- Articles & Ideas
- Being Specific
- The importance of being specific in the EFT Setup Phrase
- Find Early Specific Events
- How to apply EFT when there are no clear, specific memories to tap on
- Tapping on specific events without knowing what they are
- What to do when you can't find your own specific events or issues
- Two cases: (1) Being Specific and (2) Being General
- EFT for the Soul - global versus specific approaches
- How to collapse multiple SPECIFIC EVENTS in one Borrowing Benefits session
- EFT for a bashful bladder - a beautiful example of going for SPECIFIC EVENTS
- Ann Adams on BEING SPECIFIC
- Using NLP to Chunk Down for specifics in an EFT session
- Instruction
- Surrogate
- Breathing problems, surrogate tapping, depression and Try it on Everything
- Surrogate tapping on an "Entity"
- After trying a different approach for Surrogate EFT, a crying baby quiets down
- Successful Surrogate EFT for Seizures
- Surrogate tapping on a sneezing attack, Successful use of EFT on a raspy throat AND arm wrestling success using only two fingers.
- Surrogate EFT relieves baby
- Some thoughts about surrogate (remote) EFT
- Resolving a family fight with surrogate EFT
- Surrogate EFT Taken Another Step - Clearing Ancestral (Foundational) Issues
- Surrogate tapping and collarbone breathing
- Helping Helpers: Using Surrogate EFT for Emergencies
- Surrogate tapping for terrorists
- Surrogate EFT for Chronic Pulmonary Obstruction Disorder
- Surrogate/distance tapping for Cassie the dog
- "Seeing" disrupted energy enhances mental (surrogate) tapping
- Solid motivation to use Surrogate EFT
- Surrogate EFT arrests a grand mal seizure
- Beth's Stalker Problem Resolved with Surrogate EFT
- Successful surrogate tapping for schizophrenic son
- Surrogate EFT to help patients going through medical procedures
- Responses to questions on surrogate muscle testing
- Simple uses of Surrogate EFT during every day conversations
- What to do in the hospital
- A surrogate EFT Teddy Bear became a special friend for a housebound woman
- Surrogate EFT substantially aids incontinence, anger, dementia and hearing loss.
- Skeptic of surrogate EFT becomes a believer
- Surrogate tapping stops serious nose bleed
- Surrogate EFT -- "The pain is leaving now through my fingertips."
- How to do Intentional (or Surrogate) EFT--a 4 Part Series
- Using surrogate EFT for easing a courtroom testimony
- A followup after a surrogate session in Albuquerque--Betsy's impressive results
- A touching story: Easing Mary's death through surrogate EFT
- Techniques
- For procrastination: The "Feel the Feeling" Technique
- Creative Uses of The EFT Movie Technique
- Living your Dreams with The Hero Technique
- The Gratitude Diet - A Thanksgiving Technique
- Time and Reframing: An Easy Technique that Generates Fast Results
- The benefits of describing EFT as a relaxation technique
- Discovering "core scenes"
- A short version of the Collar Bone Breathing Technique
- Stepping back from the movie in the EFT Movie Technique
- Turning the Movie Technique into a cartoon helps with Dysautonomia episode
- EFT and the Double Bubble technique: Or how to successfully deal with chronic issues!
- Variations on EFT's Movie Technique
- Doing the EFT Constricted Breathing Technique a few times a day increased Paul
- The "Let it be Easy" Technique
- Everyday EFT to Create a Fabulous Life--The Emotional Joy Technique
- The Argument Tapping Technique
- Doing the EFT Movie Technique in slow motion -- getting to important and otherwise hidden aspects
- The Stepping into Neutral Technique
- The "Tap while you Gripe" Technique
- The EFT Imagineering Technique
- Gwyneth Moss's Imagineering Technique for Endometriosis
- The "Turbo-Tapping" Technique
- The Bundling Movie Technique for gently addressing long term abuse cases
- Refusal Tapping Technique
- The Volcano Technique
- The Movie Technique for kinesthetic learners
- Behind the Scenes of the Movie Technique
- General
- Soft language to ease The EFT Set-Up Phrases
- Ideas for enhancing the standard EFT Setup
- How do I choose the phrases to use while doing EFT?
- How Do You Know What To Say For an EFT Setup Phrase?
- A New Way to Use the
- A useful EFT phrase--"Reclaiming" all our possibilities
- Testing our work and personal radiation
- Useful ways to expand the EFT Set-up Phrase
- Using "It's In Here" in the EFT Setup phrase
- Touch And Breathe--TAB Paper
- Using the 9 Gamut Procedure when emotion gets "stuck in the right brain"
- Jarrod Bailey from Australia experiments with EFT Setup Phrases and explains his findings
- Injecting "want to" into the EFT Setup language
- EFT Imagineering cleared lungs and improved breathing
- Tapping on both sides of the body, on feel-good points only, then taking deep breaths after each point
- The advantages of using the 9 Gamut Procedure
- EFT to clear chakras and increase vibration
- Using the EFT setup statement as a a pledge
- Dr. Carol Look discusses the importance of testing in EFT
- Effectively using "What if" in the EFT Setup Phrase
- A creative way to develop EFT Setup statements
- Testing your EFT work - The
- Adding muscle testing to EFT
- Ideas on Muscle Testing, EFT and Developing Intuition
- Why do we use negatives in the EFT setup statement?
- Gwyneth Moss on Reality Testing
- The Alternate Phrase Technique--tapping on both sides of a conflict.
- Surrogate
- Self
- Developing self compassion with persistent EFT
- The 3-2-1 process: untangling yourself from others
- Mary Hunt on Intuition: Getting yourself out of the way.
- Thoughts on Surrogate EFT and "getting yourself out of the way"
- Frances Songhurst finally gets a rapid result for herself
- Tapping on one's self talk--a great idea for collapsing our "inner critic"
- EFT helps a man look people in the eye
- Karen's thoughts on self forgiveness
- Freeing our "Critical Mind" into Self Acceptance with EFT
- Using "I love THAT about myself" in the EFT process
- Anja shares her self-healing process
- Getting the most out of self-help books with EFT
- Self sabotage-healing the parts that don
- EFT gives relief to a self-cutter by first finding emotional causes
- Give Yourself a Gift by Creating an EFT Journal
- Resolving childhood issues with EFT increases compassion for self
- Billy McCombie self applies EFT for an impressive list of benefits
- S-L-O-W EFT for self help on broad issues
- When self acceptance becomes a problem...
- EFT for relief from feeling responsible for everyone else before taking care of self
- Tapping for negative self-talk - "I am unable to step out of it"
- Paradoxes in validating one's Self
- EFT improves self esteem
- Rue Hass on "I deeply and completely accept myself"
- The role of self-punishment in Dis-ease
- Steve Wells series on EFT and Self-Acceptance--Part 1 of 4--(subsequent parts given below)
- A Complex Case - Doubts and Self-empowerment - The Return of Hair and more
- Julie Howard uses EFT for being hard on herself
- EFT As a Conversation With Yourself
- Self acceptance without judgment
- EFT for Self Confidence
- EFT for the lingering effects of a brain tumor from 12 years before
- Surrogate EFT for Yourself
- Self Image: An insightful look at the "Writings on our Walls"
- Professional
- When the client won't speak about the issue
- Helping clients by using "Meta Programs"
- EFT Successfully Collapses Childhood Beliefs About Food -- Client Stops Overeating
- Enhancing the life of Burak -- a Down Syndrome client
- Using EFT for the client who feels bad about herself
- 8 tips for building your EFT practice with email newsletters
- Conversations with Dr. Mercola -- Part 4 of 7
- EFT Clients!
- Kinetic tremor disappears as Turkish MD addresses client's emotional issues
- 7 Step pre-tapping checklist for client work
- EFT from a CLIENT'S POINT OF VIEW
- Hair dresser helps client raise her arm - The salon clients cheered
- How to search for an EFT Practitioner
- The client who is "Never Good Enough" and The Brick Wall Technique
- Doing EFT for the client that is afraid to get started
- How this therapist uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and EFT together
- Conversations with Dr. Mercola -- Part 5 of 7
- Improving results with dissociated clients
- What Questions Should You Ask When Seeking An EFT Practitioner?
- Thoughts on following your EFT intuition with clients
- Dr. Pat Carrington's "EFT At Work In A Hospital" Series
- Client has Somatic Release that involved shaking in a seizure-like fashion
- How to Build Your EFT Practice by Leveraging Your Biggest Resource
- Physical therapy like it should be--dramatic improvements in a rehab center
- When clients get overwhelmed or frustrated with EFT
- When clients can
- Conversations with Dr. Mercola -- Part 6 of 7
- Tips for when clients have difficulty accessing their feelings
- EFT Speeds Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy: Irene Mitchell Update
- How To Tell In Advance Whether An EFT Practitioner Has Sufficient Skill in EFT
- How to use EFT when the client won't reveal the issue
- Curtis Steele, MD shares his thoughts and experiences using EFT in a psychiatric practice
- Good reasons for using an EFT Practitioner
- Ingrid Dinter's Box Technique for helping a client wind down when time is running out in a session
- EFT used to calm down a client during a severe seizure episode
- Working through the pain and fear in the midst of divorce
- EFT'er encourages clients to find their favorite EFT points
- Conversations with Dr. Mercola -- Part 7 of 7
- The Emotional Scale in EFT Practice
- Hearing voices and multiple issues relieved: "One session of EFT does more for me than years of [conventional] therapy ever could."
