EFT-TAPPING

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is a truly revolutionary contemporary technique for emotional and/or physical release based on the principle that the cause behind every negative emotion is an imbalance in the body's energy system.

More than our physical body that obtains energy through food, we have a complex energy system which is powered by electrical stimulations taking place throughout the body and brain. This energy system is the key to all the disturbances we experience in our daily life. When our emotional being is off balance, it can be likened to a musical instrument in need of tuning. This electromagnetic energy that flows throughout the body regulating our health, has come to be rapidly recognized in the West in recent years, where conventional medicine has primarily focused on the physical and chemical aspects of the body.

EFT started in the USA and spread in many countries over the past 30 years. It is a straightforward but highly effective instrument for self-healing as testified to by an increasing number of people around the world.

The technique could be described as "Psychological Acupuncture” as it uses the same energy meridians used by traditional acupuncture to cure physical and emotional ailments but without the insertion of needles. In their place there is simple tapping with the fingertips so as to give kinetic energy to specific meridians. At the same time, the person conducting the session ‘synchronizes’ with the blockage to be overcome (physical or psychological) and voices it in statement (much like NLP, neuro-linguistic programming).

This combination of tapping and voicing acts on a physical, mental and emotional level concurrently as a ‘tuner’ to restore energy imbalances and emotional blockages and helps restore wellbeing.

EFT is versatile and easily applied and that is why it can bring excellent results, even in combination with other alternative therapies and in relation to a multitude of conditions such as injuries, chronic pain, traumatic experiences, phobias, anxiety, addictions, abuses, obesity, etc.

The History of EFT

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) evolved from TFT (Thought Field Therapy), a technique introduced by the American psychologist Roger Callahan. In 1980, he treated Mary, a patient with a severe water phobia. She had frequent headaches and terrible nightmares associated with her phobia. For years she visited doctor after doctor with no significant improvement. Callahan worked with her for a year and a half applying conventional methods of psychology but noticed little change.

In one of the sessions, Mary complained that she felt nauseous whenever they worked on this issue. Callahan, out of curiosity, was studying acupuncture and kinesiology at the time. He asked Mary’s permission to tap lightly below her eye. Much to his surprise, she announced that her fear had passed and rushed out to his swimming pool where she splashed water on her face. Her fear was gone, never to reappear.

How did this happen? It seems that when Mary felt the fear, there was turmoil in her stomach’s energy meridian. It was this energy imbalance that caused her emotional distress. With the rhythmic tapping below the eye, Callahan sent pulses through the stomach meridian and rectified the disorder. With the energy of the meridian balanced, the emotional tension, the phobia, disappeared. This was the origin for the declaration of his discovery: "Negative emotions are caused by disturbances in the energy system".

Callahan continued to develop TFT to create a series of algorithms for specific conditions.

One of his trainees, Gary Craig, studied and experimented with TFT for years. He simplified the process to an all-purpose progression of light taps to cover all the meridians in a relatively short sequence, thus bringing EFT into being (Emotional Freedom Technique).

Today, the method is systematized, developed and specialized on a global scale by recognized instructors and certified self-improvement counsellors. It has gained hundreds of thousands of ardent supporters because of its spectacular results.

EFT - Tapping and Fertility

EFT - Tapping is an extremely effective technique, targeted at eliminating psychosomatic blockages such as those hindering fertility. According to an article on infertility and EFT in emaxhealth.com, EFT, considering the disorder in the flow of energy in the body's meridians (Chi or Qi) as a genuine cause of anxiety, contributes to their balancing so as to achieve fertility.

The process of having a baby is a very stressful process. The most common emotions are anxiety, melancholy, envy, apprehension, panic and guilt. And while it is known that stress inhibits efforts to parenthood, it is all too difficult to do away with those feelings, especially if pregnancy tests repeatedly turn out negative or when menstruation continues as normal. In addition, past traumas, memories, beliefs about pregnancy, birth and the role of the parent, may subconsciously affect how one deals with having a baby. As a result, a woman may want to have a baby but there may be obstacles buried within, both physical and psychological. EFT helps radically to locate and remove these obstacles in a safe and gentle manner.

EFT is an exceptional tool because it meets any problem involved in the procedure ad hoc and in an exceedingly mild manner, without side effects and with a very high rate of success, as testified by the evidence to date.