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Anxiety News
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By Ben Butt
 If a person has never had an epsiode of attacking anxiety they can never truly know how debilitating and crippling they can be. These types of attacks can be embarrassing and depressing. A person that has these attacks can feel out of control and terrified. They can be depressed because they are not in control of their mind, body or thoughts. Sometimes there are symptoms that an episode of attacking anxiety is going to occur and sometimes there is not.
Imagine standing in a grocery store and waiting in a line to check out. Your heart beat increases, you begin to sweat and your breathing becomes labored. Your skin begins to prickle and become numb. You can feel an attacking anxiety coming on and you feel helpless to do anything about it. There are all of those people around you and you feel the walls are closing in. You feel as if you may die or feint at any moment. An overwhelming sense of doom casts a shadow over you. An attacking anxiety episode has arrived and you do not feel prepared to |
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By Lee Heather
 Emotional Freedom Techniques (or EFT as it is known) is a stress and emotional healing technique, which is based on a revolutionary discovery that violates most of the beliefs of conventional psychology. It contends that the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system.
Essentially, EFT is a form of "psychological acupressure" - except that we don't use needles. The approach relieves symptoms by tapping on various body locations. This tapping balances energy meridians that become disrupted when we think about or experience an emotionally disturbing circumstance. Once balanced, the upset is usually resolved - the memory stays but the emotional charge is gone. Typically the result is lasting and is also accompanied by positive changes in thinking. The technique is easy to learn and ideal for self-help
Emotional Freedom Techniques evolved from Thought Field Therapy, which was created by US clinical psychologist Roger Callahan. Callahan discovered that stimulating acupressure / energy points lead to psychological relief for an anxious client, and through experimentation was able to discover a series of useful points.
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