When you're lying sleepless in your bed at night, do you dream of a weekend away at a spa so you can relax enough to sleep peacefully for eight to ten hours at a stretch? Unfortunately, most of us don't have the time or money to go off to a spa every weekend. EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) can help.
EFT tapping is a meridian tapping system that can help with insomnia and the factors contributing to it, like anxiety, stress, pain or anger.
Meridian tapping system? Huh?
In ancient China practitioners discovered places in the body where, when a needle or pressure was applied, this tended to help people with various ailments. EFT tapping uses these same places on the face and upper body while "tuning in" to the problem to help release tension, trauma, anxiety, worry and even the causes of sleeplessness.
If you think meridians are just a figment of some very odd people's imaginations, consider this: the British National Health Service (NHS) is now offering acupuncture for certain conditions, like back ache. The NHS doesn't offer treatments that they know don't work.
In addition, research has shown that places on the skin where the ancient Chinese mapped the meridian points show electrical conductivity that is different to other places on the skin.
While tapping on these meridian points on the face and upper body, at the same time thinking about not being able to sleep, or about the anxiety that is keeping you awake, your system releases everything that gets in the way of you relaxing enough to fall into a deep, peaceful sleep.
Most practitioners have anecdotal evidence that it often takes no more than a few minutes of tapping to relax enough to overcome insomnia. Too good to be true? Not really. Most people have the odd sleepless night through worry about something going on at work, money issues or relationship problems. A couple of rounds of EFT can calm those enough to ensure relaxation.
However, some people are real insomniacs, which is a chronic condition of not being physically able to sleep no matter how much you want to. With the help of a skilled practitioner asking intelligent questions, people will often remember their insomnia started about the time of a specific event or series of events at a significant point in their lives. The remaining emotion from those events can be addressed with EFT, bringing about restful sleep for the first time in many years.
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