Emotional Freedom Techniques
EFT: The surprising natural healing aid you can use for almost everything
I use EFT on my clients when I feel they are stuck in an emotional situation and are finding it hard to make the commitment to themselves to make changes for the better. More often than not in my practice it is about making changes regarding healthy eating, but sometimes when we start the EFT session it can bring up a whole load of emotions that have been festering under the surface for years. Once you have delt with those emotions it is amazing how you can free up your life to clear the pathway to the real you!! The person that has always been there, but was held back, by an accumulation of a lifetime of old habits and negative belief systems.
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is an emotional, needle free version of acupuncture that is based on new discoveries regarding the connection between your body's subtle energies, your emotions, and your health. EFT has been reported, and I now know through my own experiences that it has been successful in thousands of cases covering a huge range of emotional, health and performance issues. It often works where nothing else will.
What is EFT?
EFT is a powerful new discovery that combines two well established sciences so you can benefit from both at the same time:
- Mind Body Medicine
- Acupuncture (without needles).
In essence, EFT is an emotional version of acupuncture wherein we stimulate certain meridian points by tapping on them with our fingertips. This addresses a new cause for emotional issues (unbalanced energy meridians). Properly done, this frequently reduces the therapeutic process from months or years down to hours or minutes. And, since emotional stress can contribute to pain, disease and physical ailments, we often find that EFT provides astonishing physical relief.
You can make enormous strides by introducing EFT into your lives. Instead of taking months or years using conventional “talk therapy,” EFT often does the job for you cleanly and thoroughly in one or two sessions ... and we sometimes achieve noticeable results in a few brief rounds of EFT.
Once you have seen how well EFT clears out emotional debris, your next step is to notice how physical ailments start to fade. Headaches, back pains and other discomforts often tend to improve or vanish as emotional issues improve (this is the essence of Mind Body Medicine). Your vision may become clearer and everyday stress may take less toll on your system.
Accordingly, you can apply it to just about everything. That is one of the most astonishing things about it. You use the same basic procedure for your fear of public speaking as you do for improving your golf score. You can also use it for everything from the common cold to multiple sclerosis. Further, I have had reported successes for nearly every emotional issue on the books...including fear, trauma, depression, grief and trauma healing. Some consider it the missing link in the pursuit of health and happiness.
You can address any emotional issue with EFT
- Using EFT for Trauma
- Using EFT for Fears and Phobias
- Using EFT for Anger Management
- Using EFT for Depression
- Using EFT for All Other Emotional Issues
Negative Emotions (Anger, Trauma, Fear, etc): It is a well established medical fact that our emotions trigger varying chemicals in our bodies. Joyous emotions can produce healing chemicals while negative emotions can create disease causing chemistry into our systems. For example, you may be familiar with how stress might contribute to ulcers or high blood pressure. I suggest that negative emotions may be a major cause of pain too. I have seen evidence of this repeatedly as pain subsides once negative emotions have been addressed with EFT.
EFT provides two remarkable benefits for weight loss that sets it apart from other methods:
EFT Can Reduce or Eliminate Your Immediate Cravings: Using EFT for 1 or 2 minutes can arrest your cravings in an estimated 80% of the cases. Thus, you may no longer need to "eat when you are not hungry." This feature surprises most newcomers.
EFT Can Reduce or Eliminate Emotional Overeating: If you have been using food to "tranquilize" years of past emotional hurts, then you may find EFT to be your best friend. EFT can bring you more emotional peace which, in turn, can lead to more sensible eating habits. This emotional contributor, which EFT is designed to address, is the missing piece in most weight loss programs.
Whatever your fears or beliefs, I believe EFT is one of the safest and most effective ways to deal with emotional, physical and spiritual issues and there’s really nothing to lose by trying it out and giving it a go!