Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 59. You might have heard the phrase that “dreams are the royal road to the unconscious mind”. Sigmund Freud was one of the pioneers when it comes to this idea. He claimed that by analyzing the different associations that come up for us when thinking about our dreams, we …
Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 58. It’s normal to sometimes feel that it’s taking too long to just tap on only one memory, especially when you know there are so many other memories you could be working on. Sometimes as you are working on this one memory, and reassessing after each tapping round, you …
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It is true that one of the ways to change how you feel is by noticing and changing your thoughts. For example, if every time something doesn’t go the way you wanted, you start thinking: “I’m such a loser” or “I’m a failure”, those thoughts are going to bring up and/or increase painful emotions. If …
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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 57. It is true that one of the ways to change how you feel is by noticing and changing your thoughts. For example, if every time something doesn’t go the way you wanted, you start thinking: “I’m such a loser” or “I’m a failure”, those thoughts are going to …
If you notice you are feeling stressed out, anxious or overwhelmed, I invite you to try the following grounding exercise, using tapping, while focusing on what you notice with your senses.
When it comes to dealing with our “triggers”, our insecurities, and our unpleasant “excessive” emotional reactions, some people feel ashamed about having them in the first place. Let me say first of all that there are some circumstances and situations where perhaps strong emotional reactions are warranted. For example, getting angry when someone disrespects ourselves …
Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 56. When it comes to dealing with our “triggers”, our insecurities, and our unpleasant “excessive” emotional reactions, some people feel ashamed about having them in the first place. Let me say first of all that there are some circumstances and situations where perhaps strong emotional reactions are warranted. For …
A few weeks ago I created a video titled “A few thoughts on how to use EFT on grief”, where I said that grief tends to come in waves. Meaning, we might feel relatively ok for a couple of days, weeks or months, and then maybe a certain date comes up, such as an anniversary, or we stumble …
Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 55. A few weeks ago I wrote an article titled “A few thoughts on how to use EFT on grief”, where I said that grief tends to come in waves. Meaning, we might feel relatively ok for a couple of days, weeks or months, and then maybe a certain date comes up, …
Today I want to talk about two ways of dealing with your triggers: the “external” way and the “internal” way. But, before I do that, what is a trigger? A trigger is a stimulus, such as something someone else says or does, that subconsciously activates an unpleasant or traumatic memory in your brain, and therefore …