How EFT Changed My Life
A personal journey from a Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis to deep healing through Emotional Freedom Techniques and the Unseen Therapist
Author – George Asithianakis, MD
March 28, 2026
When I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2014, my life changed abruptly. Until then, I had already experienced several strange symptoms that I could not fully understand. After emotionally overwhelming situations, I would suddenly lose balance while walking. Sometimes I had diplopia, sometimes urogenital disturbances, and there were moments when my body simply did not seem to cooperate with me anymore. Still, nothing prepared me for hearing the actual diagnosis.
MS was a shock. From one day to the next, I was forced to face a completely different reality. Walking no longer felt natural. My body had become unpredictable. Even simple daily activities carried uncertainty. What affected me most was not only the physical symptoms themselves, but the feeling that I could no longer trust my own body in the same way as before.
At first, fear and confusion were inevitable. But together with them, another feeling slowly emerged: responsibility. Deep inside me, I felt that I had to understand what was happening, not only physically but emotionally and spiritually as well. I could not accept the idea of being only a passive patient waiting for external solutions. I felt that somehow my body was trying to communicate something to me.
After much thought, I decided to approach my condition through alternative therapies exclusively. I had always had the intuition that there are dimensions of healing that modern medicine either does not fully understand or does not focus on. I am not against medicine, but for me personally, I felt the need to explore a different path.
So I started searching. I tried many things with an open mind and genuine hope. I experimented with bioresonance, quantum biofeedback, energetic patches, cannabis, herbs, supplements, and different nutritional approaches. I studied Chinese medicine and New German Medicine. I read books, attended seminars, listened to people with completely different perspectives on health and disease.
Some things brought small improvements. Others did not seem to help at all. But despite all these efforts, I still felt that I had not reached the core of the problem. Somewhere inside me there was a persistent voice saying that my illness was connected to unresolved emotional conflicts. The problem was that I did not know exactly what those conflicts were or how to access them.
In my twenties I had done psychoanalysis, believing that understanding the mind would eventually bring healing. Although I gained some intellectual insights, I often felt stuck emotionally. Talking alone did not create the deep change I was searching for.
Discovering EFT
Then I discovered EFT. The moment I first came across Emotional Freedom Techniques, also known as tapping, I immediately felt something different. It was difficult to explain rationally, but I sensed that this was what I had been looking for all along. EFT combined emotional work with the body’s energy system in a way that felt direct, alive and experiential.
I became very enthusiastic and started studying seriously in order to become certified. Initially, I trained with a Greek EFT practitioner who was very dedicated and professional. I learned a lot from him, but inside me I still wanted to go deeper. Eventually, this led me to continue my training with Gary Craig, the founder of EFT himself.
That experience opened an entirely new world for me. One moment especially stayed deeply imprinted in my mind. I watched Gary Craig working with around 200 people remotely, people located thousands of kilometers away. I remember observing the emotional and even physical changes those people were reporting during the process, and I was speechless. Until then, my understanding of healing had still been influenced by traditional concepts of space, separation, and physical contact. This experience challenged my beliefs.
The Personal Peace Procedure
At that point, I started practicing seriously what Gary Craig called the Personal Peace Procedure. The idea is simple but powerful. You gather specific painful or emotionally charged events from your life and work on them one by one using tapping or what Gary later called the Unseen Therapist. The process requires consistency. You work on one memory every day, gradually neutralizing the emotional intensity connected to it.
In the beginning, I honestly did not notice dramatic results. Part of me even doubted whether anything was happening at all. But after some time, small changes started appearing. I became calmer, my anxiety decreased. There was more mental clarity and less emotional heaviness inside me. Situations that would normally trigger fear or stress no longer affected me with the same intensity.
At the same time, I began noticing changes in my body as well. The spasticity in my legs became milder. My legs felt lighter. The urogenital problems almost disappeared, as did the diplopia. Walking became easier again. These improvements did not happen overnight, and they were not magical in the theatrical sense. It was more like a gradual reorganization happening from within. Slowly, I no longer felt trapped inside fear and helplessness.
A New Way of Living
As I continued working with EFT and the Unseen Therapist, I started using these methods for many aspects of my life, not only for physical symptoms. I would ask for guidance regarding nutrition, supplements, exercises, decisions, or emotional conflicts that I could not consciously identify. What surprised me most was not only the emotional relief, but the feeling that life itself started flowing differently.
I began feeling optimistic again. Opportunities appeared unexpectedly. Clients would contact me seemingly out of nowhere. Financial help arrived exactly when I needed it. I experienced many moments of synchronicity that I cannot explain logically even today. There was a growing feeling that I was somehow supported by something larger than my conscious mind.
At the same time, I continued using my own meditation practice, something I had developed years earlier. I often used meditation with light during difficult periods of my work and daily life, even during surgeries or stressful situations. Combining this meditation with EFT created something very powerful for me. It felt as if I was no longer trying to solve everything only through the ego or the analytical mind. Instead, I was allowing a broader intelligence to participate in the healing process.
Meanwhile I had started treating clients myself. What touched me deeply was the realization that while helping others, I was simultaneously helping myself. There was no clear separation anymore between giver and receiver. Healing seemed to happen in both directions at once.
Reconnection
This feeling of connection became stronger and stronger over time. The deeper I worked with the Unseen Therapist, the more I felt that healing was not so much about removing symptoms, but rather about reconnecting with something fundamental that modern life often disconnects us from.
If distant emotional and energetic changes were possible, then perhaps human beings are connected in ways we do not consciously perceive. Quantum physics speaks about concepts such as the quantum field, probabilities, entanglement, and interconnectedness. I am not a physicist, and I do not pretend to fully understand these theories scientifically. But emotionally and intuitively, many of these ideas resonated strongly with my own experiences.
I started feeling that consciousness itself may play a much bigger role in reality and healing than we usually believe. For me, this was not only philosophical. It became deeply personal. The symptoms of my illness gradually subsided to a significant degree. I could walk longer distances again. My body felt lighter and more cooperative. But even more important than the physical changes was the transformation in my relationship with life itself.
I no longer saw myself only as someone with a disease. I started seeing myself as a human being capable of participating consciously in my emotional, energetic, and physical wellbeing.
Of course, this does not mean that everything became perfect or easy. There were still difficult moments, doubts, disappointments, and periods of fatigue. Healing was not a straight line. But even the difficult periods gradually took on a different meaning. Instead of seeing them as punishments, I began seeing them as part of a larger journey of understanding myself.
Looking back today, I can say that discovering EFT was much more than discovering a therapeutic technique. It marked the beginning of an entirely new relationship with myself, with others, and with life as a whole. It taught me to listen inwardly, it taught me that emotions stored inside the body matter deeply and that calmness itself can become a form of healing. And perhaps most importantly, it taught me that connection may be the deepest medicine of all.
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