Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Articles

ABSOLUTELY! Not only do you deserve SUCCESS… you were born that way to start off with. Your SUCCESSES no matter how small or how few ARE STILL SUCCESSES. So we know you have the potential to succeed, we know you have succeeded in something in the past but yet, you haven’t succeeded in what you want the most. And more than likely you don’t know why or more commonly you don’t want to know why because then you will have to face up to it. All of which is a common response and ha

“I’m riding my bike to work this morning.” my husband tells me at 7:45 am. “I will need to leave by 8:15 am.” he continues. “OK.” I say, as I realize what this means. I will be the one dropping the kids off at school. Feeling time pressured now, I rush to finish the lunches, change clothes, and off we go, running a little behind schedule. We get to the front of the school, and I sigh with relief, thinking we made it on time. But the line of cars going into the school drop off, just sits, bumper to bumper. “What is the problem?” I wonder, a little panicked.

In Part one of Improve Your Self Esteem, we discussed the impervious self-doubt that so many of us are victim to and how to start becoming consciously competent in changing our neural net to support more positive thoughts and beliefs.

Here’s a great story worth sharing to show the unexpected and terrific results that often happen with EFT. “Mary” worked as a waitress that was known for their delicious hot rolls. Patrons coming to the restaurant often indulged in eating several rolls a piece. Unfortunately, Mary, liked these rolls, too, as they were easy to eat on the run while she was working and hungry. She wanted to try EFT to see if that would help her eliminate her craving for these rolls.

Recently I had one of those experiences that we probably all have from time to time, but wish we had skipped it. I pulled a muscle, and anyone who has done that knows how painful it can be. I’ve done it before, so I knew immediately what was wrong, but the thought of dealing with a lot of pain for days didn’t appeal much to me. The last time I pulled a muscle, it was in my chest, and every breath that I took hurt. The pain was so bad that it scared me, and I saw my doctor.

In previous blogs, we’ve briefly mentioned how unrelieved stress hurts your body and your emotions. My purpose in writing these is not to go into great detail but just to make you aware of the many ways that stress does negatively affect us. Some topics we will revisit in much greater detail. For the next couple of blogs, I want to show how unrelieved stress can hurt your productivity. Productivity basically means how much you are able to get done in a day.

I would like to share an incredible experience that I had in my early twenties. Even though it is not something I talk about except on inspired occasions, there may be a few of those who have had the near death experience (NDE’s) who could relate to this. I also felt the need to jou al this experience while I could still remember it. Please be aware that this is an attempt to describe that which is indescribable.

EFT is the most effective tool hands down to break ancient patterns of behavior and thinking both in my opinion and in my experience . Nothing works as elegantly in making links to the past so that all a skilled practitioner has to do is be completely present to what the client is feeling to ...

Tip # 1: Give something away every day that costs you nothing but can be priceless. Find this and the upcoming tips at www.Powerof10s.com Tip # 2: Change Your Mind to Change Your Life – Thoughts are arguably among the most powerful tools rnwe possess to affect change in our lives.

As I was walking along a forest path a couple of days ago, I saw an amazing thing. It was snowing – in July! White puffy flakes were falling from the sky, while the sun was shining! On the ground, was a layer of white. Of course, it was cottonwood seed time and instead of snow flakes, the sky and the ground was full of cotton wood seeds. I noticed something interesting about the way the seeds were falling to the earth. In the sheltered areas, the seeds gently floated to the ground. But in the open areas, the seeds were blown in every direction by the wind.

In order for affirmations to be effective it is important to understand these 3 keys. Once you grasp these concepts you will be on your way to creating your life by design. Key #1: Affirmations are much more than a written positive statement of what we want.

This past month, I’ve been to so many events where I saw entrepreneurs repeatedly make the same mistakes. Ultimately, that is taking them off the fast path to success. Over and over again! These entrepreneurs complain, get frustrated, disappointed and even angry that they’re not having the results that they want. Lack of focus is their big mistake. And not just “lack of focus” but lack of focus on what’s most important. Here’s what they’re doing which is sidetracking their success:

Understanding the EFT Training Levels nnEmotional Freedom Techniques is for everybody. For therapists and trainers, for health workers and teachers, for mums and dads, and for each and every one of us as individuals. Since 2004 Gary Craig the originator of EFT has set guidelines for the content and delivery of three levels of EFT training workshops. nnGary also makes available at low cost EFT workshops on DVD. To supplement workshop participation these DVDs are excellent lear

Tick tock, tick tock! Are you a time bomb ready to explode? Stress and overwhelm are one of the biggest complaints I hear from my clients. There just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. Between taking care of their family, personal life and business there just seems to be too much going on and not enough time. It just seems impossible to keep up with everything! Does that sound familiar?

