“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.”
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Why 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 MoreEFT Clears the Emotional Pain Caused by a Distorted Self-Image
“When we have this distorted image of our bodies, we are in bondage to our fears and we feel that at some level, there is something wrong with us, we are not good enough as we are. As a result, we build a prison that keep us stuck and it robs us of the courage to go after our dreams.”
Read MoreHow Poor Body Image Can Sabotage Weight Loss Goals
“I have found that when a negative body image is released, many women are able to approach weight loss from an entirely different perspective. Cravings, binges and emotional eating diminish and eating becomes more natural and has so much less judgement.”
Read MoreCore Limiting Beliefs About Body Image That Keep Weight On
“…the vicious cycle of dieting (and then of course binging that MUST come next after food restriction, that is the rule with brain chemistry and our physiology) often begins I think from a negative self image… Finding where that negative self image took root and releasing the emotional charge however is the key.”
Read MoreInclusive Tapping: How More Acceptance Can Lead To More Change
“The negative emotions we spend time resisting tend to hang around in spite of our best efforts to get rid of them. The more we fight against them the stronger they get. As Carl Jung pointed out, ‘What we resist, persists.’ “
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.”
Read MorePracticing Presence
“When someone we are working with is stuck in struggle or seemingly unable to make any headway, it may be because we are not quite being present enough with where that person is standing.”
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