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Welcome to our EFT Master Newsletter:

This newsletter contains brief articles about the use and benefits of EFT andor summaries of key points useful to make EFT more effective and efficient.

This newsletter presupposes that you have at list minimal knowledge about EFT.

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Why see an EFT Practitioner?

Emma Roberts, EFT Master
www.theeftcentre.com

EFT has been proven to be a remarkable self-help tool and a process that is ultimately forgiving. In fact, one of the most distinguishing characteristics of EFT is that often remarkable results are achieved without a clear understanding of the entire workings of the process or the science behind it. This benefit, however, often causes some to wonder if there is a real need for EFT practitioners. Here are twelve reasons:

The EFT practitioner holds a safe space for clients to be able to explore their issues
He or she will:
help when EFT doesn't seem to work for you - or you are stuck
provide support to clear the big issues when on your own you "won't go there."
help the you create a strategy, and clarify and simplify the EFT work
help address memories that seem buried, and take the time needed to do so whereas you may give up on your own
be the detective, use language skills to creatively assist the client to unearth their core issues and beliefs
ask you questions that you wouldn't ask yourself
help keep you focused
help you acknowledge cognitive shifts and insights and changes
help you avoid self sabotage and getting in your own way
reframe your issue and offer you a different perspective on the issue to speed up healing and clearing
add another dimension to the healing by tapping on you when necessary

Emma suggests trying EFT on yourself first and asking for help from a practitioner if you are not making sufficient progress or you feel stuck.

Want to get REALLY good at EFT?

Gwyneth Moss, EFT Master
www.Emotional-Health.co.uk

To become really good at EFT is to become an EFT artist. Any budding artist, whether painter or EFT practitioner develops skills through practice, persistence and passion.

The development of EFT skills is the same process of learning any art form. When first introduced to EFT the newcomer practices the basic techniques repeatedly until they become second nature. The first characteristic of a true artist is the willingness to dedicate one's self to practice. As with any endeavor, practice is the most important aspect of improvement. Practice EFT teaches one to be more flexible, intuitive, and make the most basic principles of EFT second nature.

The second characteristic comes in the form of passion. In order to dedicate one's self to the learning process and much required practice that comes along with EFT, one must have a certain passion to fuel their drive. This passion creates a basis for more learning, innovation, and exploration of additional and more creative techniques that can add greatly to the basic structure of EFT.

Third, in order to significantly improve in the practice of EFT, one must envelop his or her self persistently in a rich learning environment. This includes taking advantage of the vast amount of resources available through Gary Craig, DVDs, articles, workshops, and research, as well as creating an effective 'support' network of others who have embarked on the learning process and can offer feedback, additional resources, and effective 'learning partnerships.' 'Getting good' at EFT is entirely possible, even in the wake of those we consider to be 'greats', through dedicated practice, passion, and the persistent willingness to continually and actively learn.

EFT and The Power of Reframing

Tania Prince, EFT Master
www.eft-courses.co.uk

With practice and careful rapport, reframing can become a natural flow of conversation between the intuitive practitioner and the client. Not only does the client resolve their presenting issue, but experiences a change in perception about the self and/or the issue.

Reframing is a tool borrowed from NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) to help a client shift the meaning they give their experience to one that better serves them. In order for reframing to be effective, it is imperative to have good rapport with your client and to calibrate to the client's body language and tone of voice.

When using reframing with EFT, it is important to have some details about the issue the client is hoping to resolve. While having that conversation, include tapping and a discussion of other possible ways to look at the issue. It is important that your efforts to reframe are not 'leading' clients to adjust their beliefs - but merely to suggest the possibility that there might be other ways to look at the issue. Reframing can be as simple as a single word or as elaborate as a metaphor or story. The key is the ability of the therapist to sense what is needed in each individual situation. Reframes help the person shift their limited belief about their past experience to a perspective about it that is of benefit in current time. Good reframes are always highly respectful of the client.

