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- Food repulsion: Green furry things and yucky tomatoes!
- An EFT "Pre-Beginner" reports success
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- ...And he cried on my shoulder
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- Sales performance
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- What would love do here?
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- A problem with Happy Birthday
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- Men only want one thing
- Tinkie said, "I don't fit in"
- Cholesterol and EFT
- Free to pee
- Programming dreams with EFT
- When you gotta go...
- Crohn's disease, gas, dental pain and a message from Albert Einstein
- Intentional EFT, enhancing romance and chewing cold things
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- A blind man's erection problem
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- Using EFT on Paranoid Schizophrenia
- EFT helps trumpeter blow his own horn
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- Using "Setup Emphasis" for gout and other stubborn issues.
- Pulse rate improvement: From 130 to 90 in 1 minute
- Greg Nicosia on tapping with intention
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- Inside a successful schizophrenia case
- Anaphylactic shock--"Before her eyes, the swelling began to go down."
- EFT, phone work and a business idea
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- Tapping with intention
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- Feeling Responsible For Someone Else's Death
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- Two EFT success stories: pain & the opinions of others
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- No more "conversations in my head"
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- Rapport in the prison system--Part I of III
- Dental gagging and accepting oneself
- Jason's motion sickness
- EFT and self image
- Apex problem--a response twist
- Emotional nose, burning house & golf questions
- A miscarriage and the recall of core issues.
- Tapping the finger points and the value of a hug
- EFT for growing larger breasts
- Using EFT for Fertility.
- Phantom limb pain
- Using EFT with frail people
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- Are there any problems using EFT for pregnancy?
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- How do I introduce EFT to skeptics?
- Can we do EFT surrogately or through intention? If so do we need permission?
- Can I be effective with "just the basics?"
- How do I handle Hand-Me-Down EFT?
- How do I choose the language to use while doing EFT?
- When it doesn't work....???
- How do I handle the "Big One?"
- How do I find a client's "hidden issues?"
- What procedures might be taken if a client is undergoing a medical emergency?
- Why do you sell it so inexpensively?
- What do I do when the clients stop tapping even though they have had substantial success with EFT?
- How does EFT differ from Thought Field Therapy (TFT)?
- What's a good way for newcomers to apply EFT to themselves?
- What do I say while performing EFT?
- Can EFT be combined with other techniques?
- How do I find answers to my EFT questions?
- How do you help a "non-feeling" client?
- EFT is obvious! So why wasn't it discovered many decades ago?
- Does EFT work on______?
- How long do the results last?
- When EFT relieves pain, does it mask the pain and thus thwart the ability for pain to signal danger?
- I'm used to affirmations being stated in the positive. Why does the EFT Setup language focus on the negative? What if I used positive statements instead?
- Does it matter whether or not the EFT practitioner is skeptical?
- How do I use EFT for___________?
- How do I apply EFT for performance issues?
- Are EFT's results due to either placebo effects or distraction?
- Using EFT for Epilepsy and seizures
- Are there suggested guidelines for professionals regarding an Informed Consent Statement?
- Fear
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- Understanding Engineers
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- At the Inn...
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- Have You Heard?
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- Do you REALLY need email??
- Funny Sayings - Part 3
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- Microsoft vs. GM
- Strange Laws - Part 2
- THE GOOD HUSBAND
- THOSE WERE THE DAYS - Part 1
- Baseball Quote
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- Airline Travel: The Next Generation
- George Carlin's Views on Aging
- BIRTHDAY SURPRISE
- Funny Sayings
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- Only in Merry Old England
- Punctuation Is Everything
- TRIBUTE TO BOB HOPE - Part III
- Computer Haikus
- Camping Trip
- Consultant
- Kids and Proverbs - Part 2
- Why Indeed ...?
