Tapping Therapy Offers Relief From Stress, Negativity
Christi Unrua recently discovered an alternative approach to psychotherapy that helped her get through a negative thought — emotional freedom technique or “tapping.”
It is a type of therapy that focuses on removing emotional pain and stress by tapping certain pressure points while discussing a specific emotional issues.
Unrua said she first tried tapping after continuously struggling with a dark part of her childhood.
“I was molested at a young age,” Unrua said. “And I’d gone through counseling and I thought it’d gone away.”
EFT was developed by Gary Craig, who claims that tapping can balance the body’s energy and erase those negative thoughts.
“I’m going to burp, that’s common for the release. It can range from yawns to sighs to burps. Depending on how sick you are, you can sometimes vomit. But that’s still an emotional release,” said Unrua while finishing up a tapping session.
Rossanna Massey, a chiropractor who practices EFT, agreed that physical reactions are sometimes triggered by our emotions.
“(EFT) can best be described as emotional acupuncture, but without the needles,” Massey said. “That’s why you can make yourself mad and feel yourself get hot or feel your throat get tightened up when you’re sad.”
Unrua says she doesn’t understand how, but says the tapping works.
“I used to cry all the time and then it went away like, ‘poof,’ in the air,” Unrua said.
Massey said there will a public workshop on tapping from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at 1210 Montana. For more information, call 915-240-7487 or efthelp.com.
