Have you ever stubbed your toe against the kerb, or caught your hand on the side of a hot oven/pan/iron, chopped your thumb when you were aiming for the cabbage (it’s best not to ask me to shred cabbage!), bumped into an armchair/doorway/person, missed a step up/down, scalded yourself in steam from the kettle, spilled a freshly brewed mug of tea, hammered your fingers and missed the nail, tripped on the mat, fallen off a swing, slipped on ice/mud/banana skin? What about paper cuts and blisters, bruises, grazes, insect bites, over-reaching for the top shelf, minor whiplash even?
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Resolution, Not Conflict – Energy Psychology Treatments May Open New Frontiers in Therapy
“This article describes the series of interventions that energy therapist Dale Petterson utilized over the course of one session with one highly sensitive 10-year-old boy. Note that energy techniques seem to yield especially rapid changes with children. Adults have accumulated more layers of negative life experiences and bad habits. Their treatment therefore, while it uses the same techniques, sometimes takes somewhat longer.”
Linked ArticleStoner Dave and Sober Dave: A Parts Work Session
“Holding space for someone to tap with a marginalized or frightened part of him or herself is always a sacred experience for me. To hear someone address a part of themselves tenderly and with intention is to witness the miracle of self-healing.”
Read More“He Could See the Light of His Situation”
“Carl called me up later that night and told me that he got more from our meeting than from “years of therapy.” Since our session, he has been much more enthusiastic about creating work for himself, traveling more and even working more steadily.”
Read MoreThe Pain of “Not Belonging”
“The feeling of not belonging is often mixed with other emotions, like loneliness, deep sadness, feeling different, ‘what’s wrong with me,’ and abandonment and rejection. As we know, it is a basic need for children to belong, to have a safe place, to be at least validated if not cherished.”
Read MoreWhy I Tap With A Practitioner
“As practitioners, we have a commitment and a professional obligation to tend to our own healing, and fill our own well so we can continue to help our clients. And at the same time, we can learn and grow in our Art of Delivery by experiencing tapping with other practitioners.”
Read MoreHow to cope with your client’s stuff
“From the moment an EFT Practitioner and client get together, the practitioner’s ‘stuff’ is interacting with the client’s ‘stuff.’ EFT Practitioners are human beings just like everybody else. Hopefully we have been well trained and have many skills, but like all humans we are a work in progress and need to monitor our work and nurture our development to do the best we can for our clients. Being able to recognise and deal with these issues is why self-development, self-reflective processes and professional supervision / mentoring are essential for practitioners.”
Read MoreConnecting With Your Divine Parents
“I’ve found that there are specific positive phrases and sayings that, if repeated while using EFT tapping, accelerate the process of shedding old pain, receiving new awareness and the ability to love.”
Read MoreFive Tips for Accelerated EFT
“In the years since I began working as an EFT practitioner, I have identified five elements that have been present in every session I have done which contained a “one-minute wonder” or an issue that resolved itself in one session. When these elements are present, I find that my client and I are poised to work quickly toward the successful resolution of an issue.”
Read MoreWorking around Hardwired Cultural Beliefs with GEO-Specific EFT
The predominant feelings that people hold within themselves throughout their childhood affect the development and perpetuation of issues. In EFT, we tackle all the specific events thoroughly from childhood that may have led to these beliefs of being undeserved, unloved and unworthy. In Geo-Specific EFT, we also look at the cultural context in which these beliefs developed.
Read MoreGamut Point Guardian: An Amazing Function of the Gamut Point and How to Incorporate It Into Your Sessions
“The Gamut Point has always been considered as important and in fact, many practitioners use the “9-point Gamut Procedure” at the end of all issues to balance the right and left hemispheres of the brain. However, we have now found that if you close a session (or issue) by using the Gamut (on the meridian Triple Warmer, in Acupuncturist terms,) in a specific and different way you can avoid ever having an issue reappear.”
Read MoreSeven Absolute Ways To Keep A Problem – And Stay Stuck
“All right, you messed up! Ask yourself what lessons are here, glaring at you and asking you to notice and respond to them. Here is a good time to do EFT around this and other mistakes, turning each into a lesson.”
Read MoreTapping Twice a Week at the Local County Jail
“I told him that it didn’t matter if he tapped or not. What was most important is he recognized what was going on, reached for a tool that he thought might work for him, and then used it. That was all I could ever ask for.”
Read MoreDon’t Tap On Stress Talk! (Do This Instead)
“There are days, or even longer periods, where everything seems to be profoundly wrong in the world. You, or your client, keep complaining on and on, you are not sure what you should tap on, and if you get started with one thing, two others pop up. Don’t tap on this ‘stress talk!’ De-stress your client or yourself first so the real issue can be worked on..”
Read MoreClearing Distorted Automatic Thoughts with EFT
“Automatic thoughts indicate the core beliefs that we have. Addressing automatic thoughts with EFT will also gradually release the limiting core beliefs.”
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