Clinical EFT:

Clinical EFT is one of the most widely used forms of Energy Psychology, and is colloquially known as tapping. It is an evidence based practice that is supported by over 300 peer-reviewed papers, and more than 150 clinical trials. What sets clinical EFT apart is that it has been standardized to be subjected to the rigor of modern scientific testing methods

EFT works through a combination of Eastern and Western techniques. The foundation of EFT is acupressure, where we tap or rub specific acupuncture points. Due to special features of the human body, this stimulation creates an electrical charge that runs along the meridian that is being stimulated. (Meridians are energetic pathways that run through our bodies in our connective tissue/fascia, and are another way our bodies transmit information internally). Ideally that charge won’t hit any resistance, but life is messy, and over the course of our lives trauma and stress accumulate in our bodies and are stored in a variety of places. This stimulation can help remove those blockages and allow our energy to flow more cleanly, reducing our stress and increasing our sense of wellbeing, and creating a feeling of safety in the body.

The second part of EFT is a combination of exposure and cognitive reframing. When we remember any experience our brains activate the same neurons that were activated during the experience, causing us to “relive” the memory. For traumatic memories this can be overwhelming, and also why when we fixate on our trauma it can frequently get worse as we strengthen those negative, painful experiences and bring them more and more into our body. However, with EFT we can create a sense of safety and calmness in the body through tapping, which gets us to the second part: cognitive reframing. When our brain activates those neural memory paths, it has to store them again, and fortunately/unfortunately no one’s brain does it perfectly. Which might be a problem sometimes, but with EFT we can use this to change the emotional charge around traumatic memories permanently. By creating a feeling of safety in the body, and reframing how we feel about the memory through specific word choice, we can release the intense emotions around traumatic events, and thus become less triggered in the future.

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