Make A Breakthrough With EFT
July 24th, 2007EFT is short for Emotional Freedom Technique. EFT is a psychotherapy tool that helps to cure psychological conditions. It is based upon helping a person work through the event that triggered their psychological issue.
The basic EFT technique is for a patient to focus upon the disturbing event or memory while 12 specific points on the body are tapped.
These 12 points are related to Chinese medicine and they are thought to be the areas that tap into the body’s energy source.
EFT was created in the 1990s by Gary Craig. He had trained with Rodger Callahan who has a similar theory called Thought Field Therapy.
Thought Field Therapy techniques were similar to EFT except that they involve preparation techniques that made the process rather complex. Craig simplified the technique and called this version EFT.
The concept of EFT is that the body reacts emotionally to its energy. Negative emotions cause the energy to become imbalanced which in turn creates problems.
EFT has been studied numerous times to determine the effectiveness of the techniques. The studies produced inconclusive results. However, there was some evidence that EFT can produce effective results in some cases.
The biggest criticism of EFT is that it is not based upon scientific evidence. Additionally, it has been said that EFT is aggressively marketed online and that only goes to further diminish its credibility.
Critics deduce that the successful studies of EFT and successful cases are based more upon the traditional techniques involved rather than the use of the tapping points which are the core of the whole technique.
EFT is used quite often to help treat people who have a psychological condition that regular therapies have failed to cure. The idea of confronting a fear, like a traumatic event, and focusing on it is a very traditional therapy.
However, when incorporating the tapping points, EFT stands out as a non-traditional therapy and therefore is often labeled as a pseudoscientific technique that is rarely effective and has no scientific basis by critics.
Many people still have the greatest confidence in EFT. It has helped many people to get through tough times or traumatic events in their life and to get over the problems they have experienced because of such events.
While mainstream science may not fully accept that EFT is effective, it is not stopping people from giving it a try and many of those people find EFT is the solution they have been looking for.
