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Could Emotional Freedom Technique Hold the Key to Your Wellbeing?

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Emotional Freedom Technique, online appointments at Embracing Nutrition

Are you looking for a powerful therapy to help calm your nervous system and release blocked emotions? Have you considered Emotional Freedom Technique? This research-backed therapy gently restores balance to your nervous system, creating meaningful change.

What is EFT?

Often known as tapping, EFT blends cognitive reframing with gentle tapping on specific acupressure points. These points, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, sit along the body’s energy channels or meridians. When a feeling, thought or memory is raised while tapping, the emotional charge connected with it alters. This serves to lessen the distress associated with the thought or feeling.

Discomfort arising from past or present experiences is linked to how the body stores emotional responses. This can disrupt your body’s energy flow. The unrestricted movement of energy through the body is important for optimal emotional and physical health. By connecting the mind and the body, EFT can restore this flow of energy, relieving tension and leading to improved mental and physical wellbeing.

How Does Tapping Affect the Stress Response?

Tapping acupressure points results in physical changes in the body’s response to stress. Calming signals travel to a part of the brain called the amygdala. This is involved in overseeing stress and fear, detecting threats and processing emotions, as well as the body’s fight/flight response. Therefore, EFT can help turn off the stress response and calm the nervous system. 

All this serves to unlock deep healing. EFT helps you process thoughts and emotions without the feeling of overwhelm, while changing embedded emotional patterns.

Is EFT Supported by Scientific Research?

EFT has been widely researched. Studies have found it to decrease cortisol levels 1, reduce heart rate and blood pressure, increase HRV, decrease anxiety 2 and alleviate depression 3, and improve immune health.

What Conditions is EFT Recommended For?

In studies, EFT has been effective for fatigue and burnout, emotional distress, insomnia, phobias 4, pain 5, and trauma, and it can be really effective to decrease food cravings 6. As reduces cortisol, it will naturally lower inflammation. EFT may be beneficial for you if you:
  • Want to reduce the impact of anxiety or depression on your life and physical health.
  • Have a history of trauma or PTSD
  • Have an overactive stress response
  • Are suffering from burnout
  • Are experiencing emotional distress following a medical diagnosis
  • Suffer from chronic pain
  • Have an emotional issue or long-held unhelpful narratives that are holding you back
  • Are experiencing grief or loss
EFT is an excellent adjunct to Functional Nutrition when emotional blocks are impeding healing. It works well alongside talking therapies, as it can be difficult to move stuck energy by talking therapies alone. However, EFT also works well as a standalone therapy. The beauty of EFT is results are seen rapidly. Many people notice improvements after only a small number of sessions, feeling calmer and clearer, and better able to regulate their breathing as tension is released. Yet it’s a gentle approach that works in harmony with your body.

EFT With Juliet at Embracing Nutrition

Advanced EFT Therapist Juliet Goodwin at Embracing Nutrition was sceptical about the benefits of EFT until she tried it herself. Despite repeatedly failing to pass her driving test, just one session of EFT released the mental blocks and fear previously holding her back from attaining her goals. She passed her test that same day. After having experienced such a profound change so quickly, she decided to learn more about EFT.

Ever since she has been seeing her own clients, Juliet has witnessed similar patterns over and over again. Clients present with a mixture of physical symptoms, stress, and old negative experiences all creating an unhelpful narrative. 

With a background in Nutritional Therapy, Juliet began to see that physical symptoms in her clients were consistently linked to anxiety, stress, entrenched beliefs, or challenging life experiences. She believes long-lasting health needs more than simply nourishing the body. Rather, it requires an understanding of the emotional landscape too. If the mind/body connection isn’t attended to, this can create a block to healing. Only by supporting emotional health can deep healing occur. 

Juliet is passionate about sharing EFT because she has seen the transformation it can bring about. What’s more, EFT doesn’t need you to believe in it for it to work, as Juliet herself discovered. As she says, the change in her clients is nothing short of remarkable.

What Happens During an EFT Session?

Your online session will be tailored to you. It will involve an exploration of the thoughts, sensations, and feelings you’d like to change. Meanwhile, you’ll use simple fingerprint tapping on specific acupressure points while focussing on feelings, in order to reduce their intensity. It’s a safe and supportive environment throughout. The journey will progress differently for each person, adapting to meet individual needs.

Take the first step today to experience the power of this transformative therapy by booking a FREE Discovery Call with Juliet today.

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