EFT is based on a new discovery that has provided thousands with relief from pain, diseases and emotional issues.
Simply stated, it is an emotional version of acupuncture except needles aren't necessary.
Instead, you stimulate well established energy meridian points on your body by tapping on them with your fingertips. The process is easy to memorize and is portable so you can do it anywhere.
It launches off the EFT Discovery Statement which says...
"The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system."
And because our physical pains and diseases are so obviously connected with our emotions, the following statement has also proven to be true...
"Our unresolved negative emotions are major contributors to most physical pains and diseases."
(The above is an extract of the official Cary Craig website about EFT.)
EFT is the latest tool that I have been trained with and it has been a great experience. Let me tell you that I have been a heavy smoker for nearly 30 years. When I decided to stop smoking, I used EFT to help the process. I set up a date to stop about 3 or 4 weeks before the stopping date and started tapping and slowing down with cigarettes. The evening before the big day, I went to the garden for a ritual. I smoked my last cigarette in front of my Buddha and when I have been done with it, I berried it in front of it. The morning after, I woke up and never took a cigarette since then. I was tapping a few times a day and doing my daily meditations and that's all. I consider myself as an abstinent smoker more as a non smoker.
A close friend of mine is a recovering alcoholic and reformed smoker. He told me that a drinker or a smoker is never a non drinker or a non smoker. We are abstinent and there for we have to be careful and conscious of the potential risk of starting again. It is really hard to know what has been successful in the process. I can say I have been successful and for the rest, I just know that a few of my clients came to stop smoking and that most of them still don't smoke. Not all of them succeeded because the number one ingredient to stop smoking is to really want to and by this I mean that they made a DECISION. To succeed, it has to be a decision, without a doubt in your mind. Since being confirmed as an EFT Practitioner, EFT has become a daily routine for me, like meditation and a shower. For at least 20 years I wake up at 5.15am to take time for my day and myself. Before leaving the house I 'tap' for a few minutes.
I have been noticing great changes. The level of stress and fear in my life dropped dramatically. Because the tapping is releasing blocked energies, the flow of energy in my body is much more harmonious. I have been accustomed to working on myself as a Psychotherapist for many, many years but it is pretty impressive to notice these changes deep inside me without my mind really involved. EFT is working and since I have been tapping, I am more relaxed, more settled and atpeace.
My clients of course are happy to try this technique and I am globally very impressed with the effects on their own life. As far as I am concerned, EFT is a great tool to help people work on their emotions, especially when they have tried almost everything else. EFT does not need your agreement or conscious power to be efficient. It is gently bringing you to a place where you can be yourself and assume it. As a Therapist, I use all my tools but EFT has proved to be a very gentle and efficient one.