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How to do Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)

Framework
Always, irregardless of your background or the setting in which you will be using EFT, please use a systematic approach in which you always document, measure, treat, measure (repeat treat & measure) and then test your results.

Measure = test
The LearnEFT website advises you to always use standardised and validated assesment tests, to establish how intense or severely your customer is affeced by his issues. These objective tests give a rating, providing you with objective

information that can be used to report (back) to health care professionals. If you are not officially qualified and licensed to diagnose, score and interpret these tests, please do not draw any conclusions from the test, as this may offend. Just use pre- and post treatment series tests for reporting purposes.

Please use at least one general test, like a SCL- 90 or a SA - 45, to get an a measurement of general health, followed by a specific test for the specific reason for consulting the therapist, like using the using the Beck Depression Index for depression.

Prerequisites
Check for ability to feel/ medication impairing ability to feel/ no dissociation, etc, see requirements on the Treatment page.

Doing EFT
As discussed before, begin by choosing a target issue. It can be a general issue, or a specific one. If it is a general issue, please come up with concrete examples in which you have experienced this issue. Experience has taught that it pays to be specific. Take a moment to reflect on how this issue, this specific memory feels. Write down a list of aspects. Score the aspects using the SUD score, document the score. Treat each aspect with the below EFT intervention technique. EFT is divided into the following parts, which together Gary Craig has called the Basic Recipe of EFT:

Basic Recipe:

the preparatory phase known as the set up,
the tapping sequence
the neurological integration sequence, referred to by Gary Craig as the gamut procedure
another tapping sequence.

Taking one aspect, we will apply the EFT intervention as follows:

Correction of psychological reversal consists of 2 parts, the verbal statement out loud, and the tapping on the Karte Chop point, or rubbing of the Sore Spot (Tender Spot). Both parts are done at the same time.

1. Setup: Tapping on the side of the hand while saying the phrase "I accept myself, even if I have {this issue}, or Rubbing the sore spot (tender spot) while saying the phrase "I accept myself, even if I have {this issue}.

Make sure you have your customer say this out loud.

EFT tapping points

2. Tapping Sequence.
Tap on the body on the following areas you see in the picture while being attuned to the target issue. While tapping a short reminder phrase is spoken out loud. You may choose an order (top down or vice-versa) to make remembering the points easier.

3. Neurological Integration Sequence

The Neurological Integration Sequence consists of the following 9 parts.

Neurological Integration Sequence:

1. Close eyes
2. Open eyes.

This boils down to blinking. Have your customer blink several times, still repeating the reminder phrase.

3. Look hard down right
4. Look hard down left.

Repeat looking to both sides several times, each time stating the reminder phrase on each side.

5. Turn your eyes around in a circle one direction, as if your eyes are following a clock.
6. Turn your eyes around in a circle the other direction, as if your eyes are following a clock (counter clockwise)

keep saying your reminder phrase. For optimal effect, repeat several times.

7. Count to 5.
8. Hum a tune.
9. Count to 5 again.

For optimal effect, repeat several times. The order (what first) does not matter, alternating does matter.

4. Tapping Sequence: Tap all the points again down the body.

Take another SUD score.

Adjust the target phrase (fine tune) or repeat till the SUD score of this aspect has reached 0.

Repeat this procedure for all aspects until they all reach a SUD score of 0. Since EFT is a therapeutic intervention, and the number of sessions vary from issue to issue that the customer wants to have resolved, it may take anywhere from one to many sessions.

On the whole EFT tends to be short term therapy, achieving very large results in a very short time.

Test your results using triggering visualisations, images, or real life situations.

Now have your customer take another diagnostic assesment test.

Report (back) to appropriate health care professional.