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12 Tips for More Effective EFT
EFT is more of an art than a science and we’re still learning the enormous possibilities of this incredible tool. We do know, however, these things for sure:
- In the right hands EFT can produce miraculous results, up to 98% effectiveness.
- Even someone new to EFT can often get results 70% of the time. Even that is an extraordinary percentage that the medical profession would love to have.
- There are many progressive habits and concepts that can make EFT even more effective, which is the basis of this article.
- Lindsay Kenny, EFT Master
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Bubble-Parts Technique
We often have double bubbles! What, you ask, is a double bubble? One part of the bubble is the desire and in the other part is the resistance - to the SAME thought. There is a conflict in the person: both desire and resistance for the same thing
Chronic issues can often be created by double bubbles. The key component of the chronic state is the secret tug of war happening between desire and resistance on the same issue. That tug of war equals a Sabotaging belief.
- Rehana Webster, EFT Master
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Inner Dialogues with EFT
Have parts of yourself you wish you didn’t? Or pains you want to go away? All of us do! Inner Dialogues is an excellent technique to identify and address these parts. The concept is to create a new and better relationship – make friends – with whatever part of you is presenting an issue.
Generally when we have a painful issue, physical or emotional, we tend to isolate the issue and blame it rather than give it our whole hearted nurturing and care – and we certainly don’t accept it! Inner Dialogues (our ID) is about releasing the blame and judgment. ID strives to reassure the painful part that it is cared about and listened to, thereby allowing the body’s natural healing ability. This acceptance can be very powerful and healing.
- Maggie Adkins, EFT Master
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Dealing with Your "Why Bother?" Doubts
Do you or your clients suffer from a “Why Bother Syndrome”? Why bother doing EFT when years of traditional therapy haven’t made a dent in your issues? “Why Bother?” is a form of self sabotage that prevents us from successfully releasing old issues, cravings and negative beliefs and it shows up in relation to many issues.
You are in “Why Bother” mode when you hear yourself saying:
- Maggie Adkins, EFT Master
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Using EFT with Cancer Victims
There are many ways in which EFT can help cancer victims, from working with the immediate fears and anxieties to exploring the roots of the cancer itself, as well as pain and symptom management. It is also a wonderful tool for reaching acceptance of death, and inner peace and resolution.
EFT does NOT claim to offer a cure for cancer. It is a valuable support to the healing process, clearing the body’s blocks to healing at a physical, emotional and spiritual level. The body’s natural balance is one of health. When illness occurs it is because something is blocking that process.
- Emma Roberts, EFT Master
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Muscle Testing
Note: Nancy does a great job of briefly explaining the use of muscle testing and giving an example of how to use the fingers as a muscle test. Gary started out using muscle testing with EFT but soon dropped it as a practice. There are ways the responses can be influenced. If you would like to use muscle testing we recommend you receive special training in how to do it accurately.
Muscle testing, sometimes called “Applied Kinesiology” is a way of communicating with the body, in order to determine the person’s deepest truth. What we are seeking to do is to set up a system of communication with the body by asking it questions in a yes/no format.
- Nancy Gnecco, EFT Master
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Creating a Heart Connection
The heart connection can be established by placing one hand on your head and the other hand on your mid chest.
Working with the heart's energy is an important part of my work with EFT and is a feature of the workshops 'Opening to Love' (OTL) and 'Healing the Addicted Heart'. One of the principles of OTL is that the heart (literally) knows the truth and can teach us a new way to think. Our true nature has infinite patience and simply waits for the time when we begin to turn inwards and hear and trust our heart-truth. Heart-truth is the subtler, gentler polarity of mind that gets drowned out by the shrieking of ego-intellect or fear mind.
- Sue Beer, EFT Master
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Know When to Stop Tapping
Total Transformation: Taking a Client from Neutral to Feeling Fantastic
(Although I have written this article as if you are working with a client, it can easily be adapted for working on your own issues)
Often when you work with clients they will say they no longer have emotion around an issue, however their body language may well contradict their words. Rather than take the clients words solely for knowing when to stop I always also evaluate the client’s body language to gauge when the tapping is a done deal.
- Tania Prince, EFT Master
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How Does EFT Work?
Using Brain Waves to measure changes of EFT sessions
My first therapy teacher speaking about introducing people to NLP said: “don’t give ‘em an explanation, give ‘em an experience” and I have found this to be excellent advice to follow when introducing anybody to anything that is new to them. So often the words of explanations go right over our heads but what gets our attention is the evidence of our own senses and once we have an experience we can make better sense of an explanation.
When introducing EFT I seek to keep the words to a minimum and find the quickest means possible to start tapping. This does not mean launching in and tapping with no words of preparation: that is an easy way to lose rapport! No, we simply need enough words to gain permission to do something that looks strange and feels silly.
- Gwyneth Moss, EFT Master
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Raising your Metabolism with EFT
This concept of a unique use of EFT is originally from Silvia Hartmann of the U.K.
