Article written for Life Positive magazine, India - Jan 2008

Stan Giles lived in the UK most of his life, but now divides his time between India (Rishikesh), Europe and America.  He has studied many orthodox and esoteric healing modalities with some of the world’s finest teachers including Dr. Bruce Dewe and Dr. John Thie (Kinesiology) and Gary Craig, the founder of EFT.  Stan is a disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, one of India's greatest spiritual Masters, and now spends much of his time in the holy town of Rishikesh where he teaches English, music and yoga at the Mother Miracle School (www.mothermiracle.org )

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Further Adventures in Emotional Freedom Technique  –

Clearing Negative Karmic Patterns

When I took an EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) course in 2002 I never realised how much it would change my life.  I already had qualifications in Kinesiology, Reiki, Sekhem, NLP and Bowen Technique, and I also practised Thought Field Therapy (similar but much more complicated than EFT).  So I was both impressed and amazed when I discovered that such a simple technique could produce such powerful results. Using EFT you can rapidly (usually 10 or 15 minutes) resolve all sorts of problems.  Even long -standing issues melt away. 

Fears and phobias (EFT is also known as the Fast Phobia Cure) and even the effects of major emotional traumas disappear; anxiety e.g. about public speaking or going to the dentist, resolve, and pain can be reduced or disappear completely. Addictions can also usually be helped. And perhaps best of all, you can treat yourself (although often another person can see our problems more easily than we can see them ourselves).

As a Kinesiologist and qualified teacher of energy medicine I immediately wanted to share this technique and started teaching EFT at our healing centre in Scotland. With spectacular results!  A student from the very first class went home and used EFT to address her anxiety about driving. Her husband suffered from headaches due to the stress of his job.  Using EFT the headaches resolved completely and he became a convert to EFT – using it regularly in a variety of situations.  Her mother had a phobia of wasps and bees.  They visited her one day for afternoon tea but there were a lot of wasps about. After using EFT she was able to sit out in the garden and enjoy her tea in the sunshine. Her daughter had some anxieties about school which resolved easily using EFT.  Her daughter then used the technique with her friends at school – and then taught them how to do it.  It seems that children are particularly responsive – perhaps because they have no pre-conceived ideas or mental blocks on this apparently simple technique being effective (EFT also works on animals, which proves that it is not just a placebo effect).

Another student went home ant tried EFT with her (reluctant and sceptical!) husband.  He had suffered crippling vertigo for 4 years –sometimes being unable to stand or walk.  He was unable to drive his car and was no longer able to work.  He had run the gamut of medical tests including MRI scans, and medication did not help.  Despite his reluctant participation after just 10 minutes treatment his symptoms reduced substantially –and without any further intervention his symptoms had completely disappeared by the next morning.  At the time of writing he has been symptom- free for more than 2 years.  He is, not surprisingly, one of EFTs biggest fans and advocates.

I had some clients with cancer pain and taught them EFT to help in pain management.  They used EFT as an adjunct to their medication and found it very helpful.  In fact one client went home to find that his wife had a bad headache.  He used the EFT technique he had just learned and her headache disappeared.

How does EFT work? We are made of atoms (which are 99.99% space) and the vibrational energy therein!  More and more people now recognise that we are human "energy-beings".  When we experience trauma or toxic emotions that negative energy can stay with us.  If we are in good energetic and emotional health the toxic emotion can be released, but if we are for any reason vulnerable or under par the energy can become stuck, and gradually erode deeper into our energy matrix.  

EFT is such a simple yet powerful technique that I would encourage everyone to learn it.  And in fact you can learn this technique for free on the internet by visiting www.emofree.com and downloading the free 80 page EFT manual. There are limitations to learning EFT this way.  After all, I hope no one would imagine that they could become competent Reiki practitioners by reading a book on Reiki, nor become a good cricket player by reading a book on cricket.  But you can learn the basic technique of EFT from the internet and you will be able to make some changes in your life and help others make changes too.  You can read hundreds of case histories showing the many and varied applications of EFT.  But if you want to become a more effective practitioner then it is a good idea to take a workshop or training and learn the subtleties of using EFT.  When you do so, your success applying EFT will be greatly increased. With my own practice, using EFT, I expect traumas and phobias to resolve more than 95% of the time.

