Why Am I Sick?

As an Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)¹ Master, I’ve been on the cutting edge of the personal-development industry for a number of years. As for many people, this particular journey started with my own health issues.

From 2001 to 2002, I’d become increasingly ill with chronic fatigue, multiple allergies, inflammation, and metabolism, and blood-sugar regulation issues. While recovering from these conditions, I was drawn to EFT and soon became a therapist, trainer, and eventually an EFT Master. In this time, I drew a disproportionate number of clients and trainees who were also overcoming serious illness and disease. The universe has a way of sending not only those who are on a similar path but also, if we pay attention, the solutions to our problems. So while I looked for the answers to help my clients and myself heal, I was lucky enough to find wonderful teachers from around the world. Gary Craig, the creator of EFT, was one such teacher. Donna Gates, the founder of the Body Ecology Diet, and cellular biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton, were other pioneering and inspiring teachers, whose incredible knowledge helped me to make sense of and understand the conditions that I and others were experiencing — health conditions for which the modern medical model had no solution.

Armed with a wealth of information from these great people, I developed EFT for Serious Disease Training, which has been popular with medical professionals, therapists, and laypeople alike. My training explains how eventually, as we age, our early traumas and childhood experiences, if left unresolved, often manifest as a myriad of diseases, as the body tries to adapt the subconscious mind’s mistaken perceptions of self and the environment. As well as identifying the problem, my training helped to address the solution, showing how these conditions can be resolved with EFT.

On my journey, I was fortunate to meet and train with Richard Flook, and learn his invaluable system now named Advanced Clearing Energetics. Time and again I’ve been able to help clients, trainees, and workshop attendees locate the underlying emotional cause of disease with pinpoint accuracy, and resolve it with EFT. I’ve seen great results working with chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis (MS), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), diabetes, asthma, cancer, Crohn’s disease, colitis, vitiligo, alopecia, hypothyroidism, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and depression, among many other physical and emotional conditions. These results have been greatly accelerated thanks to Advanced Clearing Energetics.

Several years ago I developed an advance in EFT, a technique called ‘Matrix Reimprinting.’ Combining EFT with quantum physics and the developments in the new sciences, Matrix Reimprinting is a powerful tool for personal transformation. Richard fondly refers to Matrix Reimprinting and Advanced Clearing Energetics as a match made in heaven! The reason being that you can work directly with parts of yourself that have split off due to previous life traumas with Matrix Reimprinting and identify which traumas have specifically caused which disease with Advanced Clearing Energetics. So with simple analysis you can quickly get to the root of any disease condition using Advanced Clearing Energetics and resolve it using Matrix Reimprinting.

In 2008, with our shared passion to unite these two techniques, Richard and I filmed a three-day training course, in which we combined our knowledge. Richard skillfully questioned workshop participants about their existing medical conditions, identifying the life trauma(s) that had triggered them, while I resolved the stress and energetic disruption around the memory and installed more supportive memories using Matrix Reimprinting.

The results of this training were phenomenal! We worked with one workshop attendee and resolved her bipolar affective disorder in 50 minutes. With the accuracy of Advanced Clearing Energetics, we identified the root cause of the condition — three early life traumas — and with Matrix Reimprinting we reprogrammed these traumas. Of course, we might have eventually resolved this condition with Matrix Reimprinting alone, but without Advanced Clearing Energetics it would have taken months of systematically working on different life traumas in the hope of stumbling across the ones that caused the condition. Also, some of the traumas experienced are not available to the person consciously, so the ones causing the disease may remain hidden. But with Advanced Clearing Energetics, conditions and issues can be found accurately and precisely, enabling outstanding results.

I am, therefore, very pleased that Richard has written this book. There is, of course, much more to Advanced Clearing Energetics than just resolving trauma, and Why Am I Sick? explains this very accurately. This book contains a wealth of resources for doctors, medical professionals, psychotherapists, holistic therapists, and nutritionists, as well as all those wanting to identify the root cause of their health conditions. It is the much-needed missing link between therapeutic practice and the science behind sickness and disease. It is my hope that this book finds itself on the shelf of every practitioner who is serious about helping his or her clients to recover. It will certainly be at the top of the recommended reading list on my Matrix Reimprinting training courses.

Karl Dawson, co-author of
Matrix Reimprinting Using EFT

Like Karl, my journey started with debilitating illness — an illness that left me bedridden for several years up until 2005. In those days, I still bought into the model of reality where I believed I was an unfortunate victim of chronic fatigue syndrome, and my initial perception was that it had happened to me because I was unlucky. In reality, the disease I experienced was the single biggest gift of my life, and initiated such a huge transformation that I will be eternally grateful for the experience. But it took some time for my perception to shift and see it that way, so if you’re reading this book because you’re experiencing long-term illness or are supporting someone who is, I appreciate that you may not share this view at this stage of your experience.

My turning point came on a day like any other, when I found myself lying in bed repeating my mantra of how awful my life was, and how my life was, to all intents and purposes, over. But, on this particular day, I heard myself and had the realization that, although I wasn’t to blame for my suffering, I was certainly enhancing it with my thoughts and my behavior. In that moment, I took responsibility for my experience and subsequently my healing.

What became apparent was that taking responsibility for my actions was far easier than taking control of my thoughts. I tried a myriad of positive-thinking techniques, only to find that as soon as I took my ‘eye’ off my thoughts, they would return to the same mantras of self-defeat, common to my physical condition. That’s when I discovered EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). Initially, I was drawn to the technique because I learned that it could help with physical pain. In fact, my first experience of EFT reduced the physical pain in my legs significantly within five minutes — a pain that had plagued me for several years. But much deeper than that was what I came to discover through EFT — the link between the myriad of life traumas I had experienced and my physical condition. By connecting with Karl Dawson and using these techniques to address unresolved trauma, I found that my body healed simultaneously.

When I first met Richard Flook, I was fascinated to learn how accurately these life traumas could be connected to a physical condition. In fact, Richard could pinpoint with startling accuracy the source of a physical disease and the specific trauma that needed to be addressed to initiate and instigate the return to wellness. This proved very useful for my own healing, as not only did I have chronic fatigue syndrome, but I had also been challenged with bipolar affective disorder (manic depression) for 20 years. Working with Karl and later with Richard, I overcame this condition completely, and I’ve since witnessed other seemingly ‘miraculous’ healings from countless conditions that have no recognized solution.

I am therefore delighted that Richard has written this book. It is my hope that the healing I experienced doesn’t become confined to the realms of the miraculous, but instead becomes commonplace, as more and more people learn the link between their traumatic life experiences and their own disease process, and resolve them with Advanced Clearing Energetics. This book is a fine and comprehensive answer to a myriad of health challenges. It gives hope to those who have long since surrendered to their condition, and practical tools to resolve the challenges that prevent people from experiencing the health that is their birthright. It is my hope that every doctor, alternative therapist, psychiatrist — everyone that has a vested interest in the healing of others — reads this book and applies its principles. It has the potential to create a wellness revolution that we could only dream of, and I believe it will take pride of place among the books of the twenty-first century, which challenge the current paradigm and offer a new medical model of reality.

Sasha Allenby, co-author of
Matrix Reimprinting Using EFT