There
are many ways to beat stress and one of them is, in a sense, to beat it
out - very gently, of course. “Emotional freedom technology” has its
roots in acupuncture, but without needles, and mind-body medicine.
Finding
a way to relieve our troubles can, in itself, be stressful. So you
might try to tap into your inner voice and literally tap your troubles
away. EFT focuses on meridians, the paths energy takes to flow through
our body. Then EFT couples it with neuro-linguistic programming - talk
therapy.
“You
state an affirmation or a statement of what you want to happen or going
on wrong in your life,” said Kerri Kannon, an EFT facilitator. “And you
just tap on different energy meridians and it allows you to release
those blocks that are keeping you from having a flowing life.”
Kannon says meridians can become blocked by trauma, injury, stress or fear.
“It's
helping people identify the conflict so they can release that and just
relax and be free of whatever the conflicting thought, is,” Kannon said.
An EFT client came to deal with physical trauma from her childhood and she says it worked.
“I
never really bought into therapy because I don't believe in it just the
mind, but I tried a lot of other techniques and this one kind of
helped,” she said.
She looking to cope with the pain of a recent fall and the fears it's triggered about her overall health.
EFT
can be done without a practitioner once you learn the points to tap.
You can do it anywhere, anytime and it can work along with traditional
medicine. Often, one session is all you need to relieve the stress of a
particular situation.
