EFT for Everyone                

An EASY Introduction to the
Emotional Freedom Techniques


Dear Reader,

Thank you for taking the time to read this brief introduction to the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). I have written this manual to introduce you to this exciting new method, and to encourage you to seek further training in the EFT process. You may save or print this manual and distribute it freely to anyone you think might benefit from it.

There is much more to the Emotional Freedom Techniques than I can teach in these few pages. When you finish reading this manual I hope you will investigate additional EFT Training materials. We particularly recommend the class "Emotional Freedom Training" by Paul Cutright, and the E-Books "Adventures in EFT" and "The Advanced Patterns of EFT" by Silvia Hartmann, and the Foundational EFT Course by Gary Craig. Parents may also want to investigate "EFT For Parents" by Karen Curry.

Most of all, we want you to be able to start using EFT immediately. So, happy tapping,

Love, Karen
 

When nothing else works… Tap on it!

A woman has such a strong phobia of flying that she can barely even drive to the airport to pick up a friend. Her body is wracked with nausea when she thinks about taking a plane trip, and nothing has worked to help her. With the guidance of a coach she “taps” on her phobia and now she can fly on an airplane without anxiety.

A man has migraine headaches and nothing ever seems to help them. With the guidance of a practitioner, he “taps” on the headaches and they appear less frequently and with much less intensity than before. He “taps” some more on his own, and the painful migraine headaches eventually disappear permanently.

A woman feels guilty about not making weekly visits to her parents’ house, (“You never come to see us anymore”) even though visiting requires hauling her four children over there and disrupting her family’s weekend schedule. She “taps” on her guilt and then decides that her parents can make the effort to drive the 10 minutes over to her house once in a while. Her guilt is gone and her weekends are not so stressful.

A child has recurring nightmares about monsters coming out of his bedroom closet at night. With his mother’s help, he “taps” on the nightmares, which do not return. In their place he has nice dreams.

What do these people have in common?
They have discovered that when they are stuck with a problem that won’t go away, and nothing else has worked to solve it, they can “tap” on that problem with the Emotional Freedom Techniques.


EFT = The Missing Tools!

Imagine that you live in a house where everything is broken, and you don’t have any tools to make the repairs – not even a wrench. You know what is wrong in the house, but you just can’t fix it. You probably don’t enjoy living in that house very much -- it feels like a dump. Then a friend drops off some tools from the hardware store and he shows you how to use them. Now you can repair the house and enjoy living in it much more!

YOU are like that house, parts of your life don’t seem to be working the way you want them to. You may have physical, psychological, emotional, or even spiritual issues that you wish you could resolve. But try as you might, you don’t always seem to have the right tools to fix your life.

Now, imagine, for a minute, that each one of your “problems” is the result of a disruption in your body’s natural healing system. Your body and mind would heal themselves if you could remove those disruptions… All you need are the right tools to remove those disruptions to your system. EFT provides the tools you need to remove the disruptions in your body’s natural healing systems!


IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT EFT

1) EFT Often Works When Nothing Else Will! Try it and see.

2) EFT is a TOOL. A screwdriver works on everything from cars to videocassette recorders. EFT is like that. It is a general tool that can be used to "repair" your emotional system.

3) Training is Required to Master EFT. If you gave me a set of tools and asked me to repair your car, I would say “NO WAY!" To fix a car would require that I know something about applying the tools to an automobile. EFT is a like a tool and YOU are like the mechanic. EFT works IF you know how to apply it, which you learn through training.

4) EFT is a Self-Applied Process. Like exercise or meditation, you get out of EFT what you put into it.


WHERE DID EFT COME FROM?

In the mid 1990's, a man named Gary Craig took elements from other Meridian Energy Therapies and he created a simple healing protocol which he named the "The Emotional Freedom Techniques." He began teaching those techniques to people in workshops and with video tapes of his seminars. Psychologists, personal coaches, hypnotherapists, massage therapists, chiropractors and others have flocked to EFT in overwhelming numbers. For many professionals it has become their main personal development tool.

