Imagicus Hypnotherapy

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a psychotherapeutic tool based on a theory that negative emotions are caused by disturbances in the
body's energy field and that tapping on the meridians while thinking of a negative emotion alters the body's energy field, restoring it to "balance."

EFT was created by Gary Craig in the mid 1990s, and is meant to be a simplification and improvement of Roger Callahan's Thought Field Therapy
techniques. Craig trained with Callahan in the early 1990s. In 1993, Craig was the first person Callahan trained in his most advanced procedure, a
proprietary procedure known as Voice Technology. Craig found through his experience that the sequence of tapping points did not matter and that
special proprietary procedures were therefore unnecessary, so by the mid 1990s he had simplified Callahan's procedures.

EFT has been used successfully to relieve many psychological and physical conditions, including depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress
disorder, general stress, addictions and phobias. The basic EFT technique involves holding a disturbing memory or emotion in mind and
simultaneously using the fingers to tap on a series of 12 specific points on the body that correspond to meridians used in Chinese medicine. The
theory behind EFT is that negative emotions are caused by disturbances in the body's energy field and that tapping on the meridians while thinking
of a negative emotion alters the body's energy field, restoring it to "balance."

The theory states that negative emotions are built in the following stages: A negative experience occurs; negative emotions are felt in response to
this negative experience, leading to inappropriate programming inside the body; and then the body's energy system gets disrupted due to these
negative emotions. The contention of EFT is that in order to remove the negative responses, tackling the negative experience is not enough,
because doing so cannot correct the energy imbalance. Rather, the energy imbalance must be restored along with rebalancing the negative
emotions.

There are no doubts that this technique can be considered odd when first entered into, presenting any thinking person with a feeling of scepticism
about the procedure and its potential for achieving a positive therapeutic outcome, but the facts are contained in the results which speak entirely for
themselves. Just tap "EFT research" into Google and read some of the thousands of responses. Whilst I do not dispute the assertions of how EFT
alters the body's energy field in response to the targeted condition, I believe, fundamentally, there are elements of reprocessing inherent in the
technique that are characteristically similar to the effects obtain in EMDR - but with a lighter touch!