What is EFT?

EFT (emotional freedom technique) is one of the most exciting,

 powerful techniques developed over the last two decades. 

It is also commonly known as 'tapping'.

It is one of the new ’Energy Psychologies’ with its roots in

 acupuncture, kinesiology and psychology.  Its like an emotional

form of acupuncture without the needles, you simply tap

specific points on your body with your fingertips.

How does EFT work?

EFT is based upon the discovery that imbalances in the body’s

energy system can have a deep effect on a person’s psychology. 

 Feeling an unwanted negative emotion causes the energy flow

in the meridian pathway to become disrupted.

EFT is a very effective yet gentle method of directly rebalancing

the disrupted  energy.  Its almost like clearing a log that's blocking  

a stream, the log being a stuck emotion in your stream of

energy (meridian).

EFT relieves symptoms by tapping (with two fingers) certain

meridian points as we tune into, or focus on the problem.  The

 tapping re-balances the energy in the meridians that has become

 disrupted when thinking about, or experiencing, an emotionally

 disturbing circumstance.  Once balanced, the upset it usually

resolved -the memory remains but the emotional charge has gone.

EFT can treat a whole host of issues  including;

•  All negative emotions

 •  Phobias

 •  Cravings/habits or addictions

•  Stress

 •  Anxiety/panic attacks

 •  Traumatic memories

 •  Post traumatic stress disorder

 •  Physical pain

 The same technique is applied for anything, from

fear of public speaking to improving your sporting

 performance.

•  Very effective

•  Safe and gentle

•  Quick - no need for months of therapy

•  No painful reliving of past events

•  Can be applied by the client themselves

Each session will last approximately an hour and is taken place

   sitting normally in a chair - or lying on a futon if combining with

 Shiatsu. I will ‘tap’ on specific points while we are talking.

   Following an EFT session, the dispelled feelings very rarely return.

If they do it implies that there is a bit more work to do on a

specific issue. Of course you can still feel angry, fearful or

guilty (for example) about other things - and it might be

appropriate to  do so. But if you have thoroughly used EFT for

a specific issue, the feeling will not return. Once you have

sent the problem 'downstream', it does not come back up. 

You will still retain the memory of the event you were working

on but it will no longer have the emotional charge that it had

before. The other thing to say is that there may be more than

one emotion that needs to cleared - more than one log

jamming the stream.

The founder of EFT, Gary Craig trained with psychologist

Roger Callaghan, who had been studying kinesiology and

 acupuncture.  Callaghan had found that an anxiety patient of

his felt her anxiety about water in her stomach, so using his

recently learned knowledge, he had her tap on a stomach

acupuncture point below her eye, and to his astonishment, she

proclaimed that her fear had gone and she rushed to his

swimming pool to feel the water!  Years later, her fear of water

had never returned. 

 After many such ‘miraculous’ cures, where other methods had

failed, Callaghan developed TFT - thought field therapy, working

with the body’s meridian pathways.  He developed specific

 algorithms for each symptom or issue. Gary Craig, searching for

the simplest way to use this therapy, found that 14 points were

 always included in each algorithm, irrelevant of the presenting

symptom, so tried just tapping these points for every single  

 problem.  The results were outstanding and EFT was born.