- Is Your Chosen EFT Practitioner Really Helping You?
- Some thoughts about doing EFT with multilingual clients
- What stops clients from pursuing their dreams?
- Surrogate EFT used to calm down a bi-polar client
- Why see an EFT practitioner?
- Fitting EFT within the client's belief system
- Limiting beliefs may limit your EFT practice
- Making A Great Impression With Your New EFT Client
- Conversations with Dr. Mercola - Part 1 of 7
- EFT with a schizophrenic client
- A detailed EFT oriented session via email for a client with serious issues
- The Pros and Cons of EFT Telephone Therapy
- Did EFT help Gayla's client reduce the blockage in his arteries?
- Surrogate EFT brings calming effect to Schizophrenic client
- Yet another impressive use of Surrogate EFT--this time an audience sends the client out of the room and taps for her
- The Many Factors Affecting Client Motivation and Follow Through
- If the client starts shaking...
- If your client believes that the world is run by a red elephant....
- What to do when your client is beset by an "evil monster"
- Using EFT to create positive self beliefs for a client who deems herself "not good enough"
- 4 Part Series on Helping Clients with their 0-10 Accuracy
- Psychosis: Hearing Voices--EFT achieves more in one session than 13 years of medications and traditional therapy.
- Karen Donaldson Highlights Some "Slimming Down" Successes With Her Clients -- Many Side Issues Explored
- Adding EFT to conventional talk therapy
- EFT aids an "energy sensitive" client
- Criminal defense attorney uses EFT to help innocent client during cross-examination
- Conversations with Dr. Mercola -- Part 2 of 7
- EFT and Time Line Therapy helps 92 year old man live in the now
- How do I use EFT for the client who has many, many, many severe issues?
- Listening to this client's words led to a surprising core issue
- Successful Surrogate EFT for a Cerebral Palsy client
- Profuse bleeding stops even though client was on Coumadin (blood thinner)
- Shaking Off Negative Client Energies Between Sessions
- When The Client Wishes To Maintain Privacy
- An answer as to why some clients do not tap even when they know EFT will help them?
- Two successes where the client surrogate taps for other people--everyone benefits
- Tips to consider when you have had "incomplete success" with an EFT client
- Conversations with Dr. Mercola Part 3
- Do you attract clients that want everything for free?
- When should you consult an EFT Practitioner?
- The Apex Effect -- client cannot even remember the details of her former problem
- Dr. Patricia Carrington's use of "Choices" in the EFT Setup Phrase
- Rebecca Marina's 10 steps to building a prosperous EFT practice
- Core Issues
- A surprising core issue behind business call reluctance
- Using the Palace of Possibilities to uncover core issues
- The "Audio Technique" for getting to core issues
- A clever way to find core issues
- Eliminating Hot Flashes With EFT Tapping -- Surprising Core Issues
- Tracing core issues back to the birth process
- Blending Redecision Therapy with EFT--a creative way to uncover core issues
- Iris finds her own core issue
- Getting To Feelings And Core Issues By Imagining You Are Writing A Story - A Version Of The EFT Tell The Story Technique
- An Impressive Search For EFT Core Issues -- Asking The Right Questions
- The "7 Whys" method for getting to core issues
- When "insignificant" childhood events are the real core issues
- In Search Of An Elusive EFT Core Issue
- Finding An EFT Core Issue -- "But What Did He Give You?"
- A self questioning method for getting to your core issues
- An extraordinary account of tapping on a prenatal core issue -- or how to change a life in moments
- Finding and Dealing with Core Events
- Barbara shares an insightful way to find core issues
- An excellent question to help find core issues
- Collapsing the core issues of procrastination with EFT
- A classic case for finding a core issue
- Finding core issues when someone is emotionally flat lining
- The core issue behind Carl's inability to "perform"
- A clever method for finding core issues
- Obsession with having affairs ends after finding the core issue
- Why Cathy didn't enjoy Christmas--an embarrassing core event
- Using Tail Enders to find core issues
- A Useful Way To Find Core Issues In The EFT Process
- Ilana Weiler uses the 7 Whys method for getting to core issues
- MD resolves arm weakness problem by relieving an emotional core issue
- Two examples where core issues show up during an EFT session
- Newcomers
- Relative Newbie's First Major Tapping Toe Stub - Foot Pain Issue
- Newbie quiets her daughter
- Doing EFT for a newcomer without having to explain it
- Easy and Effective EFT for Newcomers
- Newbie has great results with persistent hiccoughs!
- Borrowing Benefits newcomer details impressive success
- EFT Newcomer Helps Her Daughter Relieve Constipation
- Quality advice for EFT Newbies
- How watching the EFT DVDs helped a nausea case
- EFT newbie successfully surrogates for her dying plant
- A newbie with 6 rounds of EFT eliminates her bladder infection pain
- Two Newcomer EFT Tapping Successes: Fainting And Shyness
- A newbie dropped pounds at a time she usually gained
- Using EFT
- Using EFT for Abundance releases limiting beliefs
- Using EFT to rejuvenate a withered plant
- Using EFT for Procrastination
- Marielle discovers a lifetime core issue while using EFT for a bad cough
- Using EFT for the side effects of Medications
- Using EFT for feeling like a failure
- Using EFT for cerebral palsy
- Using EFT for emphysema
- Using EFT to build emotional strength in overwhelming circumstances
- Using EFT for Menopause, Hot flashes and Chills
- Using EFT for Scleroderma
- Using EFT for preventing illness
- Using EFT for Self-Confidence in a specific area
- Using EFT for overcoming procrastination
- Personal Pleasure Procedure - Using EFT to improve your romantic life
- Using EFT for a double ankle sprain
- Using EFT to advance your business
- Using EFT for world crises
- Using EFT for clearing poltergeist energy
- After using EFT, Paul's 84 year old mum recovered very quickly from a surgical operation
- Using EFT for a choking emergency
- Using EFT to neutralize "family differences"
- Using EFT to release the pain of saying goodbye
- Using EFT for clearing clutter and organizing your life
- Using EFT to increase blood platelet count--an article with far reaching implications
- Using EFT for old and frail people
- Easy stress reducer using EFT with statements like, "The world is conspiring in my favor"
- 11 year old girl finds lost cell phone using EFT
- Using EFT for our illiterate and semi-literate brothers and sisters
- Using EFT for struggling students with ADD
- Using EFT to Trade the Market
- A successful case of using EFT for candida yeast infections
- Persistence worked when using EFT at the first signs of a cold
- Using EFT for an ailing pony
- Using EFT for wrinkles - An alternative to Botox?
- Using EFT to overcome the resistance to exercise
- Using EFT while you are in an argument
- Using EFT for Chronic Problems
- Heaviness in both legs disappears after using EFT on "These Growing Pains"
- Some thoughts on using EFT for personal peace
- Using EFT for the Holidays
- Using EFT for Poison Ivy
- Using EFT over the phone for on-the-spot issues
- Thoughts on using EFT for procrastination
- Using EFT for "Everything is my fault!"
- A guy thing: Tips on using EFT for male ED
- Using EFT for Tachycardia
- Using EFT for Chemotherapy symptoms
- An encouraging example of using EFT for Crohn's Disease
- Using EFT for Alzheimer's disease
- Many benefits in 3 months using EFT's Personal Peace Procedure
- Using EFT for Muscular Dystrophy
- Some tips when using EFT by yourself
- Using EFT to bring up core memories
- Using EFT for Herpes
- Using EFT on Asperger
- How to Handle Self Sabotage by Using EFT
- Using EFT from pre-birth to the present
- Using EFT to enhance persuasion skills
- Using EFT with our "internal parents"
- Using EFT for spiritual issues
- Using EFT to Create
- Success by using EFT while reading our Newsletter articles
- A subtle, yet powerful self-image benefit from using EFT
- Suggestions for using EFT with a Mother
- Using EFT to avert an amputation
- A method for using EFT regarding the "difficult people" in your life.
