I saw a demonstration of this last night, on a TV show hosted by Paul Mckenna called ‘I will make you thin’
These things (tapping, paul mckenna,‘I can make you thin’) all create conflicting opinions in my extremely cynical, realist brain.
There’s a scale in my brain. On the extreme left of the scale sit things like science, logic, mathematics, reason. On the other side sit things like astrology, religion, alternative medicine (herbal remedies etc). I tend to believe in the things on the left of that scale, and view the things on the right as bollocks.
EFT is linked to acupuncture, which for me is somewhere to the right of middle on that scale. But it’s also a physicological thing and endorsed by Paul Meckenna, who has increased in credibility for me since I discovered that he has a lot of skill with accepted methods of psychology such as NLP.
It also sounds a bit like NLP itself (seems to be a method of tricking the mind out of a habitual thought/feeling process)
If it works/worked I could use it for a few things… eating for instance. I have developed something of a sweet-tooth in recent months.
Sounds like Thought Field Therapy, which I need to look into for some work I’m doing. So far it looks like it’s very popular in some circles for trauma treatment. There doesn’t seem to be any reliable evidence base for it, though. There are much more well-documented treatments for that sort of thing–mainly cognitive behavioral methods.
That’s it TFT. It was refered to as TFT on the program, but this was yesterday and all I googled was ‘tapping’ which came up with EFT.
Paul did refer to it within the context of cognitive behavioural methods… And he even said that upon first discovering it he was annoyed, because of all the time he’d spent learning more involved techniques and this ‘magic’ system comes along.
I didn’t bother to try it out on myself because I am like the woman on the program [except that I am not a woman] - I just feel too silly doing it … even on my lonesome…
I have this aversion to ‘joining in’ with a participatory excercise (smells too much like prayer!)