Using the Emotional Freedom Technique to Optimize Your Health!

Guide to Emotional Freedom Technique

Emotional Freedom Technique is a psychological acupuncture technique that is used to optimize emotional health. Although emotional health is still often overlooked, it is absolutely essential to our physical healing and health. Regardless of our devotion to proper lifestyle and diet, we can never achieve optimal preventive and healing powers if emotional barriers are still standing on the way.

Emotional Freedom Technique will help you:

Get rid of negative emotions
Eliminate or reduce pain
Reduce food cravings
Implement positive goals
The energy meridians used in EFT are similar to those that are used in acupuncture to treat emotional and physical ailments but without any invasiveness. Instead, tapping is used to input kinetic energy into various specific meridians on the chest and head while the individual thinks about their specific problem and voicing positive affirmation. The problem can be anything such as an addiction, pain or traumatic event.

The combination of voicing positive affirmations and tapping the energy meridians using your fingertips works to clear the emotional block from the body’s bio-energy system. This restores your mind-body balance which is essential for the healing of physical disease and optimal health.

There are two main areas you need to learn in order to use Emotional Freedom Technique effectively:

1. Tapping techniques and specific tapping locations

2. The positive affirmations

You can treat numerous problems by applying the following instructions diligently

Tapping

The basic Emotional Freedom Technique sequence is simple and straightforward and usually takes most people just a few minutes to learn. Although it’s important to ensure that you are tapping the correct area, you should not worry about being very precise since focusing on the general area is also sufficient.

You will be tapping with your fingertips/pads and this is primarily because the fingertips have several acupuncture meridians. Therefore, when you are tapping with your fingers you are not only using the meridians in the specific area you are tapping, but also those on the fingertips. In traditional emotional freedom technique, the patient taps using the fingertips of the middle finger and the index finger and with one hand only. The side you use doesn’t matter since most tapping points exist on both sides of the body. Moreover, it does not matter if you decide to switch sides during the process. For instance, you can tap under your left eye and later in the process, under your right arm.

You can also use all your fingers and both hands. Form a gently curved line with all your fingers in a gently relaxed manner. This allows you to cover a larger area and access all the acupuncture points. However, most people achieve success with the two finger one hand approach. Although it’s essential to use your fingertips because they have more meridian points, you can use your finger pads if you have long nails.

Tap solidly

You should always tap solidly but not so hard as to bruise or hurt yourself. If you are using both hands, alternate the tapping slightly so that your hands are out of phase with each other. This will provide a kinesthetic variant of the work that is usually done by the EMDR (alternating eye movement) and will have some additional benefit. You should tap about 5 to 7 times (the number is not important but should be the length of time it takes for one respiration cycle; a full breath).

Tapping points proceed down your body which basically means that each tapping point is located below the one before it. Although the sequence is not really important, it is vital to ensure to tap all the points.

Tapping Points

1. Top of the head: Down the centre of your skull with fingers back-to-back.

2. Eyebrow: Just above the eyes at the beginning of the eyebrow and to one side of the nose.

3. Side of the eye: on the bone that boarders the outside corner of your eye

4. Under the eye: On the bone under your eyes about an inch below the pupil

5. Under the nose: this is the small area between the top of your upper lip and the bottom of your nose

6. Chin point: Midway between the bottom of the lower lip and the point of your chin. This area is called the chin point mainly for descriptive purposes.

7. Collarbone: This is the point where the breastbone (sternum), the first rib and the collarbone meet. This is a very important point especially in acupuncture and is referred to as K 27.

8. Under the arm: This is at the side of your body, about four inches below the armpit; usually at the point even with your nipples (for men) or the middle of your bra strap (for women).

9. Wrist: The point inside of both wrists is the last point. Rub them gently against each other.

Remove your watch and glasses before Tapping

Watches and glasses can electronically and mechanically interfere with Emotional Freedom Technique. Therefore, it is recommended that you remove them before tapping.

So you now may be wondering if Tapping Therapy (or Emotional Freedom Technique) can help you in anyway, in particular dealing with traumas, addictions, or other challenges that you may be faced with at this tim

Emotional Freedom Technique Training

Get ready to embark on a wondrous experience of manifestation and creation through Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) training. But first, if you are unfamiliar with the emotional freedom technique tapping method, here is a quick summary of this well-liked EFT tapping therapy.

