EFT

Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 138.  When tapping on difficult emotions, it can sometimes feel overwhelming if we’re dealing with what seems like a whole period of time that was challenging or distressing. It’s common to have memories of long-term struggles, like a difficult school year or an uncomfortable work environment, and to feel as …

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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 137. When it comes to managing and processing emotions, two primary approaches can help us understand how we deal with our emotional experiences: top-down and bottom-up. These approaches represent different pathways in the brain for regulating emotions. Today, I’d like to explore these approaches and how EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) …

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Hi everyone, I’m Bruno, an Accredited Advanced EFT Practitioner and Psychologist. I’ve been using EFT for years to help people manage emotional reactions, release triggers, and feel calmer and more in control. I’m currently offering a few free EFT sessions for those who have never tapped with me before, in exchange for a short conversation where we’ll …

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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 136. Feedback is something we all encounter, whether in our romantic relationships, family dynamics, or at work. Sometimes feedback can be encouraging and positive, and other times it can be critical. While receiving feedback can help us improve our skills and grow, it can also be challenging if we take …

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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 135. When working with trauma, there’s an important principle I learned from Craig Weiner and Suzanne Fageol at Tapping out of Trauma: we can only go as fast as the slowest part of us feels safe going. This means that in EFT, we should never force ourselves to push through emotional …

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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 134. Today, I’d like to talk about how to apply EFT to imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is a psychological pattern where people doubt their accomplishments and abilities, fearing they’ll be exposed as a fraud despite evidence of their success. It often involves persistent feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt, even …

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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 133. Years ago, I heard a wonderful analogy by Gary Craig, the founder of EFT, about how negative thoughts and beliefs affect our performance and enjoyment. The analogy went like this: Imagine two people of equal intelligence are taking an exam. One of them has a bee buzzing around, …

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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 132. When practicing EFT, many of us have encountered moments where we feel stuck, discouraged, or unsure why it’s not working as well as we hoped. After years of practicing EFT, I’ve come across a few key insights that can help make the process more effective. Today, I’d like …

Tapping on the Present: How to Make EFT More Effective Read More »

Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 131. As I’ve discussed in a previous article, we could say that what we focus our attention on while doing EFT (the “Even though I feel… when thinking about…” part of the setup and reminder phrases) is like a cup of tea. We don’t want it to be too cold or too hot. Too …

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Increasing your effectiveness with EFT, part 130. As we’ve discussed many times, EFT tends to work best when we get specific. The most common way of doing this is by tapping on specific events, such as a memory or an imagined future scenario related to the issue you want to work on. However, if you ever …

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