A New Way to Express Gratitude with EFT

Patricia Carrington, Ph.D., EFT Master
www.masteringeft.com

It is as simple as expressing gratitude to the Universe for our real selves to see our self in a new light. Simple? Yes, but not always easy! A profoundly simple and surprisingly effective way to do this lies in the following statement: "I thank the Universe for giving me, ME." Most of us do not view our own real self as the gift we really are. You may be able to name parts of you or things that you appreciate about YOU, but most people have some difficulty appreciating ALL of their self.

Try it. Tap while saying: "I thank the Universe for giving me, ME." Difficult? Confusing? Or can you see your self in a new and more positive light?

Saying this phrase aloud is a profound self-acceptance tool. Often, the use of this statement brings about a myriad of reasons that speak to why one cannot consider themselves a gift - rich ground for even more effective EFT! This is a great way to uncover material with which to create EFT statements and clear the tail-enders. For people who have difficulty expressing gratitude for the 'self' that they are on the surface, this is a way to acknowledge and appreciate "the real me underneath it all" by tapping: "I thank the Universe for giving me, ME."

You may find that when you have gratitude for you the opinions and behaviors of others have less meaning and impact.

TAP ALONG: CLEARING YOUR FEAR OF SUCCESS

Carol Look, EFT Master
www.attractingabundance.com

Many people schedule EFT sessions to address their abundance issues because they think they have the classic problem, "Fear of Failure." The truth is we all have varying degrees of the "Fear of Success." If you really want to attract abundance into your life, you don't need to DO anything more as far as taking actions with your website, your newsletter, your work life or your brochures-that will come later. What you need to do is CHANGE YOUR ENERGY by clearing your Fear of Success first.

How do we do this? The easy way--using EFT to collapse your fears and identify and clear the reasons you keep sabotaging yourself. First, I recommend all my clients to ask themselves a few key questions. (Write down your answers and use them for your targeted EFT statements later.)

� What is the DOWNSIDE of becoming successful?

� What feels unsafe to you about getting what you want?

� When you picture your success, what are you afraid of?

� When you picture being as successful as you say you want to be, WHO are you afraid of?

� Why would it be easier to stay where you are?

� What happened the last time you were successful?

A major reason people feel afraid to succeed is that they won't feel safe once they have "arrived" where they are planning on going. Perhaps they won't feel safe "standing out" in their profession. Maybe a sibling or colleague will be jealous of their success, maybe they were hurt or betrayed the last time they were successful.

Suppose you answered the first question with: "The downside of being successful is that I will stand out and feel exposed to their jealousy" or "It doesn't feel safe being successful in my family." These are both excellent targets for EFT and will clear major reasons you sabotage your success. There are 2 main approaches you could use as follows:

Use this general theme with your tapping "Even though I'm afraid of success because it doesn't feel safe--" or

Identify a specific event from the past when someone in your family WAS jealous (and maybe hurt you), and collapse that incident with EFT. "Even though the last time I was successful they criticized me and said I didn't deserve what I got--" For example:

Karate chop point: Even though I don't feel safe when I think of being successful, I deeply and profoundly love and accept myself anyway-Even though being successful has never felt good in my family, I choose to accept who I am and how I feel--Even though I'm afraid to be successful and it doesn't feel safe, I deeply and completely love and accept myself anyway.

Eyebrow: I feel afraid of being successful.

Side of Eye: I don't really want to be successful because of them.

Under Eye: I'm afraid of their reactions.

Under Nose: I remember what happened before.

Chin: It doesn't feel safe being successful.

Collarbone: It's dangerous to stand out.

Under Arm: I don't want to shine.

Top of Head: I'm afraid to stand out in my family.

Eyebrow: I feel afraid of their reactions.

Side of Eye: I don't want to be as successful as they are.

Under Eye: In my family you get criticized for being successful.

Under Nose: I'm afraid so I sabotage myself.

