What is EFT tapping?

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Posted on 16-12-2022 10:11 AM

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Treatment for anxiety involves a combination of medication, psychotherapy and alternative therapies. Emotional freedom technique (eft), also known as tapping or eft tapping, is a therapeutic intervention that combines both cognitive and physical elements. Eft tapping therapy has been demonstrated to improve the symptoms of several mental health disorders, including anxiety and depression. Eft tapping for anxiety is an effective way to reduce anxiety symptoms such as excessive worry, irritability, sleeping difficulties and difficulty concentrating.

Similar to acupuncture , eft focuses on the meridian points — or energy hot spots — to restore balance to your body’s energy. It’s believed that restoring this energy balance can relieve symptoms a negative experience or emotion may have caused. Based on chinese medicine, meridian points are thought of as areas of the body energy flows through. These pathways help balance energy flow to maintain your health. Any imbalance can influence disease or sickness. Acupuncture uses needles to apply pressure to these energy points. Eft uses fingertip tapping to apply pressure. Proponents say the tapping helps you access your body’s energy and send signals to the part of the brain that controls stress.

How does EFT tapping work?

Humans are always looking for better ways to relieve stress. Medications may work, but they have side effects. Many people seek alternative solutions, such as eft tapping. Eft stands for emotional freedom techniques, and users say that this simple technique helps them feel better quickly. Eft tapping has roots in the 1970s when several doctors began stimulating acupressure points to help their patients deal with stress, fear, and phobias. One of them, patented by dr. Roger callahan, is called thought field therapy. Later gary craig simplified the process and made it available to the public under the eft name.

As with acupuncture and acupressure, tapping involves the body’s energy meridian points, which are a concept in chinese medicine. Proponents believe them to be areas of the body through which energy flows. In this theory, blocks or imbalances in the flow of energy lead to ill health. According to eft advocates, tapping on these meridian points with the fingertips restores the balance of energy to resolve physical and emotional issues. It can also work in a similar way to mindfulness, as it can draw a person’s attention to their body and breathing. It may serve as a mental distraction from the issues that are causing anxiety or stress.

So enough with the preamble, let's jump into how to actually use eft/tapping for anxiety. The basic procedure for eft involves 5 steps. We will go quickly go over each one now.

Emotional freedom technique (eft) tapping utilizes the same principles of acupuncture in a much more mild form. This practice involves following five easy steps to reduce your stress, including determining the root of your anxiety, assessing your mental state before and after tapping, picking a reassuring statement to repeat, and tapping different parts of the body in a specific order. One study of over 200 participants found that people who participated in eft tapping experienced an increase in happiness and a decrease in anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) symptoms, and pain. Another study on veterans found that those who received six hours of eft tapping coaching had significant reductions in psychological distress and severity of ptsd symptoms.

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