The Emotional Freedom Technique: Relief at your fingertips.
It’s possible to experience your life, work, and relationships with greater ease, calm, and emotional freedom. The Emotional Freedom Technique, referred to as EFT Tapping, is a mind-body stress reduction and pain relief tool. EFT Tapping combines the strengths of psychology with acupressure principles. It gently and quickly calms the nervous system to increase your mental clarity and reduce physical pain in just minutes. Backed international peer-reviewed research, EFT Tapping is on the frontier of mind-body medicine in therapy rooms, veteran hospitals, classrooms, even correctional facilities and prisons.
Anyone can learn, use, and benefit from EFT Tapping!
“When there is no free flow, there is Pain. When there is free flow, there is no Pain.”
Philosophy of EFT Tapping
Thanks to the evolution of integrative health studies, we know that chronic stress and unresolved trauma contribute to illness and dis-ease—emotionally, mentally, and physically. Accumulated stress and trauma create blockages to flow in the body, and as a result, energy, or Qi as referred to in Traditional Chinese Medicine, becomes stuck and stagnant in our nervous system. When we’re in physical pain or we’re overwhelmed by emotion, this is an indication that our nervous system needs help releasing that stuck energy, or Qi. EFT Tapping is a tool anyone can learn and use to address the daily build-up of stress, and the effects of toxic (chronic) stress and unresolved trauma that keep us feeling stuck. EFT Tapping allows the nervous system to return to its natural state of calm alertness in place of being in fight, flight, or freeze. With EFT Tapping, we can experience the true freedom of emotional and physical flow; the calm and joy we were created to experience. We can live from a healthy mind-body connection, the way nature intended.
The EFT Tapping Sequence
The Basic Tapping Sequence begins with a self-inventory of the intensity of physical or emotional symptoms on a scale of 1 - 10 (ex: “This anxiety feels like an 8 and I feel it in my stomach), and then follows a Setup Statement followed by gentle tapping on specific meridians, or end-points on the body. While gently tapping, we state the truth of how we feel followed by a statement of how we want to feel. A final Self-Inventory is measured to review the shift from the start of applying EFT to after completing at least two rounds of Tapping.
What are Meridians?
Meridians, or end-points on various places on our bodies, have been shown to have a higher density of neural tissue, and they are designed to send a calming signal to the amygdala in our brain, thus reducing the fight, flight, freeze mode. This is demonstrated by the principles of Chinese-based acupuncture and acupressure, wherein needles or topical pressures are applied to these meridian points.
“Try it on everything!”
Pairs Well With…
The Emotional Freedom Technique safely addresses a wide range of emotional and physical challenges. EFT Founder Gary Craig is well known for his saying, “Try it on everything!” Like going to the gym to build muscle, the more you use EFT Tapping the more you see consistent results and benefits of a calmer nervous system. Here are just a few of the many issues that EFT Tapping safely and effectively addresses: anger, anxiety, allergies, autoimmune illness, chronic pain, chronic illness, grief, fears / phobias, perfectionism, insomnia, motivation, relationships, self-esteem / confidence, weight Loss, trauma / PTSD, and more.
EFT Tapping is also an excellent and valuable tool for the workplace or a school/learning setting. No matter the population, organization, or interest, EFT Tapping is appropriate to learn and use in a variety of settings:
Behavioral Health Organizations
Schools & Higher Education (Students, Teachers, Staff)
Healthcare Settings
Assisted Living Homes
Professional Networking Groups
Personal Interest Groups
Yoga Studios
