What can EFT do for me?

The tapping process of EFT can seem very strange, until you feel its effects!

Decrease in intensity
The most obvious effect when an issue is tapped on is that, as the tapping progresses, the intensity of the emotional or physical feeling associated with it decreases. This can sometimes be achieved in a single round of tapping or sometimes several are needed.

We continue tapping until the intensity level is very low or gone. Sometimes there are yawns or sighs as the tapping takes effect and a release is experienced. Relief is a common feeling, or sometimes a sensation of expansion as an emotional weight is lifted.

Cognitive shifts
When the issue or event is revisited in the mind after tapping, not only is there a decrease in its felt intensity, we also get what are called cognitive shifts. This is seeing the situation with different eyes, from a different perspective, perhaps from someone else’s point of view; basically in a new light. Ideas and thoughts about it come to us that before had been hidden by the depth of the disruption we felt. Once that has been cleared, often we can experience a clarity of mind that had not been available to us previously.

Changing aspects – the daisy chain effect
When working on an issue, once one ‘aspect’ or side, of the problem has been tapped away, often a different side of the situation or a related emotion will come to mind automatically. Tapping on this in turn helps to resolve the presenting issue more roundly as a whole.

Sometimes when one situation has been resolved, a new, though related one, will come to mind. It can be very beneficial to follow the daisy chain of events/emotions that come up and tap on each one in turn. It is often surprising where a session can end up, and often important seeding events/core beliefs can be gently and gradually arrived at through this process.

The apex effect – that never really bothered me much!
An interesting phenomenon after a thorough tapping session, is that an issue or emotion that may have been very distressing to an individual can seem insignificant in retrospect. Hence people may say that they are no longer troubled by what has been resolved, but that actually it was never really much of an issue to them.

A bit like physical pain, once it has been cleared it is difficult to remember ever really ‘suffering’ with it. This is wonderful, if occasionally frustrating for a therapist who can see how much progress has been made! But is a great sign that the disruption has been well and truly cleared.