Question: Can you help athletes heal injuries quickly?

Answer: Whenever you are injured there are three areas that need to be addressed:

• The first is the trauma to the body itself. Let’s say you sprain your right ankle. That trauma immediately settles into the cell receptors and will just stay there unless you signal the cell receptors to release that trauma.

• The second area is all the emotions that you experience as a result of the injury. I call it the “oh damn” moment where you realize what you’ve done and there is a cascade of thoughts and feelings about what this means to you. For example: pain, fear, anger, frustration, fear of death, fear of re-injury, and sadness are common emotions that get stuck in the cell receptors. It’s critical to tap on each of these chemicals/emotions to release them from the cell receptor sites.

• Finally, whenever you are injured the body immediately forms a memory of protection to keep that part of the body safe. You begin to hold yourself in a certain way and the body begins to adapt around the injury. Once that injury heals, nothing signals the body to release the memory of protection. Your body then never returns to a state of balance but remains in that adaptive state, and the chances of you re-injuring yourself are high because of this. Through the use of EFT, it’s easy to signal the cell receptors to release this memory of protection.

Question: What about old injuries?

Answer: I have discovered that old injuries never fully heal because the trauma, emotions, and memory of protection have never been released from the cell receptor sites. Most athletes who have been injured have a deep fear of re-injury and this significantly affects their performance. They end up holding back to protect their body either unconsciously or consciously. Once the old trauma, emotions, and memory of protection are removed, they report an ability to give one hundred per cent to their performance. Many have reported that aches and pains they’ve had for years are completely gone once we release these three areas on the cellular level.

Answer: It seems that whenever we’re injured it reduces our range of motion (ROM). Whenever I tap with an athlete addressing trauma, emotions, and memory of protection, (as described above) their ROM dramatically and quickly increases.

If you haven’t experienced an injury of any kind but are just tight or lack flexibility we can still use EFT to increase your ROM. The first approach to take is to tap directly on the tightness itself.

If we have little or no result after tapping directly on tightness (or whatever word you would choose to describe how it feels) that tells me that there is something else you are holding in that part of your body. The most common things are stress, anxiety, anger, fear, guilt, and frustration. As we release those chemicals from the cell receptors, ROM is restored. It’s common to see an increase in range of motion by at least 20% and often times much higher.

I have found that a lack of range of motion is often a barometer for one’s emotional state. The low back seems to be a common area for many athletes. Stress and tension is held there on a regular basis. It’s a great feedback system – your body will always let you know when there are unprocessed chemicals sitting in those cell receptor sites.

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