Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
An Extraordinary Self-Empowering Tool
by Steve Nichols and health can easily occur, quickly,
painlessly and without drugs, and
W
hat if you had a healing tool when your Energy is flowing without
right at your fingertips and you disruption, everything in you and
could help relieve Emotional Stress around you benefits.
(like Anxiety) and physical pain right Try this the next time you’re wor-
on the spot? Would you use it? I would ried about something or have Anxiety
hope that your response would be about some problem. This Basic EFT
‘yes’. Or, you may think that this is process can help you Neutralize the
some silly new-age mumbo-jumbo and Energy around that issue; on a scale of
never give it another thought. But ask 1 to 10, ten being severe Anxiety, give
yourself this question - is Acupuncture it a number. Look at the Tapping points
some silly old “mumbo-jumbo?” By diagram. Using four fingers of your
accident the Chinese discovered this dominate hand, TAP the Karate Chop
Invisible Energy System in our body Point (KCP–the fleshy part on the side
some five-thousand years ago. Today, of the opposite hand) and say this Set-
Acupuncture is a very common and ef- Up statement aloud and with meaning.
fective practice. An Acupuncturist uses “Even though I have this Anxiety about
needles to create flow and balance in (be specific), I completely appreciate
blocked Acupuncture Meridian Points. and accept myself.” Say this Set-Up
EFT is like Acupuncture except we statement aloud THREE TIMES while
don’t use needles, we use our fingers to tapping on the (KC) Point.
tap on the Acupuncture Points, and this Now follow the diagram; with
tapping coupled with a Verbal State- TWO fingers on your dominate hand
ment neutralizes the blocked Energy Tap 5 to 7 times on each point repeat-
and creates a Natural Flow in our body ing this REMINDER statement “This
and relief is felt as an easing, a lighten- Anxiety” at every Tapping point starting
ing, and it is measurable. Furthermore, when a specific problem is addressed,” with #1:
a belief in EFT is not necessary for it says Gary. So getting to the root of the
to be effective, just like Acupuncture, problem is important. The more you 1. EB for eyebrow, Tap 5 to 7 times
because we are working with Energy can pinpoint the cause of your Anxiety, and say “This Anxiety” at every
(Acupuncture Meridian Points), not the better and the higher your rate of point (1 thru 8)
belief. success. 2. SE for side of eye
Intuitively we know that our emo- Our body is designed to heal itself 3. UE for under eye, an inch below
tions have a huge affect on our physi- if our energy flows without disruptions. your eyeball
cal wellbeing and our state of mind. EFT helps to reestablish this balance 4. UN for under nose
Stress and Anxieties create emotional
distress and in many people the addi-
tion of physical pain. You know, that
Pain-in-the-neck type pain, you don’t
know why it’s there, but it is, or bet-
ter yet, maybe you do know why it’s
there. Gary Craig, a Stanford Engineer-
ing Graduate and the founder of EFT,
says, “The cause of all negative emo-
tion is a disruption in the body’s energy
system.” EFT has a proven track record
of realigning the body’s energy system,
creating ease and wellbeing and it
often works when other therapies have
failed. “EFT has an 80% success rate
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