What is EFT?
EFT is a simple method of healing which works by realigning the body’s energy system by performing a simple sequence of taps on the body. It is based on the ancient science of acupuncture, and the more recent development of kinesiology. However, unlike acupuncture, there is no need for needles, and can be learned very easily.

What Are the Benefits of EFT?
There are those who believe that EFT can cure just about any mental or emotional condition. EFT has been used to help people with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), it’s been used to help people with extreme phobias, and it’s also been used to help people quit smoking and lose weight.

EFT is based on the belief that there is an emotional element in the healing process, and healing emotional problems can provide a pathway for healing not just mental and emotional issues, but also physical problems. Many people have successfully used EFT to rid themselves of headaches, and other stress related disorders.

When you experience a negative emotion, your energy meridians are affected. These changes to your energy meridians become attached to the memory of the negative emotion (or experience that led to it), and the sum of these emotional experiences affect how we see the world.

EFT is used to realign the energy meridians, disconnecting them from their association with negative memories, and in doing so removing symptoms (for example, removing an irrational fear of spiders).

How Can You Learn EFT?
There is plenty of information available online that can help any interested person learn the basic techniques of EFT. Many people have cured themselves of simple problems through self-taught EFT. However, if you want to learn EFT in order to conquer a deeper emotional problem, it may be beneficial to visit a qualified practitioner.

EFT is one of the quickest and simplest methods which can be used to bring about extraordinary changes in a person’s mental, physical and emotional well-being, and as it’s so simple to learn EFT, there is no reason not to have a go.

The next step in the EFT procedure is to find the “Karate Chop Point”, which is located on the side of your hand underneath the little finger (the fleshy part below the lowest finger joint). You need to firmly and continuously tap this point while repeating the statement “Even though I have this headache, I completely love and accept myself.” three times.

The EFT Tapping Points in Sequence

The following step requires that you repeat the words “this headache” while you follow the EFT tapping sequence, by tapping on each of the following points seven times.
•    The top of the head
•    The inner eyebrow
•    The outer eye (basically on the edge of the eye socket bone)
•    Under the eye
•    Under the nose
•    Under the mouth (upper chin area)
•    On the collar bone
•    On the “sore spot” (this spot is about two inches down and two inches towards the armpit from the collar bone, you may have to tap around a bit until you find it, but it usually feels somewhat painful when you poke it)
•    Under the nipple (around about the top of the rib cage)
•    Under the arm (a few inches below the armpit)
•    The side of the thumb (near the nail)
•    The side of the index finger
•    The side of the middle finger
•    The side of the little finger
•    On the 9 gamut point (the fleshy bit between the bottom joints of the ring finger and the little finger)

After you have gone through the sequence once, analyze how the emotion feels (in this case, the headache), has the intensity decreased? How does it feel on a scale of 1 to 10? If you need to, repeat the sequence again and see if the result changes.

How Does It Work?
In performing the EFT tapping points sequence as described, the energy meridians of the body realign themselves into the correct state. The repetition of the chosen statement helps break the connection between the emotion (or pain in this case) and the energy meridians, freeing the body of the physical or emotional problem described.

This method can be used for any such physical, emotional or mental problem. When EFT doesn’t seem to work, it could be because the root cause of the problem isn’t being addressed. For example, a headache could be the result of another form of stress which needs to be addressed first.

Finding EFT Practitioners
A good place to start is by looking through the online EFT resources available and searching for an EFT practitioner in your area. EFT Therapy is becoming more widespread these days, and there are more and more practitioners in the field of natural health who are learning and practicing EFT.

Why Use an EFT Practitioner?
When there’s so much information available about EFT for free, why would you need to visit someone? Well, many people may find that self-taught EFT is enough for their needs. But if you have deep-seated emotional problems which you can’t seem to resolve yourself, it could be necessary to visit a professional to get the results you really need.

Many people have emotional problems stemming from childhood, so far back in time that they don’t even have conscious memories of the events themselves. Others have had such painful experiences in their lives that they have completely blocked all recollection of them from their minds. In these cases, it may not be enough to perform EFT on yourself, as there may be issues you consciously or unconsciously avoid as a means of self protection.

A qualified and sensitive EFT practitioner can assist in breaking through these barriers, and can get to the core of emotional issues that a person may never manage to get to themselves. Sometimes a practitioner can do this in a single session, but for others several sessions may be necessary to reach the core problem.

Getting the Most From EFT Therapy
When you do decide to visit a professional practitioner, be aware that you may need to face some difficult memories. Also be aware that the process of EFT itself will quickly help neutralize any painful emotions associated with these memories. A good EFT practitioner will be sensitive to your needs, and will try not to open too many emotional wounds too quickly, and thus several sessions may be necessary.

EFT therapy is a very effective way of utilizing EFT for those people who need a little extra help getting to the bottom of their  emotional problems. With a qualified and sensitive EFT practitioner it’s possible to completely change your mental, physical and emotional outlook on life.

However, there is a method of diminishing anger problems, and even dissipating anger before it can take hold of the body and cause you to snap.

