Re: [AlternativeAnswers] Child with anxiety

 

Good Morning, Perhaps the following information may be helpful.
All the best to you. I'm also attaching the pdf on the Emotional Freedom
Techniques for you to download to your computer if you would like to. If you
searched the internet, their may be shortened versions that will lead you
directly to the steps.
I hope your son is able to find relief from his anxiety. This is a free,
non-invasive method.
When I have another moment, I will also send more information that has helped me
with my anxiety when talking with people. It was developed by Dr. Marshall
Rosenberg and it's called Non-Violent Communication. I think people don't
realize how much blame, guilt, passive aggression they have in their tone of
voice which although when delivered in a calm voice can be extremely upsetting
over the years causing more and more anger and anxiety for the receiver (my
case since I was not allowed to express deep seated feelings or encouraged to
explore childhood feelings so I could unravel them and gain clarity. For a
child this could be incredibly difficult since they may not know what is
bothering them. This is where the compassionate communication technique Dr
Rosenberg developed comes in handy. It helps you find a way to talk to your
child so they can feel heard and gain a sense of connectedness.)
TheManual
Sixth Edition
Emotional Freedom Techniques
Where astonishing emotional relief leads to profound physical healings.
--Physician Approved--
Applies to all issues, including....
...School, Sports,...Serious Diseases (from migraines to cancer)
"Some day the medical profession will wake up and realize that unresolved
emotional issues are the main cause of 85% of all illnesses. When they do, EFT
will be one of their primary healing tools .... as it is for me."
- Eric Robins, MD -
© Gary Craig
...Fears & Phobias ...Allergies ...Respiratory Problems ...Blood Pressure
...Relationship Issues ...Women's Issues ...Children's Issues
...Pain Relief ...Anger ...Addictions ...Weight Loss ...Anxiety ...Trauma
...Depression
Special message to those downloading This manual from our web site.
This manual is a starting point—an introduction—to EFT. It is a companion to our
more extensive video based EFT Course and is NOT intended to be complete
training.
Study this manual and diligently apply EFT to yourself and others and you will
likely get immediate, and often profound, results. This is the promise of EFT
and one you should realize quite easily upon proper application. You will also
find occasions where you stub your toe and will scratch your head while
asking.....
"Why doesn't it work in this case?" or "Why does it work on everyone else but
not me?" or "Why does it seem to be permanent in some cases and only temporary
in others?" or....or....or
These questions are all answerable but the answers are not found in a manual
such as this. They come from experience and more detailed training. An aspiring
surgeon can only learn so much from a book but, after that, s/he needs to
observe the process in action by those who have mastered it. There is an art to
delivering EFT that is profusely illustrated in our videos and audios. Those who
wish to develop this art will need this addit ional training.
A note on EFT's surprising physical healings
EFT was originally designed to overhaul the psychotherapy profession.
Fortunately, that goal has been reached as EFT has dramatically reduced therapy
time from months or years down to minutes or hours.
Along the way, we kept noticing that profound physical healings were also taking
place. Vision improved, headaches disappeared, cancer pains and symptoms
subsided and so on. The reason for this, we found, is that EFT addresses causes
that Western Healing Practices have largely ignored. Medicine, for example, pays
very little attention to disruptions in the body's energy meridians nor does it
give much weight to emotional causes. These causes, of course, are the
centerpiece of EFT.
Thus it is no wonder that EFT produces benefits where the medical profession has
thrown up its hands. The reason is simply because we are taking aim at causes
that others have largely disregarded.
This EFT Manual was written before I realized the profound and widespread nature
of the physical healings. Accordingly, it stresses the emotional healings and
doesn't cover the physical healings in nearly as dramatic a fashion as they
actually occur. Because it has proven to be such an effective teaching manual,
however, I have decided to leave it as is rather than modify it to emphasize
physical healings. It is the emotional and energetic causes that we need to
understand and those are profusely illustrated in these pages.
As a reminder, though, I am sprinkling reference to the physical healings
throughout this manual. Also, nothing contained herein is meant to replace
qualified medical advice.
Note to therapists, physicians, ministers and other members of the healing
professions:
This course represents a radical departure from conventional techniques.
Properly used, it should multiply your abilities several fold.
However, please know that it is aimed at professionals and lay people alike and
so is written in a casual, easy to understand style. The author has taken great
pains to bring this remarkable healing tool to the public in a practical way and
has purposely avoided the somewhat stodgy, hard to understand image of an
official text book.
That notwithstanding, the accuracy and completeness usually demanded by the
professional has been maintained, even though it has been interwoven between
metaphors and clip art. This is unconventional, of course, but so is Emotional
Freedom Techniques. If you are looking for convention, you came to the wrong
place.
The Easy Way to Take This Course
This section is important. It will save you a great deal of time and increase
your efficiency with EFT.
It is understandably human (I'm guilty of this too) for newcomers to glance at
this manual to get a few highlights and then dive directly into those enticing
videos. This, in the long run, will cost you because you are experiencing the
course out of order. For example, it may seem to you that I am violating in the
later videos what I preach in this manual. Not so. I am simply using effective
shortcuts (they can cut the time involved by more than 50%) and am building on
concepts developed in previous portions of the course. Further, important terms
such as "aspects", "psychological reversal" and "energy toxins" cannot be
properly understood without the requisite background. All of this is developed
and unfolded in an easy to understand manner if you take the course in the
proper order.
I spent two years and a boat full of money putting EFT together and did so in a
way that makes it easy to learn. So ... let me make the strong suggestion that
the EFT course be taken in the order it is presented. That's the easy way. Doing
it out of order is the hard way. It is like reading a book by first viewing
chapter 1, then chapter 8, then chapter 4 and then ignoring the rest of the
chapters figuring you know the rest anyway.
Enough said.
The Easy Way to Take the EFT Course Part I - The Basics
1. First, read the PART I section in the manual, going through the sections in
order. This is important even if you are an experienced therapist because the
later portions of the course build on the ideas and terminology contained in
these pages.
The main chapter in Part I is entitled "The Basic Recipe." It covers in detail
EFT's fundamental healing routine and is the pad from which everything else in
EFT is launched. As you will learn in Part II, however, you rarely need to do
the entire Basic Recipe. Various shortcuts almost always suffice. Nonetheless,
you need to know the full Basic Recipe as a foundation so that you can best use
the shortcuts and master the art of EFT. When you finish reading Part I, don't
go directly to Part II. That comes later.
2. Next, study the Part I videos. There are three of them and they are
recognizable by the blue print on their labels.
Video 1a augments Part I of this manual and shows you each of the tapping points
and all the routines involved in The Basic Recipe. Video 1b contains a session
that uses the full Basic Recipe to address, and resolves an intense fear of
water for a man named Dave. Please note that this is the only time in the entire
EFT course that the full Basic Recipe is used. This is done solely in the
interest of giving you a complete look at the foundational routine. All the rest
of the sessions in this course use the shortcuts. Dave's fear of water is a
complicated case in that there are several aspects to deal with before the
problem disappears. This makes it ideal for your education. Even though the
entire session takes only one hour (including an extensive interview before the
EFT process begins) it is, by EFT standards, tedious. By using the shortcuts,
the case could have been completed in a fraction of the time.
Videos 2a, 2b and 3 further your education by letting you look in on a workshop
and numerous individual sessions. Here you see more of the power of EFT as you
watch the shortcut versions of The Basic Recipe in action on a wide ranging
array of problems. The, shortcuts are not yet explained, however. That comes in
Part II.
3. Next, review pages 43 through 45 in this manual (about the audiotapes) and
then study the audiotapes for more case histories, and comments. The purpose of
these tapes is not to teach you how to do The Basic Recipe. That is done
elsewhere in the course. Rather, the purposes are: (1) to give you more
experience with the wide variety of the issues which EFT addresses, (2) to give
you a sense for the role that "aspects" often play in this process and (3) to
allow you to experience the varying responses people give to these procedures
(anywhere from enthusiasm to cautious disbelief).
Part II - Advanced
1. First, read the Part II section in the manual, going through the sections in
order. Here you will be introduced to the Impediments to Perfection (including
Energy Toxins), Shortcuts and other helpful tips for getting the most out of
EFT.
2. Then study the Part II videos. There are 8 of them and they are recognizable
by the red print on their labels. Video #I of Part II serves as a bridge between
Part I and Part 11 and is important to watch. The rest of the Part II videos
reveal live sessions and discussions that display the art of EFT. These are real
sessions just like the ones you face with yourself or clients and are a treasure
chest filled with examples of EFT in action. They profusely display the art of
EFT and should be studied several times to get the most out of them.
Table of Contents
EFT Part I
The basics of EFT and a step by step procedure for putting it into action.
Note: Shortcuts and other advanced concepts are developed in EFT Part II.
However, EFT Part I should be mastered first.
The clip art contained herein has been provided by the following: New Vision
Technologies, Inc. Corel, 3G Graphics, Inc., Archive Arts, Image Club Graphics,
Inc., Cartesia Software, One Mile Up, Inc., Techpool Studios, Totem Graphics,
Inc.
An Open Letter To all Emotional Freedom TechniquesTM students that
sets the stage and tells the "why" of this course. "Together we will build
within you a bridge to the land of personal peace."
Dear Friend, As I write this I'm at home....alone....on a Tuesday
evening. There's a light rain outside making gentle noises on the window. After
two years of writing and filming, EFT is complete. We are almost ready to "go to
press."
And five minutes ago the tears came rolling down my face.
And then I knew why I authored this course. What I mean is, I always knew
why...but I didn't know how to say it. And now I can put it in words. Here's the
story.
Five minutes ago I was reviewing a video that my associate, Adrienne Fowlie, and
I made at the Veterans Administration in Los Angeles. We spent 6 days there
using EFT to help our Vietnam vets get beyond the horrible memories of war. You
will see that tape as part of this course.
They had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which is among the most severe
forms of emotional disorders known. Every day these men relive the catastrophes
of war....like being forced to shoot innocent civilians (including young
children)....burying people in open trenches....and watching their own dear
friends die or become dismembered. The sounds of gunfire, bombs and screams
ricochet in their heads day and night. Sometimes only drugs ease the ever
present aches of war.
They sweat. They cry. They have headaches and anxiety attacks. They are
depressed and in pain. They have fears and phobias and are afraid to go to sleep
at night because of their nightmares. Many have been in therapy for 20
years....with very little relief.
I still remember how thrilled I was when the VA invited Adrienne and me to bring
EFT to our soldiers. They gave us free rein to counsel with these men in any way
we wanted. This would be the ultimate test regarding the power of EFT. If all it
did was make a modest, but noticeable, difference in the lives of these severely
disabled men, most people would have considered it successful. In fact, it did
much more.
The VA didn't pay us. They didn't have a budget for outside help like this. In
fact, we had to pay for our
own air fares, hotel bills, meals and car rentals. But we didn't care. We would
have paid much more just for the opportunity.
So anyway, this video I was watching was a summary of what happened during those
6 days. One section was all about Rich, who had been in therapy for 17 years for
his PTSD. He had:
**Over 100 haunting war memories, many of which he relived daily. **A major
height phobia....aggravated by having made over 50 parachute jumps.
**Insomnia....it took him 3 or 4 hours to get to sleep every night -- even under
quite strong medication.
After using EFT with him, every trace of those problems vanished.
Like most people, Rich had a hard time believing that these rather strange
appearing procedures would work. But he was willing to give them a try. We
started with his height phobia and after about 15 minutes with EFT, it was gone.
He tested it by going several stories up in a building and looking down over a
fire escape. To his amazement, he had no phobic reaction whatsoever. We then
applied EFT to several of his most intense war memories and neutralized all of
them within an hour. He still remembers them, of course, but they no longer have
any emotional charge.
We taught the techniques to Rich (just as you are being taught through this
course) so he could, by himself, work on the rest of his war memories. Within a
few days they were all neutralized. They no longer bothered him. As a result,
the insomnia went away and so did the insomnia medication (with the supervision
of his physician). Two months later I spoke with Rich on the phone. He was still
free of the problems.
That's real emotional freedom. It's the end of years of torment. It's like
walking out of a prison. And....I had the privilege of handing him the keys!!!
Man....what a feeling. This is the promise of EFT. Master it and you can do for
yourself, and others, what happened for Rich.
Then there was Robert, Gary, Phillip and Ralph who all had traumatic war
memories. In minutes, EFT
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provided relief for the memories we worked on. To see the smiles and hear the
gratitude was a form of joy that only tears can express. And then came the video
interview with Anthony.
Anthony was so frightened by his war experiences that he was afraid to go into a
public place....like a restaurant....for fear a Vietnamese soldier would come in
firing an AK47. He would freeze up at the mere thought of it. He knew, of
course, it wasn't logical but that didn't make the fear any better. That's what
PTSD is like.
After using EFT, Anthony went with us to a crowded restaurant and, in his words,
he "didn't have a nickel's worth of anxiety."The three of us, Adrienne, Anthony
and myself, casually laughed and joked while we had a leisurely dinner in this
restaurant, crowded with over 200 people. Anthony was completely relaxed. The
fear was gone. What movement! What a feeling to be able to make such a
difference in someone's life.
Then, in the interview on camera, he paused a minute and said, "God has blessed
me, I swear. I think it was my time to meet you guys."
And there...sitting in my living room...is when those happy tears went rolling
down my face.
The human value in this course deserves its own mountaintop.
Youcanliftyourselftonewlevelswith it. And, if you wish, you can use it to help
others and magnify your self worth in the process. How many thank you's would
you like? No greater reward could I give you. So now I hope you know my
motivation for writing this course. It is because God has blessed me, I swear.
It is my time to meet you!
