Curing Hayfever with EFT

[m18pak]

I have quite bad hayfever, especially around this time of the year. I have been trying to use EFT to cure it; yesterday I spent about 5+ hours tapping, with no real noticeable results. I tried many setup statements, both general and specific, from "even though I have this hayfever", "even though I have this blocked nose" to "even though I have this fear of being outside in the grass because it reminds me of how nobody would play with me as a child", "even though my body has this fear of pollen and dust" etc...
I admit it could have been that I didn't do enough rounds on any particular statement. For each setup statement I only did 2-3 rounds, because then after noticing no real result I would decide I had not gotten the right setup statement and move on to try a different one.
Anyway I guess I'm asking for help as to what I am doing wrong. Is the process not working because I have not identified the real emotional cause (ie. I haven't gotten the right setup statement) or is it something else? If anyone has successfully cured an allergy with EFT, can you please tell me what you did to make it work?

[Angela]

Have you tried TAT? I had no results with EFT, but I did get some results with TAT.

Also, my new best friend in the whole world: My neti pot. Highly recommended.

[WordKeeper]

I think 5+ hours is far too long to pracctice EFT and get no results. But I admit that when I first began EFT I got nothing and yet something kept drawing me back.

I personally believe that my initial struggle has to do with the enormous forest that needed to be chopped down tree by tree. One thing that I began doing - not because Gary Craig or any other practitioner on EMOFREE.COM has suggested it but because I tried it out of desparation and it worked - is tapping without using set up statements or phrases, just holding the problem in my mind's eye. What this has done for me is to somehow reveal to me the right phrase or part of the hidden emotional trauma that underlies the problem I want to eradicate.

Try tapping: Even though I don't know what the emotional issue under my hayfever, I completely love and accept myself. And then see if something begins to loosen up - memories that may seem to have nothing to do with your hayfever. Use a sort of free association and just tap those memories even if you have no connection to the hayfever.

See if that helps.

(And give Angela's neti pot suggestion a go - it is a great help on any nasal/sinus issues. A true lifesaver.)

[javed]

Originally Posted by Angela

Have you tried TAT? I had no results with EFT, but I did get some results with TAT.

Also, my new best friend in the whole world: My neti pot. Highly recommended.

Hi Angela

Can you give some further details about your experience of neti pot?
and some links to learn more about it?

Thanks in advance.

Love

[m18pak]

Wordkeeper, I've been trying the way you suggested but nothing is really coming to mind for me at all. What ends up happening is that my mind just starts to wander and I start daydreaming. I mean I start thinking about things like what happened to me earlier today etc.

I had a really bad reaction again today. I was sneezing like hell with red eyes and everything. Please can someone help. I'm considering just giving up trying and going back to taking antihistamines.

[m18pak]

UPDATE: I've just had a breakthrough this evening. I tried tapping the setup statement "even though my body is trying to protect me by keeping me from going outside", reminder statement "my body is trying to protect me". And finally I got an effect. At the time my nose was completely blocked but tapping it once cleared it.

However, the bad news was that after that I made no more headway, as in I could breath again but my nose was still dripping and far from fine. I want to be completely cured, as in able to breath normally, and that hasn't happened. Right now I can breath through one nostril, while the other one is still quite blocked. The runny nose has abated somewhat though.

I think I might have to tap all the bad memories I have associated with grass and the outdoors, and maybe then my hayfever will vanish. I don't know. I feel very frustrated right now.

Please, if there's anyone out there who's had experience with using EFT (or any other similar acupressure/energy therapy system) to cure allergies, please can you give me some advice. I'm really struggling here.