What is LED tapping you might ask? Well, my friend Al Rodee from EFT Atlantic gave me the idea yesterday at the weekly EFT group. Instead of tapping the points physically, imagine the points lighting up with LED lights.

This morning on my walk I wanted to work through a few ideas that had sprung up yesterday, but I did not want to break the stride of my walking with physical tapping, so I gave this LED idea a go.

I have to say it worked like a charm, even better than I anticipated. At first I only imagined the spots lit up with yellow light (I think you could use any color light you want and it would work). Then I imagined that the light was flashing on that spot as long as I stayed on it.

I started with the karate chop point blinking and “even though I have this problem” and repeated it 3 times

Then I moved through all the tapping points, imagining each one blinking while I said the reminder phrase in my mind. I stayed at each spot for as long as it took me to say the reminder phrase or whatever I wanted to say in my head.

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I would love to hear about your experience once you have tried this way of tapping this way.

EFT Universe

Our beloved www.emofree.com site is closing with Gary Craig’s retirement. In its place is a brand new site called EFTUniverse.com and it looks just like its old mother site with all the articles. This is great resource site. Thank you Dawson Church for doing this.

I have a few EFTers I follow on Twitter and find there are always interesting links to articles and videos.

Then I came across a really cool Twitter list call “Top EFTers Who Tweet” with many, many EFTers all in one place. All you have to do it click on the ones you want to follow, rather than have to search for each one individually and then add them.

I find that often I will find out about something new, that I had never heard of by reading tweets.

When I first discovered EFT I was searching all over the net for articles. I added sites to my bookmarks like crazy. Then one day I came across Articlebase site. It is a free online article database. It does not only store EFT based articles, but it articles about any subject you can  think of.

I also discovered that some of the articles have also appeared on the writer’s own websites, but it is so much easier to have them all in one place.

Here are the links to the articles tagged with EFT and Emotional Freedom Technique. There may be some overlap.

• Articlebase EFT articles
• Articlebase Emotional Freedom Technique articles

As a parent , I am always on the lookout for any ideas that can help with my children. There are so many problems and incidents that can pop up that do not require medical intervention, but still need to be dealt with and often we don’t quite know where to start. So when I found out about EFT and how easy it its to use with children by making a game of pressing magic buttons, I just had to put an article together with a link to a wonderful resource section at Gary Craig’s site.

I am still trying to figure out why weight problems are so much in the headlines right now. So until figure it out, I moved the interesting weightloss article by Carol Solomon from the old site.

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By: Carol Solomon | Posted: 26-10-2008

Here’s an explanation of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for weight loss — how and why it works. EFT is a simple tapping technique similar to acupressure.

We all know about the way weight loss works, at least the way it is supposed to work . . . you know, that basic mathematical formula . . . expend more than you take in, and you’ll lose weight. But the advice we have all heard (eat less . . . exercise more) isn’t all that helpful.

Why is that?

One simple reason — there are emotions behind eating that interfere with the desire to lose weight.

I don’t have to tell you that obesity is at epidemic proportions. 2/3 of Americans are overweight. Diabetes eats up $1 of every $5 spent on healthcare. A recent study at Harvard showed that obesity may soon surpass tobacco as the #1 cause of cancer deaths.

At least 95% of dieters fail, and will regain their weight and more within 2 years.

The Mechanism of EFT for Emotional Eating and Weight Loss

Something very subtle is at the root of emotional eating. Unresolved emotional issues or traumatic events create blocks or disruptions in the body’s subtle energy system. These blocks create an “anxiety short circuit,” which in turn, causes someone to overeat.

The overeating calms the anxiety, but at the expense of consuming too many calories.

EFT is very soothing and relaxing. It usually removes the anxiety, and with the anxiety gone, the drive for emotional eating disappears. Further EFT helps to reprogram your energy system, so that you eat for nutrition, rather than having to tranquilize emotions.

It’s very similar to acupuncture in that way. People say that acupuncture is very relaxing. EFT has the same effect.

2 Ways To Help

EFT helps people resolve emotional issues because it addresses the energy imbalance as well as the negative emotions that are creating the energy imbalance. As you resolve your emotional issues at a deep energetic level using EFT, your self-defeating overeating behaviors will likely diminish or disappear, usually permanently.

