We all suffer from challenging situations that cause stress, distress, unhappiness, anxiety and often times, hopelessness. It is never easy to think straight when this happens. Most books require you to read lengthy chapters just to figure out strategies, which you would realize after completing them that you actually knew them in the first place. EFT, on the other hand, when applied provides you new insights about yourself, helps you cope with issues and heal many of your emotional wounds.
Research suggests that psychotherapy averages about 30% success in helping people deal with emotional issues. EFT has about a 70-80% success rate and others have experienced a much higher success rate than 70-80%.
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What Is Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)?
The philosophy underpinning EFT is that "the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system". EFT is an emotional form of acupuncture except that we don't use needles and we can do it by ourselves anytime, any place. It centers on the profound effects of the body's subtle energies. We tap with the fingertips to stimulate a certain sequence of meridian energy points while the client is "tuned in" to the problem. What we mean here is that the client is focused on the issue without having to tell the whole story. There are many ways of accessing the "story" but it is meant to be safe for the client and least painful.
The subtle energies that circulate throughout the body have been largely ignored (until recently) by western scientists. It has been regarded as Eastern theory for a long time and acupuncture had been frowned up till recently (just a reminder, there is no puncturing of any sort with EFT). As a result, our use of them for emotional and spiritual healing has been sparse at best. With EFT, however, we consider these subtle energies to be the primary cause of emotional upsets. Tapping them causes them to start circulating freely, as it should while the client is breathing and in touch with the problem. Though it is a paradigm shift for most if not all of us, we invite you to try it out before talking further about the phenomenal results it has achieved. For some evidence of the case histories witness the amount of work done in this area.
Who Is Behind EFT?
Gary Craig is the founder of EFT and he learnt the roots of this method from Roger Callahan who discovered Thought Field Therapy. Gary Craig is neither a psychologist nor a licensed therapist and his work is extensively documented in www.eftuniverse.com if you need to know more about him.
Physical And Physiological
EFT often provides relief for a very wide range of physical symptoms. We have used it for common colds, asthma, migraine, vomiting, eczema, snoring, etc and they have worked tremendously well. My advice, which also has been given by the most experienced, is to try it on whatever you face, as it has not been known to have limitations to its effect. This, too, is abundantly clear in the case histories, which provide unmistakable evidence of the link between our physical ailments and our emotional issues.
Just a word of caution: Do not attempt EFT on people with deep-seated issues like child abuse, rape, schizophrenia and epilepsy unless you are experienced or have witnessed sufficient cases being dealt with by experienced practitioners and you are confident to handle such issues. Do leave such issues in the care of professionals.
