Delineating Between Clinical EFT Techniques and Core EFT Teachings

Are There Really 48 Tapping Techniques?

The Emotional Freedom Techniques is not just tapping. It is a wide variety of techniques that are used along with tapping to help glean maximum results with your clients.

So when people talk about the “48 Essential Core Clinical EFT Techniques“ it can be quite confusing.

To clarify things, perhaps, we should delineate between “techniques” and “teachings.”

That is because there aren’t “48 Tapping Techniques” in the true sense. There are, however, many important core teachings necessary for any professional EFT Tapping practitioner to know.

While there are many core teachings that people use to apply EFT, the list of actual EFT Techniques is much more limited.

What is an EFT Tapping Technique?

EFT Techniques are a specific protocol for the application of EFT Tapping. You will learn the basic techniques in any credible and accredited EFT certification program.

For example, the most widely used EFT Tapping techniques would be the Tell the Story Technique, the Movie Technique, Chasing the Pain, the Tearless Trauma Technique, and Surrogate Tapping.

Other techniques, many of them newer techniques or techniques not created by Gary Craig himself, would include Imagine Tapping, Silent Tapping, The Blueberry Pancakes Technique, The Box Technique, The Choices Technique, Matrix Reimprinting, Touch and Breathe, Talk and Tap, Tap and Rant, Perspective Switching, Imagine Violence, and Able, Willing, and Willing.

I-Ping Wong
EFT Master Graduate

What Are the 48 Clinical EFT Techniques?

Below, I have outlined what listed as “The 48 Clinical EFT Tapping Techniques” as designated by the EFT Universe.

It should be noted that Clinical EFT is a brand name owned by EFT Universe. At the Center for EFT Studies, we teach Classic EFT, sometimes referred to as Gold Standard EFT, as created by EFT Founder Gary Craig.

Here at the Center for EFT Studies, we cover all but 3 of the 48 Clinical EFT Techniques, excluding the Floor to Ceiling Eyeroll, Collarbone Breathing, and Applying EFT over the Telephone.

We have chosen not to use time in the tapping training because they aren’t relevant to modern EFT Tapping.

While we do not cover these three topics, we do offer 75 additional teachings to help you learn EFT as a professional EFT practitioner.

The List of 48 "Clinical EFT Techniques"

Identifying a Source of Emotional Distress
Obtaining a Rating for Subjective Units of Distress (SUD)
Identifying Specific Events Linked to the Origin of the Distress
Creating a Setup Statement that Brackets the Problem with Exposure and a Neutral Cognitive Frame
Focusing on the Negative First (Resisting the Urge to Caretake the Client using Positives)
Key Elements of a Reminder Phrase
Correcting for Secondary Gain and Psychological Reversal with the Side of Hand Acupressure Point
Fingertip Tapping of 13 Acupressure Points
Testing the Results with a Second SUD Rating
The 9 Gamut Procedure, and When to Use It
The Movie Technique
The Tell the Story Technique
Identifying Aspects of the Problem
Identifying Different Categories of Aspects (Auditory, Visual, Gustatory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory, Emotional)
Shifting the Setup Statement as the Client Shifts Aspects. Customized Setup Phrasing, and Flowing Setup Statements
Questions for Finding Core Issues
Identifying the Writings on Your Walls
The Characteristics of Effective Affirmations
Identifying Tail Enders
Daisy Chaining, and Talking and Tapping
The Generalization Effect: Identifying it, and Adjusting the Setup Statement as SUD Decreases
The Tearless Trauma Technique
Chasing the Pain
Sneaking Up on the Problem

Age-Appropriate Techniques for Using EFT With Children
Daily Releasing With Children
Borrowing Benefits
Working With Groups
EFT for Cravings and Addictions
Techniques for Multiple Phobias
EFT for Physical Symptoms; How the Approach Differs from Psychological Symptoms
Techniques To Use When Regular EFT Does Not Produce a Reduction in SUD
Reframing
Preframing
Techniques for Maintaining Client-Centered Focus
Distinguishing Table Tops (General Issues) from Legs (Specific Events) and Aspects (Parts of an Event)
Techniques for Working on Your Own Issues
Maintaining Focus on Self-rating versus Observer-rating
Techniques for Becoming Extremely Specific
Additional Testing Methods. In Vivo Testing, Confrontive Questions
The Personal Peace Procedure
Cognitive shifts and how to identify them
Techniques to Apply When Self-Acceptance Is the Problem
Video, Virtual, App, and Telephone Delivery of EFT
Additional Optional Tapping Points
Collarbone Breathing Exercise
How To Handle Excessive Emotional Intensity
The Floor to Ceiling Eye Roll

75 Additional Core Teachings Included In the Premier Online EFT Certification Training

Understanding Emotions
Understanding the Energy Body
Relationship Between Emotions and the Energy Body
New Tapping Points
Reading Metaphors to Uncover Core Issues
Multi-layered and Combined Set-up Statements
How to Control A Session
Role of Power in Illness
How and When to Use Finger Points
Recognizing an Integration
Surrogate Tapping
Ethics of Surrogate Tapping
How to “Stay Out of the Muck”
Letting Go and Trusting the Process
The Art of Surrender
Discernment vs. Judgement
When to “Tap in” the Positive
The Art of Listening
Issue-Based vs. Life Clients
What to Do When a Client Wants to Stop
Building Rapport
Understanding Secondary Gains
Choosing the Issue
Tapping Into Your Intuition
Correcting Internal Conflicts
Using Hyperbole and Humor
Using Colorful Words to Evoke Emotion
Experimenting with Timeframes
What do Do if EFT Isn’t Working
Blocks to Success
Understanding Core Aspects and Secondary Gain
Understanding Improper References
The Three Core Fears
Diving into the “Why”
Fear of Death
Role of Thought in Trauma
Two Ways to Address Physical Pain

Use of Color & Texture in Pain Elimination
Underlying Patterns as Core Issues to Pain
Chronic Retraumatization
Being the Emotional Investigator
Role of Shame in Illness
Using Throwaways to Find Core Issues
Role of Forgiveness in Healing
Tapping for Personal Performance
Transmuting Negative Self-Talk
Anatomy of an EFT Session
Pre-session Preparation
Effective Introduction Phase Practices
Best Practices for Closing a Session
Client Follow-up and Homework
Understanding Limiting Beliefs vs. Improper References
Understanding the Three Kinds of Trauma
The Physiology of Trauma
Understanding the Autonomic Nervous System
Understanding Disassociation
8 Parts to Healing Sexual Trauma
Role of Social Distortion in Sexual Trauma
Being the Objective, All-Loving Observer
4 Kinds of Sexual Trauma
Tapping on Incest
Tapping on the Victim Mindset
Working on Cravings and Addiction
Powerlessness in Addiction
Connection as a Core Issue
Learn the 7 Main Chakras
How Illness is Created (from an Energy Perspective)
Understanding the Tapping Points
How to Read Right Side/Left Side Clues to Find Core Issues
Tapping for Suicidal Ideations and Death Wish
Muscle Testing Basics
Tapping for Autoimmune Disorders
Cancel/Cancel Technique
Ethics in EFT

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