This all happens without willpower. The tendency to respond to emotional issues by consuming food often fades. You are then freer to make other choices in response to emotions.

Addictive Cravings

Simply put, the cravings we get are often a result of stress, anxiety or another emotional event. Learning to deal with these moments without tranquilizing yourself with food can make a big difference in your ability to lose weight

People generally pay too much attention to external factors, such as obsessively counting calories, and not enough attention to internal factors, such as emotions and what’s going on inside.

Our bodies can actually crave high sugar and high fat foods in an attempt to medicate ourselves into a calmer state (we don’t like to be upset) when we are avoiding our emotions or feeling a lot of stress.

When we are in those emotional or stressful states, our body’s energy flow is blocked or disrupted, creating a zzzzzzt in the system, like a short circuit.

EFT can eliminate those cravings almost instantly.

It works like acupuncture to stimulate the meridian system to bring it back into balance. Many people choose EFT as a confidential way to work on emotional overeating issues. The key is using EFT regularly, if necessary. Many people just try it out and stop if they don’t get results right away.

How Else Can EFT Help For Weight Loss?

Besides stopping addictive cravings, EFT can help manage and sort out the emotions that drive them. We all know that it’s not as simple as “eat less . . . exercise more.” Simply managing the frustration and discouragement around weight loss issues is phenomenal.

EFT can help manage negative thoughts, such as “I’ll never lose weight, so why bother?” These thoughts are self-sabotaging in nature, and counterproductive.

Stopping self-sabotage is an essential piece of the weight loss puzzle. After all, what good is weight loss if you can’t hang onto it?

Copyright 2008 Carol Solomon

About the Author:
Carol Solomon, Ph.D. is a Psychologist, teacher, author and coach. She has written 2 ebooks on how to lose weight without dieting. Carol specializes in helping people lose weight and eliminate food and weight issues in their lives without diets, drugs or surgery. Register for her free email newsletter SLIM FOREVER at www.lose-weight-now-stay-slim-forever.com. For more information about her approach to EFT for Weight Loss, go to: www.LoseWeightWithEFT.com

 

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Another article that I just moved from the old site. It is helpful to know that EFT can be used to help us get a better night’s sleep without negative side effects like waking up drowsy.

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By: StewartRobertson | Posted: 04-12-2008

We probably all know that insomnia is a condition that inhibits us from easily falling asleep or staying asleep. Some people ridden with insomnia may find that they have great difficulty falling asleep. Others have no trouble falling asleep at all, but they do tend to wake up all too soon. Still, others find that they fall asleep with difficulty, and during the few times that they do fall asleep, they have trouble being asleep for an appropriate amount of time. The bottom line is insomnia means poor quality of sleep. And we know what that does to us, we feel more tired than ever and usually very sleepy during the day. We are typically depressed, irritable, and have trouble concentrating, recalling, and learning. Thus, we are hardly ever at our optimum performance in school or at work.

Insomnia can take two forms. Primary insomnia is a disorder that is usually temporary. Generally, primary insomnia can last anywhere from one month to a few months. Secondary insomnia, on the other hand, is the most common type of insomnia. It usually comes as a symptom or an effect of some other veiled or overt problem. A person may suffer from secondary insomnia as a result of a disease, pain, anxiety, depression, medications that include lack of or disrupted sleep as its side-effects, intake of caffeine, tobacco, or alcohol, restless legs syndrome, inappropriate sleeping conditions, or a change in sleeping habits.

If you are one of the increasing number of people suffering from bouts of insomnia, you may be nearing the end of your rope looking for a cure that is foolproof, convenient, and that offers lasting results. Fortunately, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) will definitely be able to help you. EFT primarily deals with a person’s energy systems, easing blockages in energy channels that arise when a person contemplates or gets engrossed in a particularly disturbing circumstance. EFT releases the blockage through a remarkable but scientifically-based tapping routine.

