I studied psychology when I was younger, and was amazed at how deep you coould go into understanding someone else.

But the fact remained that even though we could understand what someone did, and why they did it, it was close to impossible to change that behaviour for good. Now, of course, you would have betterment and improvements, but not the long-lasting kind. So after having realized that I wanted something more efficient, I started looking, and soon I heard about NLP. A wonderful combination of psychology and hypnosis, and then some. It was in fact faster, but still I would have to study for at least 3-4 years to really get it.

Enter EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique. Release emotional pain in as little as minutes! That was the promise, and I couldn’t believe it. But after trying out the manual – which is free by the way – I could feel an immediate release to some old problems I had been trying to work out through psychology. And I GOT IT. It was not that psychology didn’t work, but on it’s own it was not enough. EFT works by using both mental and physical approaches, and the combination of the two is so much stronger than just one of them alone.

EFT works BOTH on the mental level and the physical level at the same time. It is called an energy therapy, because it utilizes the energy meridians in our bodies to make a long lasting change to the patterns we want to change. If I am afraid of spiders, I will “tap” on my fear of spiders, and then assess the strength of my fear from 0-10 now and again. Usually it takes only a few minutes to rid yourself of a fear. The tapping is done by yourself, with your fingertips, or by a professional, who assists you. While tapping, you may affirm to yourself “Even though I have this fear of spiders, I deeply and completely love and accept myself” or something similar.

Oftentimes the fear is gone in just minutes! Sometimes it takes longer, and there may be more aspects to the same fear. Sometimes after fear you start feeling anger or sadness. Just tap on those as well. And pretty soon you will be filled with new energy, because we use a bunch of energy to hold our fears, anger and sadness locked up.