My own practice combines EFT with a process called KarmaClear (for clearing negative karmic patterning).   Using kinesiological muscle testing we can establish what past traumas are affecting people.  We can then resolve them using EFT.  However we can also uncover a person’s unconscious negative beliefs (sometimes called “sabotage programmes”).  Although we all have positive and beneficial beliefs, we also have very many negative beliefs and patterns. These beliefs establish negative patterns of behaviour in us which are not easy to resolve ourselves.  In fact we usually don’t even recognise them, precisely because they are unconscious beliefs.   Clearing these beliefs has a very powerful effect and enables a person to shift out of a limiting behaviour pattern they may have had all of their life – and even through past incarnations. When people no longer sabotage themselves in the same way they are able to establish healthier and more expansive patterns of behaviour; they increase their self esteem and they move towards fulfilling their true potential. Using the KarmaClear technique, negative karmic patterns and sabotage programmes resolve 100% of the time.

With both EFT and KarmaClear I often use flower essences, especially when dealing with patterns from past lives.   Part of the KarmaClear process involves establishing when the sabotage started; this can be in early childhood, or in the womb, and sometimes it is from previous incarnations.  I have found flower essences especially powerful in helping clear the negative patterns from past incarnations. Flower essences can also be used at the start of a session to “open the door” to new healing.  Or they can be used to effect deep healing even from long-standing wounds.  Flower essences heal at a very deep level.  Sometimes I use essences after a treatment to reinforce the healing –so a client may take an essence for a few days after the session.

One question people ask is, “What determines the effectiveness of a flower essence?”  To some extent, this depends on where, and by whom, they are made. There are many different essences made in different parts of the world. The first essences I used, when I was studying kinesiology in Scotland in 1995, were a line made in Australia by a naturopath and healer named Ian White. They have a more masculine quality, reflecting both the energy of the Australian continent and that of the person who made them. A few years later, “by chance”, I met a wonderful lady who was making essences in Britain and I started using her line of flower essences – Silver Seagull flower essences (www.silverseagull.co.uk ). Through the use of muscle testing, I found that my clients in the UK needed these essences much more frequently than they did the Australian essences. Because the essences were made in the UK, they tended to resonate more with both the land itself and the psyche of the people living there. So the power and effectiveness of flower essences is a reflection of their source—physical, emotional and geographical. But the most important factor is the spiritual source of the essences.  In India I often use Yogananda’s Spirit in Nature Essences which are made following the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, one of India’s greatest spiritual masters.  They, of course, also resonate with the country and with the psyche of people living here.

All therapies should help a person move towards self-fulfillment –to achieving his personal potential, and ultimately to self-realisation and oneness with God.  By combining EFT with the KarmaClear process, and with the appropriate use of flower essences, people can change in very powerful ways.  Do these techniques work?  Read what these clients have to say:

Spiritual - " I've been meaning to give you an update about the results of the work we did this summer. I feel that there has been a fundamental shift in who I am and how I see the world that is a direct result of our work. I'm dropping lots of the baggage that I spent so much of my energy carrying around. It's a wonderful feeling." - Sacramento, California

Life/Spiritual - " The  KarmaClear treatment helped me to release several very deep-seated  psychological blocks that were creating problems for me in my daily  life. Since the treatment, I have experienced profound changes and I  feel that I have been truly freed from some of these karmic  tendencies. Stan is very skillful and sensitive as a therapist, and I  highly recommend his treatments."
— Gurgaon, India

You can learn more about Yogananda’s Flower Essences by visiting  www.yoganandasessences.com or  by telephoning  9873183707  

If you would like help, advice or more information about EFT or KarmaClear please feel free to contact Stan Giles.

Stan works with individuals and with groups for therapy and for training.  You can find out more by visiting:  www.KarmaClear.com , by email: stan [at] KarmaClear.com   or mob: +919760115302