What Is EFT?

Personal Development is something I have been passionate about since I was a teenager; however, my own healing journey started about 8 years ago, was when I began to discover the possibilities of creating my life based peace, happiness, and prosperity.  As I discovered the power within myself, I attracted people, books, and classes to aid me on my journey of healing myself and  returning to wholeness. 

I began my own journey of healing when crisis had struck me in my life after going nearly financially destitute.  Everything I thought myself to be was taken out from under me, and I had no idea who I was.  

In the beginning of my journey, I was searching for the secrets to being financially free and successful.  I read books and listened to tapes on visualization, goal setting, and using affirmations, but I was not getting the results I wanted.  As time went on, I became depressed, angry, and frustrated with the world.   As a way of protecting myself from feelings of my financial “failure”, I suppressed the pain of my emotions, but all that changed when I was introduced to a process that transformed my reality.

At the time I was a working as an insurance agent, and one of my clients who was training to be an energy therapist asked if she could demonstrate a process that would release my anger and frustration.  At first I was skeptical, but I was very amazed by the process after using it.  As she continued with the process, I began to access the repressed emotional pain and release it.  Immediately I began to feel shifts take place in my body and my mind.  During that initial session, I discovered limiting beliefs of being “undeserving and unloved” stemming from a my childhood.  I saw how these beliefs had literally controlled my life and stopped me many times from going after what I wanted.   

With this process, I was able to reframe and create my new identity by changing the way I looked at myself and the world.  I received many new perceptions about myself and the world, and I was able to see the lessons I needed to learn to awaken.

What was this amazing process that allowed me to easily release my suppressed emotions?  It is called Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT.

What is  EFT?

Emotional Freedom Techniques is an Energy Psychology process developed by Gary Craig, a personal performance coach in California, that uses the ancient Chinese meridian system to eliminate all kinds of emotional, mental, physical and spiritual discomfort.

If you are familiar with acupuncture, you know that the body is made of a system of meridians.  The meridian system was mapped out by the Chinese over 4000 years ago and is the basis of all acupuncture treatment.  Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) use the same wiring as acupuncture except there are no needles; instead you tap with your fingertips on some of the acupuncture meridian points.

The theory of Emotional Freedom Techniques is that the cause of all negative emotion is a disruption in the body’s energy system.

Strong negative emotions cause a shock in our systems, creating the equivalent of a short circuit in our energy system.  Strong emotions can be triggered by a thought, a memory, or an event (depending on how you think about the event). For instance, if you think about how angry you are that your spouse yelled at you, you may feel tension in your body.

Once there is a build-up of emotional or psychological distress, one of these pathways or meridians becomes blocked and must be cleared or aligned in order for healing to occur.  Using EFT, you can balance the energy system which stops the power of that thought from affecting your body in that way.  .  Once the energy circuits (meridians) are then realigned, balance to the energy system is restored.  You may still have the thought and the memory of what occurred, but  without the emotional intensity that the thought was associated with. You are then much more able to think about the event differently.  Your thoughts become more flexible.

While the theory may not make much sense to you, what I know is that EFT works.-  often quickly, and often dramatically. I have seen this with my own eyes over and over again.

EFT has been proven clinically effective as a simple yet powerful way of  releasing fears, phobias, anxieties, angers, addictions, and all kinds of emotional and physical issues.  This is a new paradigm in healing because it no longer takes months or years of therapy and boxes of tissues to resolve problems. With EFT, specific issues can often be dissolved in minutes – forever!

The beauty of EFT is that ANYONE can learn how to apply it on themselves.  It is  painless and harmless, and it is completely safe, simple and easy to use.

For more information about EFT, watch this video from Gary Craig.

Namaste,

RC

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