Laughter is the best medicine and yet many who are in pain cannot laugh about it. As a complementary pain therapist I feel their pain and know how their world can turn dark and gloomy in an instant. My work is to help their body, mind and spirit heal so that light can once again shine in their lives and bring colour,smiles and laughter back into their world. Pain can be managed, reduced and even removed. Why cry needlessly when you can laugh?
Isn't it wonderful! We managed to get rid of 2009 with all its economic bad news. Now we can start with a fresh page and according to all financial guru things can only get better. So with all the fireworks and celebration lets make 2010 a better. No lets rephrase it, lets make it a MUCH better year. Let the healing begin and lets rekindle the joy and love we may have lost or neglected in 2009 and let it glow again in 2010! Another chance to get it right 2010!
It is with sadness that Gary Craig had to retire on Jan.15 2010 having found that EFT had grown bigger than himself. He tried to control it but EFT had grown from a mole hill into a mountain, too heavy for any single person to carry. Yes EFT is now worldwide and the fact that the EFT manual has been translated into 20 languages attests to its international status and popularity. When he generously gave away the free manual little did he realize it would grow by leaps and bounds as the EFT manual was downloaded a million times by people looking for healing in a painful world.
We give him a grand salute for the enormous healing he had given the world. He had made healing into a DIY that really works. It was simple enough for children to tap along and professionals to heal a multitude of clients. What can we say? He should be given the Nobel Prize for bringing healing into the world. Anger and hate vanished. Fears and anxiety dissolved. Dis-ease and disease relieved. Pain and suffering vanquished. All these with a simple tool - your fingers and EFT.
Gary Craig retirement also meant that his website, practitioners listing, forum, huge library of testimonials, certification and educational DVD's would also retire with him. The reason he gave for not maintaining his website is that his name is plastered all over it and therefore open to legal suits if others misuse it. So where does this leave us? Those who had been my students will be recognised by the EFT Masters group as I had receive certification under two EFT masters Pat Carrington and Peter Graham. They will be the logical organisation to replace Gary as they are made up of the EFT masters http://eftmastersworldwide.com/. Incidentally there are no more than 20 in the world. The reason was that Gary stopped the Masters program only after a short stint. So unlike healing groups like Reiki and Qigong where there are an abundance of masters and even grandmasters EFT has officially only 20 certified masters world wide.
On my part I will be reviewing my website www.eftwonder.com to cater for these changes. I believe EFT will from Jan.15 onward grow into a more varied therapy under meridian tapping and many branches growing out off it. EFT will evolved now that there is no more lease as Gary Craig had been resisting 'changes'. I see exciting times ahead a new horizon to explore.
We are placing our lives in the hands of people who are under pressure to produce a H1N1 vaccine at an unprecented pace. Politicians and businessman are pushing for it. Will it cause more autism producing a generation of disabled that had reached epidemic proportion 1:250! Or will those zombie movies become reality when something goes drastically wrong while trying to save mankind. Looked at what happen to Desiree Jenning after taking a NORMAL flu shot!
It was a warm afternoon when Mr DIY (that's what I like to be known) tried to screw on an over priced door bell button on the outside wall of my office. A visitor who was also a doctor exited through my gate and noticing my labourious effort asked if vandals might get to my doorbell (I wish some people will keep their opinions to themselves). As he walked away a motorbike approached and the pinion rider jump down waving a 'parang' machete. He placed it at the doctors throat and demanded his wallet. The doctor was so terrified that he fell down and tried to shield himself with his hands. The robber was getting impatient and was threatening to chop him. I quickly jump forward (think superman indestructible) and shouted don't chop and told the doctor to quickly hand over his wallet (does that make me an accomplice?). The robber grabbed it and suddenly it dawn on me that I would be the next target. I took wings (not superman but chicken little)and closed the gate behind me and the robber seeing this jump on to the waiting motorbike and sped off.
It was a traumatic experience but it ended with no serious injury. On hind sight I realised that by being a hero intervening while holding only a 10cm screwdriver was really foolish as the robber was holding a 90cm machete! (Talk about size does count). I also felt like a coward because I abandon the doctor and fled behind the gate. It was like from hero to zero! Using EFT I had to tapped on being a foolish hero and a clever coward after all I could have been chopped up and robbed.
