The EFT Technique -
A Self Healing Method

How Did I Find The EFT Technique?

I read about this tapping method whilst I was living with the chronic illness ME/CFS. I could talk little and had limited help. As a result, I never managed to access and learn this tapping method at the time, but have looked into it since the dramatic improvement in my health to help with further recovery.

What Is The EFT Technique? - Definition

EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique. Also known as "tapping", it comes under the category of energy medicine, and is known by many other names by those who have added their own twist to this healing method. It comes under the category of mind body medicine, working as a method of holistic healing.

The Emotional Freedom Technique is very simple and rather strange at first as it involves tapping different parts of the body whilst saying words that relate to the issue you are working on. It seems unbelievable that such a simple technique can have the powerful healing results it can have, but there are an abundance of EFT videos online that suggest this is the case. These include the wonderful work of The Tapping Solution.

The idea behind this energy healing technique is that we store emotional pain in the body.

This pain can be expressed as unpleasant emotions, perhaps ones that get triggered easily in our lives. You know the ones: the times where you react strongly and can tell that your reaction is about the past as well as the present problem. You have had it happen so many times, and this time is ONE TOO MANY! Those ones. :-)

This emotional pain can also be expressed in illness or dis-ease. Just as accupuncture works with meridians, so does the EFT technique. The difference is that you don't need any needles and you can do it on your own.

What Results Will I Get With The EFT Technique?

I do not know the results you will get with the EFT Technique. Like any alternative technique you do need to DO IT to get results.

That sounds like an unnecessary thing to say, but stop and think about it.
How many times, do you learn a technique and not apply it.

What problem do you have right now?
What would help you move forward?Are you doing it?

If any healing techniques is not working, ask yourself the following questions:
Am I using the technique?
Am I using it in the way I was recommended to use it? :-)

The Power Of Joined Minds And Of Being Accepted

Though the beauty of EFT is that you can do it alone, I personally believe that there is greater power in using EFT in the company of another. Why?

1. Someone who believes in your beauty and courage communicates that to you both in their words and their silence.

2. The same principle as that behind the power of the prayer of agreement.

3. There is power in doing EFT with someone who has experience that it works. Please note they say that no belief in the technique is required for it to work. I think this is true, but it is bound to be beneficial when your trust in the EFT process builds. (See the placebo effect. )

The benefit for me of doing EFT with another is experienced by tapping along to EFT on DVD or EFT on CD.

What Are The Origins of The EFT technique?

EFT was first called Thought Field Therapy. It was founded by an American psychologist, Dr Roger Callahan in the early 1980s. It was further developed as EFT by Gary Graig.

My Personal Experience And Results With The EFT Technique

Whenever I do EFT, it has been worth doing and leaves me wondering why I don't do it more often! Allowing ourselves to identify the problem and feel what we are feeling, can be a challenge.

EFT For Emotional Release Work During Illness

EFT has helped gived me permission to feel my feelings.
Whether or not you believe feelings can be stored in the body, once you are ill, you will have a lot of feelings
...about being ill,
...about being in pain,
...about the way people treat you,
...about your difficulty in following treatments advised etc etc.
EFT gives you a way to meet these feelings with acceptance. It is a technique to allow feelings and help us pass through them. This is so important.

EFT As A Method Of Self Acceptance

One thing I love about EFT is that it starts with what it calls the set up statement. Like my technique of the release , this statement encourages us to accept ourselves where we are at the moment.

I was so excited when I realised this was part of EFT. For me, a real danger of any treatment is that we use it from a place of - I am not OK now but... if I could only be happier, healthier, richer, better, I would be OK.
There is enormous release in accepting ourselves as we are. The energy of needing to be different and resisting what-is is freed up towards the healing of our body or our life.

Indeed, I would go further and say that for some of us the real gift of illness or a problem is to push us to accept ourselves regardless of what we can do or what we have, to learn to love ourselves unconditionally.

Learning how to love myself has been a huge part of my healing journey. The EFT technique can be part of this journey.

Why Try The EFT Technique?

• Quite simply because you think it might help. Even if you don't believe it, think it absurd, feel absurd while you are doing it....give it a go.:-) What have you got to lose? And you definitely have something to gain or you wouldn’t have read this far.



• Because it is simple to learn.



• Because it is free.



• Because you are in so much distress that you are willing to try anything - Hey, I have been there.



• Because as a self help technique the EFT technique potentially gives you a sense of control over the illness.



• As a method of self acceptance.



• To feel your feelings – a form of emotional release work.



• For any physical pain or illness.



• An all embracing technique. Try it on anything!

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