Essex healing centreEmotional Freedom Technique
This simple but highly successful body tapping technique was developed
by Gary Craig. For more information on how this therapy developed go
to his website
http://www.emofree.com/
Emotions are our real teachers. They are beautiful and creative
energies and without them life would be extremely dull. A healthy
emotional life leads to a fulfilling and meaningful existence, rich
with colour and experience. Emotions cannot lie to us; rather they
continually communicate, guide and heal us. They are essential to
our psychological growth and well being.
Feelings attract our attention, indicating the desirable and
non-desirable elements in our lives. When we feel joy and happiness
we are encouraged to move towards those people, situations and
environments that produce these feelings. When we experience
emotional pain, it signifies the need to remove ourselves from or
stop doing whatever it is that makes us miserable. By listening to
the message that our emotions send we are guided in the direction we
need to take. Appropriate anger for instance alerts us to the fact
that our boundaries have been infringed. We may need to defend our
position or assert our needs more visibly. Fear is designed to
protect us from danger and to guide us away from threatening
situations. Grief begins the process of adjusting to a painful loss
and to start the healing process.
It is through our emotions that we gradually change and grow
spiritually. By staying in touch with our true selves we become more
balanced and healthy individuals.
Unexpressed emotions on the other hand never truly disappear of
their own accord. Repressed emotions often express themselves
physically. Many illnesses have an emotional component that has
become locked within the body. By suppressing or denying our
emotions and feelings we prevent change and become stuck and rigid
as individuals.
At some time in our lives most of us experience an emotional
stumbling block that we find very difficult to overcome. We suppress
that emotional experience and seek to avoid any situation that might
re-kindle the pain/ hurt / grief thereby limiting our emotional and
spiritual growth as individuals. It is these emotions that the
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) addresses.
EFT is similar in principle to acupuncture in that it seeks to
re-balance the energy flowing through the meridians of the body in a
simple and non-invasive way. These meridians are energetic highways
around the physical body that when in harmony ensure vitality and
good health. However when blockages occur as a result of disharmony
at an emotional level then physical problems occur leading to
illness. EFT when properly applied removes these blockages from the
energetic highways by firmly tapping on the meridian key points. Thereby
removing any blockages and restoring good health and vitality to
the individual at an emotional as well as a physical level.
For more information on EFT we recommend you read Emotional Healing
in minutes by Valerie and Paul Lynch.