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I wanted to continue Saturday’s blog with today’s book review. Gary Craig has written a series of books on using EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) on various issues. One of his books is EFT for PTSD (EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques).

What exactly is PTSD? The usual diagnosis requires at least one symptom from each of the following categories:
1. Events are relived through nightmares or flashbacks. The person may have a strong mental and physical reaction when they are reminded of the event.
2. The person will take extreme measures to avoid activities, thoughts, feelings and conversations that will remind them of the event. The person may not be able to remember details about the event or they may feel emotionally numb and detached from the present moment. Something the seminar mentioned were many vets who felt disconnected from their souls. One such vet told his counselor that he could see his soul sitting in the other chair. It was not safe for his soul to integrate back into his body.
3. No interest in important activities. The person feels alone and can not experience normal emotions, a feeling of depression.
4. This person can never relax, is always on guard and over reacts when startled. There is trouble sleeping, feels angry or irritable and can’t concentrate.

From the above list you can see how almost anyone who has a traumatic event could end up with PTSD. What I think is a shame is that there is such a marvelous way to handle this tragedy, easily and effectively and it is not being used enough.
Gary covers the basics of how to do EFT, through various techniques to use for releasing and reducing the trauma. Some of the techniques show you how to sneak up on the core issues without having to really go there until you are ready.
This little book also has input from many practitioners and their experiences. This is a great book to broaden your knowledge of PTSD and EFT.