Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 193. These days, there is no shortage of evidence that life can feel unfair, cruel, or unjust. News, social media, and personal conversations constantly remind us of suffering, harm, inequality, and loss. Many people I work with find themselves feeling upset, angry, or helpless about what’s going on in …
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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 192. Recently, a client shared a phrase she had heard from the poet and activist Andrea Gibson: “Just say yes to the experience you’re having right now.” She was referring to difficult life experiences, like illness or a challenging family situation. But we could easily extend this idea to …
Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 191. From time to time, some of my clients tell me something like: “I have so many memories I could tap on. I really do not want to dig up the past.” This is a very understandable concern. Not everyone wants to revisit specific memories, and in many cases, …
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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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