Traditional Chinese Medicine and EFT THE 12 MERIDIANS IN THE BODY RELATING TO PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are 12 meridians in the body relating to physical systems and eight “extraordinary� meridians that are more related to spiritual/emotional/mental systems.
EFT involves a very specialised application of acupuncture. You may have heard the term Chi or Qi being used in another field, that of feng shui, and in that field, you will find mention of “bad Chi” or “negative energy”.
EFT also knows about the principle of negative energy, and considers that negative emotions are manifestations of bad energy in the system.
Of course, one could argue about which is cause and which is the effect: do the negative emotions produce the bad energy or does the bad energy produce the negative emotions?
In some ways, it doesn’t really matter. All that matters is to fix the problem and get everything working as it should be.
The areas tapped during EFT have been chosen because it is believed that they help to stimulate the Qi – the positive Qi – and thus displace or dispel the negative energy, thus soothing and calming the negative emotions.
EFT is used in conjunction with a scale of emotional intensity that is used to gauge how negative or positive a person feels about a certain situation, and the combination of affirmations and tapping on the key pressure points is designed to move the emotions along the scale into the neutral or positive parts of the emotional spectrum.
However, it is important to state here that not all emotions perceived as negative are actually bad. Some of these feelings are supposed to be there.
Take grief, for example. Grief might not feel very pleasant but it is necessary during a time of loss or trauma, and we need to give ourselves permission to grieve (a number of people come for hypnotherapy because they have had trouble expressing or releasing grief).
Similarly, guilt or remorse may be a negative emotion or feeling, but this is your conscience – your innate sense of right and wrong – telling you that you have hurt another person or done something that you shouldn’t.
The uncomfortable feelings of guilt and remorse are designed to make you apologise, improve your behaviour and make amends.
Even fear and anger have their place at the right time – healthy fear is what keeps you from facing unnecessary danger and healthy anger is provoked when you or someone you care about is subjected to injustice or unfair treatment, and can drive you to face justice.
Bearing this in mind, it would be a mistake to try to use EFT to stimulate positive Qi in attempt to block grief, silence your conscience when you really ought to be apologising the person you have wronged, or to soothe your fears if you are about to swim in a tank full of hungry great white sharks.
But you can use it to ground yourself during times of distress, unhealthy fear, stress and anxiety. That’s what it’s designed to do.
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