So how do I do EFT?

This is an absolutely simplistic example of how EFT works just to demonstrate the process…

The basic recipe

To start, we need to have an issue to work on.

It is very important to rate our issue on a scale of 0 – 10 (subjective unit of distress – SUD), this gives us the ability to tell that the EFT is working. 0 is no intensity at all and 10 is the highest intensity we could possibly imagine.

It is vital to test (and give a SUD) before and after each round of tapping.

Firstly isolate the issue we want to tap on, let’s say anxiety

Then rate it at a level of 0-10 – 0 = no feeling at all – 10 = the maximum effect we could expect, then where we feel the anxiety – in the stomach (if possible a shape and colour would be useful to describe it to ourselves)

Here is an important point where a practitioner can help isolate the issue far more effectively.

The more specific we make the issue – the more effective the tapping will be, so the difference between, “I’m anxious at level  7”, and, “when I am in the supermarket down the fresh food isle in the mornings after I have dropped the kids to school there are so many people around and I feel anxious like my stomach is knotted like a orange ball of at a level of 6” is the difference in how effective and long lasting EFT is.

So using simple anxiety as an example…

You tap on the side of your hand – where a karate chop would hit the wood – (creatively referred to as the karate chop point)

Whilst tapping this point we state the problem

“Even though I feel this anxiety”          WHY DO WE SAY THIS

And then we (and this could be uncomfortable and strange) let ourselves know that we are OK people even with this problem

“I deeply love and accept myself”            WHY DO I HAVE TO SAY THIS?

If this is truly uncomfortable then we can say – I am still an OK person, I’m OK, one day soon I will love and accept myself – just something as positive as possible about yourself.

 

This is known as the set up phrase.

The set up phrase is followed by the tapping sequence

We then tap on the other points, starting at the top of the head (TH), down through eyebrows (EB) , side of the eye (SE), under the eye (UE), under the nose (UN), chin (CH), collar bone (CB), under the arm (UA).

 

 

We tap reasonably hard, not so that it hurts! But so we can feel it, it is not vital to tap an exact spot, tapping anywhere around the point will do the job, although I find it more effective if you do hit the exact spot, you can find videos to show you the exact spot.

 

As we tap on each point we state an element of the set up phrase and the level we felt it at.

 

(TH)This anxiety

(EB)This anxiety

(SE)At a level of 6

(UE)This anxiety

(UN)In my stomach

(CH) Churning orange ball

(CB)This anxiety

(UA)At a level of 6

(TH)This anxiety

(EB) Churning orange ball

(SE)At a level of 6

(UE)This anxiety

(UN)In my stomach

(CH)Churning orange ball

(CB)This anxiety

(UA)At a level of 6

 

Now we stop, take a deep breath and feel what has happened.

 

The likelihood is that the level has dropped and a heavy possibility is that the shape or colour might well have changed.

 

Now we can repeat the process until the feeling has disappeared or is at a level we are content with.

 

Again – this is an absolutely simplistic example of how EFT works just to demonstrate the process…