About Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
NLP and EFT are increasingly recognised and used as powerful tools to bring about positive change, which can be applied to any aspect of human performance. You may have read or seen some of the techniques demonstrated in the media, for example, through Paul McKenna’s work on TV.

What is NLP?
NLP is a set of insights and skills with which you can use your mind, your emotions and your body to lead your own life more successfully and to communicate with other people with 'extra-ordinary' effectiveness. NLP is an expanding collection of information, insights and mental techniques that can enable you to improve how you think, behave and feel - and help others do the same. With NLP insights and skills you will be able to:

•    Do whatever you do, only more effectively
•    Get new skills and attitudes to achieve what you want to
•    Be more focussed in your thinking 
•    Communicate better
•    Think, feel and behave more positively

NLP is sometimes described as the technology of the mind, the science or psychology of achievement and excellence, and the study of success. It has grown from the exploration of the factors which lead to either success or failure in human performance. For more than thirty years NLP pioneers have studied or ‘modelled’ the behaviour and thinking styles of highly effective and successful people in business, education, sales, therapy, sport, and personal development. Today, the results of this work are presented in workshops and training programmes which, in effect, provide shortcuts to more successful living - you learn in a short time what may have taken the experts years to discover by trial and error.

What does the name mean?
Neuro is about how we experience through our senses and how the mind and body interact; our first ‘mental map’
Linguistic refers to the insights into a person’s thinking that can be obtained by how they use language; how we make meaning of our experiences; our second ‘mental map’
Programming means, in this context, the study of the thought and behaviour patterns or ‘programmes’ which people use in their everyday lives.

EFT (Tapping) - introduction
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is about returning the mind, body and feelings to a state of balance and harmony so you are not limited by negative emotions. Even though we are 'designed' to recover from unpleasant experiences or thought patterns, nevertheless we can be affected by recurring emotions from past events such as relationships, trauma or loss. We can also be affected by ongoing or future events such as work-related stress, Anger, depression and various kinds of anxieties. EFT can also effectively combat any symptoms of physical, psychological or emotional discomfort eg. Self-esteem and confidence, weight loss, pain and phobias.

In these examples, emotions can be stuck rather than dispersed. Even if we try to ignore them, they still affect our lives. If people decide to do something about the negative feelings or patterns they may try counselling, see their doctor, or compensate for their feelings in some way. Every approach has its merits, but many people will not have heard of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) as an option for resolving their problem.

How EFT works
EFT is a very effective yet gentle method of directly balancing the body's energy system for the feelings, including physical discomfort and pain, that you want to change. It's a bit like clearing a log that's blocking a stream where the log represents a stuck emotion in your stream of energy. You don't have to believe in the theory though, just as you don't need to know how a car works under the bonnet to drive one. Some people do like to find out more about the theory, while others are happy simply to have their problem resolved.

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