Together we will build within you a bridge to the land of personal peace. Once
built, this bridge will become a lifetime skill that you can use to spread
emotional freedom...and joy....from yourself to others. And....it'spermanent.
Likegold...itdoesn'trustor
tarnish or become obsolete. It will always be there for you.
You and I may never meet face to face so I may not be able to see you and know
your warmth, as I did with Anthony. Our only connection may be limited to this
course. But that's OK. Whenever people join for the purpose of healing, they are
doing God's work. Love fills the space in between (however large) and helps it
happen. God does not require that we meet face to face.
You and I are about to travel together on a journey toward emotional freedom. It
will be like nothing you have experienced before....I promise. It is not a
mythical ride on a magic carpet that ends in illusion. It is a real ride
destined to give you real results....just like it did for our veterans.You will,
indeed, develop the ability to discard your fears, phobias, traumatic memories,
anger, guilt, grief and all other limiting emotions. And it won't take years and
years of painstakingly slow and financially draining sessions either. Often,
even the most severe negative emotions vanish in minutes. But I'm getting ahead
of myself. You will see all the proof you need as you learn this course and
apply these techniques to yourself.
You will also learn of their limitations. EFT doesn't do everything for
everyone. But what it does do will astonish you. It still astonishes me and I've
been doing it for years. EFT, by the way, does far more than what is covered in
this letter. I've just opened the lid a little here and let you peek in. The
rest of it will unfold as you turn these pages.
My Best Regards,
Gary H. Craig
P.S. As a reminder, please recall from our opening comments that the emotional
and energetic releases brought about by EFT frequently result in profound
physical healings.
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A Priceless Gift
A special dedication...a thank you...for those pioneers whose efforts have
helped launch EFT.
"We are on the ground floor of a Healing High Rise"
You and I have been given a priceless gift.
Unfortunately, we will never meet some of our benefactors because their
essential contributions were made over 5,000 years ago. These brilliant people
discovered, and mapped, the centerpiece of EFT, namely, the subtle energies that
course throughout the body.
These subtle energies are also the centerpiece of acupuncture and, as a result,
EFT and acupuncture are cousins. Both disciplines are growing rapidly and, as
time unfolds, they are destined to have a primary role in both emotional and
physical healing.
In more recent times, some other dedicated souls have advanced our use of these
ancient techniques. Principal among them is Dr. George Goodheart and his many
fine contributions to the field of Applied Kinesiology, a forerunner to EFT.
Dr. John Diamond's work gets exceptional applause because, to my knowledge, he
was one of the first psychiatrists to use, and write about, these subtle
energies. His many pioneering concepts, together with the advanced ideas from
Applied Kinesiology, has
formed the foundation upon which this new Healing High Rise is being
constructed.
Dr. Roger Callahan, from whom I received my original introduction to these
procedures, deserves all the credit history can give him. He was first to bring
these techniques to the public in a substantial way and did so despite open
hostility from his own profession. As you might appreciate, it takes heavy doses
of conviction to plow through the ingrained beliefs of conventional thinking.
Without Roger Callahan's missionary drive, we might still be sitting around
theorizing about this "interesting thing."
It is upon the shoulders of these giants that I humbly stand. My own
contribution to this rapidly expanding field has been to reduce the unnecessary
complexity that inevitably finds its way into new discoveries. EFT is an
elegantly simple version of these procedures that professionals and laypersons
alike can use on a wide variety of problems.
We are on the ground floor of a Healing High Rise and thus we have much to
learn. Accordingly, I am indebted to the many EFT practitioners that have
tirelessly contributed their innovations to our web site (www.emofree.com). They
are taking us to new levels.
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Here are some
Testimonial letters
from actual users of EFT
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NUTRITIONALS
BOB & DEBRA ACKERMAN INTELLIGENT WEIGHT MANAGEMENT HEALTH & FITNESS
Gary and Adrienne -
I wanted to thank you both for personally introducing me to EFT. I have a
pinched nerve in my neck which occasionally results in severe pain in my right
arm and hand, almost rendering it useless. The last episode was the worst and I
found no relief thru normal medication and methods for days that is, until your
seminar. Not only was I able to stop the pain immediately, when it recurred, I
could totally control it!
Thanks! Debra Ackerman
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Adrienne Fowlie Business Associate of Gary Craig 1102 Redwood Boulevard Novato,
CA 94947
Dear Adrienne: On Tuesday, July 21, I attended a Gary Craig "How to Drive Your
Own Bus"
seminar. I went for various personal reasons but I didn't go to have my fear of
heights resolved. It didn't even occur to me I could get rid of that fear until
Gary asked if there was anyone in the room who was afraid of heights. I raised
my hand and instantly got nervous, started to sweat and shake. I had a horrible
fear of heights and couldn't even stand on a chair comfortably.
Well, an amazing thing happened. He helped me through the EFT procedure and my
fear dissolved almost instantly. So quick in fact I am still having a
hard time believing it. As you know, you and I went upstairs to look out a
window and it didn't even phase me. The next day at work I looked over a second
story balcony and that didn't bother me.
Even more amazing is the fact that I have only been on a Ferris Wheel maybe 3
times in my whole life and I went to the Sonoma County Fair yesterday and rode
on one and wasn't even scared!!! That was the real test! The other times I was
on one I was petrified. I couldn't breathe. I would hyperventilate, sweat,
shake, it was unreal how I felt. Yesterday, I was totally relaxed and
comfortable. It was truly a miracle. My kids were shocked! They know how real my
fear used to be and now it's like it was never there.
By the way, I've only had to do the EFT procedures one other time since the time
Gary helped me and it was a few days before I went to the fair. I didn't even do
it the day of the fair!
Adrienne, I'm so very glad I met you both and I hope to see you again.
Sincerely,
Barbara Woolman
Barbara Woolman Santa Rosa, CA
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Note: Tim Clark is a prisoner in Folsom Prison who has suffered for years from
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He spent a few minutes using EFT in the
visiting room and all symptoms vanished. They have never returned. This
priceless letter was written on a prison typewriter and is preserved here
exactly as written.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN;
I don't know exactly what it is I'd like to express about the help gary has
brought into my life other than to simple say this.
In January of 1980 I was sentenced to the hole in SAN QUENTIN. This lasted til
my relearse on parole in April of 1982. during that time I picked up a case of
"POST TRAMADIC STRESS DISORDER".(P.T.S.D.)
Til I met gary I've lived with the stress disorder as a way of life. Pretty near
12 years.
Thanks to gary this is no longer the case. He came to visit me, (I am now in
FOLSOM PRISON) and cured me right in the visiting room. I to was a disbeliever
of his thoeries but no longer do I share that veiw.My thanks to you my friend,
WITH MUCH RESPECTS, TIMOTHY CLARK
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Greenwood & Co. COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE INCORPORATED
Mr. Gary Craig c/o Adrienne Fowlie Emotional Freedom TechniquesTM 1102 Redwood
Boulevard Novato, CA 94947
Dear Gary, I was one of the people who attended the Los Angeles seminar you
hosted for the
National Veterans Foundation last month where you demonstrated EFT to us. The
statement "all negative emotions are caused by an imbalance in the body's energy
system" is a bold statement. The notion that tapping the body to produce rapid
changes in these emotions really
asked a little more of my belief system than I could give without proof. To say
that phobias could be cured almost immediately or positive results could be
achieved in sports, business and addictions by using EFT was somewhat difficult
to believe to say the least.
After witnessing the extraordinary results you achieved with the people you
worked with in your seminar I used EFT to attempt to improve my golf score.
To my amazement and delight the immediate result, after three applications of
the technique, was to lower my golf score by ten (10) strokes from mid nineties
to mid or low eighties.
I am now, and have been since using your technique, staying consistently in the
low eighties on most courses.
I am now looking forward to similar results in the next application of your
technique which I choose for myself.
Thank you for this interesting fun tool. Best Regards,
Gray DeFevere
Gray DeFevere
1554 South Sepulveda Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90025
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Common sense would suggest that you wouldn't expect much in the way of negative
side effects from EFT. This is because there are:
No surgical procedures. No needles. No pills or chemicals. No pushing or pulling
on the body.
Instead, there are just a few seemingly harmless procedures that involve
tapping, humming, counting and rolling your eyes around in your head. By now
over 100,000 people have used EFT and the number of complaints are well under
1%.
Once in awhile someone might report feeling a little nauseous and, on occasion,
a few people report "feeling worse." Because these reports are so infrequent it
is unknown whether or not EFT actually caused the problem. Some people, by the
way, feel nauseous or "get worse" at the mere mention of their particular
problem. They will do so whether or not EFT is introduced.
EFT is still in its beginning stages and we have much to learn. Thus it is
possible that using EFT could be deleterious to someone. Accordingly, you should
assume that we are still in the experimental stage and use EFT with appropriate
caution.
Along these line I include below an important message that I provided for the
EFT email support list. It should be read carefully.
Don't go where you don't belong
Hi Everyone,
This is an important message and I have spent many hours writing and rewriting
it to "get it right". Fortunately, what I have to say here is obvious common
sense and 99% of you already understand what I have to say.
The bottom line here is that we need to use common sense with EFT and NOT apply
it to people with serious issues UNLESS we have the appropriate experience to do
so. While our fascination with these procedures gives us much cause for
enthusiasm, we must weigh that enthusiasm against some common sense caveats. Let
me explore both sides of this issue.
First, one of the delightful aspects of EFT (and its many cousins) is that, for
the vast majority of people, it
can be applied with little or no pain. Its gentle nature has prompted numerous
psychologists to write books on the topic so that the lay public will have
access to these procedures. And why not? Why deny the public access to tools
that are so often transformative on so many issues...and...for most people is
gentle and easy to apply?
Consider, for example, that....
Therapists are routinely teaching the process to their clients for use at home.
Teachers are learning it for use with their students. Coaches are learning it
for use with their athletes. Parents are learning it for use with their
children. Physicians are learning it for pain management with
their patients. Massage practitioners are blending it with their
existing procedures for longer and more lasting results. Spiritual leaders are
applying it to those in need. Chiropractors, acupuncturists and homeopathy
practitioners are augmenting their practices and teaching it to patients for
self use.
And so on it goes...
I don't know for sure how many tapping enthusiasts are now using these
procedures in behalf of others but I would estimate that it exceeds 100,000 and
it has probably been applied over 1 million times worldwide.
This wouldn't happen, of course, unless (1) substantial results were being
received and (2) perceived dangers, or negative side effects, were minimal.
While no experienced EFT'er can deny seeing substantial results, not everyone is
aware that, infrequently, there CAN BE negative side effects-- sometimes severe.
Let me explain.
Some people have been so badly traumatized and/or abused in their lifetimes that
they have developed severe psychological problems.... such as multiple
personalities, paranoia, schizophrenia and other serious mental disorders. While
EFT has been helpful even in such severe cases, IN THESE INSTANCES IT SHOULD
ONLY BE APPLIED BY A QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL WITH EXPERIENCE IN THESE DISORDERS.
Why? Because some of these patients experience "abreactions" whereby they go out
of control. During abreactions they can be harmful to themselves and others and
may need to be sedated or hospitalized. This, obviously, is no place for the
novice....no matter
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how enthusiastic one might be with the tapping procedures.
Incidentally, we don't know yet whether tapping actually causes such abreactions
or if it is just the memory of one's troublesome issues that precipitates such
problems. Nonetheless, if you have no experience in these areas, please don't go
where you don't belong.
How often do these abreactions happen? In a psychiatric hospital they are
common. In everyday society they are rare. I recently called several proficient
tappers that have dealt with a wide variety of emotional problems and learned
that less than 1 in 1,000 clients had experienced such a severe abreaction.
This minimal percentage is given for perspective onlyIt is not to suggest that
EFT'ers should "play the odds" and "go where they don't belong". On the
contrary, a novice EFT'er should use common sense and NOT TRY TO ALLEVIATE
AILMENTS THAT ARE BEYOND THEIR CAPACITY OR TRAINING.
I am well known for the phrase "Try it on everything!" This phrase appears in
the EFT manual, The EFT Course and on our web site. Its purpose, of course, is
to open up our minds to EFT's possibilities. It is not meant as a license for
irresponsible actions. Fortunately, people interpret this within a reasonable
context and do not, for example, use EFT to get someone to fly off the Empire
State Building.
On some occasions, people undergoing EFT have normal tears or other forms of
distress that accompany the recalling of their troublesome memories. On other
occasions some physical pains"getworse"--atleasttemporarily. The proficient and
experienced professional will greet these responses as normal and appropriately
apply EFT for their resolutionAgain, when these responses occur, common sense
must prevail. If the EFT'er is in over their head, they should refer the client
to someone with more experience.
Hugs, Gary
Accordingly, the following common sense statements constitute a legal agreement
between us. Please read these statements carefully.
**Adrienne and I are not psychologists, or therapists and have no licensing or
formal training in a university setting...other than my Stanford degree in
engineering.
**We are Personal Performance Coaches and our mission is to bring personal
performance tools to the attention of others. **Our quest is a spiritual one
and, accordingly, we are both duly ordained ministers.
**This course takes the form of a thorough demonstration of a very impressive
personal improvement tool. It is not a training in psychology or psychotherapy.
**Subject to the other provisions of this agreement, you may use EFT on behalf
of yourself or others. **Adrienne and I cannot and will not take responsibility
for what you do with these techniques. Accordingly...
**You are required to take complete responsibility for your own emotional and/or
physical well being both during and after taking this course. **You are also
required to instruct others whom you help with EFT, or to whom you teach EFT, to
take complete responsibility for their emotional and/or physical well being.
