Tapping (EFT) Tips & More - Index
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Try It On Everything ... Seriously!
Those who try EFT diligently start becoming more aware, more honest with themselves, more self-accepting, and feeling more empowered. The movie The Tapping Solution (formerly Try It On Everything) demonstrates what happens in four days. What kind of difference could it make in your life if you used EFT every day and tried it on everything...?
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Anxiety Constricted Breathing
Anxiety and stress affect both our body and our mind DEEPLY. Learning to self-manage your emotions and how they affect you physically is a core skill necessary for living a thriving life. If you would like to learn more, start your membership in our group coaching program now.
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EFT to Stop Vibrational Decline
EFT-Talk Podcast #2 -- How do you know what your vibration is? Emotional self-management is not just a key to a thriving life; it is the key to avoiding the pain of chronic health conditions as well. Almost all the mystery diseases begin with periods of intense, prolonged stress. Yes, we can clean up a lot of those energies long after the fact using EFT. But once they have manifested in your physiology… once these energies have produced painful conditions, habitual chemical reactions, and conditioned negative thoughts, it will take more time and persistence than most people expect to get on and stay on the road to optimal health.
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Intentionally Feel Good Using EFT and the Law of Attraction
EFT-Talk Podcast #1 -- Why raise your vibration? What I teach as an emotional freedom coach is how to use EFT to clear the blocks to feeling good—physically, emotionally, spiritually, and financially. Yet, the first step has to be a choice you make—a choice to intentionally enhance your life experience. It will require long term (lifetime) attention to vibration—your emotional state—along with the intentional use of tools like EFT in order to feel as good as you have the potential to feel.
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NO! You Can’t Make Me!
When we demonstrate our own personal power to resist and say NO, we feel in control. And that feels good. Yet, sometimes we resist that which is our own stated best interest. We say NO to ourselves! We say NO to our own positive choices.
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MD Uses Tapping Technique to Treat Chronic Illness When Conventional Treatment Fails
Eric Robins, MD, a Los Angeles urologist, helps patients avoid surgery or recover from conditions that resist conventional treatment by teaching them an energy balancing tapping technique called EFT.
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Tapping with EFT for Resistant Mechanical Trouble
I have tapped with some clients (presenting for physical therapy) who have very mechanical problems. Together we have tapped using EFT around all sorts of things with no change. I know experience will help me a lot, but is it unreasonable to expect that tapping will effect resistant mechanical trouble?
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Photo Tapping with EFT
On the journey to true emotional freedom using EFT, it is important to TEST. For example, after working through specific events, we might vividly imagine the scenes to see if our body or emotions speak up. But what about certain time periods that might seem hazy?
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Probing for the Core Emotional Issue
Q. I have this chronic physical problem that has not responded to any treatments. I feel there may be an emotional cause, but I don’t know how to figure out what it might be. How can I use EFT for it if I don’t know the emotions behind it? A. One way to probe for a “core emotional issue” that may be behind a stubborn physical symptom is to ask two companion questions.
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Hand Washing and Disgusting Pigs - Oprah, Dr. Phil, and Netflix - Nighttime Panic and Acid Reflux
Ben recalls an event from his childhood where he spent time with a family that did NOT exactly follow proper hygiene. From picking their nose and then touching food to a general unsanitary feel, the experience left Ben feeling disgusted, and later it manifested in washing his hands many times a day and then trying to keep them clean.... Some people are TV addicts. That isn't the case here with Deb. As she describes her viewing habits, she spends far less time in front of the television than your average American. Yet, Deb wants to have more energy in the evening for her creative work.... Imagine waking up 3-4 times per night with anxiety and and burning from acid reflux....
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Rheumatoid Arthritis and Emotional Flexibility - Can We Heal From Chronic Disease?
When working with chronic diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, as a coach I focus on body sensations as well as the emotional feelings that both intensify the pain and that seem to be "in" the pain. In this session, one of the key body sensations is around "flexibility." .... Can someone heal from "life-long" chronic disease? I believe that if ONE person has done so, that any person has within her the potential to do so.
