EFT Tapping Method
What is EFT?
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Tapping brings Chinese Acupressure and Modern psychology together. EFT is often called emotional acupuncture because it combines gentle tapping on key acupuncture points while focusing your thoughts on physical pain, unhappy memories, uncomfortable emotions, traumas, fears/phobias, or any other problem.
How does EFT Tapping work?
EFT Tapping allows us to stimulate certain meridian points by tapping on them, while we consciously tune into specific issues and emotions. Simply thinking about the problem will stir up the energy disruption.
Tapping works by creating a spark that zips through the meridian systems (pathways in the body in which energy flows). Tapping clears the blocks in these pathways, calming the body and nervous system so we can rewire the brain and restore the body’s balance of energy. As we tap, we are reducing the body’s stress response, to allow for a balanced emotional response to any situation.
Does Tapping work?
Both the limiting beliefs and the emotions are reduced in their intensity by balancing the “disruptions” in our energy field (meridian system). The practice of EFT draws upon the body’s energy field by tapping with the fingers at specific meridian points. It has been proven to heal a variety of physical and emotional ailments. EFT allows the energy in the body to flow. When our bodies are free from obstructions and the energy can flow, we naturally feel good.
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How was EFT/Tapping developed?
“Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is considered the “father of EFT.” This therapy method was developed by an American psychologist, Roger Callahan. Callahan devoted his life to researching ways to heal people from unreal fears, phobias, traumas, and stress disorders. Callahan believed that when a person contemplated an experience or emotion, this thought turns into a “thought field.” The thought field, in turn, serves as a real structure upon which people develop explanations and beliefs.
He combined the use of tapping for emotional problems while simultaneously focusing on the problem at hand. Callahan had discovered that if a person is focusing on a specific fear of their own at the time they tap; this fear can be removed, often permanently.
Roger Callahan trained Gary Craig. Gary then simplified the process and in the early 90’s developed what is now known as EFT/ Emotional Freedom Techniques. Gary’s devotion to this work began at an early age; committed to learning about personal improvement through psychology. Along with being the originator of Emotional Freedom Techniques, he is a Stanford trained engineer, a Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, and trained in other forms of Energy Psychology.