TAP AWAY THE TRAUMA

Thought Field Therapy is a powerful tool.  You tap various parts of your body while concentrating on the event that is troubling you, you eliminate the effect of those memories.  The practice was created more than 40 years ago by psychology professor Dr.Roger Callahan.  He used tapping to treat everything from needle phobias to grief and anxiety.  He discovered he could collapse negative emotions by tapping his patient's meridian points.  Tapping has no side effects.  It not about eradicating the memories, it's about eradicating the effect of those memories.

Access the thought you want to eliminate.  Make a picture in your mind of the event or what you fear might happen.  Remember any sounds connected with it.  Or focus on the feeling you get in your body when you think about the problem.  You must hold this thought the whoe time you tap.  If you have a dog phobia and are thinking about what you are cooking for dinner, you wont eliminate the anxiety.  Assess the level of emotion before and after the treatment to gauge your progress.  Use a scale from one to ten - with ten being the strongest.

Holding the thought, tap the following points with your first two fingers for eight to ten seconds (it's fine if you tap for too long):
(1) Side of the hand (2) Under the nose (3) eyebrow (4) under eye (5) under arm (6) collarbone

Tap the gamut spot - between the small knuckle and the ring finger knuckle on the back of your hand continually and do a slow blink.  Keeping your head still, look down to the right and then to the left, then make a circle with the eyes.  Then circle the eyes the other way around.  Now hum a few notes out loud.  This isoloates the right, visual, side of the brain.  Count out loud to five.  Hum again.  Repeat all the tapping points above.  Using the scale one to ten, assess your emotion.  It will probably have gone down.  If so repeat the process.  If you find the thought or emotion has changed, hold the new thought.

Based on the TFT, Gary Craig developed the EFT in the mid nineties.  EFT is Emotional Freedom Techniques.I recently saw a nice video on EFT Tap Away overwhelm and stress.   It was very simple and very nice.  Watch it!




If you want to know more about the TFT and EFT you can read the detailed comparison written by Peter Graham:

http://www.integrative-clearing.com.au/eft/eft_and_tft.html

Whether we use TFT or EFT there is a technique to tap away the trauma as we get really troubled by the stress and problems in life.  Tapping is at our fingertips and we can do it whenever we want to get relieved of stress and problems.

T.P.Anand
Dubai, U.A.E.
25th April 2012