The Emotional Freedom Techniques have an interesting history which has been recorded in detail in videos, training manuals, and on Gary Craig's web site. For those who want to know the full history and development of EFT, or to read additional case studies, see Gary's web site, www.emofree.com.


HOW EFT WORKS

THE DISCOVERY STATEMENT
The basic theory behind the application of EFT is expressed in what Gary Craig calls the "Discovery Statement":

“THE CAUSE OF ALL NEGATIVE EMOTIONS IS A DISRUPTION IN THE BODY’S ENERGY SYSTEM”

or you could say...

"THE CAUSE OF ALL PROBLEMS IN LIFE IS A DISRUPTION IN THE BODY'S ENERGY SYSTEM"

In other words, EFT works because it balances the body's energy system and restores the flow of energy to its normal pattern. When energy and emotions are allowed to flow normally, the body and the mind can heal themselves.


HOW TO DO EFT: THE MECHANICS

IMPORTANT NOTE: The description below is a short-cut version of EFT which is effective much of the time. If you would like to learn the complete EFT tapping system and the history of the Emotional Freedom Techniques, please visit our EFT Training page for additional resources.


THE TWO PARTS OF EFT
EFT has two parts, the Set Up and the Tapping. The Set Up is kind of like setting up the bowling pins (the issue) and the Tapping is kind of like knocking down the bowling pins.

When you say the Set Up phrase you focus on the issue you want to resolve, bringing it into your awareness, and when you do the Tapping, you tap on several “energy” points on your body. The “energy” points relate to the meridian points from Chinese Medicine and are sometimes called acupuncture points or acupressure points. Some people simply refer to these points as “relaxation” points, because you will often feel very relaxed after you tap on the points a few times.


THE SET UP
For the Set Up part of EFT you identify the issue you want to tap on, and you say a very special phrase while tapping on the side of your hand (SH) with one or more fingers from your other hand.

Here is the typical Set Up phrase:

"Even though I have this (name the issue), I deeply and completely accept myself."

You can adapt the Set Up to fit any situation or issue. In advanced practice, the way you say the Set Up can sometimes make ALL the difference in whether or not the tapping works. Learning to say THE exact Set Up that will help THE exact problem you are working on is a skill which you will develop as you practice EFT.

As a beginner you can use the standard Set Ups such as:

“Even though I have this back pain, I deeply and completely accept myself.”

“Even though I feel angry at that car that just pulled out in front of me, I deeply and completely accept myself.”

“Even though my I want that piece of cake, I deeply and completely accept myself.”


TAPPING THE POINTS
You tap gently on certain points on your body–hard enough to feel it, but not hard enough to hurt yourself. You will tap between 5 to 10 times on each point with one or two fingers. Then you will go to the next point.

As you tap on the meridian points, you repeat to yourself a “reminder” phrase to keep the issue in your mind. For example, if you are tapping on a headache, you say “this headache” as you tap. Repeating the reminder phrase keeps you focused on the issue at hand.


A SUMMARY OF THE SET UP AND TAPPING PROCEDURE
1. Identify an issue or problem you want to work on (such as a pain, an unpleasant memory, a food craving, a fear, etc.). Be specific in identifying the issue. For example, you might say “this pain on the lower left side of my back.”

Give that issue an intensity rating on a scale from 1—10.
(1 = barely noticeable, 5 = moderately annoying, 10 = unbearable).

2. Say the affirmation while tapping the (SH) point.

"Even though (name the problem), I deeply and completely accept myself."
Example: “Even though I have this pain on the lower left side of my back , I deeply and completely accept myself.”

3. Tap 5 - 10 times on each of the following energy points while focusing your mind on the problem you just rated. And keep the issue in mind by saying a “reminder” phrase while you tap.

