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What is EFT?
EFT
EFT is short for Emotional Freedom Technique. It is also known as tapping and falls under a branch of therapies called Energy Psychology. It was devised by Gary Craig and has been used successfully for the last 20 years by many therapists to help with many different conditions. It would be best described as a combination of a talk therapy and acupressure.
Its theory comes from applied kinesiology and acupuncture. It consists of tapping on certain points on the body while focusing on the problem we would like to address. It is based on the idea that any time the body is in physical, mental or emotional distress it means the body’s energy is disrupted.
Tapping on specific acupuncture points helps clear the body’s energy system which results in the reduction or elimination of the problem.
How EFT could help you?
Depression or Anxiety?
EFT can be used for many conditions including Depression & Anxiety. Book your free consultation today to see how it could help you if you suffer.
Trying to kick a habbit?
Giving up smoking or have other habbits? EFT could help you massively, We are here to help, get in contact with us today.
Improve Performance
EFT can help you increase performance in your life. Whether this be a hobby, or a professional sport. Our techniques can help you progress today.
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Some Brief Science behind EFT
There is plenty of evidence to support it’s use!
When we experience a negative or emotional state (anger, upset, fear) our brain goes on alert. The body prepares for the fight or flight response; your adrenaline pumps, muscles tense, blood pressure, heart rate, blood sugar all go up. Now days most of these fight or flight responses are triggered internally often by a negative memory or thought that has its roots in a past trauma or conditioned learning from child hood.
Daily life is also filled with lots of small stressors which when you add them up the cumulative effect on the body and mind are massive. This leaves us sick, worn down, upset, overweight, stressed and unhappy. ‘What tapping does is halt the fight or flight response and reprogram the brain and body to act and react differently.
The stress response begins in the amygdala which is part of the limbic system. The limbic system is the source of emotions and long term memory, and is where negative experiences are encoded. The body’s smoke detector! An early negative experience can program the amygdala to raise the alarm when something similar triggers it in the future. The body does not distinguish between an actual threat and what the amygdala perceives as a threat.
EFT Science Continued…
Research at Harvard medical school has shown that stimulation of the acupuncture points decreases activity in the amygdala, hippocampus and other parts of the brain associated with fear. With an MRI it is possible to see the amygdala’s red alert being ‘called off’ when the acupuncture points are stimulated. Informal studies have shown that tapping may work better than needles in the treatment of anxiety disorders. Cortisol is a stress hormone related to a stress response.
Dawson Church (a researcher in the field of mind body medicine) looked at cortisol levels in 83 subjects after they received an hour long tapping session compared to talk therapy and no treatment. Cortisol in the tapping group dropped an average of 24% with some as high as 50%, while for those in the talk group and no treatment group there was no change in their cortisol levels.
The reduced cortisol levels in the EFT group correlated with decreased severity in anxiety, depression, and overall psychological symptoms.‘…the research evidence for energy psychology, coming from more than a dozen countries, suggests that it produces outcomes for a range of conditions that are unusually rapid, effective and lasting.’EFT often retrains the limbic response rapidly. When you think of something that causes you anxiety the thought sets off the amygdala fire alarm.
Tapping as your fight or flight response is triggered sends a message that the amygdala can deactivate. With repetition the hippocampus gets the message that there is no longer any danger and categorizes the thought/experience as nonthreatening. The hippocampus is the structure in the limbic system that controls contextual associations, where something was classified as threatening is now seen as nonthreatening.
Scientists speculate that retraining the limbic system in this way permanently alters the neural pathways in your brain, the conditioned fear pathways in the amygdala are eliminated. Neuroplasticity shows that the brain’s pathways are not permanent and can be altered. It is possible to develop new ways of thinking and perceiving the world.‘One of the most important epigenetic influences is stress….the emotional trauma of stress is now known to affect the expression of over one thousand genes, including many that influence ageing and cell regeneration.’
Acupuncture and acu-pressure (tapping) have been shown to increase the body’s endorphin levels, a feel good neurotransmitter. (Information sourced from ‘The Tapping Solution’ by Nick Ortner)
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- Break Addictions
- Helps with PTSD
- Increase Confidence