The Book of Tapping: Emotional Acupressure with EFT
By Sophie Merle
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• Effective for emotional conditions such as panic attacks, anxiety, depression, PTSD, grief, anger, jealousy, and phobias, such as stage fright or fear of flying, providing immediate results in many cases
• Shows how this method can treat chronic pain, nausea, and headaches; alleviate insomnia and nightmares; encourage the release of painful memories; boost self-confidence; support weight loss; and improve concentration
• Offers the full tapping protocol as well as a shortened version for acute situations
• Illustrates easily accessible points to tap and in what order
Tapping, or Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), is a simple form of acupressure that treats the energetic roots of emotional and physical suffering. By tapping on specific meridian points you can quickly and easily dissolve blockages in the body’s energy system, caused by past traumas and suppressed emotions such as grief and anger, and restore the natural flow of energy in your body, the key to optimal health and overall well-being.
In this step-by-step guide to EFT, Sophie Merle details the practice of tapping, illustrating the easily accessible points on the face, hands, and torso to tap and in what order. Explaining how to open your energetic system to EFT treatment for fast and long-lasting results, she reveals how the energy psychology practice of tapping can be applied to any area of your life but is particularly effective for emotional and psychological conditions, including panic attacks, anxiety, depression, PTSD, grief, anger, jealousy, and phobias, such as stage fright or fear of flying, providing immediate results in many cases. She also shows how this method can treat chronic pain, nausea, and headaches; alleviate insomnia and nightmares; assist physical healing from illness; encourage the release of painful memories; boost self-confidence; support weight loss; and improve concentration.
The author explains how tapping can be done anywhere, offering both the full tapping protocol, which only takes a few minutes, and a short-form version, which takes less than a minute, for acute issues. Including remarkable success stories of EFT in practice, this comprehensive guide to tapping shows how the solution to many of life’s problems is at your fingertips.
Sophie Merle
Sophie Merle is a practitioner and teacher of EFT and Feng Shui, offering workshops and courses in the United States and Europe. She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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I have a lot of EFT books but this one really explained the 3 part tapping - and it has more techniques like the gamut point..
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The Book of Tapping - Sophie Merle
1
EFT
An Energetic Technique for Health and Material Abundance
The letters EFT
are commonly used to represent a new treatment procedure, Emotional Freedom Technique, that has been the subject of much talk in recent years. Because its treatment methods are easy to use and produce sensational results, EFT is a fascinating topic.
The central tenet of its theory is that any discontent or disorder in our lives is the result of an imbalance in the energy that flows through our physical bodies. Its main concern is the restoration of harmony using the meridian points of Chinese acupuncture, for which EFT is an emotion-based variation.
EFT is also known as psychological acupuncture, meridian therapy, and, most commonly, Tapping therapy, or simply Tapping. This term refers to the light tapping of meridian points during a treatment session. The term Tapping (capitalized) will be used throughout this book in reference to the EFT protocol, because it is the most convenient expression, while tapping (lowercase) refers to the actual hand movement.
The use of the body’s meridians to restore physical health has been commonplace in China for an extremely long time. Although it has become more accepted in the West today, it was not used for the treatment of emotional suffering until quite recently. Proponents of EFT believe that such suffering is caused by blockages in the body’s energy system, in which each meridian point represents a series of specific emotions (for more information see the section beginning here).
EFT focuses its attention exclusively on removing these energy blockages in order to restore our sense of well-being. The process has been the driving force for some spectacular healings and strongly indicates that negative emotions are due to a disruption in the body’s energy system. In many cases, once balance has been restored to the energy flow, negative emotions vanish, thereby also removing the problems that accompanied this imbalance.
THE BIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF EFT
EFT emerged from the initial modality of this type, TFT (Thought Field Therapy), which was created in the 1980s by psychiatrist Roger Callahan, a bold pioneer in a new era in the field of psychology. He was the first individual, in both East and West, to use the meridians for healing emotional problems.
However, Dr. Callahan’s procedure is extremely complex. It requires a precise diagnosis of the points that need stimulation and calls for them to be stimulated in a particular sequences for each problem, which makes his method impractical without the help of an experienced practitioner.
In the 1990s, following an extensive study of TFT, Gary Craig, a nondenominational ordained minister and certified master practitioner in neurolinguistic programming (NLP), figured out how to avoid this difficulty through the practice of EFT, in which the same sequences of point stimulation, more commonly referred to as Tapping, can be used in the treatment of any kind of emotional issue.
EFT’s worldwide success is due to its simplicity of use as well as its effectiveness, which is often superior to that of other healing techniques. Numerous health professionals employ it, either by itself or as a supplement to more traditional treatment, and play an active role in its growing popularity by frequently publicizing its effectiveness in promoting rapid healing of critical physical and mental health problems.*1
Making it even more appealing, this procedure is simple to master, and although it is best learned from a professional, either in person or via teaching materials, it can be regularly used to control personal health problems without the need of additional help. This is an invaluable option for those who have limited access to professional care.
EFT IN A NUTSHELL
EFT can be summed up as the stimulation of several specific points on the face, upper torso, and hands while the individual concentrates at the same time on a specific difficulty. This should be done until all accompanying negative feelings disappear completely. The biggest challenge lies in determining and then administering the appropriate number of rounds of tapping required to completely uproot and remove these upsetting emotions. Were it not for this, EFT would be so simple that even children could use it by themselves.
A number of psychotherapists incorporate Tapping in their practice and are qualified to teach the proper use of the protocol, and there are numerous online tutorial videos and listings of EFT workshops (see the resources section in the back of the book), but no knowledge of psychology is necessary to make good use of the technique. EFT is the instrument of choice for personal development and will soon make all other methods seem obsolete—especially methods that ask us to use mind control or the power of positive thinking all by itself to curb negative feelings. It is impossible for such approaches to work effectively, as the required state of vigilance is difficult to sustain. Moreover, negative thoughts have an energetic component, and when energy blockages occur, they require physical stimulation of the energy system to dissipate. This somewhat explains why a long walk outdoors can be beneficial in eliminating nonclinical depression.
Nor is it necessary to believe in
EFT to obtain results. Most people begin the process with great skepticism because its basic concept goes against our ingrained belief systems. But we’d better get used to it, because the era of energetic healing techniques has begun and can only expand rapidly. As Gary Craig likes to say, We are on the ground floor of a new healing high-rise,
and there is no end to the potential for surprises.
EFT’S BENEFITS
Learning the basics of EFT should not take you more than a couple of hours. It will then allow you to do things you thought impossible to accomplish before, such as speaking in public or flying in an airplane without fear. The extent of the ways in which EFT can help us is practically infinite. It makes sense to try it on any problem, even those issues that seem impossible to solve. Some of the common problems EFT can eliminate are:
Phobias. EFT quickly liberates us from the anguish of agoraphobia, claustrophobia, and any other fears or aversions, regardless of how long they have existed or how terrifying they may feel. It also stops panic attacks in their tracks, usually quite quickly.
Tragic memories. The emotional pain of traumatic memories melts away, along with any regret, fear, anger, or guilt they inspire. The past no longer has a malignant grip on the present. The memories remain, but they have been stripped of their ability to cause pain.
Irresistible urges. EFT is able to rapidly halt any desire at the moment it is first felt. This could be the desire for a cigarette (EFT is especially amazing for a smoker on a long airplane flight), alcohol, drugs, or foods forbidden by a diet. The anxiety behind the need vanishes, as does the need to fight