolution - for your sake and that of
your own future.
Silvia Hartmann, PhD
Author, "Adventures In EFT"
"Advanced Patterns Of EFT"
© Silvia Hartmann 2001
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