7 Energy Points: EB, SE, UE, UN, CH, CB, UA

4. Check in with your mind and rate the problem again. Is it still a 10? an 8? a 2? If it is not a zero (0), repeat the EFT sequence.

DIAGRAM OF BASIC EFT POINTS






HOW TO DO EFT: THE ART

There is an art to doing EFT well that cannot be taught in any book. You have to see it, hear it, and experience for yourself. To learn the art you must work with a practitioner, watch training videos, or take a class (such as Paul Cutright's audio class "Emotional Freedom Training"). Nonetheless, I have included a couple of advanced topics here for those who want to understand more about how EFT works. (If you want to view Gary Craig's original EFT trainings from the 1990's, they are currently available only on CD for computer viewing through Windows Media Player. See www.emofree.com for more information.)


ADVANCED EFT CONCEPTS

TREATING DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF A PROBLEM
Occasionally you will clear an issue with only one round of tapping. Most issues, on the other hand, will have several parts or “aspects” which must be addressed.

The “Headache” example below illustrates the “one-minute miracle” where a problem goes away after only one or two rounds of tapping. The “Fear of Driving on an Overpass” example shows how a supposedly simple phobia actually consists of several completely separate sub-issues, or aspects, which must be addressed individually before the phobia dissolves.

In EFT lingo we call each of these sub-issues an “aspect” of the main issue. When you tap on a problem, you may have another feeling or other problem pop into your head. This is your mind telling you “Hey, there is more to this issue, here is the next aspect you need to tap on.” To successfully clear the negative emotions from an event, you must address ALL of the aspects. It just won’t do to address one small part and leave the rest of the sub-issues untouched.

A good way to learn to treat aspects is to work with an EFT practitioner or listen to recorded EFT sessions. When you hear or see an EFT session you will clearly understand what aspects are and how to chase them.


AN IMPORTANT ASPECT TO TREAT
Many problems you tap on with EFT will have the following aspect which needs to be addressed before you get to the other aspects of the issue. This aspect is sometimes called psychological reversal or secondary gain. I believe these are really the same idea stated in different ways, but I will list them both for the reader’s benefit.

When you have psychological reversal or secondary gain your unconscious programming maintains the opposite condition of what is in your best interest. In other words, some part of your mind thinks that to get over the problem will require giving up something that you need or that is essential for your survival.

This condition can result in subsequent self-sabotage.

Conscious Mind =
“I want to get over this problem.”

Unconscious Mind =
“I don’t want to get over this problem because…”

Reason not to get over a problem:
1. If I get over this problem ______________ (something bad) will happen.
2. If I get over this problem ______________ (someone) won’t love me/take care of me/pay attention to me anymore.
3. I deserve to have this problem because I did or thought about doing ______________________ (some bad thing).
4. I don’t deserve to get over this problem because other people are worse off than I am.
5. I can’t recover because then I will have to _______ (some responsibility)

Our mind can hold onto thousands of reasons for not getting over an issue. Let’s look at some examples of how stoppers work against you when you tap.


Example One:
A boy gets sick. His Mom, who usually works, takes the day off and lavishes attention on boy. This pattern is repeated throughout childhood. The boy grows up into a healthy man and gets married.

The grown man has very busy wife, who is CEO of her own company, and who works until 8 p.m. every night. The seemingly healthy grown man repeatedly comes down with flu, colds, etc. Nothing seems to help him get better, so he tries tapping. He taps on his "repeated illness" issue with no immediate improvement in symptoms, but he realizes that he misses his wife when she works late every night. He thinks that there might be a secondary gain for keeping his illnesses, such as the belief: If I get sick, people will pay more attention to me. This is, in fact, the exact pattern he learned in childhood.

So, the grown man taps on his feeling of needing attention from his wife:

Even though I feel like my wife is not paying enough attention to me, I deeply and completely accept myself. tap…tap…tap

Immediate result: The man realizes he can simply ask his wife for more attention. He asks wife to take off early on Wednesdays so they can spend some time together.

