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By Dr. Joseph Mercola
New York Times Bestselling Author & Founder of
Mercola.com,
the World's Most Popular Natural Health Website
I have spent the last three decades studying health, with a
particularly strong focus on how to best prevent disease. Like most other
doctors, back in medical school I was brainwashed to believe that the toxic
drug-and-surgery based approach to treating illness was the be-all and end-all
to healing.
This is the dominant model today, as most people think of prescription drugs
when they think of healthcare. It is an expensive and dangerous situation, as
drugs and surgery both are really just mere treatments that have almost nothing
to do with actual prevention or cure.
Fortunately, there are sections of conventional medicine that are starting to
appreciate the importance of true preventive and curative health approaches.
This is particularly true in the area of emotions. It is finally being widely
recognized that emotions have a significant role in the etiology of disease;
even the conservative Center for Disease Control acknowledges that over 85
percent of all diseases have an emotional component (and this is a very
conservative estimate.)
The problem, of course, is that conventional medicine has no consistently
effective tools that address the emotional dysfunction at its causal level. They
rely primarily on a drug based model in conjunction with counseling and
psychotherapy, which rarely seem to fully resolve the energetic and
physiological dysfunctions that contribute to the disease.
When one carefully analyzes the various healing models in a non-biased manner,
it becomes clear that energy psychology tools are one of the most powerful
healing modalities available.
Those that have heard of me know that I am an information junkie and love to
read scientific advances. I review hundreds of articles every week in
preparation for publishing my health newsletter at
Mercola.com, which has become
one of the most widely read health newsletters in the world. In the many tens of
thousands of articles I have reviewed and in all my twenty years of clinical
experience, I have yet to encounter any healing modality that is consistently as
effective in resolving human health challenges as EFT.
I used to believe exercise was the most fundamental health tool; with time I
modified that to nutritional biochemistry. While both of these tools, along with
sleep and optimal sun exposure, are essential for health, if I had to rely on
only one tool (fortunately I don’t) I would have to select EFT.
Unfortunately, it took me nearly 15 years of searching after I graduated medical
school before I encountered energy psychology. My first exposure was to EFT’s
precursor, TFT. However, it did not seem to be time effective in a busy clinical
setting that I practiced. This prejudiced me against evaluating EFT until a
close friend encouraged me to consider it.
I am so glad I did, because EFT has been the most effective healing tool I have
ever encountered. As Gary Craig is fond of saying, you can use it for just about
everything.
Ron Ball’s book, Freedom at Your Fingertips, provides a powerful resource to use
this tool even more effectively. He has been able to coordinate some of the best
therapists in this amazing field and have them contribute a chapter on their
expertise.
If you are a health care professional or just using EFT for your own or your
family’s benefit, this book needs to be in your library, as it will help you to
integrate what some of the brightest people in the field have learned on the
practical application of this powerful tool.
Once you become more proficient with EFT through this exceptional book, I would
strongly encourage you to subscribe to the free newsletter at
Mercola.com, as it
has a variety of resources that will complement what you learn in this book, and
serve as a powerful synergistic combination to achieve optimal health. |
