WHAT IS FIBROMYALGIA?

Fibromyalgia is a chronic rheumatic condition that causes widespread pain throughout the body, including tender points where it is the worst. It is often accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory and mood issues.

• It also causes mental distress. 
• It is a condition that is triggered by a stressful event which could be a physical stress, an accident or injury, or an emotional (psychological) stress. 
• If you have been involved in an accident or have gone through severe emotional trauma, you can be very vulnerable to Fibromyalgia; this condition also has links to post-traumatic stress.

SYMPTOMS OF FIBROMYALGIA

Fibromyalgia happens to increase the body’s sensitivity, which means you could feel intense pain even from a small cut or pressure. Sleep irregularities are very common in people who have Fibromyalgia.

You might even experience headaches, feelings of distress, restlessness, and difficulty focusing or concentrating on anything, you may also struggle with your memory, fatigue, and tiredness.

You can push your pain all the way down in your soul and pretend that it does not exist, but somehow, some way, one day it is going to push its way to the surface and demand that you face it.

Some common symptoms of Fibromyalgia include:

• Widespread pain
• Jaw pain and stiffness
• Pain and tiredness in the face muscles and adjacent fibrous tissues
• Stiff joints and muscles in the morning
• Headaches
• Irregular sleep patterns
• Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
• Painful menstrual periods
• Tingling and numbness in the hands and feet
• Restless leg syndrome (RSL)
• Sensitivity to cold and heat
• Difficulties with memory and concentration, known as “Fibro-Fog”
• Fatigue

HOW COMMON IS FIBROMYALGIA?

According to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), around 5 million adults aged 18 years or over in the United States experience Fibromyalgia, and 80 to 90 percent of Fibromyalgia patients are women.

EFFECTS OF FIBROMYALGIA

Some factors that are known to cause complications in the lives of individuals who undergo this condition, are like:

1. Reduced quality of life
2. Chronic fatigue and resulting in lack of enthusiasm about life in general
3. Higher chances of depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders. Increased number of injuries from suicide attempts.
4. Death rates seem to be higher in people who have fibromyalgia. People who suffer from this condition are more likely to be hospitalized, than those that don’t.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU'RE A PATIENT?

While Fibromyalgia has been claimed to be "incurable", there are also some things that you can do, to not let the condition deteriorate and help you keep healthy.

• Diet and Nutrition – even though there is no particular diet that needs to be followed, you can maintain your weight by consuming healthy food and stay hydrated.
• Exercise – most of the time, people don’t feel like exercising due to the increased amount of weakness and pain they feel, but staying active is extremely important when one suffers from this condition, since it will help your body to stay away from other health problems. This will also help you increase your flexibility, stamina, fitness and will help you get proper sleep too. Yoga is a great tool to help in dealing with the pain. Doing light yoga flow under proper guidance can surely benefit. 
• Meditation - Body scan and mindfulness meditations cannot be recommended enough. By paying non-judgmental attention to the sensations in your entire body, including pain, you learn to be compassionate and accept your pain and yourself. 
• Accept and acknowledge your health condition, instead of dwelling over why all of it is happening to you. This will allow you to have an open mind and will not stress you out.
• Another great way to help yourself is to by solving puzzles, crosswords, and playing games that will challenge you. This will keep your brain active and help you to maintain and strengthen your cognitive functions like thinking, memory, learning, and decision making.  

HOW DOES EFT tapping WORK IN HEALING FIBROMYALGIA?

Most physical ailments have an emotional component. Even if your illness was not caused by emotions, you cannot help but become emotionally involved with any illness that you encounter.

EFT Tapping addresses this emotional dimension of physical illness, and more often than you might expect, it can act as a catalyst in helping to overcome the physical problem.  

According to Gary Craig, the founder of EFT, when you go through some negative or traumatic experiences in your life, (however small or big they are) they are stored as a distressing memory.

These distressing memories create a disruption in the flow of energy in the body, and as a result unresolved negative emotions are formed.

When these unresolved emotions interfere with the flow of energy in the body, it causes this annoying discomfort.

When emotions are suppressed over a long period of time, it starts accumulating in the body and manifests symptoms in the form of pain or illness.

EFT Tapping targets what is often the true source of your pain; your emotions, your stress, your traumas. Once you release those, your body's innate ability to heal itself will take over.

Research also shows that EFT Tapping has managed to produce real, long-lasting effects along with improvements that result in eliminations of conditions or ailments that psychotherapy, medication or even hospital treatments had failed to help individuals to deal with.

