Q. 1 What is EFT?

A.EFT is short for Emotional Freedom Techniques, the name that Gary Craig, the founder of EFT

gave to this method

 

Q. 2 Does EFT have lasting effects?

A. EFTs results are usually permanent. Case histories are filled with reports of people who have

had lasting results...even though the problem was relieved in moments. This is evidence that EFT

is addressing the true cause of the problem. Otherwise, it would not be so long lasting. Please

remember, however, that EFT doesn't do everything for everyone. Some problems seem to

reappear and that is usually caused by different aspects of the original problem showing up at a

later time.

 

Q. 3 If EFT works so rapidly, how can it be effective?

A. Throughout history healing techniques of various kinds have usually been slow and inefficient

 until someone finds the true remedy for the ailment. When the true remedy is found, everything

changes and the old methods become relics of the past.

 

Q.4 How can I know if it's really EFT that's helping me?

A. There's no way that you can know for certain that EFT has brought about any particular change

, but this same thing can be said

 of any effective form of therapy and even of certain medicines. It's often hard to trace what really

causes a given result.

 

Q.5 Can EFT be used to achieve positive goals as well as solve problems?

A. As any accomplished athlete will tell you, mental set is critical to performance. This is the

reason why sports psychologists are in such great demand. It is well known that any negative

emotion, even the mildest one, and even one that the person is not totally conscious of, or not

 conscious of at all, can be absolutely critical to a person's performance. EFT provides a

remarkable solution to this problem. The results can often be dramatic.

 

Q.6 Can EFT take away too much fear and leave me without proper caution?

A. Fear is self-protective and a necessary part of life, but that useful part of fear is never lost

through EFT. What EFT takes away is unreasoning fear and panic, and this leaves you much

 better able to cope with any difficult or even dangerous situation.

 

Q.7 Will EFT take away healthy normal grief?

A. EFT is useful, not so much in eliminating healthy normal grief, but in redirecting it. It has

been found that if someone uses EFT to prepare for an impending death of a loved one, or for

 grieving after that person has died, that its use can often transform the personal pain

(and any resentment at the very fact of the loss) into a new feeling about the person who has

 gone.

 

Q.8 Can EFT be used to relieve physical pain and discomfort?

A. A possible explanation for the effect of EFT on physical pain and distress, or on illness, is

its interesting relationship to acupuncture. It is known and accepted by many hospitals in the

West, as well as in China where acupuncture originated, that stimulating certain acupuncture

 points can have an extraordinary effect in reducing the amount of pain that people experience.

Therefore, it is not surprising that since there is a strong parallel between the points used in

EFT and some traditional acupuncture points, that EFT should have an alleviating effect on

bodily pain. However, EFT seems to do much more than reduce pain when it is effective for a

physical condition. In a surprising number of instances it is far more helpful than one might

logically expect it to be. Probably the most likely explanation for this is the existence of the

mind-body connection which is now being widely recognised in medicine as well as psychology.

In actual fact, the evidence is striking for the effects of EFT on the body, and interestingly,

applying EFT for emotional issues often brings about the cessation of physical symptoms as a

 by-product. As the person taps away distress about an emotional issue, a breathing problem

may go away, a headache vanish, joint pain subside, or even serious medical symptoms improve.

 

Q.9 Are EFT's results due to either placebo effects or distraction?

A. No! Placebo effects require some belief in the process and this is rarely the case for

newcomers to EFT. Also, although EFT may appear to be distracting, it will not work if the client is,

 in fact, distracted. That is why the client continually repeats a reminder phrase which 'tunes in' to

the problem.

 

Q.10 How does EFT differ from Thought Field Therapy (TFT)?

A. TFT uses similar principles as EFT but uses 10 or 15 different tapping routines (called algorithms)

 each of which is designed to cover a specific issue such as trauma, phobias, depression, etc.

Anything not covered by those individual routines (e.g. insomnia, dyslexia, etc) requires a diagnostic

process. EFT, by contrast, uses only one comprehensive tapping routine to cover all issues

 (not just 10 or 15).

 

Q.11 Are there any negative side effects?

A. By comparison to almost any other process, EFT is quite gentle and rarely has any serious

 side effects.