Recreate yourself!
Clinical EFT
8-session-bundle
Are you a prisoner of your past?
Do you live in constant fear?
Do you feel like you have to be on guard constantly, afraid something terrible is about to happen?
Do you suffer from panic attacks?
Have you experienced events that still haunt you?
For example, are you having nightmares, flinching at loud noises, feeling unsafe around crowds of people, on public transport, and trying to avoid them?
Did you have a difficult childhood?
Have you been a victim of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse?
Have you experienced horrible things that you wouldn't want to talk about even if you could?
Do you keep them locked away somewhere deep down, pretending they never happened, wishing you could get rid of them?
Imagine,
That you have a secret weapon to free yourself from all the pain you've been through.
Feel the peace of mind that comes with that knowledge.
You sigh deeply, your muscles loosening the tension.
A voice deep inside tells you that all is well.
You're safe here and now. Nothing can harm you. Whatever happened, you survived.
You're here now, breathing. You can finally let go.
In this space, you can be free of the fear and the tormenting memories without even having to go near them.
The past can finally be the past, and you can be free.
At last, you can breathe again. The grip on your body is gone, and the shackles are off.
You are no longer a victim. The world has become a much safer place, and its colors shine much brighter.
Then helplessness wins another match.
What happened still echoes in your mind and body.
You relive the terror, the pounding heart, the wincing, the sweating, the gasping for breath. And there's nothing you can do about it. You can't forget it, even though you’ve been trying so hard.
It's as if you exist on two timelines; at the most unexpected moments, you suddenly find yourself back there again.
Maybe you could have done something to prevent or stop it; you could have fought harder...
And if it happened once, or maybe more than once, what guarantee is there that it won't occur again?
Helplessness overwhelms you like a bulldozer.
Something happens to you that you can't do anything about.
Too suddenly, too quickly, a force greater than you knocks you off your feet.
You'd fight, but you don't stand a chance. You'd run, but your feet are rooted to the ground. Or there's nowhere to go.
Nobody will help you.
It's going to hurt.
You may even die.
You succumb to the inevitable and wish it would end quickly.
How could this have happened?!
When we find ourselves in a situation that
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threatens our survival, our safety, or our identity,
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we are helpless,
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we have no one to rely on,
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it is entirely unexpected,
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or it is brought on by someone we would expect to look after us and protect us,
we experience trauma.
It’s clear that a severe car accident, war, rape, physical abuse, or natural disaster is considered such an event.
However, most of us have had several childhood experiences that fit these criteria.
The price to pay
During such an overwhelming occurrence, when the fight-or-flight stress response offers no solution, and you feel the end has come, your parasympathetic nervous system takes over and triggers the freeze response.
It results in a sudden and drastic body relaxation, numbness, and a psychological shock—a disconnection from reality. Perhaps so you don't feel the tiger tearing you apart.
During the freeze response, your long-term memory takes a snapshot of the situation as part of a built-in survival strategy in case you manage to escape.
These internal and external snapshots encode the episode's energy. They are recorded in your long-term memory but enclosed in a bubble by the numbing, disconnecting shell of the freeze response. Call this a trauma capsule.
This sheath is a protective barrier between the capsule's contents and your consciousness. It separates the episode and is known as dissociation.
It allowed you to continue functioning as a child in a situation from which there was no escape or as an adult in your daily life.
Unfortunately, at the subconscious level, represented by the so-called limbic system of your brain, you store the experience as if it were an event in progress.
This is how "plain" stress becomes trauma.
The trigger that caused the freezing response in the first place becomes embedded in your nervous system.
The energy of the event gets trapped in your body and neural pathways. You never stop experiencing it, even if you have detached yourself from it.
Your amygdala is responsible for your safety; it rings the alarm bell when something from the outside world comes that resembles what it has previously labeled.
Unfortunately, the shell of the trauma capsule often thins.
When that happens, even if you do not consciously register them, specific colors, smells, sounds, etc., can start to trigger the amygdala's alarm, recalling and activating the emotional stress experienced during the trauma.
New environmental elements can be associated with the memory, even if unrelated to the original experience.
This snowball effect allows more and more environmental cues to break through the trauma capsule, making the world seem more and more dangerous, resulting in hypervigilance and avoidance. This exacerbates the symptoms of post-traumatic stress and leads to panic attacks.
This is why time does not cure PTSD symptoms but aggravates them. Due to neuroplasticity, the brain, under constant stress, strengthens the neural pathways that transmit stress signals.
The stress response has evolved as a short-term survival strategy. The high levels of cortisol and adrenaline are corrosive. Continuous exposure to stress, whether real or perceived, in addition to making our lives hell, is at the root of many diseases.
How can EFT help?
The tapping on acupuncture points calms the body. It sends a safety signal to the emotional brain that counteracts the stress signal from a traumatic memory.
MRI scans show that EFT shuts down the brain's fear centers. It regulates the activity of the overstimulated amygdala and addresses the parts of the brain that respond to touch and other sensory stimuli.
In clinical EFT, we work with bodily sensations and tapping, accompanied by eye movements, humming, and counting. Throughout the process, we focus on the safety of the present moment.
This direct experience of physical safety effectively counter-conditions the old stress response.
When you experience a traumatic event that you cannot integrate into your everyday consciousness, you disconnect from it in the way described above.
