Emotional Healing in Minutes: Simple Acupressure Techniques For Your Emotions. Paul Lynch

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СКАЧАТЬ TRIGGERS

      Identify any triggers that provoke a reaction for you. Write them down and keep the list to be used later when you start applying EFT.

      THOUGHT PATTERNS

      The body and brain function on an electro-chemical level, so our thoughts are constantly creating patterns of electrical energy. In turn, neurotransmitters, hormones and chemicals are released in response to this electrical energy. By interrupting this chain of events the predetermined emotional reaction can be altered.

      EXERCISE – THOUGHT ENERGY

      The effect of our thoughts can be demonstrated quite clearly. Spend a few minutes thinking about an unhappy or negative memory in your past. As soon as you begin to remember this event, something very tangible should happen to your energy. How do you feel?

      Now repeat the same process, this time thinking about a positive event. If you cannot think of a happy time in your life, focus your thoughts on the positive things that you would like to happen in the future. Do you feel quite different to the first attempt?

      Positive thoughts invariably produce a more energizing and vibrant feeling than negative thoughts. These subtle changes within our electrical energy affect our attitude, emotional responses and physical bodies. A single negative thought can influence your mood for anything from a few minutes to several hours.

      In this modern age where people are constantly thinking about their mortgage, their performance at work or relationship problems, negative thinking can multiply exponentially, causing a bombardment of relentless thoughts and concerns that eventually overwhelms the energy system. If left unchecked this can lead to depression, as the energy field becomes weighed down by our ‘heavy’ responsibilities.

      By correcting disrupted energy flow, EFT effectively breaks the link between thoughts and negative emotions, leaving all memories intact, but releasing the emotional intensity connected with them. Once the emotional charge is removed from a traumatic incident or future event, the negative emotions associated with it can no longer be felt.

      kirsty’s story – car accident memory Kirsty was involved in a car accident many years ago. Since that time, she had felt anxious and out of control whenever she was a passenger in a car. After one EFT session during which she tapped for the distressing memory, she was able to talk about the accident in a calm and relaxed manner. She realized that although she could remember everything that had happened, her fear had gone. The thought of the incident and the possibility of being a passenger in the future failed to produce an emotional response. Kirsty was pleased to discover that she could now travel quite happily as a passenger without the anxious feelings that used to haunt her.

      ENERGETIC PATTERNS

      The energy that flows through our body is unlike our physical energy – it is our own consciousness. Our energy is an integral part of our make-up. It forms an energetic replica of our physical and emotional being and is a balancing and regulating factor for the entire system.

      Repetitive emotional reactions can be seen as an energetic pattern that becomes imprinted on our psyche, causing us to react in a similar way repeatedly. This may explain why so many people become stuck in certain emotional responses or modes of behaviour.

      Phobias, fears and anxieties are good examples of this. Phobias can be likened to a ‘stuck record’ response that continually repeats itself. Rationally we know that a spider across the other side of the room will not harm us. Statistically, the chances of us being in an aeroplane crash are relatively small. We realize most of our fears are irrational, unfounded or unlikely to happen, yet the emotional intensity is just as strong.

      Such patterns can be found throughout our personal lives. There are many recurring themes that appear within families and relationships, such as feelings of hurt, anger, abandonment or betrayal. These themes often reach far back into our personal history and may have been imprinted on us during childhood or occur as a direct result of an earlier experience. Liberating ourselves from these ingrained patterns has been made easier through using the EFT process. Roger Callahan referred to this as ‘breaking nature’s code’.

      BREAKING THE VICIOUS CIRCLE

      Meridian therapies have a way of neutralizing the energetic disruption within the body and returning it back to normal. By gently ‘tapping’ certain emotional release points on the body, the disrupted energy and emotional charge connected with a traumatic event is removed. Through making an energetic adjustment in such a way, you can alter the upsetting emotions that surface after distressing events. As a result, the energetic template is broken, allowing resolution of the original emotional state. This then liberates you from the emotional hold a situation or difficulty has had.

      EXERCISE – EXPERIENCING YOUR OWN ENERGY FIELD

      This exercise will help you to experience your own energy field. There are many different ways in which to do this. The example below is a good place to start:

      1 Make sure you are sitting comfortably.

      2 Relax and clear your mind, this is an exercise in feeling not thinking. It is important not to try too hard, just be receptive and let it happen.

      3 Gently rub the palms of your hands together a couple of times.

      4 In slow motion, gradually pull your hands apart approximately half a centimetre. For the best results keep your fingers closed.

      5 Then slowly bring your hands together again, without allowing them to physically touch each other.

      6 Repeat this process, slowly moving back and forwards, slightly further each time, until you work up to being roughly 15cm apart. (Remember not to let your hands touch.)

      7 You should now feel an ‘energetic pull’ between your hands. This is experienced in different ways, but can be described as a feeling of static, friction, heat, tingling, or as a magnetic pull.

      8 You may wish to bring your hands up to your face or move them gently around the body to experience the energy that surrounds you.

      Experiment in finding a way that suits you. It may be easier to feel a friend’s energy first. Some people can actually see the energy surrounding people, so don’t be alarmed if you catch glimmers of light or colour while you practise this exercise.

       Chapter 3

       The Friendly Therapy

      THE ADVANTAGES OF EFT

      There are so many advantages that EFT has to offer, not least of which is a genuine freedom from your deepest fears and lifelong limitations. EFT has at least an 85% success rate, which means there is a good chance that it will work for you. Most people experience significant, if not a total, release from their problems. An idea of the wide range of problems that can be addressed with EFT will be given later in this chapter. First, we’ll look СКАЧАТЬ