I was first introduced to EFT by a nurse practitioner colleague who had attended a seminar on various healing topics and techniques. She gave me some handouts and a couple of names to look up. She knew I had some experience with energy healing techniques and thought EFT and I would be a good fit.

I reviewed the material and googled Emotional Freedom Techniques. I explored the site at emofree.com and downloaded the manual. Several pieces of my life's puzzle just fell right into place. I was familiar with inner healing, therapeutic touch and Charismatic prayer. My Bachelor's Degree research was on the role of prayer and health in the religious community for which I had worked. I had a lifetime of intuitive sensitivity to other's emotions and pain. But it took reading an engineer's explanation of the body's energy system for it all to fall into place for me. I took the manual and hit the ground running.

The one event that led me to champion EFT was that it cured me of migraine headaches in less than 5 minutes after 40 years of my suffering with them.

I have always told my patients I would never recommend something for them that I wouldn't do for myself. I had tried therapy, medications, meditations and massage. I saw my primary physician, a neurologist, a pain management specialist and a chiropractor. I had MRI's, emergency room visits, epidural injections and wasted days in dark rooms, just to have the migraines recur time and time again.

I was a "newbee" at EFT when a migraine began at work. I clocked it as a six out of ten when I thought to use the EFT. I began with "Even though I have this migraine headache in my right eye and temple, I deeply and completely love and accept myself." No change.
"Even though I'm afraid I'll have to leave work and drive home in pain..." No change.
"Even though I am worried this pain will get worse..." Nada.
"Even though I am afraid this won't work and I'll have to take a pain reliever..."
The pain moved from the front of my head to the back! I almost wept with relief.
"Even though I still have some of this headache...I deeply and completely love and accept myself." Gone.
Never to return. Years later I am still free of migraines.