ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY

What Is Energy Psychology?
Energy Psychology (EP) is the name for a broad range of psychological treatments that utilize the human energy system.
Since all emotions arise from disturbances in the body’s subtle energy system, Energy Psychology Techniques can be used to alleviate a whole range of problems including; Stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, phobias, rejection, anger, guilt as well as many every day physical ailments such as aches and pains, sore throats, IBS, muscle tension, headaches, food reactions and allergies.

Emotional Freedom Techniques
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), used by thousands of therapists, doctors, and lay people worldwide, has emerged as the most widely used of this class of therapies. Gary Craig a Stanford-trained engineer developed EFT in the 1990s. After studying the existing methods, especially Thought Field Therapy, or TFT, he set out to find the simplest possible form for utilizing these methods. The result was a technique that did not require a therapist (though experi­enced therapists are useful in complex cases) and can be self-applied.

Based on the ancient principles of acupuncture, EFT is a simple tapping procedure that gently realigns the body’s energy system, without the discomfort of needles. Unlike other energy healing methods, EFT incorporates an emotional element to the healing process, addressing unresolved emotional issues as a likely cause of physical disease and stress.
The discovery behind this relief is that unresolved emotional issues are caused by disruptions in the body’s “subtle energies”. These disruptions inhibit our natural ability to heal, leaving us open to nagging fears, chronic pain and terminal illness.

EFT consists of a simple routine. It starts with an affirma­tion: “Even though I have (this problem), I deeply and completely accept myself,” While saying this, the participant taps a specific acupressure point with the tips of their fingers. The participant with their fingertips then taps seven other acupressure meridian end points five or more times. The whole procedure takes about forty seconds. Although it does not require a clinical setting, and can be self-administered, sophisticated uses for EFT do require training. The basics, however, are easily learned by anyone and can be applied to an impressive list of issues.
Negative emotional experiences disrupt the energy meridians that run through our body. The physical changes we feel from those disruptions, like nausea or anxiety, become attached to the memory of that experience and affect the way we see the world…until we heal that disruption. Properly applied, EFT quickly realigns the energy meridians with respect to negative memories, disconnects the physical discomfort that we attached to it, and quite often remove the resulting symptoms.
Because the events we experience in our lives happen to us on a physiological level…they literally bypass our conscious mind.

This is how the brain processes any kind of stimulus:

There is an event – that event can be a thought we have or something that happens to us
These events are stored within our bodies at a cellular level
This is then experienced as an emotion
These emotions lock into the cells
We either fully process the emotion or not
If we don’t fully process the emotion, the cells remains filled up with that emotion
Over time, the cell receptor sites shrink up and die
We then spend our time trying to deal with the event on a psychological level rather than the physiological level that it happened on.

Stress reduction and stress elimination is at the heart of the work done with EFT.  We suffer limitations in our health, overall well-being and zest for life in direct proportion to the degree that stress has accumulated in our energetic systems.    
EFT as a therapeutic tool serves people with all kinds of stress reduction needs.

Regardless of what brings a person to EFT, learning to balance life’s seemingly endless demands with their available energy is a task where we all could use some assistance.  Regular environmental stress reduction is an important aspect of our self-care.
It is not unusual for people to accept stress-related symptoms as a normal and common part of life until, that is, they reach a point of overwhelm and their mental and/or physical health is impacted.  It is vital that we learn to recognize the early signals of too much stress and deal with them as soon as possible.

In Gary Craig’s words, `A dedicated twelve-year-old can achieve a 50% success ratio, even with problems that often stump doctors and conventional psychotherapists. Truly skilled practitioners often achieve 90%.” EFT includes a self-assess­ment system that the subject can use before and then again, after the session, to determine whether or not the problem has been cleared with that session, or whether further work is required.

EFT is easy to learn, simple to use and results are immediate and permanent. The best part is that you don’t have to believe it will work for results to happen.

For more information on EFT including courses and workshops go to www.theenergyclinic.co.uk or contact:
Stephen Coburn BEM
EFT Practitioner and Teacher
Tel: 01202 674636