**You must agree to hold harmless Adrienne, myself and anyone involved with EFT
from any claims made by anyone whom you seek to help with EFT or to whom you
teach EFT.
**We urge you to use these techniques under the supervision of a qualified
therapist or physician. **Don't use these techniques to try to solve a problem
where your common sense would tell you it is not appropriate.
If you do not agree with the foregoing, or cannot comply, please pack up all
these materials right now and send them for a refund. Otherwise, we have an
agreement and I expect you to live by it.
I am quite aware that the above is common sense and I apologize if you think I
am talking to you like you were a 12 year old. I am only doing so because my
lawyer insists on it. Enough said.
Onward.
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What to Expect From This Course
Emotional Freedom -- Simplicity -- Healthy Skepticism Case Histories --
Repetition
Emotional Freedom
Perhaps I should be a bit more humble about it, but I think EFT will
dramatically change your world.
I know it seems like a bit of a stretch at this point but these techniques may
compete in importance with the Declaration of Independence. For some, they are
the Declaration of Independence.
By independence I mean freedom from negative emotions. That is, freedom that
allows you to blossom and rise above whatever hidden hurdles keep you from
performing to your capacity.
I mean freedom from years of self doubt...or call reluctance...or grief over the
loss of a loved one...or anger...or negative memories involving rape or other
forms of abuse.
I mean freedom to earn that greater income, make those business calls, start
that new business, improve your golf score, lose that weight, approach people
with ease or become a public speaker, singer or comedian.
I mean freedom from the anxiety that causes you to take those pills, drink that
alcohol, smoke those cigarettes or raid that refrigerator.
I mean freedom to express love easily and walk upon this planet with grace and
confidence.
I mean freedom from intense fears...or phobias...or anxiety...or panic
attacks...or post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...or addictive cravings...or
depression...or guilt...or...or...or...
Like I said, I think EFT will dramatically change your world.
**There is no long, drawn out, "tell me your life story" feature to EFT. **There
are no pills. **There is no painfully reliving past traumatic events.
**It doesn't take months or years. **It takes a fraction of the usual time and
is often done in minutes.
People simply get beyond their emotional luggage, usually permanently, and go
about their lives more effectively.
EFT is based on the discovery that imbalances in the body's energy system have
profound effects on one's personal psychology. Correcting these imbalances,
which is done by tapping on certain body locations, often leads to rapid
remedies. By rapid, I mean, most of the problems vanish in minutes!!! (This is
especially so when you reduce the problems to specific negative events in your
life. More on this later.)
This is demonstrated repeatedly in the case histories and live sessions that are
included with this course. A few problems take longer....maybe two or three
brief sessions. The most difficult ones tend to require anywhere from a few days
to several weeks. Fortunately, these are in the minority.
Simplicity
This course does not purport to teach you every intricacy regarding these
discoveries. That would take hundreds of pages and require you to delve into
such highly technical areas as quantum physics and morphogenetic fields. We cut
through all of that here and provide a simple, highly workable version for the
everyday citizen.
Taking this course is like learning to drive a car. You don't have to know all
the physics, chemistry, engineering and mathematics of an automobile in order to
learn how to drive it. But you do need to know about the gas pedal, the brake,
the steering wheel and the gear shift lever. With those basics you can drive on
most roads with ease.
My purpose here is to reduce a very complex subject to a few simple, easy to
understand procedures (gas pedal, brake, etc.). The shorter, and more concise I
can make them, the easier they will be to learn and use. And an easy to use,
powerful procedure for enhancing your personal performance is what you paid for.
Accordingly, this course is peppered with easy to grasp examples, pictures and
metaphors so that every piece of the EFT process will be clear and obvious.
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Healthy Skepticism
A new innovation usually meets with skepticism because it violates people's
beliefs. And EFT flies in the face of just about every belief there is about
psychology and emotional healing. Rapid remedies for "difficult" emotional
problems are, in some circles, considered impossible and anyone who purports to
do them rapidly is labeled a charlatan. "After all", the belief goes, "these
things are deeply ingrained in people and therefore they must take a long time
to remedy."
Beliefs are very powerful. We fight wars over them. We build monuments to them.
Medicine, psychology and political systems are built on them. But, alas,
sometimes they aren't true. We just think they are. Sometimes we believe in
fairy tales.
If your reaction to the promises made in the preceding pages includes an "it's
too good to be true" attitude...or anything like that...then I have probably
already violated your beliefs. This is healthy and to be expected. New ideas
should be subject to rigorous scrutiny. It lends them strength in the long run.
You hold in your hand a major innovation. As you will see, it is based on the
soundest of scientific principles. But because it is so dramatically different
from "conventional wisdom," it is consistently, and understandably, greeted with
skepticism. EFT is not alone in this. Other innovations have met with similar
attitudes. Here are a few quotes from history:
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
Lord Kelvin, President Royal Society
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Charles H. Duell, Director of U.S. Patent Office, 1899
"Sensible and responsible wo men do not want to vote." Grover Cleveland, 1905
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." Robert Milikan,
Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1923
"Who the heck wants to hear actors talk?" Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers
Pictures, 1927
But even if you have no skepticism whatsoever and soak this up quickly and
enthusiastically...like I did...I guarantee that you will run into major
skepticism from others
that you try to help with it. How do I know this? Years of experience. This
skepticism is not to be criticized, however. But it does need to be understood
because there are some unique features to it regarding EFT.
Here's an example. On many occasions I have demonstrated these techniques (to
newcomers) from the stage with 5 or 10 volunteers from the audience. Within a
few minutes at least 80% of them have obvious major reductions...or outright
eliminations...of physical and emotional problems. Fears subside, headaches go
away, breathing clears up and emotional trauma disappears. I then ask the
audience, "Who here is skeptical about this?" and, invariably, at least half of
the hands go up.
I then ask them if they think the changes these people made were real
and...yes...they always agree that the changes were real. After all, the people
who made the changes are usually strangers to me and friends of the audience.
They know the people are reporting honestly. " So why are you skeptical?", I
ask. And then I get a barrage of reasons as to why it worked....
**I am told that I hypnotized the people . This is interesting because I don't
know the first thing about hypnosis...and neither do the people who offer the
reason.
**I am told that it is just positive thinking. Even though they have never
before seen positive thinking make these kinds of changes this fast. **I am told
that the people just wanted to get over their problems. It was simply a case of
"mind over matter." Thenwhydidn'ttheygetovertheproblems before they came on
stage? **I am told that it won't last because there is no such thing as a "quick
fix." Yet they take drugs like penicillin to "quick fix" other ailments. **I am
told that the tapping techniques were distractions that took people's minds off
their problems. This ignores the requirement that people "tune in" to their
problem for EFT to work. It is the exact opposite of distraction.
Now here's what's really fascinating about this phenomenon....none of the
reasons given include EFT. EFT is somehow excluded from the list of
possibilities!!
What an odd reaction. You would think people, after seeing these unmistakable
benefits, would bombard me with questions as to how the techniques worked so
they could better understand the process. Instead, they tend to ignore the
process and offer other explanations. They don't ask me what happened. They tell
me instead.
They each reach into their own bag of knowledge and experience and link what
just happened to what
No Trespassing
Behind this wall are my existing beliefs
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they already "know" to be true. EFT isn't in that bag (yet) and so they have
difficulty making the link. Now I know how our scientists of several centuries
ago felt when they tried to tell flat earth believers that the world was round.
Hardly ever, does anyone say to me, "Oh...it's like you said. You balanced their
energy system while they were tuned in to the problem and thereby eliminated the
cause." Yet that is what happened. And it is exactly what I spent the previous
half hour telling the audience would happen. It is the only thing that happened
during the few minutes these people were on stage and it is the only thing that
brought about the changes.
I used to be critical about this and thought people were being belligerent,
stubborn or stupid."Why can't they see the obvious?", I would say to myself. But
then I realized that people weren't being belligerent, stubborn or stupid
because this reaction came from people from all walks of life. It didn't matter
whether they were bus drivers or PhD's. Some of my closest friends would simply
"explain away" these stunning results and snicker a bit at the "silliness" of
the process.
Often even the people making the changes will credit something else for creating
the change. And it's usually something totally unrelated like a recent
earthquake or a raise in pay they just received. Mind you, they don't deny the
change occurred or that it happened while doing EFT. They just aren't able to
link it with the tapping techniques. To them it doesn't compute. It doesn't make
sense. There must be some other explanation. Dr. Roger Callahan, from whom I
received my initial introduction to these procedures calls this the APEX
problem.
Again, it is not to be criticized. But it is important to observe and understand
because it does happen with great frequency. In fact, most people experience it
and, there is a high likelihood you are among them.
That's why I am telling you this. If you are not aware of it you may "explain it
away" and turn your back on your ticket to emotional freedom and all the
lifetime benefits it offers.
Another reason for skepticism is that EFT looks weird. I mean really, really
weird. These techniques will have you talking to yourself, rolling your eyes
around in your head and humming a song while tapping on various parts of your
body. They don't even remotely resemble psychology as most people know it and
may be waaaay outside your belief system. However once you understand the logic
behind them, these techniques become obvious. And you may wonder why they
weren't discovered earlier.
That being said, here's an interesting aside. You do not have to believe in
these techniques for them to work. Some people mistakenly conclude that EFT gets
results
simply because people believe in it. That is a particularly strange conclusion
because it is usually made by those who are skeptical.
The fact is, people rarely believe in these techniques at first. They are almost
always skeptical...at least to a degree. Despite the usual lack of belief by
newcomers the results obtained by EFT occur undiminished. People make their
improvements in spite of their skepticism.
Case Histories
As a child I was quite taken by the game of baseball and I used to dream about
playing center field for the New York Yankees. Batting looked so easy to do.
Just stand up there at the plate and hit the ball when it is thrown to you.
Hitting baseballs, of course, is a skill and it takes experience to become
proficient at it. The more fast balls, curves and sliders you see the better you
become. The same is true with EFT.
Memorizing the mechanics of EFT is easy. Applying it is almost as easy and you
can become proficient with the mechanics after just a handful of tries. However,
if you wish to master it you will need to diligently study the tapes in the EFT
Course (and our other tape sets) and use it on a wide variety of problems (fast
balls, curves and sliders) to perfect your skill. In short, you will need more
training and experience than what you are receiving with just this manual.
Perhaps the biggest limit you will encounter in using EFT is not recognizing how
much you can do with it. That is one of the reasons I am swamping you with case
histories in this course. You will find them written up in this manual. More
importantly, there are hours of them on the videos and more hours of them on the
audiotapes. These taped sessions are critical to your mastery of these
techniques because they bring EFT "off the written page" and display their
effectiveness in real life. Please study them in detail. They are actual
cases...done with real people and real problems...so you can broaden your
horizons.
You will witness some people getting over lifelong problems in moments while
others require persistence. You will hear EFT applied to some severe emotional
problems and watch them melt away right on the tape. You will also witness some
partial relief that doesn't go away completely. In short, these tapes give you a
rainbow of actual experience, a necessary background if you wish to graduate
from mechanical EFT to mastery.
Another reason I am immersing you in so many case histories is that I want to
expose you to so many people with dramatic changes from using EFT that you can't
possibly be skeptical.
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Even the most entrenched skeptic will not be able to withstand this barrage of
obvious evidence. EFT is everything I say it is....and more.
Repetition
I am a great believer in repetition. It is the most time honored teaching tool
on the planet and I use it relentlessly.
The more you are exposed to something the better you learn it. That's why you
will hear me come at these ideas from many different angles in this course. I
visit the same concepts repeatedly in this manual, the videos and the
audiotapes.
If you grow weary of hearing an idea repeatedly...be thankful. That means you
have learned it so well that it
now bores you a bit. That is far better than being exposed to an idea only once
and not have it take root in your memory. Because of the major importance of
these techniques to the quality of your life, I do you a shameful disservice if
I don't drum these crucial ideas home.
So...I repeat. Expect repetition in this course.
P.S. As a reminder, please recall from our opening comments that the emotional
and energetic releases brought about by EFT frequently result in profound
physical healings.
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The Science Behind EFT
An engineer looks at the science of psychology -- The body's energy system Dr.
Callahan's first experience The Discovery Statement -- The 100% overhaul concept
An engineer looks at the science of psychology
This course is written by a Stanford engineer. I'm not a psychologist with a
long list of initials behind my name. People call me Gary and not Dr. so and so.
If you are a conventional thinker, that might bother you. After all, what
business does an engineer have intruding into the field of psychology? The
physical
sciences and the mind sciences appear to have nothing in common. True.
But 40 years ago I realized that the quality of one's life was directly related
to their emotional health. Emotional health is the foundation beneath self
confidence and self confidence is the springboard to achievement in every walk
of life. This is not a new idea, of course.
Virtually everyone agrees with it and the self help section in every major
bookstore is burgeoning with books on the subject.
Most people take this idea for granted and read a book or attend a seminar on it
now and then. But I took it seriously...very seriously. As long as I'm going to
spend a few decades on this planet I might as well make it a joyous experience
for myself and others. So I went on a 40 year search to find tools that would
help people in this regard.
I read all those books (by the hundreds) and spent thousands of dollars on
seminars and tapes. I chased down every lead I could find with the enthusiasm of
a newspaper reporter on the hunt for that "big story." I talked to psychiatrists
and psychologists and psychotherapists of every kind to find what worked. And
EFT, by far, is the most fascinating, most rewarding, most effective tool I have
ever found for personal improvement. It lives up to its name and does, indeed,
provide freedom from negative emotions.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. I want to trace through some of the milestones
of my search because they form an important base on which to build your
introduction to this ingenious discovery.
