Emotional Freedom
Technique Therapy
What is Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT/Tapping)?
Emotional freedom technique is a gentle and powerful stress reduction technique that quickly helps ease grief and stress associated with major life challenges, including cancer, so you can experience more peace and calm.
Emotional freedom technique is often referred to as tapping or psychological acupressure. By tapping on certain meridian points while focusing on the difficult emotions, thoughts and sensations you experience, you can produce a powerful calming response that brings transformation quickly to your mind and body.
When someone experiences grief and loss including the grief and stress of living with cancer, it can feel like a heavy weight that settles into our mind and body. Emotions can be overwhelming and all-consuming and you can quickly feel like life feels out of your control. Tapping allows the intense energy (emotions, thoughts and sensations) associated with grief like, sadness, anger, overwhelm and more to be released and eased. As incoherent energy dissipates, you'll feel reduced stress levels, more clarity and a greater ease in your body and mind. And tapping is also known to give a boost to your immune system, so your whole being begins to function at its natural, vibrant state.
The basic EFT tapping sequence is so simple to learn, yet incredibly powerful. It becomes a wonderful self-care tool to use anytime intense waves of grief or stress come crashing through your day.
Tapping helps rewire your brain, allowing you to process loss and stress from a calmer, more grounded space within yourself. With practice, EFT can help you ease your grief so you can find a new way of being - one where you have more peace and resiliency to move through your grief. With tapping, you can reclaim your power over how you experience this journey of life.
It’s a simple, yet powerful self care gift for discovering more ease, calm and confidence when navigating life’s most challenging journeys.
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Emotional Freedom Technique for Grief
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT or tapping) is a therapy and powerful self-help technique that can quickly and safely help you reduce the intensity of your grief experience so you can better function in the present moment. Major losses in life, be it the death of a loved one or pet, chronic illness like cancer, relationship breakups, job and or financial loss or other traumatic events can all have devastating impacts on our wellbeing and capacity to move through life with ease. Many of my clients often report feeling unprepared, overwhelmed and alone and unsure of how they can deal with difficult emotions that arise at any time.
I know your grief experience is unique, and painful feelings that arise can often feel overwhelming and confusing. And while traditional counselling or talk therapy has it’s place and can be very helpful in processing loss, many people often find they often don’t have the time or may feel unable to speak openly about their grief. Emotional Freedom Technique can help.
With Emotional Freedom technique therapy you have the power to transform your grief experience and calm intense emotions that can arise giving you greater capacity to heal the pain associated with your loss. Tapping for emotional release also gives you the ability to work through your grief in your own way, and you can do it all from the comfort of your couch. In addition emotional freedom tapping is a highly effective complimentary practice to traditional counselling or therapy.
It doesn’t matter when your loss occurred, whether it was yesterday or a loss that happened many years ago, emotional freedom technique tapping can be used in any moment of time and gives you the power to shift difficult emotions and discover peace and acceptance in new ways.
Benefits of EFT Tapping for Grief
Emotional freedom technique (tapping) is a powerful technique to have in your self-care and healing toolkit. Benefits of using emotional freedom tapping for grief include:
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EFT reduces the intensity of painful feelings that arise when grieving, helping you to feel calm and to think clearly.
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EFT calms feelings of sadness, despair, fear, anger, guilt, and much more.
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EFT creates opportunity for acceptance of a loss or changes and helps you to cope with the full range of emotions that can emerge. By learning EFT tapping and understanding the benefits and its applications, you can start to recognise emotions and experiences such as sadness and emptiness as a natural part of your grief, and discover ways to reframe your experiences and move through your grief with greater ease. With tapping, grief become easier to move through rather than something to be feared or to avoided.
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EFT can create opportunities for healing unresolved issues within yourself, a person, people or death of loved ones.
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With clearer thinking, EFT allows you to discover new ways to honour loves ones and feel confident in your ability to face life’s ongoing tasks.
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EFT can help you move through anniversaries, significant milestones and events with ease and confidence.
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EFT builds your confidence in adjusting to life, and to manage the continuing tasks in life while experiencing grief in your own unique way.
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EFT builds energy for living by removing limiting beliefs that can keep you stuck and unable to move through life in the way the you want to.
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EFT helps improve self-confidence and can increase your sense of control in life – by tapping through difficult emotions and developing tapping resources to handle intense emotions when they arise.
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EFT can help reduce stress and anxiety that can be experienced during grief and through cancer. Emotional freedom Techniques (EFT) can quickly reduce stress and anxiety, so you can focus on emotions that arise as part of your grief rather than on physical symptoms of stress and anxiety. With tapping, you can gain more clarity about your personal circumstances and better manage feelings associated with grief.
