About EFT - What is EFT?

Emotional Freedom Technique

Doorway to the Healing High Rise

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is being touted as the next big thing in alternative medicine. As the creator of EFT, Gary Craig puts it ‘EFT is a Doorway to the new Healing High-Rise’. EFT is a simple, quick and effective technique that can be mastered by almost anyone and has had a high success rate for curing emotional problems such as fears, anxiety, stress, phobias or disorders.

EFT was founded by Gary Craig a former Stanford engineer (www.emofree.com) who based the technique on what he had learnt from Dr Roger Callahan, a clinical psychologist. EFT is a psychological acupressure technique that works by working on the energy fields in the body. As with acupuncture EFT taps into the energy meridians of the body to treat physical and emotional ailments. Unlike acupuncture it does not use any needles or other equipment but rather a gentle tapping technique to input kinetic energy into specific meridians whilst the patient thinks of the problem and voices positive affirmations to restore mind and body balance.

EFT is based around the idea that ‘the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system’. Most health professionals agree that our emotions can create a wide variety of psychosomatic illnesses and symptoms. Unresolved disruptions in our body's energy field can cause malfunctioning in our organs and systems. The principle behind EFT is gradually being recognized in the west. Some western medical practitioners are even practicing EFT on their patients.

The concept of EFT is that when we are focused on the particular thought which bothers us, then the particular disturbed energy pattern associated with this thought is present and predominant in our body’s energy system. This creates our emotional and physical state. This combination of tapping the energy meridians and voicing positive affirmation works to clear the "short-circuit" - the emotional block -- from your body's bioenergy system, thus restoring your mind and body's balance, which is essential for optimal health and the healing of physical disease.

EFT is a true mind/body healing technique because it combines the physical effects of meridian treatments with the mental effects of focusing on the pain or problem at the same time. The best thing about EFT is that it is a self help protocol that’s easy and anyone can do it almost any where. The user doesn’t have to understand the theory based on the electromagnetic energy or even believe in it. What’s important is that people try it and if it works continue to perform it. When properly applied, 80% of participants achieve either noticeable improvement or complete cessation of the problem.

EFT is so simple and easy to try you can start right now. Study the following diagram for the major meridian points. Then follow the simple instructions below. For a free more detailed manual on EFT click on link http://www.emofree.com/downloadeftmanual.htm

Major Tapping Points

EB = Beginning of the Eye Brow
SE = Side of the Eye
UE = Under the Eye
UN = Under the Nose
CH = The Chin
CB = Beginning of the Collar Bone
UA = Under the Arm
KC = Karate Chop Point

1. We focus on the thought (stimulus, emotion or physical phenomenon) which brings forth the unpleasant emotional or physical problem such as fear, hurt, anger, guilt or some physical pain.

2. We measure how intense our feeling or pain is from 0 - 10. This is called the SUD (Subjective Units of Disturbance). Zero means no disturbance at all. Ten means we are feeling the maximum intensity we can imagine. (Considering our present frame of reference.)

3. Then we tap on certain acupuncture points on the face, chest and hands. (There are also other aspects to this procedure we will explain later.) Tapping on the acupuncture points initiates the flow of energy through the energy channels or meridians, thus correcting the disturbance in the energy field associated with that problem.

4. Then we again check our SUD or intensity of feeling. If it has not gone to 1 or zero then we tap on these points again.

5. We keep doing this tapping, checking how we feel, until the problem disappears.

To learn more about how to effectively use EFT and the theory behind it, it may be useful to buy the EFT DVD’s which offers simple and easy to follow instructions and demonstrations of EFT by creator Gary Craig. Alternately there are workshops offered which introduce and allow the participant to try supervised hands on demonstrations. For a comprehensive insight into EFT visit the creators website http://www.emofree.com