EFT Tapping or Emotional Freedom Techniques is not just the newest kid on the block as far as really amazing stress management techniques is conce
ed, it's much more than that. EFT can help you manage your stress and it can help you eliminate stress from your life forever. Just about every negative emotion or physical ailment that you have ever experienced can be addressed with EFT.
The really amazing thing is that it's not that complicated. In fact, it could very well be one of the easiest stress solutions ever discovered and it is very cheap to access. In fact, it's free and you do it on yourself - it is completely self-administered. It combines a counselling technique called affirmation statements with stimulation of the acupressure endpoints in your body a la South Asian medicine. It operates on the premise that the body is an electrical entity and energy flow in the body can be interrupted and this interruption can cause disease.
So what's ailing you? Do you have repressed emotion in your life? Do you have physical pain? Do you have a weight problem? Do you have really ridiculous levels of stress? EFT tapping can help get rid of all of it.
Dr. Gabor Mate, author of When the Body Says No: The Hidden Costs of Stress says that a very high percentage of chronic disease in life, including all the big ones like Cancer, Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis, Asthma and many others, all have very big links to serious repressed emotion. The development of your brain (healthy or unhealthy) in the first 3-5 years of your life sets the stage for a lifelong battle with repressed emotion, often leading to disease. If your very early childhood included a relationship with a very highly-stressed or non-emotionally present adult caregiver, then you very likely suffer from serious repressed emotion.
It may not have been your parents' fault either since most of us live in a high-stressed survival mode of sorts; however, the reasons do not matter, in the least. If your parent was stressed, then you are very likely suffering the consequences, physically, of a childhood that required emotion to be bottled up and repressed.
Now that I am aware of this fact, I pay more attention to my own children as they navigate the waters of growing up. I am always amazed at the delayed reaction they have to things that go right or wrong in their lives. A very difficult visit to the dentist was handled very well by one child, initially, but she started to act up more than 36 hours later. At first, I was confused, and then I remembered the dentist appointment and we started to talk about it and then the tears started to roll. It was like a dam had burst. It turns out, she had been keeping it all bottled up because she didn’t want to bother me and she wanted to be ‘tough.’ Thankfully, I had the time and the inclination to help her work through her emotions and then we used EFT to help her gain emotional freedom from the emotions so she could go to sleep that night.
The whole thing made me wonder about other children with parents who work full-time or who live in difficult financial circumstances. Many of these people don’t have the skills, the energy or the time to spend helping a child deal with difficult emotions. The interaction with my daughter took over an hour to work through before she could settle down enough to go to sleep.
Are you one of these people? Were your parents stressed and emotionally unavailable during your childhood? Did your family provide the support and structure needed to help you with your hard emotional challenges? If your parents or caregivers struggled to deal with life while you were very young, then you may want to consider learning EFT to find out how to release the emotion that is most-likely buried deep within you so that you can combat serious chronic disease and begin taking back control of your health and your life today.
Dr. Mate tells us that if we never get rid of that repressed emotion and start living life to our full potential, we are far more likely to end up with serious chronic disease than people who had a far less stressed early childhood. EFT tapping can help you release emotions and give you back your life.
On a personal level, I have used EFT for all kinds of issues, all with great success. I use it to shut off the chatter in my head when I can't get to sleep, I used it to get through a really big test for my Master's degree, and I have even used it to restore my vision (I have been near sighted for over fifteen years). Sometimes the stress release is immediate as was the case with my test stress and my sleep stress and other times the process takes a little longer as has been the case with my vision. My vision has improved, but it is not perfect yet. Maybe my vision will never be perfect, but I have noticed a marked improvement since I started using this technique. I have also used it to deal with my children's fears and to get rid of migraine headache. It truly seems to work on everything.
Many people believe they have one disease or another because it is genetic; their parents had it, so they do too. However, new research comes out all the time disputing these antiquated beliefs. While it is true that you may have a genetic predisposition to one disease or another, the reality is that there are many things you can do to change your quality of life. EFT Tapping is one of many tools available to help solve the wellness challenge.
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