First, please understand that I have never formally used my training as an
engineer. I have always chosen people oriented professions and have, at the same
time, always pursued my true passion as a Personal Performance Coach.
But that doesn't mean I wasn't influenced by my scientific training. Indeed,
that training led me to many useful personal performance tools. You see,
engineering is an exact science. It is very practical. Two plus two must equal
four. There is a reason for everything. Logic tends to rule in the thinking of
an engineer.
So, when I set out to find personal improvement tools I took that mindset with
me. To me a tool had to make sense...it had to be practical...it had to be
scientific. In short...if it didn't work in the real world I wasn't interested.
So I began reading those books and attending seminars on psychology. It was the
"logical" thing to do. But psychology was a puzzle to me. I was looking for the
same logic and precision that I was used to as an engineer but it didn't seem to
be there. After many years of probing the institution known as psychology I can
assure you that the science of engineering and the science of psychology bear
little relationship to each other.
On the surface, psychology seems to be very scientific. There are laboratories
in nearly every major university in America dedicated to research on
psychological issues. Theories are put forward and rigorously tested.
"Controlled" studies are done to assure the findings are valid. These studies
then form the basis of carloads of professional papers written by the most
highly esteemed practitioners in the field. It all seems very impressive and, in
many ways, it is.
All this research does uncover many valuable aspects to our thinking process and
our behaviors. They are used effectively in sales and advertising and many other
fields. But the vast majority of them do very little to give people rapid, long
lasting relief from their emotio nal problems.
I know that sounds a little irreverent and I mean no one disrespect. But by an
engineer's standards...that is a very true statement. There are some exceptions,
of course, but the vast majority of the conventional techniques have poor track
records.
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Please understand, this is not a criticism of psychotherapists. I find the
members of that profession to be among the most dedicated people on earth and I
count many of them as my personal friends. They are very caring individuals who
have great concerns for their patients. They work long hours and are constantly
seeking new ways to improve on the tools they have been given to work with.EFT
is a new tool for their "people helping toolbox" that contains a distinctly
scientific component. That scientific component would satisfy even the most
demanding engineer. It has to improve any therapist's performance.
Some people undergo therapy for months or years for relief from their fears,
anger, guilt, grief, depression, traumatic memories, etc. and make little or no
headway. So they switch therapists in hopes someone else has "the answer." The
results are often the same. They switch again...and again...and again. They
spend money. They spend time. They go through emotionally painful sessions. But
if anything positive happens for most of these people, it doesn't appear to be
much.
I found this rather curious. To me there was something obviously wrong with the
methods used because (1) they weren't working (at least by my standards) and (2)
they were painfully slow. So I asked therapists and patients, "Why does it take
so long to do so little?" The answers varied, of course, but generally speaking
they went something like this....
**"Well, the problem is deeply ingrained" or **"It is a deep scar" or **"We
don't know for sure...we are dealing with the mysteries of the mind, you know."
My engineering mind tossed these answers out immediately as convenient ways to
explain away, or rationalize, methods that just didn't do much. But to most
people they sounded good. They sounded reasonable. So they were accepted and
pursued. Besides, what else could be done? Real answers weren't available.
Also, I don't mean to imply here that no one gets any help or relief from
therapy. That just isn't so. Some do. But in general it is among the slowest,
most ineffective sciences on earth.
To this engineer the only scientific laboratory that counts is the real world
and there is only one criteria for whether or not a given psychological theory
is valid. Namely....does it work for the client?
If an engineer designs a computer, for example, it had better work in the real
world and work perfectly. Otherwise, consumers will return it promptly for a
refund and may send a nasty letter to boot. In emotional health, however, if a
new method seems to
work once in a while (and as long as it is not too radical) it is often heralded
as a breakthrough and the discoverer of the method gets rich by writing books
and giving lectures. Interesting...but that's the way it is.
In the early years of my search for personal improvement tools I considered
getting degrees in psychology. But the more I was exposed to that field the more
I concluded that to do so would work to my disadvantage. Why? Because I would
have to learn about methods that didn't work...at least by my standards.
I just couldn't see the merits in going through all that schooling to learn
something that, to me, was of questionable value. It would, paradoxically,
distract me from my true goal of finding personal improvement tools that work.
As the years went by I discovered a list of helpful tools that I used for myself
and taught to others. None of them, incidentally, came from psychology text
books. They were all well received and effective when properly applied.
One of the tools that I thought was quite helpful was Neuro Linguistic
Programming (also known as NLP). I dove into that head first and became quite
proficient at it. I became certified as a Master Practitioner and helped a lot
of people with it. I recommend anyone study it who is interested in personal
improvement.
Then my search for reliable personal improvement tools took a mega jump to a new
level. I was told about a psychologist in Southern California, Dr. Roger
Callahan, who was giving people relief from intense fears (phobias) in minutes.
So, ever the eager beaver, I called him immediately to inquire of his methods.
He told me that his methods weren't limited to just phobias. They applied to all
negative emotions.
That included depression, guilt, anger, grief, post traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) and any other negative emotion I could name. Furthermore, the method
usually only took minutes to perform and the result was usually permanent.
On the one hand I was enthusiastic about his claims. But I must also admit to a
fair amount of skepticism as well. The statement sounded a bit grandiose...even
to me. But I was still listening. Then he told me the method consisted of
tapping with the fingertips at the end points of the body's energy meridians.
"You mean meridians like in acupuncture?", I said. "Exactly," he replied.
"Hmmm",I thought, "That's a little far out." Here was a PhD making some
startling claims and
trying to explain them in terms of the subtle amounts of electricit
ythatcirculatethroughoutthebody. Psychology and electricity seemed rather far
apart to me
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but I bought some of his videos anyway so I could see a demonstration.
I was stunned by what I saw. Clearly and obviously people were getting beyond
the most intense of emotions and they were doing so in moments and...the results
were long lasting.
I had never seen anything close to this....anywhere.
I still didn't see the connection between emotions and the body's energy system
but it did have a scientific ring to me. Perhaps I was about to find a truly
scientific approach to psychology. Indeed, that is what I found. The true cause
of negative emotions, it turns out, is not where everyone thinks it is. It is
not where psychologists have been looking. That's why they haven't found it.
They have been looking in the wrong place.
Thecauseofallnegativeemotionsisinvolved with the body's energy system. This is
an important, paradigm shifting concept...even though it sounds a bit strange.
But the proof is in the results. For me, the only laboratory that counts is the
real world and that is where these techniques excel. You will see that
repeatedly throughout the live tapes included with this course. The speed,
efficiency and long lasting nature of these techniques is far beyond anything I
have come across in 40 years of intensive searching.
This discovery is the engine that runs EFT. Without it, this course wouldn't
exist. So to better build your understanding we need to focus a bit on that
vital energy system.
The body's energy system
Our bodies have a profound electrical nature. Any beginning course in anatomy
covers this. Shuffle your feet across a carpet and then touch an item made of
metal. Sometimes you can see the static electricity that is discharged from your
fingertip. This wouldn't be possible unless your body had an electrical nature
to it.
If you touch a hot stove you will feel the pain instantly because it is
electrically transmitted along the nerves to your brain. The pain travels at the
speed of electricity and that is why you feel pain so quickly. Electrical
messages are constantly sent throughout your body to keep it informed of what is
going on. Without this energy flow you would not be able to see, hear, feel,
taste or smell.
Another obvious bit of evidence regarding the existence of electricity (energy)
in the body are the electroencephalograph (EEG) and electrocardiograph
(EKG). The EEG records the electrical activity of the brain and the EKG records
the electrical activity of the heart. These devices have been used by medical
science for decades and are the ones you see in TV hospital dramas hooked up to
dying patients. When the screen stops "blipping" the patient is dead.
Our electrical systems are vital to our physic al health. What could be more
obvious? When the energy stops flowing....we die. Ask your doctor about this. No
one disputes it.
In fact, civilization has known about this for millenniums. About 5,000 years
ago, the Chinese discovered a complex system of energy circuits that run
throughout the body. These energy circuits...or meridians as they are
called...are the centerpiece of Eastern health practices and form the basis for
modern day acupuncture, acupressure and a wide variety of other healing
techniques.
This energy courses through the body and is invisible to the eye. It cannot be
seen without high tech equipment. By analogy, you do not see the energy flowing
through a TV set either. You know it is there, however, by its effects. The
sounds and pictures are your ever present evidence that the energy flow exists.
In the same way, EFT gives you striking evidence that energy flows within your
body because it provides the effects that let you know it is there. By simply
tapping near the end points of your energy meridians you can experience some
profound changes in your emotional and physical health. These changes would not
occur if there was no energy system.
Western medical science tends to focus on the chemical nature of the body and
has not paid much attention to these subtle, but powerful, energy flows until
recent years. However, they do exist and are attracting an expanding group of
researchers. Read the following for more details:
**Becker, Robert O. and Selden, Gary. The Body Electric. Morrow, NY, 1985
**Becker, Robert O. Crosscurrents. Tarcher, NY, 1992
**Burr, H.S. Blueprint for immortality: the electric patterns of life. Neville
Spearman, London, 1972 **Nordenstrom, B. Biologically closed electric circuits:
clinical, experimental and theoretical evidence for an additional circulatory
system. Nordic, Stockholm, 1983.
A growing number of health practitioners are finding ways to use this vital
energy system to help physical healing. Acupuncture, massage therapy and
chiropractic are but a few of them. Bookstore shelves
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are loaded with books on energy meridian techniques to promote good physical
health.
Dr. Callahan's first experience
The science behind EFT was not developed like many other discoveries. That is,
it was not created in a laboratory and then tested in the real world. Instead, a
stunning turn of events in the real world pointed the way first. Here's the
story.
In 1980 Dr. Roger Callahan was working with a patient, Mary, for an intense
water phobia. She suffered from frequent headaches and terrifying nightmares,
both of which were related to her fear of water. To seek help, she had been
going from therapist to therapist for years....with no material improvement.
Dr. Callahan tried to help her by conventionalmeans for a year and a half. He
didn't make much headway either.
Then one day he stepped outside the normal "boundaries" of psychotherapy. Out of
curiosity, he had been studying the body's energy system and decided to tap with
his fingertips under her eyes (an end point of the stomach meridian). This was
prompted by her complaint of some stomach discomfort.
To his astonishment, she announced immediately that her phobia was gone and she
raced down to a nearby swimming pool and began throwing water in her face. No
fear. No headaches. It all went away....including the nightmares. And it has
never returned. She is totally free of her water phobia. Results like that are
rare in the field of psychotherapy...but commonplace with EFT.
The Discovery Statement
Now, with this in mind, here's the essence behind EFT. We will refer to it
henceforth as the "Discovery Statement."
Let's put this in terms of Mary's water phobia. When she was experiencing her
fear, the energy flowing through her stomach meridian was disrupted. That energy
imbalance is what was causing her emotional
intensity. Tapping under her eyes sent pulses through the meridian and fixed the
disruption. It balanced it out. Once the energy meridian was balanced the
emotional intensity....the fear....went away. Therein lies the most powerful
thing you are ever going to learn about your unwanted emotions. They are caused
by energy disruptions.
Now, let's examine the discovery statement in more detail. First, notice what it
does not say. It does not say that a negative emotion is caused by the memory of
a past traumatic experience. This is important to recognize because that
presumed connection of traumatic memories to negative emotions is a mainstay in
conventional psychotherapy.
In some circles, it is the accepted practice to "treat the memory" and, in the
process, ask the client to repeatedly relive some emotionally painful event.
EFT, by contrast, respects the memory but addresses the true cause....a
disruption in the body's energy system.
People call me from all over the country for help over the telephone. Without my
asking, they invariably start telling me in detail about their past traumas.
That's because they mistakenly believe I need all these details to help them. To
them, these memories are the cause of their problems.
I care deeply about helping people who needlessly carry around all these
emotionally charged memories. That's why I created this course. But it always
seems strange to people when I tell them they don't need to painfully relive all
those horrid details for EFT to help them. These memories may contribute to an
unwanted emotion (you'll see how later), but they are not the direct cause.
Accordingly, we don't need to spend time painfully dwelling on them. It is
superfluous to do so.
Thus there is relatively little emotional suffering involved with EFT. It is
relatively painless. You will be asked to briefly recall your problem (there may
be some discomfort in that), but that is all. There is no need to relive the
pain. In fact, with EFT, generating prolonged emotional discomfort is frowned
upon. This is but one example of where EFT is a radical departure from
conventional methods.
As a further aid to your learning, it might help if you compare the energy flow
in your body to that of a TV set. As long as the electricity flows through your
TV normally, the sound and picture are both clear. But what would happen if you
took
off the back of the TV set and poked a screwdriver amongst all that "electronic
spaghetti?" You would, quite obviously, disrupt or reroute the flow of
electricity and an electric "zzzzzt" would occur inside. The picture and sound
would become erratic
The Discovery Statement
"The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system.
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and the TV would exhibit its version of a "negative emotion."
In the same manner, when our energy systems become imbalanced, we have an
electrical "zzzzzt" effect going on inside. Straighten out this "zzzzzt" (by
tapping—sometimes skillful artistry is necessary—see the tapes) and the negative
emotion goes away. It's that simple. I'mwellawareofhowstrangethismaysound and
how difficult it can be to believe....at least at first. I wouldn't believe it
myself if I hadn't seen so many marvelous changes in people after applying these
techniques.
The intermediate step...the missing piece. Once you accept it, though....once
you "let it in"....its logic becomes undeniable. It becomes obvious and you
begin to see all the weaknesses in other methods.
For example, the "treat the memory" method mentioned above becomes glaringly
erroneous in the light of these discoveries. It is assumed, in that method, that
the past traumatic memory is the direct cause of the emotional upset in someone.
