Emotional Freedom Techniques (a.k.a. EFT) can serve as effective method of achieving migraine relief. The EFT method consists of tapping along ten various points along the meridians outlined by acupuncturists. As a person taps, he recites specific statements related to his feelings.

This EFT method was founded by Gary Craig. At the age of 13, he realized that his thoughts greatly affected his quality of life. He developed the EFT method based on the belief that the source of all negative emotions is a breakdown in the energy system. This energy system consists of pathways used in acupuncture, known as meridians. A disturbance in the energy meridian causes feelings of anxiety, hurt and shame to develop. These negative emotions can all trigger migraines.

Utilizing this EFT method helps chase away the negative feeling, and thus help relieve the migraine or prevent new ones from occurring.

The way it works is this: You think about a negative feeling or memory. As you think about it, you make a statement relating to this. An example of a statement would be, “I am angry at my boss for yelling at me.” Then, you rate the intensity of this feeling or memory on a scale of 0 to 10.

The next step is to state that you accept yourself. “Even though my boss yelled at me, I fully accept myself.”

You should repeat this affirmation while you tap three times on all the 10 EFT points. Some of these points include the chin, the collar bone, top of head, under the eye, beginning of eyebrow etc.

At the conclusion of this, you then rate the intensity of this feeling a second time. Then, you are supposed to repeat all these steps until the negative emotion is completely gone.

Since anxiety is one of the triggers of migraines, it follows that people with migraines should find Emotional Freedom Techniques helpful in obtaining migraine relief.