EFT, Brain Waves, and the Awakened Mind

Hi,

I'd like to share with you information on some of the brain wave changes we observed while watching Gary Craig and other Masters of EFT tap on people in San Francisco and Boston last year.

We monitored peoples brain waves real time during EFT sessions. This gave us some challenges as the tapping and talking produces some artifacts in the record, but with a trained eye you can begin to discern what is important. Our ultimate objective was to see if EFT could move people towards a more optimal form of brain function we call the Awakened Mind pattern.

This pattern was discovered by Max Cade, an English biophysicist and zen roshi, over four decades ago. It is a brain wave pattern of high performance, creativity, and deep personal, emotional, and spiritual insight. The short answer is, yes we did see this movement occurring. Sometimes very quickly, but more usually, gradually, over several sessions. What exactly is this change?

First of all, that non-stop monkey mind began to slow down. We have seen elsewhere that some EFT practitioners have used tapping just to quite there minds, and we have found this to be very useful approach in teaching Awakened Mind meditation. However when tapping on emotional issues, this quiting comes about as a benefit of the emotional release itself. Secondly this aids in deepening what we see in meditative states. Let me go back a bit. The Awakened Mind pattern is also the pattern we see in practiced meditators.

As one depends the meditative state you enter into a state characterized by increasing alpha and theta brain waves. This is usually what we experience as we fall asleep. In meditation, however the objective is not to fall asleep, but to remain attentive to all that is arising. It has also been known for several decades that entering into this state releases emotionally charged memories and can actually result in the rapid recovery from addictions. This where EFT comes in. As we begin to access our emotional memories consciously we naturally fall into this state. We saw this shift occurring in all of the folks during the EFT counseling sessions. As new emotional issues arose there would be momentary flashes of alpha and theta. We even saw some of the people momentarily produce beautiful Awakened Mind flares as they came to a deeper insight of their childhood origins.

In meditation practices of all types two of the most common problems encountered are how to still the mind, and how to deal with disruptive emotional memories. EFT allows us to more quickly resolve these issues and to deepen the Awakened Mind. The Awakened Mind pattern is essentially a deep meditation brain wave pattern with awareness added back so that we can function in our daily lives with a more optimal and relaxed state of mind. EFT is the perfect tool for achieving these ends.

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EFT Events exists to create, promote and manage outstanding, international events in the north of England for the growing community of all those fascinated by Emotional Freedom Techniques and this blog exists to facilitate discussion and communication around the event topics.

Our event for 2008 is billed as an exploration of consciousness. An ambitious title? Yes. And with something as outstanding, transformational and just plain magic as EFT we can be ambitious. We are bringing together top international EFT presenters and experts in biofeedback technology so that we can explore what happens in our hearts and minds when we use EFT.

Though the theme is "energy made visible" this event is for everyone interested in EFT and there will be presentations and demonstrations by Rue Hass, Paul Lynch, Linda Wood and myself for you to learn new techniques and follow with borrowing benefits to work through your own issues.

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With best wishes
Gwyneth Moss
EFT Master