EFT: Emotional Freedom Technique

Emotional Freedom - isn't that a great concept? EFT is a wild and wonderful therapeutic technique. No one knows what it is or how it works, but work it does!

EFT has been clinically effective in thousands of cases for trauma and abuse, panic and anxiety, fears and phobias, depression, addictive cravings, children's issues and hundreds of physical symptoms, things you wouldn't think could be helped this way; including pain relief, headaches, body pains and breathing difficulties. The list goes on and on. Over 80% achieve noticeable improvement or complete stoppage of their problem. EFT often works where nothing else will, it is usually rapid, enduring and gentle, no drugs or equipment are involved and it's quickly and easily learned by anyone.

Although the founder says EFT is an "energy therapy," working with the energy meridians in the human body, I have come to understand EFT as a type of Self-Hypnosis. Different therapists use different meridian points and get the same results. Different clients come up with different meridian points and get excellent results. Again, no one knows how it works.

How to do EFT

You begin by choosing the problem to work on. It may be emotional or physical, psychological or spiritual. When you have chosen your problem, you determine the intensity of the problem on a scale of 0 to 10. Next, you frame a statement about the problem that is very specific. Then you say a phrase that reminds you of the problem you are working and touch the "meridian" points in a sequence. As you do the treatment, you keep track of how much the problem is subsiding. When you get to a low number - say 0 or 1, you're through!

If, on the way, you may become aware of other parts of the problem, you resolve them the same way. Some problems are very simple - one treatment and it's all fixed. Others are very complicated and take a number of trips through the parts (called aspects) to finish the healing.

Where EFT Comes From

Emotional Freedom Technique is the "child" of Gary Craig, a Stanford Engineering Ph.D., who studied Thought Field Therapy with Roger Callahan, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist. Craig's EFT is based on the idea that: "The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system" - a meridian therapy like acupuncture or acupressure. While thinking about a problem, the person taps lightly with his/her fingertips on certain spots on the face and chest. These spots are thought to be end points of energy meridians.
To learn more go to www.emofree.com.

John H. Diepold, Jr., Ph.D. developed Touch and Breathe (TAB)© where people just touch the points and take a breath instead of tapping the points. This is a good way to do A LOT of problem treatments without the chance of bruising yourself. It also makes EFT available to use "secretly" in public where tapping would be pretty obvious to others.