- In Memoriam
- Accident report
- The Fire Truck
- Signs That Technology Has Taken Over Your Life
- Signs & Notices
- Goofy Conversions
- Addicted to Coffee
- Professional Advice
- The Bottle of Wine
- AN ODE TO ENGLISH PLURALS
- Getting Older
- Marriage Names
- A FROG STORY
- Cheap Therapy
- Husband 101
- Having Fun in Wal Mart
- Hasty Headlines
- Time Out
- A Change of Vows
- Farmer
- How Banks Work
- Stern Sibling
- TALKIN
- Funny Sayings - Part 4
- Creation Retold
- Having Trouble with Microsoft Word
- Strange Laws - Part 3
- ITALIAN PASTA DIET
- THOSE WERE THE DAYS - Part 2
- Bathroom Sign
- Class Reunion
- THE LAWS OF INCONVENIENCE
- Calling God
- THE BLARNEY STONE
- Funny Sayings - Part 7
- If A Dog Were Your Teacher
- Politically Correct Holiday Greeting
- A Rope Went into a Bar...
- How Smart Is Your Right Foot?
- WORDS TO LIVE BY
- Canine Complex
- Cuff Links
- Kids and Proverbs - Part 3
- THE ARROGANT INSPECTOR
- The 'Middle Wife'
- Aging Perspective
- Flight Announcements
- The Sex of a Fly
- Honest Advertising
- Intermission Hijinks
- After-Thanksgiving Poem
- Band Insect
- Afternoon Rounds
- AN ODE TO ENGLISH PLURALS - PART 2
- Write it Down?
- Marriage Names
- WHY GOD MADE MOMS
- Chuckles
- Are You An Internet Addict?
- Washing Your Cat
- Speeding Ticket
- The Concept of Marriage
- The 84-year-old Newlywed
- The Company Picnic
- Eternal Devotion
- 25 Signs You've Grown Up
- SAFARI SURVIVAL
- Funny Sayings - Part 5
- Dear Dad
- Miracle
- Swapping Professional Secrets
- THE FINAL WORD ON NUTRITION AND HEALTH
- YEP
- Cakes and Ale
- Classified Ads
- THE LAWS OF INCONVENIENCE
- A Bed Near The Window
- NAME THAT BOAT
- Funny Sayings - Part 8
- Dog Thoughts
- The Perfect Husband
- Product Labels
- Toys for Today
- What I've Learned by Having Boys
- The C.E.O.
- Cured
- Kids and Proverbs - Part 4
- DADDY, HOW WAS I BORN???
- My First Mammogram
- Are You Ready For Children?
- For Those Who Need a Chuckle
- The Helicopter
- Give a Man a Fish...
- The Human Race is Doomed
- Photogenic?
- RESTAURANT MATH
- RESERVATIONS OF AN AIRLINE AGENT
- Quick Jokes
- Detective Mom
- A Novel Approach to Saving Money
- WHY GOD MADE MOMS
- How to Clean the Toilet
- Internet Police
- Why Learn English Part 1
- Where Is God ?
- Phrases from the 50's - Part 1
- New Year's Resolutions -- Over Time
- Car Warning
- I Think I Need a Computer
- DINNER INVITATION
- QUALITY ASSURANCE
- HOLLYWOOD SQUARES - THE GOOD OLD DAYS (PART 1)
- Dear Bubba
- Missing
- Good Communication
- MAN
- YEP
- Call Center
- Classified Ads
- THE LAWS OF INCONVENIENCE
- Monastery Life
- BY THE BOOK
- Funny Sayings - Part 9
- Why Dogs Can't Use Computers
- Politically Correct About Men
- Product Labels
- Job Competition
- What I've Learned by Having Boys
- EYEGLASSES
- Cyclic Number
- Kids and Proverbs - Part 5
- COURTROOM BLOOPERS
- Monkey Business
- Bad Puns
- For Those Who Take Life Too Seriously
- A Barbie we can relate to
- Fresh New Perspectives
- The Male Perspective
- Pull Over!
- Dalmation Duties
- Airline Food
- Painting the Porch
- Aging Gracefully
- Animal Super Bowl
- WHY GOD MADE MOMS
- The Clergyman
- A Kitten's Prayer
- Why Learn English Part 2
- DAILY THOUGHTS FROM DOGS AND CATS
- Phrases from the 50's - Part 2
- The Minister and the Funeral
- Case Closed
- Having a Bad Day
- Airline Maintenance
- A DRY TOWN
- HOLLYWOOD SQUARES - THE GOOD OLD DAYS - PART 2
- Deep Observations on Life
- Out of the Mouths of Babes
- Wash. Biol. Surv.
