EFT Therapy: how the technique works, how to apply it, origin and more!

With so many problems, both in the world and in our lives, day-to-day running around, work, family, it’s hard to unfold so much and not have any emotional upheavals, isn’t it?

Due to the amount of people looking for treatments and ways to improve our health, in search of eliminating tensions and stress, a technique was created that promises to eliminate emotional blockages, the EFT therapy.

Few people have heard about her. Created in the USA and based on Chinese medicine, EFT seeks to release negative energies that cause our emotions to be compromised. Interesting, right? So, check out everything about this therapy below and how its interaction with our body works.

After the creator of the technique, Gary Craig, understood that the alteration of our body’s energy flows was interrupted by negative emotions experienced in life, Craig created a unique sequence that corrects this problem and rebalances our energies.

A sequence of light strokes with the fingertips, at certain points, works the mind-body connection with some phrases of emotional release. In this way, he found treatment for several problems.

If your anxiety is at a very high level, it is interesting to look for a specialized EFT professional. Therefore, the therapy will be more successful.

Energy psychology tools such as the EFT Technique reduce anxiety by correcting the problem in our body’s bioelectrical system. In that case, EFT is a way of “rewiring” our circuits.

Experts believe that anxiety and stress have similar effects on the brain. When experiencing anxiety, the brain triggers a response full of adrenaline and cortisol, exactly the stress response. For this reason, anxiety can be treated by the EFT Technique, but through a qualified professional.

Research proves that the EFT Technique increases our positive emotions significantly. Hope and pleasure are among the positive emotions. Depression is an accumulation of negative emotions that take over your brain.

With the EFT Technique, negative energies can be cleaned and positive energies can be increased at each session. Meanwhile, because it’s something more complicated, depression needs to be treated by a professional who can teach you techniques for specific solutions.

The slimming process is very difficult and painful for some people. EFT tries to improve this process by treating the reasons for food compulsions and all the negative emotions that lead us to take our problems out on food.

Depression, anxiety, rejection, shame, among many other causes that influence the body negatively. All this leads to obesity and all can be treated by EFT.

Some people discovered other problems that they didn’t even know existed and that hindered their improvement during treatment. That is why it is so important to deal with someone who understands the subject.

There are several causes that can lead someone to have an allergic crisis. However, what many professionals defend is that all these causes come from the body’s defense reactions, causing negative emotions that unbalance our energies.

Allergy has symptoms that are originated due to weakened immune system. The body fights an invading agent that represents a danger, so it must be expelled. By treating allergies with EFT, you treat emotions that undermine your physique, and vice versa. In this way, you regulate your immune system and your defenses.

Any fear or phobia is automatically included in the EFT Technique treatment. The Technique is based on treating all negative emotions that may interfere with your physical and emotional state. The basis of fear are traumas that negatively influenced our lives.

The phobia, on the other hand, differs only in a repulsion, it takes us out of control, weakens and limits our lives. Just like fears, phobias are linked to past traumas that people can know what they are or not. During treatment, EFT identifies and treats each of these traumas.

When thinking about physical pain, it’s hard to imagine how effective EFT can be, but when we broaden the view of the situation, we realize that every physical pain causes emotional pain in the body as a result. That’s where the EFT Technique works, accelerating the recovery of the injured physical part.

By healing all the pain and trauma, we have a healthy body ready to focus on the injury. Depending on the type of physical pain, whether it is something serious or simpler, the person himself can solve the problem and apply the technique, even beginners can do it, if it is something simple.

Insomnia, difficulty sleeping and all the evils that torment us at night are derived from the accumulation of problems and situations that cause enormous stress in our brain. Including anxiety, which doesn’t let the body relax.

For this, the well-applied EFT Technique can solve insomnia and offer a peaceful night. After all, waking up after sleeping better during the night can improve our entire day. If your insomnia is persistent, look for a professional who specializes in the technique.

Low self-esteem has several factors that cause it, involving negative emotions derived from trauma, bullying, rejection, etc. or the body’s response to some disease not yet found or not resolved.

