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title: About EFT Tapping
description: EFT Tapping involves fingertip tapping on specific points on the face and upper body while being tuned into a distressful memory or thought.
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# [About EFT Tapping](https://ce-blog.normandale.edu/blog/about-eft-tapping)

 Written by [Continuing Education](https://ce-blog.normandale.edu/blog/author/continuing-education) | Nov 20, 2019 8:46:37 PM

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT Tapping) is a self-empowering tool to promote personal health and vitality, eliminate emotional stress (phobia and trauma), reduce chronic pain, remove food and chemical sensitivities, successfully control weight, and improve sports performance (lower golf scores).  It involves fingertip tapping on specific points on the face and upper body while being tuned into a distressful memory or thought.

EFT has been rigorously researched and meets American Psychological Association (APA) criteria for evidence-based practice. Studies show that it is effective on phobias, specific anxieties, generalized anxiety, depression, weight control, chronic pain, physical illness, and athletic performance. It also reduces cortisol levels, which is the primary hormone associated with stress.

In a 2005 study with 102 participants published in the *Clinical Psychology Journal,* all measures of psychological distress decreased after an EFT workshop and were maintained at the six month follow up.

In another study with veterans, 86% of those receiving the treatment dropped from the category of clinical (severe) PTSD to the category of subclinical PTSD. This is the best result for PTSD ever obtained in a clinical trial of any therapy and optimistic news for those suffering from PTSD.

Additional research has appeared in the following professional journals: the *Journal of Clinical Psychology*, the *Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease*, *Primary Care and Community Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training*, the *Review of General Psychology*, and *Traumatology.*

***Try EFT--- 5 Minute Tap Along Video:* [*http://youtu.be/yFTd46VZZCg*](http://youtu.be/yFTd46VZZCg)** 

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