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Energy Tapping

Energy Tapping

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Energy Tapping: A clear and easy to read book
Review: Dear Readers: Some individual reviews have gotten out of control of late, or at least much too long and technical. While I appreciate the energy, the purpose of my writing Energy Tapping with Fred Gallo was to create a clear and easy to use book. I have taught the strategies in the book to children and adults to help them resolve problems or to enhance performance. It is not a magic pill, but a tool that works. Most of the reviews have been from readers who have experienced the benefits of energy work. However, a recent reviewer went on a long and incorrect tirade about meridian points. Dr. Gallo followed with a correct, but equally long rebuttal. None of this is relevant to the average reader, so I suggest you skip them and read the other reviews, which are about people using our work

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is IT!
Review: EFT, TFT, and Energy Tapping are all pretty much the same and this book does a really good job at teaching the techniques. I would recommend going to emofree.com (EFT) and consider purchasing their CD-ROM's of workshop material. It's always easier to learn when you can see someone else demonstrating it for you.

I've tried just about everything over the years and I must say this is the real deal... FINALLY. I got my first panic attack, and subsequent depression, when I was 13 and the problems only worsened as I aged. I'm 39 now and my only regret is not having this amazing tool years ago. The long-standing social phobia I had literaly vanished within the first couple sessions.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amazing!
Review: I had been struggling with ongoing depression after a family member suicided. I didn't want to take anti-depressants, but years of pathwork were not helping.

I purchased this book during a particularly bad bout, and did the work for depression. AMAZING! I literally couldn't find the sadness, the despair, the emotional sense of being overwhelmed five minutes later! I then went on to some other issues that were troubling me, and found it just as easy...and effective.

Do take time to read the introductory chapters, paying special attention to "psychological reversal". If your dealing with longstanding issues that have depleted your energy levels, you must focus here before attacking specifics. Also note the author's admonition that certain experiences are held down by multiple holdings, and must be worked with kind of like you'd peel an onion.

None of this makes real intellectual sense to me...yet. But I do accept that there is an energetic level to our existence that eastern healing has tapped into...and western science cannot explain (such as use of acupuncture instead of anesthesia for operations).

If you are hurting, try it, and see for yourself whether it can help. Amazon.com will accept the book back from you if it doesn't.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fantastic Book about a Fantastic Technique
Review: I picked up Energy Tapping a few weeks ago after I heard Tony Robbins talking about how much he is impressed by it. It's about Energy Psychology. It was an easy and exciting read. What impressed me the most is that the technique really works, and it works FAST! So far I have eliminated a long standing fear of heights and there were several painful events in my past that now no longer bother me since I used energy tapping to eliminate the painful emotions. I can still remember the events, but they just don't bother me. Amazing! I wholeheartedly recommend this book to EVERYONE. It will save you time, money, and emotional pain. I hear that the technique can also be used to treat depression, anxiety attacks, and even physical pain like headaches. Remarkable for a self-help book, although the authors say that with really tough problems, a therapist trained in this approach may be needed.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Energy Tapping by Fred P. Gallo, H. Vincenzi
Review: I read this book and found it to be wildly anecdotal and unable to live up to its claims for "curing" previously difficult areas of personal work in psychiatry/psychology--areas that include anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, grief responses, and it would seem even general feelings of depression and sadness. I caution any would-be sufferer of these problems to take stock and ask themselves "if this therapy involving acupressure is so groundbreaking and successful, then why hasn't it been researched in any peer-reviewed medical journals of note [say the Journal of the American Medical Association, or the American Journal of Psychiatry]?" Why is there a dearth of physicians who even feel compelled to examine or endorse this technique? Why do the persons who wish to offer this technique require that you pay "up front" to learn about their "science?" The trademark of true science is a willingness to have your ideas examined by peers in your field, and that your theories/hypotheses be testable by some method. Isolated reports from figures who themselves have offered results from poorly constructed studies, and results from "radio" interviews seem to be most of the "evidence" backing this method up. Read about TFT and other power therapies in the Skeptical Inquirer, and try to learn about power therapies in any physician's medical journal. This book reinforces the fact that there are those out there who still are in the market to sell snake oil and push pseudoscience, and dare to treat patients without possessing an MD or a DO degree to do so. Examine any and all claims made that sound to good to be true, and they probably are. These power therapies have been around for over 20 years in some form or other--if they are so ground-breaking and miraculous--then why are they still mostly unheard of and unresearched? If these methods really worked, there would be NO WAY to keep it quiet...because barring whether you think doctors would listen to it, patients would be screaming about the benefits of it from the rooftops. Energy tapping is no science and it isn't even a useful fad--don't fall for this modern "panacea," but rather look elsewhere for help with your anxiety, depression, and grief problems. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY OR TIME ON THIS POORLY WRITTEN AND POORLY RESEARCHED BOOK!!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: The authors should have spent more time in research.
Review: I really dislike writing negative reviews, but sometimes it is necessary to call a spade a spade. Unfortunately this is one of those times. ;-(

These sections were disappointing.

