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Emotional Freedom (EFT)
Emotional Freedom Therapy
Free Negative Emotions like Anxiety, Sadness, Anger and Guilt
Emotional freedom therapy (EFT) has been found to be helpful with a variety of unpleasant, uncomfortable or distressing feelings. Many people have found that it has helped them to relieve strong emotions, such as anxiety, stress, anger, sadness or guilt.
Whilst dealing with serious conditions, EFT itself is an uplifting process, helping you to feel immediate release.
Whilst Emotional Freedom Technique can be practised at home, working with me as a trained, therapeutic practitioner, is a different experience, as I will be there to guide and support you as emotions rise to the surface prior to release. Sessions can be undertaken in person or via the internet through Zoom, Facetime or Google Hangouts, meaning that if you prefer, you don't even need to leave the comfort of your home.
EFT can be helpful both with feelings that would be expected to ease naturally over time and with long-established feelings such as phobias or post-traumatic stress.
Release Pain and Physical Discomfort
EFT has established positive results in easing troublesome physical sensations such as pain, dizziness or cravings.
Many people find that pain is released or reduced effectively during EFT, including neck and back pain, along with chronic pain like fibromyalgia.
Initially, we will identify where the pain started, what was going on for you at the time and what the pain may represent to you.
Next, we discuss your level of pain on a scale of 0 to 10; this is called the SUD score (subjective units of distress). We identify any specifics that we can test, e.g. you may not be able to lift your arm above a certain level, and so we can continue to check your scores and movement as we go.
Then we are ready to make a difference.
Release Emotional Memories and Trauma
EFT introduced a whole new way of releasing emotional memories. Even in the first few minutes it is possible to find the intensity of your traumatic recollections rapidly dropping.
EFT measures the intensity of your emotion associated with a traumatic memory and pairs your memory with a statement of self-acceptance. Then using two very well-researched psychological techniques called exposure (remembering the trauma) and cognitive restructuring (self-acceptance), you will tap with your fingertips on a series of acupressure points on your face and body. The tapping sends a calming signal to your brain, telling it that you’re safe.
So while, before, the memory may have sent your body into a conditioned stress response, reconditioning your brain now achieves a positive association. This is because the signal of safety sent by your fingertips tells your brain’s stress machinery to disengage and the conditioned association of the memory with the stress response is broken.
Once that loop is broken, it usually stays broken. So later on, when you think of the memory, you no longer feel stressed.
What is Emotional Freedom Technique?
Emotional freedom technique, commonly known as EFT, has sometimes been called a psychological version of acupuncture in that it involves making contact (in a systematic way) with a select number of acupuncture points, usually by tapping on these points, while you focus on a specific feeling, thought or image.
The specific points to tap are the endpoints of the major meridians; these meridians are believed to be channels of subtle energy which flow through our body.
Studies have shown that pressure on acupuncture points can be as effective as inserting needles, and scientists have also shown that real acupuncture points are more effective than inserting needles into non-acupoints.
So EFT is sometimes called ‘acupuncture without needles’, even though it has as much historical basis in Western psychological science as Eastern medicine.