What is Emotional Freedom Technique?

The emotional freedom technique is a powerful tool for managing negative emotions and pain. Also known as “tapping therapy,” EFT works like emotional acupressure except you stimulate well-established energy meridian points on your body by tapping on them with your fingertips. The process is easy to memorize and handy as you can do it anywhere or anytime. It gently and quickly releases the negative emotions and beliefs that are at the root of all problems and difficulties.

Gary Craig is the founder of EFT and hosts an informative website with all the emotional freedom technique training you could want. Surprisingly, Gary Craig is not a psychologist or licensed therapist, but rather a Stanford engineering graduate and an ordained minister. While it is not his purpose to thump the Bible with EFT, his emotional freedom technique training does come from a spiritual perspective.

Managing Negative Emotions With EFT

We all carry baggage from the past. When we don’t come to grips with some of these painful past experiences, energy becomes blocked by our negative emotions and does not flow freely through our bodies which can cause all kinds of emotional and physical problems. EFT can literally unblock the energy flow and undo past damage by releasing and managing negative emotions.

EFT healing is useful for emotional problems such as stress and anxiety, depression, fears and phobia and also physical problems that involve pain. I personally have used EFT for anxiety and believe it to be the best alternative energy healing there is.

Using EFT for children has proved very successful in dealing with everything from anger, trauma and bedwetting to fears, behavior problems and pain.

And believe it or not, emotional freedom technique training is not just for humans. When used surrogately, EFT for dogs and other animals works wonders. For example, the dog that used to chew everything in sight is no longer misbehaved. Dogs have issues too!

EFT for Weight Loss

Emotional Freedom Technique training should be a vital part of any weight loss program. EFT tapping eliminates your immediate cravings and does away with emotional overeating. Using EFT for weight loss will transform a hopeless, negative attitude into a very positive self image.

EFT is very versatile and can be used to treat and enhance relationship problems. Emotional freedom technique training can empower people to achieve any goal and manifest dreams that seemed forever lost. It applies to just about every emotional, health and performance issue you can imagine and it often works where other alternatives have failed.

Using the Emotional Freedom Technique to Learn to Deal With a Traumatic Event

There are Emotional Freedom Technique testimonials from all over the world that share peoples successful use of EFT. For all types of emotions like relief from stress, including post-traumatic stress disorder. Emotional Freedom Technique is a healing technique targeting the energy that drive our emotions, this method was consequential of world-shattering discovery that is at war with most beliefs of conventional psychology.

For example, Emotional Freedom Techniques have been used effectively to help people lose weight by dealing with the emotions that affect the body’s ability to lose weight. Can you imagine being able to solve your own issues without the help of a psychologist or weight loss specialist. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) can put you back in control and change your life.

Tapping is the tool used for the emotional freedom technique. This is done by ‘tapping’ on acupuncture points, doing so releases the energy that has been taken captive and freely flow through the body, allowing the healing process to take place. This tapping has been documented in giving liberation from acute and chronic pain, emotional control, disorders, diseases, phobias, and addictions. EFT is ever changing and evolving. Tapping, at its core, is acupuncture without the hassle of needles. Simply tapping your head on specific points as well as your face and body can change emotions and heal health conditions. Due to the fact that tapping these acupressure points is a means of removing obstructions from the energy’s path, tapping can’t work if a person is on narcotics, had too much to drink, or if there is a mental disease present in that person’s life. It is for this reason that EFT is thought to have some type of brain interaction needed for it to work properly.

Emotional Freedom Technique – A Personal Development Plan

Using the Emotional Freedom Technique you work with the body’s electrical energy systems to release limiting beliefs and actions by changing patterns of reaction to experience focused self development. Emotional Freedom Technique is simple to do, can give you a huge boost in personal development and doesn’t require that you believe in it to be successful.

Personal Development in High Gear

What a great personal development plan. You can change the way you react to situations by working with your subtle energy systems. These subtle energy systems were mapped out over 5,000 years ago and form the basis for the success of acupuncture in healing. Needles aren’t necessary for this. A simple tapping on various points on the body can result in the release of limiting beliefs and emotions, changing the body’s patterns and reactions developed in the past and opening the individual up for rapid self development.