Page 9: "and each meridian has the same amount of energy".

This is not only wrong, but dangerous. Six of the 12 primary meridians operate on yang (a hot and active) Qi. The other six primary meridians operate on yin (a cool and passive) Qi. If you were to flood the yin meridians with yang Qi you can really mess up your endocrine system. Something I do NOT recommend.

Page 24: The UN (Under Nose)vital point shown directly under the nose is in the wrong place. That vital point is on the colon meridian, and is located on the upper left lip.

Page 26: The authors say that vital points on the side of hand. back of hand, little Finger, middle finger, index finger, and thumb are the same on both hands. This is NOT so. The lung, pericardium, and heart meridians terminate on the right hand, but the colon, triple heater, and small intestine meridians terminate on the fingers of the left hand. If you stimulate the SH (side of the hand) point on the right hand you will be stimulating the heart meridian, and on the left hand you would be stimulating the small intestine meridian.

Nowhere in this book shows an illustration of where the meridians are on the body.

This Book speaks of the meridians, but not once discusses the 8 Qi vessels.

This book only discusses 17 vital points on the body. This is woefuly imcomplete (2.5%) when you understand there are 705 of these vital points on the human body (I use 63 of them) but then I am not an accupuncture therapist.

Please E-Mail me if you have questions or comments about this review. ....

Wah doh Ogedoda (We give thanks Great Spirit)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Try it!
Review: I would hate for someone who could be helped by this book to read a couple misinformed reviewers and shy away from trying it. So, just to jump into the discussion, I am a teacher of kinesiology and acupressure, and to the reviewer who found incorrect information, I wish to say the following:
It is indeed valid for the authors to say that points for a specific meridian are the same on both hands, because there are so many different schools of acupuncture that it would be ridiculous to claim that one is right and the other wrong. The exact location of acupuncture points is today and has been debated throughout history. Additionally, the exact path of each meridian is extremely intricate and impossible to illustrate. Hence, books for lay people only show general paths, which are the same on both sides of the body. These are useful but not exact, and millions of people use these very general interpretations every day with great results. Additionally, it would in most cases be impossible for a layperson to flood a meridian with the "wrong" Qi, for 2 reasons: a) they are not a professional and therefore do not know the specific steps that would cause an imbalance, and b) contrary to the teachings of many "new age" methods, a healthy meridian can handle energy going in any direction. I would encourage anyone who is interested in the subject to try the simple methods in this book, and see if it works for them.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is IT!
Review: The human body is made up of energy, and energy courses through our meridians and acupuncture points as taught by the ancient chinese. Western science and research has documented and researched these theories with Kirilian photographs and other energy detection machines, and the acupuncture points and meridians are now widely accepted as existing. Western Science also has the same theory, that the body is made up of electromagnetic field with positive and negative charges, which is similar to what the ancient chinese theorized.
Many times people claim that when their chiropractor touches a specific point, a memory comes to their mind, and they are able to release it. The ancient chinese say, emotion, thought and energy are interlinked. Therefore any emotional blockages can cause energy to be blocked in specific meridians. Work with the energy, and you work with the emotion as well, it is a feedback loop.
This book is a great manual! It contains all the different points and ways to tap for each negative feeling. It discusses all the emotions in detail, and how we go about releasing them. Although this method is great and it works, users should also take care of their health through diet, as physiology and energy level affects the quality of emotion and thought we have. When you are tired and sick, you think very differently than when you are well and energetic.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amazing!
Review: This book did not resonate with me at all. I would have liked to seen more conclusive case studies over long periods of time and what the results were - either positive or negative. The limited case studies cited did not help to convice me that these methods truly work. I felt rushed reading the book, when in fact I wanted more details, more substance and more conclusive observations.

I have read a lot of good books on energy medicine and unfortunately, this book was not one of them

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fantastic Book about a Fantastic Technique
Review: This is a must have self-healing book for all who are tired of feeling bad, but not knowing how to stop all the memories that keep us this way. I found my copy at a local yard sale, and within minutes of beginning therapy, I felt my real self again and the rot of bad memories and experiences pealing off. One of the the best thing I've learned is the forgiveness tecnique of forgiving someone that had mad me 'angry'. Not just forgiving, per se, but having a contact target from base emotions(anger)to forgive.
If anyone is having trouble with stumbling blocks to the real 'you', just try this truly life enhancing study. You'll not be sorry, just able to be glad and joyful at last, from with-in, not just some mask you might have to wear.


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