Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 230. Longing for love and companionship can bring up a lot of different emotions. We may feel lonely when we come home to an empty house, sad when we see other people enjoying their relationships, or frustrated when another attempt at dating doesn’t work out. Sometimes there may also …
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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 229. Panic attacks can be frightening partly because of how quickly they can escalate. We notice our heart beating faster, feel dizzy or short of breath, or experience some other unfamiliar sensation, and our mind may immediately start wondering what’s happening. “What if I faint?”, “What if I lose …
Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 228. Burnout can build gradually. We may spend months dealing with difficult people, an unreasonable workload, organizational bureaucracy, problems we can’t seem to solve, or the feeling that no matter how much we get done, there is always something else waiting for us. Eventually, we may notice that we’re …
Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 227. One of the interesting things about EFT is that we often do something that seems a bit strange at first: we deliberately think about something that makes us anxious while simultaneously tapping. Imagine that you’re afraid of public speaking. You picture yourself standing in front of a room …
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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 226. A new theoretical paper by psychologists Robert Schwarz and Peta Stapleton takes on a question that I’ve heard many times over the years: why might EFT tapping actually help? I recently came across the paper while browsing the Research section of EFT International’s website. The paper itself, titled …
Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 225. Starting a new job can bring up a lot of anxiety. You might find yourself imagining your first day over and over, worrying that you’ll make a mistake, won’t know what to say, or will become so nervous that other people will notice. Perhaps you were already very …
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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 224. Sometimes, as we learn more about ourselves, we begin to recognize patterns that feel strangely familiar. Maybe we tend to expect the worst, struggle to enjoy good things when they happen, become anxious around money, avoid conflict at all costs, or react to stress in a particular way. …
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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 223. Fear of abandonment is an issue that I frequently come across in my work with clients. Sometimes the person already knows that this is what they are struggling with. Other times, they describe a pattern of becoming very anxious when their partner takes too long to reply to …
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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 222. Have you ever noticed yourself replaying someone’s comments over and over in your mind? Sometimes it is not even the words themselves that stay with us. It might be the person’s tone of voice, the expression on their face, or the way they looked at us. Hours later, …
Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 221. One question I hear from time to time is whether it’s normal for a physical sensation to remain, even after making a lot of progress with EFT. For example, someone may tell me that they have worked through several memories of abandonment or rejection and they feel much …
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