What is Embodying Grace HeartMap® l EFT Integration way of enriching your life?
EFT Tapping is also known as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). You gently tap with the tips of your fingers on Chinese acupressure points on the face, upper body and hand. It is an evidence-based tool that regulates our nervous system and can help reduce pain, unwanted thoughts, self-sabotaging behaviours and limiting beliefs.
As your nervous system relaxes, we can begin to decode what your subconscious and body are trying to tell you. From this safer place in your body, we begin to step into choice points/decisions about which thoughts and behaviours are serving your life intentions.
Following the Embodying Grace HeartMap of Dr Lori Leyden, we have a compass to guiding you to find your heart over your mind in your decision making, relationships and when weaving through life's challenges. Who doesn't want more gratitude, love, joy and wonder in their life? It is for you when you begin living your life, your way.
To help clients shift from their mind into their body and heart, I use EFT and Matrix Reimprinting. These tools uncover core beliefs that feed your limiting belief patterns and emotions. They create the mind stories/perceptions of the world you have for your safety and prevent you taking the actions that will move you towards a life you choose.
Benefits of EFT Tapping:
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Kindness and acceptance over self criticism
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Authenticity over inauthenticity
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Setting boundaries over feeling overwhelmed
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Self care over self neglect
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Healthy relationships over toxic ones
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Self compassion over self judgment
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Feeling connected over feeling alone and isolated
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Healthy ways to put yourself in a better mood or feel better than food, shopping, scrolling etc.
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Strength and empowerment over feeling weak, powerless and helpless
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Hope, acceptance and self trust in the face of the biggest challenges in life, like the diagnosis, treatment and future uncertainty of illness.
So, let’s thread these elements together.
Find your truest self and live your life, your way.
Matrix reimprinting
Matrix Reimprinting is an advanced version of EFT tapping that lets us speak directly to the subconscious mind through our younger selves (the parts of us that have been wounded): to give that part of us that didn't have a voice or wasn't heard or understood. Our current self will give support to the younger self in ways that were not possible at that time. We work with core beliefs about yourself or the world. These beliefs are a perspective formed at a point in time about yourself, a situation or an event, not an absolute truth; they can be shifted.
Dr. Peta Stapleton, Australia’s foremost EFT researcher, in her TEDx talk says that EFT may be "The Ultimate Stress Management Tool" because it is "unusually rapid, taking half the time and cost" of other therapies. Peta’s research shows EFT can change DNA expression, radically reduce the stress hormone cortisol, and change the brain's pathways.
EFT is effective because:
It is body-based, and stress is stored in the body
So sometimes this stress is unreachable by talk therapy alone.
It works fast - one hour can change 72 genes and reduce cortisol by 24%
Six sessions result in a lack of PTSD symptoms vs.18 sessions of traditional CBT(talk therapy)
For test anxiety - 2 sessions of EFT vs. five sessions of CBT
For food intervention - 8 weeks EFT comparable to 6 months CBT
It updates the brain's learning so the positive changes remain.
This is a permanent positive change, so the issue is no longer an issue!
Some of the evidence-based research in diagrams
