Judy Byrne - A Practical Guide to EFT: Tap Here to Transform Your Life

ISBN: 978-184831-662-1

Text copyright 2014 Judy Byrne

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About the author

Judy Byrne is a therapist, trainer, author, speaker, and one of only 29 people worldwide to have been awarded the title of EFT Master by EFT founder, Gary Craig. She was privileged to do her own advanced training in a small group in the US with Gary Craig. Her passion is to help people discover how they can be the way they want to be by getting the word out about EFT so everyone can benefit from using it for themselves.

Judy has presented on EFT to large audiences worldwide and has been quoted extensively as an EFT expert in newspapers and magazines. She is on the executive board and chair of the ethics committee for AAMET International (Association for the Advancement of Meridian Energy Techniques), the lead body for energy therapy standards worldwide. She is also a member of the National Council of Psychotherapists, the National Council for Hypnotherapy, and is a fellow of the National Hypnotherapy Society. She has a private practice in London.

Preface

This book is will explain how to use Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT, an energy therapy that has swept the world over the last 25 years. Energy therapies combine working with the bodys energy system and, at the same time, focussing on the emotion or symptom of the problem we want to change. EFT, for example, uses tapping on a sequence of nine points of the traditional Chinese meridian system, also used by acupuncturists, while saying words that help us to keep our attention on what it is we want tapping to change.

Google Emotional Freedom Techniques and you will find more than 300 million entries. But what is EFT?

The amazing popularity of the technique lies partly in its simplicity and partly in its complexity. Its simple to use anyone can learn the tapping sequence that covers the points on the meridian system in a few minutes yet it can be used to deal with complex issues. This book will first show you how to use these basic techniques, and then teach you to put it into practice at different levels and on different issues.

You will find this book easy to follow and its contents simple to work through, with a lot of guidance on how to do so. It will teach you how to use the technique on straight-forward problems like a single negative emotion or physical symptom, and then it will move on to more complex issues such as anxiety, stress, insomnia, weight loss, stopping smoking, phobias, trauma, grief, improving performance and health and demolishing barriers to attracting abundance into our lives. Each of these topics has its own section or chapter, so you can either read the whole book through in order or, once you have the tapping basics under your belt, you can skip to the issue that is most relevant for you.

I will also show you how you can clear out all the old negative experiences that influence how you are in the world right now, as well as how to become your own therapist. EFT can disempower the after-effects of old trauma, whether its big enough to be called officially trauma or is instead what we call small t trauma or everyday trauma. This is the less dramatic but cumulatively equally influential steady drip of negative experiences. EFT can help you to have a happier past, as well as a better future. It gives you a way to go back to these influential memories and, without in any way losing the memory, detach the negative emotions from it so we are no longer slaves to its effects.

EFT has a knack of showing you where you really need to go. You may start tapping on something small and suddenly find something more serious or more complicated has just jumped into your awareness. If that happens, keep tapping until the emotion has subsided or gone down to a manageable level.

It is important that you start working on small stuff; ideally small stuff that, as far as you know, is not linked to something more deep-seated. If you have major traumas in your past, particularly if they are early traumas, it may not be safe to work with them on your own. If you want to try, start with smaller stuff until you have made friends with EFT. And even then promise yourself that if you realize youre out of your depth alone, you will find help.

The ways in which therapy can make peoples lives better has been a career-long fascination for me. Over the past few decades I have done a degree in psychology, two diplomas in psychotherapy, and one in clinical hypnosis. Ive attended so many workshops I lost count years ago. I trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and using Mindfulness in Psychotherapy. All of this has been immeasurably valuable. But I can honestly say that EFT has been the biggest single discovery of my professional life.

I have always sought ways of working that empower the people I work with, rather than make them therapy dependent. The ideal therapy, in my mind, is one that deals with trauma, but with the minimum risk of re-traumatization. In an ideal world, therapy also needs to work fast: if youre suffering, you want to be able to alleviate that as quickly as possible. EFT scores high on all three criteria. Of all the techniques Ive learned in my career, its the only one I use on myself. If Im worried about something, I tap. If Im left stressed by a demanding day, I tap. If Im upset or hurt or angry I tap.

So I am delighted to be able to share with you this brilliant energy therapy technique so you, too, can use it for yourself. I hope you will find tapping really transforms your life. It has mine.