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What is EFT and What Issues Does it Help? EFT (Emotional Freedom

Techniques) is a brilliant yet simple method for easing emotional

pain. It is both eloquent and effective for a wide range of

emotional distress. The Emotional Freedom Techniques method is

clinically effective in treating trauma, abuse, panic, anxiety,

fears, phobias, mild depression...

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What is EFT-Emotional Freedom Techniques

Copyright © 2006 Steve B.

Psychotherapy Center

http://www.psychotherapy-center.com

What is EFT and What Issues Does it Help?

EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a brilliant yet simple

method for easing emotional pain. It is both eloquent and

effective for a wide range of emotional distress. The Emotional

Freedom Techniques method is clinically effective in treating

trauma, abuse, panic, anxiety, fears, phobias, mild depression,

some addictions, child related issues, and physical symptoms

coming from emotional sources like some physical pain, allergies,

headaches, breathing difficulties, and more.

Emotional Freedom Techniques works with fourteen of the

acupressure points from traditional Chinese medicine. For years,

people have been recognizing acupuncture and acupressure as a

viable means for reducing physical pain. Now Emotional Freedom

Techniques provides a potent and convenient way for

self-administered acupressure to ease emotional pain. The

results are frequently astonishing in that the distress can melt

away so quickly.

How Is EFT Different?

With traditional forms of psychotherapy, people can spend years

talking about what bothers them yet continue to feel their old

emotional pain intensely. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and

related therapies (such as the REMAP process) can often

completely eliminate intense negative emotion and stress both

comfortably and in far less time than you might imagine. Those

who work diligently with these new methods can compress a year's

worth of therapy into just a few months. Those who have large

backlogs of emotional wounding and who are willing to participate

in longer-term treatment are finding it is possible to reprocess

and resolve a lifetime of hurt and trauma.

Rapidly reducing emotional pain is one of the key benefits that

the psychological acupressure methods can provide. No one likes

to linger in an unpleasant emotional state. Our natural

mechanism for coping with painful feelings is avoidance. Some

people will even avoid getting treatment because they have

difficulty tolerating upsetting emotions. Older forms of therapy

move at such a slow pace that one is frequently deep in distress

at the end of a therapy session. This is rarely the case with

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Because it helps to ease the

pain so fast, you can see the results and know that your distress

will soon ease. This can help you face even traumatic events

with the confidence that you will not be left in a state of

overwhelm and that you will find emotional freedom from the

issues that bother you.

Why Was EFT Developed?

Craig, the developer of (EFT) Emotional Freedom Techniques,

was an early student of Dr. Callahan, who was the developer

of Thought Field Therapy (TFT). TFT was the first psychological

acupressure therapy. took many of Dr. Callahan's concepts

and saw a way to improve and simplify them. Through his efforts,

this type of treatment is now available to many more people.

's method is so simple that I like to teach it to the people

that I work with in therapy. It is so easy that even children

can learn EFT for healing and relief of stress. By learning the

basics of the Emotional Freedom Techniques, you can have a way to

help yourselves between therapy sessions. I believe it to be

simply the very best self-help tool available. It is so

empowering to know that at your very fingertips you have the

means to ease much of the painful emotion that you experience.

In therapy, when Emotional Freedom Techniques are combined with

and enhanced by utilizing the REMAP process, awesome levels of

emotional healing become possible. The REMAP process is a

comprehensive treatment method that supercharges (EFT) Emotional

Freedom Techniques and extends its effectiveness into the entire

acupressure system.

Why is It Important to Heal Old Emotional Pain?

Some people have asked, " Why is it so important to heal these

old hurts? " I think there are several important answers. The

simple reality is that when it comes to intense emotional pain,

out of sight is not out of mind, out of mind is not out of body

and out of conscious mind is not out of subconscious mind. That

which is unhealed and harbored hurts us, limits us, dis-empowers

us, lowers self-esteem, fuels over reactions, weakens our

resistance to physical illness, diminishes the quality of life,

contaminates peace of mind, inhibits our capacity to love and

blocks our ability to succeed in many endeavors. Authors write

many volumes enumerating the adverse effects of unprocessed and

unresolved emotional pain on ones life.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and related work is so

important because it is so effective in easing human suffering.

It is capable of extracting the negative emotional residue of

painful experiences out of the mind-body system. When the

emotional charge is gone, the old experiences will cease to hurt

you or to have power over you. Recent research shows Emotional

Freedom Techniques (EFT) highly effective as a treatment in

curing phobias, easing anxiety symptoms, panic attack symptoms,

stress symptoms and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

I also use EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) as a treatment for

emotional abuse, overcoming fear, overcoming fear of flying,

overcoming depression, relationship help, reducing a wide range

of anxiety symptoms, and many other issues.

Can EFT Be Even More Effective in Therapy?

I frequently employ (EFT) Emotional Freedom Techniques in therapy

sessions. In treatment, I can guide people through the many

nuances of applying Emotional Freedom Techniques most

effectively. It also blends beautifully with many other

treatment approaches and it serves as a springboard to working

with the REMAP process, which works more comprehensively with the

entire acupressure system. However, even if (EFT) Emotional

Freedom Techniques is being utilized in its most simple and basic

form, it provides a powerful means to intervene upon painful

experiences, traumatic events and everyday stress. It can truly

enable you to find a level of emotional freedom that you never

dreamed possible.

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Steve B. , LPC, LMSW, LMFT is among the first people to

train in EFT. He uses EFT in his counseling practice, which

is in Dallas. He also uses EFT when he works with people from

around the world during phone counseling. Steve is a leading

expert in the use of acupressure-enhanced psychotherapy and

provides training in its use for easing emotional pain. You can

reach Steve at 972-997-9955 or through his website at

http://www.psychotherapy-center.com/

copyright 2004, Steve B.