Emotional Freedom Technique
How Does EFT work? Well we can all understand that our bodies have an electrical nature. The party game with a balloon and making your hair stand on end, is about static electricity building up in the body. Sometimes you can see the static electricity as is discharged from your fingertip in the dark. Electricity in our bodies is how we send signals through out our whole system. When you touch a hot stove you will feel the pain instantly because it is electrically transmitted along the nerves to your brain. The brain signal by electrical impulse along the nerves to the burn area to feel pain, it travels at the speed of electricity and that’s why you feel pain so quickly. Electrical messages are constantly being sent throughout your body to keep it informed of what is going on.
Without this energy flow you would not be able to think, see, hear, feel emotion, touch, taste or smell. Consider the effects of stress on the body. Stress really only exists only in the mind, but it can have an extreme effect on the body. Many experts will highlight that 95% of all medical conditions are as a result of prolonged and enduring stress.
What Do You Do? With EFT we tap on the body on certain points and expect it to alter the way we feel and think. EFT practitioners often find that a stored emotion can cause a physical pain in the body which vanishes when the emotion is released using EFT. Also by releasing the pain or ‘Chasing The Pain’ with EFT, the emotion that was part of causing the pain is also released. We often do not have access to the emotions that started the electrical blip, or miss fire and ‘Chasing the Pain’ rather than the emotion can offer amazing results.
How Does it Work
Image the disruption to our system if an energy channel becomes clogged or completely blocked. Not only may it cause physical pain, but it can trap emotions, so they repeat and become out ‘pattern’ or method of responding to all difficulties. We can get stuck, on a loop, unable to change our habits and behaviour. It’s very tiring and that increases our stress and causes blockages in our meridian channels.
Now over the past 200 years Western medical science tends to have focused mostly on the chemical nature of the human body and the external symptoms but has not paid much attention to these subtle, but powerful, energy flows until recent years. Today’s modern acupuncture, acupressure started around 5,000 years ago, when the Chinese discovered a complex system of energy circuits that run throughout the body. These energy circuits...or meridians... form the basis for EFT and can give you striking evidence that energy flows within your body.
During an EFT session, whilst keeping our issue in mind by simply tapping near the end points of your energy meridians (acupuncture/pressure points) and the body's main acupuncture (electrical energy flow points). This has the effect of clearing the disruption in our energy system. We are then able to think about that same issue, but it no longer gives us the same response because the disruption in the circuitry is gone. It is possible to gain experience some profound changes in your emotional and physical health.
Another View
Others with a more western scientific outlook think that the tapping induces a mini-REM state in the brain which re-organises how we store and process information. Certainly it can be shown (with an EEG machine, which measures brainwaves) that brainwave patterns do respond to the tapping.