It is not. There is an intermediate step...a missing piece...between the memory
and the emotional upset. And that intermediate step, of course, is the
disruption in the body's energy system. It is that disruption, the "zzzzzt",
that is the direct cause of the emotional upset. This is portrayed graphically
below.
Please note that if step 2, the intermediate step, does not occur then step 3 is
impossible . In other words...if the memory does not cause a disruption in the
body's energy system then the negative emotion cannot occur.
That is why some people are bothered by their memories and others are not. The
difference is that some people have a tendency for their energy systems to
become imbalanced under such a memory, while others do not.
With this in mind, it is easy to see how the "treat the memory" method misses
the mark. It addresses step 1 and ignores step 2.
This is why some people tend to get worse when conventional psychology aims for
the memory and not its cause (the energy disruption). Addressing step 1 by
requiring someone to vividly relive a distressing memory serves to induce more
disruption in the energy system. And that means more pain, not less. It can, and
often does, aggravate the problem. If step 2 was
addressedinsteadofstep1,thentherewouldbe relatively little pain. The energy
system would be balanced (by appropriate tapping) and internal calm would
replace the negative emotion. The result would be rapid relief because the true
cause was being addressed. This happens repeatedly with EFT.
Now back again to the "Discovery Statement." Please notice that it is all inc
lusive. It says, "The cause of ALL negative emotions is a disruption in the
body's energy system." This includes fears, phobias, anger, grief, anxiety,
depression, traumatic memories, PTSD, worry, guilt and all limiting emotions in
sports, business and the performing arts. That's a comprehensive list and covers
just about every restrictive emotion we can experience.
Differently stated, this means that all these negative emotions have the same
cause....an electrical "zzzzzt" in the body. It also means...they can all be
relieved in a similar manner.
Thus, grief has the same basic cause as trauma, guilt, fear and a baseball
player's hitting slump. So the same general method can be used for all these
problems. This "one cause" idea is also a blessing for mental health
professionals. They are accustomed to an endless, ever changing number of
explanations for the seemingly countless emotional concerns of their clients. To
learn that there is only one cause greatly simplifies their efforts.
Can you diagnose for energy imbalances? Yes, the existence of any energy
imbalance can be detected using some unique muscle testing diagnostic
techniques. Anyone skilled in these techniques could
How a negative emotion is caused
Step 1
Step 2 The Intermediate Step
Step 3
"zzzzzt"
A disruption in the body's energy system
Distressing Memory
Negative Emotion
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discern which energy meridian(s) were out of balance and would then know
precisely where to tap—at least that's the theory. You need to know, though,
that muscle testing requires a great deal of practice and very few become
skillful at it.
An end run around diagnosis. However, you don't have to know anything about
diagnosis to have success with EFT. This is my contribution to these
discoveries. EFT creates an effective end run around diagnosis. This is not to
say that the ability to diagnose is unimportant. In fact, I teach an elegant
version of diagnosis in our tape set, "Steps toward becoming The Ultimate
Therapist." Professional therapists, especially those dealing with clinically
disturbed patients, will want to go this extra step.
However, the "100% overhaul concept" (described next) works admirably as a
substitute. Diagnosis is not necessary for the majority of issues with the
majority of people.
The 100% overhaul concept
To understand how this end run works, let's go back to our TV set analogy.
Suppose your TV picture is fuzzy....there is a "zzzzzt" somewhere inside....and
you want it repaired. Now suppose further that your TV repairman has no tools
with which to diagnose the problem. He has no way of telling whether you need
something major like a new picture tube or something minor like a new capacitor.
How then, does he repair your TV?
Here's the answer: In order to fix your TV...he overhauls the whole thing--just
as an auto mechanic might overhaul an entire engine. He replaces every
electronic gizmo in sight....the picture tube, the resistors, all the wires,
every capacitor, etc. Is he overdoing it a bit? Oh sure!. But the important
question is, "Is he likely to fix the problem?" Oh sure again! In fact, since he
is replacing everything, his odds approach 100%.
Of course the overhaul will be of limited help if the TV is located in a poor
reception area where interference is present. But that's usually not the case.
By the same token, a few people (less than 5%) have energy systems that are
subject to substantial
interference by allergic type reactions. We will discuss more on this topic
later.
TheBasicRecipe. The100%overhaulconceptis EFT's end run around diagnosis. We
overdo it. We use a memorized process called The Basic Recipe with which we
apply enough tapping procedures to overhaul the whole energy system. This way,
our odds of fixing the specific energy imbalance, or "zzzzzt," are greatly
enhanced....even though we have no ability to diagnose.
The only difference between the TV repairman and EFT is that our overhaul takes
only a few minutes.....not days. Therefore it is very practical to do.
The 100% overhaul concept requires that you tap near the end points of numerous
energy meridians without knowing which of them may be disrupted. In this way you
"overtap" and will, in the process, tap on some energy meridians that are
flowing normally. You might wonder if this does any harm. The answer is no. Thus
"overtapping", as EFT requires, has the same effect as overhauling a TV set. No
harm done....and you'll probably fix what's wrong.
Summarysofar. Tothispointwehavecovered some basic background and discussed what
to expect. We have also developed the science behind the techniques and have
learned that, "The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's
energy system." This is a radically new discovery and requires thinking outside
the normal boundaries to be truly appreciated.
We also learned that diagnosing for energy imbalances can be important but is
impractical, and unnecessary, to teach in this course. Fortunately, diagnosis
can be avoided in a great majority of cases by using the 100% overhaul concept.
The 100% overhaul concept requires a memorized tapping procedure. This procedure
is the centerpiece of EFT and is referred to as The Basic Recipe. It is your
primary tool and "best friend" for emotional freedom. You now have the necessary
background to appreciate its power. We cover it next.
P.S. As a reminder, please recall from our opening comments that the emotional
and energetic releases brought about by EFT frequently result in profound
physical healings.
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1. 2. 3. 4.
The Setup The Sequence The 9 Gamut Procedure The Sequence
The Basic Recipe
Like Baking a Cake -- The Setup The Sequence -- 9 Gamut Procedure -- The
Sequence (again) The Reminder Phrase -- Adjustments for Subsequent Rounds
Like Baking a Cake
Our end goal in this course is to equip you with an easy to use recipe for
expanding your emotional freedom. I call it The Basic Recipe and the pages that
follow are dedicated to its development.
A recipe, of course, has certain ingredients which must be added in a certain
order. If you are baking a cake, for example,
you must use sugar instead of pepper and you must add the sugar before you put
it in the oven.
Otherwise....no cake. The Basic Recipe is no exception. Each
ingredient must be performed precisely as described and they must be introduced
in the proper order. Otherwise....no result.
Although I am going to some length to describe it in detail, The Basic Recipe is
very simple and easy to do. Once memorized, each round of it can be performed in
about 1 minute. It will take some practice, of course, but after a few tries the
whole process becomes familiar and you can bake that emotional freedom cake in
your sleep. You will then be well on your way to mastery of EFT and all the
rewards it provides.
Let me interject here that various shortcuts are available and described in Part
II of this manual and on Video #1 of Part II. I am describing the full Basic
Recipe here because it provides an important foundation to the whole process.
However, the proficient practitioner may want to use the shortcuts because they
cut the average time involved by at least half.
The full Basic Recipe consists of four ingredients...two of which are identical.
They are:
They are each treated in detail below.
Ingredient #1...The Setup
Applying The Basic Recipe is something like going bowling. In bowling, there is
a machine that sets up the pins by picking them up and arranging them in perfect
order at the end of the alley. Once this "setup" is done, all you need to do is
roll the ball down the alley to knock over the pins.
In a similar manner, The Basic Recipe has a beginning routine to "set up" your
energy system as though it was a set of bowling pins. This rout ine (called The
Setup) is vital to the whole process and prepares the energy system so that the
rest of The Basic Recipe (the ball) can do its job.
Your energy system, of course, is not really a set of bowling pins. It is a set
of subtle electric circuits. I present this bowling analogy only to give you a
sense for the purpose of The Setup and the need to...make sure your energy
system is properly oriented before attempting to remove its disruptions.
Your energy system is subject to a form of electrical interference which can
block the balancing effect of these tapping procedures. When present, this
interfering blockage must be removed or The Basic Recipe will not work. Removing
it is the job of The Setup.
Technically speaking, this interfering blockage takes the form of a polarity
reversal within your energy system. This is not the same thing as the energy
disruptions which cause your negative emotions.
Another analogy may help us here. Consider a typical hand held electronic device
such as a tape recorder. Like all such devices, it needs batteries to work and,
equally important, the batteries must be installed properly. You've noticed, I'm
sure, that batteries have + and - marks on them. Those marks indicate their
polarity. If you line up those + and - marks according to the instructions, then
the
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electricity flows normally and your tape recorder works fine.
But what happens if you put the batteries in backwards? Try it sometime. The
tape recorder will not work. It acts as if the batteries have been removed.
That's what happens when polarity reversal is present in your energy system.
It's like your batteries are in backwards. I don't mean you stop working
altogether....like turn "toes up" and die....but your progress does become
arrested in some areas.
This polarity reversal has an official name. It is called Psychological Reversal
and represents a fascinating discovery with wide ranging applications in...all
areas of healing and personal performance.
It is the reason why some diseases are chronic and respond very poorly to
conventional treatments. It is also the reason why some people have such a
difficult time losing weight or giving up addictive substances. It is, quite
literally, the cause of self sabotage. An entire course could be dedicated to
its uses and it is covered in detail in Part II of this course.
For now, however, we need only know some foundational things about Psychological
Reversal that apply to EFT and...more importantly...how to correct it.
Psychological Reversal is caused by self defeating, negative thinking which
often occurs subconsciously and thus outside of your awareness. On average, it
will be present...and thus hinder EFT...about 40% of the time. Some people have
very little of it (this is rare) while others are beset by it most of the time
(this also is rare). Most people fall somewhere in between these two extremes.
It doesn't create any feelings within you so you won't know if it is present or
not. Even the most positive people are subject to it....including yours truly.
When it is present it will stop any attempt at healing, including EFT, dead in
its tracks. Therefore...It must be corrected if the rest of The Basic Recipe is
going to work.
Being true to the 100% overhaul concept we correct for Psychological Reversal
even though it might not be present. It only takes 8 or 10 seconds to do and, if
it isn't present, no harm is done. If it
is present, however, a major impediment to your success will be out of the way.
That being said, here's how The Setup works. There are two parts to it...
1.You repeat an affirmation 3 times while you...
2. Rub the "Sore Spot" or, alternatively, tap the "Karate Chop" point (these
will be explained shortly).
The Affirmation
Since the cause of Psychological Reversal involves negative thinking it should
be no surprise that the correction for it includes a neutralizing affirmation.
Such is the case and here it is.
Even though I have this _____________, I deeply and completely accept myself.
The blank is filled in with a brief description of the problem you want to
address. Here are some examples.
**Even though I have this fear of public speaking, I deeply and completely
accept myself. **Even though I have this headache, I deeply and completely
accept myself. **Even though I have this anger towards my father, I deeply and
completely accept myself. **Even though I have this war memory, I deeply and
completely accept myself. **Even though I have this stiffness in my neck, I
deeply and completely accept myself. **Even though I have these nightmares, I
deeply and completely accept myself. **Even though I have this craving for
alcohol, I deeply and completely accept myself. **Even though I have this fear
of snakes, I deeply and completely accept myself. **Even though I have this
depression, I deeply and completely accept myself.
This is only a partial list, of course, because the possible issues that are
addressable by EFT are endless. Please note that in the videos and audiotapes
included with this course, Adrienne and I apply various forms of this
affirmation. You may hear us use affirmations like...
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**"I accept myself even though I have this_________."or **"Even though I have
this ____________, I deeply and profoundly accept myself."
or
**"I love and accept myself even though I have this_______________."
All of these affirmations are correct because they follow the same general
format. That is....they acknowledge the problem and create self acceptance
despite the existence of the problem. That is what's necessary for the
affirmation to be effective. You can use any of them but I suggest you use the
recommended one because it is easily memorizable and has a good track record at
getting the job done.
Now here are some interesting points about the affirmation...
**It doesn't matter whether you believe the affirmation or not....just say it.
**It is better to say it with feeling and emphasis but saying it routinely will
usually do the job. **Itisbesttosayitoutloudbutifyouareina social situation
where you prefer to mutter it under your breath....or do it silently....then go
ahead. It will probably be effective.
To add to the effectiveness of the affirmation, The Setup also includes the
simultaneous rubbing of a "Sore Spot"....or....tapping on the "Karate Chop"
point. They are described next.
The Sore Spot
There are two Sore Spots and it doesn't matter which one you use. They are
located in the upper left and right portions of the chest and you find them as
follows:
Go to the base of the throat about where a man would knot his tie. Poke around
in this area and you will find a U shaped notch at the top of your sternum
(breastbone). From the top of that notch go down 3 inches toward your navel and
over 3 inches to your left (or right). You should now be in the upper left (or
right) portion of your chest. If you press vigorously in that area (within a 2
inch radius) you will find a "Sore Spot." This is the
place you will need to rub while saying the affirmation.
This spot is sore when you rub it vigorously because lymphatic congestion occurs
there. When you rub it, you are dispersing that congestion. Fortunately, after a
few episodes the congestion is all dispersed and the soreness goes away. Then
you can rub it with no discomfort whatsoever.
I don't mean to overplay the soreness you may feel. It's not like you will have
massive, intense pain by rubbing this Sore Spot. It is certainly bearable and
should cause no undue discomfort. If it does, then lighten up your pressure a
little.