Simple Tip # 1: Give something away that costs you nothing, every day for 10 days It could be priceless to the recipient.

Tick tock, tick tock! Are you a time bomb ready to explode? Stress and overwhelm are one of the biggest complaints I hear from my clients. There just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. Between taking care of their family, personal life and business there just seems to be too much going on and not enough time. It just seems impossible to keep up with everything! Does that sound familiar?

Orgone energy is a term coined by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich for the "universal life energy" which he claimed to have discovered in published experiments in the late 1930s. Reich claimed that orgone energy was a "life energy" which filled all space, was blue in color, and that certain forms of illness were the consequence of depletion or blockages of the energy within the body. These theories are considered pseudoscience.[1][2][3]nn Modern usage nnPsychotherapists and Medica

There’s an expressio I first heard when I became an entrepreneur. “You don’t know, what you don’t know”. Have you heard that before? The other day, I was at the salon getting my hair cut. One woman was complaining to another that she wished she had done her wedding photographs differently. She would have liked to have more photos of a certain group of people. It’s obviously too late- there is no “do-over” unless she gets remarried. She’s stuck with her choices and she’s stuck with the results. Their conversation triggered a very important subject for me to write about.r

In 2005, after several years of chronic pain and all the misery that goes along with that, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. My rheumatologist’s solution was to immediately medicate me. I was prescribed an antidepressant, 2 pain killers, and something to help me sleep at night. Admittedly, I did get some relief from the medication. Unfortunately, with fibromyalgia you still have bad days.

When I work with clients who are seriously ill, one of the strongest negative emotions they often feel around being ill is guilt. They feel guilty because they can't work or do the things they once did; guilty for needing care and support; guilty for resting and guilty for not doing enough in general. The challenge with this limiting belief is that it influences our rest time. It can lead to us dismissing our bodies' needs because there is just so much to do and we "should be doing more". We decide to soldier on instead.

Self Empowerment by Controlling Anger Let's start off with a story that interpret the danger of anger. Once there live a rich woman that is well known in high society for her benevolence who had a maid that was faithful and diligent. One day, out of curiosity, the maid decided to test her mistress to find out if she was honestly good by nature or if she was just putting a mask for the sake of appearance in her high society surroundings. The following morning, the maid got o

I’ve been working with adoptees for nearly 20 years now, and I thought I had heard pretty much every regret there was to hear from an adoptee, but yesterday I heard one I hadn’t heard before, and it caused me to feel a profound sadness. An adoptee contacted me about scheduling an EFT session, and on my intake form she said that one of her biggest regrets was having been born.

Headaches…we all get them, and they’re not much fun. Often our headaches are a result of stress, anxiety, anger, frustration and other negative emotions.

“Karen” found out that her husband had been cheating on her with a mutual "friend" for a couple of years. I had worked with her on her sadness during a mini-workshop a couple of months before, and she had gotten her sadness down to a 5/10 before we ran out of time. We were finally able to connect and to have a private EFT session, even though it had been almost six months since she initially found out that “Harry” had been having an affair. Since then she realized tha

I am the mom to 3 wonderful and loving cats, each of whom I adore. Each of them is very different from the others, and very special in his or her own unique way, and my daughter and I have taken great pleasure from having these three as a part of our lives. Of the three cats, the most timid is Blue. She is a beautiful cat, brown and white, with the most beautiful blue eyes I’ve ever seen in a cat, hence her name. My daughter rescued Blue when she was a kitten and her mother was run over by a car.

Rejection. It’s a word that nobody involved in an adoption search wants to think about. Unfortunately, rejection is something that every searcher needs to consider. It happens. It’s terribly sad for all conce ed, and can emotionally deeply wound the person being rejected, but it is one of the possible outcomes of any search. Having personally been through a 7 year search myself, and having held the hands of hundreds of searching adoptees and birthmothers, I know how common it is for searchers to say that they’re prepared for any outcome in their search.