There are many ways you can use EFT to enhance your body’s health and well being. Silvia Hartmann’s metabolism protocol is great for working with metabolism and the system is flexible so you can change the wording in order to work with other body systems such as the immune system, digestive system, and so on.
This exercise is also an useful way to practice using your intuition as it asks you to guess the percentage your metabolism system is working for you.
- Maggie Adkins, EFT Master
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Asking, Acting and Allowing
I am always looking for ways to simplify Spiritual practices and Laws such as the Law of Attraction. There are so many complicated and arcane texts that make it seem difficult or just don’t cover all the bases, such as Ernest Holmes brilliant but intense text The Science of Mind, The Course in Miracles and Thomas Troward’s Edinburgh Lectures.
Three simple words came to me that really cover the Law of Attraction quite well, they are; Ask, Act and Allow. The following article is my attempt to express this insight and to use EFT to assist in the application of the Law of Attraction in a way that you can use immediately. I have been writing a series of newsletters which deal with the topics that I cover in my workshop “The Art of Receiving” which you can have by writing to me at andy@spiritcoach.ca In this article as in my newsletters I will provide some tapping suggestions to help you create your own more specific set up phrases.
- Andy Bryce, EFT Master
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Alphabetical Ways to Use EFT
A number of years ago Gary used the following affirmation and he reported that it worked very effectively:
My ideal weight is…………and that is what I weigh.
Over a period of time I have found his idea is really helpful to expand upon. It works well for physical, emotional, professional & spiritual areas of our lives. I have grouped some examples of these in alphabetical order of possible desired states. The second half of the statement beginning with and……. can be chosen from the following possible suggestions or other ones which you prefer can be to created by you. Have fun expanding upon this great idea of Gary’s.
Possible ending statement for your setup:
And that is what I do
And I do this easily
And I am great with this
And this is what I want
And that is what I have
- Mair Llewellyn, EFT Master
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Ten Tips for promoting Family Happiness and Peace
- Night terrors can often be completely resolved by tapping on your child at the time. “Even though this is a really scary dream, I know you are a good kid.”
- Children will absorb new information much more readily, when you, and they, are free of overwhelming feelings. When they seek help, tap to reduce emotional intensity first.
- If you feel angry and want your child to change, then YOU have the problem. Withdraw from the conflict and tap to reduce your anger or frustration. Then try again.
- Children often cannot manage all the tapping points. Watch carefully and choose the ones that your child responds to best. Some children quickly develop their own favourites. Trust them.
- Create a bed-time ritual where you talk and tap about what is happening tomorrow, adding “what if ...it is really easy ... I am smart enough already. Children love it.
- Barbara Smith, EFT Master
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My Favourite Tips for Practitioners
Self Care: To best help your client you need to be in a good space yourself. If you’re in the bog yourself, how can you see clearly to guide your client onto dry land? As the plane safety announcements say, “First put on your own oxygen mask, then help others.” Use the Personal Peace procedure every day!
Network: Create a network of supporters, therapists, fellow EFTers who you can exchange sessions with. It’s always easier to work with someone else on deep issues, they have a different perspective. Working with someone else is not a failure; it’s taking responsibility for your own healing.
Humour: Don’t be afraid to add humour to your sessions, but not until you know you’ve had significant shifts, so that you don’t break rapport. When a client laughs spontaneously you know that something has shifted.
- Jaqui Crooks, EFT Master
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Why I love telephone tapping
Yesterday I heard one of the most beautiful sounds I have heard in more than 15 years as a therapist. It was distant yet distinct. It was “wow.” A telephone client had put the phone down and was walking round the room to test how the sensations in her legs had changed after just a few rounds of telephone tapping . She was not telling me what she thought I wanted to hear. She probably did not realise I could hear. She was just reacting honestly, expressing her surprised delight at the change. We had not even mentioned her legs. They had responded to clearing an old emotional issue.
It was a brilliant session with a client whose legs would not easily have carried her to my office but who was so quick on the uptake and eager for resolution that it left me reflecting on how my feelings about doing telephone work have changed.
- Judy Byrne, EFT Master
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Self-empowerment
Self-empowerment, The Return of Hair and more…
A story about Mabel Elias
My gratitude to Mabel Elias, a remarkable lady, for allowing me to share her story.
I first had the great pleasure of working with Mabel at the Master’s Intensive held in Georgia, May of 2006. In spite of her skepticism, she was pleasantly surprised about her progress. Mabel had been told by the doctors that the cartilage was gone between her lower spinal discs, and that she would have to learn to tough it out and survive on prescription pain medication.
After one session, she was able to stand without the pain that, as she put it, had been her constant companion for many years. Weeks later in an email to me, one of her comments was: “Being the universal skeptic that I am, I expected that it was a transient effect and would not last.” It has now been more than a year and Mabel remains pleased with results and reports no need for pain meds.
- Sophia Cayer, EFT Master
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Many more articles by the EFT Masters can also be found on Gary Craig’s web site. Gary’s DVDs are an excellent way to learn more about EFT concepts. You can order them here
