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How to do DIY Acupuncture without the needles

This article appeared in Sunday Life magazine within the Sun-Herald and the Sunday Age  By Joanna Webber It sounds weird, but tapping your fingers on specific parts of your body while making powerful, self-affirming statements rewires your brain and helps restore emotional, physical and mental health. Called emotional freedom techniques (EFT) or "tapping", the process combines ancient Chinese acupressure with modern psychology and is being used to treat everything from anxiety and phobias to chronic pain, addiction and weight loss. "It's acupuncture without the needles," says Lorna Hollinger, CEO of the Australian Tapping Institute. "What can it be used for? The list is endless. People who have experienced trauma, and people with physical ailments or pain in their body can clear the emotional causes of those ailments by tapping." Traditional Chinese medicine says life energy, or...