What is EFT?

Emotional Freedom Techniques, also known as EFT or Meridian Tapping, melds Eastern acupuncture and Western psychology. Gentle tapping on specific traditional acupuncture points on the face and body is combined with focusing on and verbalizing a challenging issue, memory, or emotion.

Through this process, we relax the fight or flight response, allowing each client to release the stressful material. By alleviating these emotional conflicts, we free ourselves and rebalance our energy system. This in turn allows the body and mind to access innate intelligence and resume natural healing abilities.

Once the tapping technique has resolved your concern, then it rarely needs to be repeated on the same issue. The neural pathways get rewired, so that the old behavior, thought, or feeling becomes a distant memory.

EFT has been shown to produce positive changes in the encouragement of neuroplasticity, as counter-conditioned memories are turned into new neural bundles. The memory remains, but the emotional association disappears, and the cognitive experience of the memory shifts. Within the brain, EFT appears to affect the amygdala (the stress centre in the brain) and the hippocampus (the memory centre). Both play a role in the decision process when an outside event appears to be a threat.

EFT has also been shown to lower the primary stress hormone, cortisol. This result is deeply beneficial, as too much cortisol can result in lowered immune function, weight gain and overall health challenges.

What can EFT help you with?
EFT can be highly effective in dealing with a wide variety of issues, such as:
• Addictions
• Burn-out
• Cravings
• Chronic stress
• Fear and phobias
• Fear of failure
• Health issues
• Insomnia
• Limiting beliefs
• Mental and physical exhaustion
• Overwhelm
• Panic attacks
• Procrastination
• Prolonged grief
• Traumatic experiences
• Whiplash
• Weight loss

The practice of EFT allows us to create more fulfilling relationships and gives us a gentle and effective tool when various stresses surface. This tool is a safe, efficient and non-invasive technique.

Here are the results of clinical trials published in peer-reviewed scientific journals:
• Anxiety: down 40%
• Blood pressure: down 8%
• Cortisol: down 37%
• Depression: down 35%
• Food cravings: down 74%
• Happiness: up 31%
• Headaches: down 59%
• Immune system markers: up 113%
• Insomnia: down 41%
• Pain: down 43%
• PTSD symptoms: down 44%
• Resting heart rate: down 8%

“To heal the Mind, you must first heal the Heart”