Tapping Your Troubles Away with EFT: Acupressure self-help technique
Annie O’Grady, author of ‘Tapping Your Troubles Away with EFT’  is an Emotional Freedom Techniques practitioner, teacher, mentor and educator.  She guides people to empower themselves in all life areas, through this energy health method with its many applications for emotional, physical  and performance improvement.  She has specialised for 25 years in practising and teaching natural health methods which promote personal inspiration, through dramatically reducing or eliminating the often unrecognised and insidious effects of stresses and past traumas.  As well as her qualifications in EFT tapping, she holds alternative qualifications in hypnotherapy, transpersonal psychodynamics, and breathwork (rebirthing) which reflect her lifelong fascination with transpersonal approaches to healing practices that involve altered states of consciousness.  She was formerly a journalist, with diversions as a novelist, photojournalist and radio playwright while raising her daughter.    This journey into the arts of relieving suffering has led her to a wide field of learning since a day in 1983 when she first turned to a new breathing technique, hoping to help her acute divorce distress and a lifetime of unresolved emotional issues.    This worked so well for her that she wanted to share this holistic breathwork technique with others.  Her studies followed the system called ‘holotropic breathwork’, developed by the eminent U.S. consciousness researcher and author Dr. Stanislav Grof.    Subsequently Annie spent 20 years as a breathwork practitioner and trainer working with individuals and groups, both in her own practice and as a co-director of a breathwork centre.  Alongside this, she studied the work of transpersonal psychologists and psychiatrists in another specialty field of altered states of consciousness, past lifetimes resolution.  For many years she taught and practised this healing option also.  Using much of her own case material, she wrote about outcomes from both the transpersonal  techniques of breathwork and past lifetimes resolution in her book ‘Past Lifetimes – Keys for Change!’ (Sally Milner Publishers).  Moving into the 21st century field of energy medicine was a natural progression for Annie.  Her latest book ‘Tapping Your Troubles Away with EFT’ introducing EFT teaches people how to use this ground-breaking self-care technique, and presents more of her work with people.  It also includes information about some of the scientific studies EFT is already attracting.