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Matthew 9:20-22 tells of the woman who reaches out to touch Jesus to clear up the hemorrhage she had for the previous 12 years. This story is told in the middle of the story of the synagogue leader who had come to Jesus after his daughter had just died. Tuesday’s blog discusses the story with the synagogue leader and his act of desperation. Today’s story is also one of desperation and hope. According to Mark’s version, this woman had suffered a great deal from many doctors and had spent everything she had to pay them. This woman had gotten it into her mind that if she could just touch Jesus’ robe then everything would be OK.

Sometimes we tie big ‘miracles’ with daring acts. What was her daring act? She was considered ‘unclean’ because of the bleeding. This was a big deal especially for a rabbi or teacher in the Jewish community. There was a whole ritual that had to be performed after touching something unclean. She thought she could just slip in, touch his robe and no one would be the wiser and the act of touching Jesus was so tied up in her mind with being healed that it worked!

Let’s put this in modern terms. We have all heard of (if not actually experienced) an undiagnosed ailment. This may be a pain with no known organic reason. This could be a crippling disorder that just does not respond to medication. Whatever it is the person can see many doctors and go through all kinds of painful procedures and spend all their money and still be in pain. What our medicine fails to consider is the emotional basis of our illness.

When medicine fails there is often another reason for the illness and that is often emotional. There is a modern method that can often handle the emotional distress that is causing an illness. That is Meridian Tapping or EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). Through the expert handling of an experienced EFT practitioner, the emotional basis of the illness can be determined and then treated with a meridian tapping technique.
For more information on Meridian Tapping or EFT, go to www.naturallyresilient.com.

Tomorrow I will cover another aspect of this story: Jesus feeling the energy going out of him.