Dear Sandra Hillawi: I trust this mail reaches you at this address.
I can submit the following EFT story. I am an 81 yr. old psychiatrist
who has been studying and using EFT for the past 8 years, both personally and
occasionally in my work. I still work a day a week as a child psychiatrist in
a medication clinic, occasionally describing EFT and giving instructions
and/or handouts to parents. Much or most of my career has been as a
psychotherapist until recent years. I have no doubts or reservations about the
value
and effectiveness of EFT.
About 4 weeks ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with a most
incredibly painful Charlie horse in my right calf, with a pain level well above
an
ordinary 10. I immediately tapped, saying "Even though I have this terrible
pain in my right calf......" and then tapped on the eight points with great
vigor. The pain instantly dropped to about 5-6. I again tapped and the pain
went to zero, de nada, nothing. I then fell back to sleep. The next day
there was some residual achiness in the muscles(gastrocnemius), secondary to
the
intense spasm that had occurred, but in no actual pain. I was almost
shocked by the value, even though I had never had any reservations before about
the
near-miraculous value of EFT for many conditions and for many people, I
still could hardly believe the "miracle." Anecdotes may be far from
scientific,
in the usual "scientific" viewpoint of researchers, but this experience
proved to me what future research will simply substantiate.
I live in Kittery, Maine in the United States. My email is:
_oldmtn25@..._ (mailto:oldmtn25@...) .
I have had no subsequent episodes. I do have a mild form of "Spinal
Stenosis," a condition in which arthritic plaque at L2 and L4 presses in on the
spinal cord, causing some low back pain. I am not at all sure that the
spasm in my right leg was related, but it might have been. I am generally in
good
health, notwithstanding some of the common symptoms of aging such as
elevated cholesterol, systolic hypertension, other conditions related to
generalized
atherosclerosis of the arteries.
If you have any further questions, please feels free to contact me.
Cordially, Henry Edward Altenberg, MD


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