When we are born we are hard-wired to connect with our caregivers. Human beings mature slowly, our brains learn through social interaction and we are dependent upon our parents for our survival longer than any other mammal.
Linked ArticleCategory: The Science Behind EFT
This category features science-related articles by EFT International members and guest authors. If you are looking for EFT-specific research that is published in peer-reviewed journals or in other professional publications, please visit our EFT Research Database.
Looking to Science to Understand the Effectiveness of EFT Tapping
Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to change how thoughts, memories, sensation and patterns of behavior are processed. Neuroplastic re-wiring of the brain and the subsequent messaging to the tissues of our bodies through the nervous system, hormones and neurotransmitter chemical messengers may explain why EFT is quickly emerging as such a powerful tool for healing.
Read MoreCan Attachment Theory Explain All Our Relationships?
“Secure adults tend to value attachment relationships and are able to describe experiences coherently, whether negative (e.g., parental rejection or over-involvement) or positive, says Main. Dismissing adults tend either to devalue the importance of attachment relationships or to idealize their parents without being able to illustrate their positive evaluations with concrete events demonstrating secure interaction. Preoccupied adults are still very much involved and preoccupied with their past attachment experiences and are therefore not able to describe them coherently. Dismissing and preoccupied adults are both considered insecure.”
Linked ArticleMindfulness and Meditation Changes Brain Structure in 8 Weeks
“It is fascinating to see the brain’s plasticity and that, by practicing meditation, we can play an active role in changing the brain and can increase our well-being and quality of life,” says Britta Hölzel, PhD, first author of the paper and a research fellow at MGH and Giessen University in Germany.
Linked ArticleNew Insights on Therapeutic Touch (TT) and Osteosarcoma
“Our purpose is to discuss the study design and innovative approaches that led to finding significant effects of one energy medicine therapy, Therapeutic Touch (TT), on cells.”
Linked ArticleHealing Trauma With Our Dreams
“Researchers at UC Berkeley have found that when dreams occur during the REM (rapid eye movement) stage of sleep, our stress responses shut down, and the neurochemicals responsible for stressful feelings stop being released.”
Linked ArticleStudies Find How Heart Can Affect How We Feel Fear
“We hope that by increasing our understanding about how fear is processed and ways that it could be reduced, we may be able to develop more successful treatments for [anxiety disorders], and also for those, such as war veterans, who may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.”
Linked ArticleLearn Your ACE Score: Adverse Childhood Experience or “ACE”
“The more types of childhood trauma a person has – i.e., the higher the ACE score — the higher the risk for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune disease, as well as depression, violence, being a victim of violence, and suicide.”
Linked ArticleBonghan Channels in Acupuncture
“[In 1991, Russian Researchers] found that the light-conducting ability of the human body exists only along the meridians, and can enter and exit only along the acupuncture points. This finding has been confirmed by a 1992 study in the Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a 2005 study in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine where moxibustion and infrared thermography were used to trace meridian pathways.”
Linked ArticleSymptoms: A Choice Between Suppression And A Search For Meaning?
Our self-healing capacity has been greatly underestimated by our culture and our medical system. It is the true answer to the health care crisis, and it has been available to us all along, although well-hidden and obscured by the drug companies that profit from our ignorance of our own powers.
Read MoreEarly Life Traumas: Accurate Predictions of Adult Health?
“It is much easier for people to believe that physical symptoms or diseases are a direct result of purely physical causes, it makes sense to them and is often quite linear. The idea that how we think, how we feel and how we express ourselves has a direct bearing on our health, is an idea that many are beginning to come to accept more fully.”
Read MoreEnergy Psychology: Snake Oil or Designer Tool for Neural Change?
“I can’t fully express how surprised I am to find myself standing here telling you that the key to successful treatment, even with extremely tough cases, can be a mechanical, superficial, ridiculously speedy physical technique that doesn’t require a sustained therapeutic relationship, the acquisition of deep insight, or even a serious commitment to personal transformation. Yet, strange as it looks to be tapping on your skin while humming ‘Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah,’ it works!”
Read MoreEnergy Psychology on the Front Lines
“In 2006, psychologist Caroline Sakai conducted a study of Energy Psychology treatments with 50 Rwandan orphans. The outcomes, recently reported in The International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and summarized in the article, vastly exceed those of any previous peer-reviewed study of a PTSD treatment in terms of speed, degree of effectiveness, and percentage of subjects who were helped.”
Read MoreNew Study Supports EFT for Food Cravings
“Scientific proof can often come after we’ve experienced something to be true in our everyday lives. In such instances, it validates what we already know and allows us to talk about it now with scientific backing.”
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