EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Basic Guide to heal sicknesses and troubling feelings: Depression, Stress, Insomnia, Anxiety Attacks, etc. EFT Basic Tutorial, helpful in relief of mild depression, job Stress, Insomnia, Anxiety and Panic Attacks, etc. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a psychotherapeutic alternative treatment tool based on a theory that negative emotions are caused by disturbances in the body's energy field and that tapping on the meridians while thinking of a negative emotion alters the body's energy field, restoring it to "balance." There are several studies which appear to show positive outcomes from use of the technique. EFT was created by Gary Craig in the mid 1990s, and is meant to be a simplification and improvement of Roger Callahan's Thought Field Therapy (TFT) techniques. Craig trained with Callahan in the early 1990s. In 1993, Craig was the first person Callahan trained in his most advanced procedure, a proprietary procedure known as Voice Technology. Craig found through his experience that the sequence of tapping points did not matter and that special proprietary procedures were therefore unnecessary, so by the mid 1990s he had simplified Callahan's procedures. More recently, EFT has added well-known pyschological techniques such as NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), mainly the 'movie' technique developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, as well as the "choices" model developed by Dr. Patricia Carrington, master EFT practitioner. EFT actually relieves many psychological and physical conditions, including depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, general stress, addictions and phobias. Even more extreme claims have been made for multiple sclerosis, and several EFT claim that you can also use it for everything from the common cold to some types of cancer. The basic EFT technique involves holding a disturbing memory or emotion in mind and simultaneously using the fingers to tap on a series of 12 specific points on th...