Clinical EFT is unique among the therapeutic approaches in using this dissociation consciously and systematically in the healing process, recognizing its protective function.
Clinical EFT also has three Gentle Techniques for working through traumatic events that cannot be approached in ordinary states of consciousness.
The sense of safety generated by the Gentle Techniques quickly shows that reducing the emotional intensity associated with the event is possible.
This allows you to approach the memory at your own pace, becoming less and less detached from it until you can tap directly on the memory.
A larger number of sessions is necessary for this safe and gradual approach. In this way, the emotional charge linked to the trauma gets extinguished progressively.
As a result, by the time you get to the point where you can connect without a protective layer to what once seemed an unprocessable event, it will be completely manageable and much easier to look at than you ever thought possible.
You may think you don't want to feel all that could come up. The anxiety. The fear. The anger. The shame. The sadness. The hopelessness. The despair. You may think that connecting with yourself will be painful and upsetting.
This will not happen because the tapping temporarily shuts down your emotional brain. As the physiological cue of safety overcomes fear, all feelings become more tolerable and manageable.
You may think, "I don't want to talk about what happened."
You don't need to. The EFT approach is not about talking it out.
Using our Gentle Techniques, we don't even go near the memories.
And when we do get there, we have a method where you don't have to say anything specific about what took place.
So you can release the stuck energy of the most humiliating events during the sessions while preserving your privacy and dignity. It's enough what happened; you don't have to deal with a sense of embarrassment, too.
You may think you've tried all kinds of therapy and nothing works. How is EFT different?
The brainstem, the part of the brain responsible for your safety, has some three billion years of experience honing your survival functions. At the same time, the prefrontal cortex, the home of your rationality, is a recent evolutionary innovation. Its current form is "only" a hundred thousand years old.
The limbic system, also known as the emotional brain, mediates between the brainstem and the cerebral cortex. By engaging it, the fear response underlying traumatization can be quickly and permanently neutralized.
EFT, as a body-centered method, is built on this and, for this reason, is much more effective than talk-based therapies that only address the parts of the brain responsible for cognitive functions.
Randomized controlled trials have shown that, in addition to successfully treating PTSD symptoms in traumatized veterans, EFT also reduces somatization, a set of bothersome physical complaints for which there is no medically ascertainable cause.
One of EFT's three Gentle Techniques specifically targets physical symptoms.
You may be thinking, "What if tapping does me some harm?"
EFT has been designated an "Evidence-Based Methodology" because numerous studies over the past twenty years have proven that it works and has no side effects.
Clinical EFT is an empirically validated approach, which means that it uses a standardized, consistent process.
MRI scans before and after treatment show that the link between the stressful memory and the fight-or-flight response in the brain's limbic system is broken.
Once this association is severed, it is usually gone for good.
This is why long-term studies that follow participants long after they have completed EFT therapy sessions find that their recovery is permanent.
Studies have shown that more than 80% of veterans with PTSD are permanently rehabilitated after up to 10 EFT sessions.
Your takeaway—or rather, what you'll leave behind
As tapping releases the energy stuck in your trauma capsule(s), the flashbacks flooding your mind, the panic attacks, the anxiety, the nightmares, the vulnerability of being a victim, and the helplessness disappear.
Memories won't be "extinguished" in the sense of being canceled. What is erased is the emotional stress associated with the memories. You can test this days, weeks, or months after the session by recalling the event that once seemed impossible to process.
The previously sharp images may fade, while details long forgotten may become more precise, but they no longer upset you and somehow become more distant.
Not distant in the way it was when the trauma capsule split it off you.
The all-changing difference is that the splitting was only an illusion, for the event remained a defining part of your present in your unconscious. Its energy was constantly stuck in your cells and circulating in your neural pathways.
Once this charge has been released, the event becomes genuinely part of your past and finally no longer reverberates in your present.
Your trauma will no longer define you.
You won't be the one who suffered it; you will be the person who survived, processed, and rose above it.
There is no way of knowing exactly how much of the trauma's stuck energy has affected every aspect of your life—your health, your soul, your thinking, and your behavior—through your unconscious. That's why the range of benefits of liberation is equally unpredictable.
What is certain is that your life energy will flow more freely, you'll breathe and feel more deeply, and the world will be a more colorful and welcoming place where you can live your daily life with ease, relief, and fun.
About me
Anyez is a phenomenal practitioner! She creates the most warm and safe space to explore disturbing emotions and events. I never cease to be amazed at her ability to tune into her intuition and divine guidance in leading a session. There's always a new technique or creative way of gently opening up her clients for thorough processing and releasing of what no longer serves them. I highly recommend placing yourself in Anyez's capable hands. She's an absolute artist and makes healing a pleasant and easy process.
Amanda Wonderland
My mentor at EFT Universe
Hi, my name is Anyez Lorincz; I’m a Clinical EFT practitioner, meditation teacher, family constellations facilitator, and writer.
I help people who feel unhappy, anxious, unfulfilled, and lost in life to make inner peace, unwavering happiness, and purposefulness their everyday experience.
I know all that well. I, too, was at a point where there seemed to be no way out, but I was determined to find it.
And I did. I learned to lift myself by my hair, and today, I live my days with constant joy and gratitude, feeling like champagne bubbling in my chest. I know who I am and why I am here.
Sharing what I learned is my mission because I know there is another option than suffering and that loving yourself and living a life you love is possible.