Long term result: He gets sick less often, finds other appropriate ways to get attention.

In the example above, the grown man had no conscious knowledge of his secondary gain belief, and, his pattern of illnesses no longer gained attention as it did in childhood. It was an old energy pattern that no longer served him and his highest good, yet it was resurfacing repeatedly. Tapping might not have helped improve his health in any way, because some part of him wanted to stay sick in order to get attention.

Please note: in the example above the man was not getting sick on purpose! The whole cycle was entirely unconscious on his part. A few rounds of tapping on his getting sick issue didn’t solve the getting sick, but it did point him in the direction of the real issue, which was that he wanted to spend more time with his spouse.

Many health problems (both physical and psychological) have very obvious secondary gains which no one seems to notice UNTIL THEY TAP ON IT. We have seen so many clients get a look of enlightenment on their faces when they realize they may have been unconsciously maintaining an unhealthy life pattern because it got them something that they wanted in the past, but that no longer serves their highest good in the present time.

You may think you want to get over a particular habit or fear, but there may be a part of you that wants to keep that problem. Look for the secondary gain in an issue and tap on letting go of the need for that secondary gain, and–surprise–you will find the issue opens right up and begins to improve.


Example Two:
An attractive woman dates and or marries several men over a decade, all of whom end up abusing her either physically or emotionally.

The woman divorces her most recent abuser and gains 50 pounds. Years later woman struggles to lose weight. Diets don’t work and she just gains more weight. The woman feels like her body is working against her.

She discovers EFT and has new hope. She taps on food cravings and similar issues with little result in terms of actual weight lost. Knowing there might be a secondary gain for keeping the weight on, she asks herself, “If I lose this weight then __________________.”

The woman has a huge “aha” moment and realizes she might holding on to excess weight in order to look less attractive to men, so they will not “hit” on her and so she will not begin another relationship with another man who might abuse her just like the others did.

She taps on her unconscious fear of attracting men:

Even though I am afraid to lose weight because I will look more attractive to men, I deeply and completely accept myself.

Even though I always attract the wrong kind of man, I deeply an completely accept myself.

Etc…

Immediate result: The woman laughs at herself and realizes she has been keeping the weight on to keep from attracting men. While her conscious mind was saying “I’ve got to lose some weight!” her unconscious mind was screaming out “I’ve got to stay fat!”

Long term result: She continues to tap on her issues of attracting dangerous men, and she gradually loses weight with less effort than before.

(These are real examples and not at all uncommon).


TREATING YOURSELF FOR REVERSAL OR SECONDARY GAIN BLOCKS
"Psychological reversal" and "secondary gain" can be treated like anything else by simply to tapping on the issue directly. If your issue does not improve with EFT adapt one of the following types of Set Up phrases to your specific issue and try again.

“Even though I don’t really want to get over this problem, I deeply and profoundly accept myself.”
“Even though part of me wants to stay sick…”
“Even though some part of me enjoys feeling this sadness…”
“Even though I don’t want to heal my grief yet…”
“Even though I like having this problem…”

If you remain stuck, seek help from a an EFT Practitioner. The result of secondary gain is that the people who have the most to gain from EFT often won’t use it PRECISELY BECAUSE IT WORKS! Part of the mind desperately wants to hang on to that issue for protective reasons, or because that negative energy pattern is the only one that the person’s system has known. If you get stuck on secondary gain tap with a practitioner.


EFT SUCCESS STORIES

Below are short summaries of three EFT success stories. As a beginner you may experience a success rate of about 50% with EFT. We include these stories to illustrate how someone can apply EFT to a specific issue with success.


A HEADACHE DISSOLVES IN ONE ROUND OF TAPPING

The case study below illustrates a straight-forward physical complaint which clears very easily, what we often call a “one-minute miracle.”