EFT Tapping is based on Chinese acupuncture and modern psychology. By saying certain statements along with tapping on specific points on the body, the deep healing takes place. 

By doing this, the emotional charge associated with a past event no longer remains, and hence you no longer feel those negative emotions when you recall that experience. 

Let me help you understand this better with the help of a real example: 

A lady named Barbara who was in her late 50s, and suffering from fibromyalgia for 6 years, went to an EFT Practitioner. The practitioner decided to skip working on the fibromyalgia pain and go for one of her core issues.  

According to Barbara, whatever she did was never good enough for her mother, even till the present day. After exploring deeper, Barbara recovered a childhood memory when she was just 5 years old. 

They lived in the countryside and had very few neighbours. So, Barbara did not have any friends that came to her house, and her collection of teddy bears were her only company to play with. 

One day, a woman came to visit her mother along with her little daughter. Since, Barbara never had any friends come over, the concept of sharing toys was alien to her, and she refused to share her teddy bears with the girl. 

After they left, Barbara's mother told her that she had taken all her teddy bears and burned them. For Barbara, her mother had just killed her only friends.

This had to be extremely distressing for a 5-year old. Then after letting Barbara suffer for some time, her mother told her that she had not burned her teddies and hoped that she had learned her lesson. 

The practitioner addressed all the aspects of this event, explored few other mother related issues, and then ended the session. During the entire session, the practitioner did not work on the fibromyalgia pain even once. 

About a week later, Barbara called the practitioner to inform that her pain has gone, she was able to sleep well, and all the other symptoms were in control. She wanted to know if all this was normal! 

Sometimes, the issue can be solved in a single session, or sometimes in a few sessions, depending on the client and the issue. 

HOW TO HEAL FIBROMYALGIA PAIN WITH EFT TAPPING THERAPY 

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT): EFT Tapping for healing Fibromyalgia Pain.

EVIDENCE PROVING THE EFFICACY OF EFT tapping IN HEALING FIBROMYALGIA

One of our participants, Sejal Mehta, an ace trainer and therapist, had an experience that healed her 7- 8 month long acute pain that she was going through, caused by oedema and fibromyalgia, in just a day. 

This seemed possible for her only because of the Emotional Freedom Techniques Tapping.

She explained with great enthusiasm, “The last 2 days of attending EFT Tapping has brought a huge physiological, temperamental, and attitudinal change in my life. I have become not only sympathetic, but more empathetic towards everyone. For the last 7-8 months, I was suffering from oedema and fibromyalgia which, in simple words, can be explained as a debilitating pain that can take years to heal. But the pain disappeared miraculously after attending only 2 days of EFT training. That night, I finally managed to sleep peacefully after months of painful nights.”

A research study was conducted to examine if self-administered EFT Tapping led to reduced pain, increased acceptance & coping ability and better health-related quality of life in individuals suffering from fibromyalgia. 

86 women who had fibromyalgia and were on sick leave for at least 3 months, were randomly assigned to a treatment group or a waiting list group. An 8-week EFT Tapping treatment program was administered via the Internet.

Upon completion of the program, significant improvements were observed in the treatment group as compared to the waiting list group for issues such as pain, anxiety, depression, social function, mental health, performance problems involving work or other activities due to physical as well as emotional reasons, and stress symptoms (5).

IMPORTANCE OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS

No matter what medical condition it is, always encourage your client to get a proper medical diagnosis from a professional, since you will be working with them only through emotions. Therefore encourage each client to seek the help that they need, depending on their level of comfort.

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN EMOTIONS AND PHYSICAL DISCOMFORT 

In conclusion, every physical pain or discomfort that we experience daily is the result of our emotional health. Emotions get accumulated in the physical body and send us messages through pain or discomfort. The moment that we start paying attention to, and start work on our emotional health, it will get easier to deal with and heal our physical discomforts and other health problems.
Dig deeper into your sense of self and figure out why things are happening. You’ll feel better and will recognize the problems you are facing to get the help that you need. EFT Tapping also makes us more aware of emotions that are building within ourselves continuously, with whatever we are facing in our life.

Fibromyalgia seems to be very difficult to cure; it can be resolved with the help of Emotional Freedom Techniques. Since this technique is long lasting, simple, and works quickly and effectively, clients are satisfied with it.

“Fighting your chronic illness means that every day you choose to keep going, even when you think you can't anymore.”

Disclaimer: The information on this website is purely for educational purposes and does not in any way replace the requirement for medical and psychological diagnosis and treatment. Please seek professional medical and psychological diagnosis and advice for all medical and mental health conditions. It is advised to always book any consultations with qualified professionals.

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