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FAQ Sign in Join Subscribe to the FREE #1 Natural Health Newsletter Loading Please Wait Select Language: English | Español Basic Steps to Your Emotional Freedom Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Demonstration EFT Video Library Tapping for Chronic Pain With Julie Schiffman 9:28 Julie Schiffman Discusses Tapping for Arthritis Symptoms 14:08 Julie Schiffman Discusses Tapping for Insomnia 14:41 Morning Meditation EFT with Julie Schiffman 11:10 Tapping Through the Critical Voice Inside 11:12 Tapping for Setting Goals and Sticking to Them 16:57 Tapping to Overcome Sugar Addiction with Julie Schiffman 14:04 Tapping for Acid Reflux with Julie Schiffman 9:46 Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for Motivation to Exercise 10:09 Julie Schiffman Demonstrates Tapping for Weight 8:47 Julie Schiffman Discusses EFT for Stress Relief 9:13 Julie Schiffman Demonstrates Tapping To Be the Best Version of… 9:14 Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Demonstration 11:29 Tapping for the Ability to Say No 9:15 Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for Physical Pain 7:18 Julie Schiffman Demonstrates Tapping To Move From Resistance to… 7:28 Julie Schiffman on Using EFT for Intermittent Fasting 7:13 Tapping for IBS with Julie Schiffman 13:13 Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for Hypertension 13:32 Julie Schiffman Discusses EFT for Depression 17:52 Tapping for Back Pain with Julie Schiffman 15:47 Tapping to Calm Oneself Before Sleep 8:09 Julie Schiffman Demonstrates EFT for Those with a Fear of Flying… 6:54 Julie Schiffman Discusses Tapping for Anger 15:42 Tapping to Love Your Body with Julie Schiffman 10:56 Julie Schiffman Demonstrates a Beginner's Guide to Tapping 7:51 Tapping for Gratitude with Julie Schiffman 7:59 Julie Schiffman Demonstrates Tapping for Panic Attacks 10:15 Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for Digestion 13:29 Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to Fight Cravings 11:07 Tapping for Soda Cravings with Julie Schiffman 11:48 Julie Schiffman Demonstrates Tapping To Give Yourself Permission… 9:05 Tapping for Holiday Stress 8:29 Tapping for Colds and Flu with Julie Schiffman 12:13 Julie Schiffman Demonstrates Tapping for Overeating 11:30 Using EFT to Heal From Grief 11:14 Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for Headaches 7:41 Julie Schiffman: Tapping Tutorial 10:02 Julie Schiffman: Tapping Technique for Knee Pain 14:27 Tapping for Sticking to Your Goals 7:32 What is the Emotional Freedom Techniques? The Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT, is the psychological acupressure technique I routinely use in my practice and most highly recommend to optimize your emotional 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. EFT is very easy to learn, and will help you: Remove Negative Emotions Reduce Food Cravings Reduce or Eliminate Pain Implement Positive Goals EFT is a form of psychological acupressure, based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments for over 5,000 years, but without the invasiveness of needles. Instead, simple tapping with the fingertips is used to input kinetic energy onto specific meridians on the head and chest while you think about your specific problem — whether it is a traumatic event, an addiction, pain, etc. — and voice positive affirmations. This combination of tapping the energy meridians and voicing positive affirmation works to clear the "short-circuit" — the emotional block — from your body's bioenergy system, thus restoring your mind and body's balance, which is essential for optimal health and the healing of physical disease. Some people are initially wary of these principles that EFT is based on — the electromagnetic energy that flows through the body and regulates our health is only recently becoming recognized in the West. Others are initially taken aback by (and sometimes amused by) the EFT tapping and affirmation methodology, whose basics you will learn here. But keep in mind that, more than any traditional or alternative method I have used or researched, EFT works. I have witnessed the results in my patients since deciding to use EFT exclusively in June of 2001. Indeed, because of its very high rate of success, the use of EFT has spread rapidly, and medical practitioners employing EFT can now be found in every corner of the country and the world. This manual will provide an overview on how and where to tap, and the proper affirmation techniques, so that you can begin using EFT immediately to help yourself and others. It will also provide an introduction to some advanced EFT strategies and principles you can employ. Tapping Locations and Technique There are two basic areas to learn in order to use EFT: the tapping locations and technique, and the positive affirmations. These areas, as well as some advanced EFT guidelines and principles, are covered in the following sections. You should be able to successfully treat many problems by diligently applying the following instructions. If you are not getting the results you would like, or you have a particularly traumatic issue, please do not give up! Instead, consider consulting with an EFT professional. You may check out this clinical EFT-certified practitioner database for some guidelines on selecting an EFT therapist, and to find a list of EFT practitioners throughout the U.S. and the world. Many of these therapists even offer a free 15-minute phone session in which you can ask them questions to see if you connect. Proper EFT Tapping The basic EFT sequence is straightforward and generally takes my patients only a few minutes to learn. They have the slight advantage of me personally showing them the tapping points, but you should be able to pick up these points relatively quickly. With a little practice, you will be performing each round in under a minute. NOTE: While it is important to tap the correct area, you need not worry about being absolutely precise, as tapping the general area is sufficient. It's All in the Fingertips The first thing to understand is that you will be tapping with your fingers. There are a number of acupuncture meridians on your fingertips, and when you tap with your fingertips you are also likely using not only the meridians you are tapping on, but also the ones on your fingers. Traditional EFT has you tapping with the fingertips of your index finger and middle finger and with only one hand. Either hand wor...