Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 March 2010 13:37
Emotional Freedom Technique, known as EFT, can help people deal with phobias, according to an article in The Sudbury Star, Feb.13, 2010.
The technique associates an idea or feeling with a series of tapping exercises on acupuncture points in the body, which helps to alleviate a psychological problem, such as a phobia.
The article suggests that fear, or a phobia, is a negative emotion that creates stress on the body and thus keeps the body in a constant state of stress.The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) found that between 8 and 18 percent of population suffer from phobias. Reactions to these irrational fears range from minor annoyances to impairing people to the point that they are afraid to leave a familiar area.
EFT helps participants to erase the emotions involved with those fears so that those phobias can be conquered.
EFT can also be used to deal with pain and stress.
According to the article, there are three steps to the EFT process:
- Teach participants how to relieve symptoms
- Get at the root cause of the fear, pain or stress
- Overlay a new belief
