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Emotional Freedom Technique SELF IMAGE SPECIALIST |
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Gary Craig offers
a free beginners EFT manual on his web site that describes
details of how to use and apply his treatment technique. While
the technique is simple and effective, I recommend you receive
thorough training in its use by attending my approved Level 1
or 2 Workshops. The basics of EFT are as follows: The Set-Up: While
tapping on the Karate Chop Point, name your problem you have
chosen to work on, followed by an affirmation of yourself.
Below are a number of choices and examples of possible
Affirmation Statements:
"Even though I
have this .................................., I deeply and
completely accept myself."
So
while you are tapping on this
Karate Chop
Point,
state your
affirmation out loud 3 times.
After you have
completed this step, choose an easy, short Reminder Phrase
that would represent the problem you want to work on, such as
“fear of change” or “craving for chocolate”
STEP 4: TAP the
stress-relief POINTS
as shown
below. As you tap on each point in sequence, state your
Reminder Phrase, such as "my anxiety about my audition" or "my
craving for a cigarette."
STEP
5:
Rate your anxiety or stress
again.
STEP
6:
Perform the
Set-Up again
.
Examples of your revisedAffirmation Statements would be:
STEP 7: TAP the
stress-relief POINTS again
.
STEP
8:
Measure your anxiety or stress
level on 0-10 scale
.
Originally, the basic recipe of Gary
Craig’s treatment used a procedure called the "9-Gamut." I don’t use it frequently,
however many clients like the feel of it and think it is a
good tool to synthesize their treatment. The 9 steps are
simple and are listed below. Feel free to use them at the end
of any of your tapping rounds. You must be tapping the
Gamut Point (see "G" in diagram to
the right) while you complete these 9 steps:
Go back to Step # 5 and
repeat a new treatment round. Please be sure to keep your body well
hydrated. Emotional Freedom Techniques and other energy
therapies work with the electricity of your body, and water
conducts electricity.
The Basic
Recipe
STEP 1: Choose a problem to work on.
STEP 2: Rate your anxiety or
discomfort.
Decide how much it bothers you on a scale of 0-10 (where 0=no
distress and 10=highest level of discomfort) when you think
about it right now. (How anxious are you? How uncomfortable do
you feel?)
STEP 3: Perform the Set-Up as follows:
"Even
though I’m worried about .......................... I deeply
and completely accept myself."
"Even
though I’m afraid ...................................., I
deeply and completely accept myself."
"Even though I have this craving for
..................., I completely love and accept myself."
EYEBROW (EB) 
SIDE OF EYE
(SE)
UNDER EYE (UE)
UNDER NOSE (UN)
CHIN (CH)
COLLARBONE (CB)
UNDERARM
(UA)
HEAD (H)
Now think about
the same problem again, and rate how uncomfortable you feel
about itnow
on the 0-10 point
scale (remember, "10" means you really feel awful about it,
while "0" means it doesn’t bother you at all).
Now you are ready to do a
few more rounds of tapping on the issue if there is still some
discomfort associated with it. For example, suppose you rated
your anxiety about your audition next week as a "6" on the
0-10 point scale, and after the first round of EFT, your
anxiety dropped to a "3." You can continue tapping until you
feel no anxiety whatsoever. Revise your
Affirmation Statement to reflect the
fact that you have indeed taken care of some of the anxiety,
but there is still more to work on.
"Even though I
still have
some
........................., I deeply and completely accept
myself."
"Even though I
still havesome
cravings for ........., I deeply and completely accept
myself."
"Even though
I’m
still
little afraid
......................... I deeply and completely accept
myself."
Go back to
STEP # 4 and tap on all of
the
points
while using a
revised
Reminder Phrase such as
"remaining cravings" or "remaining anxiety."
STEP 9:
Repeat Steps
#5-#9
.
STEP
10: The 9-Gamut Procedure… ("The Brain
Balancer")
If you have never heard of Emotional Freedom Technique
You owe it to yourself to find out more.
Important note: While EFT has produced remarkable clinical results, it must still be considered to be in the experimental stage and thus practitioners and the public must take complete responsibility for their use of it.