EFT: Emotional Freedom Technique

Simple light tapping—or acupressure—with the tip of the fingers on certain meridians (energy circuits) of the body can help attain a sense of relief after only a few minutes. At other times, perseverance is a must.

The tapping is thought to provoke deep emotional changes because the ultimate cause of all negative emotion is a block, or disorder, in the body's energy system. Repeated negative thoughts are seen as creating a disorder in the energy flow.

Those who use EFT actively participate in the treatment by focusing on the problem (or the original negative event), and then evaluating his SUDS (Subjective Units of Disturbance Scale) level from 0-10, which means how much better s/he feels after they completed a round of tapping.

A score of 0 represents "no stress," "pain," or "negative feelings" at all and 10 is the opposite. Most people will fall somewhere in between that range.

The more one practices to do the sequence themselves, the better they become—and eventually do it on their own whenever necessary. Once rebalanced, the person should not be disturbed again by the same traumatic event, except if there is some aspect that has not been neutralized. Ideally, even though the person may try to get upset again, it usually won't come to be since the memory of the event stays but the emotional charge which caused the pain disappears.

Laurent