Emotional Freedom Technique for Health

Liz Lichti :

For those of you who are familiar with EFT, developed by Gary Craig, you know it can take a bit of work to master and while practicing there can be a lot of self discovery and reflection, which is why I embraced it whole heartedly the first time I experienced it at a local one day workshop. I was literally blown away by the whole process including the muscle testing we learned to guide us through our clearings.

When I got home I continued to explore my own blocks discovering stuff from my childhood that I thought was ‘no big deal”, was actually a HUGE deal to my subconscious. I continued to search for my core issues by clearing major things from my past only to find myself caught in a tangled web of ‘tailenders’ (I will explain later) that left me lost in a deep maze of issues and emotions with no end in site. I felt emotionally drained and down. I must be the only one that totally sucks at doing this process that’s supposed to be so easy! Why isn’t it working? What’s wrong with me? I call this an ‘Energetic Funk’ and I’ll tell you how to avoid it.

BTW – a ‘tailender’ is EFT lingo for another aspect related to the original issue being cleared. These often pop up into our consciousness during an EFT session telling us we’re on the right track, but need to dig deeper – When these ‘tailenders’ are addressed it often results in an Aha!

Here’s the big thing to take note of; Just because a ‘tailender’ comes up, and if it’s a long standing issue more than likely you will come across many, it doesn’t mean you should keep going until you don’t have anymore . Do the work in baby steps. When you are working on your own stuff by yourself it is best to tap on the original problem and get it down to zero if you can. If a tailender pops up, make a note of it, then take a break and go back to it later or leave it at that until the next day. If you don’t get down to zero, it’s okay, just make note of where you left off.

The best way I know to describe what happens in an ‘Energetic Funk’ is to compare it to cleaning your house. Before you clean your house, you look around and see the mess before you and then proceed to clean the obvious and when you’re done you feel really good. Now, have you ever done spring cleaning? You know, when you set aside a chunk of time to clean out drawers, under rugs and furniture, pull out the fridge and stove, really gross stuff surfaces doesn’t it? Often you start one job and it leads to another, but you don’t have time to finish one so you move to another and the next thing you know you have uncovered all kinds of crap and now you’re overwhelmed because what you started you can’t possibly finish on your own in the time you have. All this time you had been cleaning the surface thinking your house was pretty clean. Oh, how blissful that ignorance was! Now the dirt is in your face, your house is filthy, how do you feel now …?

Either you get some help or you’ll have to live in that filth till you have the time to finish the job and if you don’t do it soon enough the day to day cleaning will get behind and the job will be too big to even think about.

Back to baby steps. Just take it in small chunks or better yet, plan on getting help before you start a big job. It’s the same with EFT. In fact if you have some major blocks to work on I highly recommend working with a qualified coach, even if you are a coach, because it’s really difficult to step outside of yourself to get to the core of an issue, especially one from your childhood, after all you were just a kid. Even when we have grown and matured into adults we do not grow out of the imprint of that original emotion, it’s still there in our energy field just as it was all those years ago. With guidance and EFT that imprinted emotion CAN be wiped clean and as we know, when done right EFT has the power to literally change lives forever.

Emotional Freedom Technique – Tapping yourself to health & freedom

Many of you will have seen the numerous adverts for courses teaching EFT but may be unsure what exactly it is. A meridian based system EFT, developed by Gary Craig in the early 90’s and derived from TFT (Thought Field Therapy), it is simple to learn, easy to practice and achieves results beyond many conventional therapies. By focusing the mind on a specific problem and tapping on just 14 points, many physical, emotional and mental issues can be cleared, often within minutes. Sound to good to be true? Just try it for yourself and see. With enough free information on the net to get you started it won’t be long before you have your first results.

the basic principle is that a disruption in the bodies energy system causes unwanted emotional (and often physical) pain. Traumatic events throughout our life as well as verbal conditioning from family, teachers, peers etc and many other unknown factors are stored as energetic memories, or disruptions, in the bodies’ energy system. These may be affecting the way we choose to live and respond to life and help form our many limiting beliefs. Others may just be triggered by a thought or memory, such as when getting into a car after a traumatic car accident. When the associated anxiety and fear return it can limit a person from living their full potential. Whatever the cause it can easily be cleared with EFT, and the person is relieved of all symptoms.

By focusing the mind on the problem we tune in to the specific ‘frequencies’ of disturbance that we want to treat, a bit like tuning a radio. Once we are on the right channel, and this can be easy as asking the client to think about or visualise the problem, we tap on a sequence of points. Each of the 14 points used is at the end, or near the end, of a meridian channel or one of the governing and conception channels used in traditional acupuncture. The tapping appears to clear the disturbance on the ‘specific frequency’ being treated and results in a correction of the problem. Another reason of EFT’s effectiveness is due to it’s treatment of ‘psychological reversal’, a concept carried over from TFT. This is the part of the person that will self sabotage an attempt to change. An example might be that of someone trying to loose weight who breaks their diet on day two. The subconscious may not be ready to change, often because it feels unsafe. Again this is easily treated with EFT.