One of my first personal successes with EFT involved a simple headache I had after a tiring day at the office. I said the following Set Up phrase three times and then tapped the points

Even though I have this headache, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Even though I have this headache, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Even though I have this headache, I deeply and completely accept myself.

tap…tap…tap…

Headache gone.

NOTE: I have had other headaches that took several rounds of tapping to eliminate, so don’t give up if yours doesn’t disappear instantly. Remember that if the true cause of your headache rests in some physiological need, then your tapping will probably not make the headache disappear. For instance, if you have consumed very little water during the day, you may have a dehydration headache. You try tapping, but during the tapping you may notice you feel thirsty. So drink some water! Or, you may need to catch up on sleep and your headache is a message from your body saying “Hey, take a nap!” So you should take a nap!


A “DRIVING ON AN OVERPASS” PHOBIA

This next case study shows how one short event lasting only a few minutes can create patterns in a person’s energy system. These patterns can exert control over that individual for the rest of her life unless the “short circuit” is corrected with EFT.

Kathy had come to a seminar on “EFT for Weight Loss” and had made some good progress during the day. She responded wonderfully to EFT and at the end of the afternoon session, she asked if I could help her with a phobia relating to driving over a particular highway overpass in Houston.

This phobia caused her to feel fearful and tense whenever she had to drive on this overpass or similar ones, so she would usually drive out of her way to avoid having to go on that part of the freeway. This particular phobia didn't appear to hamper her life tremendously, but it was a nuisance to feel so controlled by a simple fear of driving on one stretch of the highway.

Consciously, she felt silly not being able to drive on the highway like any normal person. No amount of conscious reasoning would unlock the stuck pattern in her mind-body system however, and she remained prisoner to her emotional and physiological reactions.

Kathy even knew the source of this fear, but knowing it didn’t make the fear go away.

She explained to me that she had been in a very bad accident on a similar highway overpass about two decades earlier. The previous accident had not been her fault in any way. She had come over the hill and had run into a multi-car pileup that had started several cars ahead of her on the freeway.

The accident had begun with only two cars, but because the overpass went up steeply on the front side, she had not been able to see the accident over the crest of the hill. And when she came over the top of the hill at about 50 mph, there was no time to stop. Several other cars did the same, resulting in a multi-car collision.

She was not seriously injured in the wreck, but some people in another car had been killed, and she saw their bodies being taken away. She was taken to the hospital for minor injuries, and her mother came to get her. Since that time, driving over similar overpasses, especially very steep ones where the far side is not visible, continued to scare her.

Kathy felt more than normal caution about such areas. She had so much fear that she would simply drive far out of her way to find a different route to where she needed to go, rather than cross such an overpass. If she could resolve this phobia she might save herself considerable time in getting through downtown.

We started by rating her fear of driving on the highway overpass, which she put at about an 8 or 9 on a scale of 1 to 10. I asked her where in her body she felt the tension when she had to drive on these kinds of overpasses. She said her stomach and chest would feel tight and compressed–knotted up.

First we tapped on her fear of driving on the overpass, and then we tapped on her most obvious physical symptoms with the following Set Ups:

“Even though I’m afraid to drive on the 610 overpass at I-10, I deeply and completely accept myself,” and,

“Even though I have this tension in my chest and stomach when I think about driving on that overpass…”

After each round of tapping I asked her to imagine driving over that part of the road and to rate her anxiety.

A couple rounds with these Set Ups had brought her anxiety down a little bit, to a 5 or 6. At that point I felt that we should move directly to the most obvious aspects of the anchoring event, the car accident from her youth, and go through each of those aspects one at a time.

(This session lasted about 45 minutes, so I will summarize my procedure order to save space. Before each round I would ask for a rating of 1 to 10 on that particular aspect, then we would tap a round and re-assess with a new rating of 1 to 10. If the aspect went to a zero, we would move on to another aspect; but, if an aspect still carried a negative feeling rated at 2 or 3 or whatever, we would continue to repeat the same Set Up until we got that aspect down to a zero. I won’t include all of the repetitions below, just the main Set Up phrases.)

