Posted at: 03/13/2010 9:04 AM
Updated at: 03/13/2010 9:05 AM
By: Benita Zahn

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Emotional Freedom Technology

There are many ways to beat stress and one of them is, in a sense, to beat it out - very gently, of course. “Emotional freedom technology” has its roots in acupuncture, but without needles, and mind-body medicine.

Finding a way to relieve our troubles can, in itself, be stressful. So you might try to tap into your inner voice and literally tap your troubles away. EFT focuses on meridians, the paths energy takes to flow through our body. Then EFT couples it with neuro-linguistic programming - talk therapy.

“You state an affirmation or a statement of what you want to happen or going on wrong in your life,” said Kerri Kannon, an EFT facilitator. “And you just tap on different energy meridians and it allows you to release those blocks that are keeping you from having a flowing life.”

Kannon says meridians can become blocked by trauma, injury, stress or fear.

“It's helping people identify the conflict so they can release that and just relax and be free of whatever the conflicting thought, is,” Kannon said.

An EFT client came to deal with physical trauma from her childhood and she says it worked.

“I never really bought into therapy because I don't believe in it just the mind, but I tried a lot of other techniques and this one kind of helped,” she said.

She looking to cope with the pain of a recent fall and the fears it's triggered about her overall health.

EFT can be done without a practitioner once you learn the points to tap. You can do it anywhere, anytime and it can work along with traditional medicine. Often, one session is all you need to relieve the stress of a particular situation.