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Marvel of the Emotional Freedom Technique


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1 Department of Psychology, Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector-11, Chandigarh, India
     

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This paper provides a comprehensive overview of a therapeutic technique entitled1 Emotional Freedom Technique1. It's a safe and non-invasive healing method, based on tapping acupuncture points while focusing on a particular issue. Using EFT, a person taps at those points in the body that will help release the negative energy whilst expressing their thought process. Freud talked about how Ego has a major role to play when it comes to balancing the psychic energy to prevent conflicts and that is exactly what EFT does. It negates the energy that is responsible for the anxiety and sets the ego tree to concentrate on other aspects of the mind. It supports the ego in its functioning. Though the concept of use of therapies in healing is decades old, yet holds utmost relevance in prevailing ethos especially in a cut throat competition era faced by students, working men and women and almost everyone can relate to it. Therefore, it becomes vital to harness EFT in today's scenario and the efforts can not only be done by practitioners, counsellors and doctors rather can be easily dealt by anyone. Thus, incorporating EFT perhaps can bring out more potential and effective in treating fears, phobias and augmenting their performance in daily life.

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Emotional Freedom Technique, Acceptance, Heal, Energy.
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Ashmeet Jolly
Department of Psychology, Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector-11, Chandigarh, India

Abstract


This paper provides a comprehensive overview of a therapeutic technique entitled1 Emotional Freedom Technique1. It's a safe and non-invasive healing method, based on tapping acupuncture points while focusing on a particular issue. Using EFT, a person taps at those points in the body that will help release the negative energy whilst expressing their thought process. Freud talked about how Ego has a major role to play when it comes to balancing the psychic energy to prevent conflicts and that is exactly what EFT does. It negates the energy that is responsible for the anxiety and sets the ego tree to concentrate on other aspects of the mind. It supports the ego in its functioning. Though the concept of use of therapies in healing is decades old, yet holds utmost relevance in prevailing ethos especially in a cut throat competition era faced by students, working men and women and almost everyone can relate to it. Therefore, it becomes vital to harness EFT in today's scenario and the efforts can not only be done by practitioners, counsellors and doctors rather can be easily dealt by anyone. Thus, incorporating EFT perhaps can bring out more potential and effective in treating fears, phobias and augmenting their performance in daily life.

Keywords


Emotional Freedom Technique, Acceptance, Heal, Energy.

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