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Sometimes, but not usually, pain or discomfort is the result of one single traumatic event. When that happens we can use EFT techniques to resolve the emotions surrounding the trauma, and get physical relief really quickly.
I would suggest that when a person experiences a medical trauma ... Views: 4295
Energy Psychology is a wonderful bridge between traditional psychotherapy and the broader fields of Energy Therapy and Energy Medicine.
If you are looking for a mental health related modality that includes some left-brain discussion of your issues, easy-to-use tools that you can apply ... Views: 4272
If you are familiar with the use of meridian-tapping techniques such as EFT / Emotional Freedom Technique, you will probably have already encountered at least one case of when you tapped on an issue and it seemingly was cleared, but “came back” with more charge on the next day.
There are ... Views: 4247
What role do your beliefs play in your ability to completely recover? Do your beliefs disempower you? A belief is a perception, conviction, or opinion that you hold about yourself, a situation, event, or others. Beliefs are not necessarily true or fact-based, however, they are something we ... Views: 4230
(The following article was published in Gary Craig's newsletter, with a brief introductory note by him. Gary Craig is the founder of EFT (see www.emofree.com).
Hi Everyone,
Jennifer Davidson from Switzerland writes this MUST READ, engaging article on how she overcame many hurdles with her ... Views: 4194
Tips to Enhance Your Self Love – a very important topic for everybody!
As a seasoned coach and energy psychologist I go much deeper in my suggestions to support self love than most people would. The work I do supports people to clear out their inner demons and subconscious self-sabotage that ... Views: 4179
Sometimes clients focus on a goal... and if it is too early, their subconscious may not be ready for it. Although they set a conscious goal the subconscious won't allow it into their life. As much as they desire it consciously, there is part of them still resisting and pushing the results away ... Views: 4175
What causes the HSP trait? In the 1980's the findings of an important medical study were released. The study laid a biological and scientific basis for understanding the highly sensitive trait.
Dr. Norman Geschwind, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School, conducted a study of 3000 people ... Views: 4161
An area of Traditional Chinese Medicine that is not often discussed is the effect that acupuncture has on the emotions. It can literally change how you feel in a matter of minutes and have a lasting effect when the needles are left in for 30 minutes.
It can take away emotional pain, lighten ... Views: 4066
Whenever a client presents to me with a physical ailment I usually follow a certain basic protocol as I support the person to feel better. Of course this is customized for each case, however, I am happy to share this as a guide.
Using my own version of meridian based tapping, N- EFT/ Neuro- ... Views: 4050
There are often cases when using Energy Therapies, where a person is focusing on one issue and then other added benefits show up later. You don’t consciously know how the issues and emotional aspects are layered in your bioenergetic field. So even though you may not consciously think you have ... Views: 3983
Using EFT Can Be Very Easy!
Each of us has the power to successfully use EFT meridian tapping. Even newcomers to tapping actually have all that it takes to be successful, however often they are told that they need to learn fancy protocols, and I believe otherwise!
For years before knowing ... Views: 3951
Your Heart is an amazing organ, unique for both its physical functions and energetic properties, and therefore needs some extra special attention, and definitely some tender loving care.
