Emotional Freedom Technique:

A Powerful Tool for Relieving Negative Emotions and Beliefs

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT - also known as "Tapping") works to quickly, gently and easily release the negative emotions and beliefs that are at the root of all our problems and pain.
EFT often produces dramatic and immediate results where other methods have failed.

What is EFT?

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is a therapeutic modality belonging to the new field referred to as "Energy Psychology" This field also encompasses TFT, and TAT and its cousin EMDR. Designed by Gary Craig, trained in NLP and TFT (Thought Field Therapy) by Dr Callahan in the late 80's, EFT is a form of psychological acupuncture that uses the ancient Chinese meridian system to relieve psychological and emotional stress, and physiological pain. EFT uses a tapping procedure to balance the energy system by gently stimulating the endings of the meridians on the face and the body. Our physical body, emotions and mental states are fundamentally influenced by how balanced our energy system is. EFT restores balance throughout the entire energy system addressing the root cause of many symptoms. One outcome of this work is a feeling of relief, clearing, balance and peace.

EFT is safe, easy to apply, and non-invasive. Since it is easy to learn and to use, the method can be self-applied in situations that evoke negative, painful, or counterproductive emotional responses. This quality of EFT is enormously empowering since clients can use it between therapy sessions if needed. EFT is so user-friendly that it can help anyone in their daily lives.

EFT is an elegant, easy and effective way to overcome emotional and physical difficulties. Positive results are often achieved quickly, sometimes dramatically, and are often long lasting. Clients often achieve breakthroughs in the first or second session on issues that they have struggled with for many years.

EFT and Traditional Psychotherapy

In traditional psychotherapy you may spend months or years addressing issues and still not feel like you've "come out the other end". With EFT you will immediately know if the issue is resolved because you will experience totally new ways of feeling, being, and responding to familiar situations that have caused pain in the past.

How does EFT work?

Quantum Physics tells us that the worlds of energy and matter are two related aspects of one whole. There can be no matter without energy. Even though our body seems to be solid, its fundamental underlying property is energy. Science now recognizes this truth, but Western medicine often ignores this fact, treating the body as if it were exclusively a physical entity composed of isolated parts (brain, heart, lungs, bones, nervous system).

EFT as Energy Psychology and its counterpart Energetic Medicine deal with the human body at a much more holistic level, achieving results that often elude traditional modalities. Energetic Medicine and now Energetic Psychology are slowly making their way into the western world. Chinese people discovered 5000 years ago that life in our body was the result of a complex network of energy pathways: the meridians. This electric pathway links our organs, brain, nervous system, and emotions into a complex interconnection. If these pathways are blocked due to some traumatic events, we might see the emergence of negative thoughts, emotions and physical pain. In using EFT we stimulate a subset of acupuncture points, usually tapping on them while deliberately activating a dysfunctional emotional response, or a painful thought or sensation. The tapping sends signals to the brain and sets up a condition of “neural plasticity” which deactivates areas of the brain involved in the negative experience. The result: The energy system is repaired and the negative expression is gone.

The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.

Dr W.Tiller, a Physicist and teacher at Stanford University has written several books attempting to explain what happens from a quantum physics point of view.

Tiller, W. (1997)
Science and Human Transformation: Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness
Walnut Creek, CA: Pavior

 

Tiller, W., Dibble, W. & Kohane, M. (2001)
Conscious Acts of Creation: The Emergence of
a New Physics

Using brain scans, researchers are currently trying to measure the changes in the brain after Energy Psychology has been used with a patient over
a four-week treatment period.  The study shows evidence of changes in the brain. See: http://www.innersource.net/energy_psych/epi_neuro_foundations.htm

Who Can Benefit From EFT?

Once learned, EFT is a powerful tool that anyone can use in day-to-day situations. In addition, for the past 20 years, a growing number of psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and educators have been adding EFT to their practice. The technique is so powerful, fast acting and effective that many practitioners who experience its results shift from skepticism to enthusiastic acceptance. For providers, this technique is very easy to integrate into one’s own style and clinical approach.

EFT is effective with the following issues:

• Stress
• Anxiety-Panic attacks
• Trauma and Abuse
• Depression
• Shame, Guilt and Low Self-Esteem
• Grief and Bereavement
• Weight loss/Emotional overeating
• Eating Disorders
• Fear of public speaking-of rejection
• Phobias: flying, animals, heights
• Addictions; alcohol, drugs, smoking, gambling etc.
• Chronic pains, fibromyalgia etc
• Insomnia
• Allergies, sensitivities

EFT also helps in:

• Relationships
• Career
• Changing beliefs
• Sports performance
  
• Musical performance
  

Level 1: Learning the Tools

1 day workshop

Who Should Attend:
This workshop sets the foundation for all those wanting to learn EFT for personal use, and for helping professionals who would like to use EFT as a tool in their practice.

What Will I Learn:
Participants will leave the workshop with an understanding of how to use EFT to address their own issues. For helping professionals this workshop alone may provide the skills to integrate EFT into your own practice.

Topics Covered:

• The historical background and scientific basis for EFT.
• How to use EFT as a self-healing tool in your daily life.
• The full EFT Basic Recipe.
• Points on the body to tap, what to say while tapping, and how to choose what to say.
• How to treat your cravings, pain, and traumatic memories.

In addition we'll cover:

• The Discovery Statement,
• EFT Shortcut Method
• What is Psychological Reversal and how to work with it.
• Constricted Breathing
• How to be specific, the role of persistence, testing the work.
• How to handle intensity
• The Movie Technique
• The Personal Peace Process
• The Role of Energy Toxins
• When EFT doesn't work, what to do.

There will be a lot of demos on dealing with physical pain, emotional pain, phobias, addictions (smoking-cravings).

Cost for One-Day Workshop: $120

Level 2: Going Deeper

2 day workshop (Level 1 Required)

Who Should Attend:
Level 2 is both for those wishing to deepen their ability to heal their own issues and for helping professionals who want to refine their skills in providing EFT to their clients.

Topics Covered:

Cost for Two Day Workshop: $220

Level 3: Ongoing Support and Supervision for Professionals

Who Should Enroll:
Helping professionals who wish to expand and deepen their ability to offer EFT as a healing technique to their clients.

What will I Learn:
In any discipline skill is developed through experience. While the technique of using EFT seems simple, there is an art in applying it with clients.

Sometimes a client might get stuck in a process, not knowing where to go. Sometimes EFT doesn't work and the practitioner needs to discover why.

Level 3 is a clinic designed to support practitioners who have completed levels 1 and 2 and have been applying EFT for at least 6 months in their practice.

The program is designed around two workshops, each two days long, held six months apart. Participants will bring their cases and the challenges and questions they have about them, and we will work on them together.

We will work on developing increased skill in treating specific issues (chronic pain, hypersensitivity, super ego, traumas, etc.). We will also explore new techniques.

Each participant will have the opportunity to extend the work through case studies with individual phone session follow-ups.

For more information contact Marion.