Most suffering, sickness or disease can be stress-related –  a general statement.

Negative emotion, be it stress, disturbed mind, with the associated pain, suffering, dysfunction situation, poor performance, depression, insomnia, some leading to more severe sickness or disease like cancers etc. etc. is generally understood to be caused by past or present un-pleasant memory, trauma, experience. (besides food we eat and air we breath, or environment we live in).

With that as the underlying premise, effort is made towards tackling the root cause – to re-visit the past negative drama with the hope of infusing some positive perspectives or re-writing the event, as carried out by therapist, psychologist, counselors, or coaches, or injection of positive thinking, affirmation or will-power by motivators. Often it is time consuming process, not always with high rate of success. And modern medicine uses drug and chemicals to suppress or physically prevent or stop the behavior of the neurons.

Mr. "A" suffers depressions, never performs up to his potentials, and has phobia of height. Tracing back, it was found that he met an accident, with him in a car overhanging a cliff - a traumatic experience when he as a young boy.

Is that traumatic past experience the cause of his conditions today?

Using the above logic, it will be so.

However, together with him are his other siblings, some younger, other older. But they do not suffer the conditions Mr. A is in? How come?

"The cause of all negative emotions is the disruption in the body energy system." – Gary Craig, founder of EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)

Using this new premise, attention is now drawn to restoration of the body energy system, not modern medicine, conventional therapist, drugs or herbs or supplements.

This leads to proliferation of energy healing systems like Qigong, Yoga, Hand Energy Healing, Meditation, Reiki, Prayer, etc.

The new practices take a lot of patience and discipline, belief and commitment, often years to gain the mastery and see the positive effects.

Gary Craig makes popular a simple, fast and effective method, which he calls EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to restore health and achieve well being. EFT gets the patient to focus or tune into the negative emotion and mobilize the body energy by tapping on some acupuncture points of the body.

Testimonials and many more testimonials of years old suffering, insomnia, migraine,  pain, depression etc. etc show fast or instant cure (some as short as 10 min session), without any more recurrence in using EFT.

Why such speedy healing as compared with years of practice of Qigong, Yoga, meditation etc.?

"The biggest factor that causes blockage of the body's healing energy is emotional issues, particularly how these are stored in—and processed by—the body. Stress and negative emotions aren't in the head; they are stored as tensions in the body" – Dr.Eric Robbins

Dr. Eric Robbins continues ..

Interestingly, it is not our negative emotions that cause the problem—but rather our resistance to feeling these emotions. My friend and internationally known psychologist Gay Hendricks once said, "All emotions are gentle and short-lived, unless we resist feeling them."

 Qigong, Yoga or Energy healing by hand practitioners appear to ignore the above – the attention and feeling of the negative emotion. They concentrate on their breathing, movement of the body (as required by Qigong or Yoga procedures), or stillness of the mind in meditation, (not the feeling of the negative emotion), although eventually (after long years) such practice helps the Qi to flow, unblock the stuck energy in the body.

 Again to borrow Dr. Eric Robbin's words, as my concluding remarks :

 "We are blessed today with simple, inexpensive, accessible techniques that have the potential to revolutionize our sense of wellness, shift the patterns that trap us in chronic disease, and dramatically raise our thresholds of happiness. I challenge you to experiment with these methods and see what results they produce in your own life. And as you have the courage to travel healing journey, I salute the divinity within you and trust God's blessings with you always."