Many of us go through life just trying to be okay. We feel the need to "keep it together" and focus on the positive. EFT is different in that we encourage you to tell the truth about your stresses and traumas. By doing so, we can target the parts of your brain holding on to these distressing emotions and prepare them for integration and reconsolidation. As Louise Hay said, "If you want to clean the house, you have to first see the dirt."

While we acknowledge the negative aspects of how we feel, we create a contradictory experience in the body through tapping. Our nervous systems are calm and therefore able to relearn responses to ideas or events that once upset us. EFT includes another contradictory experience through self-acceptance and cognitive reframing. In this way, we can liberate ourselves of limiting beliefs, emotional blocks, and unhealthy patterns.

Once the stresses and traumas have been exposed and integrated, we repeat the tapping sequence until the old operating system is reprogrammed. You may still have the memory, but it will no longer trigger you the way it once did. You'll have the freedom to be the "watcher" of your emotions and no longer feel controlled by them. I can think of no better gift than emotional freedom. It allows you to be, do, and have all that you desire.