How does work
This framework is not unique to EFT but underlies much of Energy Psychology – an umbrella term for a range of approaches to psychological issues that work with the human bio-field and its pathways as essential to mental and emotional balance. EFT appears to be the most well-known in a family of meridian therapies including Thought Field Therapy. But whereas TFT requires the use of specific tapping sequences determined by muscle testing and can be administered by trained clinicians only, its cousin EFT is a simplified method based on the use of a standardized treatment protocol, which lends itself to being applied by both trained practitioners in the context of therapy and by their clients as an effective self-help modality. It has repeatedly been shown that our unresolved traumas and limiting thought patterns contribute significantly to mental, emotional, and physical distress. This in turn appears to be intimately related to a disturbance in the body’s energy field. With EFT, we gently tap on (or sometimes just touch or massage) key ‘acupoints’ located on all the main energy meridians known from Chinese acupressure and acupuncture while naming, and tuning into, the specific issue we wish to address. More often than not, blockages in the natural flow of our vital energies are allowed to dissolve, which in turn brings lasting relief from negative thoughts and emotions as well as physical tension or pain.