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Recent research has shown that the mind can control the flow of energy around the body

There are many energy therapies around today all with common ancestry and similar theoretical background. These therapies all have many points in common, the main one being that the idea is to re-balance the flow of energy around the body.

The most common of the ancient energy therapies is Acupuncture, where needles are used to unblock energy paths to relieve psychological and physiological ailments. More recently there was Acupressure then over the last 25 or so years Thought Field Therapy (TFT) and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) have come about.

All of these energy therapies involve touching the client, with acupuncture involving putting needles into the skin at certain points, then acupressure involving applying pressure to specific acupuncture points, then TFT and EFT involving tapping a number of times on acupuncture points in specific sequences for different ailments.

All of these have shown a level of success when used and in many cases they have shown rapid and long lasting results. The interesting thing is that there is no need to tap or touch the body at all. A number of therapists over the last few years have had clients that for one reason or another couldn't be touched. For example because of previous abuse so they didn't feel comfortable being touched until they were cured, or in cases with clients that have burns or other injuries in the location required for tapping.

These therapists still wanted to help their clients so a number of them decided to experiment with getting their clients to imagine tapping on the relevant points. To the surprise of the therapists the results were equally as good as with real tapping.

The mind and body and the energy systems of the body are all intrinsically connected. For example; if you think of something amusing you can find yourself begin to laugh, so your thoughts caused a physical response. The same seems to apply with the energy flow around your body, as you think about tapping on specific relevant points on your body you create a physical change as if you really were tapping on those points.

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