I offered to do EFT therapy on the traumatised doctor but he said he was OK. I know he is NOT but why argue. He was more worried about his lost documents. The next day he could only limp as one of his knee had become painfully swollen due to a twisted knee. His adrenaline rush had pumped enough endorphine for him not to feel pain but the next day was a different story as his hormones settled down. His knee will probably recover in 2 weeks but I have a feeling the trauma of being rob at machete point will not. I could also help him recover from his knee injury much faster with Qigong but being a western train doctor he is probably ignorant and sceptical- too bad for him. I know there are many robbery and snatch thief victims out there who will certainly benefit from EFT-Emotional Freedom Techniques. If you are one of them do visit http://www.eftwonder.com/.
BEWARE OF H1N1!!! It's infectious or is it contagious? Actually it's malicious. I mean how could anything so small as a virus be so nefarious. Like a chameleon it takes on the identity of bird flu ,swine flu and human flu virus so that our human biology welcomes it like a long lost son. It seems this virus was mix in a living cauldron - a creature that will eat anything - variously known as the pig, swine or the rather dignified scientific name Susscrofadomesticus.
Intially the H1N1 influenza was called 'swine flu' but soon the meat exporting industry were up in arms as it would give the false impression that consuming pork could cause H1N1. There is also the sensitive religious connotation that getting infected with swine flu would make one not 'halal' as pigs are forbidden by Muslims as not 'halal' or lawful and unclean and so unsuitable to be eaten let alone infected. H1N1 sounds so much more politically correct. I mean why blame it on the poor defenceless creature whom most of the world loves. Bacon and eggs anyone?
But the simple fact is that it has invaded the world in an extraordinary short time - within 3 months! The last count was 138 countries and still counting. We don't need aliens from outer space to invade the earth when we have H1N1 virus doing a much more effective job of world wide invasion. If I recalled in H.G Wells 'War of the Worlds" it was virus that killed the aliens and stopped dead their invasion of earth (not the Brad Pitt version). It started in Mexico and they were only alerted by the unusual number of death among flu patients. It attacks the lungs and soon it become inflamed and flooded by mucous. Soon the patient struggles to breath and dies drowning in their own mucuos. This horrifying and not so scientific explanation of the symptoms of pneumonia is to tell it as it is. H1N1 does not kill per se but cause secondary bacterial infections so that 9 out of every 10 deaths are due to pneumonia complications. http://www.ehealthmd.com/describes it medically: What Is Pneumonia? Pneumonia is an inflammation or infection of the lungs most commonly caused by a bacteria or virus. Pneumonia can also be caused by inhaling vomit or other foreign substances. In all cases, the lungs' air sacs fill with pus , mucous, and other liquids and cannot function properly. This means oxygen cannot reach the blood and the cells of the body.
That did not sound pretty either.So if deaths are due to pneumonia it is only logical to be vaccinated for it. Another more compelling reason is that H1N1 vaccination is still not in production and certainly will not be able to meet the world demand. Production will not be able to beat the dateline for the second wave of H1N1 which if history repeats itself will be deadly. In the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 40 million died in a little over a year! Those who died were fine healthy people without preexisting disease or are high risk groups that we say are more vulnerable. It is only logical that we take the preventive pneumonia vaccine. The cheaper Pneumo 23 is effective enough . A Karen Lee puts it squarely when she wrote:
Studies have shown that 30% of H1N1 pneumonia related deaths are due to Streptococcus pneumoniae. Getting yourself vaccinated means you have eliminated 30% of the possible risk of dying from H1N1 pneumonia.Of course, that does not mean you will not get H1N1 but at least you will not die of it… that’s what everyone would prefers. It’s really not about afraid of getting H1N1, it’s more about dying from it……..
While the scientific community argues about its efficacy there is no harm in taking the vaccine as it is very safe with only very minor side effects.
"Unfortunately, I think too much emphasis has been placed on inappropriate administration of [the antiviral drug] Tamiflu, which has its own side effects and, aside from that, may create resistance," said Dr. Len Horovitz, a pulmonary specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. "Most of my pulmonary patients are already getting [Pneumovax], but I am broadening my recommendation to other patients, since it is such a relatively harmless thing to do."
