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Does EFT Tapping Work?

EFT Tapping — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:41:45 +0000

And the answer is “Yes! EFT tapping does work, even if you don’t totally believe in it.”

To a rational person watching an EFT session for the first time, not only does it look pretty silly, the concept of healing yourself using your fingertips to tap on specific body and hand points is absolutely outlandish.

Here is a video to help you through that initial EFT Disbelief “hump.” Enjoy, and play along if you like. (It’s OK, nobody’s watching )

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Even though at first this tapping therapy demonstration appears to be about getting to your proper weight, it actually applies to most any issue, including doubt that EFT tapping works.

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Use Cross Crawl to Prepare for Tapping Therapy

EFT Tapping — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:55:11 +0000

When you’re feeling out of sorts, you’ll probably want to do some EFT tapping therapy to feel better. It may be helpful to do a Cross Crawl exercise first, to get your “circuits” back up and running.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iveP_cEKmWA[/youtube]

From Energy Medicine, by Donna Eden (above) and David Feinstein:

The Cross Crawl is essentially an exaggerated walk. It facilitates the crossover of energy between the brain’s right and left hemispheres.

It will help you:

feel more balanced

think more clearly

improve your coordination

harmonize your energies

This exercise is especially valuable when you’re feeling low on energy, or “drained,” and there is no apparent reason for it. It can happen after doing a normal activity, like carrying something relatively heavy – a child, luggage, even a shoulder bag.

The Cross Crawl (exercise) is based on fact that the left hemisphere of your brain needs to send information to the right side of your body, and the right hemisphere needs to send information to the left side. If energy from the left or right hemisphere is not adequately crossing over to the opposite side of your body, you cannot access and utilize your brain’s full capacity or your body’s full intelligence.

Activities that don’t allow for that arms-swinging-opposite-the-legs motion will sooner or later lead to these “communication problems.” This includes people who sit all the time, particularly those in wheel chairs or otherwise non-ambulatory.

When using tapping therapy, we are relying on this electrical energy to send a message to ourselves.

When energy is unable to cross over, it slows down dramatically. It begins to move in what is referred to as a homolateral pattern — straight up and down the body — and the body’s ability to heal is severely diminished.

If you are physically fit, just marching in place for 30 seconds (swing your arms) should get you back into the flow. Or take a leisurely walk.

When physical mobility is an issue, or you’re at work or school and the movement would be distracting to others, you can try imagining the cross crawl. Visualize yourself walking confidently, swinging your arms naturally.

Now you will be better prepared for your tapping therapy session.

photo credit: Simon Blackley

Thought Field Therapy Tapping

EFT Tapping — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:11:11 +0000

Thought Field Therapy tapping, or TFT, was developed by Richard Callahan, an American psychologist. Successful users say that it can heal a variety of mental and physical ailments by way of finger tapping at meridian points on the upper body and hands.

According to Wikipedia, Callahan gave his treatment the name “Thought Field Therapy” because he theorizes that when we think about an experience or thought associated with an emotional problem, we are tuning into a “thought field,” which he describes as “the most fundamental concept in the TFT system” and which “…creates an imaginary, though quite real scaffold, upon which we may erect our explanatory notions”.

photo credit: Mykl Roventine