As you know, EFT or Emotional Freedom Techniques is a tool that could help you resolve issues: emotional, physiological and even psychological issues at that. This is an alternative healing therapy that utilizes key energy points in the body while using the power of affirmation to achieve harmony and balance in the person. EFT is a complete healing course that is guaranteed to literally tap into the power of meridian points. The basic actions of EFT entails finger tapping those energy points while repeating the “issue” that needs to be resolved with the affirmation. As such, there are many first time practitioners of the EFT who have found favorable results by this simple set of actions.

However, it should be noted here that EFT is more than just the tapping motion; more than the affirmation; and certainly more than the combination of the two. This is a powerful psychotherapeutic tool that can help resolve emotionally and mentally ingrained problems that may be difficult to tackle in the first place. This is especially true with cases of trauma caused by accidents or problems during childhood. This can also be the case when dealing with concerns of a stressful environment, either at home or at work. In some instances, any physical incapacity, whether inborn or brought about by time can be a cause for emotional and mental distress. In such scenarios, new practitioners of EFT often find themselves in a fix when EFT doesn’t work for them – or so they think.

The thing with EFT is that one has to learn to take one “issue” at a time. No one is claiming that this psychotherapeutic tool will cure all ills in a heartbeat. After all, this is not the end-all miracle cure of the time. The healing process for EFT entails the practitioners to segregate one issue and heal that first, before going on to the next issue. It would be safe to say that most of us are facing several issues that need major resolving. However, with EFT, there is a great need to focus on one for the time being.

According to the EFT manual and its accompanying DVD demos, in order to heal faster, one has to get into the core issue immediately. Distinguishing what the core issue for its subsequent problem / consequences need dedicated introspection and yes, admittance to the fact. This is a crucial step to healing.

Think of it this way: a doctor may try to heal a blister that appears on your leg through conventional patch-up and topical medications. However, if the blister reappears or even multiplies, then he or she will try to find out exactly what causes these blisters to appear in the first place and cure the root cause of the problem. EFT works that way too, especially when it comes to emotional and mental distress.

Saying “Even though I am angry at myself, I can still work this out on my own,” is much too broad in definition. You need to address the issues as to why are you angry at yourself, when did this anger first emerged and why is this affecting you so much. The complete EFT manual and DVD can teach you how to get to the core issue and resolve it in order to get to the other subsequent issues.