So What is this EFT of which You Speak?

     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  
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