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-pneumonia4-2009aug04,0,6872284.story But preliminary results presented to the CDC vaccine committee in June by Dr. Matthew R. Moore, a CDC medical epidemiologist, indicated that about 40% of swine-flu-related pneumonia had an unknown cause -- and that about 30% were caused by S. pneumoniae. This suggests that at least a third of flu-related pneumonia deaths could be prevented by vaccination.
Virologists are concerned with three aspects of any influenza virus: (1) novelty, (2) transmissibility, (3) lethality. The current H1N1 is novel, that is, we have no antibodies to this strain. Its transmissibility is high but its lethality (percent who die after infection) is still low, except in Mexico. Why it was so lethal in Mexico, no one knows. Will that lethality return as the virus mutates this summer?
I leave you to ponder your next step as Margeret Chan of WHO warn 'Be prepared for the next wave'. ...'We cannot say for certain whether the worst is over or the worst is yet to come.'
She sounds like a prophetess of doom. Her words just sent shivers down my spine 'the worst is yet to come'! As far as I and my family are concern we have some defence having already taken the pneumo 23 jab. Here is my real life account of what it was like.
The doctor open a styrofoam box and packed between two ice packs were 7 nos vaccines each costing US42.60 (Rm.150) . He unpacked one of the vaccines and out came the tiniest syringe I have ever seen preloaded with the vaccine. I was actually relieved that the syringe was so minuiture for that would mean the pain would also be minute and I was right. Just a pin prick on my arm , but my wife and her sister said it was painful. I noted that both were less fleshy and perhaps they were tense while I actually laughed through the whole thing. No, I am not being macho just that laughter releases endophine that kills pain as the laughing therapist I should know. Any side effects my sister in law asked? The good doctor replied ' Just some swelling and itching on the arm maybe slight fever for 1 or 2 days.
The following day my arm was painful and there was swelling and redness about 55mm diameter across where the jab was. On the second night I experienced chills and bodyaches but no fever , recovered the following day. When I inquired I found that the others only experienced very slight swelling and itching and nothing else! They got off lightly while macho man had to suffer. Talk about payback time.
Other than the vaccination I had bought small 60ml pocket size hand sanitizers for my whole family. To save cost I also bought a large 720ml bottle to refill the 60ml ones. Those things are like magic you only need to apply a small amount of gel, rub your hands togather and presto it's dry and germ free! No soap, no water just more money. They are not cheap and the pharmacies are jacking up the prices and making a killing but fortunately more players are coming in and with competition it gets cheaper. I must warn you of side effects. Ladies my wife say her hands gets too dry. Man especially teetoller I noticed that after using it 6 times in as many hours I get a little light headed after all it is alcohol based! Children don't drink drink it! Everyone make sure you rub until dry before rubbing your eyes with your hands. IT BURNS LIKE HELL! Ask my wife, she had a scratch on her hands and she almost used the fire extinguiher on it.
Face mask are good if those coughing sneezing idiots will wear it. Instead they literary gush out virus laden droplets at us forcing us to wear face mask instead! Yes those with virus are suppose to wear it but because they don't they terrorize poor frighten people like us into wearing these suffocating masks. I used the 3M mask bought it an inflated price Rm 7 a piece! There are more comfortable ones but they give little protection and of little use unless you plan to rob a bank.
Finally, if you believe in God pray that the second wave is not deadly or God help us all.
I had always looked at Michael Jackson and felt a sense of pity for him and that was before
I knew about his abused past. While the world is in mourning for him I must say that they
should have done that even before he died for in some way a part of him had already died.
In his explosive interview he spoke of how as the Jackson 5 singing brothers they were
violently attacked with a belt if they even made a single dance step mistake.
Their mother will cry out in vain, 'Stop, stop you will kill them!'
Michael were so traumatized that until today the mere appearance of his father will
cause him to vomit and fall unconscious. The father was a taskmaster who literally
whipped them into shape. While the world enjoyed the talent of Jacksons little did they
know how they were deprived of freedom and their childhood as they were made to sing
in bars and sleazy clubs even at 3am in the morning. The result of years of abused was a
person who did not want to grow up because he did not want to miss his childhood.
He became as someone described a strange Peter Pan surrounded by children and in his
Neverland ranch playground. It was an amusement park and zoo all roll into one.
He bused children to his Paradise because he said he never had the opportunity to play with children.
