Body map showing areas where subjects reported feeling various emotions. (Credit: Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences3)
You cannot divorce your health from your emotions. Every feeling you have affects some part of your body, and stress can wreak havoc on your physical healthespecially if youre not exercising or eating right, as both of these can help keep stress in check in the first place. Still, even if youre doing everything right, your emotionsboth chronic and acutecan wield great power over your body.
EFT Can Be Used to Counter Effects of Negative Emotions
I’m a big fan of energy psychology and one of the most popular forms is Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which is a type of psychological acupressure. While it makes use of the same energy meridians known in traditional acupuncture, EFT does not involve needles. Instead, gentle tapping with your fingertips is used to transfer kinetic energy onto specific meridians on your head and chest while you think about your specific problem — whether it is a traumatic event, an addiction, pain, anxiety, etc. — and voice positive affirmations.
This combination of tapping the energy meridians and voicing positive affirmation works to clear the “short-circuit”—the emotional block—from your body’s bioenergy system, thus restoring your mind and body’s balance, which is essential for optimal health and the healing of physical disease.
Clinical trials have shown that EFT is able to rapidly reduce the emotional impact of memories and incidents that trigger emotional distress. Once the distress is reduced or removed, your body can often rebalance itself, and accelerate healing. For video by EFT practitioner Julie Schiffman how to tap for stress and anger go to http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/01/30/eft-mapping-emotions.aspx
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