I took an EFT course about 3 years back and for the first year I barely even used it. I guess the course came under the name of "Energy Psychotherapy" and I thought that sounded interesting and like energy work ... or figuring out the energy body in an emotional way. To my surprise the course was all about tapping and accupressure combined with affirmations. I did use a little on myself at times to free myself from headaches, but I guess I didnt trust it to use on anything else and so put it away for a year.

Then one day I was giving an online client Reiki and something just told me to give it a try. Not in the normal EFT method though but in an energy way cause even Gary Craig had said just thinking of tapping on the points seemed to activate them without even tapping on them physically (had watched some of his DVD seminars including one on using the mind to bend spoons).

I didnt even ask the person to tap on their own meridian points. I merely used my right hand to do the tapping on her body which I was visualizing infront of me. I then used my left hand to send the reiki (into a pillow I used as a surrogate for her body since she is not in person). To my shock she could feel what I was doing. She said she felt me "doing something" on the "right side" of her face (most of the EFT points are on the face and I was visualizing tapping the points on the right side) and her anxiety/depression was lifting. I tried it again online with someone who came to me with more than one issue and I was again shocked when I got the same great results and her actually feeling where I was "tapping".

Another thing I noticed were that my hands were getting much hotter when using the reiki. So hot infact, that a couple of time there was crackling on the phone and I was worried I was going to lose connection. I had heard of this happening before with energy workers, but had never experienced it. What I think was going on was that I was using muscle testing to test for "psychological reversals" (see my blogs on EFT), using the EFT to clear them while channeling the reiki over a body point or chakra (again, I use a pillow or teddy bear to represent the body), and somehow clearing blocks, the Reiki would just start to flow more strongly. Or else its "borrowing benefits" (when you do EFT on another it can sometimes clear you as well).

Amazing things have happened. Not with everyone, but I am shocked how many will respond extremely positively. Some have even said "wow" over and over or "I cant believe this". A headache will lift, pain will recede or anxiety will calm. Have had one women with public speaking and microphone phobias come back after giving a presentation and say a ten minute session cured her. All I know is when I did simply Reiki on its own I never had such results.