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Posted 3/29/2014 3:33 AM (GMT 0)
Hi everyone, both the doctor who is treating me and my dentist ( biological ) have told me that I am "blocked" and highly recommended "tapping therapy" .

I have been thru 4 years of just about everything, but quite honestly, I found the suggestion of tapping my fingers on points of my body to be ridiculous ..

Until I tried it ...

If you are not familiar with tapping ( that was me ! ), it involves the use of 4 fingers on each hand, and you gently "tap" acupuncture meridians as if playing Chopsticks on a piano ... In my case, I am to tap my chin, collarbone and under my arms ...

Frankly, I felt foolish doing this for the first time ... but about 5 min after I tapped at home for the first time, I felt a fluid / draining sensation near my ear, and boy, did it feel GOOD ...

Unfortunately, after my last three attempts at tapping, I have woken up the following day feeling horrible - as if I have been injected with gasoline - burning pain and bad irratibility, etc

I spoke with my dentist today, and he said that I have "opened the floodgates" - the tapping has initiated a healing response in my body, and I have begin to dump toxins too fast ...

Now, I am back to skepticism - at least right now, as I feel horrible ...

Has anyone else tried "tapping", and if so, have you had a herx / detox type reaction ?

It is literally a stronger detox feeling than anything I have felt with herbs or antibiotics in the past ...

The one thing that has me feeling encouraged that it IS good reaction is that the lumpy / washboard triple lymph node area on my neck to my ear feels more smooth and normal now than it has in the past 4 years .... It literally feels as if what is coming out of that area is poisoning me ( I know that sounds insane, but .. )

Thanks everybody !!!!!

Post Edited (Tano) : 3/28/2014 9:36:18 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 3/29/2014 10:25 AM (GMT 0)
Tano, very interesting and thanks for writing about it. My son has had 2 acupuncture sessions and after the first session he was given a salve to put in the area under his belly button daily and rub in. With his hyper-sensitive sense of smell, he couldn't tolerate it, so the acupuncturist now has him tap the same place daily with the tips of 4 fingers held vertically. I wonder if its kind of the same thing?

Is it the same tapping points as EFT?
Posted 3/29/2014 1:47 PM (GMT 0)
Lyme quickly finds the lymph nodes in our body. You are probably getting the lymph nodes in the areas you're tapping 'massaged' and thus getting things moving. This is important, but if done quickly could result in painful herxing.

I've done tapping for emotional issues and for helping me sleep. This works great for me. I didn't notice anything moving with my lymph nodes, but it all depends on were you are tapping.

I am getting cranial massage now to get my lymph nodes opened and moving again. I believe this is paramount in getting healed. If things in our bodies are all stopped up, like a dam, then movement will be slow to stagnant. Getting things moving again will hopefully help in my healing.

I am glad you brought tapping up. It is beneficial on many levels.

Youtube has some awesome vids on tapping if anyone is inerested. Just search for EFT.
Posted 3/29/2014 3:12 PM (GMT 0)
I recently watched a few of the free videos from the Tapping World Summit. One of them was an interview with Donna Eden. (She wrote Energy Medicine.)

Since I am not very motivated, I looked for an easy and short routine. Look on youtube for "Donna Eden Daily Energy Routine." It only takes a few minutes. It has a pretty thorough lymphatic massage as well.

Anything you can do to help lymph drain is going to be good in the long run, but you might be having trouble detoxing, as everyone has said. If you want to try increasing your energy with the Donna Eden routine, it might help. Let me know if you try it.

I'm going to make a new habit.
Posted 3/29/2014 3:49 PM (GMT 0)
Dr Mercola is quite a proponent of EFT. I have managed to come around and agree on pretty much everything he expouses now: probiotics, EMFs, fluoride, GMO's/pesticides, vaccinations, most pharmaceuticals, nutrition, HIIT, etc.

But I have never felt comfortable with the idea of this technique, thinking instead that it seems too improbable. Perhaps I need to open my mind just a little more......

Please keep posting on your experiences.
Posted 3/29/2014 5:49 PM (GMT 0)
rowingmom, think of it as something to try with no money lost for trying it. You don't have to buy equipment or pills, etc., so it's totally free. :)

I've don't a little EFT, but not enough to tell if it helped a lot.
Posted 3/29/2014 7:38 PM (GMT 0)
Thank you everyone for the responses !!!!!

It is very comforting to read that others know of, and have tried, these other treatment modalities ..

Just an update - Thursday I went to work, went to Home Depot and was doing OK ... I did the tapping after I got home and felt a surge of "healing" ( for lack of a better term ) within 10-15 minutes .... about 2 hours later, I began to feel bad symptoms - the "poisoned" feeling ..