- Using EFT to relieve a cold sore (Herpes HSV-1)
- Using EFT to learn foreign language pronunciation
- Specific couple techniques using EFT
- Using EFT for Jet Lag--even with 4 time changes
- Using EFT to manifest your goal more easily
- Using EFT with a Skeptic
- Using EFT for Premature Ejaculation
- Using EFT with computers, web-cameras and microphones
- Using EFT to cut "energetic cords" of attachment to people
- Using EFT for Goal Setting
- Using EFT for motivation to exercise
- Using EFT to avoid tears while chopping onions
- Using EFT to reclaim our personal power
- Using EFT for inanimate objects may point to your own issues
- Using EFT for changing habits and more
- Using EFT in singing lessons
- Using EFT to Enhance Bedroom Romance
- Using EFT to find (and collapse) a limiting belief
- Using EFT for mother issues
- Using EFT for Plantar Fasciitis
- Using EFT with a Survivor of Domestic Violence
- Using EFT to better enjoy certain foods and expand sensory experience
- Using EFT for forgiveness
- Using EFT with A Course in Miracles teachings
- Using EFT for racial prejudice
- Lifelong car sickness disappears--but only after using EFT on the real issue
- Using EFT to bring us back into balance during challenging situations
- Using EFT for a clogged ear
- Follow up on "Using EFT to avert an amputation"
- Using EFT for Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Using EFT in the Emergency Room: Raging bladder infection subsides
- Q & A Series on using EFT
- Using EFT to start the day
- Passing a driving test using EFT - a case with many aspects
- Using EFT for your Biggest Problem
- Ideas for those using EFT to further their own personal development
- Using EFT on imaginary parts
- Classic case of using EFT for the child within
- Using EFT for Dreamwork
- Using EFT for Marathon Training and difficult things to do
- Using EFT when a specific word triggers you
- Using EFT to support the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) process
- Using EFT to regain Laurence's sense of taste.
- Big benefits from using EFT on an "irrelevant memory"
- Tips and strategies for using EFT with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
- Using EFT to reduce our judgment of others
- Using EFT with a dementia patient: A touching story
- Using EFT over the phone
- Using EFT for bothersome noises
- Using EFT to easily learn another language
- Benefits of using EFT in a cardiac group
- Tapping on TREEs -- a metaphor for using EFT
- Using EFT for the "Grey Life Syndrome"
- Using EFT to resolve issues in your dreams
- Using EFT with massage
- Using EFT within a unique form of meditation
- Using EFT for a stroke and other issues -- In praise of the 9-gamut procedure
- Using EFT to eliminate recurring dreams
- Using EFT for Self-Doubt
- Using EFT to say Good-Bye to a dying person
- Using EFT to release "the decision to be miserable"
- Using EFT for the Inner Child
- General
- Susan de Tarr eliminates her 54 year old motion sickness in 10 minutes
- How to convince an entire audience about EFT
- Psychiatrist relieves sexual exhibitionism with EFT--4 year follow-up
- Emotion and Perception: EFT makes it a two way street
- EFT on an inanimate object: The car that wouldn't start
- Combining EFT with Humor
- EFT helps remove "stuck ring"
- Key Concepts in Mastering EFT
- Borrowing Benefits in the Criminal Justice System
- The "proper words" to use for the EFT Set-up Statement
- Borrowing Benefits hastens the healing of mystery thumb sores
- Breaking habits
- Relaxing a dying man
- We are babes crawling on the floor of the Universe
- Five-for-one benefits from an introductory EFT group
- Making EFT a routine
- Using "Inner Dialogues" with EFT
- EFT relieves an unusual
- How I grew my bustline with EFT
- An 8 year old boy with very strange eating habits finds a new menu with EFT
- Jeff Lipnick uses EFT to keep from blacking out
- EFT, ED and related bedroom issues
- Daily tapping lowers blood sugar
- Borrowing Benefits while watching The EFT Course
- Who do YOU think you are?
- Headache relief over the phone
- Claude improves his fishing
- Using humor with EFT
- How to handle a "vague feeling" with EFT
- Eight Easy Ways to Remember to Do EFT
- Tapping to improve your intuition
- The acute sinusitis case that wouldn't budge until....
- It's never too late to clear useless childhood beliefs
- EFT for the emotional aspects of a Cesarean Section
- Ten steps to changing your limiting responses to a falling economy
- EFT for stammering
- Dr. Barr used EFT after cutting off the tip of his thumb
- Judi thinks that doing EFT for others helped her - winning in Las Vegas
- Borrowing Benefits with EFT improves communication at a committee meeting
- Thoughts about inheriting illness from our ancestors
- Twelve years of facial numbness eliminated with 2 rounds of EFT
- A Lesson in EFT Intuition--Letting it flow through you
- EFT brings relief for ALS
- How to tell others about EFT
- Some thoughts on when to use "I choose" vs. "I prefer"
- EFT for changing entrenched habits
- Experts point to dramatic changes in brain waves as a result of EFT
- John
- Continuous tapping resolves an intense abreaction
- Did 20 minutes of EFT straighten bones that had knitted improperly 50 years before?
- EFT and the right to be happy
- EFT for feeling unqualified to be successful
- EFT relieves a case of the Hiccups
- EFT for facing those who caused you pain
- Did EFT bring this man out of a coma?
- "It was impossible for the testicle to descend on its own."
- The Merits of Daily Tapping
- Is it safe to change?
- Processing your life's key words with EFT
- Brain dumping with EFT to get started on global issues
- EFT helps salesman double his sales
- An EFT Procrastination case
- From a 38 B to a 38 D/DD while losing 20 pounds
- Thoughts on Psychological Reversal from Rue Hass -- with an ADD example
- Gratitude tapping
- EFT in Kenya
- Are you suppressing your EFT talents?
- EFT as a cure for boredom
- Improving intimate moments with EFT
- Dispersing 50 years worth of suppressed emotion
- A brief heat exhaustion case
- Messages from an oven
- How Dawn Norton used EFT to collapse her own "horror" issue
- Wisdom from Mair Llewellyn regarding the "Writing on our Walls"
- Incorporating EFT into Corporate Programs
- EFT -- a quality aid for Shingles
- Strong correlation found between EFT and Dr. Emoto's work with water
- EFT and The Power of Reframing
- EFT and insights (cognitive change)
- Giving more meaning to the 0-10 intensity rating
- MD Applies EFT to Successfully Relieve Urethral Pain
- Borrowing Benefits: My Jury has returned with a verdict
- How to Identify and Correct Psychological Reversals
- Dr. Carol Look's Top 10 Tapping Tips
- How do I introduce EFT to skeptics? (Building Bridges to Believability)
- Why do people resist EFT?
- What would happen if this problem wasn't there any more?
- Successful EFT phone work makes major shifts for overwhelmed mother
- Thoughts on resolving difficult physical problems
- A unique way to expand EFT
- EFT removes a pesky "phantom itch"
- Tips for conducting intensive EFT sessions -- a several day case regarding Bulimia
- Create acceptance of your life with EFT
- Clearing a food aversion in 5 minutes
- What would appear to be the main issue may not be so
- How long should the flu last?
- EFT for making your voice stronger
- A new kind of mosquito relief?
- Try fork bending with EFT
- A clever approach to finding core memories
- An adventure within the Palace of Possibilities
- Injured toe gains relief using two important EFT concepts
- Sarah Jordan makes progress after realizing a childhood need
- Aiming EFT at our Future
- What to do when the "Bedroom Spark" goes out
- Tap on experiences that are stuck in parts of your body
- The young woman who kept quitting her jobs
- How to create empowering reframes (seeing things differently) with EFT
- Praise for tapping along with the EFT DVDs
- EFT for a spider (and mosquito) bite
- EFT helps Elaine learn the clarinet at 50
- Two stories to create a bridge between your audience and EFT
- Two cases: Putting on needed pounds with EFT & Holding water for an ultrasound
- Mom doing EFT for autistic son yields enormous changes in one month
- A touching story about Michael, his ailing aunt and EFT
- Letting intuition flow with EFT
- A lesson in "letting go"
- Can we learn to be grateful no matter what?
- Improve your EFT sessions by waking up your senses
- Severe lung congestion clears with persistent daily EFT
- Was prostate cancer really the cause of Sam's Low Libido?
- EFT for the Sensitive Person -- Awakening the Wild Pony Within
- EFT helps release nervousness before an important meeting
- Impressive results with autism
- Releasing chaotic behavior through EFT
- EFT hat dance
- Deserving to live -- an intense memory resolved
- EFT helps with hair loss, facial blemishes, hay fever, smoking and PMS
- Expert gives us an inside look at Group EFT
- Baerbel Borrows Benefits in her own EFT group and dissolves her creative blocks
- When EFT Doesn't Seem to Work
- Motion sickness averted through "Chasing the Pain."
- More on EFT and Reframing by Tania Prince
- Consistent and Impressive results from EFT group work
- Gordon was in a psychiatric hospital for two years and was released two weeks after one EFT session
- How feelings in the body are related to emotional clearing
- EFT for the Inner Child
- EFT for food poisoning
- Two cases of doing EFT in public without looking silly
- Improving romantic openness and enjoyment with EFT
- EFT for Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) - "You can't make me!"
- EFT brings beauty to a hospice setting
- EFT collapses competing thoughts and thus aids The Law of Attraction
- How to transform disappointment into gratitude
- EFT Question Tapping
- Helping a 97 year old man to die peacefully
- Finding the root of the problem
- Thoughts on dealing with corporations
- MD provides secretary with "The Incredible Shrinking Hemorrhoids"
- Lindsay Kenny answers Frequently Asked Questions about EFT
- About Voice Technology...
