How EFT works

How EFT Works

All physical symptoms, pain, disease and dysfunction in the body are at least contributed to, if not caused, by emotions.

Most things we do, that we would prefer not to do, drink, smoke, overeat etc are caused by negative emotions.

Most things that we would like to do, but aren’t doing, such as exercising, getting a better job, waking feeling happy and positive – we are prevented from doing these things by negative emotions.

Phobias, and fears which we know are illogical, these too are caused by negative experiences or negative learning in the past.

Does that seem like a wild over exaggeration?

Have a think about it…

If you have high blood pressure, depression, and chronic disease of any sort – a doctor will ask you about your lifestyle and your stress levels

It is a widely accepted fact amongst health professionals that most cancer sufferers have had a major incident in their life 12 to 18 months before diagnosis

Most people who smoke or drink or overeat would be honest enough to admit that if their life were completely happy, then they probably wouldn’t feel the need to do these things. They are ways of handling stress, anxiety and negative emotions.

Why don’t we go for that better job, or make the effort to do things that would improve our lives? Negative emotions again (I’ll fail, I’ll not be good enough, It’ll hurt, I’ll feel deprived….)

Most of us carry memories of events, situations and traumas from the past. These memories are not a problem in themselves, but it is the emotion that is linked with the memory that often is.

EFT is a quick, painless and effective way to take those negative emotions and clear them, with the potential to put a positive alternative in their place.

We are all born with the equivalent of a clear blue sky – life comes along and sends us big negative emotion clouds! Eventually your sky can become grey and stormy, causing ill health and the need to cheer our lives up with artificial happiness highs!

How to do EFT

EFT is a simple process, which is quite longwinded to describe!

To explain it as simply as I can, EFT is a process that tunes the brain into the problem by talking about it, then clears the energy field of the problem by activating the meridian system which is done by tapping on the ends of specific meridian points. It sounds weird and looks daft - but - my goodness, it works!

We begin by tapping the 'karate chop' point on the side of the hand. We tune in our brain by making a statement, that 'even though we have "x" problem, we accept ourselves'.

Then we tap lightly with the fingers on several points on the face and body, the edge of the eyebrow - next to the nose, then the outer edge of the eye, then under the eye, under the nose, in the indent of the chin, under the collarbone and then under the armpit. All the time we continue to remind our brain of the problem by repeating part of the initial statement, and we continue to tap until we think there is a change in the way we feel.

We measure the change in SUD's, - subjective units of distress. Change is often felt as a release of tension, a sudden realisation that our worries are not realistic, or by a 're-frame' of our memories so we can suddenly see the situation from a new point of view.

EFT is simple, often painless, can be self-administered, easy and economical to learn, and amazingly effective. One just needs to let go of scepticism and give it a try!

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