What is stress and anxiety? How does it affect you? It is a common and normal fact of life that no matter who we are, where we live or how old we are most of us experience some form of stress and anxiety throughout our daily lives. Be it work pressures and deadlines, getting the kids to school on time or some memory that continues to bother us.
Stress and anxiety affects us all to one degree or another. Some people even say they need an element of stress in their lives to motivate them to take action, to give them an edge, to work on something or to perform better.
Whilst a certain amount of stress is fine, and in-fact probably beneficial to protect or motivate us to take action, it can sometimes be too much and too relentless. Even to the point where it no longer stimulates us to take action but in-fact brings about fear or stagnates us, leading to in-action and procrastination.
Stress and anxiety has huge effects on our lives, it can lead us to drink, makes us gain weight, smoke, quit our jobs, fight with a loved one, feel depressed, perform poorly, or lack general motivation and energy and creates aches, pains and muscular tension. How does stress and anxiety affect your life?
Apart from the emotional and psychological effects of stress it has been shown to greatly affect us physiologically too. It is estimated that 75% of all doctors visits are due to stress related ailments.
Stress and anxiety affects the immune system and can often influence the onset of, or the susceptibility to illness and disease. It can also affect the progression of illness or disease, and of course can greatly affect recovery time.
It affects the heart, increases the risk of coronary artery disease, elevates blood pressure, increases atherosclerosis, increases the risk of myocardial infarction, increases the risk of diabetes and increases the likelihood of obesity.
Stress has been linked to: • cancer • diabetes • breakdown in the immune system • auto-immune diseases • alcohol and substance abuse • cardiovascular disease
Therefore as you can see stress plays a major part in both our emotional and physical health.
Why the baby shampoo of therapies? A client of mine once called it this after I reduced the sadness around the loss of a loved one, noting EFT was a very simple and effective technique that was both gentle, safe and tearless!
Whilst EFT has many applications, for reasons of subject focus and simplicity, this book will only look at its application to stress and anxiety.
Further books will be available focusing on EFT’s use with weight loss, quitting smoking, ache and pain relief plus many more subjects. Please visit my web-site www.paulemeryeft.com for further details.
With this easy to follow book you will learn one of the most effective and self empowering stress relieving and stress management techniques ever discovered. Guaranteed! And according to Dawson Church Ph.D author of ‘Genie in Your Genes’
‘This maybe the most important new therapy to arrive in both medicine and psychology for a century’
You will soon see why as by the end of this book you will have an understanding of the basics of EFT and be able to quickly and significantly reduce a wide range of anxiety and stress from your life, enabling you to feel lighter, more relaxed and in control of your emotions. Perhaps for the first time in years, as is the case with any thousands of people world-wide who have benefited from this technique.
You will notice that EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a simply to apply technique that quickly relaxes you. It will help to reduce any stress or anxiety easily from your life, and because it’s self-applied it’ s extremely convenient being available for you to use day and night, whenever and wherever you need it! You will be in control of your own emotional well-being, benefiting not only you but all those around you.
Of course, there maybe times and circumstances when it’s right and appropriate for you to seek outside help and consult a qualified doctor or EFT therapist for additional help and support. Especially if you are experiencing any severe emotional problems or depression for example, and I suggest you do so before you embark on any self- treatment.
However, by using the techniques as described in this book you will no longer have to exclusively rely on time consuming and expensive therapies or countless medications for help, and it doesn’t take years, days, even hours of practice to be able to gain substantial emotional relief.
I am always very excited and passionate whenever I have the opportunity to talk or write about EFT. Not only because it is a technique that can safely reduce or as in most cases completely eliminate a wide range of emotional or psychological problems from fears and phobias to general stress, anxiety, worry and grief, but because it’s so easily learned and has been proven effective on many thousands of people’s problems worldwide from doctors, and top CEO’s to movie stars and sports personalities.
I know in this ever increasing fast paced life of ours there are many demands on our time and we want things easier, quicker and cheaper, and this is what makes EFT stand apart from most other techniques. EFT is immediately accessible wherever you are, at no cost.
Therefore it is my wish with a series of easy to read short books to make EFT as simple and straightforward as possible, so that you can within a very short time start gaining relief on any emotional problem you may be facing.