Understanding Emotional Freedom Technique
(aka EFT or "tapping")
You might be asking, what exactly is “EFT”?
When I first personally encountered EFT, I thought it was weird and strange. I didn’t want to get into anything that wasn’t of the Lord or Biblical so I just let it sit for awhile. But I’m a researcher of all things physical, emotional, and spiritual healing and this kept coming up. I read over 20+ books on the matter, discussed with Jesus, talked with practitioners, received many sessions myself, and really dug deep in order to learn more. And in the process of getting certified in Clinical EFT, I saw how incredible our breakthroughs can be!
The Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT, is the psychological acupressure technique that I now routinely use in my coaching practice and most highly recommend to optimize your emotional, mental, and physical health. Although it is still often overlooked, emotional health is absolutely essential to your physical health and healing — no matter how devoted you are to the proper diet and lifestyle, you will not achieve your body’s ideal healing and preventative powers if emotional barriers stand in your way.
What I’ve discovered is that God loves healing! And partnered with prayer, this method is nothing short of amazing.
I’ve been doing inner healing, deliverance, sozo, immanuel prayer, holistic health coaching, and mindset coaching for many years and adding “tapping” in has allowed me to help bring a powerful body, soul, and spirit breakthrough.
The breakthroughs I’ve both experienced personally and seen have been such a beautiful gift.
It also happens to be one of the top most effective, clinically studied techniques to help
And my passion is to bring freedom so that YOU can walk in all that God has called you to!
How Does it Work?
In essence, what EFT is is the release of physical and emotional pain through acknowledging its presence while verbally stating that you unconditionally accept and love yourself even in the midst of this pain and pressure.
So the therapy is taking place in the presence of healing LOVE rather than destructive self-judgment.
As you repeat these statements, you are gently tapping on several acupuncture points around your head and chest, with the goal of interrupting the negatively programmed energy flow, thus dismantling the learned fight/flight emotional response, which in turn allows positive emotions to come forth.
Jesus demonstrated that energy is conducted through touch, by laying on hands as He healed. Jesus, and those He touched, could sense the flow of God’s healing energy through touch (Mk. 5:28-34).
We know that thoughts and feelings of worry, pain, anxiety, fear, shame, frustration, anger, envy, bad memories and stressful events are damaging to your mind, body and soul.
The good news is that you can quickly learn this technique to clear out the negative emotions and make room for positive, joy-filled living.
Christian EFT is easy to learn and easy to practice. I invite you to experience the changes that using Christian EFT will bring. It will allow you to experience God’s healing and grace in a completely new way and will open your spirit to receive His solutions to life’s problems.
You will learn how to allow Him to release you from the addictive, compulsive and dysfunctional behaviors that hold you back from the authentic joy and peace that can be yours.
Christian EFT empowers you to:
- Release negative emotions and ungodly limiting beliefs
- Reframe your self-image and restore your confidence
- Release emotions that cause physical pain
- Embrace your real identity and true potential
- Overcome emotional eating and food cravings
- Set realistic goals and achieve them quickly and easily
- Improve personal and professional relationships
- Live and work with less interpersonal conflict
- End doubt, procrastination and self-sabotage
- Enhance your communication skills and connections with others
- Become a more effective friend, spouse and parent
- Learn simple techniques to better retain what you read or study
The process is free, quick, easy, has no harmful side effects and can be done anywhere you can get 5 minutes of privacy, plus it requires no equipment.
This study shows the brain scans of individuals experiencing a severe anxiety disorder who did 12 tapping sessions. Amazing!
Getting Started - Testing with Your Breathing
The best way to learn this technique is to test your breathing capacity.
Our breath is often affected with stress, thoughts, physical health challenges.
Instructions:
- START – by taking 3-4 deeper breaths. Tune in to your body when you do so. Notice any restrictions or feelings in your body.
- TEST – As you tune in to your body, I want you to feel about how much breath you can breathe in using a percentage: 0% means you’re not breathing at all and 100% means you can do a deep full breath with no restrictions at all. Write that percentage down.
- TAP – Walk through 1 very simple tapping round as explained in the video or in the handout below.
- CHECK-IN – Pause the tapping and take 3-4 deep breaths again and measure your percentage. Do you notice any shifts?
