WHY and HOW of EFT?

  So, How Does It All Work? 

Courtesy  Nicolas Ortner, Creator of “Try It On Everything” 

“The cause of ALL negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.” -Gary Craig, founder of EFT.

This fundamental principle is the basis of EFT. All negative emotions are felt through a disruption of the body's energy, and physical pain and disease are intricately connected to negative emotions. Health problems create feedback – physical symptoms cause emotional distress, and unresolved emotional problems manifest themselves through physical symptoms. So, the body's health must be approached as a whole. You cannot treat the symptoms without addressing the cause, and vice-versa. 

The body, like everything in the universe, is composed of energy. Restore balance to the body's energy, and you will mend the negative emotions and physical symptoms that stem from the energy disruption. EFT restores the body's energy balance, and negative emotions are conquered. 

The basic technique requires you to focus on the negative emotion at hand: a fear or anxiety, a bad memory, an unresolved problem, or anything that's bothering you. While maintaining your mental focus on this issue, use your fingertips to tap 5-7 times each on 12 of the body's meridian points. Tapping on these meridian points – while concentrating on accepting and resolving the negative emotion – will access your body's energy, restoring it to a balanced state. 

You may be wondering about these meridians. Put simply, energy circulates through your body along a specific network of channels. You can tap into this energy at any point along the system. 

This concept comes from the doctrines of traditional Chinese medicine, which referred to the body's energy as "ch'i." In ancient times, the Chinese discovered 100 meridian points. They also discovered that by stimulating these meridian points, they could heal. Call it energy, call it the Source, call it life force, call it ch'i… Whatever you want to call it, it works. 

In some ways, EFT is similar to acupuncture, but without needles. Like EFT, acupuncture achieves healing through stimulating the body's meridians and energy flow. However, unlike EFT, acupuncture involves needles! "No needles" is definitely one of the advantages of EFT. 

Acupuncture also takes years to master. Acupuncture practitioners must memorize hundreds of meridian points along the body; the knowledge and training take years to acquire. 

EFT is simple and painless. It can be learned by anyone. And you can apply it to yourself, whenever you want, wherever you are. It's less expensive and less time consuming. It can be used with specific emotional intent towards your own unique life challenges and experiences. Most importantly, it gives you the power to heal yourself, putting control over your destiny back into your own hands. 

Nicolas Ortner is the creator and producer of the documentary film about EFT, “Try It On Everything”. You can see a trailer for the film and more information at   

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EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is one of the new Energy Psychology techniques that have been transforming our understanding of how to create health and well-being, quickly and effectively.  

Since its development in the 1990’s, EFT has been used on a massive range of problems including; agoraphobia; claustrophobia; pain; neuropathy; abuse, trauma, eating disorders; blood pressure problems; fibromyalgia etc. This powerful, yet simple technique often gets results when nothing else works.  

The why of EFT 

Cause #1 - Disrupted Subtle Energies: It has long been known that subtle energies circulate throughout our bodies and that the free flow of this energy can be vital to our health. Interrupt this energy and the result can be pain and disease. Stop it altogether and you may be headed toward death. Eastern health practices have been based on this concept for over 5,000 years. Einstein's findings also relate to our bodies being composed of energy.

It should be no surprise, then, that repairing any disruptions in these subtle energies can lead to symptom and pain relief. Fortunately, the easy to learn EFT process allows even beginners to improve this free flow by stimulating (tapping on) certain "release points" on the body.  

Cause #2 - Negative Emotions (Anger, Trauma, Fear, etc): It is a well established medical fact that our emotions trigger varying chemicals in our bodies. Joyous emotions can produce healing chemicals while negative emotions can create disease causing chemistry into our systems. For example, you may be familiar with how stress might contribute to ulcers or high blood pressure. We suggest that negative emotions may be a major cause of pain too. We have seen evidence of this repeatedly as pain subsides once negative emotions have been addressed with EFT.

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