Christian Disbelief and EFT

Recently I had this question pop up on one of my author’s boards: “How do you deal with Christians who are resistant to EFT? I am not a Christian, but I have met people who seem afraid to take responsibility for their own wellbeing and development. How do you address this?”

I would love to answer this question!

Often Christians are fearful, like everyone else, of what they don’t know or don’t understand. We in the West are conditioned to believe that God heals us through doctors and medicine. And sometimes God heals supernaturally. The body is a mechanical machine and it must be treated as such. There apparently is no in-between.

Back in the 16^th century, when Rene Descartes was alive and active in his philosophical thinking, he concluded that much of matter is simply mechanical. He supported a dualism that mind and body were completely separate, and those parts did not interact with each other, except at the pineal gland where there could be some intersection.  Touch was the only true “sense”, according to Descartes. http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/4h.htm

This philosophy was at complete odds with Eastern ideas which teach our body and our mind is a cohesive unit. Each part influenced the other and each was integral to the functioning whole.

Due to this 16^th century thought Western medicine until recently has view the mind-body connection as non-existent. The body was the body; the mind was the mind and each was treated as separately existing. If one had a physical disease, the state of our mind had little to do with the disease itself, or the healing process. The idea that a physical illness was the manifestation of an emotional (mind) problem was near impossible to fathom.

This thinking is rapidly changing, meaning that Eastern ideas of how our body heals was correct all along, and these new ideas are making rapid inroads into Western medicine. The mind-body connection exists, as our whole body works in unison, not as separate parts as Descartes suggested.

It is new science, and most of the disbelief of Christians can simply be addressed by explaining that EFT is all physiology the way God created us. I use Scripture to address their concerns, too. Too many Christians figure if something has Chinese medicine in it; it follows that some Chinese religious belief must be mixed in there, too. This isn't at all true.

Many universities are now doing amazing amounts of neuro research, and I try to keep up on that as much as possible, and use it in my new articles, blogs, and upcoming books, as well as incorporate it into my EFT classes. Internet searches will bring up hundreds of research articles around this subject. Most of it is fascinating reading.

You & I know people heal when they are ready to heal. If they are satisfied to be where they are, afraid to think outside the box, try something new, we can pretty much guarantee not much healing is going to happen!