How can you get EFT to relieve you of insomnia? First, determine exactly what type of insomnia you experience by pinpointing at which time the sleeplessness generally occurs. Do you wake up in the middle of the night and then usually cannot go back to sleep anymore? Do you wake up too soon after you’ve successfully drifted off to sleep? Or do you simply find it difficult to go to sleep? After this, determine the chief stressors in your life like a deadline, a crisis, a childhood trauma, etc. Proceed to write down emotions or issues you may have about trying to get rid of insomnia and then determine each issue’s level of intensity on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the highest in intensity. Formulate affirmations and reminder clauses regarding these issues, an example of which is “Even though I feel the need to worry incessantly, I totally and honestly accept myself just as I am”. Starting from the most intense issue, tap on corresponding meridian points or accupoints using your index and middle fingers while reciting the affirmations and reminder clauses. The accupoints include the karate chop point, eyebrow, side of the eye, below the eye, under the nose, chin, collarbone, armpit, and at the top of the head. The intensity level of each issue should decrease after one or several tapping routines.

Indeed, EFT is the popular cure for insomnia nowadays. It provides lasting results and has mostly positive side effects. Not only that, it can be learned and remembered easily and is completely painless.

About the Author:

In order to know more on eft and about eft emotional freedom do meet your eft practitioner to get rid of hopeless situations and to become prudent in overcoming depressions and thereby ultimately to have a sound and robust peace of mind to move forward

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The following link offer a great resource of articles about ‘EFT for addiction and substance abuse’. Check out all the articles on Emofree.com

I came across this article when I first got into EFT and had it posted on my old site. As I am moving everything over to this site I moved the article also.

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By: StewartRobertson | Posted: 25-11-2008

Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT works successfully in controlling addiction and even substance abuse problems. There have been a lot of testimonies from people who have been cured of their addiction and abuse problems.

There various kinds of addiction and EFT work in almost all of these. Some of the common types or addictions or addictive patterns include illegal drugs, smoking, alcohol, eating or food, sex, shopping, among many others.

The results of EFT in these addictive conditions, according to numerous testimonies, are immediate and most of the time permanent. EFT works first and foremost on curbing the cravings of people in order to empower them to turn their backs from their addictions. EFT experts cite that addiction is not really about the object, substance, or the habit that people are addicted to or crave for, but the issues beneath the addiction.

EFT nips the problem or addiction in the bud, so to speak. It zeroes in on the underlying causes of addiction or what prompt people to smoke, get drunk, engage in excessive sex, overeat etc. Of course, the causes or ‘triggers’ differ from one person to another.

Most of the time the addiction can be traced from emotional and mental issues such as stress, anxiety, anger, guilt, fear among others, some of which may have scarred the person or caused trauma. These emotional or mental traumas or issues should be settled first, before the person can be freed from addition. If not, he or she will just move from addiction to another.

The process of facing one’s addiction is not as simple as it sounds and should not be forced under any circumstances. People with addiction should not be forced to withdraw from their addiction right away. It should be done gradually and in the most natural way. Each person should progress following their own pace.

Likewise, there is a different starting point for every person. To each his or her own, as they say. The important thing is that the person is relaxed or comfortable enough so that the process of eliminating his or her addiction will be effective. Acceptance is the key. The person should be reminded that despite the phobic condition, the person is loved or the he or she loves himself or herself. Eventually, the addiction will subside.

EFT has solved long-term addictions involving alcohol, cigarettes, and even illegal drugs or substances. Since most of these addictions are deep-seated, it takes many EFT sessions for the individuals involved to overcome the addictive substance’s hold on them. EFT experts or therapists usually press the addiction sufferers for the first time they smoked, drank alcohol or took drugs. Then they ask them about the circumstances at that time the urge or craving to do so appear. What is their mental or emotional state at those times when the cravings persist? Eventually, the desire or urge to smoke, drink or take drugs would lessen then finally disappear.

EFT works for some of the most unusual addictions as well such as nail-biting, hand-washing, hoarding, ice cream, computer, chocolate, or other food cravings.

About the Author:

In order to know more on eft and about eft emotional freedom do meet your eft practitioner to get rid of hopeless situations and to become prudent in overcoming depressions and thereby ultimately to have a sound and robust peace of mind to move forward.

 

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When I read this article the first time, I thought that this would make a great reference article and that’s why I have added to my articles category.

