EFT Articles

Pain is in Your Brain and How to Fix It

By Dr. Mercola Did you know that meditation provides greater reductions in pain intensity and pain unpleasantness than medications like morphine? 1 This is because pain stems from your brain ... and retraining your brain is often one of the best pain...

How Grief Can Break Your Heart

By Dr. Mercola Dying from a broken heart may seem more like a scene from a Shakespearean drama than reality, but extreme grief really can "break" your heart. In the days after losing someone close to you, your risk of suffering from a heart attack goes...

Antidepressants Cause 40,000 Deaths a Year - But They're Handed Out Like Candy

Taking antidepressants may raise the risk of heart disease in men. They can thicken artery walls through an as yet unknown mechanism. The drugs seem to accelerate atherosclerosis by increasing the thickness of the "intima media", the inner and middle...

Basic Steps to Your Emotional Freedom

By Dr. Mercola What is the Emotional Freedom Technique? The Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT, is the psychological acupressure technique I routinely use in my practice and most highly recommend to optimize your emotional health. Although it is still...

New Ways to Think About Grief

The so-called "five stages" of grief are deeply embedded in current culture -- denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. But recently, researchers using sophisticated methods of data collection have begun to overturn this and other preconceptions...

“Until This… I’ve not had 2 Pain Free Nights in a Row Since 1991”

By Christine Wheeler, MA Some of our biggest EFT enthusiasts are people who have used this gentle, safe and easy-to-administer technique to minimize their suffering from pain. Janet Cole said, "I forgot what pain was about" after she used EFT for her...

Breaking News! What Did This 10-Year, 13-Nation Study Discover About Brain Cancer and Cell Phones?

People who use cell phones for at least 30 minutes a day over the course of 10 years have a greater risk of developing brain cancer, according to a landmark study from the World Health Organization. The chance of developing a malignant tumor is increased...

Words of Wisdom From a 97-Year-Old Physician

At the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world's longest-serving physicians and educators. He has been healing patients at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke's College of Nursing since 1941...

Acupuncture is Just as Effective Without Needles

Acupuncture works, but it appears to work equally well with or without needle penetration. This conclusion was drawn from a treatment study involving cancer patients suffering from nausea during radiotherapy. In a series of acupuncture studies that involved...

Why Just One Cigarette Can Get You Hooked

A Canadian study has suggested that it may take only one cigarette for some people to get addicted to nicotine, because of how their brains are wired. By manipulating receptors in the brains of rats, researchers were able to control whether the first...