EFT is a body - based stress reduction technique. While it might look a little strange at first, it’s growing quickly in popularity because it’s effective, simple, and available, literally at your fingertips.
Studies show that EFT can significantly lower stress hormones (cortisol), and influence other biochemical markers.
In 2021 Ilse was invited by Dr. Peta Stapleton to deliver EFT in world-wide clinical (chronic pain) trials. The research used brain scans in the form of functional MRI ‘s and vagal tone measurements to assess its effectiveness.
The now published research showed changes in pain severity (-21%), quality of life (+7%) anxiety (− 37.1%), depression (-13.5%), happiness (+17%) and satisfaction with life (+8.8%). Several years after the trials, follow up data shows the outcomes remain positive.
Clinical EFT has been studied in areas like food cravings, depression, chronic pain, anxiety, phobia's and more.
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Emotional Freedom Technique / Tapping / EFT
Tapping can help you:
- Feel calmer, clearer and lighter
- Reduce unpleasant emotions like worry, anger, frustration or overwhelm
- Discover unconscious (limiting) beliefs that keep you stuck
- Reduce fear so you can move forward on your project, desire or goals.
- Improve chronic health conditions by reducing stress, worry or fear.
- Get clear on what it is you really want to create in your life
- Feel less reactive and triggered by outer circumstances, as you feel more confident and calm within.
If you wonder how changes like pain, happiness or anxiety, can all be affected by something like tapping, it’s because there is one system that ties our body, mood and behaviour together: the autonomic nervous system. The part of us that informs us if we’re safe.
Unlike positive thinking, we (gently and safely) bring our problem to mind (exposure) while we use our fingertips to stimulate specific acupuncture points. We either silently tap or voice our issue out loud.
The tapping sends calming signals to our midbrain. If done well, it allows the body to gently unwind any (old) survival stress (fight, flight, freeze or fawn) from it's system. When we de-stress we think and feel different. Our health, behaviour and relationships all benefit.
If you tried “all the right things’, exercise, diet, mind set work and you still feel stuck; get ready to experience an effective mind-body approach that can be used with most problems.
How does it work?
You will uncover blocks you didn't know you had and you’ll know how to move past them. If you 're not sure if clinical EFT, my coaching (or other modalities) can support you, feel free to connect via a FREE 20 minute call.
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