EFT

EFT is a form of psychological acupressure based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments for over five thousand years, but without the invasiveness of needles. Instead, simple tapping with the fingertips is used to input kinetic energy onto specific meridians on the head and chest while you think about your specific problem - whether it is a traumatic event, an addiction, pain, etc. - and voice positive affirmations. This combination of tapping the energy meridians and voicing positive affirmation works to clear the "short-circuit" - the emotional block -- from your body's bioenergy system, thus restoring your mind and body's balance, which is essential for optimal health and the healing of physical disease. Some people are initially wary of these principles that EFT is based on - the electromagnetic energy that flows through the body and regulates our health is only recently becoming recognized in the West.
There is an exciting emerging field in psychology called "Energy Psychology" - based on our increased understanding of quantum physics and the impact of psychological distress on an actual energetic level. On a fundamental level everything is comprised of energy at different levels of vibration.

An energy disruption is caused by a traumatic situation. Every situation you encounter is embedded in your nervous system, and although your mind may have forgotten particular events, your body remembers them.

It is well known by scientists that when a person has a thought, a chemical presence or reaction occurs, and neuropeptides, the chemical correlates of thought, become detectable. Neuropeptides not only are present in the brain, but also can be found throughout the body, including in the stomach, kidneys, and liver. Thus, a thought has a real embodied, physical presence. At the same time, an electromagnetic-like field also can be detected when a person has a thought. This the energetic presence or manifestation of the thought, which Roger Callahan (Callahan and Callahan 1996) termed a thought field. Negative emotions are created by a disturbance in the thought field, which can be caused by a physical or emotional trauma. The disturbance affects a specific energy point that, in him, sets off hormonal, physiological, neurological, chemical, and cognitive events that result in the experience of a negative emotion. The disturbances cause energy imbalances that can be experienced as depression, fears, or addictive behaviours.
When a disturbance occurs within a thought field, it always corresponds to a specific energy point on the body. This is why energy psychologists have been able to correlate meridian points with specific problems and develop treatments.

Therapists trained in EFT

Radhika Doonan

Felix Economakis

EFT

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