What is EFT?
“When we come to love, understand, and accept ourselves, that love and acceptance will generate in us the heroic efforts and commitment to stop our self-destructive behaviours and become masters of our destiny.” — Dan Millman
What is The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)?
The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a highly effective, simple and gentle method of releasing negative emotions and psychological distress from the body and mind. EFT belongs to a group of techniques known as Meridian Tapping Techniques (MTT) from the newly evolving field of Energy Psychology. It combines the wisdom of Eastern healing traditions such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture and Yoga with Western cognitive therapy. Many who have tried EFT have experienced profound and permanent changes in the release and removal of emotional issues such as anxiety, phobias, addictions, anger, cravings, trauma, grief, depression, physical pain, guilt and more. EFT is simple, gentle and powerful. The technique:
- Often works when nothing else has
- Is easily learned by ANYONE
- Can be self-applied at anytime
- Produces long lasting results
How EFT works….
EFT is based on the discovery that the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system. The technique is a form of ‘psychological acupressure’ that involves the tapping of meridian acupuncture points on the face and body (energetic stress accumulation points), while verbalizing the problem at hand. There are no surgical procedures, pills, needles or chemicals involved.
Subconscious Mind
Distress, traumas and negative patterns from our lives, are ‘programmed’ into the subconscious mind (much like a file/program that is downloaded on your computer). All distresses affect our physiology: they cause the brain to send electrical impulses and chemicals into the body leading to the experience of negative emotions like anger, sadness, anxiety and fear. When past distresses are left unprocessed, that is, the emotions are left suppressed and unresolved, they become stored in the body’s cells and energy field causing disruptions throughout the body.
The subconscious mind does not know the difference between past, present and future events. Therefore any negative programs/beliefs you have acquired or experienced that have not yet been integrated (discharged and healed,) will keep replaying themselves causing the same conditioned emotional responses and behaviours until they are processed and released from the body and from the body’s energy system.
The tapping in EFT helps:
- Access the distress/limiting belief in the subconscious mind and bring it up to conscious awareness
- Clear the negative emotional charge and trauma from the body
- Remove energetic blocks in the energy body, restoring energy flow
- Reprogram the mind with positive beliefs
