Emotional Freedom Tapping
“EFT” or just “Tapping” is a contemporary western application of Traditional Chinese Medicine that can bring relief from emotional patterns and past burdens that resist other methods. From Chinese Medicine, it uses the ideas:
~ That we all have “Qi” or life force energy and that our energy can be blocked or otherwise disrupted by surprising or disruptive experiences.
~ That we carry these experiences–really most all our experiences– with us, in our body as these energy ‘imprints.’
~ That we can clear these disruptions without wading through a psychoanalysis of our past… that such releases and healing are more like untangling knots in string… once they are untied we are free of them.
Tapping is simple and painless. It can be learned by anyone. And you can apply it to yourself, whenever you want, wherever you are. It can be used with specific emotional intent towards your own unique life challenges and experiences. Most importantly, it gives you the power to heal yourself, putting control over your destiny back into your own hands.
Why work with a guide?
Tapping can be learned on your own, from books or videos, but working with a guide offers two important things:
~ Working with a trained guide takes you deeper into the practice and answer your particular questions. She can ensure that you have no misunderstandings and are clear and skillful.
~ A guide can support you to go deeper than you might on your own… and go to places that might be scary by yourself… to the root of your current patterns, and onward to emotional freedom.
Tapping with me….
When I guide clients in tapping, I also bring my Clinical Training in EFT years of experience in other things: the insights of coaching, the compassion of healing and the clarity of teaching.
What is tapping and how does it work?
The practice consists of tapping with your fingertips on specific meridian points while talking through traumatic memories and a wide range of emotions.
What is a Meridian Point?
Put simply, meridian points are certain points that can be mapped throughout the body. Energy circulates through your body along this specific network of channels. You can tap into this energy at any point along the system.
All negative emotions are felt through a disruption of the body’s energy. The body, like everything in the universe, is composed of energy. Restore balance to the body’s energy, and you will mend the negative emotions and physical symptoms that stem from the energy disruption. Tapping restores the body’s energy balance, and negative emotions are conquered.
How does Tapping Work?
The basic technique requires you to focus on the negative emotion at hand: a fear or anxiety, a bad memory, an unresolved problem, or anything that’s bothering you. While maintaining your mental focus on this issue, use your fingertips to tap 5-7 times each on 9 of the body’s meridian points. Tapping on these meridian points – while concentrating on accepting and resolving the negative emotion – will access your body’s energy, restoring it to a balanced state.
According to Dr. Dawson Church, “Acupoint tapping sends signals directly to the stress centers of the mid-brain, not mediated by the frontal lobes (the thinking part, active in talk therapy).” Because EFT simultaneously accesses stress on physical and emotional levels, he adds, “EFT gives you the best of both worlds, body and mind, like getting a massage during a psychotherapy session.” In fact, it’s EFT’s ability to access the amygdala, an almond-shaped part of your brain that initiates your body’s negative reaction to fear, a process we often refer to as the “fight or flight” response, that makes it so powerful.
Think of your amygdala as a personal alarm system. When you experience trauma or fear, the amygdala is triggered and your body is flooded with cortisol, commonly known as the “stress hormone.” This intricate chain reaction – your stress response – significantly influences and sometimes even causes whatever it is that troubles you, whether that’s an illness, injury, emotion, or even an external problem such as an issue with a friendship.
It’s estimated that 10 million people worldwide have used tapping
What’s so exciting is how incredibly quickly it can alleviate issues like depression, anxiety and insomnia, as well severe PTSD, physical pain, even illness.
- Read about the science and research behind Tapping.
- See how Tapping has been used for Stress and Trauma Relief with Survivors of the Genocide in Rwanda.
- See how Tapping has been used for War Veterans with PTSD.
These studies show that by stimulating these parts of your body – as we do in EFT Tapping – you can drastically reduce or eliminate the distress that accompanies or gives rise to these problems you face. By doing so, you can often eliminate the problems themselves!
from tappingsolutionfoundation.org