How to Use EFT Tapping for Acne

What Causes Acne

Acne can be caused by a variety of factors including excess sebum production on the skin, hormonal changes in the body, certain cosmetic products, improper hygiene, consumption of unhealthy fatty foods such as junk food and eating too much of pasteurized (‘dead’) milk, factory eggs and hormone-laden food, among others.

If you do not have hormonal acne, you might be wondering why you have painful pimples even though:

• You wash your face twice a day with a natural sulfate-free cleanser.
• You eat only fresh, organic, pesticide-free and wholesome foods.
• You do not use cosmetic products or make sure to cleanse your face of makeup every night before bed.

There can be one or several underlying emotional reasons that trigger acne whether it is facial acne or body acne. These underlying reasons are also known as metaphysical causes.

Metaphysical Causes of Acne

Behind many skin disorders and conditions is an underlying metaphysical cause. Acne might be an outer manifestation of an inner problem or turmoil. It may be caused by certain emotional disturbances such as negative memories of a traumatic experience. Some of the metaphysical causes of acne include:

• Disliking, hating and rejecting yourself.
• Suppressed negative emotions such as guilt that you are keeping bottled up.
• Anger at yourself, a certain person or a particular event/experience in your life.
• Lack of self acceptance.
• Stress in your life caused by school, work, toxic people, etc.
• Being depressed and sad due to certain events in your life.

Using EFT Tapping for Acne | How it Works

EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique and it is a simple but powerful psychological self-help tool that helps get rid of the underlying emotional cause of an illness whether chronic, diagnosed, mental or physical. EFT tapping is whereby the user taps certain key meridian points on the body, known as tapping points, while voicing positive affirmations. This technique works in eliminating the negative emotions and feelings buried inside cellular memories that cause an accumulation of toxic energy which results in disease and disorder in the body.

These negative emotions such as anger, depression, anxiety, resentment, jealousy, anger, hate and rage, among others cause a disruption in the body’s energy system. Once the flow of energy is interrupted due to the emotional disturbance, one or more of the various processes in the body goes out of balance. EFT tapping helps in releasing all these negative emotions thereby enabling the body to bring its energy system back in control.

How to Use EFT Tapping for Acne

The Setup Stage

► Identify the problem. What is getting under your skin or causing a negative reaction within you? It could be anger at those painful pimples that make your face look horrible or the frustration at how nothing you do helps heal them and they keep on littering your face. It could also be the pain of a traumatic experience that keeps haunting you or your hatred towards a particular person or group of people.

► Evaluate the problem. In this second step of the Setup stage, you are going to focus on the problem and see how you feel about it. Rate its intensity on a scale of 0-10, 1 being the lowest level of intensity and 10 being the highest. If your acne is severe and very painful, you could rate it at 10. Mild acne for example, a small zit on the forehead can be a 1 or 2.

► Form the EFT statement. Come up with a statement that includes a phrase describing your acne/situation that you think is triggering your acne and a phrase of self-love and acceptance. Consider this statement:

Even though I have this (horribly painful huge and embarrassing acne), I deeply love and accept myself as I am.

Note: Feel free to describe your acne more suitably, for example inflamed and pus-filled acne or cystic acne or ugly acne.

► Tap at the Karate Chop Point. Now while voicing the affirmation, using four fingers, tap at the Karate Chop Point (which is the outer edge of the palm opposite your thumb) three times. The Karate Chop Point is an important energy meridian point which is used to bring the problem into focus.

EFT Tapping Sequence

► Move on to tapping the rest of the points in the tapping sequence from the point at the Crown of the Head to the gamut point at the back of your wrist. (Refer to the image above for all the tapping points).

You should feel calm and relaxed at the end of the tapping session.

► After tapping, it’s time to evaluate the intensity of the problem again. Is it as intense as it was before you started tapping? Rate it on a scale of 0-10 once more. Has the intensity considerably diminished, completely disappeared or remained the same? If your rating is above 4, tap again and evaluate.

► Now that you have inserted the ‘feel good’ and acceptance affirmations, replace them with these motivational statements:

• My skin is clear and free from acne.
• I am so happy that my acne inflammation is disappearing.
• My skin looks and feels healthy.

More Affirmations for Acne

1. Even though I have these horrible pimples that make me feel ugly and abnormal, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.
2. Even though I have this acne that I don’t think I can heal, I deeply and completely accept myself.
3. Even though I have this horrible cystic acne that everyone can see, I deeply and profoundly love and accept myself.
4. Even though my face looks awful because of this acne, I truly and deeply love and accept myself.
5. Nothing, not even this acne is stopping me from loving and accepting myself the way I am.
6. Even though I want to scratch at this acne so bad, I still deeply and completely love myself.
7. Even though I really want to pop all the ugly zits on my face, I deeply and completely love myself.
8. Even though I am extremely depressed and saddened of this acne, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.
9. Even though I know that this acne is leaving ugly scars on my face, I deeply and completely accept myself.
10. Even though I have these painful inflamed bumps just below my skin, I deeply and completely accept myself.
11. Even though I have these breakouts all over my face, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

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Change Your Life with The Best EFT Products!

Need more help understanding this powerful emotional healing technique? Here are some guides that you will find helpful. Also find out how to use EFT for prosperity, success, weight loss, wealth and more!

• The Tapping Solution
• The EFT Manual
• EFT Tapping Statements for Champion, Success, Personal Power, Self Confidence, Role Model
• Transform Your Beliefs; Transform Your Life
• EFT Tapping Statements for Prosperity, Survival, Courage, Personal Power, Success
• EFT Tapping Statements for Weight + Food Cravings, Anger, Grief, Not Good Enough
• Tapping Into Wellness: Using EFT to Clear Emotional & Physical Pain & Illness
• EFT Tapping Statements for Anxiety, Fear, Anger, Self Pity, Courage
• EFT Tapping Statements for PTSD, Survival, Disempowered, Anger, Fear
• Tapping Into Wealth: How Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Can Help You Clear the Path to Making More Money