EFT was just something I had vaguely heard about in passing, from both my eldest daughter and my sister. My eldest had been introduced to it in counselling therapy several years prior and had learnt to see it as a valuable tool for self-help. My sister was regularly utilising it herself in her practice as a psychotherapist. I vaguely remember that she said to me once, “you’d love EFT Min, and you’d be really good at it!” At the time it was just a passing comment, and I didn’t give it any other thought until the idea wafted slowly to me at a time when it was clear that I had to do a complete 180 degree turn with my career. 

Due to physical issues, I was having to face the prospect of 10 years of a beloved massage and reflexology business meeting its end and was not only feeling a bit bereft, but also anxious about my future.

I remember sitting at a laptop and wondering what I could do to help myself, when along wafts this distant memory of my sister’s EFT mention and my daughter’s own therapy experience. Cue, my first google and a quick check up on potential courses. Compulsively, I told myself that I would spend the ‘not too large amount of money’ learning EFT level 1 and see how it ‘fitted’ me. 

Since my 40th year, this seems to be the way I operate. Like trying on different ‘hats’ to see which suited me, after my 40th birthday, I became more willing to try new things and would test them out and see how they ‘fit me’. Colourful leggins? Check, fit! Blonde to brunette? Check fit! And so on…

EFT level 1 was one of those said ‘hats’. I did my training with the lovely ladies at the EFT centre-( https://www.facebook.com/TheEFTCentreUK) and had casually told myself I’d see how I go that day, maybe learn a few tools along the way, and I didn’t give it much more thought until the first day of training itself.

 I entered it fairly blindly if I’m honest, and my main concern was ‘getting through ‘ the physical component to training as I had been told by medical professionals not to bend my arms or use them repetitively in any way and had a fair degree of pain when doing so. You could say that learning EFT perhaps wasn’t the best thing for me and yet I still had a strange compulsion that I couldn’t explain pushing me there! (The universe perhaps? I think so! 😅)

I knew I’d been sucked into the wonderful world of EFT when I ended the day without too much pain in my hands and arms AND I was desperately looking at how I could juggle life to attend the next days of level 2 training. I knew I couldn’t leave it there! This tapping malarkey had worked already on myself and other people that I had observed, and I HAD to know more!

So I became a student of EFT, spurred on by my compulsion to not only evolve quickly through necessity, but also my keen interest-you could say considerable thirst, to learn as much in the way of healing as possible moving forward.

EFT marked completely new territory for me though. I had spent years concentrating more on the healing of the physical body via my complementary therapies, and now I was being transported into the deep world of the emotional, mental and psychological pain body, bringing with it heartache, fear and sometimes, trauma. But I was also  being transported to the place from whence real magic can and does regularly happen and I was beginning to see it at work!

Fifty practice sessions later, an exam, lots of reading, observations and mentoring and I was awarded my certification and accreditation! I was finally a practitioner with none other than EFT international (https://eftinternational.org/) and it had been a rapidly paced whirlwind for me! I had been granted some other healing wings and was ready to fly with them!

Since my training, I have continued to learn just how much power EFT enables the user and have seen the simply profound effects it can have on a person, particularly if used with an  experienced, empathetic and highly intuitive practitioner, who knows exactly what questions to ask when required for the evolution and soul growth and healing of the client.

When combined with my basic counselling skills, high levels of intuition, empathy, people skills, a good background in healing, my spirituality and coaching training, I believe I can move people quickly out of old false beliefs and out of the pain/trauma cycle. The tapping itself enables people to give pain a voice-sometimes for the first time, and to dialogue exactly how they feel about something, whilst giving them the means to let it go or diffuse its seeming power. It brings the emotional and mental intensity right down to a place where perspectives are naturally challenged. I have witnessed some beautiful revelations and epiphanies from clients and there’s nothing more wonderful to witnesses than seeing someone begin to accept who and what they are, and begin to be compassionate with themselves.

This not only naturally comes into EFT via its very set up statement of “…I can deeply and completely love and accept myself”, but is also something I push and challenge on all levels with clients through all my offerings and teaching. For it’s what we all ultimately want isn’t it?! Our own love and self acceptance! By doing this we nurture the wounded inner child or turn to gently acknowledge the elephant in the room. We begin to do the emotional work safely and with grace and like butterflies emerging from a chrysalis, are then empowered to unfold into who or what we always wanted to be.

 EFT can be a phenomenal healing therapy! It is both empowering and purposeful, yet it is gentle and nurturing. EFT can sometimes be all you ever needed in the moment without even realising it! EFT grants freedom to the emotions by giving them a voice. An outlet. By giving them permission to exist. 

When clients come to you and say, “I have had years of therapy, but I’ve never gotten this far so quickly with anyone!”, you know you’re doing something right! 😉

This is EFT. This is EMOTIONAL FREEDOM. It’s time to tap!

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