Pet Healing 1 - EFT, the Amazing Tapping Technique

I have a great interest in alternative therapies and natural healing techniques, especially for animals. I am going to put together several pages on the ones that have worked for me over the years here in Italy.

I don’t know if you have ever tried acupuncture? Originating in China the treatment involves having very fine needles inserted into specific points linked to the body’s 14 meridians or electrical energy points. A couple of years ago I had acupuncture on a bad knee and apart from not being painful at all, it worked!

A technique closely related to acupuncture but without the needles is the Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT for short. It’s very simple and rather than use needles, you just tap on key points associated with the 14 meridians to help alleviate physical, mental and emotional problems. The technique was the brainchild of Gary Craig back in 1995 and is based on the principle that physical and emotional symptoms are a result of energy blocks in the body’s meridians. Tapping and focussing on the problem can release the blocks. It is a fast technique, each round of taps taking only a minute or so but years of problems can be resolved.

I’ve had a go at this with great success and learned the basics from Gary’s website and his free manual. He also has a great and informative newsletter where practitioners and patients report on the results they’ve achieved.

OK, so this is all very well, but what about the animals I hear you cry? Well hold up there me hearties, because EFT works for animals too! Obviously they don’t tap themselves (their paws are too big- LOL) so you have to do it for them. This technique is known as ‘surrogate tapping’. Once you know the right places then there are several ways to tap for your dog, cat, rabbit, horse – any pet really. When we got our mongrel puppy Maia two years ago and she woke us up in the night whining and crying I used the technique and it worked within 30 seconds.

 EFT’s success rate for both people and pets is an astounding 80 percent for certain problems. I bet there are a lot of doctors and vets who would like that kind of healing result.

 Gary’s videos are amazing too and well worth a look. You can also visit Gary’s EFT site and read the articles on  EFT for animals