How Do You Handle Anger?
What’s the impact of emotions on how we interact with loved ones? Learn to acknowledge, claim, and identify your emotions. Don’t discuss anything …
Member Topics: EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)
When Setting a Boundary Is the Message We Need to Send
Introduction CRAFT teaches us to be thoughtful, caring, and deliberate in the messages we send to our Loved Ones. But sometimes the message is best co…
The Evidence Is In: A Walk in the Woods Really Is Good for the Soul
Many of us know it from our own experience. Now there’s science to back it up: time in nature brings a host of benefits for our bodies, minds, and e…
Emotional Dysregulation: When “Getting in Touch With Our Feelings” Isn’t the Problem
Emotional dysregulation is a common effect of PTSD and other forms of trauma. When we suffer from it, our feelings become so intense that we lose cont…
Emotional Freedom Techniques
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is an easy-to-learn self-help technique that combines three ingredients: Tapping on acupressure points, Focusing on the identifying problem, and Affirmations. Tapping, as it is sometimes called, calms the emotions around an issue, so that you can think more clearly about the problem. EFT can help you gain emotional freedom so that you can begin doing more of what you really want in life. This simple technique often provides rapid relief from physical and emotional issues, relief from traumatic memories, phobias, persistent grief, anger, guilt, anxiety, addictive cravings, and physical discomfort. EFT Research This link provides a meta-analysis of 51 studies that looked at EFT Clearing Fear and Worry Here is a demonstration using “scripts”: Clearing Fear and Worry – Tapping with Brad Yates:
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