Originally developed for people, Meridian Therapies is the generic name given to a group of techniques that all work by tapping on major body meridian points.

Unlike acupressure, you tap or touch very lightly, sending small shockwaves or soothing pulses with your breath through the meridian system, balancing and re-energizing it and clearing blockages as you do so.

Another main difference between the New Meridian Therapies (also sometimes called Energy Psychology or Meridian Energy Therapies) and acupuncture and acupressure is that you use your intention and focus to direct which particular problem you are working on.

EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique - is the easiest and most user friendly introduction to these techniques. EFT is a "one for all" protocol especially designed to be easy to teach, easy to learn and so that virtually anyone can start to use it straight away. It is also extremely effective and has been taking the human therapist's community by storm in the last couple of years. A number of therapists were also committed companion animal owners and they began to use the "proxy protocol" with their own animals and found it to be wonderfully effective; so they got together and sponsored the "AnimalEFT" web site so that other animal lovers, too, could begin to take advantage of this simple but effective system, too.

"Proxy Tapping"

When people first find out about AnimalEFT, they immediately think that it is about tapping ON animals and ask where they should tap their animals.

Although of course animals do have a meridian system, many of the points are in places where animals truly do not like to be touched, never mind tapped. The wonderful thing about AnimalEFT is that you DON'T tap on the animal directly, but you tap on yourself to make the changes happen. This is called Proxy Tapping has lots of advantages:

1. You can do it at any time and even anywhere - you do not have to be in the same room with the animal.

2. You can do it much more often than an animal would generally permit.

3. You can help wild animals, animals that don't belong to you, and animals that you can't really touch much, such as birds and fish.

4. Once you have learned the simple technique, you can use it on any problem, on any animal and you don't have to know anything at all about their various meridian systems or points.

How Does Proxy Tapping Work?

When you focus your attention on an animal, you connect your energy system with theirs.

When you keep the focus of your attention on a specific aspect of that energy system (a problem, disease, behaviour, state of mind and so on) and you change YOUR system by tapping on the points, YOU ARE ALSO CHANGING THEIRS through the connection.

This was originally discovered when a lady, distraught because she was sitting by the side of her premature baby's incubator and unable to touch him, treated herself for the baby's problems and the baby responded by breathing more easily and slower, and finding from somewhere the will to live and to fight on more strongly than before.

Since then, thousands of people all over the world have been absolutely astonished to find that by tapping on themselves whilst holding another living being's problems in their mind, they can make changes without touching them or even being in the same room.

I don't expect you to believe this right away. I didn't believe it either when I first heard about it. But I tell you, when you neighbour's dog 100 yards away stops barking just because you have tapped a round of EFT on yourself, a shiver goes down your spine and you KNOW you made that happen as by magic - it is a real convincer experience.

How Can I Find Out More?

The basic EFT protocol is easy to learn and it is free. Go to http://www.AnimalEFT.org where you will find examples of how to use AnimalEFT, articles on using AnimalEFT in training, health, communication and bereavement, a message board, the complete proxy protocol, frequently asked questions and links to practitioners who will be happy to tell you more about AnimalEFT and how to use it to help relax, soothe and heal your companions and other animals.

Article by Silvia Hartmann

Animal EFT - http://www.Animal-EFT.org

Human Meridian Therapies - http://www.TheAMT.com

Human EFT - http://www.emofree.com