Emotional Healing in Minutes
Simple Acupressure Techniques for Your Emotions
Valerie Lynch and Paul Lynch
Contents
Part 1 Introducing Emotional Healing
Part 2 The Emotional Freedom Technique
Part 3 Emotional Healing in Practice
Gratitude to Paul and Val Lynch for this highly useful version of EFT. They have combined the power of the EFT procedure with their own innovations to creatively portray an easy-to-apply technique that is useful to almost everyone. Please study this loving work carefully as many of its concepts are life changing. Use it, practise it and pass it on to others. The world will be a better place for your efforts.
Gary Craig, Founder, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Emotions are beautiful and creative energies and without them life would be extremely dull. We would function as nothing more than robots, devoid of all feeling. Depression is often described in the same way, as a condition in which everything feels flat and emotionless.
A healthy emotional life leads to a fulfilling and meaningful existence, rich with colour and experience. Our emotions make us aware that we are alive; they represent a pure expression of our deepest self. Emotions by their very nature cannot lie. They continually communicate with us, inspiring us and filling us with passion. From the moment of our conception to the time of our death we experience emotions. They are essential to our psychological growth and play an essential role in our well-being.
Feelings attract our attention, indicating the desirable and non-desirable elements in our lives. They illustrate the things we find pleasurable, rewarding and that make us happy, as well as the circumstances that do not. When we feel joy and happiness we are encouraged to move towards those people, situations or environments that produce these feelings. When we experience emotional pain, it signifies the need to remove ourselves or stop whatever it is that makes us so miserable. By listening to the message our emotions send, we are guided in the direction that needs to be taken.
Emotions are our true teachers, healers and guides. For instance, appropriate anger alerts us to the possibility that our boundaries have been broken. We may need to assert our needs more visibly or defend our position. Fear is designed to protect us and guide us away from threatening situations. Through grief we begin the process of adjusting to our painful loss and so allow healing to take place. It is through our emotions that we evolve, change and mature.
Emotions are fluid, moving energies that encourage us to be transformed – e-motion = energy in motion. When we express our emotions naturally, we continue to grow, expand and develop into more of our own inner potential. By staying in touch with our true selves, we become balanced and healthy individuals with the ability to function and cope with the demands that life places upon us.
Not all emotional experiences are pleasant. Some people feel very uncomfortable with the torrent of emotion that flows through them, preferring instead to take solace in the ‘safety’ of logic and reason. But suppressing or denying our feelings prevents change; we remain ‘stuck’ and rigid. Unexpressed emotions never disappear of their own accord. We may try to put them behind us, but eventually this will only lead to more problems. Repressed emotions often express themselves physically. Many illnesses have an emotional component that has become locked within the body. Physical pain can be just another form of emotional expression