Aside from the well-known fact that the heart is the first major organ to develop in the fetus after ... Views: 3933
Since the beginning of my EFT career I’ve been fascinated by the many layers of emotion behind serious diseases. Many of my patients who came to me for spinal related problems were also under their medical doctor’s care for a variety of different illnesses. Intuitively I always suspected ... Views: 3932
The popular “The Mozart Effect” is an inclusive term signifying the transformational power of music in health, education and well being. It represents the general use of music to reduce stress, depression, anxiety, activate the body and improve memory and awareness. The original studies were ... Views: 3871
Whenever I feel fearful I remind myself of the wonderful rewards I’ve received in my life for crossing my fear threshold. I am speaking of times when my ego, past social conditioning, old psychological recordings, fear of the unknown buttons are triggered and I hesitate just before running away. ... Views: 3860
Scientists have found the existence of such a power in this world which induces objects to move and mankind to think. This verily is that fount of inspiring force through which the inactive is made active and inert made mobile. The various movements of objects and living beings is possible due ... Views: 3777
When I started my first full semester at college I gained 60 pounds. I was miserable in my body and felt like a victim. During the next two years I tried every diet to lose weight and only succeeded in gaining more. Even though I rode my bicycle all over the large campus of Indiana University ... Views: 3757
Discerning the Difference Between Intuition and Impulse
So,how do we know if the inner voice we’re listening to is actually our intuition and not something else, like a sudden impulse? It is a fascinating and important question to address on our journey through life. I personally feel that ... Views: 3755
What if there was a way to protect your heart from ever being broken, would you be interested? I bet most of us would answer yes to this question even though in a literal sense there's really no such thing as a broken heart. The heart doesn't just break in half, right? Yet most of us know very ... Views: 3733
Chronic pain is the body's way of informing us that it is not at peace; it is diseased. It is also a guaranteed way of getting our attention. An enormously effective, safe and non-intrusive way we can respond to pain is by applying Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). In fact, one of the ... Views: 3693
The term energy has been widely adopted by writers and practitioners of various forms of spirituality and alternative medicine to refer to a variety of ideas, often (though not always) conceived as "fields" surrounding the earth or any living thing, supposed to be directly perceptible and ... Views: 3656
Sometimes coaches have personal fears and doubts about various aspects of coaching. For example, if you have never experienced presenting a group coaching program or tele-class before, that can be very stressful. This is especially true when the recording mechanism doesn’t work or the call ... Views: 3642
A woman called me for a phone session about her horse. We’ll call her Nancy. We had a lovely session, funny, enlightening, hopefully helpful.
A few weeks later, Nancy e-mailed me and said “Joan, I was driving down an old highway and I noticed that a coyote had been hit by a car and was on the ... Views: 3638
When most people think of energy in the Chinese context, they think in terms of "ch'i" (qi) and its use in acupuncture. To understand ch'i, we need to examine the topic of body energy within traditional Chinese context. The historical origins of Chinese medicine, including acupuncture, are in ... Views: 3617
Newcomers to EFT soon realise, as more experienced practitioners have before them, the wonderful results available when using The Movie Technique. As you watch Gary Craig work with clients throughout the DVD sets, we rarely witness a session that does not contain a wonderful example of its ... Views: 3584
Published in the Dec/Jan 2010 issue of Sibyl On-Line Spiritual Journal for Women
Circuit: A partial or continuous path over which a current flows.
Winter holiday excitement is literally floating in the air and into our hearts. Radio stations are offering continuous play of holiday tunes ... Views: 3541
Introduction
In order to build a strong framework for your blueprint for living, you’ll need to learn a thing or two about writing goals. Think of goals as the framework for your dream house or your dream life.
You’ve decided to make changes in your life. You’ve spent some time reading, ... Views: 3495
If your client cries for a long time, shakes, or quivers during an EFT session release, this is how I deal with it. I hope this helps give you a guide that you can work with.
I am using "her" instead of "they" for a change. However, this in my experience happens just as often with men as it ... Views: 3487
This study compared the effect on women of using a mind/body approach in teaching aerobics classes versus a conventional approach on the following variables: general self-esteem, physical self-esteem, and state-trait anxiety. Sixty-eight female college students participated in the study. The ... Views: 3480
The nice thing about it is that it doesn’t have to go into some landfill and pollute the planet. This is actually a guilt-free process, although it doesn’t always feel like it.
Why not? Because so much of our mental trash has these labels on it like “Mom gave this to me, do not throw away.” ... Views: 3455
We used to believe that we are controlled by our genes and that DNA programs us like software does a computer. We thought that DNA communicated with us—as if we were downloading our fates—and that we had nothing to say about it. This was an incredibly disempowering view of how human life works. ... Views: 3435
The 6 Chakras are also called the 6-fold wealth. In spiritual science it is called Sham (mental control), Dama (sense organ control), Uparati (dispassion), Titiksha (forbearance), Shradha (faith), Samadhan (concentration). Sham means serenity. Meaning destruction of agitation, tension, ... Views: 3390
Love gives a meaning to life and can be the best feeling, however problems in your love life can be daunting and sometimes difficult for you to make sense of and make right. Find out how a psychic reading can help you make the right decisions.
