Mindfulness or EFT?

[BasileusLee]

Hello,

I've been practising Mindfulness on and off for about a year but I've made a commitment to do it for twenty minutes a day every day. However, my girlfriend asked I see an EFT practitioner as she feels it's more powerful than Mindfulness.

The practitioner also suggested I drop Mindfulness as he believes it's not as effective as EFT. I'm not in two minds.

What should I do? Do I drop the Mindfulness, or perhaps keep both practices?

Also, what do you know about EFT? I've read many reviews online and most people firmly believe in its power.

What can you suggest?

[piedwagtail91]

I've not come across eft so googled it.
I have to admit that i closed the first page after reading that it' removes negative emotions' .
quite what is meant by a negative emotion I don't know.
All emotions are experienced for a reason to remove one - a'negative' one would seem to imply that only positive emotions are left.
That would lead to an imbalance.
you can't have one without the other and it would be impossible to experience only positive emotions.
I did read a few other pages before ending on wikipedia,where some studies did discredit it.
Though wikipedia isn't exactly totally reliable.

Personally from my experience of mindfulness and what it's done for me I'd start a regular mindfulness practice or maybe do another mindfulness course.

You need a full set of emotions to be a balanced human being.

[SageMindfulness2015]

My experience is that EFT can be combined with mindfulness. It doesn't have to be an "either/or" choice. I have used both and found them complementary. I mainly used EFT at the early part of my addiction recovery and found it useful at reducing anxiety and stress quickly, when I didn't have time to engage in formal practice.

However my regular mindfulness practice (and a 12 step program) did the majority of the 'heavy lifting' when it came to long -term sustainable recovery.

I also learned the technique from Dr Lee Pulos and have taught it to my clients as a helpful tool for stress and anxiety related to smoking cessation. You will also see it advertised or described as "tapping".

I found this snippet of information:

"More than two dozen peer-reviewed, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) indicate that the approach produces strong, rapid, lasting outcomes for a variety of conditions. More than 7000 veterans have received energy psychology treatment for PTSD through the non-profit Veterans Stress Project. An RCT studying a sampling of these individuals (n=49) showed that 86% went from above to below PTSD cutoffs on the military version of a standardized inventory of PTSD symptoms within six sessions. Supportive research reviews have appeared in highly respected journals, including those published by the American Psychological Association. Two studies demonstrating the efficacy of the approach have appeared in the world’s oldest (1874) peer-reviewed mental health periodical, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, whose editor is a former president of the American Psychiatric Association".

You can find that quote here:
http://www.epccanada.ca/changing-score- ... sychology/

PS I am not associated with the event in any way.

[Rich]

You are in a mindfulness forum. So i will naturally say stick to the meditation.

The science of eft right now is questionable but at the same time one of the most heavily studied therapies which is cbt has a lot of critics as well.

So I suggest go and experiment use both stick to what works better for you. Don't drop meditation it's just a few mins of your time.