Physical symptoms are often signals that some emotional or life issue needs to be addressed. When looked at from this perspective, a symptom can serve as a useful pointer to the underlying issue that needs to be resolved rather than being just something to tolerate or to medicate.

MTT has successfully treated the energetic blocks that can be fundamental to dozens of symptoms and diseases. Physical and emotional trauma—especially childhood trauma—is deeply implicated as a primary causative factor of disease.

Trauma at any time of life can provoke stress that may lead to illness immediately or years later, but childhood trauma appears to be the most powerful influence. The body doesn't know the difference between a bad experience that is happening this minute, a vividly remembered past experience, or a fearfully imagined future one. The cascade of physiological stress reactions happens in exactly the same way. A present trauma often triggers a past memory, which increases its impact. The more of those memories there are, and the more horrendous the experience was, the greater the stress on the body in the present. By clearing past experiences of emotional and physical shock and pain, we free our mindbody to be in the present and react appropriately only to what is happening now.

The ACE Study

One long-term study, the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is a major American research project that poses the question of whether, and how, childhood experiences affect adult health decades later. This question is being answered with the ongoing collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the cooperation of 17,421 adults at Kaiser Permanente’s Department of Preventive Medicine in San Diego, California. Eight categories of experiences were studied.

The abuse categories were:

• recurrent physical abuse,
• recurrent severe emotional abuse,
• contact sexual abuse.

• where someone was in prison;
• where the mother was treated violently;
• with an alcoholic or a drug user;
• where someone was chronically depressed, mentally ill, or suicidal;
• where at least one biological parent was lost to the patient during childhood – regardless of cause.
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Results

“An individual exposed to none of the categories had an ACE Score of 0; an individual exposed to any four had an ACE Score of 4, etc. Our two most important findings are that these adverse childhood experiences:

• are vastly more common than are recognized or acknowledged and
• have a powerful relation to adult health a half-century later.

“In addition to [examples detailed in report: smoking, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, depression, suicide, IV drug use] we found [that] many other measures of adult health have a strong, graded relationship to what happened in childhood: heart disease, fractures, diabetes, obesity, unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and alcoholism were more frequent. Occupational health and job performance worsened progressively as the ACE Score increased.

Dr. Robert Scaer, neurologist and researcher in the effects of traumatic stress, observes as a result of his studies with the reactions of animals to shock: "The critical factor in trauma therefore appears to be controllability of the outcome of the threat vs. a state of helplessness."

A child is by definition helpless, at the mercy of the actions and expectations of the adults around him or her: the parents, relatives, teachers, preachers, doctors. Older siblings and schoolmates can threaten and humiliate. Usually the security of the child's world is dependent on these authority figures. In the absence of a safe environment, or at least loving, attuned adults, every day can be like navigating a minefield.

Even in a loving environment, there are plenty of confusing and painful incidents. All of these experiences, seemingly significant or not, are held in the energy of the body until they are released. The associated emotions affect our beliefs, attitudes, reactions, and decisions throughout our lives.

The good news:

We are not sentenced by our past experiences to play out a dismal record of dysfunction and illness! In fact, realizing the powerful effects of trauma can be the key to regaining health and preventing or mitigating future problems. Energy therapies like EFT discharge trauma altogether so it loses its power to affect us.

Moreover, EFT is a gentle treatment that aims to resolve even serious issues with as little emotional pain as possible. We can sneak up on a troublesome issue gradually. It is perfectly possible to resolve an issue of which only you know the content by referring to it with a code label.

Naturally,

While MTT and EFT have produced remarkable clinical results, they must still be considered to be in the experimental stage, and you must take complete responsibility for your use of these techniques. You are always advised to consult with your health practitioner before undertaking any new healing modality.

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