We started with the following Set Ups:

“Even though I ran into another car, I deeply and completely accept myself.”

“Even though I can still hear the crunching of the metal...”

“Even though I wrecked my car…”

“Even though I still see the dead bodies from the other cars…”

After clearing a few of these aspects of the accident, Kathy felt a lightness in her body, and a lessening of anxiety. But she told me that one other aspect probably continued to bother her more than the actual wreck and its associated traumas. What made her feel the worst, and what had stuck with her the longest, was the look on her mother’s face when she (the mother) walked into the hospital, not knowing if her daughter had been badly injured.

So we tapped on her guilt in that situation.

“Even though I feel really guilty about the look on my mother’s face…” and,

“Even though I feel responsible for my mother’s fear at the hospital…” and

“Even though I made my mother sick with grief for several hours while she though I might be dead…”

It was during this last set of rounds that Kathy began to feel even better. At this point I asked her to tune into the idea of driving on that overpass, and rate her anxiety.

She tried to vividly imagine driving over that particularly steep stretch of highway. Before we started tapping, she had felt considerable fear and the tightness in her chest and stomach just from thinking about driving on that road. Now, however, she could not call up any fear. She felt sure that she could confidently tackle that part of the highway.

I tested her new confidence by having her imagine coming over the crest of the hill and seeing an accident on the road below her. She said she had maybe a little anxiety, maybe a 1 or 2 on the scale we had been imagining. So we did a couple of rounds on:

“Even though I’m afraid it might happen again…” and

“Even though I might have another accident like the one before…”

At this point Kathy felt completely clear of this phobia. We were not able to test her at that moment, she would have to do that on her own by actually driving on that stretch of the freeway. It might be that she would find a new aspect as she drove over the freeway in that spot.

Perhaps the particular time of day would trigger memories of her previous accident, or perhaps a certain color of car in front of her might cause her to remember more about that day in her youth. And her symptoms might return. On the other hand, it was very possible that she might never feel those particular symptoms in that situation ever again.

EFT typically produces permanent relief of symptoms when the anchoring events, or root causes, of a problem have been “cleared” with tapping. In this case the word “cleared” refers to the fact that the negative judgement or negative reaction has dissipated from the situation. The memories of the event remain, but without the emotional charge they had before tapping.


GOUT IN BOTH FEET

This next case study demonstrates the power of EFT to help a purely “physical” problem. It also illustrates the fact that we often know, at some level, what is really at the root of our pain.

Bob had a very painful case gout in his left foot and was just recovering from gout in his right foot when I met him. Medications and other treatments had produced a slight improvement, but the gout wasn't going away.

After chatting for a few minutes about EFT, Bob rated his pain for me. Sitting down he gave it an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10, but he said it would probably be a "10" if he were to put any weight on it. (He was using a walking stick to get around without hurting his foot.)

We started by tapping on the pain itself, and the swelling, just to see what would happen. We used the following Set Ups:

“Even though my foot hurts I deeply and completely accept myself…”

“Even though I have this pain in my foot…”

“Even though my foot is swollen…”

We made very little progress with these Set Up statements. Bob said the tapping felt good, and he felt maybe a little relaxation in his foot. He rated the pain at about a 6 or 7. We did a couple more rounds, but the pain did not decrease noticeably.

I had already suspected that we would need to address some deeper issues than the obvious presenting symptoms. For those with hypnotherapy training or who have read Louise Hay’s book Heal Your Body, you know that a problem with the feet can represent fear of moving forward, or fear of the future.

I asked Bob if he had any clues as to a potential emotional cause for his gout. Bob was very open minded about pursuing an emotional or mind-body connection, but we didn't get anywhere for the next few minutes. So I asked Bob to fill-in-the-blank on the following statement to draw out his unconscious knowledge.

“If I get over this gout then I will have to ______________” ???

As soon as I got to the blank, Bob grinned and blurted out “I’ll have to go back to work!”

