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Category: Complex Issues

EFT And The Lotus Flower

By: Juliana Alves | 30 January, 2019
Categories: Complex Issues

In this article I compare the benefits of an EFT session with the beauty of a Lotus Flower that emerges from muddy waters and displays its beauty to the world.

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Cancer, Hysterectomy Prevention & Tapping

By: Alice Grange | 30 January, 2019
Categories: Complex Issues, Fear, Grief and Loss, Physical Issues, Serious Disease, Stress

How I avoided a hysterectomy by tapping….

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Playing with fire – Even though I’m afraid of striking matches…

By: Hilary Jones | 27 April, 2018
Categories: Anxiety, Children, Complex Issues, EFT Strategies, Families & Parenting, Fear

The beauty of EFT is that it clears the unhelpful, life-limiting, excess emotional charge around something, but it does not remove normal emotional reactions (fire can be hugely destructive, a healthy respect for it is entirely appropriate) – nor common sense.

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Being Aware of “The Wobbles” in an EFT session

By: Christine Sutton | 27 April, 2018
Categories: Complex Issues, Core Issues, EFT Strategies

A reason why progress with long term EFT clients is not always smooth.

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When Everyday Little ‘t’ Traumas Turn Into Big ‘T’ Traumas

By: Jondi Whitis | 25 November, 2017
Categories: Complex Issues, Trauma

Here’s a friendly and accessible discussion of how life’s everyday events can suddenly turn into traumatic memories. Knowing this gives us the power to see the event for what it is, and then more easily deconstruct them with EFT.

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The Personal Peace Procedure

By: EFTi Volunteers | 31 May, 2016
Categories: All Tutorials, Complex Issues, Core EFT Skills, Featured EFT Training Articles, Self Care

The Personal Peace Procedure is an exercise for using EFT to make peace with what happened to you in the past. It was created by EFT developer Gary Craig and is considered a foundational EFT application.

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Restoring Arthur’s Zest for Life Part-2

By: Jennifer Rahman | 24 October, 2015
Categories: Aging, Complex Issues, Core Issues, Pain, Physical Issues, Serious Disease

“It is important for the client to choose their own metaphors or emotive words to describe what they are feeling. The more a client resonates with their words, the faster the healing and subsequent empowerment…”

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“He Could See the Light of His Situation”

By: Cheryl Aiello | 26 April, 2014
Categories: Complex Issues, Peak Performance, Self-Acceptance

“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.”

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The Teenager, the Adult, and the Crone

By: Terry Currier | 19 April, 2014
Categories: Ancestral issues, Anger, Complex Issues, EFT Strategies, Inner Child EFT, Inner Visuals, Spirituality & Metaphysics

“We tapped on my feelings of hurt and anger and powerlessness. And suddenly I had an image (from what Betty refers to as the ‘inner theater’ of the imagination) of myself standing in a hole…”

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The Importance of Perseverance and Multiple Approaches

By: Kelly Roughton | 22 February, 2014
Categories: Complex Issues, Core EFT Skills, EFT Strategies, Inner Visuals

“Perseverance can really be key. Don’t give up! Apply everything that you know to the problem, even if the approach seems similar to something you’ve already tried.”

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Lessons from the Horse

By: Ange Dickson Finn | 9 February, 2014
Categories: Animals, Complex Issues, Fear, Grief and Loss

“We uncovered the real cause of the fear after only two sessions. It was a surprise to me, and to M as well.”

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Panic Attacks and Agoraphobia: EFT to the Rescue

By: Carna Zacharias-Miller | 26 October, 2013
Categories: Anxiety, Complex Issues, Inner Child EFT, Phobias

“Melanie: ‘It is about what might come up when I am there. There is this fear: Anything can happen in this busy place, and I have no influence…’ “

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Solving Two Mysteries with EFT – Part 1

By: Betty Moore-Hafter | 19 June, 2013
Categories: Anger, Complex Issues, Grief and Loss

“Before we finished the round of tapping, Amy broke in with an ‘ah ha’ moment: ‘Oh my gosh — I just got what the anger is about…’ ”

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Post-Surgical EFT Eliminates Pain, Encourages Hope

By: Lynne Shaner | 2 March, 2013
Categories: Complex Issues, Pain, Physical Issues

“We tapped on each of these concerns — first the frustration and disappointment about having broken the ankle, then the frustration about not being sure about whether she could travel. We then worked on the frustration and resentment she had toward her doctor. She was also was experiencing compensatory muscle tension in her right hip, thigh, and glutes, and it was often painful. So we tapped on that, and ‘talked’ to those muscles.”

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Five Tips for Accelerated EFT

By: Karen Brodie | 14 October, 2012
Categories: Complex Issues, Core EFT Skills, Motivation, Self-Acceptance, Trauma

“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.”

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