Have you ever been in a situation you could do Absolutely Nothing about? I have – multiple times. Any one with adult children experiences that total feeling of helplessness and frustration when you see your adult children making harmful choices and there is not a thing you can do about it. The worst ‘can do nothing about experience’ for me was when I found out my six month old son, David, had a rare but very serious form of Muscular Dystrophy. We were told that David would never walk, be able to live a normal life and would probably not live very long.

My Experience While Filming the Veterans PTSD Documentary “Operation Emotional Freedom: The Answer”

Everyone has those times in their lives. The kids are driving you crazy and can’t go out because it’s raining. You partner just came home from work grumbling and swearing under their breath. You feel like you’re coming down with a cold, and, oh yes, you just found out that you had a check bounce! For most of us, one or two stressful issues can be handled, but once we reach a certain point, we are overwhelmed with our lives and the level of our stress.

Lots of us live with work related stress. I did for a very long time. I didn’t handle it well. I seemed to be in a constant state of upset, as my high stress job impacted on my life and on my emotions. My boss was a jerk, my deadlines were unrealistic, and I was only noticed if I screwed up. Not a pleasant way to exist. When I could no longer stand the unending stress and accompanying headaches (and lets not forget the crying binges) I started looking around for a magic bullet. No more talking therapy. I’d been there and done that and found it totally ineffective.

If you’re like me, you’re probably impatient – wanting things to have happened yesterday. I planted flowers in May…actually some were potted and some were seeds. The potted flowers (lipstick red geraniums, golde French marigolds and others) are gorgeous to look at each day.r

This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Emotional Freedom Techniques. EFT is the psychotherapeutic theory that suggests that negative emotions are caused by disturbances in the body's energy field and that balance can be restored through a sequence of tapping points. Judith A. Wentzel is the Official Guide to Emotional Freedom Techniques .nn Attracting Abundance with Eft: Emotional Freedom Techniques , by Carol Look, is a valuable resource for people int

We all experience severe heart break at some time in our lives. For many it happens in childhood or adolescence, the time when we are most vulnerable. A cold mother, an absent father, being different in any way from our peers and ostracized for it - these are some of the reasons for the early feeling that something is wrong, inadequate and utterly disappointing about us. For others, it happens later, when a spouse betrays our love and trust, a child is hurt, or our dream of making it big in the world is shattered.

Developing the Inner Witness When someone starts doing therapy or any sort of self-reflective inner work, their first task is to develop the Inner Witness, the one who reflects your experience back to you. This has also been called the Observing Self, and its job is simply to record what you think, feel, say and do, moment to moment. The Inner Witness is only a witness. It does not judge; it does not comment; it does not correct. Those things are done by the Inner Critic, which we'll get to in a moment.

As a practitioner, EFT mentor, and trainer (over 2000 clients and students around the world) I can say that I consistantly see the same mistakes among tappers. The one thing I hear most often from a new client (even practitioners who are my clients) is that they just aren't making progress and ...

"I [client anonymity requested] was a victim of a knife attack and was left for dead. I survived with physical problems and emotional problems. I had a couple sessions of EFT and have had significant relief in the pain. Everything has not gone away completely, but when I have pain, I can tap and feel better again." I can get rid of headaches easily with tapping. My dreams are not nightmares anymore. I have woken up to anxiety attacks in the night and have tapped to calm myself down and go back to sleep. Before I would be awake for at least an hour if not hours.

During my “Inner Abundance” courses, I get numerous questions from participants who want to know how they can use Affirmations and EFT to improve their financial situation. This theme seems to be a source of problems for many people, and I hope this article (and those following it) clarifies the EFT approach a little. The primary concept is as follows: We live in an intention-drive Universe Life unfolds according to our inner intentions. I addressed this concept in a previous blog about inner thoughts. Whatever you think about yourself is true.

