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@stevep - I gave up biting off live chunks of flesh when I went vegetarian back in 1996 ;)
I know some folk who practice EFT and find it effective, particularly as a self-help tool for coping with symptoms of anxiety, addiction and OCD.
Given that it can be described as acupuncture without the needles, it's perhaps all the more surprising to find it gaining the attention of mainstream scientists and medical experts.
Then again, developing an easy, cheap, alternative behaviour to distract a patient from compulsions, obsessions or spiraling anxiety has to be a good thing.
Like all treatments - to some extent medication too - the patient has to be fairly motivated and I expect there'll be some who are put of by the 'tapping' part of EFT?
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Just to move the thread on a bit, and because I was genuinely suprised...
My other hobby / sport is target shooting. This is a discipline which relies very much on stillness and relaxation, it's very much a mental game (think golf, but way more boring). In a recent article on how to "shut out the noise of external factors" the author talks about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) as possible techniques to quell anxiety. (She also talks about the importance of visualisation, and how useful Mindfulness Medication is).
I don't know much about EMDR and EFT but I was suprised that she mentioned techniques like those in connection with such an important subject. I would have thought that there were much more effective things for reducing anxiety and "the jips" in a situation like that.
I feel like I'm about to drop a piece of meat into a tank full of pirahna fish, but has anyone got any thoughts on the above techniques?