Q. How can a single treatment method address such a variety of issues?
A. The discovery statement of EFT states “the cause of all negative emotion is an imbalance in the energy system.” All reactions, feelings, responses or physical symptoms can be addressed by balancing the human energy system with EFT. Once the energy system has been balanced, the depression lifts, the anxiety is neutralized or the physical pain is alleviated.
Q. Are there any contraindications to using EFT?
A. No. EFT is safe, easy to apply, and non-invasive. To date, minimal side effects have been reported other than occasional temporary fatigue. However, this does not mean that you will not experience adverse side effects. If you intend to use these techniques, you must agree to take full responsibility for the results and for your physical and emotional well-being. You may wish to consult a trained EFT practitioner for professional application of these techniques.
Q. What prevents EFT from working?
A. If you are a living breathing human, EFT should work on you. Occasionally, the targeted issue is approached too globally which results in ineffective relief. In rare cases, energy toxins such as perfumes or certain foods produce an allergic reaction in an individuals energy system and retard, or temporarily reverse treatment. Skilled EFT practitioners will spot this block and be able to treat the client effectively. While not perfect, EFT has an extraordinarily high success rate of 85%, even when used by beginners.
Q. Can I treat myself?
A. Absolutely, and with a likelihood of a high success rate. If you are motivated, emotionally stable and use good judgment in the problems you address with EFT, you should have good success. It is important however, to know your limits. Sometimes it is difficult to be both patient and doctor. Many people consult EFT practitioners for the objectivity and experience necessary for successful treatment.
Q. Suppose my illness has lasted decades or is an inherited condition?
A. EFT alleviates symptoms regardless of duration, etiology, or family history. The duration of the condition does not seem to effect the outcome or length of treatment needed.
Q. How long will the treatment last?
A. It is difficult to predict this outcome in each individual case, however, long-lasting results are routine when using EFT properly and aiming it at the right targets. If the practitioner successfully treats the core of the problem, permanent relief is the norm.
Q. Can EFT be used for children?
A. Yes, usually with superb results. Since children are less critical than adults, they have less of a need to understand the inner working of the energy system, and can therefore allow the treatment process to unfold more naturally. It is very safe and effective with children.
Q. Why does EFT focus on the negative so much? Can this hurt me?
A. In order for EFT to work, you MUST be tuned in to your problem, for example, actually feeling some of the anxiety. This allows the treatment to be “aimed” at the problem, and be neutralized as a result of using the tapping.
Q. How do I find out more about EFT and related treatments?
A. Consult Gary Craig”s web site, http://www.emofree.com. In addition to finding a complete tutorial for EFT, you will find hundreds of case histories, philosophical studies, a support e-mail list, and a series of superb training tapes for sale. The web site also provides numerous links to related Energy Psychology web sites.
Q. How can EFT dramatically change my life?
A. EFT can change your life in many ways. Suppose that you have lived with a fear for most of your life, or a guilt over something perhaps. This fear or guilt is something that you have adapted your life around. Your responses to what ever happens in your life is dictated by the guilt or fear, and this is done quite subconsciously. So if the emotional charge of the guilt or fear was eliminated, would it not stand to reason that your life would change as well, would it not change your consciousness?
Can you remember your most embarrassing moment? How do you feel when you remember that? Where do you feel it? Does it feel good? Would you like that feeling to go away and just remember that incident as an “oops” with no emotional charge to it? EFT can achieve this.
Q. Why is it that I dont need to tell my “story” for the EFT to work?
A. EFT is not a therapy where you have to tell your story to someone to gain insight and understanding from them. You know the story, you live it everyday energy wise – all people who have their personal terrors and traumas just want to get past them and live a normal life without that crouching tiger in the corner. When utilizing EFT all one does is just “look” at the “issue” as if sitting in a movie theater and giving the incident a title and then tap on certain spots on the body, which corrects the energy flow. Again, EFT is not a therapy per se, it is a tool that one can apply themselves.
Q. Is it painful?
A. No, the process itself utilizes a verbal affirmation and tapping on certain Meridian Points with 2 fingers, humming and counting…very simple – and that is the full process. In most cases shortcuts can be used, which just consist of tapping.
Q. Can the emotional issue or pain come back again?
A. If a re occurrence happens, it is because it was not completely eliminated to begin with, it does not mean that EFT did not work. In these cases it is because of something called an Aspect. Using “low self esteem” as an example – low self esteem didn’t happen overnight, it took many incidences of shall I say “put downs” to have one feel this way. It came from incidences with ones parents, siblings, classmates and so on. Each incidence is an Aspect that cumulatively adds up to “low self esteem.” This is the great part about EFT; issues that have many Aspects can be equated to a forest of trees. Each of the trees that make up this forest are “aspects”. When one starts chopping down known “aspects” with EFT others will make themselves known to you, then you can chop them down with EFT. After you have chopped down a few of these trees, the rest of the Aspects (trees) that supported the issue (forest), will simply fall down by themselves.
Q. Why will this work where all else has failed?
A. Because it works on the energy portion of the dis-ease factor which in turn works to change our consciousness.
Our bodies are libraries of all of our experiences and this library is not one of paper but of electrical patterns. The words “thoughts are things” highly applies here. Negative thoughts can be filed under fears, phobias, arthritis, tense muscles. Deep-seated anger could be filed somewhere in the body and crop up as cancer, heart problems or migraines. EFT is the 3rd factor in becoming whole as in body, mind and Spirit. It is the missing key to why some people don’t heal, why some people cant lose weight or stop a craving. For the body to really heal, the energetic portion has to be addressed as well as fixing the physical body and the mind.
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