To cleanse the body of what “poisons” it from within, the EFT Technique combats negative emotions and helps people to see the world in front of them clearly. In cases of illness, EFT works with medicine, helping the body to have a better recovery response during treatment. Remembering that, for more serious cases, the help of a professional specialized in EFT is necessary.

Hurt and grudge are negative responses to events that attack you in some way. For most people, it’s common to get hurt by someone else’s attitude and keep that pain to yourself. Meanwhile, this pain becomes heartache, hurting our body and our soul.

The EFT Technique helps to understand that this resentment hurts and that, through forgiveness, we can get rid of the pain. Positive thinking is also paramount to your soul’s recovery. Take away everything negative and keep in mind that forgiveness is good for you too.

A happy, calm and comfortable life without worries or any kind of stress. This scenario is so utopian, but we can get something similar in the real world. The law of attraction says that we must think positively to attract good energies, but for that we need to get rid of the negativity that we have in our body and mind.

The EFT Technique helps us to keep the mind clear of negative emotions, to ward off the anxiety and stress that surrounds us. That way, we are getting closer to a full and prosperous life.

Those who lose the will to live or who cannot see happiness in everyday life are full of negative emotions that cloud their vision. Often, therapy and medication alone do not help.

The EFT Technique, combined with therapies and medicines, manages to detoxify the body and remove what prevents you from seeing all the happiness around you. Living is hard, having a routine in our world is stressful. The important thing is that we can keep in mind everything positive, good energies and surround ourselves with what makes us feel good.

Now that we know all the benefits that the Emotional Liberation Technique can provide those who need it, it’s time to talk about how this technique works.

To apply it, there are predefined points and ways to activate these points, with the aim of cleaning our bodies and providing good energy. Check out how to solve physical and emotional problems through EFT.

According to Eastern ideology, more precisely China and India, it sees the organism as a whole, composed of body, mind and spirit. And throughout this body, circulates the flow of energy that runs freely through all existing channels, channels called meridians.

In India, this energy is called Prana, much spoken among Yoga practitioners. In China, that same energy is called Chi or Qi. When there are physical and emotional problems, Qi is disrupted and impaired.

In order for our body’s energy flow to be reestablished, it is necessary to apply the EFT Technique on the channels, or meridians, to release negative energy and balance the whole.

With globalization, it is possible to know more about acupuncture and spread this medicinal technique throughout the West. Despite still being reluctant to accept the technique.

Based on acupuncture and the technique applied in Oriental Medicine, it was realized that the contact points could also be used as a direct channel between touch and our organism’s system.

These same points, also called meridians, are currents of energy that run through all our systems (electrical, digestive, etc.). If there are no problems, it flows perfectly and leads to the proper functioning of the organism.

When disturbances arise in our emotional balance, the meridians are affected and have problems in the flow of energy. It is at this moment that the effectiveness of the EFT Technique is proven, as an Emotional Acupuncture technique.

The EFT technique uses some main points, or meridians, to act on the flow of vital energy. In the beginning there were many points, over time they were improved and reduced to 9 main points:

Karate Point: Reduces sadness and worry. It helps to reassure and invigorate the mind, opens paths to happiness and connects the present, renouncing the past.

Top of the head point: Reduces self-criticism, lack of focus, anxiety, insomnia, sadness and depression. Assists in spiritual connection, discernment, clarity. It also calms the mind and improves mood.

Point between the eyebrows: Reduces irritation, restlessness, trauma and headaches. Helps in harmony and peace.

Point beside the eyes (eye socket bone): Reduces fever, vision problems, resentment, anger and fear of change. Helps with clarity and compassion.

Point under the eyes (continuing the eye socket): Reduces fear, bitterness and aversion to things. Assists in satisfaction, stillness and security.

Point between nose and mouth: Reduces problems and changes in the nervous system, embarrassment, guilt and shame. Assists in self-esteem, compassion, pain relief and clarity of mind,…