This article explores how to use Gentle Techniques in EFT to manage emotional intensity, comparing the process to adjusting the temperature of a cup of tea. By “zooming out” from triggering details and meeting ourselves where we’re at, we can stay within a comfortable emotional range and make EFT more effective without overwhelming our nervous system.
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Are You a Safe and Effective EFT Practitioner?
Would it surprise you to know that being a safe practitioner also correlates with being more effective? When clients feel well cared for by a trauma-trained or trauma-informed practitioner, they are more likely to feel safe and trust both the practitioner and the process. This trust often leads to the surfacing of long-suppressed memories or forgotten events, allowing the practitioner to navigate them effectively.
Read MoreCan we tap successfully for our own headaches? Yes, No or Maybe
The author considers whether, when and how we might tap for our own headaches in order to modify or eliminate them using EFT. She provides a range of illustrations from personal experience to answer the question, ‘Can we tap successfully for our own headaches?’
Read MoreWhat Words Do I Use for Tapping?
How adjusting your mindset can help you find the right words (even if they are global at first) and get more juice out of tapping
Read MoreMastering Self-Tapping: A Guide to Creating Effective EFT Phrases (Part 2)
In Part 1, we looked at how to define your issue using the “banana bread analogy”, where the overall issue (fear of driving) can be thought of as the loaf, which can be cut into slices (specific events – having to drive to another city to visit your son). Let’s see now what happens after […]
Read MoreMastering Self-Tapping: A Guide to Creating Effective EFT Phrases (Part 1)
Recently, someone asked me for tips on creating “effective phrases for self-tapping”. Drawing from my experience as a psychologist and EFT practitioner, here are some guidelines.
Read MoreFeeling Lost with Your EFT Practice? Start with Future Events
In this article, we explore the effective approach of utilizing Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to tackle future events and the benefits it brings. The process starts by focusing on negative expectations around upcoming scenarios, leading to the release of these anticipatory emotions. This can help to unveil important past memories, providing key areas for further EFT application. The method aids in sparking ‘cognitive shifts’ – spontaneous changes in perspective that lead to a more empowering viewpoint. While it encourages personal growth, a cautionary note is offered for dealing with intense or traumatic memories. The article emphasizes that even partial progress can help to kickstart actions previously inhibited by fear or resistance. Overall, the article presents EFT as an empowering tool for personal transformation.
Read MoreParrot Phrasing Versus Paraphrasing In Your EFT Sessions
By repeating back the speaker’s words, as we do when having the client repeat the setup statement, the listener can help the speaker clarify their own thinking and gain deeper insights into their own experiences.
Read MoreEFT As A Person-Centred Approach
What does it mean to “meet a client where they are at”? Learn how principles in Carl Rogers’ person-centered therapy applies to EFT.
Read MoreThe Navigator And Driver Metaphor For Effective EFT Work – Part 2
Newcomers to EFT can find so many free or cheap resources available online to tap along to. It begs the question: Why hire a practitioner?
For simple issues, EFT shared in off the shelf resources might be effective and low cost. But what about approaching knotty, multi-layered problems that are unique to the individual? These cheap resources, at best, skim the surface. At worst they make it look like EFT doesn’t work.
This article explores what qualified, trained practitioners versed in the Art of Delivery offer.
The Navigator And Driver Metaphor For Effective EFT Work – Part 1
Newcomers to EFT can find so many free or cheap resources available online to tap along to. It begs the question: Why hire a practitioner?
For simple issues, EFT shared in off the shelf resources might be effective and low cost. But what about approaching knotty, multi-layered problems that are unique to the individual? These cheap resources, at best, skim the surface. At worst they make it look like EFT doesn’t work.
This article explores what qualified, trained practitioners versed in the Art of Delivery offer.
Power Differentials in Your EFT Business
Ethics in your practice is not a one-off-learn-it-once-and-you’re-done mindset but rather a skill that changes and evolves as you mature. Let’s discuss one of the ethical considerations that can be the least obvious – power differentials. Power differential means a situation where one individual is acting in the role of teaching, providing insight, supervising, advising, coaching, counseling, evaluating another person
Read More10 EFT Misconceptions You Should Avoid: Part 3
The number one biggest misconception regarding EFT.
Read More10 Misconceptions You Should Avoid: Part 2
In this next installment of the 3 part series on common EFT misconceptions we discuss how to be trauma-informed and the importance of persistence.
Read More10 EFT Misconceptions You Should Avoid: Part 1
Part I of the 10 EFT Misconceptions covers EFT as a self-help tool, training programs, and seeing EFT as a cure-all.
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