It’s a simple moving up the emotional scale to a higher level of vibration.

I fully agree with you and Brenda about how little EFT is actually needed in many of the sessions I am using these days. It’s as though the energy of alignment is present in those sessions and because that is the intention from the start, that’s what happens – whether we use EFT or not. (Still, there are those times when ya just need to pull it out, aren’t there?)

EFT is truly two things: the tapping and the detective work. It seems to me that as we get very skilled in the detective work, less and less tapping is needed, and sometimes not at all. (Gary Craig is a perfect example of this, too, by the way.)

I had a great conversation with my chiropractor recently: he said that sometimes when he gets home after a long day, he sits down and imagines the energy he feels in his acupuncture sessions, and that soothes him. (I call that “connecting to the energy of _____” and you could insert EFT here, or a bath, or swimming, or running, or, or, or… whatever makes you at peace or happy.) To me, this is what we’re doing: we’re connecting to that healing, loving energy and thereby manifesting it in the moment.

The stronger our connection to that energy, the more quickly the vibrational shift is made. The challenge for our clients is to learn how to hold it themselves. (But isn’t that the challenge for us all?)

What a delicious discussion! Thanks so much!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this! As I’ve done more and more sessions, I’m seeing this happen increasingly often Chip – the shift is happening without needing to tap. You were one of the first to mention this and opened up my mind to this possibility. And, I absolutely agree that EFT is great bridge into new possibilities that we want to be living but aren’t sure how.

Happy New Year dude and thanks for your thoughts!

More and more lately I’ve been seeing the emotional shift we are talking about occur without the use of EFT.

Okay, so maybe what I am about to say will border on EFT sacrilegious.

So if EFT is not needed, what is needed and what role does EFT play?

If we look at this from a Law of Attraction point of view, we picture the emotions as “senses” we use to navigate the process of manifesting our life experience. These emotions we “suffer from” are indications that we are stuck in a vibration that is creating a reality we do not care to live.

The process of releasing these emotions is a matter of examining these emotions, accepting them, becoming okay with having them, and accepting yourself as a being who created a perfect emotion for the time/space. In this state, we can release the vibration and therefore the emotion and physical manifestation.

EFT gives the rest of us a bridge. Although I am sure someone will come up with physical explanation (someone always does), for the moment, EFT gives us something we can wrap our mind around.

Even thought most of us don’t know how acupuncture works, we have seen it does, so if EFT is like acupuncture, then it must work too, and we have seen it does.

Coincidentally, EFT is a process that allows the person to examine these emotions, accept them, become okay with having them, and accept yourself as a being who created a perfect emotion for the time/space. Tapping gives a verification that we actually did something and makes it concrete.

And somewhere in there, as we rush to get to the tapping part, we get to “deeply and completely love and accept ourselves.”

Brenda: That’s right – simplifying is often part of healing process. Your welcome re: the posts. It’s a pleasure.

Anne: Yes, I agree that EFT is often a bridge from the painful place we are starting from (I say I came to EFT on my knees) into the beginnings of a new, more loving and fun reality.

Thanks for the dialogue everyone!

After 8 years of using EFT (and healing numerous issues in my own life and assisting the healing in hundreds, if not thousands, more), I think that EFT works because it connects two things: where we are right here in this moment in time, and who we are in Truth.

What I mean by this is that EFT is a powerful bridge from the place of pain, loss, confusion to the place of Love, Clarity and Peace. (I’m not trying to sound airy-fairy here, but I’ve seen some pretty miraculous things happen using this powerful tool.)

EFT allows us to acknowledge where we are in our painful, confused state, and to state the Truth of Who We Are (deeply and completely loved, i.e., whole and complete, even in our painful, confused state). This space then allows an opening for us to begin to see something in a different light (a re-frame).

The tapping allows our energy to flow instead of being blocked as we stimulate the points on our bodies. And, the fact that there are studies now that show that the brain chemistry also changes when doing the tapping (and that it holds years later!) is just so delightful.

How does it work exactly? I think we’re going to find out in the years to come. I, for one, will be delighted to hear, but for now, I’m just so happy that it DOES work!