Unlock Fears With Emotional Freedom Technique:
This tapping therapy, billed as a ‘needle-free version of acupuncture’ is said to release phobias, stress and all manner of physical and emotional conditions. Once you have learned how to tap and where, you can also do it yourself whenever you feel stress or fear arising. Kimberley Trevett has been practising EFT since 2004, is qualified to advanced level and is also a member of the Association for the Advancement of Meridian Energy Therapies.
She says: “I have worked with many clients with issues ranging from acute physical conditions to addictions, traumas, depression, fears and phobias. In my experience, all of these conditions have something in common: underlying emotional blocks. I have always believed all the answers to your life questions reside inside of you. EFT allowed me to dissolve my own long-standing unconscious beliefs and release all of the negative patterns that were holding me back.”
EFT is also said to speed up any recovery process; for example, if you have been having conventional talking therapy, EFT could give you the same end results but in just a few sessions, instead of months or years.
Tester’s verdict
“After a short discussion about my life, we got straight to it, and as Kimberly tapped on me, she got me to repeat statements after her. The tapping points she used were the top of my head, between my eyebrows, the outer corner of my right eye, the top of my right cheek, just above my top lip, just below my right collar bone, and then round on my right shoulder blade, before repeating the process over and over, all while getting me to repeat after her such things as, ‘Even though I can’t make decisions about what to do, and I am terrible and my life is a mess, I accept myself and love myself’ – or words to that effect.
It was bizarre, almost comical at times, that she was putting everything in the most negative way possible but apparently this is how the technique works. In the second session I had a bit of a breakthrough in terms of seeing my life from a whole new perspective, realising that perhaps I had not been the victim, as I’d always perceived it, but that I had an underlying belief that caused me to set myself up for rejection so many times, even though I was actually the one doing the rejecting, albeit subconsciously!
I found EFT to be very effective, as even though it involves talking, it is so different to other talking therapies I’ve tried, as it’s like you are literally tapping the problem out of you! It quickly gets to the core of your issues and for me, the emotions came up from my stomach and before I knew it I was crying and releasing sadness. I would definitely recommend it.”
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