- EFT and sex
- A "Hard to Swallow" case
- Healing the "Missing Mother Syndrome" with EFT
- Borrowing Benefits from Sacramento to the United Kingdom
- Quadriplegic feels "bubbles" during EFT session
- When you are in traffic and REALLY have to pee....
- Many benefits from watching our EFT-Beyond the Basics DVDs
- Technical evidence of the link between emotional causes and physical ailments
- Borrowing Benefits and an Acute Respiratory Disorder
- Attracting Abundance by Shifting Your Energy
- Rapid Relief for Herpes
- Peak Performance Series
- A solid "Doing Business with EFT" idea from Rebecca Marina
- Emphatic EFT dramatically shifts many things--use this on stubborn issues
- EFT for eliminating barriers to our psychic abilities (and intuition)
- Using onomatopoeias with EFT
- Roxy gets multiple "Bedroom O's" with EFT
- EFT for severe cerebral palsy
- Rue Hass blends EFT with the wisdom of
- A woman with scoliosis finds balance with EFT - follow-up included
- EFT and Ho'oponopono
- Blood improves after a few minutes of EFT
- Thoughts on mental tapping and reframing
- Tapping back your sense of taste when you have a cold or flu
- Feeling and observing emotions
- EFT engages inner child to relieve indigestion (dyspepsia).
- Eric no longer hears voices
- EFT assists Polio patient
- EFT for eliminating hiccups changes a skeptic
- EFT eases nausea
- EFT is helpful when you are afraid to speak up in bed
- How racism can lead to health problems and what to do about it
- EFT helps a Premature Ejaculation (PE) problem
- Laura Orchard uses EFT during a dream
- Bedroom frustration resolved - including follow-ups
- Suzanne Lerner gives her thoughts on diagnosis
- Building confidence and releasing the inner critic
- Nothing in my traditional medical training in Anatomy, Physiology or Pathology even hinted at what I am now witnessing (with EFT) - Chuck Gebhardt, MD
- More successful cases from Dr. Eric Robins
- Can EFT tele-classes cause problems for some participants?
- EFT approaches for "Loose Ligaments" that can apply to countless other issues
- Asking good questions to elicit tappable issues
- EFT for elderly people who stuff their feelings
- EFT with hypnosis provides long term benefits for abandonment issue
- Have you noticed the important feedback you get while doing EFT?
- Leslie Anne Lackman successfully uses humor and takes aim at neuropeptides
- TAPPING
- EFT for disliking someone shifts resentments to acceptance -- a major result
- Combining EFT with Dialoguing for impressive results
- Did Karen
- EFT for those who grind their teeth
- Healing the wounded Inner Child with EFT
- EFT after a horrible nightmare
- 25 Ways to be a Fantastic Therapist
- Knocking down the negative walls to let the garden grow - a tale of fertility
- Using movies to enhance and test our work.
- When Your Intensity Level Goes UP Instead Of Down With EFT
- Combining EFT with Timelines
- 10 minutes of EFT put 10 years of Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) to rest
- EFT stops a blood blister from forming
- Taking the edge off intense emotions--Putting them in a box and tapping on them
- Tapping with good photos and bad photos
- Improving the ability to laugh with EFT
- A tapping song
- EFT on autopilot
- EFT resolves limiting childhood beliefs
- Medical transcriptionist says that in thousands of serious medical cases, she never saw a cure for anyone
- A short woman no longer feels intimidated around tall people after one EFT session
- Tapping along with a prayer
- It is your response that counts.
- Improve your success rate by asking the right questions
- Interview with Gary regarding EFT and yeast problems
- I simply could not dance with Gary!!
- This is simply priceless to a mother of a 16 year old
- A Useful Method for "Private Tapping"
- Why do we sometimes avoid tapping?
- Resolving emotional causes for erectile dysfunction
- EFT substantially aids swallowing problem
- Methods for working with pain
- Borrowing Benefits for a seemingly unrelated issue
- Questions on PR as well as possible dangers. (Other responses follow)
- Tuning in to the problem
- EFT in Daily Life
- Cold Calling: "I'm a second-class citizen, and I have to keep my mouth shut!"
- More thoughts about stopping colds with EFT
- Using
- An MD successfully uses EFT on a Hiatal Hernia and Candidiasis
- Technical article: Influencing peptides with EFT
- Can You Influence Another Person To Use EFT If They Are Reluctant To Do So?
- EFT for faulty beliefs
- EFT and Reframing using Counter-Examples
- What do you do for friends who incessantly bend your ear while venting their problems?
- EFT for people who go blank when asked to speak
- EFT for sciatica and a 6 year old wounded thumb
- EFT helps a young musician stop shaking
- Tapping with a poem as inspiration
- EFT helps a boy who has many health challenges
- Barb St. Dennis had severe Hepatitis C but now has completely normal blood tests
- Using a metaphor to handle stubborn emotional issues
- Treating negative beliefs with EFT
- Who do YOU think you are?
- An EFT method for installing new behaviors
- Two ways to use EFT for Restless Leg Syndrome
- Did EFT cure Lupus?
- Insights on Borrowing Benefits with EFT
- Hearing the energy shift while doing EFT
- A clever combination of tapping and visualization
- Introducing EFT to kids by way of their "magic fingers"
- EFT for Celiac disease -- no symptoms for 4 months and counting
- EFT and "being the bee"
- EFT helps a serious infection - the redness subsides before their eyes
- EFT for the mental game of poker
- Methods for getting to deep issues, even in a group setting
- Using silent tapping in cases where speaking out loud is too loony
- Taking "The Secret" for a walk with EFT
- Removing the blocks to your goals with EFT
- Manifesting the life of your dreams with EFT
- Can EFT be used to manifest what you want in your life?
- Inner Child Expert uses EFT for her own healing
- Symptoms quickly fade for a child with a Bi-Polar Diagnosis
- The "Gratitude for My Mistakes" method
- Professional writer uses EFT to overcome writer's block
- EFT helps a bullied woman stay at her job
- Talking to Christians About EFT
- Warming up to "cold calls" with EFT
- An interesting way to do EFT in a group
- EFT for discomfort with networking - an interesting solution
- The Value of Matching and Pacing Belief Systems in Group Training
- Do you have difficulty receiving positive feelings from others?
- A Conversation With Your Body
- EFT provides benefits using Future Tapping
- A New Moment in Science -- useful EFT article for distribution
- What the Bleep do We Know about EFT?
- Curse words aid the clearing of emotional issues
- The Human Brain and Law of Attraction: Optimizing Brain Function with EFT
- Try a motivational Power Hour to improve your business
- Let it be easy
- Banishing the Barriers to having a thriving EFT business
- How to handle emotions about the cheating spouse
- Cascade tapping
- EFT turned Masha into a runner - an interesting side effect
- 200 people watch as EFT improves Range of Motion for a Nurse's arm
- Blending NLP with EFT
- The Vibration of Abundance
- MD uses EFT for common colds and canker sores
- Rhythm, Pulse & Percussion In Tapping Treatments
- A clever "Chasing the Pain" case
- Acupuncturist gives his view of EFT and Classical Chinese Medical Aspects
- Thoughts on EFT and Intention
- EFT methods for "Smokers Lung" that apply to most chronic conditions
- Can EFT fix a computer?
- Feeling woosy from Alcohol
- Erica gets a complete overhaul through EFT
- A common sense procedure for getting EFT results
- A Useful Series on Borrowiing Benefits
- EFT methods: Questions, One-Point-EFT and Mental EFT
- Tapping via typing--email sessions
- Louise's skeptical dad warmed up to EFT
- Tapping for the United Nations
- EFT helps with repulsed feelings about unwanted advances
- Don
- 3 Items and some Holiday advice
- Phobia relief on TV in the UK
- EFT appears favorably in a German TV sitcom
- Gwyneth Moss discusses Support for Therapists
- Adding
- Collapsing a lifelong belief that her mother had tried to harm her in the womb
- How do you do EFT to fit a time slot?
- Clearing clutter for clarity and confidence
- "God Tapping"
- Loving your feminine body
- Having trouble "letting go" in the bedroom
- Getting EFT Blocks and Barriers out of the way - a list of questions
- EFT fixes car to pass inspection
- Ted Robinson's tips for doing Borrowing Benefits groups
- Visualizing and tapping on limiting beliefs
- Ann Adams on getting EFT accepted by Institutions
- Eliminating shingles pain in 1/2 hour
- Why People Sometimes Have Negative Feelings After Doing EFT
- Tapping while traveling can improve your mood
- EFT calms elderly woman
- For the skeptics--Is EFT a placebo?
- Marie's "molestation secret"
- Persistent EFT helps with unnecessary worry and a feeling of always being responsible -- many side issues collapse as well
- A very useful method for getting to important issues
- EFT for an aversion to stuff that disgusts you
- Karen helped her father recover the use of his fingers after a stroke
- EFT for feeling overly responsible
- Tell your friends, there is, at last, a cure for the common cold!
