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This wonderful thing called EFT

 

Malabika Shaw

 

“The cause of all negative emotions is a

disruption in the body’s energy system.”

 

Gary Craig is the founder of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and a delightful man is he. Gary sums up the basic premise on which EFT is based with these words quoted here. The whole process of EFT is to minimize the disruption in the body’s energy system.

As you learn EFT, you will find that it is quite consistent with any other body energy work you may have done before, be it yoga, breathwork, Reiki, Chi Kung or any other.  This is natural because each of these is working with the basic body-energy blueprint. This procedure Gary and his associates have developed, however, is most closely linked to the Chinese energy meridian and acupressure system.  He has also drawn from the Thought Field Therapy used earlier by psychotherapist Dr. Roger Callahan. Over a period of experimental practice, Gary has refined the whole process to a simple tapping technique. It is easy and fun to use.

Gary is so excited with his discovery and the results of EFT that he generously shares his insights and information on his website www.emofree.com.  Do take a few minutes to check this out. You can download a detailed manual without any cost. There is enough material on this site to keep a serious student busy studying EFT for many months if not years.  In fact sometimes it may feel like a lot to navigate through. This introductory program is to open that door for you with the basic recipe of EFT. Once you get going and practice this, you will find value in all the things shared on the website.

EFT, like every other energy healing system, can be used mechanically and it will produce quite amazing results – not always, but a great deal of the time.  But as we use it more and more, new insights are developed and we learn to tune in and discover more for ourselves. We are also able to reach into even deeper issues. This comes with practice. Don’t give up.

I have been guided to use EFT along with several other energy healing arts that I am trained in. EFT is indeed a quick way to get deep into the problem and to start the process of minimizing disruption. It quickly cleans up what is easy to clean.  That does not mean it is always effective all the way.  But it does bring up those things that need more work. One of the things I like be about EFT is that anyone can do it within minutes of being told how.

For your ease, I have included a short protocol for EFT which includes the Basic Recipe. I summarize here a few of Gary’s favorite suggestions:

·         Try EFT it on everything.

·         Be as specific as you can.

·         If it appears not to work, there is some detective work required to find out the real issue.

·         Be persistent. Don’t give up.

On his website and his Videos, there are hundreds of case histories.  They will give you an idea of how this is evolving as more and more people begin to practice it.  So you are invited to join in and contribute your share in the experimentation.

I have become a great fan of Gary Craig. (Can you tell?) I join his mission of getting the word on EFT out there. It has the potential of revolutionizing how we view our health and wellbeing in the world. Come on and join in the happy adventure. Learn on your own.  Gary’s website is resource rich. Or, if you are so enthused, we can do some more together again.

Last but not least, I include here the important notice that Gary likes to include in all his publications about EFT.

Ready to go then, with this wonderful thing called EFT? Let’s roll…..

Malabika Shaw,   Malabika@VisionWholistic.net … 515-720  9520

 

 

Important note: While EFT has produced remarkable clinical results, it must still be considered to be in the experimental stage and thus practitioners and the public must take complete responsibility for their use of it. Further Gary Craig is not a licensed health professional and offers EFT as an ordained minister and as a personal performance coach. Those who want to discuss the use of EFT for a specific emotional or physical problem with a professional in the health field are referred to our Referral section, where a number of licensed and unlicensed practitioners who use EFT in their practices are listed.  Where appropriate, qualified physicians should be consulted.

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Here is a COMPLETE EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques Protocol for you to try.

If you don’t have time right now, either bookmark this page now or go to the 2 Minute Stress Release, which is an abbreviated version which really only takes about 2 minutes to complete.

 

 

The Two Minute Release Technique

 

 

The Complete EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques Protocol

The EFT Treatment Points0 = The Sore Spot – On your chest where you would pin a medal or a brooch. Gently push with your fingertips to find an area that feels tender, rather than sore.

 

1 = Start Of The Eyebrow

2 = Corner Of The Eye

3 = Under The Eye

4 = Under The Nose 

5 = Under The Mouth

6 = Collarbone – In the angle formed by your collarbone and the breastbone

7 = Under Arm – in line with a man’s nipples on the side of the body

8 = Thumb – all finger points are on the side of the finger, in line with the nail bed.

9 = Index Finger, 10 = Middle Finger, 11 = Little Finger

12 = Karate Chop Point – on the side of your hand, roughly in line with your life line.

13 = Gamut Point – just behind and between the knuckles of your ring and little finger.

 

Take a moment now to find and touch each point in turn. You may notice that some feel slightly different from others, or you may not. When you get to work on various issues, you will feel that some of the points “feel” differently when you tap them, and you will notice that the shift or release will occur with one or more points, depending on the reason for using the technique at the time.

 

In EFT, these points are stimulated by tapping on them. Try now tapping the point under your eye, with your index or index and middle fingers, quite rapidly* about seven to nine times or as many times as it takes for you to take a normal breath in and out. The strength of tapping should be comfortable, but you should be able to feel a resonance from the tapping spreading out across a reasonable part of that side of your face.

