This article is part of the EFT 102: How to do EFT, The Basics series.

Psychological Reversal is a term that coined by Dr. Roger Callahan when he was developing Though Field Therapy (TFT), the precursor to Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).

Dr. Callahan found that in some case (less than 1 of 8) no matter what tapping the client did with his regular protocol, no healing would occur.  The physical pain or emotional issue would persist.

Typically when this happens, the body is psychologically reversed.  This is a state in which there is a reversal in the energetic field of the body around a particular issue.  The human body has an energetic field, just like a magnet.  When the body is in the normal state of health and healing the energy s flowing out the top of head and in the bottom of the feet, much the same way energy flows out the North end of a magnet and into the South.

When we are psychologically reversed, this flow of energy is reversed (going out the feet and into the head).  When this happens it is impossible for the body to heal.  It is much like if you put batteries in backwards in a flashlight.  The right amount of energy is there, but since it is flowing in the wrong directions, it won't work.

This might sound concerning.  We have something that can happen in our body that will stop the healing process.  It is possible to be psychologically reversed around one issue and not another.  You don't know when it is going to happen, and at this point you still might not understand what I am talking about.

But there is good news!  If you do step two of the basic recipe, you will clear psychological reversal.  It is easy and quick to clear psychological reversal. Best of all there are no penalties for clearing psychological reversal (mean if your not psychologically reversed and you do step to it doesn't hurt anything).

Think of like wearing your seat belt.  It takes little time and little effort to do it.  Most of the arrive you arrive safely.  If you put it on every time you will be set that one and million times that you really need it.

If you would like, you can put everything you have just read out of your head about psychological reversal.  Just pretend to for EFT to work you must do this step every time.  (Really, which would you rather do, understand psychological reversal or just do EFT and get better?)

To clear psychological reversal, we are going to tap on what we will call the "karate chop (KC)" point.  It is located on the side of the hand, the place Hong Kong Fu would use to brake through a wall).  You can see in the image, where it is located.

It doesn't matter which hand to use.  (Later in EFT 102 there is an article on which side of the body and which hand to tap with.  For now, use your dominant hand as the tapping hand.)

You will take all four finders of your dominant hand and tap on KC of your non-dominant hand.  You will keep tapping here until you finish saying the four phrases.

In step one you focused in on what you want to be working on.  Take that information and distill it down to one phrase.  For a physical issue you might use, "the pain on the top of my shoulder."  For an emotional issue you might use, "I am very frustrated at my boss because he always gives me work as I am walking out the door."

You simply need to add these phrases in to the formula below.  Replace the "..." with your phrase.

Even though I ... [have this pain on the top of my shoulder or am very frustrated at my boss because he always gives me work as I am walking out the door], I love and accept myself.

Even though I ... I forgive myself for how ever I added to this situation.

Even though I ... I forgive anyone else who has contributed to this situation.

Even if I ... for the rest of my life, I love and accept myself.

To do step two you will

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• Start tapping on KC
• You will say the phrases out loud
• You will say the phrases with energy
• You will say the phrases as if they are true, even if you don't believe them

One of the common questions I get is, "I know I am supposed to say the phrases like I believe them, but I don't really forgive my boss.  Is it going to hurt the process if I don't believe the phrases?"

The answer is "No."  At this point in your learning process it is not really important why, but there is a full article on not believe the words you say.  After you have give EFT a few tries you might be interested in that article.