- Positively adjusting the perceptions of others with EFT
- A clever combo of EFT and Essences
- Paralysis finally overcome after everything else failed
- An important case on aspects--Martin's learning challenge
- EFT relieves "incurable" Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS)
- How a physician uses EFT
- EFT for Boredom and Loneliness
- Low Libido is not always as simple as it appears
- Facial paralysis clears in one
- EFT for the complexities of a single, dating life
- Dawson Church successfully applies EFT for his episode of gout
- Persistent, quality EFT adds 5 inches to Gillian's bust line
- Taking EFT into the Corporate Market
- Did EFT keep Wayne from getting more grey hair?
- Expanding Your Comfort Zones: The key to your success
- Ten minutes of EFT restores healthy performance in the bedroom - eliminates the need for the little blue pill
- Resolving nightmares...and more
- Aiming EFT at the FUTURE
- A journey through an important piece of our "newthink."
- Addressing the "Why Bother?" syndrome
- Creating a happy future
- How to have a happy day
- An experiment on how EFT statements affect our bodies
- Three possible reframes for people struggling with sadness
- Did Erika
- Tap while listening to music that makes you cry
- EFT helps calm an autistic boy after he accidentally hurt his mother
- Untangling two events with EFT leads to business freedom
- Daily EFT creates calm under explosive family circumstances
- EFT assists conception
- Using Role Playing With EFT
- MD uses EFT for a demented woman
- Gayle Waxon learns to stop her own epileptic seizures with EFT
- Does language matter when doing EFT?
- Using the term "somehow..." within the EFT process
- Blending EFT with Homeopathy
- A quality look at "The Apex Effect"
- Psychiatrist relieves sexual exhibitionism with EFT--4 year follow-up
- Tap and be rich
- EFT helps relieve blushing
- Quickie pain relief--A "one point wonder".
- Helping mother and her unborn baby with EFT
- Kelly Meisak uses a unique approach for her ADD prone brother
- This lady had not been out of her house for two years because she suffered from chronic burping
- Reiki Master uses EFT in the Republic of Mauritius
- Creating a remarkable bridge to our former history
- Here's a textbook EFT case for using persistence, reframes, chasing the pain, metaphors and creative language
- Carol Look Shows us How to Release Procrastination with EFT
- Helpful hints for the Holidays.
- EFT and visible changes in physical appearance
- EFT assists young boy in taking his Ringworm medicine
- EFT works for cellulitis on 3 separate occasions
- Connecting to our Birthright of Fertility
- How to tap into the
- Tapping for being "able, willing and worthy" may help boost EFT results
- Creating positive affirmations with EFT and your senses
- EFT for painful menopause symptoms
- An interesting EFT approach for getting beyond "glass ceilings"
- EFT using teddy bears
- Victoria's 10-day EFT blood pressure experiment results
- EFT and The Law of Attraction - A Perfect Match
- Tapping with tunes
- Do you have emotional difficulty with the standard EFT phrasing?
- Jewels in the junkyard--the prison population
- EFT improves a mentally disabled young man
- Can You Do EFT With Eyes Closed?
- Not finding the right words for EFT is a block that can be overcome
- High blood pressure recedes - and remains normal a week later
- Deborah Miller beautifully reframes an assault issue into a new personal identity
- The many benefits of EFT circles--and how to do them
- Why does tapping on the side of the hand work?
- EFT for a numb face and tongue - instant relief for a skeptic
- Suzanne Zacharia finds the root causes of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
- EFT to help heal fruit trees - a major new business waiting to happen?
- Mental Dental EFT - for the dentist and the patient
- Sneaking Up On The Problem When You Do EFT
- EFT enhances many things
- EFT for bladder control when on the road
- Silent Night Sadness -- when certain music gives you the blues
- Mary Pellicer, MD, on Intuitive Diagnosis
- EFT provides instant relief for Poison Ivy itching
- Quieting down an elderly stroke victim in a nursing home
- Three Keys to EFT Mastery
- Painful mastitis clears after EFT
- How to get non-profit organizations to host EFT group meetings--and pay you as well
- A creative approach to psychological reversal
- EFT as a morning eye-opener
- EFT for night time trips to the bathroom--including follow-up
- Aparna
- EFT for resistance to doing EFT
- "I have to lie constantly to live my life as I know it"
- Further bridges to our history
- Stress and Me and EFT
- Gratitude and Coach Ben Hammerschmidt
- EFT and Nightmares
- A successful use of EFT for Hasimoto
- Five extreme behavior patterns related to organizing and how to address them with EFT
- Your Vibration Always Comes First
- EFT and future pacing
- EFT for people who are sensitive
- EFT for painful cramping
- WHO AM I NOW??? How Identity Issues Block Abundance
- Katie's posture and her many emotional issues
- When conflicting beliefs keep us stuck
- Rehana Webster teaches the details behind a successful blushing case
- Resentment gets in the way of abundance
- Changing a man's life with EFT--including pain, emotions and bedroom romance
- EFT in the snow -- creating comfort in the cold
- Stopping the flu in its early stages
- "How do I get really good at EFT?"
- Relief for Bashful Bladder
- When Positive is Negative - Accepting Your Light
- Tapping through a beginning seizure
- Teresa Knezek treats her own Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) -- including a 3 year followup
- Raising your metabolism with EFT
- When EFT gives only temporary results
- Resolving two bothersome tics with EFT
- Saying "goodbye" with the
- An at risk coronary patient has normal arteries and flawless angiogram after persistent EFT for two months
- Tapping while responding to a nasty comment from the past
- EFT for looking forward instead of backwards
- How Do You Know You Are Benefiting From EFT Much As You Can?
- EFT and the taming of the tongue
- Gwyneth Moss on The Importance of Rehearsal in an EFT session
- How do you feel ABOUT your body having pain?
- Was this a negative reaction to EFT?
- Many benefits from tapping on a prayer
- Future tapping to get what you want
- How to get EFT into Schools
- EFT collapses seasickness and Rosa becomes the life of the party
- What is your body trying to tell you?
- An extraordinary example of the real power of EFT's Borrowing Benefits procedure -- a bridge phobia disappears "behind the scenes"
- EFT for past life issues
- EFT for Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and a host of other issues
- Prenatal EFT improves hemoglobin count with before and after test
- Getting to the real reason behind Janet's "bedroom inhibitions"
- Tapping on gratitude for EFT
- After EFT, Kay
- A procedure for dealing with the resistance to heal
- To Lead or Not to Lead...
- Looking waaay in the past for the cause of a physical symptom
- Overcoming a lifelong fruit revulsion and some side benefits
- One person
- EFT is effective despite language barriers
- Shingle symptoms gone in just two EFT sessions
- Two examples where working on one issue provides relief for another
- Important EFT topic: Doing the best we can
- Useful thoughts on integrating EFT within the military
- Eckhart Tolle
- Daily uses of EFT with A Course in Miracles (ACIM)
- EFT for helping a mother bond with her child
- How EFT unclogged my toilet
- The Inner Committee
- Can we affect inanimate objects better with EFT? - Rebecca's engine light
- A humorous reply to an EFT skeptic
- EFT enhances math scores
- Praise for EFT from a Buddhist Monk
- EFT calms an autistic boy in school
- Cognitive Shifts (Belief Changes) That Work
- EFT: The Gift to Unwrap and Use before the Holidays!
- Another successful hiccoughs (hiccups) case
- Did EFT help relieve menopause symptoms?
- EFT for addressing what happened in your day -- use it daily for solid long term benefits
- EFT for economic stress -- using "I prefer peace"
- A Psychologist in India uses EFT for suicide intervention
- Demonstrating EFT to a mental health support team
- How to remember your dreams with EFT
- New Uses for EFT
- EFT helps alleviate several issues associated with infidelity
- Using Galvanic Skin Response to validate EFT
- NLP procedures enhance anyone's delivery of EFT
- "Helpless to get what I want" - Using intuition to get at important issues
- MD writes article on Emotions, Energy, and Healing
- Tapping on "what didn
- An aneurism left a man's hand shaking, unable to write for 12 years.
- How to use EFT with your dreams to collapse important emotional issues
- Food stuck in the throat goes down easily after EFT
- In Praise of Continual Tapping
- Scientific evolution of EFT from TFT
- Does EFT compete with God?
- How to Get Into Businesses and Organizations By Getting Welcomed Through the Back Door
- EFT on the move -- for busy people
- EFT for Speech Loss following a Stroke
- Discovering the cause of humming in the ears
- EFT's Borrowing Benefits collapses 36 issues in 2.5 hours
- Problems that are difficult to assess in the here and now. (Several responses follow)
- A tapping tip to lighten the load
- Borrowing Benefits gets impressive results on TV
- Re-evaluating the Apex problem
- Handling vertigo symptoms over the phone
- MD uses EFT to treat Sjogren
- Many successes doing
- Jo Huntsman takes EFT into her own hands and has success with Lupus like symptoms
- A metaphor for introducing EFT
- EFT in a plane for scary facial paralysis - a doctor on board said it was Bell
- EFT enhances the "Artist's Way" work
- Do we need to heal the past so that we can move into the future?
- Are you getting the most out of EFT?
