What Is EFT?
The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
A Powerful Tool for Rapidly Relieving Negative Emotions and Pain
The Emotional Freedom Technique (sometimes called "Tapping Therapy" or just "Tapping") works like emotional acupressure to quickly, gently and easily release the negative emotions and beliefs that are at the root of all our relationship problems and pain.
EFT heals emotional problems by literally undoing the damage from the past.
Traditional Psychotherapy vs. The Emotional Freedom Techniques
With traditional talk psychotherapies you gain insights into the causes of your emotional difficulties and the new behaviors you would like to have.
However, you are left needing to use your will power to try to behave in these new healthier ways.
You still feel the internal urges in your "gut" to behave in the old ways.
The result is an ongoing internal struggle between your gut feelings and your will power. This is very hard and progress can be very slow, sometimes taking years or even never.
The EFT Advantage
EFT doesn't have this problem. After working through an issue using EFT, you come out feeling different and you actually are different.
Your gut is no longer telling you to behave in the old unhealthy ways.
New behaviors are now natural because there is no internal struggle–you have changed inside and are a different person around this issue.
The struggle is over.
EFT Research – More Effective and Much Faster
The first large-scale clinical trial of energy psychology (EFT or Tapping Therapy) is reported in some detail in Energy Psychology Interactive and summarized here.
Approximately 5,000 patients diagnosed at intake with an anxiety disorder were randomly assigned to an experimental group (EFT) or a control group (Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) with medication, which is traditionally considered the therapy of choice). Here are the results:
Field Study: Outcome Comparisons with 5,000 Anxiety Patients at Close of Therapy
| CBT + Medication | EFT |
|---|---|---|
Significant Improvement | 63% | 90% |
Complete Relief From Symptoms | 51% | 76% |
Average Number of Sessions | 15 | 3 |
CBT with Medication | |
|---|---|
Significant Improvement | 63% |
Complete Relief From Symptoms | 51% |
Average Number of Sessions | 15 |
EFT Group | |
|---|---|
Significant Improvement | 90% |
Complete Relief From Symptoms | 76% |
Average Number of Sessions | Only 3 |
At one-year follow-up, the patients receiving EFT treatments were less prone to relapse or partial relapse than those receiving CBT/medication, as indicated by the independent raters assessments and corroborated by brain studies.
Notice the difference in the average number of sessions between CBT+Medication and EFT (15 versus 3).
EFT was dramatically faster and more effective.
Endorsements for EFT
Candace Pert, PhD
Author of Molecules of Emotion.
"EFT is at the forefront of the new healing movement."
Cheryl Richardson
Author of The Unmistakable Touch of Grace.
"EFT is destined to be a top healing tool for the 21st Century."
Bruce Lipton, PhD
Author of The Biology of Belief.
"EFT is a simple, powerful process that can profoundly influence gene activity, health and behavior"
Norm Shealy, MD
Author of Soul Medicine.
"By removing emotional trauma, EFT helps heal physical symptoms too."
Deepak Chopra, MD
"EFT offers great healing benefits."
Donna Eden
Co-Author of The Promise of Energy Psychology.
"EFT is easy, effective, and produces amazing results. I think it should be taught in elementary school."
Jack Canfield
Co-Author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
"I have been Tapping for years and have found it to be a pivotal tool in creating the life of my dreams."
Dr. Joseph Mercola
Founder of Mercola.com, the world’s most visited health website.
"In all my years of clinical experience I have never encountered a single healing intervention as consistently effective as EFT."
EFT is a remarkably effective and fast self-help tool that will help you break through your blocks to love and change your life.
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~ Sandra V.
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~ Jennifer J.
I went on a first date with a man and saw that he was emotionally unavailable and I immediately lost interest in him!
In the past I would have been drawn to him like a moth to a flame, and he would have hooked me completely!
~ Sara M.