What else can EFT Tapping be used for?
Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping) can be used to manage a variety of issues and is also effective in the management of:
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grief and loss,
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stress reduction,
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anxiety, depression,
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD),
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Trauma,
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Weight loss,
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Pain management and more.
Many of these issues often arise during grief, and thus EFT offers a holistic approach to your self-care.
EFT Tapping for Depression when Grieving
Emotional freedom tapping (EFT) can help reduce symptoms of depression by creating a sense of inner calm, peace and clarity in thinking by helping you focus your mind away from negative thought patterns, ruminating thoughts, and difficult feelings. As EFT tapping therapy involves the use of mental affirmations that help rewire the brain to think more positively, it has been found to help reduce feelings of depression.
For more information about research evidence related to EFT for depression visit Peta Stapleton’s summary
It is common for grief and depression to occur simultaneously. Grief is a natural response to loss and can often lead to feelings of sadness and isolation. In some cases, people can become overwhelmed by their emotions and lose interest in activities they once enjoyed. Some people may even experience difficulty sleeping, changes in appetite or have difficulty concentrating, which can lead to depression. If you experience depression you may find that you feel particularly vulnerable to the effects of grief, making it important to develop effective coping strategies and to seek professional mental health support as needed.
The benefits of tapping for depression are many, including:
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EFT tapping is a safe and complimentary therapy to proven mental health therapies such as CBT.
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EFT helps release emotional pain and distress. Studies have found that EFT is effective in lessening the emotional distress associated with depression. EFT can help reduce the emotional intensity and improve mood.
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EFT provides a sense of control over your emotions and promotes self empowerment. If you are someone who experiences depression, making simple positive changes as you work with your emotions can increase your self-empowerment and lead to a healthier emotional state.
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EFT helps break patterns of negative behaviour. By tapping on certain points, EFT can break patterns of rumination and negative self-talk which can contribute to depression.
EFT Tapping for Anxiety & Grief
Emotional Freedom Technique tapping is effective in the management of anxiety. Grief and anxiety are closely linked in in many ways. It is common to have fear of the unknown or future when grieving, or to feel overwhelmed by daily tasks, and/or hold fears of not being able to cope with painful emotions.
Tapping for stress management and anxiety can help you focus on a specific issue that may be creating or fuelling anxiety. Emotional tapping can help alleviate symptoms of anxiety and help you better manage emotions in a simple and effective way.
The benefits of tapping for anxiety are many, including:
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Fast and effective results. EFT for anxiety can help you achieve relatively quick results compared with traditional counselling and therapy approaches. EFT takes a short amount of time to learn and practice, and most people find they begin to experience a decrease in anxiety symptoms when they start using the technique.
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EFT tapping for anxiety is safe and easily accessible therapy. Unlike medications and professional counselling, EFT is safe for virtually anyone to use and can be done from the comfort of your own home with minimal instruction. There are no known side effects to EFT.
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EFT tapping is a great complimentary therapy to counselling and other therapies.
Research Evidence in support of EFT Tapping
Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping) research studies consistently show that EFT can significantly reduce stress hormones (cortisol) more quickly than traditional talk therapies, resulting in physiological and psychological benefits.
You do not need to wait weeks or months to notice the effects of EFT. People who practice EFT regularly begin to notice anxiety decreases almost immediately with research studies indicating approximately 4 sessions (4 hours) of treatment compared with traditional therapies such as cognitive behavioural therapy which usually take longer.
This is why I am a strong believer that using EFT helps those struggling with grief to move through grief with ease and will help you gain more clarity and confidence over your circumstances.
With the right tools, suffering becomes optional.
Here are a few links to help you understand how this powerful technique is revolutionising therapy today.
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Move from overwhelm to calm in a minutes using EFT Tapping.
If you are new to EFT tapping, these sessions will give you the confidence to start transforming aspects of your grief. I know your grief is unique so sessions are tailored to individual circumstances. For people experienced with basic tapping techniques, I will assist you to move through events (past, present and future) using EFT.
EFT for Grief (Tapping Group Support) online.
Looking to level-up your EFT tapping for grief practice? We all know that grief impacts us in a variety of ways on physical, emotional, social and spiritual levels. EFT tapping amongst like-minded individuals can have profound effects on wellbeing and keep you on track to achieving your life goals. These online group sessions give you the opportunity to understand grief, explore your grief and to learn how to use EFT tapping and other healing techniques to support you through your grief, and EFT tapping can all happen from the luxury of your couch!
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