Hi-
I don't have much time this morning to write but I do want to say that yes, for me EFT has worked remarkably well and has helped me become a much happier and more relaxed person.  I also made a lot of changes in diet, too, though so that has definitely played a part as well.  However, those changes were much easier to make with EFT to defuse my "need" for grains, so you see it's all interconnected. 

A lot of times you can tap away things temporarily and then they come back again.  In my personal experience this means that I haven't  found the root cause of the distress.  For example: for me Irritable Bowel Syndrome was connected not only to eating grains (can't do that any more!) but just not eating grains was enough to stop my symptoms, I had to tap through some very specific instances of anger before those symptoms really let up.  In fact, now I know I have anger building up in me if my digestion goes wonky so I will take a look at what's going on in my life, find the anger and then deal with it and then the symptoms go away.

So I'd say the practitioner got you started in the right direction but maybe didn't teach you quite enough to keep on easily on your own.  You could try picking any one of the more specific sentences in your post here, for example:

Even though I feel very numb I love and accept and forgive myself unconditionally.
Even though I feel blurred...
Even though sometimes I feel depressed...
Even though I feel trapped by this mental glass ceiling of my own creation...

Pick one of these and tap on it.  See what "tail enders" come up for you.  These are likely to lead you into yourself to find the root cause of your emotions or what is keeping you from feeling your emotions.  Numbness is a very common coping mechanism to having so much fear or anger that if you felt it, some or all, you might just explode into a million tiny bits- or at least that's the fear.  This can come from one or two big experiences or a life-time's worth of petty incidents that separately didn't mean much but that accumulating over time have turned into a huge blockage. 

Check out Magnus' videos at Tapping.com and be really persistent with at least one of them, preferably more.  I suggest the forgiveness one or any one of them that really hits a nerve for you or the one that you immediately react negatively to.  Also go to the Gary Craig archive and start reading the case histories.  You can search them for specific things or just start reading and either way you will start to see how tapping and phrasing can work in a large number of circumstances.  You can tap along with all the case histories (one woman did this and wrote about how it changed her life) or just tap along on the ones that really connect for you.  And of course you can read through these posts here.  There is a ton of good information here and a lot of very supportive and experienced folks to connect with. 

Finally, it may be that while most of you is desperate for change and really wants to change and can't wait for change, a part of you is not willing to go along.  You can tap on this:

Even though part of me really doesn't want to change...
Even though part of me loves being depressed and numb and blurry...
Even though part of me wants to feel bad...

It's a very common part of working through problems, dealing with the part of us that is so threatened by change that it will hang on to every bad thing that comes along to prevent any change from happening.  Don't beat yourself up over it, just tap on it and accept it. 

I hope anything I've written here helps a little.  Do keep us posted on what happens.  What may seem like failure may be the key to achieving success- and since you're feeling so much resistance I would bet you're going in the right direction and just haven't found that key just yet. 

Good luck!

Namaste.

HAMR for installing beliefs. Also, using the Sedona method of releasing, combined with the Release technique "tube visualization", while holding the TAT pose works great.

although magnus videos are quite perfect but i recommend robert smith's videos on youtube.they are also very helpful.search for healingmagic and you will find some 140 video clips.very informative.also try some reiki techniques just befor tapping sessions.but dont stop tapping.many times our problems becomes part of our personalitiy.we dont want to get rid of them.may be you are facing the same .consult your e.f.t expert regularly.

I have to say, that I have used a lot of different approaches, but EFT has definitely made a difference in my life.

After a long recovery from a difficult surgery, with lots of unnecessary pain, I have discovered that EFT is a useful therapy to erase anxiety and fear so closely linked to pain, and thereby erase the pain itself.

All you have to lose by giving it a go is a few moments of your time, and you have a world of relief to gain.  Why not?

Thank you, Magnus, for this site, which contains information that has helped me so many times. 

Wow, great post, Fruateo!  I've tried the circular tapping and immediately got a physical release from it and I plan on doing it a lot more and teaching it to my friends, too.  A question: how do you determine which way is counter-clockwise?

I second the stuff about diet big time.  I've eliminated grains (including rice) from my diet completely because of IBS-like symptoms and the results in my general health have been amazing.  I eat a lot of veggies (cooked and raw) and a fair amount of meat, quinoa for a "grain" (it's actually a grass seed) and a lot of good oils like organic coconut oil for cooking (or for topical application- great moisturizer!) and olive oil for cold stuff like salad dressings and butter as much as I want.  My last blood tests came back absolutely gorgeous and the nurse was very surprised (and a little annoyed) at me when I told her about my diet!   

I also think anything synthetic, like the fake sweeteners and such, are just evil and I avoid them, too.  I have a number of great websites' urls to post here if anyone is interested in more about "alternative" diet information. 

Thanks for this very informative post. 

Namaste.

Hi, and thanks so much for the clarification of the clock- that's very helpful!

I think you're on the right track with the enzyme deficiency route for your digestion problems.  Here are a couple of websites that may help you in your research:

http://www.beyondveg.com/index.shtml

http://www.westonaprice.org/splash_2.htm

There are enzymes you can buy to help with digestion- I take them after every meal and they help me tremendously.  I would definitely try to figure out what's going on as living on fruits and juices is not a good thing for very long- we need to eat carbs, meats and oils!  I don't think fruits are bad necessarily but they are not enough for an omnivore like a human to live on. 

I'm glad you are getting good results from your treatments, though.  I have to agree with you about not trusting "experts" and such- I have never had much luck with them, except for a couple of naturopaths who basically saved my health and sanity years ago now when I thought I was going nuts and it turned out to be "just" candida.  Our bodies and other aspects of our selves know exactly what we need for our best health and it's just a question of learning to listen openly enough to be able to use the information! 

Namaste.