What is EFT?
So what is EFT Tapping and how can it help me?
EFT Tapping is gentle and easy to learn giving you a tool to cope in the moment and also a range of techniques that can hep you safely process the big hard stuff in session. You don't even have to 'believe' in it for it to work for you. Tapping literally puts the power into your own hands to change your life.
What is EFT Tapping?
EFT/ Tapping is a powerful stress reduction tool that honours our patient's truth, helps process their difficult emotions and memories and create real and lasting change.
It involves gently tapping on acupressure points around the face and upper body whilst acknowledging the negative (a gentle exposure) teamed with a statement of self acceptance.
EFT is a varied set of gentle techniques that are appropriate for PTSD. EFT is backed by over 10 years of global clinical research indicating its efficacy. Clinical EFT mirrors the techniques used in the clinical testing.
How does it work?
As we know, when our amygdala senses a set of cues our stress response is activated.
Clinical testing tells us that when we tap, we send a signal directly to the amygdala turning off the stress response. This allows us to work through our really hard stuff without being re-traumatised.
We are telling our brains we are safe in the moment and de-activating the neural bundle that says this set of cues mean danger.
What makes EFT different?
A somatic tool it addresses both our body and mind.
Our bodies have a physiological response to trauma, these reactions and changes become "encoded in the viscera" and require techniques that "engage the safety system of the brain before trying to promote new thinking" - Dr Bessel van der Kolk
EFT is known for more rapid results.
After 1 hour of EFT Cortisol levels drop by 43%^
Its results are retained, and the improvements have longevity.
After 6 hours of EFT, 90% of the participants with PTSD (N=30) no longer registered on the PTSD scale compared to only 4% in the standard care group (N=29). After 3 months 86% who received EFT remained in remission and 80% at 6 month follow up*
^ Stapleton, P., Crighton, G., Sabot, D., & O’Neill, H. M. (2020, March 12). Re-examining the Effect of Emotional Freedom Techniques on Stress Biochemistry: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication
* Church, Dawson et al. Psychological trauma symptom improvement in veterans using emotional freedom techniques: A randomised control trial. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 201 (2013) 153-160
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So what is EFT Tapping and how can it help me?
EFT Tapping is gentle and easy to learn giving you a tool to cope in the moment and also a range of techniques that can hep you safely process the big hard stuff in session. You don't even have to 'believe' in it for it to work for you. Tapping literally puts the power into your own hands to change your life.
What is EFT Tapping?
EFT/ Tapping is a powerful stress reduction tool that honours our patient's truth, helps process their difficult emotions and memories and create real and lasting change.
It involves gently tapping on acupressure points around the face and upper body whilst acknowledging the negative (a gentle exposure) teamed with a statement of self acceptance.
EFT is a varied set of gentle techniques that are appropriate for PTSD. EFT is backed by over 10 years of global clinical research indicating its efficacy. Clinical EFT mirrors the techniques used in the clinical testing.
How does it work?
As we know, when our amygdala senses a set of cues our stress response is activated.
Clinical testing tells us that when we tap, we send a signal directly to the amygdala turning off the stress response. This allows us to work through our really hard stuff without being re-traumatised.
We are telling our brains we are safe in the moment and de-activating the neural bundle that says this set of cues mean danger.
What makes EFT different?
A somatic tool it addresses both our body and mind.
Our bodies have a physiological response to trauma, these reactions and changes become "encoded in the viscera" and require techniques that "engage the safety system of the brain before trying to promote new thinking" - Dr Bessel van der Kolk
EFT is known for more rapid results.
After 1 hour of EFT Cortisol levels drop by 43%^
Its results are retained, and the improvements have longevity.
After 6 hours of EFT, 90% of the participants with PTSD (N=30) no longer registered on the PTSD scale compared to only 4% in the standard care group (N=29). After 3 months 86% who received EFT remained in remission and 80% at 6 month follow up*
^ Stapleton, P., Crighton, G., Sabot, D., & O’Neill, H. M. (2020, March 12). Re-examining the Effect of Emotional Freedom Techniques on Stress Biochemistry: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication
* Church, Dawson et al. Psychological trauma symptom improvement in veterans using emotional freedom techniques: A randomised control trial. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 201 (2013) 153-160