- The benefits of tapping along with our DVDs--core memories uncovered
- Allowing EFT to come THROUGH you rather than BY you
- How to know when the healing is done
- Clearing past issues from the walls of our mind
- The ABC approach to EFT
- Ideas for winding up EFT sessions
- Metaphors, Humour and EFT
- Use EFT when you are afraid to speak up
- Success via tapping on a two-sided conflict
- Validating EFT with Neurofeedback
- Did EFT clear a 90% blocked artery?
- After 9 years suffering with polycystic ovary syndrome, Jenn finds relief with EFT
- EFT for forgetting lines in a school play
- EFT for calming while being strapped down on a hospital gurney
- Acupuncturist uses EFT and eliminates her own shingles in three days
- For those who have difficulty telling left from right
- Marketing EFT as a business--Cultivating important Centers of Influence (COI)
- Learning, intelligence and "emotional static"
- Psychiatric Nurse gives pointers for dealing with severe emotional disorders
- Thoughts on an emergency tapping point
- The value of taking dead aim at the negatives
- Circumcision at the root of writer's block
- The Salesman who didn't want to cold call
- Try EFT on everything--even an oncoming fainting spell
- EFT helps an 8 year old with a concussion
- Am I a failure at EFT if there is no miracle?
- Surprising insights than can occur while tapping
- Healing families with EFT - a historical approach
- A physicist speaks
- Why couldn't Jason make a simple decision?
- A New Way to Express Gratitude with EFT
- Resolving many impediments to a satisfactory "bedroom experience"
- Sometimes slowing down EFT can provide quality benefits
- MD uses EFT to clear many issues in 15 minutes
- A simple way to handle Shingles -- no drugs involved
- EFT for severe MSG reaction
- Finding the real issues behind what appeared to be a "Bedroom Romance" problem
- Clever use of EFT clears issues for baby, mother and grandmother - follow-up included
- Did Mary
- Calming effects of EFT during an emergency on an airplane
- EFT brings benefits for leaky gut syndrome and ASD (a form of autism)
- EFT clears nausea - but not in the expected way
- Stronger orgasms with EFT
- Persistence and EFT homework help a woman embrace her femininity
- A quality use of our Borrowing Benefits DVDs
- Some thoughts on secondary gains - and what to do about them
- Including the word
- EFT improves hearing by 25%
- Successful EFT without knowing the details
- Psychiatrist gets to the real reason his patient couldn't say "NO"
- An EFT Meditation
- Critical Questioning While Doing EFT
- Being Specific
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Refusal Tapping Technique
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,
EFT Master Carol Look shows us how to capitalize on the "rebel" within so we can overcome obstacles to change. This process also points to a clever way to open doors to important core issues.
Hugs, Gary
Part 1 of 4: Letting go of anxiety
Part 2 of 4: Addictions and Weight Loss
Part 3 of 4: Pain Relief
Part 4 of 4: Attracting Abundance
Part 1 of 4: Letting go of anxiety
I have been using a variation of the basic EFT technique in workshops that brings up many important feelings and moves my clients to core issues around control, feeling powerless, and not feeling free. I call it the Refusal Tapping Technique, and it is exactly what it says. The technique allows the client to rebel against being controlled and refuse to change. This is often the magic formula clients need to allow them to drop their resistance and move forward. It is another door through which practitioners can enter the client’s world.
The theory behind using this technique is that we have all been controlled by others for most of our lives. That’s what people tend to do – tell others what to do! Do these commands sound familiar from your early life??? (eat your vegetables, put your coat on, stop talking, take a nap, tie your shoe…) It’s time to give yourself or your client a chance and the emotional space to say “no” and reap the benefits! Never underestimate the power of rebellion…
What I ask my clients to do is repeat a regular setup phrase, and then vehemently and loudly state I refuse to change right now.…this gives that part of them a “voice” of power and a posture of “I’m in charge” and stirs up other emotions.
Letting Go of Anxiety and Phobias:
There is incredible social and interpersonal pressure to “get rid of” anxiety, generalized or acute. I have experienced a great amount of resistance in some of my clients to getting over these feelings, even though they don’t like how they feel when they experience them. Believe it or not, people’s anxiety does provide them something positive --- there is always an “upside” no matter how subtle -- or else they would be able to release it more quickly. Remember my favorite question for all clients: “What is the downside of releasing this problem?”
Karate chop point: Even though I’ve been anxious for good reasons, and you keep wanting me to let go of it, I accept who I am and how I feel about it…Even though my anxiety serves some purpose for me, I just haven’t figured it out yet, I accept who I am and how I feel about holding on to it…Even though you make me feel wrong for having anxiety, I accept who I am and how I react to situations in my life.
Eyebrow: I refuse to give up my anxiety
Side of eye: It’s done a lot for me in my life
Under Eye: I don’t want to give it up
Nose: I refuse to stop being anxious
Chin: I am so used to being anxious
Collarbone: I refuse to give it up
Under Arm: I refuse, so there!
Head: I have decided to stay anxious
Eyebrow: Being anxious feels normal
Side of eye: I refuse to give it up
Under Eye: It feels good to rebel
Nose: I’m scared to release it
Chin: Who will I be without it?
Collarbone: I refuse to get rid of my anxiety
Under Arm: I refuse, so stop focusing on it
Head: I have decided to refuse to let go of my anxiety
Karate chop point: Even though everyone wants me to be calm and peaceful, I choose to love and accept who I am with my anxiety…Even though being “anxious” is who I really am, I accept who I am and how I feel…Even though everyone wants to make me feel a different way, I accept my feelings and my thoughts.
Eyebrow: I refuse to change
Side of eye: I’m not going to give up this anxiety
Under Eye: I don’t know how to give it up
Nose: I refuse to let go of my anxiety
Chin: I need to be anxious
Collarbone: I refuse to give it up
Under Arm: I don’t know how anyway
Head: Stop trying to make me be different.
After giving your client (or yourself) some air time, so to speak, to refuse to change, and giving a voice to the threat of changing, there is more room for the person to actually consider changing!!
Eyebrow: I’m not ready to change YET
Side of eye: I’m not going to change
Under Eye: I’m willing to consider giving this up
Nose: I refuse to let go of my anxiety
Chin: Maybe I don’t need to be anxious
Collarbone: What if it’s time to release the anxiety
Under Arm: I will consider it in my own time
Head: I am going to make my own choices
Saying “I refuse to give up this anxiety” sounds strange to the client, and allows them to explore more options of feeling safe and peaceful to enter their consciousness. It doesn’t mean that they are in fact refusing, it just stirs up their feelings about the position of feeling safe without their problem.
Stay tuned for part 2 of this Refusal Tapping Technique series which will focus on “Addictions and Weight Loss.”
Carol Look
EFT Master
Part 2 of 4: Addictions and Weight Loss
Addictions can be very, very complicated. If you are an addictions counselor, I encourage you to try this technique with your clients. However, please remember, we are using it for the purpose of uncovering underlying emotional conflicts. We are not using it to give the person a license to continue drinking/drugging in a way that harms themselves or others. This technique needs to be used within a larger context of recovery when dealing with addictions.
If only it could be as easy as simply “giving up” or staying away from the substance of your choice. Millions of people are addicted to sugar, cigarettes, drugs and alcohol, not to mention turbulent relationships, surfing the internet, and certain other behaviors that aren’t good for them. A broad definition of addiction or dependence is as follows: using the “substance” gets you in trouble in your personal or professional life so you “swear it off.” Within time, you “forget how much trouble you got in, and start using it again, “forgetting” how it damaged your relationships, health, or job. This cycle can go on for years before an appropriate intervention is considered.
Addicts start using their substance as a way to fit in, to try something unusual or exciting, and most importantly, to tranquilize their anxieties, frustrations or other emotions. The substances “work” for the most part. Therapists are often seen as threatening as they might “take away” the alcohol or cigarettes and leave the client feeling deep anxiety. (Even when the client has contacted you as a practitioner for smoking cessation or weight loss, you are often seen as a threat, especially when there are so many success stories on the websites about how tapping helps people lose weight and quit smoking!)
I love using the Refusal Tapping Technique for weight loss and smoking issues. People are often telling others what to eat and drink, how to quit smoking, why they should eat less, eat more, why they should stop smoking etc. Allow yourself or your clients to make a decision to rebel!
Karate chop point: Even though everyone else wants me to lose weight, I refuse to lose the weight now…Even though they keep bothering me about my weight, I choose to rebel as much as I need to…Even though I’m tired of being told what to do, I choose to accept my feelings about my body.
Eyebrow: I refuse to lose weight for you
Side of eye: I’m not going to do it again
Under Eye: It feels good to rebel
Nose: I refuse to lose the weight
Chin: I am not going to diet anymore
Collarbone: I refuse to lose the weight
Under Arm: I refuse, so there!
Head: I have decided to refuse to lose weight.