A psychic love reading can help provide a new ... Views: 3374
Imagine for a moment that you come in three layers. (Actually, the human has five main layers, but three will do for clarity’s sake.) Picture a pyramid, point up, divided into three horizontal bands. In order of frequency/vibration (highest to lowest) we find Spirit at the top, Soul in the ... Views: 3337
We are living during a time of some of the greatest developments of the human psyche in the history of the world. It is a time that many are awakening to their inner gifts thus awareness, intuition and abilities to manifest things that we wish for take on new possibilities. It is a great time ... Views: 3331
How do you maintain a healthy life for sustainable recovery?
What addicted person doesn’t want to be well? We all want that whether we are addicted or not. If we suffer from depression, codependency, anxiety, trauma or any of the other countless maladies we can mention, we all want to be done ... Views: 3329
Long before I was seriously ill, I often had a sense that I felt emotions more deeply and painfully than many of my friends and colleagues. Things seemed to roll off their backs, while I became greatly affected in some way by what I'd seen or heard.
I easily picked up on how others were ... Views: 3326
Witnessing a murder is a specific traumatic event. It produces post-traumatic stress, yet oftentimes it's much faster to achieve resolution with EFT because it is one specific event. In contrast, soldiers in combat generally experience more than one traumatic event, which takes more time to ... Views: 3318
Often clients request support for a certain issue and come to a session wanting to jump right into an energy therapy EFT tapping sequence for that issue. A good practitioner knows that the client’s conscious issue of choice may very well NOT be the emotional issue that requires attention!
Dr. ... Views: 3313
Energy flows in and out of everything. It’s not just something that comes through the electric power lines. It’s in the air, the water, the earth and in US. Everything IS energy AND energy flows through everything. We do create some of our own...but more flows through us than we could ever ... Views: 3294
Generally a downfall connotes a bad meaning and to rise up means good. This principle is also applicable to the body especially as far as the vital force of the genital organs is concerned. By terming the Mooladhar Chakra as the female genital organ and the Sahasrar as the male genital organ ... Views: 3270
There are many methods to achieving wellness and contentment in life. One of the oldest is based on the chakra system. Chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning vortex or wheel of light. Egyptian, Chinese, Hindu, Greek and indigenous people of the Americas have spoken of and written of these for ... Views: 3249
The idea of quickly releasing negative emotions by tapping is a new paradigm, only discovered decades ago. However it is based on 5000 years of Chinese acupuncture. And it works time after time as acupuncture does. With similarly surprisingly quick results. And unlike acupuncture, we can do ... Views: 3203
These sessions took place in 1993.
Joe's problems were Anorexia - having gone from 13 stone (182 pounds) to 8 stone (112 pounds) over a 9-month period, extreme anxiety, panic attacks and self-harming behaviour.
Other issues that became apparent were an addiction to Aspartame, ADD and ... Views: 3107
“Tapping” has taken the world by surprise and is now performed globally. However, what exactly is “meridian tapping”?
The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology accepts “tapping” as a word that can describe the process of manually tapping rhythmically upon, massaging, or holding a ... Views: 3096
Fathers can be physically or emotionally absent in their children’s lives for many reasons, and all of them hurt. Some of them are death, divorce, abandonment, prolonged work-related absences, or abuse. While the impact of a missing father on his grown-up daughter’s relationships with men has ... Views: 3096
No matter the Question, the Answer’s the same--its all about Energy; its life’s only Game!
The ways of the Spirit, as opposed to the ways of the dragon, are all important matters …for which clarity gives you the ability to fulfill your life through decisions/actions that create a healthy body, ... Views: 3080
We hear it said constantly: “He’s hot!” or “She’s sexy!” What exactly does ‘sexy’ mean?
Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary defines ‘sexy’ as sexually suggestive or stimulating. In other words, sexy can be ‘erotic’. Another synonym is ‘appealing’; as in generally attractive or ... Views: 3073
The results of several research articles show that shame plays an important role in depression. I was prompted to examine the research when I noticed that many of my clients seeking help for depression also had feelings of shame. So I did a little informal survey of my own.
I randomly ... Views: 3053