“This woman was minding her business and I was minding mine, and I certainly wanted to respect her privacy while we were crammed on this airplane. And yet, given how horribly she was feeling, part of me felt it would be a shame not to at least try to help her in some way…”
Read MoreCategory: EFT Strategies
A Tapping Session with Very Little Tapping
“We were both smiling as we realized that she had already done all the work and I was just there to say, ‘you go, girl!’ The little bit of tapping we did was just to affirm her success…”
Read MoreAre Your Adjectives Holding You Back?
“There is something about the way we think about tasks and goals that make them easier or harder to do. Surprisingly, the humble adjective can have a profound effect on the way you approach the thing it is attached to.”
Read MoreThe “Inner Committee” Meets Gestalt Therapy & EFT
“Inspired by Gestalt Therapy and an article written by Ann Ross many years ago about our Inner Committee, I began a different approach: no affirmation, just conversation, choosing one ‘voice”'(point of view), letting it express itself freely, then switching to another while continuously tapping…”
Read MoreEFT In Crisis Situations – Part 1
“For me, EFT is a wonderful psychotherapeutic and personal development tool …however we must not forget the potential value of this approach as an ’emergency first aid’ in a wide range of situations. Many of my students and colleagues report numerous cases of how they have used EFT in a crisis…”
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 MoreBeing Specific Leads to EFT Breakthrough
“At one point, when talking about what the announcement of the divorce had provoked in my mind at the time, I instantly said: “The feeling that it would never be the same ever again”, and tears started flowing. We had to stop tapping. All day long, every time I would think of this key sentence, tears would roll down my checks.”
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 MoreThe Art of Delivery in Dealing with Rape Trauma
“When we got to the crescendo of the movie, we calmed every mental image of distress that came up quickly and safely for her, sneaking up on each one to keep the process as gentle as possible…”
Read MoreRemoving Blocks To Abundance: The Value of Group Work, Part 2
“The middle section of the process was devoted to ‘seeing’ the change, conversations and exercises devoted to recognizing the many ways in the process was helping us be more abundant: not always through increased goods or income…”
Read MoreRemoving Blocks to Abundance: The Value of Group Work
“My concept was to use the EFT philosophy rather than Law of Attraction or prosperity-mindset tenets, to see what could happen when sustained group work focused not on materializing income or goods, but on removing the energetic blocks to living an abundant life however the individual defines it.”
Read MoreThe Ping-Pong Process
“Imagine that you are a ping-pong ball… When you have a difficult experience the paddle of the past whacks you towards the future with the angle and speed given to you by the last event. That whack probably hurts, what happened and how you felt about it sets your trajectory to the future…”
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 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 More