Starting an EFT experiment
Time to start another experiment, this time in relation to “EFT” or the “Emotional Freedom Technique”.
Now, as I understand it (and I’ll be able to understand it better when I’ve done all the preliminary reading and so forth in a day or two) EFT involves focusing on difficult physical or emotional issues, and tapping specific points on meridian lines (ie.the invisible lines that many people ancient and modern believe and believed carry subtle energy around the body).
The starting point
I also ought to say that I’m not starting this with quite a clean slate…Someone who was practising their technique on me, about five years ago gave it a go…and I ended up feeling dizzy and a little strange…and that was all.
Not a ringing endorsement so far. But some of the best things in life only appear when you try them again from a different perspective (asparagus springs to mind for me…but maybe that is just me
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Also, I have a pain in my ankle that I’d really like to shift, so there’s a good incentive too.
So the hunt begins for good resources to share.
More tomorrow.
Clare
Update: The full review after this experiment is available here.




Clare
I applaud your experimental curiosity.
I recall a month or two ago on a mailing list populated by NLP-trained people the subject of EFT came up – I suggested that we should use our NLP skills to deconstruct what might be happening with EFT, to assess rigourously what might be “the difference that makes a difference” and was roundly flamed for having an insufficiently open mind!
It’s a shame that some people (on both the more “scientific” and “holistic” sides of debates like this, seem to think that putting things to the test and exploring energy are mutually exclusive.
Anyway, for what it’s worth, the results of this experiment are also now available on the blog, so everyone else can try out the idea for themselves.
PLease do, and let us know what you think!