IMAGINE...
Believing in and trusting yourself.
Showing up feeling confident and brave.
Feeling engaged, connected, useful and resilient.
LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO A TRANSFORMATIONAL TOOL
THAT WILL HELP YOU TO EASILY CHANGE
THE WAY YOU THINK
SO YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO DO THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE
or you may know it as TAPPING.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or Tapping is a combination of modern western psychology and the ancient practice of eastern acupressure wisdom. EFT literally rewires your neural pathways meaning you no longer process thoughts or emotions the way you did before.
The genius of tapping... with each bespoke session your fears, limiting beliefs or even addictions are released safely, effectively and fast, allowing you to find your true self and live life on your terms in a healthy and positive way.
THE ORIGINS
EFT is a combination of various psychological modalities.
Psychologist Aaron Beck - founder of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - discovered that replacing fears and negative automatic thoughts with more realistic and accurate thoughts, could help people heal from a variety of psychological problems.
Psychologist Joseph Wolpe, was a pioneer of Exposure Therapy, which is essentially remembering the problem, as opposed to pushing it down and not facing it. Wolpe also developed the stress scale called Subject Units of Discomfort (SUDS), that we use in EFT to gauge the emotional or physical pain level.
And then of course EFT draws upon the ancient Chinese acupuncture philosophies.
ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY
The philosophy is based on the understanding when we experience a traumatic event or have negative beliefs, those experiences can cause a block in your energy flow.
The latest statistics from Deloitte have shown that tapping can reduce anxiety by 40 per cent and increase happiness by 30 per cent.
Plus, the research has shown EFT has successfully treated anxiety disorders, depression, PTSD, addictions, phobias, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, panic attacks, attention deficit disorder, social anxiety, joint pain, headaches, arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and many more…
THE SCIENCE BIT
Within the brain there is an almond shaped part called the amygdala.
This is the source of emotions and long term memory and it activates the sympathetic nervous system - the fight, flight or freeze response which is a hard-wired neural pathway created over millennia. As a Neanderthal living over 350,000 years ago, they had to recognise and instantly react to potential threats like a sabre toothed tiger. They had one chance to figure it out, or be eaten!
Today, that stress response is extremely useful if there is a tiger in the room but, the same reaction can be triggered by; long working hours, looming deadlines, illness, painful memories, limiting beliefs... resulting in us being in a constant stressed state.
Long term stress leads to chronic inflammation which is the precursor to all disease. EFT allows the brain to rewire to an appropriate emotional response to the non life threatening situations.
WHAT IS A NEURAL PATHWAY?
Neurones are nerve cells that transmit nerve signals to and from the brain. The pathway along which information travels through the neurones of the brain is a neural pathway.
Every habit we learned creates a neural pathway in our brains. Tying our shoe laces, driving a car, freaking out at the sight of a spider, they are all neural pathways.
Neural pathways are responsible for the way we act and react to people and events that trigger different pathways and different responses. The reason why it can seem hard to break a habit, is because it’s a neural pathway that needs to be changed, and a new neural pathway created.
