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What is Emotional Freedom Technique?

EFT, otherwise known as Emotional Freedom Techniques, is a type of Meridian Tapping that combines ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology with startling results. From pain relief, to healing childhood traumas, to clearing limiting financial beliefs, to weight loss, body image and food cravings, to fears and phobias, Tapping is proving to be a powerful, well-researched and easy to learn and apply technique. Tapping utilizes the bodys energy meridian points by stimulating them with your fingertips literally tapping into your bodys own energy and healing power. Your body is more powerful than you can imagine filled with life, energy, and a compelling ability for self-healing. With Tapping, you can take control of that power. Tapping is simple and painless. It can be learned by anyone. And you can apply it to yourself, whenever you want, wherever you are. Its less expensive and less time consuming. It can be used with specific emotional intent towards your own unique life challenges and experiences. Most importantly, it gives you the power to heal yourself, putting control over your destiny back into your own hands.

What is Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a psychological therapy designed to aid in preventing the relapse of depression and anxiety disoders. It uses traditional Cognitive therapeutic methods with the addition of mindfulness and mindful meditation practices. Cognitive methods can include educating the participant about their condition, illness or disorder. Mindfulness and mindfulness meditation, focus on becoming aware of all incoming thoughts and feelings and accepting them, but not attaching or reacting to them. MBCT functions on the theory that when individuals who have historically had depression become distressed, they return to automatic cognitive processes that can trigger a depressive episode. The goal of MBCT is to interrupt these automatic processes and teach the participants to focus less on reacting to incoming stimuli, and instead accepting and observing them without judgment. This mindful practice allows the participant to notice when automatic processes are occurring and to alter their behaviour to be more of a reflection than a reaction.