- TAP AGAIN – This time as you tap, try shifting your language just slightly to become a bit more specific: Is there anything physical, emotional, or mental that is coming up for you as you tap? Ask yourself as you tap
- NOTICE – Did an emotional thought or event arise as you were doing the exercise?
Put these issues on your list for a later tapping exercise either on your own or going deeper with your coach.
A Biblical and Prayer-Based View
A big question we all ask as we venture into something new is:
What is “Emotional Freedom Technique”? Is EFT tapping compatible with Scripture?
Is it safe and effective? Is it something I might want to try?
Are there ways to integrate the working of the Holy Spirit with EFT?
The overall answer would be “yes” it’s compatible with scripture, with the heart of God for wholeness, and can be integrated beautifully with a life headed towards freedom.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a method for discharging trapped emotions or bodily pain by releasing blocked energy. Since physical pain is often the result of emotional stress, and emotional stress is often connected to ungodly beliefs, all three of these can and should be addressed together in an EFT session (i.e. pain, emotions and beliefs). EFT is also called “Tapping,” because you are tapping about 3-7 times on each of nine different acupuncture points as you cycle through the process.
Biblical:
- Jesus touched/healed … (Matt. 8:3).
- David FULLY owns and admits his need/issue/problem (Ps. 73:1-16).
- I am cleansed by His blood. – “I have nothing against myself” (1 Cor. 4:4).
- Peter – re-identifies with his sin (Lk. 22:54ff) – by reliving a 3-fold denial in the PRESENCE OF LOVE (Jn. 21:2-17).
- Jesus felt energy released when woman touched him (Lk. 8:46).
- Releasing Christ’s healing emotions of love, joy, peace (Gal. 5:22).
- Follow Holy Spirit’s flow (Jn. 7:37-39).
Science and Research Backed
There are a lot of scientific and clinical studies that have now been done with Emotional Freedom Techniques.
Reduce Anxiety in Under 10 Minutes
Brain scans confirm 76% of patients treated with EFT experienced complete remissionThis study included an inspection of brain changes after treatment for anxiety. It was the first EFT Tapping study to do so and used pre- and post-treatment functional brain imaging.
Positively Influence Your DNA
In a pilot study on the physiological effect of EFT Tapping, the genetic expression changed in 72 genes implicated in overall health.Generally, immunity genes were up-regulated while inflammation genes were down-regulated.
This included genes associated with:
- Suppression of cancer tumors
- Protection against ultraviolet radiation
- Regulation of type 2 diabetes
- Insulin resistance
- Immunity from opportunistic infections
- Antiviral activity
- Synaptic connectivity between neurons
- Synthesis of red and white blood cells
- Enhancement of male fertility
- Building white matter in the brain
- Metabolic regulation
- Neural plasticity
- Reinforcement of cell membrane
- And more
Tapping Has Been Shown To:
- Reduce Stress
- Lower Cortisol
- Improve Sleep
- Reduce Anxiety
- Relieve Physical &
- Emotional Pain
- Increase Productivity
- And much more!
Research Articles
- EFT Tapping: The Psychology Behind Tapping Therapy
- EFT Lowers Cortisol
- Clinical EFT Improves Multiple Physiological Markers of Health
- Efficacy, Research, And Growing Acceptance Of Emotional Freedom Techniques
- EFT Effectiveness for PTSD
- EFT on Health Care Workers for Pain & Depression
- Brain Scans Showing EFT Effectiveness for Cravings
- Reduce Anxiety in 10 minutes Brain scans confirm 76% of patients treated with EFT experienced complete remission
The human body shares in the dignity of “the image of God”: it is a human body precisely because it is animated by a spiritual soul, and it is the whole human person that is intended to become, in the body of Christ, a temple of the Spirit. Man, though made of body and soul, is a unity. Through his very bodily condition he sums up in himself the elements of the material world. Through him they are thus brought to their highest perfection and can raise their voice in praise freely given to the Creator. For this reason man may not despise his bodily life. Rather he is obliged to regard his body as good and to hold it in honor since God has created it and will raise it up on the last day.
The unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the “form” of the body: i.e., it is because of its spiritual soul that the body made of matter becomes a living, human body; spirit and matter, in man, are not two natures united, but rather their union forms a single nature.
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