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From the archived Rick and Carol EFT podcast series. The series is complete.
Episode #25 – Try It On Everything – Movie Review
How can we explain to others what EFT is all about? It is hard to describe EFT and its life-changing potential in words alone. The documentary Try It On Everything! explains and demonstrates this “tapping thing” with real people.
The film shows a variety of ways people used EFT. Viewers could tap along with the participants and learn from experts and teachers as they explored the possibilities of using our own energy to better our lives.
Back in October 2007, we—Carol Look and Rick Wilkes—were two of the EFT experts leading a four-day retreat. A small group of participants came together and brought issues including grief, physical pain, phobias, disease, trauma, and addictions. That experience was filmed and became Try It On Everything!
Listen to this episode for our perspectives on the movie and how it can be used to experience and teach the power of EFT.
Companion Guide
Tapping can be difficult to explain. A technical description may make someone’s eyes glaze over, while enthusiastic promises can produce resistance. The 2007 documentary Try It On Everything! addressed that problem by letting viewers watch real people use EFT with grief, fear, pain, trauma, compulsive behaviors, and other emotionally charged experiences.
The film and this archived conversation are historical now, but the central lesson still matters: demonstration and freely chosen experience often communicate more than persuasion.
This Guide Helps With
- explaining tapping to a skeptical or unfamiliar person
- sharing a practice without pressuring someone to use it
- learning through observation and borrowed benefits
- making room for skepticism and consent
- noticing common feelings beneath a story unlike your own
Offer an Experience, Not a Verdict
If you want someone you love to try tapping, it can be tempting to explain why it should help them. That may land as diagnosis, pressure, or an attempt to fix them. A cleaner invitation is brief:
“This is one way people use tapping. If it feels like a yes, you can watch or try it. If not, that is completely okay.”
You do not need to overcome their skepticism. Skeptical people can still experiment, but willingness matters. The choice to watch, tap, talk, or decline belongs to them.
Look for the Feeling You Share
You may not have the same history or symptoms as the person demonstrating EFT. You may still recognize fear, grief, anger, shame, guilt, or the urge to cover a feeling with food, alcohol, work, scrolling, or another behavior.
That emotional recognition is the basis of “borrowing benefits”: tapping while witnessing someone else’s work and noticing what their story activates in you. Keep your attention on your own response. Their experience is not permission to assume you understand or can treat them.
Clarity Supports a Real Decision
People often remain undecided because “this tapping thing” is abstract. A clear demonstration gives both the analytical and experiential parts of the mind something to evaluate. The result may be interest, skepticism, discomfort, relief, or no resonance at all.
Any of those is more useful than coerced agreement. Your role is to make the invitation understandable and safe enough for an honest response.
Tapping: When Someone Else’s Story Touches Yours
Use only the phrases that refer to your own feelings. You do not need to take on or interpret another person’s experience.
Side of the Hand: Even though their story is different from mine, something in it touches a feeling I recognize.
Even though I am not sure what I think about tapping, I can stay curious without forcing myself to believe.
Even though part of me wants proof before I participate, I can notice my own response and keep my choice.
Top of the Head: Something in that story touched me.
Eyebrow: I recognize some of that fear.
Side of the Eye: Or grief, anger, shame, or pressure.
Under the Eye: I do not have to share the same circumstances.
Under the Nose: I can attend to what is happening in me.
Chin: I am allowed to be skeptical.
Collarbone: I am also allowed to be curious.
Under the Arm: I can stop whenever I want.
Top of the Head: This is my experience to notice.
Eyebrow: I do not have to fix anyone else.
Side of the Eye: I can let their courage remind me of mine.
Under the Eye: I am open to one small shift.
Under the Nose: I can keep what is useful.
Chin: I can leave what is not for me.
Collarbone: My honest response is welcome.
Under the Arm: I choose the pace and depth of my own exploration.
Take a breath. Notice whether your interest increased, decreased, or became more specific. All three are useful information.
A Consent-Based Way to Share
Ask permission once. Offer one accessible resource or a short demonstration. Make “no thanks” easy. If the person is interested, let their questions guide what comes next.
The best introduction does not require you to sell EFT’s whole potential. It gives someone enough clarity and felt safety to discover whether there is a genuine yes for them.
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