Exploring Consciousness with EFT

	Two days of experiential and experimental exploration of body, brain and emotion Saturday 16th- Sunday 17th June 2012, 10am to 5pm, Abbeyfield, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, £245 Early Bird before 31st March £275 full price after. Only 24 places in total
	AUDIO INTERVIEW: George Duisman asks Gwyneth Moss about EFT and Brainwaves

What Happens when we Tap?

Have you ever wondered what is going on when we tap?  As we use EFT with others we see them visibly soften and hear their words as they gain a new perpectitive on that which moments ago had been so troubling.   Using EFT for ourselves we relax, gripping emotions dissolve, elusive insights and long lost memories pop into mind and pain loses its intensity.  EFT has been growing and spreading for well over a decade and there are now hundreds of thousands worldwide experiencing surprising personal and therapeutic change.  However we have little scope in the English language to describe what is going on and often resort to expressions such as “energy shifts”.

During these two days we will demonstrate advanced EFT techniques whilst the Mind Mirror EEG and Heart Math technology make visible the resulting brain and heart changes.  The objective being that we gain a better understanding of the effects of EFT on brain and heart and that this learning guides us to improving our practical use of EFT.

We will seek to investigate the effect on the states of consciousness of both the therapist and the client during EFT work, and will also investigate surrogate work and tapping on bears.   This is intended to be an experiential as well as an experimental event and you are invited to participate through surrogage tapping and borrowing benefits.  

Brain Waves and Consciousness

The original research into the frequencies and patterns of brain waves was conducted by the brilliant British biophysicist, and zen master C. Maxwell Cade . Cade measured the brain wave patterns of many healers, spiritual teachers and advanced meditators as well as 300 of his own students. He found a pattern that he identified as a step beyond meditation that exhibits the "lucid awareness" of meditation "coexistent with thought processes". Cade presented his remarkable discovery in his book "The Awakened Mind: Biofeedback and the Development of Higher States of Awareness", which he co-authored with Nona Coxhead (Dell, 1979).

For almost three decades since then Anna Wise, Max Cade's protege, has measured the brainwave patterns of people whose states of consciousness one would wish emulate – spiritual masters, meditation teachers, and people of optimum creativity in all walks of life. The brainwave pattern that she found, named the Awakened Mind, is a combination of all four categories of brain waves – beta, alpha, theta, and delta – in the right relationship and proportion.

BETA brain waves are the fastest frequencies ranging from 14 cycles per second up to 38 cycles per second. Beta is your normal thinking state, your active external awareness and thought process. Without beta you would not be able to function in the outside world.

ALPHA brain waves are the brain waves of relaxed detached awareness, visualization, sensory imagery and light reverie. Ranging between about 9 cycles per second and 14 cycles per second, alpha is the gateway to meditation and provides a bridge between the conscious and the subconscious mind.

THETA brain waves are the subconscious mind. Ranging from about 4 cycles per second up to 8 cycles per second, theta is present in dreaming sleep and provides the experience of deep meditation when you meditate.Theta also contains the storehouse of creative inspiration and is where you often have your spiritual connection.Theta provides the peak in the peak experience.

DELTA brain waves are your unconscious mind, the sleep state, ranging from about 4 cycles per second down to 0.5 cycles per second.  When present in combination with other waves in a waking state, Delta acts as a form of radar – seeking out information – reaching out to understand on the deepest unconscious level things that we can't understand through thought process. Delta provides intuition, empathetic attunement, and instinctual insight. It is also the brain wave most associated with energy healing.

The MEDITATION brainwave pattern is a combination of alpha and theta where theta provides the depth and profundity of the meditation experience – the subconscious inner space from which creativity, insight, and healing spring – and alpha provides the bridge, or the link, to the conscious thinking mind so that you can actually remember the contents of your meditation.

"The AWAKENED MIND brainwave pattern combines the intuitive, empathetic radar of the delta waves, the creative inspiration, personal insight, and spiritual awareness of the theta waves, the bridgingcapacity and relaxed, detached, awareness of the alpha waves, and the external attention and ability to consciously process thought of beta waves, all at the same time. It is a brainwave pattern shared by people in higher states of consciousness regardless of their philosophy, theology or meditation technique. This brainwave(EEG) pattern can be found during "peak experience" and in all forms of creativity and high performance. The awakened mind is also the "ah-ha," appearing at the exact instant of solving the problem, or getting the insight." Anna Wise

“In the Integral Awakened Mind state the mind is clearer, sharper, quicker and more flexible than ordinary states:

• Thinking feels fluid rather than rigid.