The Problem With Repressed Anger
For many people, the problem is repressed anger. If you’ve had a hard day at work, maybe have had problems with your boss or colleagues, perhaps forgotten something important or made a small mistake, you can feel like an idiot, and become quite angry at yourself. However, as you’re at work and being a professional, you put aside your feelings of anger, or feelings of guilt and effectively squash them away.

Then, you get stuck in a traffic jam, you forget to visit the grocery store and you discover that one of your kids has had to stay after school for detention. Suddenly the repressed anger comes out and you lose your control. Quite often the trigger is something very minor and the response excessive.

How To Use EFT For Anger
EFT is a very effective technique for dealing with just about any emotional or mental problem, and is also helpful in conquering many physical problems as well.

Throughout our lives, we experience many negative experiences which we attach negative emotions to, and these negative emotions affect the body’s energy meridians. With EFT it is possible to realign the energy meridians and break them from the associated negative emotions.

Anger may have a number of different sources, and it can be important to analyze exactly what makes you angry, so you can conquer the root problem. Perhaps you get angry because you feel people are not taking you seriously, or you get angry when someone makes you feel like a fool, or makes you feel inept.

When you use EFT for the issues that cause you to become angry, you may find that you are less likely to become angry, even when you enter into situations that would usually anger you.

The result of all of these negative emotions are energy meridians which are misaligned. They become attached to negative thoughts, and produce negative emotions which may be detrimental in many areas of a person’s life.

What Problems Can EFT Heal?
Most people possess irrational fears, some more than others, whether it be a fear of speaking in public, or a fear of spiders or snakes, these fears can have a profoundly negative impact on a person’s life. Other people find themselves unable to interact normally in social situations, and find their professional and social lives suffer as a result.

For this reason, most people need some form of inner healing to produce the desired outer change. The ability to approach people of the opposite sex without fear can have a tremendous input into someone’s life and can bring with it great joy. Having the confidence to go for a new job or promotion can mean the difference between an unrewarding job and one which is truly meaningful and stimulating.

How Can EFT Assist Inner Healing?
EFT tackles the problem by disconnecting the emotion from the problem, by realigning the energy meridians of the body so that fears and phobias can dissolve naturally. For many people, the inner healing they receive from EFT is quick and profound. An individual with a lifelong fear of snakes, suddenly finds that they no longer have any fear of snakes. Other people who were addicted to smoking, suddenly find their need for a cigarette greatly diminished (even completely absent).

EFT is something that can be learned quickly and easily, and although it may seem strange to many people, it’s well worth putting in the time and effort to learn and experiment with it. If something in your life is holding you back, EFT may provide the inner healing you need to fix it once and for all.

While it may seem that there’s nothing much you can do, short of leaving your job and finding work flipping burgers (which no doubt has its own set of stresses), there is a solution, and it’s one that seems almost too simple to actually work.

Dealing With Stress By EFT Tapping
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a method which can be put into operation almost immediately, and which can be used to diminish, or even cure, office stress quickly and effectively.

EFT involves tapping on a sequence of points on the body in order to realign the energy meridians of the body. These energy meridians have become connected with negative emotions, some of which were formed in childhood. These emotions result in fears and phobias in adult lives, even though the triggering event may have occurred decades earlier.

Most stress in the workplace is brought about by some form of fear. A person who has no fear, generally has no reason to stress, even when they are put under pressure they remain unafraid. As a result, they don’t experience stress. For those who do, however, EFT is a very powerful antidote, and can provide almost instant office stress relief.

Determining What Causes The Stress
Sometimes it can be difficult to find a root cause of serious office stress. However, it’s usually brought about by expectations of managers or colleagues, or getting tasks done on time, or achieving necessary milestones, making a certain number of sales or even speaking up in a meeting.

For many, it’s as simple as a fear of being reprimanded. Nobody likes to be told off and made to feel as if they’ve done something wrong. It usually brings back negative memories of childhood, when parents, teachers and other adults scolded them for doing something wrong (often something that the person didn’t even know was wrong until they were reprimanded for it). Unfortunately, this doesn’t end in childhood.

Office stress relief can be as simple as taking something such as a fear of being reprimanded, or a fear of being made a fool of, and disconnecting the associated negative emotions from the energy meridians. When that’s done, the fear may dissipate, and the individual may no longer feel the stress that arises in such situations.

How would you like to be wealthy? Before you yell, “I would love it,” think about it for a minute. Many people have underlying beliefs about wealth and money that actually prevent them from obtaining the money that they claim to want. Deep down, do you have issues that are keeping you from accepting the possibility that you actually could be wealthy?

You can use the emotional freedom technique for wealth to help you overcome these issues. First, let’s address a few common issues that people have that are related to being wealthy or having an abundance of money.

The fear of lack. Deep down, many people believe that they will never have enough money. This can stem from constantly working and getting paid, yet never having all the money needed to cover financial obligations. Thinking that you will never have enough money can discourage you from seeking new opportunities that could bring you success and wealth.

The rich stigma. Some people are a bit cynical, and believe that some or all wealthy individuals are greedy or have somehow been dishonest in obtaining their money. People who don’t want to become greedy or thought of as dishonest avoid anything that will bring them abundance.

