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The Skeptics Guide #877 - Apr 30 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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EFT - The Emotional Freedom Technique

Pseudo science that uses the same initialism as a legitimate approach in therapy. They call it e f t, but there's already something in psychology called emotion cus therapy. It works by tapping on au pressure meridians to release blockages. When these blockages are released, the problem feeling can be released and moved through the body. So if you are afear of spiders, you would say something about, spiders, don't bother me while i tap on your face and hand. And then the emotional negativity associate with spiders magically goes away,. because it was trapped in the energy in those meridians. By tapping these magical ace pressure points, it releases it, and

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