How does EFT work?
It helps to relate EFT to something you may already be familiar with such as:
- EFT is related to acupuncture only we target specific emotions and using finger tapping rather than needles.
- EFT is like talk therapy with an additional physical component which allows us to get to the issues faster and resolve them more thoroughly.
- EFT is like hypnotherapy in that we’re dealing with mind and in addition working with the body’s subtle energies for more complete resolution of issues.
- EFT is like counselling with extra physical actions that more quickly give you true emotional freedom.
The Discovery Statement of EFT is that:
“The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.”
– Gary Craig, EFT Founder
By tuning into your negative emotion (the disruption) and tapping on acupressure points, we clear this disruption and hence the negative emotion. Sounds too simple, right?
It might help to understand that all healing modalities until modern times were based on treating energy in the body rather than the body itself. Given Einstein’s discoveries that everything is energy it really isn’t surprising that you can address your emotions by manipulating your energy system. What is surprising is that modern medicine has ignored this approach for so long.
Of course, it used to be thought that any talk of our ‘energy system’ was Eastern mysticism but we now have the technology to measure the energy flows (meridians). You can hold a ground in one hand and place an electrode on the meridian points and measure the strength of the flows.
A good analogy for EFT is to think of a TV that is not tuned in properly. There is a picture but it is covered in static. We feel that static as depression, anxiety, anger etc. By tapping on meridian points with our fingers we correct the TV tuning to show a clear picture and hence clear the negative emotion.
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