He TappingIt consists of using the fingertips to make cool while counteracting negative emotions with breathing exercises. In the last 15 years, the tapping has also appeared in Pódcasts on well -being, television programs and even in the list of books of the best.
The practice is known as Emotional Liberation Technique (EFT), has attracted numerous followers and has become a boom in social networks. Experts recognize that tapping is included in energy psychology, which has its origin in a technique called Thought field therapydeveloped by the psychologist Roger Callahan in the 1980s.
The therapists of this specialty recognize that Callahan conceived the technique when he tried to treat the water phobia in a patient. When the woman complained that just when she looked at the water she produced a stomach pain, Callahan asked her to take firm blows under the eye, an area that he knew was associated with him “Meridian of the stomach” in traditional Chinese medicine. After two minutes, the patient declared that her pain had disappeared, along with her fear of water.
The therapy was discredited by psychology experts, partly because there is no way to measure energy meridians or evidence that demonstrates their existence. But in the 1990s, Gary Craig, A Stanford graduate created a simplified version called EFT, (emotional liberation techniques). Its defenders suggest that tapping not only relieves stress and anxiety, but can also improve the symptoms of depression, post -traumatic stress disorder, addiction and chronic pain, among other evils.
At present, the American Psychology Association He has affirmed that tapping is pseudoscience. “When the tests are really analyzed, they fall apart,” he said Cassandra L. Boness, ATTACHING PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW Mexico and concluded: “It is not really a psychological treatment.” “It is a mix of interventions, some of which are, I am sure, quite effective,” he said David TolinDirector of the Center for Anxiety Disorders of the Institute of Life in Hartford to The New York Times.
On the other hand, Melissa Lester, Psychotherapist in Sandy Springs, stressed that tapping could provide rapid benefits, as a quieter and clear mind. Lester decided to certify the technique because he wanted to give his clients an alternative when the methods offered by other therapists, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, did not produce the desired results. “It does not replace the best practices that exist to treat posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, addictions or other serious conditions,” he said David Feinsteintherapist that offers classes and certifications in energy medicine.
Tapping specialists ensure the existence of studies that support the stimulation of meridian points, reducing the excitation of the brain tonsil, and as a consequence reducing stress hormones. It can be applied in patients of all ages, from childhood to older adults. And, probably, something fundamental in why of its great diffusion: once learned, it is a Self -applicable techniquewhich requires only the hands of the one who performs it.
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