Can EFT Help With Anxiety?

Many people claim to get relief from anxiety and stress using Emotional Freedom Techniques (tapping). So is there validity in using EFT to help with anxiety? You decide for yourself as you read on.

You might have something causing you anxiety, something painful or a pressing situation in your life, and as you talk about that issue while tapping on the various points along the meridians, your amygdala in your brain, which is responsible for initiating the fight-or-flight response, gets the message that it is safe to be in a state of calm, that all is well at the moment.

Now let's examine a case study: Alexa is a 22-year-old woman who lives in New York and has landed her dream job in the fashion industry. Everything was going quite well for her until she experienced a serious health setback in her final semester of college. She became infected with a bacteria strain that put her in a coma lasting five days. Since her immune system is now compromised, she is easily prone to infections and sickness, and her level of fear and anxiety has her seriously considering walking away from her job to return home to Florida where her family, friends and support system are.

Alexa is having great difficulty coming to peaceful terms with her past and states that she doesn't know who she is anymore.

Alexa works with a life coach trained in EFT. The coach has Alexa repeat some EFT phrases, such as "Even though I don't know who I am anymore, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. I'm scared to face the world, " etc. As the coach progresses on, while continuing to tap on the sequence of points, she moves to offering a different tack, having Alexa speak about being a survivor and that she can opt for new diets, new ways of living, and with her health it is possible to achieve her dreams and be fully supported.

They both take a deep breath at the end and the coach inquiries about Alexa's anxiety level on a scale of zero to ten, where zero is no anxiety and ten is the highest level of anxiety. Where previously, Alexa rated her anxiety at a level of nine, she now states that it is at four.

Alexa is still advised to continue doing the tapping technique on her own at home, because there is a great deal of trauma within her as a result of her illness that still needs to be purged or resolved. Both feel they have made good progress with this first session, and that tapping can heal Alexa's anxiety and trauma.

What are your thoughts? Feel free to share….

Until next time…..

John Soriano 

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Exploring How EFT Works With an NLP Presupposition

          I was reading some NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming) material the other day, and came across the NLP Presuppositions.  These are the foundational assumptions or premises that NLP operates with.  One of them is: "The Map is Not the Territory."  This one has far reaching implications. In essence, it means that what a person experiences is not the actual world, but rather, their perception of it that colors their experience.  It is a very powerful and useful assumption to use.

         Now, the question then becomes, how are these "maps" created, and then, how can they be changed?  These "maps" are created by what we experience, and how these experiences are perceived. Over time, these become references in support of our perceptual filters.  This organic whole becomes our "map".  So how can these be changed?  Enter the power of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques).  EFT can be aimed at clearing the charge of these reference experiences.  Once that happens, there is a freedom to be able to create a new map.  At this point I would then add an EFT variation called the Choices method.  It is a very effective way to creates new choices of experience, essentially, creating a new map.

        There is a symbiotic relationship between the two methods, NLP and EFT.  When combined properly, the changes that can be produced can be staggering.  Imagine what your life would be like if the overall "map" of perception was completely changed.  What if you swapped out you "map of lack" for a "map of abundance"?  You would then see opportunity and abundance everywhere. Yes, it can be that easy.  After all, the power has always been yours, to create the life you wish.  With these tools, you can now experience a new reality.

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