Eyebrow: I refuse to lose weight for you
Side of eye: I’m not ready to lose the weight
Under Eye: It feels good to rebel
Nose: I refuse to stop eating
Chin: Leave me alone
Collarbone: I refuse to lose the weight
Under Arm: I refuse, and you can’t make me
Head: I have decided to refuse to lose weight
Eyebrow: I refuse to lose weight for anyone else
Side of eye: I’m not going to lose weight
Under Eye: What a relief to stop trying
Nose: I refuse to lose the weight
Chin: I refuse to change anything
Collarbone: I refuse to lose the weight
Under Arm: I appreciate feeling rebellious
Head: I refuse to lose weight and I feel lighter already.
Suppose you are trying to quit smoking…nothing will trigger resistance more than recognizing that a part of you thinks you SHOULD quit, while other parts know you aren’t going to…There are many angles or “downsides” to quitting smoking. I have had clients tell me a range of challenges such as (1) dealing with withdrawal symptoms, (2) not knowing what to do with their hands, (3) fearing they would lose their identity if they quit, (4) extreme depression, (5) intense anxiety, and (6) an inability to concentrate. Reminding smokers that the surgeon general thinks smoking is bad for your health is utterly useless. Remember, addicts are trying to tranquilize their feelings, and the thought of being unable to soothe themselves with a cigarette throughout the day is very threatening.
Karate chop point: Even though everyone else is pressuring me to quit smoking, I accept who I am and that I may not be ready…Even though I don’t want to quit yet, I accept who I am and how I feel…Even though I feel resentful that you are pressuring me to quit, I accept who I am and that I’m a smoker.
Eyebrow: I refuse to quit smoking
Side of eye: I’m not going to do it yet
Under Eye: It feels good to rebel and keep smoking
Nose: I refuse to give up my cigarettes
Chin: I am not ready to quit so don’t ask me to
Collarbone: I refuse to quit smoking
Under Arm: I refuse, so stop bugging me
Head: I have decided to refuse to give up smoking.
Eyebrow: I refuse to quit smoking
Side of eye: I’m not ready so why bother?
Under Eye: I’m enjoying rebelling!
Nose: I refuse to give up my cigarettes
Chin: I’m not ready to quit, so leave me alone
Collarbone: I refuse to quit
Under Arm: I’m not ready
Head: I have decided to refuse to quit and it feels good
As I said earlier, in addition to food and cigarettes, many other substances or behaviors can be seen as problematic or categorized as “addictions.” Have you ever known someone who appeared addicted to drama in their romantic relationships? I have used EFT for clients with internet addictions, dependencies on drugs and alcohol, sun bathing, picking their skin, chewing their nails etc.
What is critical in addictions work is to get to the bottom of the addicted behavior --- using a substance, person or “thing” to tranquilize your feelings. What feelings are you or your clients trying to quiet? These feelings will need to be addressed for addiction treatment to be successful, however, try the Refusal Tapping Technique as another way to uncover emotional conflicts that are keeping the cycles alive.
Eyebrow: I refuse to give up this unhealthy relationship
Side of eye: I’m not going to give it up
Under Eye: It feels good to rebel
Nose: I refuse to do anything different
Chin: I am doing it my own way
Collarbone: I refuse to give anything else up in my life
Under Arm: I refuse, so there!
Head: I have decided to stay exactly as I am.
Eyebrow: I refuse to stop this addicted behavior
Side of eye: How will I feel if I can’t do it anymore?
Under Eye: It feels good to rebel against others
Nose: I refuse to give it up
Chin: I choose to do it my way
Collarbone: I refuse to give up this behavior
Under Arm: I refuse, so stop asking me to
Head: I refuse to change for you.
Stay tuned for parts 3 and 4 on using the Refusal Tapping Technique on “Pain Relief” and “Attracting Abundance.”
Carol Look, EFT Master
Part 3 of 4: Pain Relief
While the subject of “secondary gains” can often be a touchy one, I invite you to consider that every physiological symptom we have metaphorically represents deeper issues and conflicts, and that many times our symptoms do in fact give us something positive in our lives, no matter how subtle. We all get sick from time to time and we all wear down our immune systems through holding onto emotional conflicts. That’s why EFT is so perfect as a universal healing aid. Whether you have experienced grief, abuse, terror, loneliness, hurt, fear or anxiety, EFT is an elegant tool to help relieve your body-mind-spirit of the conflict and tension.
Some of you or your clients may “hear” blame when we talk about using EFT for pain relief or serious diseases, but please “hear” the truth of what the EFT community is saying: Chronic and unresolved emotional conflicts almost always exacerbate pain, no matter what the x-rays and MRI’s are showing. Someone in pain is naturally anxious and often “braces” against movement of any kind. There are terrible vicious cycles set up for pain patients.
When working with pain control, I assume that the person’s body has incredible wisdom, and that the energy used to fight the symptoms could be relaxed, if even only for a few minutes a day, with EFT. Freed up, this energy could help the entire system heal faster, regardless of the diagnosis. Since I am not a medical doctor, I make it clear that I am treating the emotional issues associated with the pain or illness.
The Refusal Tapping Technique works well for pain because so many loved ones and professionals are always trying to get us to “fix” our bodies and get over the pain. What if you gave yourself permission to just be with the pain and appreciate your body anyway, rather than always trying to get rid of it?
Karate chop point: Even though I’ve had this pain for so long, and everyone wants me to get rid of it, I choose to accept who I am and I have decided to refuse to let it go…Even though I have been in pain for so long I’ve forgotten how to feel good, I deeply and completely love and accept myself anyway…Even though I don’t know who I would be without this pain, I accept myself and my body right now.
Eyebrow: I refuse to release this pain
Side of eye: I’m not going to do it for you
Under Eye: It feels good to rebel
Nose: I refuse to let go of this pain
Chin: The pain is doing something good for me
Collarbone: I refuse to let go of the pain
Under Arm: I’m not ready yet
Head: Stop making me get rid of something I need
(Again, the point isn’t that the person is in fact refusing to let it go, but saying “I refuse to let it go” is a great catalyst for other feelings.)
Karate chop point: Even though I have mixed feelings about this pain in my _____________, I deeply and completely love and accept who I am…Even though a part of me wants to hold on to this pain, I accept who I am anyway…Even though I’m not sure I’m read to release the pain yet, I accept where I am and how I feel about my body.
Eyebrow: I’m not ready to let go yet
Side of eye: Stop trying to fix me
Under Eye: I refuse to change for you
Nose: I refuse to let go of this ailment/pain
Chin: I refuse to get over this
Collarbone: I’m not ready
Under Arm: I’m tired of pushing myself
Head: I have decided to hold onto my pain for now.
Karate chop point: Even though I have been reluctant to let go of the pain, I have decided to appreciate my entire body…Even though I’m not ready to let go of the pain, I accept who I am and why I am in pain…Even though I’m not sure I am ready to release the pain yet, I choose to appreciate who I am and how I feel.
Eyebrow: I refuse to release the pain
Side of eye: I’m not ready to let it go
Under Eye: I like to rebel
Nose: I refuse to get better
Chin: I’m not ready to take the next step
Collarbone: I refuse to be different
Under Arm: I’ve already tried and nothing works anyway
Head: I refuse to change even though you want me to.
Remember that pain clients have often tried many interventions only to be left disheartened and discouraged when nothing has worked. I have seen EFT work wonders for pain control, but the entire “system” of the person needs to be ready to release the tension, release the past hurts, and allow the body to heal in a natural way to the extent it is able. Ask yourself and your clients, “Are there any possible downsides to being without this pain or condition?”and“Are there any advantages of holding onto this?” Remember that the notion of “REFUSING” to give up anything is to give the client more power, more control, and more of a “voice” in their life. It doesn’t mean that the person is actually refusing to let go.
Karate chop point: Even though I don’t believe I can let go of the pain, I’ve had it too long, I accept who I am and how I am living…Even though it’s not my fault, but I keep hearing blame, I accept my whole body now…Even though I hate the body parts that are in pain, I accept who I am and how I feel.
Eyebrow: I refuse to let it go
Side of eye: I don’t know how to let it go
Under Eye: If I knew how I would let it go
Nose: Stop blaming me
Chin: Nothing ever works for me
Collarbone: I refuse to change my body
Under Arm: I don’t believe I can
Head: I refuse to feel better.
Another critical component of pain is that people often don’t like the part of their body that gives them trouble, whether it’s the arthritic knee, the painful back, or the joint pain associated with fibromyalgia. What if the only “assignment” for the person was to accept their entire body, no matter what?
Karate chop point: Even though I’m mad at my back for causing all this trouble, I accept who I am and how I feel…Even though I feel betrayed by my knees, I accept my entire body anyway…Even though I’m frustrated with my body for not cooperating, I accept who I am and how I feel about it.
Eyebrow: I refuse to let it go
Side of eye: I hate my body
Under Eye: I’m mad at my body
Nose: I refuse to appreciate my body
Chin: Nothing ever works for me
Collarbone: I hate the parts that are hurting me
Under Arm: I’m not able to change
Head: I refuse to feel better
Eyebrow: What if I don’t have to DO anything
Side of eye: Stop telling me what to do
Under Eye: I refuse to let it go
Nose: If I knew how I would have let it go already
Chin: Nothing ever works for me
Collarbone: I refuse to change my body
Under Arm: I have decided to accept all of me instead of trying to change
Head: I accept my entire body, even the parts that hurt.