Also, if you've had some kind of operation in that area of the chest or if
there's any medical reason whatsoever why you shouldn't be probing around in
that specific area then switch to the other side. Both sides are equally
effective. In any case, if there is any doubt, consult your health practitioner
before proceeding....or....tap the "Karate Chop" point instead.
The Karate Chop Point
The Karate Chop point (abbreviated KC) is located at the center of the fleshy
part of the outside of your hand (either hand) between
the top of the wrist and the base of the baby finger or....stated
differently....the part of your hand you would use to deliver a karate chop.
Instead of rubbing it as you would the Sore Spot, you vigorously tap the Karate
Chop point with the fingertips of the index finger and middle finger of the
other hand.While you could use the Karate Chop point of either hand, it is
usually most convenient to tap the Karate Chop point of the non- dominant hand
with the two fingertips of the dominant hand. If you are right handed, for
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example, you would tap the Karate Chop point on the left hand with the
fingertips of the right hand.
Should you use the Sore Spot or the Karate Chop point? After years of experience
with both methods, it has been determined that rubbing the Sore Spot is a bit
more effective than tapping the Karate Chop point. It doesn't have a commanding
lead by any means but it is preferred.
Because The Setup is so important in clearing the way for the rest of The Basic
Recipe to work, I urge you to use the Sore Spot rather than the Karate Chop
point. It puts the odds a little more in your favor. However, the Karate Chop
point is perfectly useful and will clear out any interfering blockage in the
vast majority of cases. So feel free to use it if the Sore Spot is inappropriate
for any reason.
You will notice on the videos that I often instruct people to tap the Karate
Chop point instead of rub the Sore Spot. That's because it is easier to teach
when I'm on stage.
Stepping Through It
Now that you understand the parts to The Setup, performing it is easy. You
create a word or short phrase to fill in the blank in the affirmation and
then...simply repeat the affirmation, with emphasis, 3 times while continuously
rubbing the Sore Spot or tapping the Karate Chop point.
That's it. After a few practice rounds, you should be able to perform The Setup
in 8 seconds or so. Now, with The Setup properly performed, you are ready for
the next ingredient in The Basic Recipe....The Sequence.
Ingredient #2...The Sequence
The Sequence is very simple in concept. It involves tapping on the end points of
the major energy meridians in the body and is the method by which the "zzzzzt"
in the energy system is balanced out. Before locating these points for you,
however, you need a few tips on how to carry out the tapping process.
Tapping tips: You can tap with either hand but it is usually more convenient to
do so with your dominant hand (e.g. right hand if you are right handed).
Tap with the fingertips of your index finger and middle finger. This covers a
little larger area than
just tapping with one fingertip and allows you to cover the tapping points more
easily.
Tap solidly but never so hard as to hurt or bruise yourself.
Tap about 7 times on each of the tapping points. I say about 7 times because you
will be repeating a "reminder phrase" (covered later) while tapping and it will
be difficult to count at the same time. If you are a little over or a little
under 7 (5 to 9, for example) that will be sufficient.
Most of the tapping points exist on either side of the body. It doesn't matter
which side you use nor does it matter if you switch sides during The Sequence.
For example, you can tap under your right eye and, later in The Sequence, tap
under your left arm.
The points: Each energy meridian has two end points. For the purposes of The
Basic Recipe, you need only tap on one end to balance out any disruptions that
may exist in it. These end points are near the surface of the body and are thus
more readily accessed than other points along the meridians that may be more
deeply buried. What follows are instructions on how to locate the end points of
those meridians that are important to The Basic Recipe. Taken together....and
done in the order presented....they form The Sequence.
**At the beginning of the eyebrow, just above and to one side of the nose. This
point is abbreviated EB
for beginning of the EyeBrow.
**On the bone bordering the outside corner of the eye. This point is abbreviated
SE for Side of the Eye.
**On the bone under an eye about 1 inch below your pupil. This point is
abbreviated UE for Under the Eye.
**On the small area between the bottom of your nose and the top of your upper
lip. This point is abbreviated UN for Under the Nose.
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**Midway between the point of your chin and the bottom of your lower lip. Even
though it is not directly on the point of the chin, we call it the chin point
because it is descriptive enough for people to understand easily. This point is
abbreviated Ch for Chin.
**The junction where the sternum (breastbone), collarbone and the first rib
meet. To locate it, first place your forefinger on the U-shaped notch at the top
of the breastbone (about where a man would knot his tie). From the bottom of the
U, move your forefinger down toward the navel 1 inch and
then go to the left (or right) 1 inch. This point is abbreviated CB for
CollarBone even though it is not on the collarbone (or clavicle) per se. It is
at the beginning of the collarbone and we call it the collarbone point because
that is a lot easier to say than "the junction where the sternum (breastbone),
collarbone and the first rib meet."
**On the side of the body, at a point even with the nipple (for men) or in the
middle of the bra strap (for women). It is about 4 inches below the armpit. This
point is abbreviated UA for Under the Arm.
**On the outside edge of your thumb at a point even with the base of the
thumbnail. This point is abbreviated Th for Thumb.
**On the side of your index finger (the side facing your thumb) at a point even
with the base of the fingernail. This point is abbreviated IF for Index Finger.
**On the side of your middle finger (the side closest to your thumb) at a point
even with the base of the fingernail. This point is abbreviated MF for Middle
Finger.
**On the inside of your baby finger (the side closest to your thumb) at a point
even with the base of the fingernail. This point is abbreviated BF for Baby
Finger.
**The last point is the karate chop point....which has been previously described
under the section on The Setup. It
is located in the middle of the fleshy part on the outside of the hand between
the top of the wrist bone and the base of the baby finger. It is abbreviated KC
for Karate Chop.
**For men, one inch below the nipple. For ladies, where the underskin of the
breast meets the chest wall. This point is abbreviated BN for Below Nipple.As
discussed below, this point has been added for this edition.
BN
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The abbreviations for these points are summarized below in the same order as
given above.
EB = Beginning of the EyeBrow SE=SideoftheEye UE = Under the Eye UN = Under the
Nose
Ch = Chin CB = Beginning of the CollarBone UA = Under the Arm BN=BelowtheN ipple
Th = Thumb IF= Index Finger MF = Middle Finger BF = Baby Finger KC = Karate Chop
Please notice that these tapping points proceed down the body. That is, each
tapping point is below the one before it. That should make it a snap to
memorize. A few trips through it and it should be yours forever.
Also note that the BN point has been added since the making of the videos that
accompany this course. It was originally left out because it was awkward for
ladies to tap while in social situations (restaurants, etc.). Even though the
EFT results have been superb without it, I include it now for completeness.
Ingredient #3...The 9 Gamut Procedure
The 9 Gamut Procedure is, perhaps, the most bizarre looking process within EFT.
Its purpose is to "fine tune" the brain and it does so via some eye movements
and some humming and counting. Through connecting nerves, certain parts of the
brain are stimulated when the eyes are moved. Likewise the right side of the
brain (the creative side) is engaged when you hum a song and the left side (the
digital side) is engaged when you count.
The 9 Gamut Procedure is a 10 second process wherein 9 of these "brain
stimulating" actions are performed while continuously tapping on one of the
body's energy points.....the Gamut point. It has been found, after years of
experience, that this routine can add efficiency to EFT and hastens your
progress towards emotional freedom....especially
when sandwiched between 2 trips through The Sequence.
One way to help memorize The Basic Recipe is to look at it as though it was a
ham sandwich. The Setup is the preparation for the ham sandwich and the sandwich
itself consists of two slices of bread (The Sequence) with the ham, or middle
portion, as the 9 Gamut Procedure. It looks like this...
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The Ham Sandwich
The Setup
The Sequence (Bread) 9 Gamut (Ham) The Sequence (Bread)
To do the 9 Gamut Procedure, you must first locate the Gamut point. It is on the
back of either hand and is 1/2 inch behind the midpoint between the knuckles at
the base of the ring finger and the little finger. If you draw an imaginary line
between the knuckles at the base of the ring finger and little finger and
consider that line to be the base of an equilateral triangle whose other sides
converge to a point (apex) in the direction of the wrist, then the gamut point
would be located at the apex of the triangle.
Next, you must perform 9 different actions while tapping the Gamut point
continuously. The 9 Gamut actions are:
1.Eyes closed. 2.Eyes open. 3.Eyes hard down right while holding the head
steady. 4.Eyes hard down left while holding the head
steady. 5.Roll eyes in a circle as though your nose was at
the center of a clock and you were trying to see
all the numbers in order. 6.Same as #5 only reverse the direction in which
you roll your eyes. 7.Hum 2 seconds of a song (suggest Happy
Birthday). 8.Count rapidly from 1 to 5. 9.Hum 2 seconds of a song again.
Note that these 9 actions are presented in a certain order and I suggest that
you memorize them in the order given. However, you can mix the order up if you
wish so long as you do all 9 of them....and....you perform 7, 8 and 9 as a unit.
That is, you hum 2 seconds of a song...then count...then hum the song again, in
that order. Years of experience have proven this to be important.
Also, note that for some people humming Happy Birthday causes resistance because
it brings up memories of unhappy birthdays. In this case, you can either use EFT
on those unhappy memories and resolve them...or...you can side step this issue
for now by having them hum some other song.
Ingredient #4...The Sequence (again)
The fourth...and last...ingredient in The Basic Recipe was mentioned above. It
is an identical trip through The Sequence.
The Reminder Phrase
Once memorized, The Basic Recipe becomes a lifetime friend. It can be applied to
an almost endless list of emotional and physical problems and provides relief
from most of them. However, there's one more concept we need to develop before
we can apply The Basic Recipe to a given problem. It's called the Reminder
Phrase.
When a football quarterback throws a pass he aims it at a particular receiver.
He doesn't just throw the ball in the air and hope someone will catch it.
Likewise, The Basic Recipe needs to be aimed at a specific problem. Otherwise,
it will bounce around aimlessly with little or no effect.
You "aim" The Basic Recipe by applying it while "tuned in" to the problem from
which you want relief. This tells your system which problem needs to be the
receiver.
Remember the discovery statement which states...
"The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy
system."
Negative emotions come about because you are tuned into certain thoughts or
circumstances which, in turn, cause your energy system to disrupt. Otherwise,
you function normally. One's fear of
heights is not present, for example, while one is reading the comic section of
the Sunday newspaper (and therefore not tuned in to the problem).
Tuning in to a problem can be done by simply thinking about it. In fact, tuning
in means thinking about it. Thinking about the problem will bring about the
energy disruptions involved which then....and only then....can be balanced by
applying The Basic Recipe. Without tuning in to the problem....thereby creating
those energy disruptions....The Basic Recipe does nothing.
Tuning in is seemingly a very simple process. You merely think about the problem
while applying The Basic Recipe. That's it....at least in theory.
However, you may find it a bit difficult to consciously think about the problem
while you are tapping, humming, counting, etc. That's why I'm introducing a
Reminder Phrase that you can repeat continually while you are performing The
Basic Recipe.
The Reminder Phrase is simply a word or short phrase that describes the problem
and that you repeat out loud each time you tap one of the points in The
Sequence. In this way you continually "remind" your system about the problem you
are working on.
The best Reminder Phrase to use is usually identical to what you choose for the
affirmation you use in The Setup. For example, if you are working on a fear of
public speaking, The Setup affirmation would go like this....
Even though I have this fear of public speaking, I deeply and completely accept
myself.
Within this affirmation, the underlined words....fear of public speaking....are
ideal candidates for use as the Reminder Phrase.
You may notice that Adrienne and I sometimes use a bit shorter version of this
Reminder Phrase when dealing with people on the tapes included with this course.
We might, for example, use "public speaking fear" or just "public speaking"
instead of the somewhat longer version above. That's just one of the shortcuts
we have grown accustomed to after years of experience with these techniques. For
your purposes, however, you can simplify your life by just using the identical
words for the Reminder Phrase as you use for the
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affirmation in The Setup. That way you will minimize any possibility for error.
Now here's an interesting point that you will most certainly notice on the aud
iotapes and some of the videos. When Adrienne and I are helping people with EFT
we don't always have them repeat a Reminder Phrase. That's because we have
discovered over time that simply stating the affirmation during The Setup is
usually sufficient to "tune in" to the problem at hand. The subconscious mind
usually locks on to the problem throughout The Basic Recipe even though all the
tapping, humming, counting, etc. would seem to be distracting.
But this is not always true and, with our extensive training and experience, we
are able to recognize whether or not using the Reminder Phrase is necessary. As
stated, it is not usually necessary but....when it is necessary it is really
necessary and must be used.
What's beautiful about EFT is that you don't need to have our experience in this
regard. You don't have to be able to figure out whether or not the Reminder
Phrase is necessary. You can just assume it is always necessary and thereby
assure yourself of always being tuned in to the problem by simply repeating the
Reminder Phrase as instructed. It does no harm to repeat the Reminder Phrase
when it is not necessary and will serve as an invaluable tool when it is. This
is part of the 100% overhaul concept mentioned earlier. We do many things in
each round of The Basic Recipe that may not be necessary for a given problem.
But when a particular part of The Basic Recipe is necessary...it is absolutely
critical.
It does no harm to include everything...even what may be unnecessary...and it
only takes 1 minute per round. This includes always repeating the Reminder
Phrase each time you tap a point during The Sequence. It costs nothing to
include it....not even time....because it can be repeated within the same time
it takes to tap each energy point 7 times.
This concept about the Reminder Phrase is an easy one. But just to be complete,
I am including a few samples below:
**headache **anger towards my father **war memory
**stiffness in my neck **nightmares **craving for alcohol **fear of snakes
**depression
Subsequent Round Adjustments
Let's say you are using The Basic Recipe for some problem (fear, headache,
anger, etc.). Sometimes the problem will simply vanish after just one round
while, at other times, one round provides only partial relief. When only partial
relief is obtained, you will need to do one or more additional rounds.
