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What is EFT Tapping?
EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques, and is commonly referred to as ‘Tapping’. Why? Because EFT Tapping is a form of emotional and psychological acupuncture, which uses light tapping instead of needles to stimulate traditional Chinese acupuncture points. Tapping on the points on the face and body is accompanied by verbalizing the presenting issue. The tapping, together with the cognitive awareness of the issue, combines to balance the energy system. There can be significant relief from emotional, psychological and physical stress. It is a healing technique that can be done by oneself or with a practitioner.
EFT Tapping has its roots in Chinese acupuncture and 20th century Western psychology. Its Western predecessors include Applied Kinesiology, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Behavioural Kinesiology, and Thought Field Therapy.
EFT was created in the early 1990s by Gary Craig. Craig is a Stanford trained engineer and ordained minister, who studied with Dr Callaghan in TFT (Thought Field Therapy). Dr Callaghan, a cognitive psychologist and hypnotherapist who specialised in phobias, discovered TFT when a patient of his made an unexpected and immediate recovery from her phobia of water after he had tapped several times on the stomach meridian under her eye.
Gary Craig simplified the process so that the same sequence of tapping is used for every presenting problem. He also created a comprehensive toolbox for how to use EFT for everything from phobias to traumas to physical pain and beyond. Due to Gary Craig’s unceasing work, the popularity of EFT flourished all around the world, and continues to do so.
EFT Tapping been applied to a great range of problems, from PTSD to bee stings and everything in between. Some issues should only be approached in the hands of an experienced practitioner.
Every single thing that you experience is stored in the bodymind – in your mind and your cells and in the subtle energies of the body. You store memories and the emotions that went with it. You also store what decisions you made about the world. For example, if you fell over as a child you learnt that it can hurt to fall over. You tried to manage your body better so as not to fall over. That is helpful.
But you also had an emotional reaction. It may have been fun and it may have been scary. And those feelings may have been affected by the reactions of the people around you. So if, for example, you were scolded, you may have told yourself that it isn’t safe to experiment and you may have learnt caution – both physical and emotional. Why experiment when you will get into trouble? But maybe you were applauded for your experimentation. Maybe you learnt to embrace discovering new things and to know you may be praised for that.
So one person may have a belief that the world is scary and the next that the world is exciting.
This is very simplistic of course, and we are told that our behaviours are caused by many inputs including our innate personality. But when we are triggered, we naturally look in the filing cabinets of our experience to make sense of it.
We attach meaning to our new experiences based on the past, whether there are conscious memories or not. The emotional memory is the most powerful and when that memory is negative, such as anger or fear or sadness, it will resurface.
So, paradoxically, the easiest way to clear what is blocking you in the everyday is not to run away from it as you naturally want to do.
You cannot run away from it. If you do not deal with it, the negative emotion will continue to be stored (along with the original memory and the beliefs you created at the time). That is why some beliefs seem so true. They are deeply wired into you. And yet when you clear the negative energy you can change your mind and your beliefs and, most incredible of all, your future.
This is why EFT Tapping works so well when you use the material offered to you by your everyday life. This is brilliant news as all you have to do is start to notice.
The more present you can be, the more you can notice.
The more you notice, the more you can clear.
The more you clear, the more you can move on.
Claire's work is so effective because what she does for one can affect everyone in the session. This is high frequency integrative work expertly navigated through her. The process goes deep and truly delivers.
Molly Knight Forde Professional classical pianist and international spiritual mentor
Introduction to Matrix Reimprinting
Matrix Re-Imprinting is an advanced form of EFT, developed by EFT Master Karl Dawson in 2007. Matrix Reimprinting differs from conventional EFT in that you can actually transform a distressing memory into a positive memory. You can go into any past memory, say and do what you wished you’d said and done, bring in new resources, and create and transform the picture you have of that memory. I like to think of Matrix work as like working with a diamond – the results are so clear and beautiful. Matrix combined with EFT is an extremely powerful tool to bring about lasting transformation.
