EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE (eft)

EFT

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or “tapping” is an alternative therapy for emotional distress and physical pain. 

The EFT practice involves tapping your fingertips on specific meridian points (energy pathways similar to those used in acupuncture) while focusing on a prevalent negative emotion you are experiencing. When you experience a negative emotion, a disruption of your body’s energy occurs, which is likely an ongoing pattern in your body. When you tap on the meridian points, while concentrating on accepting, resolving and releasing the negative emotion, signals are sent to the part of your brain that controls stress.  In this way, the stress and/or physical symptoms, along with the accompanying underlying emotional patterns which have likely been present since early on, can be drastically reduced or eliminated.  

EFT combines energetic work (tapping on energy pathways) with submental processes (verbally working through the emotional state without much thought). This is why EFT works well alongside both Reiki and NLP.  It facilitates your body’s innate ability to heal and supports the surfacing, processing, and releasing of energy. 

BENEFITS OF EFT

Benefits of tapping may include: 

• reduced stress
• feeling less emotionally charged
• responding rather than reacting
• improved “stress biochemistry” from lowered cortisol levels
• help for those experiencing psychological trauma and PTSD
• altered or eliminated deep-rooted emotional patterns
• a reduction of chronic joint or muscle pains and headaches
• improved athletic performance

AN EFT SESSION

The EFT tapping session is a training session where you will first be shown how to use tapping (where the tapping points are and the submental component that accompanies the tapping) and then will be taken through the process to address a particular emotion. By the end of the session, you will be able to use it whenever and wherever you want, on your own, as issues and emotions arise. It gives YOU the power to heal yourself. 

It usually takes the body and its neurology a little time getting used to this practice. Therefore, the more you practice EFT, the more benefits you will experience as your neurology becomes accustomed to the tapping.

Tapping sessions can be done remotely using FaceTime to demonstrate and walk you through the process.