Category: Reversals – Self-Sabotage, Secondary Gain and More

Critical Remarks Kept Her From Slimming Down

By: Carol Solomon | 24 December, 2011
Categories: Reversals, Self-Acceptance, Self-Sabotage, Weight and Fitness

“When you feel criticized, there are always a number of aspects that you can tap on to remove the sting. First is the remark itself. It’s often helpful just to tap as you repeat the words that were said. Second is how it makes you feel, especially how it makes you feel about yourself…”

Focusing on Dieting Can Keep Us Stuck

By: Sandy Zeldes | 23 July, 2011
Categories: Addictions, Cravings, Reversals, Self-Sabotage, Weight and Fitness

“The first step to stopping reliance on dieting for some is using EFT to clear the painful or difficult emotions that haven’t been addressed successfully in the past.”

Good Questions Help Illuminate the “Big Picture” of a Core Issue

By: Jade Barbee | 15 May, 2011
Categories: Complex Issues, Core EFT Skills, Core Issues, Peak Performance, Reversals

“In EFT, we are always on the lookout for core issues, but sometimes a core issue is so big, it’s like we’re standing too close to a large painting. Tapping through the questions in the way we did was a like a slow stepping back. With each step the whole story was allowed to come into greater focus…”

Crises as Creative Challenge: EFT for Unblocking Creativity

By: Connie Barrett | 2 April, 2011
Categories: EFT Strategies, Peak Performance, Procrastination, Reversals, Self-Sabotage

“If I’m writing a new kind of article or attempting a fictional innovation, I will sense, if I’m observant, distinct danger signals. The subconscious mind doesn’t want to get us into trouble. It learned when we were very young what was safe and what was risky, and it is scrupulous about protecting us.”

Healing Your Heart: Releasing Resistance to Letting Go

By: Janet Hilts | 13 March, 2011
Categories: EFT Strategies, Emotional Intelligence, Reversals, Self-Acceptance

“Even though I don’t want to let go of this Tom stuff, because he should say he’s sorry and acknowledge his part in it first, and then maybe I’ll let go of it… But I still want to respect myself and all my feelings.”

Healing the Heart of Food Addiction, Chronic Dieting, and Emotional Eating

By: Sandra Zeldes | 26 February, 2011
Categories: Cravings, Reversals, Self-Sabotage, Weight and Fitness

“We can love our bodies and ourselves no matter where we are today. EFT can help us to release old core wounds, beliefs, habits and patterns wherever they come from and move forward into our lives fully expressed, peaceful with food and ourselves.”

“I’m Not Good Enough to Get a New Job”

By: Louise Tremayne | 6 July, 2010
Categories: EFT Strategies, Reversals, Self-Acceptance, Self-Sabotage

“Fear is a major reason for keeping us stuck. Most of the time though, the fear is worse than actually doing it! EFT can really help us eliminate our fears.”

EFT for Scleroderma: Relief and Empowerment – Part 2

By: Baerbel Froehlin | 3 July, 2010
Categories: Physical Issues, Reversals, Serious Disease, Skin, Trauma

“By watching him becoming a more gentle, peaceful person, becoming more confident with his body and his outlook on life, I can still remember feeling that things changed into unknown territory during those last few days we spent together. He couldn’t wait to get back home, he obviously had found what he’d been looking for.”

Tapping with a Reluctant Client

By: Baerbel Froehlin | 11 May, 2010
Categories: Core EFT Skills, Reversals, Surrogate Tapping

“…Suddenly she opens up and talks about certain memories that are now flooding her mind. I have bits and pieces to work with now. Each session is a tiny bit easier and we can work, letting EFT do its magic!”

The Boy Who Hated Tapping

By: Monica Broadfoot Johnson | 5 May, 2010
Categories: Children, EFT Strategies, Reversals

“Today, I decided to try things a little differently. I told him that he did not have to tap, but he did have to pay attention. I would just tap on myself, if that would be ok with him. It was. I also asked if I could be him. He agreed…”

The “I Don’t Feel Anything” Problem

By: Lena Chen | 14 April, 2010
Categories: Core EFT Skills, Reversals, Trauma

“In your mind, you may say, ‘Thank you, shield, for having protected me all this while. I needed you around at that time, but right now, I’m ready to let you go…'”

Tapping within an Emotional Hurricane

By: Gwendolyn Evans | 14 April, 2010
Categories: Core EFT Skills, Inner Visuals, Reversals, Self-Acceptance

“This session affirmed for both of us that the need for just being, not doing or fixing is a critical part of the healing process.”

Don’t Solve It, Evolve It: The Power of EFT and Events Psychology

By: Carna Zacharias-Miller | 30 March, 2010
Categories: Integrated EFT, Reversals

“Events are highly charged, one time experiences that change a person’s energy system forever. We are most familiar with trauma, but there are two other significant types of events…”

Tapping to Shift the Energy of Resistance

By: Suzanne Zacharia | 21 March, 2010
Categories: Core EFT Skills, Reversals

“Although PR is an energy disruption, I am happier thinking of PR in NLP terms as a protective mechanism. If we feel we need the problem in order to be protected in some way or other, then it is hard to let go of the problem…”

EFT, Enneagrams, and the Roots of Self-Sabotage

By: Heather Step | 3 March, 2010
Categories: Integrated EFT, Reversals, Self-Sabotage

“The most amazing conversation to come out of all of this, which really made me look at myself, was the issue that she had to suffer in order to understand what others were going through in order to heal them…”