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Hysterical Over Stolen Car - Mom Did Not Take Me - Unworthy at the Core
Jai's car was stolen several weeks ago. In addition to all the fear and feelings of being unsafe such an act brings normally.... Early childhood events like a sudden car accident can make significant, life-altering impacts on our energy system. In this follow-up session with Ben.... Is there a difference between being "undeserving" and being "unworthy" ? If it feels to your body that there is....
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I Should Have Just Gotten a Boob Job!
Sometimes, all our hard work to improve ourselves comes crashing down when some external events triggers our fight or flight reflex. The primitive part of our brain gets convinced that we are threatened, and it either wants to slash back… or it can descend quickly into total disempowerment and a feeling that “all is lost.”
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EFT - Emotional Freedom Techniques
EFT is an energy-centered approach that taps into our native Source of power and intelligence, the same Source that naturally helps us all to grow and heal. Although we can never be totally cut off from this Source, we can—as a result of stress, painful experiences, and habit—develop resistance to its healthy flow through our body and mind.
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Becoming an EFT Practitioner
Here are my thoughts on starting your own EFT practice
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Carol Look Interviews with Gary Craig
Carol Look has a radio show on VoiceAmerica, and twice she interviewed EFT founder Gary Craig. The latest interview on July 18th (show 8) covered Why EFT Works with Pain and Physical Ailments. I wanted to share with you some of the highlights; you can listen to the recorded show as well.
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EFT Audio Tip: No “Wrong” Words
"I just can't seem to come up with the right words." So many people new to tapping using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) get wrapped up in having the perfect words to say. They learn the points, start listening to audio sessions, and have a pretty good idea of where they would like to use EFT to make improvements in their life. But they don't act. They feel so stymied about where to start and what to say that they don't tap. I'm here to tell you... there are no "wrong" words for you to use when they come from within YOU.
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Emotional Help Remembering Names
Do you have trouble remembering names? If so, you are not alone. It can be so embarrassing to know someone but not know her name. We can live in fear of being put in a situation where we are expected by Miss Manners to introduce this person we know to someone else... but we're stuck! If you would like to at least ease the emotional burden of guilt and shame from not remembering names, I encourage you to listen to this EFT audio session.
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Exercise-Induced Tension Headache
Have you ever had a tension headache caused by something you did? I woke this morning at 5:30am with a crushing tension headache—the second in just the past two weeks brought on by swimming. The relaxation exercises and self-massage I tried in bed for a half hour did not help much.
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Getting Started on Clutter
Each and every item we own has its energy “claim” on us. We have to find it a home, return it home when it gets moved, and keep it clean. I know there is balance in my life when I feel that there is room for my possessions, physically and emotionally. When I start looking around and feeling distracted by the mess and feeling tense that I don’t know what to do with it all, it’s time to help some of these items find a new home.
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EFT Audio Tip: Try a Nurturing Location
Have you a favorite spot that nourishes and cleanses your energy system? Sometimes when we try to use EFT (or even relax and unwind) in the same space that holds a lot of emotional "charge" for us, it can interfere with our focus. So, experiment with new places and see if you notice a difference. For example, find a park and lean against a tree. Feel its support while you tap. Find water, and watch the water while you tap. Get up early and find a place where you can see the sunrise, and tap.
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EFT Audio Tip: Pay Attention to Body Sensations
An emotion is a body sensation with a label attached to it. The problem is that most of the time we focus on the emotional label and the conversation going on in our heads. Very little attention is given to the body sensation (the actual feeling). Change your approach to emotional processing, and you may find that you are a lot less emotionally distressed than you think you are.
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EFT Audio Tip: Express Emotions Honestly
Emotions are energy... energy in motion. When we constrain and suppress our emotions through willpower and intense fear, our energy gets blocked. We know from physics that energy is neither created nor destroyed. So the energy we don't process in a healthy fashion is transformed... into unhealthy forms of energy. It may congeal as pounds of fatty dross that we must carry around. Or, it may create short circuits that cause chronic disease and pain. My intention when using EFT is to get these stuck energies moving. Once they are moving, the combination of physical tapping on the acupoints and the statements of truth and affirmation help to harmonize and balance the energy. We become "unstuck." We return to the flow of life, rather than living with a constipated energy system. We are literally transforming energy from an unhealthy state into an optimally healthy one.
