Many of us mistake waiting for approval as patience, when it’s often fear of taking the first step. This article explores how that “wait for permission” pattern gets wired into the nervous system early in life, and how EFT tapping can help calm the old fear response so self-trust and sovereign decision-making can take its place.
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Why Dating Checklists can be a Form of Protection
This article illustrates how rigid dating checklists often function as a somatic defense mechanism against intimacy. It provides EFT framework to help readers separate genuine values from fear-based patterns, allowing them to regulate their nervous systems and move from protective analysis to authentic connection.
Read More“I’m an Idiot” Belief and the Shift with EFT Tapping
A client held a lifelong belief that “being an idiot” carried unbearable costs — traced back to a moment at a family wedding where a small social misstep drew her mother’s disapproval. Through tapping, she uncovered that the judgment wasn’t really her own, but her mother’s voice internalized so early that she’d been pre-emptively judging herself for decades. By the session’s end, she could hold the word “idiot” without flinching, recognizing that a mistake made without ill intent doesn’t deserve a lifelong verdict.
Read MoreShould You Be Friends With Your Clients?
In general, tapping practitioners are naturally warm, empathic and motivated to help. In addition, many tapping sessions are deep and personal, and there is a strong connection between the practitioner and the client. Sometimes, practitioners might want to become friends with their clients, this article is about why they should think carefully about that.
Read MoreTell a Future Story to Make a Lifestyle Change
This is an article about using a Tell the Future Story Technique to enable the author to start a daily walking habit. The approach and results, as well as an initial attempt are discussed.
Read MoreEFT Detective Work: The Story of a Little Girl and the 1966 World Cup
Our bodies hold clues: symptoms, feelings, thoughts. We may not think we have much to go on, yet thorough detective work and tapping can help unlock what’s unknown or hidden and lead us to resolution. Read what unfolded here.
Read MoreEFT For Sport and Performance
Of the many applications of EFT or tapping through life, sports and performance can often get overlooked. In the northern hemisphere, as I write, Wimbledon has just finished, the World Cup is reaching its crescendo, FI, cricket and golf tournaments abound and the Commonwealth Games are about to begin. Meanwhile in the southern hemisphere a […]
Read MoreEFT Then and Now (Part 1 of 3): Starting Out
This 3-part article summarises insights from Ranjana Appoo’s 30-year EFT journey. Part 1: using EFT for herself and starting a practice.
Read MoreApplying EFT to Grief and Loss
We’ve always been told to use EFT on everything, but could that really be true for something like grief? A couple of years ago, this was really put to the test for me where I had 3 significant deaths in a very short space of time. But where to start? Applying EFT to grief and […]
Read MoreMy EFT Tapping Journey with HER2+ breast cancer (Part 3)
Radiation therapy was one of the most emotionally challenging parts of my breast cancer journey. The treatment itself was pain-free, but being immobilized on the treatment table, holding my breath repeatedly to protect my heart from radiation exposure, and feeling vulnerable in my body brought up unexpected trauma responses.
As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, I found that the immobility triggered emotions I thought I had already worked through. Throughout the 15 radiation sessions, tapping became my lifeline. It helped me regulate overwhelming emotions, voice my needs, and stay present one treatment session at a time.
In this article, I share how EFT helped me navigate the emotional and physical challenges of radiation treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer.
Read MoreEFT For Relationships: A Case Study
This article outlines an EFT case study of a 35-year-old homeopath who used tapping to overcome deep-seated childhood fears and limiting beliefs surrounding relationships. Through multiple sessions, she released emotional blocks that were hindering her from finding a partner, leading to profound cognitive shifts and a renewed sense of optimism. Ultimately, she not only felt empowered to pursue marriage but also experienced the generalization effect of EFT by successfully resuming her homeopathy practice and personal hobbies.
Read MoreHow to use EFT for Professional and Personal Self-Worth
Applying EFT for overall low self-worth caused by facing setbacks in career or business.
Read MoreEFT For Nailbiting
For as long as I can remember I have bitten my nails, including my toe nails when my bones were softer! It became a huge bone of contention between me and my mother, her mother and my eccentric great aunts. From an early age I was fed a constant negative narrative about the woes of […]
Read MoreIntroducing EFT To The Classroom
What if emotional regulation became a normal part of a school day, just like reading or maths? In the Netherlands, Danielle Schreurs and Simone van Wissen developed ‘Alles Klopt’ — an EFT-based approach designed for primary schools. The name means “everything is okay,” and at the same time refers to “tapping”. Introducing EFT to the Classroom […]
Read MoreUsing EFT Tapping with Grief
The author details her learnings from the experience of tapping with grieving women in dozens of sessions conducted over two months.
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