PTSD is taking a HUGE toll on our society, particularly in our returning veterans, journalists, fire and police personnel, EMTs and first responders to any emergency or disaster.nnPTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is the name given to memories of horrid happenings that continue to haunt the individual. Common symptoms are nightmares and inability to sleep, uncontrollable rage and unreasonable aggression, severe depression, suicidal and sometimes homicidal tendencies and g

This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Emotional Freedom Techniques. EFT is the psychotherapeutic theory that suggests that negative emotions are caused by disturbances in the body's energy field and that balance can be restored through a sequence of tapping points. Judith A. Wentzel is the Official Guide to Emotional Freedom Techniques .nn The Tapping Cure: A Revolutionary System for Rapid Relief from Phobias, Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder an

Just forty minutes of EFT dissolved a lifetime of pain and grief for a birth mother that I worked with, and gave her back her life. I specialize in working with adoptees and birth mothers, and would like to share a story about a birth-mom client that I recently worked with. Nancy (not her real name) was birth mother to a 16 year old daughter relinquished in what was supposed to have been an open adoption. An agreement was reached betwee Nancy and the adoptive parents which was supposed to have provided for regular visits with the daughter that Nancy relinquished.

I have just started a new six-week teleclass series on chronic illness, Tap Into Your Healthy Self, and in the first teleclass we discussed, and used EFT on, the downside of being well and healthy. This is a concept which continues to fascinate me. The first reaction to there being a downside to being well and healthy is most likely to be one of surprise and sometimes, anger. Everyone wants to be well, don’t they? No one chooses to be ill. Or do they? Is remaining chronically ill a way to remain safe and unpressurised?

Picture this: you are focused on being, not doing. You are fully present in the now of this moment. And then this moment. And now this moment. You are at peace. You flow with every circumstance and gift life has to offer, and life continues to offer you more and more amazing gifts. How can a life without goals work? Enjoy every moment. Appreciate every experience. Every day life presents new things to you. Each one is a gift. Whether you see it as a gift at the time or not, it is a gift. Sometimes the most difficult experiences can be the greatest gifts.

Is it useful to describe EFT as energy medicine? To many people the phrase energy medicine suggests a religious or alte ative lifestyle. Lots of websites associate energy medicine with spiritual healing. Since many mainstream searchers of alte ative healing are not comfortable with the energy soul-spirit idea, the energy medicine label places unnecessary limits on the appeal of EFT to the broadest population at a time when we want to encourage the world to ‘try it on everything’.

Been wondering if you made a smart decision to start your own business? Have you bought every recommended business book, e-book, video and audio set or invested in a business coach's mentoring program that cost thousands a month or a year? You know what you should be doing to succeed, but can't bring yourself to make cold calls or public appearances and speeches. You can't even write a business plan, daily schedule, marketing newsletter or articles. You're frozen in fear, stuck in procrastination, struggling to pay your bills. r

As an EFT practioner, I was curious how this technique would work on clients who were pessimistic about trying it.

Being a birthmom myself, this is an issue that is near and dear to my heart. I spent many years feeling that I did not have the right to search for my son. When the social worker at the adoption agency told me that by signing the relinquishment papers I was giving up my right to ever have my son in my life again, I believed her. Emotionally, I tucked my son away in a corner of my mind, and only acknowledged him when he snuck out for birthdays, holidays or other special occasions.

I used to think it was all about the money. Reaching the end goal. Partly, because I’m really results-oriented and partly because of my background in corporate. It was always about winning and being successful. Boom! That’s where the rewards always were. In corporate, my boss called to congratulate me for the first big multi-million dollar project I won. And, in the same breath, he said, “what are you doing for us next?” Setting goals and achieving them. That was my pattern and I was very successful at it.r

EFT, or Emotional Freedom Techniques, can make a huge difference in the quality of your life. There are so many ways in which EFT can help you to live your best life that it’s difficult to narrow it down to 7. EFT can help with both emotional issues and physical issues and if you are diligent about tapping, the results will come. Following are 7 of the most compelling reasons to learn how to use EFT, and to utilize it on a daily basis. 1. EFT can lower your stress level. Stress can impact on your life and your health in many negative ways.

Many of us enjoy charitable giving, as it not only helps us to give to those that are in need but it can also benefit us at the end of the tax year. That doesn't mean, however, that you should simply give to the first charitable organization that you see. Some careful consideration needs to be given to the charity because you want to make sure that the majority of the gifts that you give are going to be distributed to those in need. That is true, regardless of whether you are

In a coaching session the other day, one of my multi- 6-figure clients was talking about all of the ways he has been procrastinating. He hasn’t been writing his weekly ezine. He admitted he felt stressed out and that there weren’t enough hours in each day. Although, he did confess he was spending lots of time on Facebook and watching television. I shared with him a lot of strategic “time management “ and operational ideas that I’m known for. He was on the other side of the phone eagerly writing down this information.r