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EFT Audio Tip: Take a Timeout to Tap
Have you ever been in the middle of a difficult situation and started feeling emotionally distressed? Perhaps you went from being "fine" to really angry and very defensive or hurt? This happens in close relationships, at family events, and even in the middle of business interactions where displaying such emotional turmoil can brand us as weak, unreliable, or vulnerable to manipulation. What can you do? Take a timeout!
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EFT Audio Tip: When Others Are in Pain
When others are in pain, we want to help. We want to listen. We want to care. We want to be present. Yet, other people's pain often triggers our own issues. And if we are empathetic and sensitive, we can even find ourselves feeling another person's pain very intensely. So how do we protect ourselves?
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EFT Audio Tip: Tap While You Gripe
Have you ever called a friend just to gripe about everything that’s gone wrong in your day? The truth is that when things go wrong, we need to feel that we're not alone. So we turn to trusted friends and family to let off steam and be comforted. It’s a natural part of being human; most of us have been expressing our pain this way since we were very young children. # Tap while you gripe on the phone!
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EFT Audio Tip: Notice the Little, Positive Things
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to focus on what's wrong? Our senses and our minds are geared toward noticing first those things which can cause us pain. Or death. If there is anything present that we fear, that fear blocks our awareness of the good things that are also present. This is one of the reasons why, when we live in a state of constant fear or stress, it is almost impossible to feel really good about anything. What is good is drowned out by the loud, incessant noise of fear. As we start using EFT on that which we fear most, we should find that our anxiety is reduced. But that doesn't mean that we're going to automatically start noticing the little positive signs of healing and health.
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EFT Audio Tip: Accuracy Counts
EFT is designed to be simple. Out of the hundreds of acupoints on the body, in the short form of EFT we tap only eight of them. Unlike acupuncture, where a needle is inserted in a precise place, in EFT we use two or more fingers to add energy at these same spots. Since our fingers are so big, does it matter how precise we are when we tap? The short answer is: Perfection isn’t required, but accuracy does help EFT be more effective.
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EFT Audio Tip: Persist Until It Is a Zero
EFT can often bring almost instantaneous relief when we’re feeling an intense emotion. But one of the things I've noticed is that many times people stop too soon! Let's say you're really angry. You start tapping and the intensity drops from a “10” to let's say a “5.” You're feeling good, half as intense as you were when you started. The anger is not so intense that it feels like something you can't cope with any more. You're feeling okay at five, and a five is certainly better than a ten. But let me tell you, a zero is infinitely better than a five!
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Report from Dallas EFT Seminar, Feb 2005
The Mastering EFT seminar in Dallas once again showed how even significant symptoms of chronic diseases such as Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, breast cancer, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue can be alleviated by addressing core emotional issues, as well as by using EFT on the symptoms themselves. EFT founder Gary Craig spent the entire three days working with individuals on stage (not the easiest venue for people to address deep emotional pain typically). What is striking is how relatively painless and tearless these transformational changes are, when approached with sensitivity and art.
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Basic Instructions - EFT - Emotional Freedom Techniques
Very basic instructions for the shortcut method of EFT
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EFT Tapping Points
I'd like to introduce you to EFT—Emotional Freedom Techniques. It is a simple and effective form of meridian energy therapy. Some call it “emotional acupuncture” but without the needles. You may not have heard of it, and it looks weird. The good news is... it works!
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What is the difference between acupuncture and EFT?
These are some of the many reasons why EFT is gaining acceptance. I have great respect for acupuncturists. They often achieve results when western medical approaches fail. The art of acupuncture is far too complex to convey in this short answer. Certainly, there is no reason EFT and acupuncture cannot be combined effectively. Some acupuncturists teach their clients EFT, in fact, for them to use at home.
