ISSN 1538-1080
DOI:10.58717/ijhc.01

Category: Living with Life Challenges

Quitting Smoking: How to Use Emotional Freedom Techniques, January 2013

Abstract Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) have been gaining strength in the published literature as strategies to reduce arousal symptoms such as anxiety. EFT falls under the umbrella of energy psychology techniques which combine physical or somatic processes with cognitive focus in order to reduce psychological distress. This article discusses the practical application of EFT to

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Quitting Smoking: How to Use Emotional Freedom Techniques

Abstract Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) have been gaining strength in the published literature as strategies to reduce arousal symptoms such as anxiety. EFT falls under the umbrella of energy psychology techniques which combine physical or somatic processes with cognitive focus in order to reduce psychological distress. This article discusses the practical application of EFT to

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Anger

Anger is a universal emotion. Almost everyone experiences its ravages. It seems the more we express anger without concern for its effects, the more anger there is to express! There truly is a different way. By fully allowing ourselves to connect with and experience the sensations of anger while not acting, we find the quickest

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I Had to Be Mad to See a Spiritual Healer

Abstract Through my study and working in the field of conventional Western medicine I was lulled into the sense that this was the best and only way to treat illness and disease. Other modalities of treatment were either completely unknown to me or dismissed with a lofty arrogance. It was only when I became extremely

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Is There A Doctor In The House? Yes!

The first wealth is health. Ralph Waldo Emerson From personal experience, I can attest to the power of the dreaming mind to diagnose, comment on treatment, see illness as a teacher, and predict outcomes. When the physical body is hit with illness, the victim has an immediate appointment with the greatest specialist he/she will ever

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Wholistic Healing through Energy Psychology (EP) for Veterans

As a certified Emotional Freedom Techniques EFT Practitioner, coming from a background of coaching, and as the daughter of a WWII Veteran and POW, I have been blessed to be able to help many Veterans who suffer from the trauma of deployment and the exposure to the horrors of war. EFT is a gentle combination

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We Get To Listen

Over the years of my career as a teacher, in classrooms and rehearsals and now in the meetings of Still Waters in a Storm, I have preached compassion. When schools generated oppressive lists of rules and standards, and mind-crushing rubrics for grading everything children do, I threw those charts and lists in the garbage and

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Energy Psychology in Africa: Exploring Spiritual Dimensions

Four practitioners from the United States went to Rwanda in September of 2009 on a humanitarian trip to work with orphan survivors of the 1994 genocide who are still suffering from complex posttraumatic stress disorder. They used a variety of energy psychology techniques for trauma desensitization both in a group setting and also in individual

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