If EFT Tapping gave you a cold or flu

I often get people contact me saying they think they have the flu or a cold as a result of doing EFT or other energy work, like Reiki, kinesiology, or practical healing. Of course, any healing modality can have what is called a healing reaction or healing crisis. This is when the symptoms appear suddenly after a session. It can include back pain, headache, stiff neck and shoulders, tears, anger, moodiness, rash, and cold or flu symptoms. Such a strong reaction is rare and will soon pass. Most people just sleep a little more than normal after an EFT session and may feel tired for a day or so until their energy settles down.

This particular article concentrates on the symptoms of the flu and the cold in particular. While it is, of course, possible to have a cold or flu as a healing crisis after EFT, there is another line of thought that often comes my way and, in my opinion, unnecessarily. Sometimes people write to me and ask if they are psychologically reversed or resilient, citing that they got the flu after a session. They wonder if getting the flu is because a part of them doesn’t want to get well and go to that social occasion, job presentation, job interview, or hot date they were doing EFT for. Of course, it may well be that the EFT work failed to capture all aspects, so part of the tapper was still afraid of the upcoming event and ended up with the flu as a result. And it is well known that stress reduces immunity. So that makes a lot of sense.

And sometimes people say they tapped while coming in with the flu for a stressful event coming up, ended up with the flu and couldn’t make it. However, let’s look at this from another angle. What if the flu was the reason the tapper missed many aspects of tapping on the emotional event? This would have left them more likely to allow the flu virus to fully enter their body than more specific tapping for the top priority of the moment. Let me explain. EFT works when we are being specific. The same goes for the flu as for any emotion. So by tapping for “this flu”, we are likely to get more results from the tapping. If we had tapped for the flu, we might have been able to do the event.

The “physical” affects the “emotional” just as the “emotional” affects the “physical”, and as a scientist by training, I find it difficult to make a distinction between the two. For example, I have helped people with depression when we found out they had a problem with the Borna virus and tapped on it. The Borna virus has been linked to depression. And Adenovirus 36 can cause weight gain, and after finding it and tapping, my client’s weight often normalizes. Another example is a common yeast overgrowth called Candida. This can cause depression, nervousness, irritability, and forgetfulness. By regularly tapping on “this candida”, I have witnessed remarkable results. I honestly don’t know how this happens, but I’ve seen it too many times to ignore it. So if you think you’re getting the flu, it’s a good idea to tap on “this flu” or “this virus”, every hour on the hour, as well as any other tapping you need to do.