Stay tuned for part 4 of this series --- using the Refusal Tapping Technique for “Attracting Abundance.”
Carol Look, EFT Master
Part 4 of 4: Attracting Abundance
My passion is helping people attract personal and professional success into their lives. Most of us have some ambivalence, or resistance to being as successful as we say we want to be, or else we would be able to easily open the door and allow the Law of Attraction to bring our desires to our doorstep.
I have found the Refusal Tapping Technique quite powerful when talking about the topic of success and abundance. As with the other topics in this series, allowing the client to refuse to do something triggers feelings and conflicts that need to be addressed and collapsed in order for the client to progress. It may sound absurd to say “I refuse to attract abundance” but I have seen it be the perfect catalyst for change in my clients.
I always ask my clients why they want to be more successful, as it is important to uncover their motivation for professional success or financial wealth.
- What do you want to do with the wealth?
- Why is it important to make more money?
- How will you feel when you have more money?
- What are you really looking for?
Then I ask what would happen if nothing changed in their financial situation.
- What would happen if you don’t become wealthier?
- Who will disapprove?
- What if your income level stays where it is?
- What if you never have more financial wealth?
This is often where the conflicts and reasons for sabotage are hidden. One client wanted to be more financially successful to get the approval of his father. His father appeared unwilling to approve of him under any circumstances, so this was a slippery setup for him. Another client wanted to be more powerful, yet was giving his personal power away to the idea of abundance and didn’t pay much attention to accepting himself where he was right now.
Karate chop point: Even though I’m not feeling very abundant and can’t even pay my bills this month, I accept who I am anyway…Even though everyone wants me to attract abundance and I don’t feel like it, I accept who I am and how I feel…Even though I feel a lot of pressure to make more money, I have decided I am fine right where I am.
Eyebrow: I refuse to make more money
Side of eye: I don’t want to play this game
Under Eye: I am rebelling against these abundance people
Nose: I refuse to earn more money
Chin: I refuse to work harder
Collarbone: I refuse to be more successful
Under Arm: I accept who I am right now
Head: I have decided to refuse to attract abundance
Eyebrow: I refuse to do something more
Side of eye: I don’t want to want abundance
Under Eye: It feels good to rebel against success
Nose: I’m finally refusing to be more successful
Chin: I hate the subject of money
Collarbone: I refuse to earn any more no matter how easy it might be
Under Arm: I refuse, and it feels right to me
Head: I made a decision to refuse and I’m happy about it
Karate chop point: Even though I don’t want to want more success, I deeply and completely love and accept myself anyway…Even though everyone thinks I should have more money, I’m tired of trying…Even though I feel the resistance about abundance, I accept who I am and how I feel about my financial situation.
Eyebrow: I refuse to want to be more successful
Side of eye: I’m not going to try to be wealthy
Under Eye: I choose to rebel against a higher income
Nose: I refuse to make more money
Chin: I am not going to do it just because everyone else is
Collarbone: I refuse to make more money
Under Arm: I prefer to rebel right now
Head: I feel so free when I rebel
Of course some of these statements sound ridiculous, which is often the reason the client starts looking into their limiting beliefs and resistance to becoming more successful. Sometimes a client will tap on these statements and realize they are indeed just rebelling against a parent or teacher figure in their life, and see how trapped they have been by a need to rebel.
Once enough “refusals” have been stated, the client is then ready to feel their real feelings about prosperity in their lives, and often the deeper reasons for wanting financial success can be uncovered.
Eyebrow: I have been refusing to make more money
Side of eye: I thought money was bad
Under Eye: I associated it with my father
Nose: I have been refusing for the wrong reasons
Chin: I appreciate what I do have
Collarbone: I choose to attract abundance into my life
Under Arm: I refuse to attract abundance
Head: I have changed my pattern and now I am ready
Many clients assume that to make more money, they will need to work harder. This is what I call a limiting belief as it is not the truth, just an assumption or belief about what is going to happen. Uncovering and collapsing limiting beliefs with EFT is the cornerstone of my work these days, and I have seen amazing transformations in myself and my clients.
Karate chop point: Even though I’m convinced I will have to work harder to make more money, I accept who I am and that I don’t want to…Even though I’m convinced I’ll have to give up more time and I don’t want to, I accept who I am and how I am handling this issue…Even though I don’t want to work harder to make more money, I choose to feel free from the pressure.
Eyebrow: I refuse to work harder for more money
Side of eye: I’m not going to work any harder than I already am
Under Eye: I won’t do it
Nose: I refuse to work harder
Chin: I refuse to earn more money
Collarbone: I refuse to work any harder than I already am
Under Arm: I refuse, and it feels good
Head: I refuse to work harder even though it might bring more money
Eyebrow: I refuse to work harder
Side of eye: Maybe I don’t have to
Under Eye: I refuse to attract abundance by working more hours
Nose: Maybe I don’t have to
Chin: I refuse to work any harder
Collarbone: I refuse to attract more success into my life
Under Arm: I hate this topic anyway and refuse to give it attention
Head: I refuse to do what’s necessary to make more money.
Again, many of these statements will seem utterly absurd to the person, and will allow other limiting beliefs to surface. Once they enter conscious awareness, then they can be targeted with EFT. Repeating “I refuse to earn more money” only makes sense when making more money is seen as a problem, or as a threat to our free time or belief system.
Many clients also believe that being more successful will make them stand out, and have some negative consequences. While they may have experiences of being hurt in the past for standing out, EFT is the perfect tool to collapse this fear, and thereby get them on the path to attracting abundance if indeed that is what they want.
Karate chop point: Even though I don’t want to stand out because they’ll hurt me, I accept who I am and how I feel about abundance…Even though I’m afraid to become more visible, I accept how I feel about myself….Even though I don’t feel safe becoming more successful in my business, I deeply and completely love and accept who I am.
Eyebrow: I refuse to become more successful
Side of eye: I don’t want to stand out
Under Eye: It’s dangerous to stand out
Nose: I refuse to stand out
Chin: I’m not going to become more successful
Collarbone: I refuse to change anything
Under Arm: I’ll be safe if I don’t stand out
Head: I refuse to attract more abundance
Eyebrow: I refuse to let go of this fear
Side of eye: I refuse to feel free to be powerful
Under Eye: I refuse to attract more abundance
Nose: I like feeling rebellious
Chin: I won’t earn more even though I’m worth it
Collarbone: I’m not worth it
Under Arm: Yes I am
Head: No I’m not.
The worthiness issue that I raised in these last few sentences is critical to success and abundance. Many of my workshop participants and teleclass attendees truly believe that they don’t deserve abundance, and suggesting that they do is often confusing or disorienting.
Karate chop point: Even though I don’t feel I deserve abundance, I accept who I am and how I feel…Even though I’m convinced I don’t deserve as much as everyone else, I accept who I am and how I feel…Even though I feel convinced that I don’t deserve abundance, I choose to appreciate all of me anyway.
Eyebrow: I refuse to believe I deserve abundance
Side of eye: I don’t deserve it and I’m not changing this belief
Under Eye: I’m convinced I don’t deserve it
Nose: I know I don’t deserve what others deserve
Chin: I refuse to believe in myself
Collarbone: I refuse to believe I deserve abundance
Under Arm: I don’t believe I’m worthy enough
Head: I refuse to feel more worthy
Eyebrow: I refuse to let go of this belief
Side of eye: I’m sure I’m not worthy
Under Eye: Stop telling me I should feel deserving
Nose: Stop asking me to change how I view myself
Chin: I refuse to believe I am enough
Collarbone: I refuse to change this belief
Under Arm: I have never believed I am worthy
Head: I refuse to feel better.
After this sequence, many feelings are loosened up and the client is often ready to move to new issues or release this dependence on seeing themselves as unworthy or undeserving. Remember, we are often quite attached to our identities, no matter how damaging they are.
Karate chop point: Even though I still don’t feel worthy of abundance, I accept and love myself anyway…Even though I’m still convinced I don’t deserve abundance, and you keep trying to change my mind, I deeply and completely love and accept who I am…Even though I don’t feel deserving of success and abundance, I accept who I am and how I feel.
Eyebrow: I refuse to let go of this belief
Side of eye: Stop trying to make me feel better
Under Eye: I refuse to feel better
Nose: What if I am worthy after all
Chin: No I’m not
Collarbone: I refuse to feel deserving
Under Arm: I don’t believe I am worthy
Head: I refuse to feel worthy
Eyebrow: Maybe I do deserve success and abundance
Side of eye: You deserve it
Under Eye: They deserve it
Nose: Maybe I deserve abundance after all
Chin: I choose to feel worthy
Collarbone: I appreciate who I am
Under Arm: I accept that I am worthy
Head: I refuse to hide any more!
I hope you enjoy trying out this technique with yourself and your clients. You are sure to get a few good laughs, and emotional and energetic shifts will follow.
Carol Look, EFT Master
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