 

I have noticed that different people have different speeds of tapping. We generally show a tapping speed in line with the rhythm of “Jingle Bells”. In spite of this, some people develop a kind of woodpecker action after a while, and others tap quite slowly. I would suggest that what feels right to you probably is right for you.

 

For practice, tap all the points from the Eyebrow to the Karate Chop point now just to get the feel of doing it.

 

 

Tuning in to the Problem

 

To direct the releasing effects of the tapping to the required area, we focus the mind on the problem by using a statement of the problem: “I am afraid of heights.”

 

Preferably, this is spoken out loud to engage as much of the neurology as possible and to contact the problem as directly as possible.

 

In a moment, take a little time to think about a problem that you have, a pain, a fear, an illness or perhaps a phobia, something that always makes you depressed when you think about it, just generally any negative emotion you are happy to release now and forever. Choose a statement that rings true to you, choosing words that make sense to you and you alone. The more forthright, direct and truthful you can be, the more profound a change you will experience.

 

The Set Up

 

 Now that we’ve named the problem, we can start with the Set Up.

For the opening statement, we use the following routine:

Find the sore spot on either side of your chest; rub it round gently and say:

“Even though I (insert problem statement), I deeply and profoundly accept myself.”

For example, if you decided your problem was “My back is killing me”, you would say as your Set Up Statement:  “Even though my back is killing me, I deeply and profoundly accept myself.”

 

Repeat this three times, rubbing the Sore Spot continuously as you do so, and please do endeavour to put some meaning and energy into the “I deeply and profoundly accept myself” part.

The Sequence

 

The Sequence Following the Set Up, we now tap all the points, starting from the top (Eyebrow) and ending up with the Karate Chop Point on the hand. As you tap each point, repeat a shortened version of the Set Up Statement which is called the reminder phrase; so if your set up statement was, “Even though I hate and despise my boss, I deeply and profoundly accept myself”, … you say the reminder (shortened version) phrase: “I hate and despise my boss” … on each point at the same time as you tap.

 

The 9 Gamut

 

This is the middle part in what is sometimes called the EFT sandwich:

Following tapping all the points about 7 times from the top of the eyebrow to the karate chop point, you tap continuously on the Gamut point, and then do the following:

 

·         move your eyes from the floor to the ceiling without moving your head and back again.

·         move your eyes from left to right and back again

·         move your eyes in a big circle and back again

·         hum – Happy Birthday To You (or another tune or just a scale) for about one bar;

·         count – one two three four five

·         hum again

 

Take a deep breath in and out.  As you do these (at first slightly unusual) things*, repeat the statement in between as best you can to keep yourself focused on the problem on hand.

 

The eye movements are linked to various brain functions and the reason for the humming-counting-humming maneuver is to switch between hemispheres quite quickly; both are designed to “wake up” your neurology so the tapping can go to work on the problem.

 

 

The Sequence Again

 

Then, repeat the Sequence one more time, tapping all the points from the eyebrow to the karate chop point. Take a deep breath and allow yourself a moment to reflect on how you feel now.

 

Testing Your Changes A great way to ascertain from yourself or others just how you feel is to put a number on it. The technical term is taking a SUD Level or SUDS Scale reading, which stands for Subjective Units of Disturbance. What that means is you ask yourself:

 

·         On a scale of 10 to 0, 10 being the highest imaginable pain/freak out/fear/sadness/dis-comfort, and 0 being completely calm, pain free, tranquil, relaxed and happy, how would you rate what you are experiencing at this moment?

 

This works for emotions as well as for physical sensations and even for beliefs which might be a problem:  On a scale of ten to zero:

 

·         how depressed are you right now?

·         how painful is your leg?

·         how bad is your fear of heights?

·         how distressing is this memory?

·         how much do you hate this person?

 

Before you begin tapping for any subject or problem, take the time to take a SUDS rating and make a mental note of it. Then, when you have completed a Sandwich treatment, ask the question again to find how much has changed. It’s a good way to be able to assess how well the treatment has worked and if you need to repeat the treatment. Sometimes, the problem can go from as high as 10 to as low as 0 in a single Sandwich treatment.  More often though, you start with 8 or 9, and after a round of tapping, the severity is reduced to a 4 or a 5. This means that the treatment is beginning to work but there’s more to be done.

 

Testing is a very important part of the EFT procedure.  In subsequent Treatment Rounds change the start up affirmation to: “Even though there is still some of this problem remaining”,  or “Even though I still have some of this problem”.

 

When you’re down to a rating of “Oh its a tiny little bit now” which would be a 2, 1 or a half on the subjective rating scale, a third round can be done with the opening statement of,  “I want to completely overcome this problem and I fully and completely accept myself”.

 

And that’s it! It’s as simple as that. There’s no need for you to worry about getting it wrong, or getting the wrong statement.

 

ALL TAPPING YOU DO IS GOOD FOR YOU.

 

Any tapping you do stimulates the meridians, relaxes you, calms you and makes you feel a little better, even if you get totally the wrong opening affirmation and the original problem has not yet shifted. Just try again with a different start up phrase, or think about what the truth about the problem might be.

 

EFT designed by Gary Craig, EFT Protocol Explanation adapted from Silvia Hartmann’s website.