• Emotions become more available and understandable, easier to work with and transform.

• Information flows more easily between the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious levels.

• Intuition, insight, and empathy increase and become more integrated into normal consciousness.“

- Anna Wise

Brain Waves and EFT

Gary Groesbeck writes:  We are seeing some very rapid and significant changes in the overall brain wave patterns that mirror the release of emotional issues during the sessions. The heart monitoring has also shown instant, healthier responses to the resolution of emotions.

There are some important shifts that suggest an accelerated movement towards improved brain function using EFT. Initially, during the course of a session as personal issues are being resolved, we see a decrease in overall brain wave energy. This reduction in energy occurs more rapidly than in just a simple relaxation period, often within a single round of tapping. There are many in the field who feel that as the brain works more efficiently, the amount of energy in the cortex, or surface of the brain, decreases. This is exactly what we observe.

Along with this was an increase in brain symmetry, that is both sides of the brain, the hemispheres, begin to work together in a more balanced manner. People often have the mistaken assumption that they are either right brained or left brained, in truth we are both, and the two sides of the brain need to work together for optimal health and performance. This is what we see happening over the course of an EFT session, people have increased hemispheric integration or balance.

Next we observed a general decrease of energy in the highest frequencies, sometimes called beta one and two. This band of energy is often associated with emotional intensity, anxiety, stress, negative ruminating and possible history of addictions. This energy band shows a decrease as emotional issues of the moment are released during tapping. As another layer of the story unfolds, beta can flare again as the new issue emerges, followed by more tapping, until it again is reduced to a new healthy level. This makes it possible to determine whether or not the person has another layer of issues to access for further tapping.

As people tune into their issues we also see an increase of energy flares in the slower frequencies called alpha and theta. These frequencies show an internal focus and the emergence of memories often associated with the symptoms at hand. Without an alpha bridge emotional memories in the theta range are often lost, or remain unconscious. So it is important that we can see an increase of this alpha bridging occurring with the EFT. This allows people to more readily connect with the issues that need to be resolved. We can visibly see the theta brain wave spikes, even when the person may not be conscious of the emotional connection to what they are saying.

Finally as core issues begin to be resolved we are able to see, in some people, the development of the pattern we call the high performance mind, also called the “Awakened Mind” pattern. This pattern occurs in moments of emotional, personal, creative, and spiritual insight. It is the pattern we see in long time meditators. It is the pattern of a brain that is humming along at optimal performance, like a well tuned engine. It would appear that as EFT quickly aids in resolving long term emotional issues it also can tune the brain to its highest levels of performance. Other measurements of the stress response, such as heart rate coherence, show reductions of stress, and an increase of healthy functioning on all levels.

Gary Groesbeck BCIAC Fellow

Donna Bach ND

The Presenters of Exploring Consciousness with EFT

	Gwyneth Moss EFT Master Gwyneth is known for her highly successful EFT work using imagery and metaphor and for her clear down-to-earth teaching style.  Gwyneth started out on a scientific path and has a Cambridge Physics degree.  Now years later she seeks to understand and to communicate what it means to be human.  The 2008 conference with brainwave monitoring and EFT taught her a great deal about how we can be most effective in our use of EFT and she has brought this team together for more experimental and experiential exploration of our consciousness. www.Emotional-Health.co.uk
	Jessica Mor EFT Trainer Jessica was in a very dark place when someone gave her Gwyneth's one page ABC of EFT.  Tapping began her journey back to mental good health.  Experience gives her a very special insight into how it is to be 'diagnosed' and she now combines her personal insight with study of the psychotherapy and science of trauma to help others wherever they may be on their journey.  Gwyneth says: "Jessica is a natural, she has a real talent for EFT and is an excellent speaker with a deep understanding of what it is to be human"   Audio download of Jessica presenting THE COURAGE TO BE PRESENT     www.More-Freedom.co.uk

Gary Groesbeck BCIAC Fellow and Donna Bach ND Donna received her degree in Naturopathic Medicine in 1974 and brings over 30 years of experience to her practice of EFT, natural healing, body work, and Neurofeedback-assisted meditation. Gary is certified fellow by the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America.  He has taught biofeedback and neurofeedback for stress management at Columbia College.  Both studied biofeedback and brainwaves as students of Anna Wise.  Read Gary's article on Brainwaves and EFT