- WOMEN OVER 40
- CHASING RABBITS
- Call Policy
- Classified Ads
- Fried Eggs
- Why Indeed ...?
- The Talking Dog
- The best road rage!
- Eating Oreos
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- Skydiver
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- WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS
- Creative Definitions - Part 1
- Mourning the Mayonnaise
- COURTROOM BLOOPERS
- Comments made in the year 1955!
- Bargaining with God
- A Good Explanation
- The Man I Marry
- Hasty Headlines
- New Business Model
- Amish and Elevator
- A Pain in the Leg
- And that
- Three Dogs...and a Collie
- BIZARRE DRIVING LAWS - Part 1
- Coming Mergers
- Life Before the Computer
- The Wisdom of a Witch
- GOLF GAME
- Phrases from the 50's - Part 3
- Bad Day
- CEO Blunder
- Great Truths That Little Children Have Learned
- Airline Maintenance
- BEING COOL
- HOLLYWOOD SQUARES - THE GOOD OLD DAYS - PART 3
- Deep Thoughts
- Near Death Experience
- Walk A Mile
- AN INTERESTING PHILOSOPHY
- THE HISTORY OF WIRELESS
- Calories That Don't Count
- Cold Cream
- The Mountain Man and the Army
- Why Indeed ...?
- University Safety Committee
- 80% Agreement
- The English Schoolteacher
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
- Two-Cow Philosophy
- Untold Riches
- Abbott and Costello meet Windows 95
- WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS
- Creative Definitions - Part 2
- The Price of Good Health
- COURTROOM BLOOPERS
- Baseball in Heaven
- HMO
- Thirty Lines to Make You Smile
- Hasty Headlines
- MEMO
- Ancient Artifact?
- A Moral Lesson
- And that
- Is It Better To Be A Jock Or A Nerd?
- BIZARRE DRIVING LAWS - Part 2
- Funny Sayings - Part 1
- Computer Help Desk
- Life Support
- Women in Leather
- GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES FROM A LAW FIRM
- PRAYING FOR PEACE
- Bad Weather
- Chemistry Final Exam
- The Four Stages of Life
- Airline Maintenance
- BIKERS
- HOLLYWOOD SQUARES - THE GOOD OLD DAYS
- Deep Voice
- Annual Neologism Contest
- Army Insurance
- TRIBUTE TO BOB HOPE- Part I
- Computer Haikus
- Calories That Don't Count
- Commuting Hazards
- Winning the Lottery
- Why Indeed ...?
- A Well-Planned Retirement
- A Little Mixed Up
- Fifty Fun Things to do in an Elevator
- The Spanish Computer
- The Bank Robber
- Colorful Shipwreck
- Accuracy!
- WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS
- Creative Definitions - Part 3
- Now That
- COURTROOM BLOOPERS
- Beer, Fishing, Golf and Sex
- How To Lie To The Bathroom Scale
- Twelve Step Recovery Plan
- Hasty Headlines
- Estate Planning Basics
- Astrological Light Bulbs
- Kindergarten Wisdom
- And that
- The Old Golfer
- BIZARRE DRIVING LAWS - Part 3
- Funny Sayings - Part 2
- Computer Swallowed Grandma
- Martha Stewart Holiday Schedule
- Strange Laws - Part 1
- 24 SIGNS YOU MIGHT BE CANADIAN
- OLDER and WISER
- The Bartender
- Circulatory Exam
- Success
- Survivors
- BILL GATES BUYS A HOUSE
- HOLLYWOOD SQUARES - THE GOOD OLD DAYS - PART 5
- The Definition of Barbecuing
- Not My Job
- On the Phone with with Technical Support
- TRIBUTE TO BOB HOPE - Part II
- Computer Haikus
- Calories That Don't Count
- Congressional Mugging
- Kids and Proverbs - Part 1
- Why Indeed ...?