Being afraid to change as a person. Not all change is bad. While getting rich might make you a different person, that doesn’t mean that you will become a self-centered snob, or someone that you don’t want to be. In fact, wealth can help you do all of the things that you have always wanted to do, and allow you the freedom to be who you where truly meant to be.

Feeling unworthy. There are a lot of people who simply don’t believe that they deserve to be rich. Everyone has the right. If others can obtain wealth, so can you.

Are you facing one or more of these hindering thought patterns? Try using the emotional freedom technique for wealth. As you tap each point, release each negative thought one by one. Get rid of the thoughts that tell you:

“I will never have all the money I need.”

“The wealthy are greedy and dishonest.”

“Being rich will make me a bad person.”

“I don’t deserve wealth.”

Once you have released these fears, you should continue the emotional freedom technique for wealth process with positive thoughts that debunk the negative thinking you just released. As you tap each point, tell yourself that you are thankful that you can have abundance and that you deserve wealth. Determine that being rich will not corrupt you, but you will be an honest and giving person.

Practice the emotional freedom technique for wealth until your thinking is clear of hindrances. Then, go after your wealth!

EFT for weight loss works in the same fashion that using the emotional freedom technique for any other problem. By using the fingertips to tap along various natural stress relief, or comfort points, on the body, you can relieve the underlying issues. As you tap the points, make an honest and specific statement about your eating habits or lack of exercise with an affirmation. For example, “I do hate exercising, but I accept myself and I can learn to do it regularly.”

By repeating this phrase at each tapping point, you can entrench any idea that you want within your mind. Your thoughts will then be attached to positive emotions, and your behavior will change. EFT for weight loss is as simple as telling yourself, “I do love fudge, but I am still beautiful, and I don’t need it all of the time.”

You can address the deeper issues behind your cravings and eating habits with the emotional freedom technique as well. If you have been made fun of because of your weight or you have a low self-esteem, you can combine positive thoughts with tapping to relieve the hurt and anxiety associated with your body, weight, and eating habits. If you free yourself from the negative emotions, you will be able to control your behavior.

EFT Tapping Points

Here are all of the major points that you can tap in order to help yourself lose weight:

- Top of head
- Eyebrow
- Side of eye
- Under the eye
- Under the nose
- Chin
- Collarbone
- Under the arm
- Back to the top of head

As you feel your emotions reduce in intensity, you can modify your statements. Using the exercise example, you might say, “I dislike exercising, but I accept myself and I can learn to do it regularly.” Eventually, you can free yourself to love exercise, get rid of low self-esteem, and break cravings. It can take time, but ultimately, you can free yourself emotionally to lose weight by addressing your underlying issues.

Go ahead and tap away your pounds!

By examining the root causes of your behavior, and your partner’s behavior, you can discover ways to resolve those problems. For example, stress and anxiety at work can cause you or your partner to withdraw, or allow career related activities to dominate time and attention. This can leave the other feeling neglected, which can cause other anxieties about the relationship. When left unchecked, these feelings can snowball into arguments that can lead to bitterness and resentment. These and similar issues can result in separation and divorce.

Marriage problems don’t have to end in divorce. With EFT, you can address each of these root issues and alleviate your anxiety. After examining the root of your feelings and actions, you can use emotional freedom tapping techniques to help get rid of the fears and apprehension regarding your relationship, career, children, and other issues that are causing strife in the relationship.

Combining couples counseling with EFT can also be extremely effective in handling your relationship problems. You can find a therapist who combines couples counseling with EFT, or you can simply use the sessions to find out what is bothering the two of you. Sometimes you need a third party to help you figure out where the problems originate. You can use this information and apply it to your own EFT treatment at home on yourself.

Whatever you do, do not ignore your relationship problems. There is almost always some deep worry or fear that surrounds issues in marriage. Find out what they are and free yourself from them. Trying the emotional freedom technique is worth the effort to reconnect with your partner and resolve problematic issues. Expose your anxieties and let them go with EFT.

The good news is that there is a simple way for you to you’re your poor old habits for good. Emotional freedom technique tapping can be used to break the oldest of poor habits. By tapping specific stress relief points on your body consecutively, you can relieve the emotional and subconscious ties that you have to a particular habit. Ultimately, you can free yourself from any unwanted habit by tapping it out of you.

This may not work overnight, but you will probably start to feel better or notice small changes in your behavior after trying it once or twice. Once one of your bad habits is gone, you can make tapping a routine. You can begin to use it to eliminate all kinds of other habits. If you have poor eating habits, want to quit smoking, or if you want to stop swearing you can use this method to free yourself.

What is great about emotional freedom technique tapping is that you don’t have to believe in any particular system or focus on any unknown energy. All you have to do is focus your thoughts on what you want to change and tap. There is no need to worry about how or why this works. You have nothing to lose if you try it, and it certainly won’t happen if you don’t give it a chance. You can almost say that it works because people sincerely try it. This method is simple and you can do it as many times as you want or need to in order to bring these results to any habit in your life.

You can learn all about what points to tap and in what order with the Tap Yourself Free ebook. It is not complicated at all, and you can find true freedom from just about any issue of your life through emotional freedom technique tapping.