A Tour of the Book

This book was written in a non-technical way specifically for the general public. This is a complete manual for people wanting to heal their emotions and for the therapist who wants a powerful, effective, safe treatment method.

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Overview

The first section gives the overview. It tells the reader what to expect from the treatment method provided in the book. It gives a description of how it is applied to beliefs and memories, addictions, and chronic pain. The final paragraph describes how the subconscious can be taught to do the healing inside and automatically heal negative beliefs, memories and experiences.

Glossary

The glossary lists all the section headings in the book and gives a brief overview of each. While doing this, the various treatment activities are related as a means to gradually teach the reader a new healing method that may seem unusual. The important thing is that it works and it is suggested that the reader experiment with mild problems before attacking the big ones.

How to do it

Five sections describe how to do the healing method. The first section gives instructions about how to identify and organize your emotional issues – bad feelings, phobias, trauma history, etc. You are taught how to order them from least to most painful. A form is included if you want to use it. The next two sections teaches how to make affirmations. The purpose for the affirmation is to clear some common barriers for healing. Then a sequence of twelve acupressure points are presented and you practice tapping on them. Finally, a tapping procedure called the 9-Gamut is taught. You practice this sequence too. The tapping points of the sequence and the 9-Gamut are connected to structures that, when tapped, cause the pain associated with the issue to go away. The healing method involves thinking about the problem, doing the affirmation, and tapping on the acupressure points in an orderly way until the hurt associated with the problem goes away.

How you build your confidence

We all have some emotional issues. Some range from being very small to being very, very large. The very very large ones can hurt us if we feel them fully. You night have an addiction, depression, or compulsion, and we know that they are hard to get rid of. What is needed to get rid of them is confidence in the treatment method and the willingness to use persistence and patience to overcome the barriers. The method is taught by making a series of personal experiments to help us become confident in the method. The reader is encouraged to score the emotion of the issue before starting, and repeat the method until the score of issue goes down. The score helps us see the change or no change. We don’t start with the big issues, we start with the small issues and look for success. Repeated success in your personal experiments will convince you that the method works and you will be ready to change increasingly more intense emotional issues.

What is a Glitch?

A glitch is some barrier that is getting in the way of the healing process. Before you can start healing your problem, you have to remove all the barriers that get in the way of change. This is why talk therapy often works very slowly; there is a glitch that is blocking change. In this book, most of the barriers are identified and they are clearly described and organized in an order to make it easy to get rid of a barrier. A troubleshooting strategy is taught so that, if there is no change in the emotion after doing the method, you try one approach after the other until you remove the barrier. Most approaches for eliminating barriers are easy like: stopping the use of shortcuts, drinking water, etc. For more difficult barriers, troubleshooting, using persistence and patience, will usually work to remove the barriers. Then the method will continue to reduce the painful emotions.

Memories

There is a section on memories and beliefs that describes how to use the method to heal painful memories, nightmares, intrusive thoughts, chronic emotions, anger, and painful self-limiting beliefs.

Addictions

The section on pain really addresses learned physical pain and chronic symptoms. Often the pain and symptoms have have been learned at an earlier time in our life. Our recent trauma or illness brings it back. The method can be used to heal that learned or remembered pain that is causing or adding to our present pain or symptom discomfort.

Innerself Healing

I have been working with modern treatment methods for over 15 years and have had patients teach me many things. The most important is that the subconscious or the innerself can learn to do the healing work on the inside. The section on innerself healing is written to teach the reader’s subconscious how to heal on the inside, how to get rid of barriers so he/she can heal automatically, and how to use other qualities we have to help the healing process. Some people will have glitches, er, barriers that will get in the way of the healing process, so, I don’t expect this exciting prospect to work with everybody. On a one to one contact, I can remove the barriers, but the reader won’t have my experience. Even without success with innerself healing, the treatment technique provided in the remainder of the book is useful for everybody.

Prompts for your problems

Appendix I gives you a list of 56 emotional problems, 8 addiction problems (including withdrawal systems), and 23 pain and illness symptom problems for you to use to help identify your own problems. In an earlier section you are taught to write your problem in a sentence. Sometimes there are several aspects to a problem that also have to be addressed before the problem can be stripped of emotions. After the problem and one or more aspects are written down, a phrase is made up that captures the emotion of the problem and aspects. The phrase is used when doing the method. Here’s an example of a problem in Appendix II:

Reminders

In an Appendix II, wallet sized reminder cards are useful to Xerox or cut out to help you remember the basic elements of the treatment method.

In Appendix III, all the suggestions given to the innerself are repeated so that the reader can more easily reteach the innerself if it doesn’t appear to be working. One of the advantages of teaching the innerself to heal automatically is that all the negative beliefs and thoughts gradually happen less often.

Resources

In Appendix V, several names with telephone and fax numbers, and E-mail addresses are given for readers who want to ask questions or get some help. Suggestions are given to help readers find and assess a good therapist. Also, there are web page addresses to explore other major, effective treatment methods.

So there you have it!!

A Complete Manual of
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)

For the public

Many ordinary people have emotional or pain discomfort that can be healed or decreased with this method. For those people, this self help book might be a way to rid yourself of those discomfort and get more satisfaction in life. Why not try it.

For helping people

Emotional Freedom Techniques is getting greater and greater recognition in the field of mental health because it is effective, safe, and works quickly. This manual can be studied and used directly in your practice. It is certainly worth checking out to find out how to do and use this treatment technique.

For clients or patients

A number of helping people found that by loaning or giving this book to clients, the clients formed a better understanding of the method and became more self confident in using the method on their problems at home.