Those subsequent rounds need to be adjusted slightly for best results. Here's
why: One of the main reasons why the first round doesn't always completely
eliminate a problem is because of the re-emergence of Psychological
Reversal...that interfering blockage that The Setup is designed to correct.
This time, Psychological Reversal shows up in a somewhat different form. Instead
of blocking your progress altogether it now blocks any remaining progress. You
have already made some headway but become stopped part way toward complete
relief because Psychological Reversal enters in a manner that keeps you from
getting any better still.
Since the subconscious mind tends to be very literal, the subsequent rounds of
The Basic Recipe need to address the fact that you are working on the remaining
problem. Accordingly, the affirmation contained within The Setup needs to be
adjusted as does the Reminder Phrase.
Here's the adjusted format for The Setup affirmation:
Even though I still have some of this __________,
I deeply and completely accept myself.
Please note the emphasized words (still & some) and how they change the thrust
of the affirmation toward the remainder of the problem. It should be easy to
make this adjustment and, after a little experience, you will fall into it quite
naturally.
Study the adjusted affirmations below. They reflect adjustments to the original
affirmations shown earlier in this section.
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**Even though I still have some of this fear of public speaking, I deeply and
completely accept myself. **Even though I still have some of this headache, I
deeply and completely accept myself.
**Even though I still have some of this anger towards my father, I deeply and
completely accept myself. **Even though I still have some of this war memory, I
deeply and completely accept myself. **Even though I still have some of this
stiffness in my neck, I deeply and completely accept myself.
**Even though I still have some of these nightmares, I deeply and completely
accept myself. **Even though I still have some of this craving for alcohol, I
deeply and completely accept myself.
**Even though I still have some of this fear of snakes, I deeply and completely
accept myself.
**Even though I still have some of this depression, I deeply and completely
accept myself.
The Reminder Phrase is also easily adjusted. Just put the word remaining before
the previously used phrase. Here, as examples, are adjusted versions of the
previous Reminder Phrases.
**remaining headache **remaining anger towards my father **remaining war memory
**remaining stiffness in my neck **remaining nightmares **remaining craving for
alcohol **remaining fear of snakes **remaining depression
This completes the features of The Basic Recipe. You now need two things to be
effective with it. You need to memorize it and you need a few tips on how to
apply it. Those tips are next.
Tips on How to Apply EFT
Testing ? Aspects -- Persistence Pays -- Be Specific Where Possible The
Generalization Effect -- Try It On Everything -- EFT in a Nutshell
EFT is remarkably simple to apply. Just customize the 1 minute Basic Recipe with
a Setup affirmation and Reminder Phrase that aims at your problem. Then do as
many rounds as necessary until the problem is gone.
This easy process can be used, with persistence, to literally re -engineer your
system.
It will unload the fears, anger, grief, depression and other negative emotions
that cause people to drive through life with their brakes on. And....along the
way....it may give you relief from headaches, asthma, pain and a seemingly
unending list of physical ailments.
This section of the course adds a few tips...some useful insights...so you can
make better use of EFT. It takes you behind the scenes and helps you build a
firmer foundation beneath your new skills.
Testing
You will notice on the videos and audiotapes that Adrienne and I are constantly
asking people to evaluate the extent of their problem on a scale of 0 to 10
(where 10 represents maximum intensity and 0 represents no intensity
whatsoever). This provides a benchmark
against which to measure your progress. You might start at a 6, for instance,
and then go to a 3....and then a 1....and finally to 0....as various rounds of
The Basic Recipe are applied.
You should always measure the intensity as it exists NOW....as you think about
it....and not as you think it would be in the actual situation. Remember, The
Basic Recipe balances the
disruptions in your energy system as they exist NOW while you are tuned in to
the thought or circumstance.
Here's an example of how it works. Let's say you have a fear of spiders that you
would like to put behind you. If there is no spider present to cause you any
emotional intensity
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then close your eyes and imagine seeing a spider or imagine a past time when a
spider scared you. Assess your intensity on a scale of 0 to 10 as it exists NOW
while you think about it. If you estimate it at a 7, for example, then you have
a benchmark against which to measure your progress.
Now do one round of The Basic Recipe and imagine the spider again. If you can
get no trace whatsoever of your previous emotional intensity then you are done.
If, on the other hand, you go to, let's say, a 4 then you need to perform
subsequent rounds until 0 is reached.
Aspects
You might wonder at this point if getting to 0 while just thinking about a
spider will hold up when you are actually confronted with a real spider. The
answer is usually....yes!!
In most cases, the energy disruptions that occur while thinking about the spider
are the same as those when you are in the presence of a real spider. That's why
the original energy balancing tends to hold in the real circumstances.
The exception to this is when some new aspect of the problem comes up in the
real situation that wasn't there when you were just thinking about it. For
example, you may have been thinking about a stationary spider that didn't move.
If that movement is an important aspect of your fear and...if it was absent from
your thinking when the original rounds were done...then that part of the fear
will arise when you see a moving spider. This is a reasonably common occurrence
and it doesn't mean that EFT didn't work.
It simply means there is more to do. Just apply The Basic Recipe to the new
aspect (moving spider) until your emotional response goes to 0. Once all aspects
have been eliminated your phobic response to spiders will be history and you
will be perfectly calm around them.
The notion of aspects is an important one in EFT. As in the spider example
above, some problems have many pieces...or aspects...to them and the problem
will not be completely relieved until all of them are
addressed. Actually, each of these aspects qualifies as a separate problem even
though they seem to be all lumped together. The fear of a stationary spider and
the fear of a moving spider, for example, would seem to be lumped together. In
fact, they are separate problems and need to be addressed separately by EFT.
Different aspects are possible with just about any problem you want to address
with EFT. Sometimes they take the form of a series of traumatic memories such as
memories of war, abuse or rape. Each of those memories may be a separate
problem, or aspect, and needs to be addressed individually before complete
relief is obtained.
Please understand that where several aspects of an emotional problem are
present, you may not notice any relief until all aspects are reduced to 0 by The
Basic Recipe. This becomes very clear when you compare it to its counterpart in
physical healing. If, for example, you have a simultaneous headache, toothache
and stomach ache, you will not feel healthy until all 3 are gone. The pain may
seem to shift but it is, nonetheless, still pain.So it is with emotional issues
that contain different aspects. Until all aspects are gone you may not feel you
are getting relief even though you have taken care of 1 or more aspects.
Persistence Pays
As a newcomer to EFT, you may lack the experience to be able to identify
specific aspects and address them individually with The Basic Recipe. That's
okay. You need only go with whatever feeling you are having and address that
feeling with The Basic Recipe. Your subconscious mind knows what you are working
on. You might address this "feeling" with a Setup affirmation that goes..."Even
though I have this feeling, I deeply and completely accept myself" and a
Reminder Phrase that says..."this feeling."
Please understand that the majority of the problems The Basic Recipe addresses
are not laden with numerous aspects. Most problems are easy to identify and just
as easily relieved. But just in case you happen to have one of those more
involved problems and you are unable to identify specific aspects of it, then I
suggest you do 3 rounds of The Basic Recipe for "this feeling" or "this problem"
once per day (that's about 3 minutes per day) for 30 days. Your subconscious
mind has a way of bringing up what is necessary and you should have relief long
before the 30 days are up. EFT, as you can tell, is...a very flexible
process...and will often make progress on problems that are outside your
awareness.
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Be Specific Where Possible
It is best, of course, to be specific whenever you can. That way you can
efficiently zero in on an exact fear, pain, memory etc., and eliminate it from
your limiting baggage.
Sometimes we lump together a number of specific problems under a larger heading.
This can handicap your progress with EFT. For example, most people would like to
have a better "self image" but don't realize that the term is a general label
which serves as a catchall phrase for numerous specific problems (e.g. memories
of abuse, rejection, failure and/or fears of various kinds).
Someone who has been subject to severe rejection as a child is likely to feel
inadequate in many areas of their life. This contributes to their poor self
image by causing energy disruptions (and hence negative emotions) when they face
potential rejection. Accordingly, they consistently feel "not good enough" when
given opportunities and tend to stay stuck where they are in life. When lumped
together with other negative emotions, self image problems become more widely
generalized and the person feels stopped in even more areas.
I use a metaphor to put self image and other general emotional labels into
proper EFT perspective. I liken the general problem to a...diseased forest in
which each of the underlying specific issues is a negative tree. The forest, at
first, is so densely populated with trees that it may seem impossible to find
your way out. To some, it may even seem like a jungle.
When we neutralize each specific negative event in our lives with The Basic
Recipe we are, effectively, cutting down a negative tree. Continue cutting down
these trees and, after a while, the forest will have thinned out so you can walk
out of it rather easily. Each toppled tree represents another degree of
emotional freedom and...if you are persistent with The Basic Recipe...you will
gradually find your negative responses subsiding. You will find yourself at
ease...and calm...when faced with new opportunities and you will be guided by a
new sense of adventure rather than by a fear of not being "good enough."
One very helpful concept here is to break down proble ms into the specific
events that underlie them and use EFT on each such specific event. For example,
if you have anger because your father abused you, apply EFT to specific events
like, "When Dad hit me in the kitchen at age 8." This is often superior to using
EFT on the more global issue of "My father abused me."
Perhaps the biggest mistake made by newcomers is that they try to use EFT on
issues that are too global. They may make good headway with persistence but they
are less likely to notice the
results right away. As a result, they may quit too soon. Break the problems down
into specific events and you will notice results on those specific events right
away. Doing this also addresses the true cause and is usually more efficient.
The Generalization Effect
That being said, I want to acquaint you now with a fascinating feature of EFT. I
call it The Generalization Effect because, after you address a few related
problems with EFT, the process starts to generalize over all those problems. For
example, someone who has 100 traumatic memories of being abused usually finds
that after using EFT...they all vanish after neutralizing only 5 or 10 of them.
This is startling to some people because they have so many traumas in their life
they think they are in for unending sessions with these techniques. Not so...at
least not usually. EFT often clears out a whole forest after cutting down just a
few trees.
For an example of this Generalization Effect review the case with Rich, the
first Veteran on the "6 Days at the VA" video included with this course.
Try It On Everything!!
This course is replete with case histories. Their purpose is to imbed within you
how EFT works in the real world. There's a whole section on them in this manual
and the videos and audios contain many more. They span issues...
**from the fear of public speaking to intense war memories, **from chocolate
cravings to insomnia and **from hiccups to multiple sclerosis.
I know of no limit to the emotional and physical problems which can be addressed
by EFT. Accordingly, I TRY IT ON EVERYTHING!! and urge you to do the same.
People are forever asking me, "Will it work on _____?" and I always respond
with, "Try it!" I have given up being surprised at the results. Headway is
usually gained.
However, this "Try it on everything" idea must be interpreted with common sense.
It's purpose is to expand your awareness of EFT's possibilities. It is not a
license to act irresponsibly. Accordingly, you should not try EFT on serious
mental illnesses or anything else UNLESS you are properly trained or qualified
in that area.
EFT in a Nutshell
I value clarity and strive to inject it into what I teach. To me, the ultimate
evidence of clarity is being able to
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reduce the subject matter to a simple paragraph. I have done that with EFT. What
follows is...
EFT in a nutshell
Memorize The Basic Recipe. Aim it at any emotional or physical problem by
customizing it with an appropriate Setup affirmation and Reminder Phrase. Be
specific where possible and aim EFT at the specific emotional events in one's
life that may underlie the problem. Where necessary, be persistent until all
aspects of the problem have vanished. Try it on everything!!
That's it. That's the essence of what you are learning here. If you would like
an expanded version of this summary you will find it on the next page. There I
include....on a single page....The Discovery Statement, The Basic Recipe and EFT
in a Nutshell. I call it EFT on a page. You might wish to use it as a quick
reference until you master these procedures.
P.S. As a reminder, please recall from our opening comments that the emotional
and energetic releases brought about by EFT frequently result in profound
physical healings.
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EFT on a Page
EFT IN A NUTSHELL
Memorize The Basic Recipe. Aim it at any emotional or physical problem by
customizing it with an appropriate Setup affirmation and Reminder Phrase. Be
specific where possible and aim EFT at the specific emotional events in one's
life that may underlie the problem. Where necessary, be persistent until all
aspects of the problemhavevanished. Tryitoneverything!!
THE DISCOVERY STATEMENT
"The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy
system."
THE BASIC RECIPE 1. The Setup...Repeat 3 times this affirmation:
"Even though I have this ________ , I deeply and completely accept myself."
while continuously rubbing the Sore Spot or tapping the Karate Chop point.
2. The Sequence...Tap about 7 times on each of the following energy points while
repeating the Reminder Phrase at each point.
EB, SE, UE, UN, Ch, CB, UA, BN, Th, IF, MF, BF, KC
3. The 9 Gamut Procedure...Continuously tap on the Gamut point while performing
each of these 9 actions:
(1) Eyes closed (2) Eyes open (3) Eyes hard down right (4) Eyes hard down left
(5) Roll eyes in circle (6) Roll eyes in other direction (7) Hum 2 seconds of a
song (8) Count to 5 (9) Hum 2 seconds of a song.
4. The Sequence (again)...Tap about 7 times on each of the following energy
points while repeating the Reminder Phrase at each point.
EB, SE, UE, UN, Ch, CB, UA, BN, Th, IF, MF, BF, KC
Note: In subsequent rounds The Setup affirmation and the Reminder Phrase are
adjusted to reflect the fact that you are addressing the remaining problem.