Fears and phobias are common for a variety of different issues. It matters little whether it is a life long phobia of spiders or a recent fear of heights or flying, EFT will usually clear it within just 1 session. The success rate with EFT for this particular problem is so high that many therapists will not even charge if they do not get a result. Even if your phobia is highly unusual it is still just as easy to treat. Unlike some other approaches EFT foes not force a person to face their fear. It is a much gentler technique which allows their them to let go of any fear before facing it so they remain calm and in control. There are many cases of people who have even gone on to enjoy their previous worst nightmares such as loving flying or taking up skydiving after having a fear of heights.

Emotional trauma and PTSD are also easily, and often quickly, dealt with. From childhood abuse to war memories EFT relieves the negative emotional response to these memories thoroughly and yet gently. The life long implications to a persons self confidence after such incidents are usually cleared too. Gary Craig has much written and video documentation of his visit to a Vietnam War Veterans clinic in which he worked with some very difficult cases. Here he was able to remove the emotional intensity of reoccurring memories and allow clients to sleep properly since the war. For most of the men only a couple of sessions where needed. Visit Gary Craig’s web site for a list of such case studies.

Most therapists recognize the importance of emotions in physical pain so it will come as no surprise to learn of EFT’s effectiveness in it. By working on either the physical symptoms or on the emotions connected to it results can be quick and long lasting. I have even worked with people who have suffered constantly from pain as the result of an operation gone wrong, a seaming purely physical case. Even here I have guided them to complete relieve in just a few minutes. In many of these cases the pain will return, however as the treatment can be self administered once learnt they are able to control the pain without medication. Headaches and migraines can also be stopped in just a couple of rounds of tapping, so dramatically it seems life a party trick for EFT

Cravings and addictions can also be treated. The mental/physical craving for any substance (whether it be nicotine, alcohol or heroin) or food can be relieved very easily. This result is usually only temporary as the cravings are only a symptom of the problem. To get complete relieve guidance from a good therapist to address the underlying emotional drivers is essential. Once this has been done you can be certain the addiction will not shift, and the client will typically benefit from many ‘positive side effects’.

Financial blocks and limiting beliefs restricting success are yet another of EFT’s many applications. By identifying your negative beliefs towards yourself and to money it is possible to change your experiences. Beliefs such as ‘money is evil’, ‘I don’t deserve to be wealthy’, ‘only greedy people are rich’, ‘it is more spiritual to be poor’ etc hold us in financial poverty. Others such as ‘I am no good’ and ‘other people are better than me’ hold back out potential of success in our chosen field. Many people try to change through positive affirmations. These rarely work because the apposing core beliefs are just too strong. By using EFT to remove them many life and business coaches are now guiding there clients (and themselves) to levels of success and wealth only previously dreamed of.

In short EFT is easy to learn and highly versatile. You can learn it in just a day or two and can even get results within 15-30 minutes of reading some of the many free online instructions. You can even treat your belief that this is too easy to work. Keep an open mind and give it a try, trust me you won’t regret it.

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Scientific research has proven that everything in the universe, including us humans, is made up of energy. These findings are changing the way we view not only diseases but how we run our lives. In the last couple of decades we have been getting a much better understanding how healing occurs, as the findings of quantum physics are making their way into the practices of practitioners round the world. Energy therapies are becoming the favoured tool to deal with any kind of physical and emotional disease or trauma, because of their impressive success rate and speed of results.

EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique is one of the best techniques out there. It is easily applied across the entire spectrum of emotional and physical problems. Since it manipulates the body’s energy system, whilst using mind focus simultaneously, it can also be used by coaches to coach business people in goal setting, trouble shooting, focusing and much more.

How Emotional Freedom Technique heals emotional and physical problems

It is an irrefutable fact, that our thinking directly affects our well being. Negative thinking creates low energy levels and positive thinking produces higher energy levels. EFT works on the premise that, that persistent negative thinking causes a a lowering of general energy levels ultimately disrupting the flow of energy in the body. These disruptions of the body’s energy system show up as a general out of sorts feeling to begin with, gradually leading to emotional or physical problems.

EFT uses a form of needle free acupuncture together with mind focus to address any issue. You tap on a small number of meridian points on the body and face, whilst repeating aloud an “affirmation” phrase related to the issue you are addressing. Tapping on the meridian points opens up the energy channels in the body. The energy begins to flow more freely, clearing mind and body of stale, old energy, thus creating new awareness or insights and at the same time releasing the negativity that caused the energetic disruptions in the first place. Once you have tapped a few rounds of EFT you will soon notice, often within minutes, that you are beginning to feel calmer, more energetic and balanced.

Use EFT in your daily life

The beauty of EFT is that anyone can learn the basics easily and quickly. You can use it on anything and as you become more familiar with the process you will be able to get relief from anything, like stress, tiredness, anxiety, back pain, headaches, nervousness, fear, lack of focus, the list is endless. There are no limits to the issues to which you can apply EFT. In fact, I often tell my clients, that the only limits are their imagination. One caveat though, if you have severe problems please consult an experienced practitioner.

EFT also works brilliantly with children. Children have fewer inhibitions then us grown ups and they love the off beat approach and creativity of EFT and can often bring a humour to the therapy which facilitates the healing process. Actually humour is an important part of EFT. I use it a lot with my clients. Humour relaxes and relaxation aids healing, as the meridian channels expand, allowing more energy to flow freely. Therefore the use of humour in your affirmations really can accelerate positive change.

I encourage anyone with an interest in well being to check out EFT, it really can enhance your life beyond that which you thought possible.

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