So Friday ( yesterday ) was dreadful - one of the worse days recently ..

I went to sleep Friday night, and about 3 hours into my sleep I woke up drenched in sweat - literally as if I had just stepped out of the shower . . .

I have had night sweats in the past, but never without taking a remedy beforehand - I have gotten night sweats after acupuncture, after beginning B12, and beginning zinc supplementation - in other words, things that are jumpstarting my immune system ...

I think my point is that without a doubt, the tapping is kick starting my immune system ... It is amazing, and I never would have thought it to have this much impact ...
Posted 3/29/2014 7:50 PM (GMT 0)
Am I unworldly if I never heard of this? tongue

In know accupuncture and have done it for a long time with good results, and there is accupressure. But never heard of tapping. I might have a better look at this, do some research and test it, since I can't find a lymph drainage practicioner where I live.

Thank you for the information Tano!
Posted 3/30/2014 1:15 AM (GMT 0)
Marie, by no means are you unworldly !!!

I had no idea about it ... and I thought I had heard it all

Even when my doc showed me, I just kind of rolled my eyes ( I know, I shouldn't think that way with a doctor ) ... then my dentist mentioned it ... and I thought I would give it a go ...

Just for the record, my doc is an MD . . . She works at the practice, and she is also a professor at a medical school - she knows her stuff, and she is the one who first told me about it ...
Posted 3/30/2014 1:22 AM (GMT 0)
If anyone is feeling adventurous, here is a very in-depth article on how tapping therapy works ... It is written by Ronald Ruden MD PhD ... I know that Dr Ruden has a well known practice in Manhattan ...

www.healingthemind.net/html/Why_tapping_works.html
Posted 3/30/2014 3:57 AM (GMT 0)
Tano, did you also say a phrase while you tapped like the instructions say to do?
Posted 3/30/2014 6:54 AM (GMT 0)
ksgirl, no, I didn't know anything more than what my doc and dentist showed me, and they never mentioned saying anything ..

In the past couple of days, I have read a little online about it, and I see that saying the phrases are part of the therapy ... but I didn't do that

I don't know if the techniques could be different depending on the condition ... With me, I obviously have some trouble detoxing - I have blood tests that have confirmed that I have the double MTHRF A1298C genetic mutation which is related to blood clotting and hypercoagulation ... I have some issues with lymph nodes, and whenever I take ANYTHING ( herbs, minerals like zinc, B12 ) I get red dots, red streaks and rashes ...

So when both my doc and dentist mentioned that I was "blocked", that made sense ....... but I believe that there is an emotion component here too regarding the blockage ...

I am still learning about this and trying to figure it out ....... But, for example, my dentist ( who performs the ART Energy Testing ) said that infections are no longer an issue for me ...

We tested a herpes virus vial, and I was very weak when he pulled my arm - then, he added another vial, which at that moment I was unaware of ... I was able to resist his force on my arm and I felt stronger ... The vial he had added was "Emotion" ..

He said that a virus may well be giving me my remaining symptoms, but it is my emotional block that is preventing the virus from being addressed ...

He went on to say that this is, indeed, traced back to a mineral deficiency ( zinc, magnesium, etc ) as the snowball of emotion depletes the minerals and in turn, a growing mineral deficiency is creating emotional issues ...

As a sidenote, last July I had a blood test that showed I was flagged low for zinc

All this is truly amazing, and makes me realize that killing bacteria and other microbes might be a very small part of getting well
Posted 3/30/2014 2:50 PM (GMT 0)
Wow, Tano. You are very lucky to have found a doctor like this. Amazing!

I have been reading a book "The Rainbow and the Worm", by Mae-Wan Ho, a physicist who is a proponent of HeartMath and the idea that by producing coherent energy fields in our bodies we can address the adverse effects produced by negative emotion. The book is very heavy on physics and equations; the good thing is that you don't have to completely understand the equations to grasp her meaning. It did bring back a lot of high school and undergraduate physics though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq_wvlXnjXc

Her explaination of this is purely scientific, which is what I needed to sway my attitude towards this kind of thinking. I am bad in that I don't believe something until I am able to find an explanation that I can understand in terms of the hard sciences of chemistry/biology/physics.

Another book I am currently reading is "The Grand Design" by Stephen Hawking. I've only just started, but he too is discussing quantum theory, vibrational frequencies, etc.

Keep posting, this is great!
Posted 3/30/2014 5:29 PM (GMT 0)
hi Rowing Mom, glad to have you posting this--I too am a skeptic about things that are not backed scientifically. I have a friend who is doing Heartmath as part of his healing from cancer and I'm glad to hear of this doctor's writing. I'd also read about it as a good help for kids with attention problems.

I do have great respect for things I can't prove however!
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