I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

- Carl Jung

I had a wonderful opportunity to participate in an EFT course this week- Emotional Freedom Technique.  It's a type of therapy that releases emotions that limit us, pain us, and hold us back from reaching our goals. 

The basic premise of EFT is that the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system. When our energy is flowing normally, without obstruction, we feel good in every way.  When our energy becomes blocked along one or more of the body's energy meridians, negative or damaging emtions can develop, along with all types of physical symptoms. The process involves tapping on energy points on the face and hands while focusing your thoughts on pain, unhappy memories or any other problem. The result is that the emotions that contribute to the problem are released along with the energy blocks.

(adapted from EFT for Procrastination by Gloria Arenson, MFT)

  When I first read information about EFT I was both skeptical and intrigued.  How could something so simple offer so much? 

We were a small group, three participants and one very special teacher.  I allowed myself to share some of my own personal pain and challenge and found the treatment to be both empowering and liberating.  I felt an energy running through my body and I felt a lightness envelop me afterwards.  It was an emotional experience, both exposing my fear and facing it, speaking it aloud and tapping it.  Sometimes we think we're stronger if we hold things in and if we deny or ignore, it will pass.  That may be true, but it stays stuffed inside of us and in ways that are not always apparent, stops us from truly shining.  The pain of the past does not have to be our guide to our future.
It has been six days since I participated in this course.  I tapped again today, on my own, and noticed immediately that the intensity of the emotion that I was working through had subsided significantly. And once again, I was reminded how our lives are our creation and that we can choose to embrace emotions, to release emotions, and to learn new ways of being throughout our journey.
In joy and peace,
brenda
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