You can think of EFT as a form of psychological acupressure rather than acupuncture. It involves gently tapping with your fingertips on specific points on the body that are also used in Chinese acupuncture, while you talk about areas of difficulty in your life.
Research shows that tapping on these points can lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which is one reason EFT is such an effective therapeutic tool for calming your nervous system. The process allows you to focus on challenges while simultaneously sending a calming signal to the brain, helping you feel more at ease with difficult situations, release fears, and begin making the changes you want to make.
As your body and mind feel safer, new understandings, perspectives and behaviours can emerge, because you start to think and feel differently about whatever the challenge is you’re facing. EFT can be used with uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, pain, behaviours, memories—essentially anything that creates emotional or physical discomfort.
Strategies and action plans are important when you want to progress in your career, lose weight, improve relationships or make other meaningful changes. But their effectiveness depends on your ability to actually follow through with the action required. EFT helps remove the inner roadblocks to your success, so you can step into your personal power and create the life you want.
