Emotional Freedom Technique for Health

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) although a relatively new method or alternative emotional therapy, it has revolutionized the practice of therapeutic healing. It has also challenged conservative methods and procedures of the practice of psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and other kinds of conventional therapies. It simply relieves imbalances in people’s energy systems.

EFT has various applications such as in uncertainties related to performance like public speaking, concentration, sports, etc.; phobias like the fear of heights, flying, claustrophobia, driving, etc.; emotional scars from war experiences, physical trauma, etc.; disturbing emotions like clinical depression and anger; emotions related to destructive habits like excessive eating and smoking; emotions related to physical conditions among many others.

EFT is fast growing in popularity because it provides immediate and permanent relief for a number of mental, psychological, emotional, physiological and, even practical conditions and situations. EFT has also built a reputation for curing problems or conditions that have persist for years and did not respond to traditional methods of treatment.

For instance, EFT is an effective way of eliminating deep-seated phobias. Experts are amazed that EFT succeeded where other methods failed. It can get rid of all types of phobias that people are afflicted of, anything from the common claustrophobia and agoraphobia to the more complex social phobia and other forms of phobia stress.

EFT also works for healing mental stress or trauma such as a result of abandonment, rejection, failure, duress, accident, abuse (including emotional and physical), rape or sexual harassment, emergencies, frustrated love, unemployment, physical disfigurement, sexual disabilities among many more stressful situations.

Often called as acupuncture for the mind or emotions, EFT also works in providing relief for common aches and pains such as headache (or even migraine), stomachache, joints paint, back pain, muscle pains, arthritis, among others.

EFT also relieves ailments or medical conditions such as Carpal tunnel syndrome, pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS), bulimia, anorexia nervosa, myopia or other vision problems, arrhythmia, dyspepsia, asthma, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder or ADD, attention deficit hyperactive disorder or ADHD, etc.

Emotional or mental disorders such as learning problems, overeating and others are also treated through EFT, which have been used in people with various difficulties. EFT has become an effective process that can people achieve lasting and permanent freedom from the emotions or situations that are the root causes of problems in their lives.

EFT is particularly effective in eradication addictions and the effect of immediate from these addictions. Some of the common types or addictions or addictive patterns include illegal drugs, smoking, alcohol, eating or food, sex, shopping, among many others. EFT has worked for most of these types as well as other complicated ones.

Moreover, one does not have to be afflicted with ailments, difficulties or, other conditions to experience EFT. The techniques also work for people who aspire for success, harmony, and happiness in their lives. EFT is a tool for personal improvement and enhancement as well. It helps people build self-confidence, enhance their self-image, improve relationships with people in their lives, improve their performance in the workplace, achieve personal peace or, basically attain their goals in life whatever they may be.

Here’s an explanation of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for weight loss — how and why it works.

Gary Craig has written extensively about the way weight loss works, at least the way it is supposed to work . . . you know, that basic mathematical formula . . . expend more than you take in, and you’ll lose weight. But the advice we have all heard (eat less . . . exercise more) isn’t all that helpful.

Why is that?

One simple reason — there are emotions behind eating that interfere with the desire to lose weight.

I don’t have to tell you that obesity is at epidemic proportions. 2/3 of Americans are overweight. Diabetes eats up $1 of every $5 spent on healthcare. A recent study at Harvard showed that obesity may soon surpass tobacco as the #1 cause of cancer deaths.

At least 95% of dieters fail, and will regain their weight and more within 2 years.

The mechanism of EFT for emotional eating and weight loss

Something very subtle is at the root of emotional eating. Unresolved emotional issues or traumatic events create blocks or disruptions in the body’s subtle energy system. These blocks create an “anxiety short circuit,” which in turn, causes someone to overeat.

The overeating calms the anxiety, but at the expense of consuming too many calories.

EFT is very soothing and relaxing. It usually removes the anxiety, and with the anxiety gone, the drive for emotional eating disappears. Further EFT helps to reprogram your energy system, so that you eat for nutrition, rather than having to tranquilize emotions.

It’s very similar to acupuncture in that way. People say that acupuncture is very relaxing. EFT has the same effect.

==============

2 Ways To Help

==============

EFT helps people resolve emotional issues because it addresses the energy imbalance as well as the negative emotions that are creating the energy imbalance. As you resolve your emotional issues at a deep energetic level using EFT, your self-defeating overeating behaviors will likely diminish or disappear, usually permanently.

This all happens without willpower. The tendency to respond to emotional issues by consuming food often fades. You are then freer to make other choices in response to emotions.

================

Addictive Food Cravings

================

Simply put, the cravings we get are often a result of stress, anxiety or another emotional event. Learning to deal with these moments without tranquilizing yourself with food can make a big difference in your ability to lose weight.

People generally pay too much attention to external factors, such as obsessively counting calories, and not enough attention to internal factors, such as emotions and what’s going on inside.

Our bodies can actually crave high sugar and high fat foods in an attempt to medicate ourselves into a calmer state (we don’t like to be upset) when we are avoiding our emotions or feeling a lot of stress.

When we are in those emotional or stressful states, our body’s energy flow is blocked or disrupted, creating a zzzzzzt in the system, like a short circuit.

EFT can eliminate those cravings almost instantly.

It works like acupuncture to stimulate the meridian system to bring it back into balance. Many people choose EFT as a confidential way to work on emotional overeating issues. The key is using EFT regularly, if necessary. Many people just try it out and stop if they don’t get results right away.

How Else Can EFT Help For Weight Loss?

Besides stopping addictive cravings, EFT can help manage and sort out the emotions that drive them. We all know that it’s not as simple as “eat less . . . exercise more.” Simply managing the frustration and discouragement around weight loss issues is phenomenal.

EFT can help manage negative thoughts, such as “I’ll never lose weight, so why bother?” These thoughts are self-sabotaging in nature, and counterproductive.

Stopping self-sabotage is an essential piece of the weight loss puzzle. After all, what good is weight loss if you can’t hang onto it?