- Dear God
- A New Teacher
- Finally! Answers About Marriage
- Talking Dog
- Signs & Notices
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- Adoption
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- The Perfect Man
- Marriage Names
- A TEST FOR PROFESSIONALS
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- You Sure Are Lucky...
- Determination
- The Magic of Hope
- 57 CENTS
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- Others at their best
- Are you God
- AN ENLIGHTENED PERSPECTIVE - Part 2
- Roses of Life
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- The Balloon Man
- The Boy and the Worm
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- A Determined Spirit
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- Which one are you?
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- May You Have...
- The Angel on Hwy 109
- Be Thankful
- Five Short Chapters on Change
- Follow the Leader
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- If You Were
- Mom - Job Description
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- EXPLANATION OF GOD
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- Boy Wanted
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- Explanation of God by an 8 year old boy
- AN EXERCISE IN GRATITUDE - Part 1
- Defining Success
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- The Best Medicine
- GOSSIP
- Miss Isabel
- That's all I remember!
- THE MEANING OF LIFE
- Time to Learn
- A Builder or a Wrecker?
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- Heaven and Hell
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- True Story of Courage and Love
- The Lonely Road
- Wisdom
- This is What Love is All About
- The Value of Time
- Embassy of Hope
- No Matter What Happens
- WHAT IS LOVE? (Part 1)
- AN EXERCISE IN GRATITUDE - Part 2
- Forsaken?
- There is beauty in everything
- A Group of Frogs
- The Race
- Does it Still Serve a Purpose?
- The Archer and the Arrow
- Raised as a Chicken
- Distance Never Separates
- THREE DAYS TO SEE
- When You Thought I Wasn't Looking
- A Butterfly Hovers
- The Jag
- The Ones Who Care
- To Have Succeeded
- Letter To My Grandchildren
- What do Angels Look Like?
- Covering All the Bases
- Love software
- World's Greatest Psychotherapist
- The Obstacle in Our Path
- The Weight of a Burden
- He Failed His Way To The Top
- Not The Critic
- WHAT IS LOVE? (Part 2)
- AN EXERCISE IN GRATITUDE - Part 3
- The Emperor's Seed
- Beauty tips
- Handwriting On The Wall
- Are Your Potatoes Heavy
- Mean old Moms
- The best day of my life
- Happiness
- The Reflection
- Don't Go To Bed
- Good People
- And This Too Shall Pass
- By Changing...
- Jars of Clay
- To Build A Bridge
- The Dates that Matter
- The Precious Gift
- State Of The World Message
- Cross My Heart
- Love and the papers everyone kept
- The World's Most Communicative Disease
- Strongest Dad in the World
- Children Learn What They Live
- The Final Exam
- Now and Beyond
- WHAT IS LOVE? (Part 3)
- ANGELS IN THE POST OFFICE
- Sioux Indian Story
- Attitude determines everything
- Real Heroes
- The best time of my life
- Healing Garden
- Rich or Poor?