Chin: I need to stay small.

Collarbone: I don't want to stand out.

Under Arm: They will criticize me again, they always do.

Top of Head: I don't know how to be successful and be safe.

Now I recommend a few "positive" rounds of EFT to continue to bridge to the new you who wants to and expects to feel safe while being successful.

Karate chop point: Even though I still don't feel safe when I think of being successful, I choose to soothe myself about this issue--Even though I'm still afraid of their reactions, I have decided I don't care as much anymore--Even though they probably WILL criticize me again, I accept who I am and the fact that I have been sabotaging myself.

Eyebrow: I still feel afraid of their reactions.

Side of Eye: What if I stop worrying about their reactions?

Under Eye: What if I become successful and they don't like it?

Under Nose: So what.

Chin: I deserve to be as successful as I can be.

Collarbone: I can make myself safe now that I am an adult.

Under Arm: I'm tired of playing it small.

Top of Head: It's up to me to feel safe when I am successful.

Eyebrow: I choose to feel successful even if they react.

Side of Eye: I don't care anymore if they don't like it.

Under Eye: I choose to be successful in spite of their reactions.

Under Nose: I no longer need to sabotage myself.

Chin: I appreciate who I am.

Collarbone: I'm ready to stand out.

Under Arm: I'm ready to contribute in a big way.

Top of Head: I choose to be successful AND feel safe.

The above examples represent a good place to start if you find yourself sabotaging your success. Go back and review your answers to the list of questions and be as honest as possible with yourself. Then use each answer and each specific event ("What happened the last time you stood out or were successful") as targets for your EFT session on yourself.

Consider other possibilities about why you sabotage yourself:

� Are you afraid of losing your identity if you give up the role of the one who usually fails?

� Are you afraid of what might happen in your close relationships if you suddenly become really successful?

If you are having trouble figuring out what might scare you when you become successful in the future, try visualizing yourself successful and add all the other sensory channels to your "picture." How will it feel emotionally? How will it feel in your body? How will it taste? What might people say and what will you hear? What will you say to others?

Karate chop point: Even though I don't know who I'll be if I become successful in my field, I choose to honor who I am right now--Even though I'm afraid of losing my current identity as the mediocre one, I accept who I am and how I feel--Even though I'm afraid of changing, I accept who I am and how I feel.

Eyebrow: I'm so afraid of changing.

Side of Eye: Who will I be if I'm successful?

Under Eye: I'm not normally the "successful one."

Under Nose: I'm afraid to stop this habit of failing.

Chin: Who will I be without it?

Collarbone: I need to be the invisible one.

Under Arm: I don't want to give up this mediocre position.

Top of Head: I'm not ready to change.

Then for a few positive tapping rounds to move you forward:

Eyebrow: Maybe I am ready to change.

Side of Eye: I'm tired of staying the way I am.

Under Eye: I need to be ready to change.

Under Nose: I'm ready to be strong and to change.

Chin: I appreciate becoming a new me.

Collarbone: I appreciate being so talented.

Under Arm: I'm willing to change.

Top of Head: I'm ready to feel free being powerful.

Eyebrow: I choose to change at my own pace.

Side of Eye: I am ready to feel safe moving forward.

Under Eye: I love feeling ready to change for the good.

Under Nose: I have what it takes.

Chin: I'm ready to contribute.

Collarbone: I am who I am.

Under Arm: I know exactly who I am.

Top of Head: I am ready to change and move forward.

Clearing these simple yet often hidden causes of sabotage will get you well on your way to attracting abundance. Enjoy the process!

For the "Attracting Abundance" newsletter, more detailed exercises, abundance games and a step by step program to clear your blocks to abundance, visit http://www.attractingabundance.com/store.html. For the podcasts demonstrating how to use EFT and the Law of Attraction to raise your vibration, visit http://www.EFT-Talk.com.

Carol Look, EFT Master

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