Alternative Psychotherapy Offers Natural Treatment For Specific Phobias

9 February 2012 – Modern psychotherapy is gaining ground on providing alternative treatment for anxiety problems, including specific phobias, using a holistic approach that many advocates are pushing for.

Emotional Freedom Technique is among the most recent and sought after alternative therapies that have risen out of merging several different alternative approaches for phobias. A combination of mind-conditioning neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and body energy cleansing Chinese acupuncture theory (energy meridians), EFT tapping therapy treats both the body and the mind and reinforces their psychological self-healing prowess.

Statistics show that approximately 16% of Americans suffer from anxiety issues which are a kind of psychiatric disorder. It is not uncommon that some of these phobia sufferers are hesitant to seek professional help and learning how to manage their fears on their own are what they do. On the other hand, people consult psychologists when these anxieties are very serious that they cause disruption to their lives.

For some scientists, phobias are indicative of the evolutionary tendency to protect ourselves from danger and that many phobia-related anxiety attacks are just exaggerated episodes of otherwise reasonable fears. While some fears are more easily rationalized than others, they can all be harrowing for the sufferers.

Advocates are pushing for wider use of alternative treatments to specific phobias more into orthodox medicine and therapeutic methodology. Just as cholesterol clogs blood vessels, negative emotions block energy meridians, causing illness and disease. EFT tapping on energy meridians loose emotional clogs, realigns energy pathways, expels negative memories, and often eliminates resulting symptoms. Emotional Freedom Technique has many skeptics, but is said to overcome the most extreme negative emotions simply by tapping with the fingertips on various meridian points around the body and repeating phrases that are relevant to the issue.

More experiments are performed about Emotional Freedom Technique that produced good results. Ask your local EFT practitioner about its efficacy on alleviating fears and phobias.