EFT works best if you have intense issues or a habitual way of thinking that you are having trouble breaking free from. I have used it in the past for intense sadness and anxiety and could lower my level from 10 to 1 or 2 with one or two rounds. Rubbing the sore spot on my chest or hand would help with on the fly stuff that caused anxiety. It is also a good tool to remove any negative thoughts that come up when trying to raise your vibrational level or to remove any resistance you may feel when doing positive affirmations.
I reached a point that I could do the same thing naturally without EFT by not assigning so much value to what was happening and by using cooler words when talking to myself.
I am new to TAT but the first time I did it, some emotional patterns that started when I was young became clear to me while I was doing it and some pain in my side left immediately. The EFT just got rid of the emotions but the TAT showed me the reason or rut behind the emotions.
I'll just go a little more into it if it will help someone. I had a soreness and pain in my right side since my mom had died from cancer in her right side. While she was dying we tried not to express any sadness about losing her. We all did, in order not upset everyone. She was terminal for 7 months but in the last two weeks, when it became evident for the first time that she was going in and out of her mind, the thought of the inevitable end overwhelmed me and I started crying while I was trying to figure out what to do for her. She got so mad at me and told me off for bothering her up with my whining and she was right; I should have left the room but I was so tired of fighting her to get her some medical help.
Months after she died while I was doing the TAT for the prolonged grief and depression I was feeling, it came back to me about how when I was 4 or 5 that I used to chase her car down the road where we lived as she left for work. Of course it was dangerous so once when she stopped and I thought she was coming back to comfort me, she spanked me. When she was leaving me this time, it felt the same way. Please, Moma, don't be mad because I don't want you to leave me. Getting mad was her way of trying to help me saying, straighten up and let's deal with what we have to do.
(I am not agreeing with how she handled either situation; we sometimes expect too much of our kids and make light of their tears. I just understood better the factors that were hurting me.)
I hadn't thought about the first thing in forever but when it came up during the TAT, it was clear I was still holding some of it and that it was adding to my present sadness. After the TAT, the pain in my right side left, clearly a constant reminder of my mom, and hasn't returned. My depression and grief lifted considerably too. BTW, I had tests, CT scan and MRI and nothing was found before I did the TAT.
The version I used included references to God and that increased my faith in the method but I know others have used it without those references and also benefited. Both EFT and TAT methods are available for free so to find out if it works for you is easy.
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