Emotional Freedom Technique represents a personal development plan for your life. It works in all areas and on all types of situations, personal or business. You might have nightmares that are affecting your sleep and performance at work. You might want an edge for your sports or business performance. Maybe you suffer depression or a craving for alcohol that you can’t seem to get away from and it is having a negative effect on your life. Maybe you fear speaking to people but your job or business requires you to be on the telephone setting appointments. Perhaps whenever you approach success you become unable to follow through or sabotage yourself in some way. Your business may be failing. You can form a simple affirmation to address any of these situations and perform a simple tapping sequence to release the self defeating, negative patterns which are controlling you.

The process of Emotional Freedom Technique is easily learned and performed by a beginner. There is a lot of information about how and why the emotional Freedom Technique works as it does. You can certainly gain a great understanding of how the body/mind connection works by studying that. But, luckily, the process is kind of like driving a car. You don’t have to understand how the engine works or the brakes. You just need to know what kind of gas to put in and basic maintenance procedures and you can drive away. The same is true with the Emotional Freedom Technique.

Basic Emotional Freedom Technique Procedure

To begin your personal development Emotional Freedom Technique session, you first choose a specific situation or quality you want to change. You then fill in the blank in this statement to form your affirmation. “Even thought I have this____________, I deeply and completely accept myself.” One I worked with was blocked creativity and writing. My statement would be “Even though I have this block to creativity and writing, I deeply and completely accept myself.”

Next you follow the Basic Recipe. which consists of the Set-up, the Sequence, the 9 Gamut Procedure and the Sequence again. The Set-up aligns the polarity of your energy lines, you repeat the affirmation 3 times while rubbing the first meridian point on your chest, 3 inches below your collar bone and 3 inches to the right or left.

For the Sequence you tap about 7 times with your first and second fingers on each of 13 points on your face, hand and chest. The face points, either right or left side,are the inside edge of the eye brow, outside of the eye, one inch beneath the pupil of the eye, half way between the nose and upper lip and half way between the lower lip and chin. The hand points are on the outer edge of the thumb at the base of the nail and on the base of the nail of the index, middle and little fingers on the side closest to the thumb. The last hand point is the Karate chop point, the middle of the fleshy part of the outside of the hand.

For the 9 Gamute Procedure you repeat your affirmation and tap on the back of the hand point while following 9 actions which help reprogram your brain.

1. Eyes closed, 2. Eyes Open, 3. Eyes hard down right, 4. Eyes hard down left, 5. Roll eyes in a circle right, 6. Roll eyes in a circle left, 7. Hum 2 seconds of a song, 8. Count to 5, 9. Hum 2 seconds of a song.

Finally, you repeat the Sequence again. Once you have memorized the Basic Recipe, the whole process will take about 1 minute.

Will Emotional Freedom Technique Work for Me?

Skepticism is good. But you don’t have to believe Emotional Freedom Technique will work, to get results. Just give it a try. Maybe you have doubts about the validity of the electrical systems of the body. OK. But keep in mind that you may some day have an EEG or and EKG. An EEG records the electrical activity of the brain and the EKG describes the electrical activity of the heart. This electrical activity is not visible but it is vital to your well being-whether you believe in it or not. Emotional Freedom Technique is the same.

Skeptical or not, you can tune your electromagnetic energy system to remove your stumbling blocks to success and positively impact all areas of your life, personal and professional. Even a beginner can follow the simple, free, process and be successful.

Claire Covington coaches individuals and business owners to gain the knowledge, skills and training needed to achieve their goals and build a strong, balanced life. She supports clients to create a personal development plan and utilize various strategies and techniques to make a profound impact on their personal and business life.

If you are ready to move your life and business to a new level, use EFT to remove your resistance to change.

Claire is an educator in the areas of self-development, health and weight loss and business development and internet marketing. She enjoys article marketing, too, and focuses on topics of interest like diet and fitness, food and weight loss, dogs, gardening, autism and helping people earn money on the internet with marketing, too.

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