So I suppose I should start at the beginning, but that's really the middle. The story of EFT is that it was founded and created by Gary Craig. This is true, but hardly the whole story. Gary himself built on the work of generations of therapists who came before him and his great gift was to give his creation to the world on the internet for free. To be utterly truthful, he feels that while this has helped spread healing in the world, it has also opened the way for a lot of 'tapping' modalities that are not based on his work, or follow sound principles. This is why I always refer people to only these two sources: EFTuniverse.com and emofree.com, which is Gary's site.
But back to the development of EFT. Some of the roots of EFT can be traced to the 1920's and the work of Wilhelm Reich. He was the first to notice that the body armors itself in response to emotional trauma. This is a part of EFT, to address any unresolved emotional trauma that is stored in the body. After World War ll, a psychiatrist treating 'shell shock' , Joseph Wolpe, who is most famous for his protocol of desensitization, also discovered that deep diaphragmatic breathing while recalling a traumatic event removed the emotional content from the memory. EFT incorporates these two phases as well, using tapping on the acupuncture meridians to calm the brain while recalling a troubling memory.
While I'm not, in general, a fan of Freud's he is an important figure for many reasons. He did show that the subconscious mind was more than 'thought.' Now we believe that your whole body acts as the repository for you subconscious; he also showed that stimuli could change behaviour and changing behaviour could change neural pathways. This was further developed by Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb. His work is partly summed up in what has come to be known as Hebb's Law: that 'neurons that fire together wire together.' This is important for us to begin to understand why troubling thoughts and emotions can get seemingly 'hard wired' or stuck into our nervous systems. But much more on that later.
So this sets the stage for the next wave of developments and pioneers to put together the systems of meridian tapping of which EFT is the most prominent and practiced.
Next up: putting it together; knitting theory and practice into something new and effective and simple.
For more information about tapping and to download the manual and learn it on your own go to:
www.EFTUniverse.com (or)
www.Emofree.com. (or)
http://www.innersource.net/innersource/
Keep tapping, and try it on everything!
peace,
Penny
Oregon LMT #4527
www.RisingSunMassage.massagetherapy.com
https://www.facebook.com/Rising-Sun-Massage-1662628780544032/
https://RisingSunMassage.blogspot.com/
https://TapIntoYourBrilliance.blogspot.com
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Friday, May 20, 2016
Post the First
Hi! I've been thinking for awhile about my blogs. While I've been focusing on my EFT certification, my massage blog has been set aside. And while I thought of combining them somehow, in the end it seemed easier to just start anew. So, welcome.
A good place to start is to make sure your energy is flowing and in the right directions. A commonality I've seen in Reiki and Body Talk is getting the energies to cross the mid-line of the body. Donna Eden is one of the Founders of Energy Medicine and she reports that this is one of the most prevalent energy interventions she and her trained practitioners do.
It's as easy as walking. With a slight exaggeration, march in place and swing the arms from side to side, lift the right arm and left leg, then doing the opposite. Breathe in through the nose, out through the mouth. this is called the Cross Crawl. And come to think of it, that may be why MD's encourage walking so much; without knowing the energy component, they still recommend it as the single most effective health supporting activity. A short video of the Cross Crawl can be found here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFvqa54jesU. The actual demonstration is at about 3:10 minutes in.
If you are tired by this, it is an indication that you are "homolateral' and need to retrain your energy flows. For years I wondered why walking even short distances exhausted me! So now I've begun to retrain my energy flows. For people who are chronically ill it is most important to do this, and with this additional move, as chronic health problems are an indication that the energies of the body are not crossing the mid-line.
To do that, you do this variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0grrSC0qYs. I've never seen this done with the slapping on the side of the leg, but as she says you can just march in place. The point is to do movements one side only, then crossing over continuing to alternate rounds for several minutes, finishing with a couple of rounds that are both cross over rounds.
For more information about tapping and to download the manual and learn it on your own go to:
www.EFTUniverse.com (or)
www.Emofree.com. (or)
http://www.innersource.net/innersource/
Keep tapping, and try it on everything!
peace,
Penny
Oregon LMT #4527
www.RisingSunMassage.massagetherapy.com
https://www.facebook.com/Rising-Sun-Massage-1662628780544032/
https://RisingSunMassage.blogspot.com/
https://TapIntoYourBrilliance.blogspot.com
A good place to start is to make sure your energy is flowing and in the right directions. A commonality I've seen in Reiki and Body Talk is getting the energies to cross the mid-line of the body. Donna Eden is one of the Founders of Energy Medicine and she reports that this is one of the most prevalent energy interventions she and her trained practitioners do.
It's as easy as walking. With a slight exaggeration, march in place and swing the arms from side to side, lift the right arm and left leg, then doing the opposite. Breathe in through the nose, out through the mouth. this is called the Cross Crawl. And come to think of it, that may be why MD's encourage walking so much; without knowing the energy component, they still recommend it as the single most effective health supporting activity. A short video of the Cross Crawl can be found here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFvqa54jesU. The actual demonstration is at about 3:10 minutes in.
If you are tired by this, it is an indication that you are "homolateral' and need to retrain your energy flows. For years I wondered why walking even short distances exhausted me! So now I've begun to retrain my energy flows. For people who are chronically ill it is most important to do this, and with this additional move, as chronic health problems are an indication that the energies of the body are not crossing the mid-line.
To do that, you do this variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0grrSC0qYs. I've never seen this done with the slapping on the side of the leg, but as she says you can just march in place. The point is to do movements one side only, then crossing over continuing to alternate rounds for several minutes, finishing with a couple of rounds that are both cross over rounds.
For more information about tapping and to download the manual and learn it on your own go to:
www.EFTUniverse.com (or)
www.Emofree.com. (or)
http://www.innersource.net/innersource/
Keep tapping, and try it on everything!
peace,
Penny
Oregon LMT #4527
www.RisingSunMassage.massagetherapy.com
https://www.facebook.com/Rising-Sun-Massage-1662628780544032/
https://RisingSunMassage.blogspot.com/
https://TapIntoYourBrilliance.blogspot.com
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