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What is the Emotional Freedom Technique?
The Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT, is the psychological acupressure technique I routinely use in my practice and most highly recommend to optimize your emotional health. Although it is still often overlooked, emotional health is absolutely essential to your physical health and healing – no matter how devoted you are to the proper diet and lifestyle, you will not activate your body’s ideal healing powers if emotional barriers stand in your way.
The science of epigenetics is now beginning to explain scenarios like placebo effect and spontaneous healing, which lacked a scientific basis until now.
Epigenetic literally means “above the genes.” And what is above the genes?
Your mind!
One of the scientists on the forefront of mind-body biology is Bruce Lipton. Thanks to Dr. Lipton and other leading voices, the power of your mind is finally gaining the attention it deserves.
Your mind has the power to create or cure disease because your thoughts affect the activation of your genes. Today’s “New Biology” is overlapping with consciousness science and quantum physics, and it’s showing us that we have masterful control over our own lives, including how we feel pain, depression, anxiety and even our ability to overcome diseases like cancer.
EFT is a form of psychological acupressure, based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments for over five thousand years, but without the invasiveness of needles. Instead, simple tapping with the fingertips is used to input kinetic energy onto specific meridians on the head and chest while you think about your specific problem – whether it is a traumatic event, an addiction, pain, etc. – and while you voice positive affirmations.
This combination of tapping the energy meridians and voicing positive affirmation works to clear the “short-circuit” – the emotional block — from your body’s bioenergy system, thus restoring your mind and body’s balance, which is essential for optimal health and the healing of both physical and mental/emotional disease.
Some people are initially wary of these principles that EFT is based on – the electromagnetic energy that flows through the body and regulates our health is only recently becoming recognized in the West.
But keep in mind that, more than any traditional or alternative method I have used (and I’ve used many in 30 years of practice) or researched, EFT works best. I have witnessed the results in my patients since deciding to use EFT in March of 2009. Indeed, because of its very high rate of success, the use of EFT has spread rapidly, and medical practitioners employing EFT can now be found in every corner of the country and the world.
But there is one caveat: you must resolve any emotional blocks that are standing in your way first.
For example, this could be disbelief that the pain or illness will go away, resentment that you have the pain, or even an unconscious desire to keep the pain or disease because of the extra attention you gain from it. It’s called secondary gain.
“A lot of people use the energy psychology just like a drug. ‘Oh, you’ve got a pain here. If I do this, you can get rid of the pain.’ But here’s the problem. A symptom is not generally the problem. A symptom is a reflection of a problem.” – Dr. Bruce Lipton
So the pain or symptoms are not what you should focus on relieving. Instead, you must get to the root of the problem, which started in your mind. If you simply relieve your pain without addressing the related emotional conflict, your body will manifest another ache, pain or illness to tell you that there’s still a problem within your system. For this you will need a professional Psychologist to help you to sort through all your emotional clutter and identify the root causes of your symptoms.
This is a new way of thinking about healing for most people. But if you look at it in terms of energy — pain is energy, and your mind is also energy — you can see how one directly influences the other.
Emotional Freedom Technique/Meridian Tapping Technique (EFT/MTT) is an extremely powerful tool that can be used to get to the root of your emotional conflicts, and to release them.
I highly suggest that you explore this healing modality for yourself, and if you have an especially traumatic, complex or deep-seated emotional challenge to overcome that you find an EFT therapist to guide you.
I am a practicing EFT psychologist and I do this in person and over the telephone. E-mail drjfine@gmail.com to set up an appointment.
I thank Dr. Bruce Lipton and Dr Joseph Mercola for their efforts to bring these important New Biological, Consciousness and Energy Psychology practices to the ailing and suffering public.
This Blog Post from Dr. Jeffrey Fine www.theNewParentingClub.com