- The Elderly Caretaker
- The Wise Sage
- Miguel's Poem
- Capt. Laurent Gourley...8-6-69
- Just Be
- To Risk
- Misfits
- My Resignation
- My Comfort Zone
- The Daffodil Principle
- Lucky's Greatest Treasure
- You are so beautiful to me
- The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget
- A Sweet Lesson in Humanity
- The Firth of Forth Bridge
- On Failure
- No Matter What Happens
- AN ENLIGHTENED PERSPECTIVE - Part 1
- Keep Your Dream
- A Sioux Indian Story
- A lesson in attitude
- Research
- Assessment of the Emotional Freedom Technique: An Alternative Treatment for Fear - The Waite & Holder Study
- Evaluation of a Meridian-Based Intervention, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), for Reducing Specific Phobias of Small Animals
- Self-administered EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) in individuals with fibromyalgia: a randomized trial
- The Treatment of Combat Trauma in Veterans Using EFT
- Energy Psychology: a review of the preliminary evidence
- Energy psychology in disaster relief
- The effects of EFT on long-term psychological symptoms
- Neurophysiological Indicators of EFT Treatment Of Post-Traumatic Stress
- Studies Accepted in Peer Reviewed Journals
- Rapid Treatment of PTSD: Why Psychological Exposure with Acupoint Tapping May Be Effective
- Theoretical and Methodological Problems in Research on Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Other Meridian Based Therapies
- Six Trauma Imprints Treated with Combination Intervention: Critical Incident Stress Debriefing and Thought Field Therapy (TFT) or Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
- Pilot Study of EFT, WHEE and CBT for Treatment of Test Anxiety in University Students
- Psychological Symptom Change in Veterans After Six Sessions of Emotional freedom Techniques (EFT); An Observational Study
- The Effect of Progressive Muscular Relaxation and Emotional Freedom Techniques on Test Anxiety in High School Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Veterans: Finding their way home with EFT--an observational study
- The Neurochemistry of Counterconditioning: Acupressure Desensitization in Psychotherapy
- Clinical Story of a 6-Year-Old Boy's Eating Phobia; An Integrated Approach
- Change Is Possible: EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) with Life-Sentence and Veteran Prisoners at San Quentin State Prison
- The Effect of a Brief EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Self-Intervention on Anxiety, Depression, Pain and Cravings in Healthcare Workers
- Energy Psychology in Rehabilitation: Origins, Clinical Applications, and Theory
- Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) For Traumatic Brain Injury
- The Effect of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) on Athletic Performance: A Randomized Controlled Blind Trial
- Thought Field Therapy and its derivatives: rapid relief of mental health problems through tapping on the body
- Studies Presented at Professional Conferences
- Measuring Physiological Markers of Emotional Trauma: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mind-Body Therapies
- The Effect of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) on Psychological Symptoms: A Limited Replication
- The Effect of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) on Psychological Symptoms in Addiction Treatment
- The effect of an energy psychology intervention (EFT) versus diaphragmatic breathing on specific
- World Trade Center Tower 2 Survivor: EP Treatment of Long-term PTSD:
- Psychological Trauma in Veterans using EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques): A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Does Prolonged Exposure Need to Hurt in Order to Help? Exploring Two Alternatives
- Other Studies and Experiments
- An EFT study: Reducing anxiety in dental patients with EFT
- EFT for Libido: Study Results Summarized -- 80% report an improvement of 50% or more
- Preliminary Report of the First Large-Scale Study of Energy Psychology
- Clear evidence that our emotions affect our body--in this case, dramatic changes in the blood
- The results of Carol Look's eyesight experiment
- Articles evidencing the existence of energy meridians
- EFT improves Minerals, Amino Acids & Vitamins
- Before and after photos of Rouleaux--"blood cell clumping"
- An Objective Experiment on the Use of EFT for Depression
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Using EFT to enhance education skills
Important Note: This article was written prior to 2010 and is now outdated. Please use my newest advancement, Optimal EFT. It is more efficient, more powerful and clearly explained in my free e-book, The Unseen Therapist™. Best wishes, Gary
Hi Everyone,
Anyone interested in education and "learning blocks" would do well to pay particular attention to this detailed article by Dr. Patricia Carrington. Although her client, "Martin", is an adult, his challenges with learning a computer programming language (JAVA) parallel those of students of all ages. Thus it should be easy to draw ideas from this message that would be helpful to almost anyone. In Pat's words....
"I hope that you who are teachers, parents, counselors or anyone else imparting educational skills to others (or learning them yourself), will TRY USING EFT to facilitate this process. I suggest you try it with all kinds of different educational experiences -- in this sense you will be "trying it on everything" that is educational in nature."
Please pay particular attention to the aspects involved in this case and the creative way Pat handles them.
Hugs, Gary
One of my many interests when exploring the frontiers of EFT, is to discover new ways it can be applied to EDUCATION. I am convinced that EFT is capable of playing an important role in helping people of all ages to acquire new information, and I suspect it can do so easily, painlessly and with many side benefits such as an increase in confidence and self respect.
