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According to Gary Craig, the Creator of Emotional Freedom Techniques,
"the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy
system". This bold statement is a radical departure from current beliefs
about the causes of emotional and psychological problems. In the traditional
psychology paradigms, interventions for a troubled client are formulated based
on the theoretical beliefs regarding the cause of the distress. Cognitive
therapists intervene on the level of the distorted thinking, behaviourists work
at changing the dysfunctional behaviours, family systems practitioners work at
changing the systems that maintain the dysfunction and those practitioners who
favour a biochemical explanation for negative emotions rely on anti-depressants
or anti-anxiety medications to address the client’s problems. Enter the new
paradigm of working with the human energy system to eliminate emotional
distress. A new paradigm is often met with skepticism as it violates long held
beliefs about how the world operates. New ways of thinking are often rejected as
they do not make sense with the current paradigms. Energy psychology violates
the long-held belief that treatment of trauma and phobias is long and
difficult. With the underlying premise that a disruption of energy creates
the emotional distress, the treatment can be rapid and easy on both the client
and therapist. Techniques such as Thought Field Therapy and Emotional Freedom
Techniques use accupressure tapping to clear the energy disruptions and can
rapidly eliminate the emotional and psychological distress.
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