An "aha" moment!

I had a strong intuition that the job had everything to do with the gout. So I asked for any reason why he would want to miss work, and he gave me a rundown of his current work situation.

Bob worked at a very successful and fast growing company that always seemed to be short on employees, owing to the constant increase in new customers. Being a supervisor and minority owner in the company, he felt tremendous pressure to take up the slack so that customers would get good service. For Bob that meant 10 — 12 hour days and working some Saturdays as well. (He is an artist and novelist to boot, and 12 hour days leave little time for a second career.)

Bob had worked this grueling schedule for a long time and saw no end in site. As long as the company kept growing, they would always be short on employees, and Bob would seldom, if ever, get a day off or a vacation.

As he told this story, I didn’t have to connect the dots for him, he could see an obvious connection between gout and having some time off of work. When he had had gout in his other foot, he had missed about four days of work, and now he was missing several more.

So now we had a lot to tap on. We used a number of Set Up phrases for the next 20 minutes or so, but for the sake of brevity I will summarize the procedure below. Here are some of the statements which we used:

“Even though I feel like I will never get a break from work….”

“Even though I see no end in site to my heavy workload…”

“Even though I feel guilty taking time off from work, because I own part of the company, and I feel responsible for its success…”

“Even though I think things will fall apart if I don’t take up the slack…”

“Even though I feel guilty asking the company to hire more help…”

and so on…

I periodically asked for a rating on Bob’s pain. Both the pain and the swelling came down considerably while we tapped, and Bob reported feeling “whooshes” and “zings” of energy flowing from his feet out his head during some of the rounds. His foot grew noticeably smaller before our very eyes.

We ran out of time, though, and had to wrap things up with Bob’s pain still at about a 1 or 2. We had made progress in finding an emotional root for the gout, and Bob could continue to use EFT on his own if he chose to do so.

A few days later he reported that the gout pain had continued to subside and he had returned to work the next Monday (we had tapped on a Saturday). More importantly, he informed his boss that he was going to work a more reasonable schedule in the future. He had no guilt about asking for this change. His attitude toward work had shifted considerably during our session of tapping.

The success stories above represent only a fraction of what the Emotional Freedom Techniques can do. The tapping process can literally be applied to ANY issue in your life!


COMMON QUESTIONS ABOUT EFT:

What will happen when I tap, will I feel anything changing?
Sometimes when you tap you will feel a verifiable physical change in your body, usually indicated by a big yawn, is deep breath, a burp, laughter, or a noticeable relaxation in your shoulders, throat, or stomach. Other times people report feeling “lighter” all over. Mentally, you may notice that an issue you worried about before simply does not concern you anymore.

Are there any negative side effects of EFT?
As for side effects, here are the ones I have encountered:
--a feeling of relaxation after tapping
--tiredness and a need for extra sleep after an intense breakthrough
--excessive yawning or even burping (energy shifts are taking place)

Aren’t there more meridian points on the body that can be tapped?
Absolutely. You can tap on many other points than the seven shown on the basic diagram. You can learn more about the other points in the Audio Training or from Sylvia Hartmann's book, Adventures in EFT.



CONCLUSION

If you have read this manual and started tapping, congratulations. You have just put a turbo rocket onto your personal improvement go-cart. Keep in mind that this manual barely touches on the vast potential of EFT as a tool for personal evolution. At this point, you may feel ready to pursue some vigorous results with EFT. To learn the full EFT system and the art of EFT you should seek additional EFT Training, or consider working with a skilled EFT Practitioner.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Karen Curry learned EFT from Gary Craig’s video series, and in live trainings with Gary and other EFT specialists. To learn more about Karen click here.

Thanks for taking the time to read this booklet. Help me promote peace by sharing it with others!

Sincerely,

Karen Curry
Joyful Mission
www.joyfulmission.com


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© 2001, 2002, 2003 Karen Curry
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Reprinted with permission.