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WHAT IS EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES OR CLINICAL EFT TAPPING

EFT is a simple and proven tool that can assist with issues such as: everyday stress, chronic pain, anxiety, cravings, fears, and trauma.

When supported by a certified practitioner such as myself, Emotional Freedom Techniques/Clinical EFT Tapping can help you handle big events, ongoing negative patterns and habits in your life. When used on your own, it can help you manage day-to-day stress so that you can feel stronger and more resilient.

What is Emotional Freedom Techniques/ Clinical EFT Tapping and how does it work?

EFT tapping gets it’s name because the process includes tapping on certain points on your own body.

Studies have shown that as you tap on these acupressure points it sends a signal to the stress centre of your brain, helping it to calm down.

Eventually, it takes the “charge” out of what you’re tapping on, until what once bothered you, no longer does.

The Emotional Freedom Techniques/Clinical EFT Tapping Points

The Clinical EFT Process in a session:

  1. Think of an issue that is bothering you.

  2. Rate the level of distress between 0 to 10 with 10 being the most distress.

  3. How does the issue make you feel now? Create what we call a ‘set-up statement’ which describes your issue, followed by a statement of self-acceptance.

  4. Tap repeatedly on the side of the hand while stating out loud your set up statement three times.

  5. Then go around all the tapping points stating the negative feeling. The order of the points in Clinical EFT is: top of the head, eyebrow, side of the eye, under the eye, under the nose, chin, collarbone, under the arm.

  6. Complete the round of tapping, by re-rating the level of distress. Then, you can adjust the set-up statement as needed and complete more rounds until the distress has significantly reduced.

You can try EFT for your own stress or chronic pain with me, Vanessa, a certified Emotional Freedom Techniques/Clinical EFT Tapping Practitioner.

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Learn more about Emotional Freedom Techniques/EFT Tapping

There is an abundance of anecdotal and case history evidence that EFT often produces profound and lasting results.

There are more than 70 peer reviewed articles about EFT specifically on the EFT International website. 

"EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a practical body/mind self-help method—a process of mindful and intentional tapping (gently, with fingertips) on acupuncture meridian end-points on the face and upper body.

EFT or ‘tapping’ is easy to learn and flexible enough to be used by anyone. It can allow us to transform the way we respond to uncomfortable thoughts, feelings and troubling memories (with pain, tension or stress, for example)." - EFT INTERNATIONAL

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