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It's Tony here from the Aikido Health Centre with your Harmony Ezine packed with unique tips and insights on aikido, health and well-being.

In this issue... How To Release Stress - details below. Next issue we turn the spotlight on how to reach your goals... stay tuned!

How To Let Go and...
Release Stress and Anxiety

Release Stress With EFT

Many years ago, as part of my research into health, I found a great stress release technique called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).

I was shocked to learn that this simple system could help with long-term trauma and health issues, so I made an intense study of the method.

Over the years, I have used it a lot, with Great Results. I have helped friends and family, and also included it as part of the health treatments that I offer to my local community in Bognor Regis West Sussex UK.

Plus I successfully used it, as I prepared for my father-of-the-bride speech at my daughter Natasha's wedding in 2015.

What is EFT?

It shows you how to release emotional baggage, let go of stress and short or long term trauma. It is based on acupressure, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), energy medicine, and thought field therapy (TFT).

EFT is sometimes called Energy Psychology, and known through Gary Craig's EFT Handbook, that was published in the late 1990s, and related books and workshops by a variety of teachers.

Many successful healers, therapists, and motivational speakers use it themselves and teach it to help remove psychological barriers that can block your ability to believe that you can be free of underlying issues.

How Is EFT Performed?

You first rate the emotional intensity of your stress reaction to a particular issue between 0-10. Then you repeat an affirmation based on the issue while tapping specific points on the body.

During a session you focus on a specific issue while tapping on certain acupressure points of the meridian energy channels.

I have successfully used EFT many times to reduce and remove issues.

Research suggests that the fear of public speaking is even greater than the fear of death. Yes, it is understandable that we all fear death to some degree or another. After all, it isn't something we can avoid :)

Public speaking, on the other hand, is something that many people go out of their way to avoid. The fears around this are many, including... what will people think of me, public failure, embarrassment, tongue-tied, sweating, panic attacks, letting people down, forgetting what to say, blushing etc.

As I said earlier, I used the emotional freedom technique to prepare for my father-of-the-bride speech at my daughter's wedding.

It was important to me, so I decided to use EFT for several weeks leading up to my speech, to release my individual fears, and develop confidence in my ability to perform successfully.

When it came to my speech, I stood up, felt relaxed and confident, and delivered it as well as I had in my practise sessions. The audience were listening, and laughing in all the right places... it went very well.

In fact, better than I could have hoped for :)

I also had lots of positive feedback, even from the event organisers who had witnessed dozens of speeches every year.

EFT helped me immensely!

It is easy to learn, and only takes a few minutes to perform. You can add power to your EFT by balancing and harmonising your mind, body, and spirit with my Optimum Health Secrets - a truly unique resource!

Let Go Of Stress With EFT - A Powerful Self Help Technique

To make permanent changes in your life it is essential to let go of limiting beliefs. These include past experiences that caused strong feeling to arise in you. These can stay with us and can effect our lives in a negative way.

Let Go of Limiting Beliefs With EFT!

It is like peeling an onion - as you release one layer other feelings come up that also need to be let go of. The process is great at dealing with a variety of unwanted feelings that pop into your conscious mind.

Many of our 'issues' are buried deep in our subconscious minds, and when they show their ugly head, we tend to suppress and push them back down. By bringing them up and releasing them, you'll feel lighter, more positive, and find that blockages between you and your goals are gradually removed.

I highly recommend that you get out of your own way using EFT.

What issues will I be working on next? Fear of the dentist, a long-term neck injury, self esteem issues, old age... there's always plenty to work on :)

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That's it... next month we discuss how to reach your goals.