Recently I had a post on this list which dealt with the manner in which EFT can be used during the learning of a motor skill. Today I want to tell you about a different educational experience to which I have recently applied EFT -- -- how to use EFT to master an advanced computer programming skill.
To master some of the computer languages, particularly for someone over the age of 40, can very daunting because such a person did not grow up in the computer generation. It can be quite a blow to their egos to see the children in the house handling unfamiliar computer tasks with no problem at all (even though they may never have seen these programs before!) while the adult approaches such a task with trepidation.
At age 52, "Martin" is now facing a problem with respect to mastering certain advanced computer programs. While he originally consulted me because of "career problems" it soon became evident that career per se was not his true difficulty. Martin actually loves the work he does as a website designer and he handles it extremely well. He is a highly visual person and to him this occupation is a very creative and meaningful one.
It turns out that his real problem is that he is woefully deficient in the major graphics programs necessary in order to obtain the best paying jobs as a web designer, and that he has in fact balked at learning that major graphics program (known as JAVA), although this is essential for the future of his work. Because he does not have sufficient skills in this area to appeal to prospective employers, Martin has recently had to take an interim sales job, considerably below his skills, to supplement his income. His future as a web designer has become uncertain.
When we first discussed his difficulty with JAVA, Martin was hesitant to talk about it or to remember any past difficulties with math (an important ingredient in learning JAVA. He finally did recall, however, that as a teenager he had moved to a new neighborhood and new high school where there was suddenly none of the individual attention under which he had flourished in his former school. This had, he said, resulted in his developing severe problems in algebra, although he always been very good in math before that.
To work on his math anxiety, which I supposed might lie behind his difficulties with computer programming skills, I asked him to print out some algebra problems from the Internet and bring them to our next session so we could use EFT for any difficulties he might experience when looking at them.
This seemed a good idea, but it didn't prove to be as fruitful as I had hoped. Tapping just on his math anxiety did not appear to be helping much with his difficulties with JAVA. So I then asked Martin to bring his JAVA manual to the next therapy session. We were going to face the lion in its den!
He brought the manual next time. It was a weighty volume, thick and impressive and chock full of information. When I thumbed through it, I noticed that it was written in a reasonably user-friendly fashion and I knew that Martin should be able to understand it in light of his considerable intelligence. What then was the block all about?
Martin answered this question a bit sheepishly, "The fact is that I'm BORED by it." he said, "Studying Java is not my favorite thing to do." Then he added that the end-product -- -- what you can DO with it -- -- was exciting to him, but not the process. "I keep thinking -- why am I learning it?".
For the first time we had a concrete issue to work on with respect to the JAVA problem. Martin's intensity level on a 10 point "boredom" scale (where zero was "not bored at all" and "10" was "unbearably bored") was a "7 to 8" . I sometimes vary the standard distress ratings to indicate intensity of emotions other than distress, and this was one of those times -- boredom, not anxiety or distress, was the issue he was to rate.
To start off I suggested that Martin try using the EFT Choices phrase:
"Even though I find JAVA boring, I choose to find unexpected areas of excitement and creativity in it."
I intentionally introduced the idea of creativity into the phrase about JAVA because this is one of Martin's very positive experiences.
He expressed interest in this phrase and considerable surprise about it, and proceeded to do one round of the EFT Choices Trio using it in his set-up and reminder phrases (for details on the Choices Method and Choices Trio see chapter 3 of my Choices Manual, or a summary description at...
http://www.emofree.com/articles/choices.htm )
After a single round of the Trio, Martin's boredom level had not moved, he was still a "7", but in response to my question about what had been going through his mind while he was tapping he said, "I actually started thinking about JAVA, how I really do have in interest in making it work. I'd like to make it work. I'd have a feeling of accomplishment if I did."
So far, so good, but there was still much to do. After he did another round of the Choices Trio I asked him to pick up the manual again, look at its cover, and rate how boring the book looked to him now. His rating was now down to a "5 - 6", and he said, "I don't feel the cringe anymore."
For the next round he made a slight change in the wording, one which brought it into a more active tense. The new phrase he used was:
"Even though I find JAVA boring, I choose to find the excitement and creativity in it."
