Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
The philosophy behind EFT, according to it’s founder Gary Craig, is: “The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.”
This supports the Eastern discoveries that have been around for over 5000 years that have largely been ignored by western healing beliefs and practices. As were the wise words of Albert Einstein, when he told us in the 1920’s that ‘everything, including our bodies, were composed of energy.’
Eastern medicine has long recognised the importance of understanding and maintaining health by maintaining the proper and free flow of bodily energies. In the Ayurvedic medicine community, life force (prana) flows through channels called the chakras. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) these channels are known as energy meridians, and these are the pathways used in the practice of acupuncture and acupressure. They also serve as the basis of other energy healing modalities, including EFT.
Emotional Freedom Technique came into being in the 1990’s after Gary Craig completed extensive training with Dr. Roger Callahan, a cognitive psychologist. Dr. Callahan devised - almost by accident - a therapy system known as Thought Field Therapy (TFT), which is based in part on theories of energy kinesiology. He discovered TFT in the course of standard treatments for a patient with a severe phobia of water. Seeking more ways to offer help, he drew on his background in energy psychology and physical energy flow and successfully cured the patient’s phobia. Gary Craig has taken Thought Field Therapy one step further.
There are many issues where EFT has dramatic and positive outcomes, such as:
- Anxiety
- Phobias
- Pain management
- Guilt
- Confidence
- Weight loss
- Insomnia
- IBS
- Depression
- Reactions to negative history
Many of my clients had no idea their emotions were contributing to their symptoms until they began EFT.
For more information, visit Gary Craig’s website. www.emofree.com