Stress Relief Tool - Emotional Freedom Technique®

The Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT, is a remarkable healing modality that's based on the same principles that have been used for 1,000 years in acupuncture, except you don't need the needles. I used EFT as one of my therapies during my divorce, especially when my ex-wife would trigger negative emotions. Now, there are different variations that you can see if you search Brad Yates Tapping on YouTube. But the basic tapping process is as follows: Step 1, you get in touch with whatever negative emotion it is that's bothering you. Step 2, you gently tap a part of your body while you start saying the following statement: I feel— whatever your emotion is, let's say anger or sadness, fear, guilt about a certain person or situation, and I deeply and completely accept myself. You keep repeating this as you go through tapping different parts of your body. For example, I might say, I feel angry about the person who just cut me off on the freeway. I deeply and completely accept myself. And I keep repeating that as I tap the outside of my hand, between my eyebrows, under my eye, under my nose, my mid-chin, my collarbone, under my armpit, and the top of my head. So I go through each of these repeating that particular statement I mentioned earlier. And then at the end of going through that tapping process, what you do is you grab your, your right hand with your left wrist and anchor a feeling of gratitude by recalling a specific a specific experience for which you are grateful for. So, for example, for me, I'm absolutely grateful for the lovely house and beautiful area that I live in. Then you take a deep breath. When my therapist first demonstrated EFT to me, I had a hard time believing it would actually work because it looked so hokey. And obviously you wouldn't want to do this process with anybody looking at you, so you want to have some privacy. But don't judge the process by what you read or see. Give it a try and then decide if it works for you.