Notice how this phrase now becomes a more definite statement -- he now believes that there actually are areas of "excitement and creativity" there to FIND!
Another round of the Choices Trio, and his boredom score had come down to a "4 - 5", but he told me that he had just realized "something else" -- -- JAVA was INTIMIDATING to him.
We had hit upon a new aspect! Just how intimidating did he find it to be on the intensity scale? "About a 6", he answered.
We could have just continued tapping on the general category of "Intimidation", and slowly but surely the intimidation would probably have lessened. But something prompted me to suggest to Martin that he interact directly with the book and the real challenge it presented, at this point. I had a feeling that the intimidation he was experiencing might be linked to some deficiencies in his ability to process the information in the book.
My instructions to him were to open the book and read any sentence that caught his attention. He was to read it to himself and then tell me how he felt as he read it.
His answer came easily. There were, he said, two unfamiliar terms in there -- "int", and the word "float" used in a way specific to JAVA. made him very uncomfortable. His distress rating when looking at those terms, was a "9".
Perhaps Martin had not been able to read technical material easily because he may never have learned how to properly handle unfamiliar terms? The next set-up phrase we constructed directly targeted this problem. It was:
"Even though I find unfamiliar terms intimidating, I choose to know that I can find their meaning, and things will become clear."
I had suggested the latter Choice to him because I didn't think that Martin himself would have thought of it -- it was simply not in his experience to be able to FIND the meaning of terms, and therefore this Choice was aimed at supplying some educational guidance.
Martin confirmed that he would never have thought of such a phrase but that he found the idea "interesting".
With one round of the Choices Trio using this reminder phrase, his "intimidation" score was down to a "5". After another round it was down to "3". Now, reading the same sentence again as a test, he spontaneously commented:
"Now when I look at it, in my head I'm thinking, ' I don't know this but I can look it up'." Martin was now beginning to make a mental connection between "not knowing" and being able to "look it up", an essential step if one is to successfully navigate technical courses.
After still one more round of the Trio, when Martin looked at the same sentence it actually looked to him "pretty good" -- no longer intimidating. His "intimidation" score was now down to a "1 to 2".
Then, as so often happens when people have come way down in their intensity ratings, creative solutions to his own dilemma began to pop into Martin's mind.
"I've got an idea!" he said. "I can write down the terms as I come to them, and then look up the definitions and write these out, and have a list of them in front of me as I read. I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE. I really think my worry is way down."
The therapy session was now over, but Martin lingered to talk about how he could use a knowledge of JAVA to make more exciting websites. I could tell from the way he looked, acted, and spoke that he was on his way to adopting a new approach to doing this.
Will Martin's resistance simply melt away and he turn to embracing graphics programs eagerly after this tapping session? I greatly doubt it. A lasting change is usually not easy to achieve with a long-standing habit where extensive self re-education is required. My guess is that there will be still other aspects to address with regard to this problem. and that each one of them can be a major step for Martin in enhancing his approach to life and his confidence in himself, as well as his approach to JAVA. I may, in fact, report on some of the future episodes in its treatment if I think they might be of particular interest to this readership.
My main reason for telling you about Martin's experience has been to share with you my conviction that EFT can be used excitingly to further the educational process. It can, I suspect, be used to fashion a new approach to any familiar bogged-down task, serving to remove the emotional blocks to that task, while simultaneously installing a "positive cognition" (a new positive way of thinking) about the issue. This is an unbeatable combination.
If EFT can do this as well as I suspect it can, then it could be used in many forms of education by simultaneously removing the block to learning on the one hand, and installing a desired educational skill on the other.
I hope that you who are teachers, parents, counselors or anyone else imparting educational skills to others (or learning them yourself), will TRY USING EFT to facilitate this process. I suggest you try it with all kinds of different educational experiences -- in this sense you will be "trying it on everything" that is educational in nature.
If you do so, I would greatly appreciate you letting me know how you fare with this, so that I can perhaps share your experience with others. We have a great deal to learn about the untapped potentials of EFT and we can help each other greatly in this process.
Patricia Carrington Ph.D
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