As I understand it, there is only so much you can do yourself from a video or 
book or free workshop.  That way you only get to know the HOW, but the WHEN is 
what you are really paying for when you undertake a course of instruction, and 
the experience and expertise when you go to a practitioner.

Also, the phrasing of the affirmations is important, and one could easily be 
framing it in a negative way without realising it.

Having said that, when I have had a diy session, it has worked so well that I 
have never bothered to take it any further, but I really only use it for 
worries, hardly ever for anything physical, and most of the time it doesn't 
even come to mind.

Rowena

  So do you have any idea at all why EFT doesn't work for some people? I 
  used and tried it off and on for a couple years with no results. Maybe I 
  should go through the videos again, LOL. But I gave up on it. Maybe it 
  is like being hypnosis resistant--I simply do not believe our physical 
  problems are all emotional in nature. Quite the reverse, my experience 
  has been that when I address physical problems successfully the 
  mental/emotional fix themselves automatically, with no mental work or 
  focus needed at all.
  sol