Emotional Freedom Technique Worksheet
By My Life Coach - Martin Dowson
WHAT IS EFT?
Emotional Freedom Technique is a meridian therapy based around the understanding that there are energy centres and pathways in the body. This knowledge of the human body whilst not part of conventional western medicine has been a part of eastern medicine for over 5,000 years. EFT is an emotional version of acupuncture, except we don't use needles. Instead, we stimulate the meridians by tapping on them with our fingertips.
Tapping on a series of key points on the body whilst focusing on the issue at hand disrupts negative flows of energy that are linked to the behaviours, emotions, memories that we wish to heal. It has been shown time and time again to dramatically collapse the negative emotions.
I first encountered this while training with Curly Martin where a few of her assistants were EFT practitioners. I had my first actual practical experience of using it following my NLP training with Paul McKenna. It seems Paul had the same initial reaction of "can this really be true" but as he has been seen on TV affirming, he really knows that this has a high repeatable success rate.
BACKGROUND
Emotional Freedom Technique originally derives from Thought Field Therapy. Dr Roger Callahan, a highly skilled expert in meridian therapies, developed TFT which involves understand a highly complex sequencing of tapping on the different energy points in the body, the sequence being specific to the issue at hand.
Gary Craig studied under Dr Roger Callahan and made a very astute observation that revolutionised the field. There are only 14 energy points in TFT, why not tap them all? Gary experimented with this and developed EFT as a result. This background can all be understood in more detail through the EFT website he runs called www.emofree.com which I highly recommend for those interested in becoming experienced in using EFT in a wider range of circumstances.
FOR FULL DETAILS and INSTRUCTIONS on the basic technique please follow this link:
http://www.mylifecoach-online.com/articles/eft_worksheet.pdf
My Life Coach - Martin Dowson runs his Life Coaching Practice from Edinburgh, Scotland. He works with his clients to enable them to bring about powerful change in their lives by working through their goals and actions in a structured but challenging environment. Martin also works on a lot of Performance Coaching with his media clients.
Martin is a licensed Practioner of NLP, having trained with Paul McKenna, John LaValle & Michael Neill. He took his coaching training with top UK Life Coach Curly Martin and is continually finding new areas of Personal Development to explore. (a Personal Development junkie... maybe!)
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