Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 190. A very common experience that most of us can relate to is having thoughts that make us feel like a bad person. These might be judgmental thoughts, selfish thoughts, or thoughts rooted in envy. For example, a fleeting idea like, “Wouldn’t it be convenient if my parents died …
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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 189. Another area where EFT tapping can be very useful is in exploring our relationship with money. By that, I mean the thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and behaviors we have around money. This does not mean that “money mindset” alone determines our financial reality. Money is not magic, and tapping …
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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 188. I was recently watching a TED Talk by Shauna Shapiro on mindfulness. In it, she described her early experience with mindfulness practice. At first, she believed it was about paying attention to her thoughts and feelings and staying present moment by moment. But instead of feeling calm, she …
Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 187. EFT is often used to work through emotions, memories, stress, and patterns from the past. But another area where tapping can be incredibly meaningful is our connection, or lack of connection, to something greater than ourselves. For some people this is God. For others it might be the …
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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 186. A very common question I hear from clients and other people interested in EFT is something like this: “Sometimes I do not really know what my intensity number is after tapping. The anxiety goes away for a short while, but then a few hours later it comes back. …
Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 185. If you ever find yourself reacting to a situation in a way that feels like it is coming from an old wound, your amygdala is probably involved. The amygdala is a small but powerful part of the brain responsible for detecting potential threats and triggering the body’s alarm …
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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 184. One of the biggest obstacles to EFT’s effectiveness is pressure—both the pressure we place on ourselves when tapping on our own and the pressure practitioners may unintentionally place on their clients. The more we pressure ourselves or others to “feel good soon,” the less effective the process tends …
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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 183. Some of the people I work with are currently going through the certification process to become EFT practitioners, or they are already certified practitioners who continue doing their own personal work. I really enjoy working with them on whatever issues they bring to the table, especially when those …
Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 182. When faced with situations we cannot control, it is common to think, “What’s the point of tapping on this if there’s nothing I can do to change it?” Whether it’s being stuck in a job that feels draining, a complicated family situation, or a relationship that feels challenging …
Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 181. One of the reasons I value EFT is that it makes it easier to meet ourselves exactly where we are. Rather than needing to argue with negative thoughts, try to “reframe” them, or push ourselves to act our way out of our feelings with sheer willpower, EFT helps …
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