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By: Kelly Meisak | Posted: 03-12-2008

In February 2006 I skidded out of control in my car and crashed violently into a set of railings. My car was written off, but I exited unscathed and felt particularly lucky to only have suffered a bit of whiplash. A week later while styling a client’s hair in my hairdressing salon I collapsed suddenly.  Never before had something of this nature happened to me and it was so strange and frightening.  From that day onward I continued to get worse.  I began fainting once or twice a day which built quickly to five or six.  I suffered head rushes, constant dizziness, severe sweating, intense nausea and an exhaustion I never knew existed.  At its worst I could barely walk, and standing for more than one or two minutes would cause me to collapse.  My life truly fell apart around me.  I went from being a lively stylist and manager of a busy salon who was full of health and fun, to the equivalent of an elderly bedridden woman, and at the age of nineteen it was a transition much faster and more abrupt than I could accept.

I wasn’t willing to go down without a fight.  I saw several different G.P’s up to seven times, I visited every local hospital in the area as both an in and out patient and went through extensive tests, then also at three specialist hospitals in the city.  As you can imagine, even getting out of the car to the doors of the hospital caused considerable difficulty and I eventually gave in to a wheelchair.  In summer 2007 I was finally diagnosed with M.E/ chronic fatigue.  Sadly however, being diagnosed did not mean that I could receive treatment.  There was no treatment available through the NHS and they suggested I might have it all of my life.  I tried everything; a chiropractor, Bowen therapy, herbal supplements, acupuncture, neuro linguistic programming, cognitive behavioural therapy, and mickel therapy amongst others.  Some made little dents in it, others made none but I continued to search, some might say obsessively.  I was very aware that I had my health in my own hands and that if I didn’t do something about it, no one else would.   I did however enjoy the searching; it gave me a sense of hope.  I had always had a real passion for self help techniques and alternative therapies and to be honest reading all those books gave me something to fill those long days.  It kept my mind active and productive and it’s only now that I realise how vital it actually was.

Suddenly I started to notice ‘emotional freedom technique’ was popping up in front of me quite often and I had ignored it for some time because, by my own admission, I thought it might have been new age or religious.  It stuck in my mind and one day I found myself in the familiar spot in my local bookshop – in the mind, body and spirit section – where I was browsing what I hadn’t already read when there it was again, annoyingly protruding in front of all the other books.  I gave in, picked it up and skimmed the back of the book and found myself pleasantly surprised that this was exactly the type of book that would really interest me.

I got home and delved in straight away.  It hooked me so strongly that I could hardly read fast enough.  I didn’t’ want to fool myself and be carried away by something too good to be true – every other therapy has started with great optimism that THIS would be ‘the one’.  There was a sense of exciting recognition.  I raced to the method, read it through a few times, reminded myself not to get too excited and had a rough try at the anxiety that had been plaguing me since long before my illness began.  At first I thought I was crazy.  It had definitely made a difference.  I worried that perhaps I was so incredibly desperate for a cure that I had in some way imagined it.  I checked, and double checked, and triple checked.  It had definitely made a change.

My symptoms began to improve immediately.  Although I was better, but to be honest still ill, I booked myself a month later on an EFT practitioner course in Birmingham with one of only 28 EFT masters in the world, Karl Dawson.  I found myself in my hotel room the night before the course wondering how it all had happened so fast and it seemed, with no effort at all.

The course was mind blowing.  I saw such amazing things that weekend that I never thought I could attribute to an ‘alternative therapy’.  I remember waiting at the airport in the departures area waiting to go home and literally just sitting for about an hour watching everyone around me.  I saw all of the aches and pains in people and I had never been aware of them before.  I felt so empowered.  I wanted to work my way through every single one of them, helping them with this amazing therapy that would give them results like nothing they had ever experienced before.  There was a sense of peace and security within me that day, knowing that I had a resource that could change lives for the better – my own included.

Through the following months I worked both with other practitioners and on my own on gradually getting myself back to full health.  And here I am.  It was in no way an overnight cure, but EFT truly gave results where nothing else did.  Looking back, EFT was a fork in the road for me.  The life that I might still be living if it wasn’t for EFT doesn’t bear thinking about.  That illness was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to go through, and although there were times I was so sure I was going nowhere, I was still moving forward.  It has given me a compassion that did not exist so deeply within me beforehand.  It has given me a career that truly means something to me, and is of incredible value to those that I treat.  I feel that I am making a difference to this world, and that alone is invaluable to me.

About the Author:
A passionate EFT practitioner in Lanarkshire, Scotland. www.thelifeclinic.vpweb.co.uk

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