The problem was people could not understand him and he was called 'wacko', 'alien' and accused of many things. Nobody could fathom the little child trapped in an adult body.
As a therapist and if he was still alive I would need to help the little boy out of his trapped state. I would need to removed the stuck energy that is still in his body as is so evident in the interview the trauma was being reexperienced by him. He needs to be released from it with the 'Movie technique'. His fathers terrifying presence needed to be reframed. As a side note his fathers face reminds me of Joseph Smith who abuse his daughter and kept her and the resultant children in a dungeon for years. Michael took a lot of painkillers that finally killed the pain and him. His pain was more emotional than physical and that is why no amount of pills could still his torment. Poor Michael Jackson, he was driven by pain all his life and now he has hopefully found relief.
I have heard so much about this infectious form of therapy spreading from India to the rest of the world that I had to experience it myself when it came to my part of the world. Unlike H1N1 which WHO has said is unstoppable and yet is trying to stop it (by isolating every visitor with even a hint of fever) this laughter therapy is welcome anywhere in the world. I have viewed it on youtube and all I can say is - It's CRAZY! What self respecting person would be caught laughing out loud in public with eyes open wide and tongues sticking out at another person? However being name laughing yoga in India , laughing qigong in China and laughter therapy elsewhere does make it sound respectable... I think. So I decide to do something crazy in the name of health- attend laughter therapy in a park.
It was a wet but cooler Sunday evening when I arrived at the park. I forgot to change my formal leather shoes to jogging shoes and that meant exposing my Rm.250 shoes to mud and what not. We had to use umbrellas as it was still drizzling which was fine with me as I could hide my face from what I heard was a local newspaper reporter with a bazooka for a camera in our midst.I certainly did not want my face in the news with tongues sticking out and laughing like crazy. I mean there are better ways of getting famous like being in the obituary. I did bring a cap and false mustache just in case.
However I need not worry as it turn out that there were also about 100 crazy guys like me willing to laugh in the rain. There is some truth in the saying that 'there is comfort in the company of fools'.
We found an open space next to a nearby hospital (SJMC) and the laugh leader said this will bring cheer to the doctors and patients when they hear our laughter. I was a little bit sceptical about that prognosis maybe we will be mistaken as patients from the psychiatric department having a day out at the park. I am a little self conscious but really its not everyday we do this.
Forming a circle our esteem laugh leader explained the scientific rationale of laugh therapy and it's origin. Laughter not only boost our oxygen level but releases good hormones like endorphin and others that keeps us healthy and stress free. The only warning is if you have a serious heart condition you may laugh yourself to death. Wow! that was reassuring. We had a some warm up because laughing without it can cause belly cramps and lock jaws. Wow! that was reassuring. I should note that before I burst out laughing the next time.
Forming a circle we were taught how to laugh and look silly. There were several techniques. We learn the lion laughter even though I can't recall hearing lions laugh before. We widen our eyes, stuck out our tongues and held our hands out like claws and laughed. Try doing that and you will understand when I say I never realise laughing is hard work. We did the 'teh tarik' laughter that is an imaginary tea making process which I enjoyed and ended up with appreciation laughter to God, self and each other. I though that was good. How often have we stumbled trying to sound appreciative like ' I like your funny dress' instead we can just say I ho,ho,ha,ha you' while smiling and giving them the thumbs up, shaking hands or hugging. With all the merriment I forgot all about H1N1 and avoiding close contacts. Well, laughing therapy is suppose to be healthy so what!
He is the administrator of Energy Psychology Centre (www.eftwonder.com)and also leading an informal monthly meeting of EFT graduates, practitioners and friends.
Isaac Lim as a complementary therapist is a member of Malaysian Society for Complementary Medicine MSCM and Malaysian Psychotherapy Association.
He is certified under the American Board of NLP practitioners. He is also certified as EFT–ADV (Advance) and EFT level 3 under Master EFT Peter Graham(Aust).
He has also been privilege to have attended Dr.Maggie Phillips (US) workshops on Somatic and Energy Therapy and Healing Pain and Trauma
He also received training in hypnotherapy by the legendary Dr.George Bien and is a certified WMQ Medical Qigong practitioner www.qigong.eftwonder.com.
Isaac Lim is currently conducting EFT Level 1-2 Cert. and one to one therapies at his retirement facility for both internal and external clients.
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