“If we have experienced trauma we naturally develop coping mechanisms. It can be useful to think of these mechanisms as characters in our own personal story. We can imagine a Sentinel character and a Protector character.”
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EFT and Episodic Memory
The Personal Peace Procedure is an excellent tool introduced by Gary Craig but it can be overwhelming for the uninitiated. Here, I’d like to suggest different ways of working on your Episodic Memory as alternatives to the Personal Peace Procedure.
Read MoreWhat to Do When You Can’t Find the Issue
“Here is what to do to get better, more effective results with EFT on your own when you are new to it…”
Read MoreThe Stepping Stones
“…we tried engaging her own inner imagery along with the tapping… I asked her to get in touch with her depression and see what image might form…”
Read MoreThe “Bundled Movie” Technique
“…when there are too many memories of the same type of event happening over time […] I ask the client to create a two minute movie drawing on elements of what they’ve experienced. This seems to have the effect of neatly gathering together many similar memories, whilst still giving the focus and specificity we need to neutralise their emotional distress using EFT. ”
Read MoreThe Beauty Wars and One Way to Find Peace
“We judge ourselves against our peers but we often retain the wounds of those beliefs into adulthood even though our adult minds know better. Our hearts and subconscious minds don’t. That is why all the intellectual reasons we give ourselves why we should ‘know better’ don’t work. We have to pull out those thorns that still make us hurt deep down.”
Read MoreGetting All Our “Parts” Working Together
“While helping a client to meet and communicate with their own Personality Parts can be successfully done through talk therapy alone, I find that adding EFT to this approach significantly enhances and speeds up the process of alignment and internal peace-making.”
Read MoreLet’s Pretend: Tapping on a Made Up Event
“We imagined stepping into another room where we could speak with mom and ask her how she was feeling. Through Kari interacting with her mom in the matrix, we found that she was frustrated, angry, and overwhelmed.”
Read MoreTapping for Short Term Memory Problems
“Tapping relieved my anxiety, frustration and anger, and allowed my short-term memory circuits to do their job.”
Read MoreCompound Suffering, Meet Compound Freedom
“Let’s imagine that just 30 minutes of tapping cleared that reaction. If you did that, then for just a little effort up front, you could have eight and a half hours less distress in a year. Not only that the less triggered and more resourceful you can be in that situation the more likely it is to go well.”
Read MoreNot the Smartest Person in the Room
“When I work with someone, I don’t need to be the smartest person in the room; I only need to be the most attentive person in the room. Doing EFT as a practitioner is not about having vast knowledge of what can be wrong with human beings, and how to fix them all. It is about practicing (and modeling) the focus and attention necessary to help a person find her way…”
Read MoreMore Thoughts on Surrogate Tapping
“For me, there’s a tangible difference between wanting to help someone feel better and trying to manipulate or control their behavior. It’s true that I wanted that baby to not cry and for the dogs to stop barking, but the entire focus of my tapping for them was about feeling safe and loved. The change in behavior was secondary.”
Read MoreWords Fail: Creative Non-Verbal Techniques
“They say that , ‘a picture says a thousand words’ and I would like to share with practitioners some of the tried and tested EFT tools in my toolkit, that use pictures and photographs. I have found that by allowing my clients to create their own picture board or use their own photographs to ‘tell a story,’ I can glean the information I need to proceed with EFT…”
Read More“The Bottle Story” Part 2: Follow-Up Six Weeks Later
“What is amazing is how long this has lasted. I’ve had chocolate on occasion, for instance I had some chocolate milk… but that’s all I wanted. I haven’t even wanted a chocolate bar. It’s great…”
Read More3 Perspective Tapping for Conflict Resolution
“The 3 Perspective Tapping Process gives a step by step method for untying those knots and taking the sting out of difficult interactions and this gives you a chance to change the way you interact with people at a very deep level.”
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