Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT tapping)

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Every aspect of your life is influenced by emotions, whether you recognize it or not. Positive emotions contribute to your overall well-being, making you feel physically and mentally good. In contrast, negative emotions can harm your nervous system and affect your health.

Stressors contributing to negative emotions can include relationship issues, work stressors, fears, traumas, accidents, financial concerns, and much more. Even negative thoughts can disrupt the nervous system, causing adverse effects on the body and mind. Identifying the underlying emotions contributing to the nervous system imbalance and transforming them into something positive through an emotional and perceptual shift is essential to health and well-being.

You can't always control circumstances, but you can control your reaction. Use EFT tapping to regain control and neutralize your unwanted emotional responses to life stressors.

During an EFT session, you use your fingertips to tap on acupressure points on your face and body while focusing on a problem or discomfort you are experiencing. Concentrating on the issue while tapping these electrically charged points calms your emotions, soothes your nervous system, and helps reprogram and reset your emotional reactions back to a balanced state.

EFT is easy and painless for anyone to learn and apply. It can be used with a practitioner or as a self-help tool to empower you to regain control over how you react to life.

EFT has been successfully demonstrated to alleviate various issues, including:

- Emotional stress of any kind

- Fears and phobias: fear of flying, spiders, public speaking, and childhood fears

- Feelings of guilt, anger, shame, and resentment

- Negative thought patterns

- Insomnia

- Allergies

- Addictions and food cravings

- Physical pain and illness by addressing underlying emotional and energetic factors

- Relationship problems, business concerns, and family discord

- Dissatisfaction with body image

- Sports performance issues

And many other challenges.

How is it that one technique can address so many different challenges?

Every experience, including pain and illness, is tied to an emotional component. Regardless of your circumstances, emotions are always present in your life. If there are negative emotions, this causes a stress response that can significantly disrupt your body's nervous system, leading to distress, discomfort, and sometimes even illness. Addressing negative emotions and rebalancing your nervous system can relieve physical and mental tension, allowing your body to access its natural healing potential.

What does a session involve?

During your session, we will focus on a specific event, pain, or situation causing you emotional upset. While tuning into your concern or issue, you will be guided to use self-tapping, which involves tapping your fingertips on specific acupressure points on your face and torso. Talking about the problem while tapping on specific acupressure points helps deactivate and reset the brain's arousal pathways, leading to an emotional release that calms your body, mind, and emotions. 

When your mind is calm and you no longer feel emotionally triggered by circumstance, the body relaxes, reducing muscle tension and potentially relieving pain. 

EFT is one of the fastest and easiest healing techniques available, whether alone or in conjunction with other methods. Its calming effect and impressive results are often beyond what the mind can fully grasp until you try it yourself. 

Sessions can be in person (Emmett, Idaho) or virtually.