Our hearts hold a tremendous amount of love and joy, but they also hold pain, worry, guilt and sadness. These unpleasant emotions tend to pent up leading to distress and emotional and physical burnout. If you want to decode your emotions and free yourself from the emotional tension then this Emotional freedom technique is the right one for you.
The emotional freedom technique has been around for quite some time and can be used to deal with both physical and psychological suffering. With the core premise behind EFT being that "the origin of all negative emotions and beliefs is a disturbance in our body's energy system," EFT tends to help you in dealing with it by reducing the disturbance and encouraging our energies towards an equilibrium.
The technique employs acupuncture and tapping methods to bring the energies back to equilibrium, and it can be performed in the following steps:
Identify the root cause of the problem that you wish to overcome.
After identifying the issue, let’s put a benchmark for intensity on it, between 1-10 ( 10 being the worst and 1 being best)
Framing your EFT sentence, according to the problem and identifying it. It can be something like “ Even though I have <problem> , I love and accept myself as I heal and integrate that part of me”, and you repeat this at least 3 times.
Tap on the karate chop point and start reciting your EFT statement
After the karate chop point, follow the same for all the points Performing the acceptance affirmation thrice each time.
The tapping points, in sequence, are as follows:
After every round, assess the intensity of your issue again and see if you feel better about it.
And finally, repeat, this is a very important part of the whole process. You may not get the required relief after one round but the more you practice it, the easier it would become to deal with the issues you are facing