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Some people are astonished at what they see with EFT. Their questions are openly
enthusiastic.
Others don't quite know how to respond because EFT violates most of their
beliefs about personal improvement. Their questions contain an element of
caution...as though they are semi-open but still need to protect their existing
beliefs.
Whatever their source, these questions are important to your education in EFT
because they help fill in any gaps you may have in your understanding. For this
purpose, I am displaying in this section the answers to the standard questions I
have received over the years.
Q. How do EFT results differ from a "quick fix?" The label "quick fix" carries
with it a negative connotation and is often used to label the questionable
healing techniques of hucksters and cheats. The term goes hand in hand with the
term "con man" and, when used, often brings about thoughts of suspicion and
caution.
EFT offers rapid relief from numerous emotional and physical ailments without
meriting the negative label "quick fix." This is obvious to any observer of the
case histories in this course and is even more obvious to those students who
have experienced the results first hand. I use the term rapid relief instead of
"quick fix" to put across the same idea but without the negative connotation.
Now here's an important note: Throughout history healing techniques of various
kinds have usually been slow and inefficient until someone finds the true remedy
for the ailment. When the true remedy is found, everything changes and the old
methods become relics of the past.
Polio is a case in point. Until the Salk Vaccine was discovered, Poliomyelitis
was considered incurable and all manners of medications and therapies (including
the Iron Lung) were employed to help the sufferers. They didn't do much, of
course. They helped ease some of the discomfort and limited some of the long
term damage caused by the disease. But that was about it.
And then came the Salk Vaccine. It did away with all the antiquated, inefficient
attempts at curing Polio and replaced them with a true remedy. It was, indeed, a
"quick fix" without the negative connotation.
The eradication of Polio is only one example where inefficient methods give away
to true remedies.
Penicillin, for instance, has been another "quick fix" miracle drug that has
provided instant cures for illnesses ranging from respiratory diseases to
gonorrhea.
The examples go on and on, of course, but the point is that these procedures are
replacing all the inefficient techniques used in behalf of emotional health. The
fact that they give rapid relief to seemingly difficult emotional problems is
impressive evidence that they represent the true remedy. If they took forever to
do very little then they should simply take their place among the other ho hum
techniques of the past.
But they don't. They hit the bulls eye and perform as a true remedy should.
Quickly, easily, permanently.
Q. Does it last? This question is usually a companion to the above "quick fix"
question. After all, the "logic" goes, any problem that can be relieved that
fast must be temporary. Lasting results, at least in the minds of most people,
must take time to produce.
Not so. EFT's results are usually permanent.
The case histories in this course are filled with people who have had lasting
results...even though the problem was relieved in moments. This is still more
evidence that EFT is addressing the true cause of the problem. Otherwise, the
remedy would not be so long lasting.
Please remember, however, that EFT doesn't do everything for everyone. Some
problems seem to reappear and that is usually caused by different aspects of the
original problem showing up at a later time. The experienced student of EFT will
recognize this and simply reapply The Basic Recipe for this new aspect. The
experienced student will also break the problem down into specific events and
apply EFT to those underlying causes. In time, after al aspects and specific
events have been addressed, the problem usually goes away completely and does
not return.
Q. How does EFT handle emotional problems that are very intense and/or have been
with a person for a very long time? The same way it handles every other
emotional problem.
To EFT, the intensity of a problem or how long it has been around is immaterial.
The cause is always a disrupted energy system and using The Basic Recipe to
balance it gives relief...regardless of its severity.
Commonly asked
Questions and Answers
about EFT
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This question usually comes about because of the belief that intense and/or long
resident problems are more "deeply ingrained" than other problems. Therefore it
should take more effort to relieve them. This seems very logical when viewed
through conventional approaches because conventional approaches don't directly
address the true cause.
Conventional approaches tend to take aim at one's memories or other mental
processes and ignore the energy system (where the true cause lies). When slow
progress is being made it is convenient to blame the problem because it is
presumed to be "deeply ingrained" or otherwise difficult to deal with. In this
manner, conventional approaches can...and do...explain away ineffective results.
When EFT requires persistence it is NOT because of the intensity or resident
length of a problem. It is usually because of a problem's complexity.
Complexity, to EFT, means the existence of several aspects to a problem each of
which must be relieved before total relief is felt. The notion of aspects is
covered repeatedly in this manual, the videos and the audios.
Note: The above comments may or may not apply to serious mental illness. The
application of EFT to such disorders has proven helpful but it should only be
applied by a professional skilled in this area.
Q. How does EFT deal with one's need to understand their problem? This is one of
the most astonishing features about EFT. A shift in a person's understanding of
their problem happens simultaneously with the relief. After EFT, people talk
about their problem differently. They put it in a healthy perspective. The
typical rape victim, for example, no longer carries a deep fear and distrust of
men. Rather, she considers her assailant(s) to have the problem and in need of
help.
People who use EFT for relief from guilt no longer take blame for whatever event
gave rise to the guilt. Anger turns to objectivity. Grief turns to a healthy,
more peaceful perspective about the death of a loved one.
Notice how you and others respond to your former problem and you will see what I
mean. Your understanding shifts right along with the relief.
Here's a final note on how powerfully EFT shifts understanding. In the hundreds
and hundreds of people Adrienne and I have helped with EFT not one of
them...ever...has made any request to better understand their problem. Why would
they? There was no need.
Q. How does EFT deal with stress and anxiety?
other negative emotions...a disruption in the body's energy system. Accordingly,
they are addressed with The Basic Recipe the same as any other emotional issue.
Anxiety has a specific meaning in clinical psychology. It refers to an intense
fear or dread lacking an unambiguous cause or a specific threat. In EFT,
however, we give it a much broader definition to include that general state of
uneasiness which is more commonly known as anxiety. Under that definition stress
and anxiety fall into the same category.
Stress and anxiety tend to be ongoing problems because the circumstances that
create them are ongoing. An abusive family situation or a stressful job
environment are but two of a long list of possibilities. EFT does not do away
with the circumstances, of course, but it is an important aid to reducing your
anxious responses. In most cases, EFT will need to be used persistently (most
likely daily) because the stressful circumstances tend to show up every day.
After a while, you should notice that your responses to difficult events is much
calmer. Things just don't get to you like they used to. You smile more. Your
health improves and life seems easier.
Q. How does EFT help with sports performance?
Ask any accomplished athlete and they will tell you emphatically that their
mental set is critical to their performance. The difference between good days
and bad days for the athlete is almost always due to emotional causes. Barring
sickness, the athlete always brings the same highly skilled body into the field
of battle. The only thing that changes is the effect that emotions have on the
body.
Everyone, including athletes, has their share of negative thoughts and self
doubt. By now you are quite familiar with the fact that those negative states of
mind disrupt the body's energy system and cause negative emotions. These
negative emotions show up in the body in a variety of ways (pounding heart,
tears, sweat, etc.) and this includes some tension in the muscles.
In athletics, timing is everything and even the slightest tension in the muscles
affects it. Hitting a baseball, tennis ball or golf ball requires perfect timing
and being off by just 1/8 of an inch is the difference between hitting a home
run and flying out...or...hitting a killer serve or one that hits the
net...or...making or missing a putt. And so it goes.
Athletes are well aware of this problem and many hire sports psychologists to
help them in this regard. Any negative emotion...even the mild ones and the
subconscious ones...can be critical to an athlete's performance.
In EFT, stress and anxiety have the same cause as all
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EFT provides a remarkably effective solution to this problem. The purpose of The
Basic Recipe is to neutralize negative emotions and their effects. One of the
most common responses to it is that people feel relaxed which, by the way, is
another way of saying that the tension has left their muscles. This is ideal for
the athlete because it neutralizes any unnecessary emotional tension in the
muscles without affecting the rest of their athletic ability. It allows their
potential to flow through without being hindered by any resistance in the
muscles.
Q. Why does EFT give surprisingly good relief from physical problems? This is
easy to understand in light of the emerging attitudes toward the existence of
the mind-body connection. EFT provides striking evidence of this connection.
What more obvious proof could one want than to watch changes in both mind and
body occur as a result of tapping on the body's energy system?
But the evidence goes even deeper than this. Applying EFT for emotional issues
often brings on the cessation of physical problems. Breathing problems go away.
Headaches vanish. Joint pains subside. Multiple Sclerosis symptoms improve. I
have witnessed this phenomenon for years. The list of physical improvements
brought about by EFT is endless.
The logical inference from this is that EFT effectively addresses any emotional
contributors to one's physical symptoms. Once the emotional contributors are out
of the way the symptom subsides.
There are those, of course, who believe that one's emotions or mental processes
are the only cause of their physical diseases. I don't know how to prove or
disprove that notion but I offer here the rather obvious
fact that emotions, at the very least, substantially contribute to one's
physical health. And EFT is an effic ient tool for relief in this regard.
One final note on this. You might wonder what is happening "behind the emotional
scenes" when you apply The Basic Recipe directly to a physical symptom (such as
a headache) without zeroing in on a specific emotion. Stated differently, if the
physical symptom is caused by some emotional issue then why does the physical
symptom experience relief when no specific emotion was addressed?
I don't know for sure. There is much to learn about these techniques and the
future, I'm sure, will bring us some exciting revelations on many fronts. For
now, I believe that the subconscious mind brings up whatever emotional issue is
contributing to the cause of the physical symptom. Applying The Basic Recipe
automatically addresses that emotion.
Q. How can I keep up to date with the latest advances in EFT? Although you can
generate impressive results with EFT, you must recognize that you are just
beginning. EFT is capable of far more than what you are learning in this course.
Here are 3 resources:
1.www.emofree.com/products.htm for a list of advanced video products.
2.www.emofree.com/tutorial.htm for a description of some of the latest
techniques and findings.
3.www.emofree.com/faq.htm for a list of frequently asked questions.
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Case Histories
Fear of public speaking -- Asthma -- Sexual abuse Anxiety and fingernail biting
-- Fear of spiders -- Coffee addiction Alcoholism -- Grief -- Fear of needles
Addiction to peanut M&M's -- Physical pain -- Low back pain Guilt and insomnia
-- Constipation Body embarrassment -- Lupus -- Ulcerative colitis Panic attack
-- Fear of elevators
What follows are several examples of actual results with EFT. They demonstrate
EFT in action on a wide variety of problems and give you an invaluable sense of
what to expect. Please read them all...even if some of them do not appear to
directly apply to you. There is a lot of overlap in how these techniques work
and what applies to one problem may also apply in another.
Further, an important part of your EFT education is to recognize the various
APPROACHES that can be used on a wide variety of ailments. EFT applies to almost
every emotional and physical ailment known to mankind and the procedure itself
is basically the same for each ailment. However, the APPROACHES can vary widely.
While the following case histories give you some sense of the varying
approaches, the videos accompanying this course are much more useful in this
regard. We are limited in what we can do on the printed page.
Case history #1 - Fear of public speaking
Sue had a speech impediment that resulted in an advanced fear of public
speaking. She attended one of our workshops and asked Adrienne and me for some
help during the lunch break. She showed us a scar on her neck where an operation
for throat cancer had been performed. As a result of her operation, she could
not speak normally and it was difficult to understand her. She was
understandably terrified of public speaking and...to make matters worse...she
was a Sergeant in the Army and had to "public speak" frequently in front of her
troops.
We applied 2 rounds of The Basic Recipe and she overcame the fear in a few
minutes...at least while thinking about it. When the workshop reconvened, I
asked her to come up on stage to test her fear of public
speaking. As she walked toward the stage she reported that her fear was upon her
again but it was "only a 3," she said.This was much less than the 10 she usually
felt but, obviously, there was still some left. This is prime evidence that some
new aspect of her fear was emerging that wasn't present in her thinking during
the break.
We applied one more round of The Basic Recipe on stage (while she faced the
audience) and the fear fell to zero. She then grabbed my microphone, asked me to
sit down and enchanted this audience of 100 people as she told the story of what
happened over the break. She was filled with calm and poise. The speech
impediment was still there, of course. But the fear was gone.
Does eliminating the fear of public speakin g make someone a great speaker? No,
of course not. Public speaking is an art and takes practice to perfect. What it
does do, though, is remove the pounding heart, dry mouth and other fear symptoms
so that one is free and comfortable in developing their public speaking skills.
Case history #2 - Asthma
Kelly sat in the front row at one of my presentations. Her asthma was obvious as
I could hear her labored breathing throughout my talk. It was severe enough to
sound something like a mild snore
and clearly annoyed some of the people near her.
After the presentation, she asked me to help her with her fear of public
speaking. Interesting, she did not "get" that EFT could relieve asthma so she
didn't ask for help on this obvious problem. To her, nothing but medicine could
help.
So we addressed her fear of public speaking. About 3 minutes into the EFT
procedures she remarked, with a bit of astonishment in her voice, that her
breathing had eased. And indeed it had. There was no sign of asthma.
We often get "bonus results" like this. Balancing the body's energy system can
pay great dividends.
You want WHO to speak in public?
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As of this writing, I have only addressed a handful of problems (maybe 8 or 10)
that involve asthma, breathing or sinus related problems. I have seen clear
progress in each case. I mean by this that there was immediate relief every time
EFT was applied. I'm not saying, however, that EFT eliminated the problem
forever, as is often the case with emotional issues. Sometimes the breathing
problem comes back and requires additional rounds of EFT.
Please understand that I apply EFT to more people than I can count and it is
impractical for me to follow up on all of them. So I don't know how many need to
repeat the procedures to relieve asthma symptoms. I only know that there is a
high likelihood for relief. If you are an asthma sufferer, you have an excellent
chance of gaining relief from your problem. Please do this with the aid of your
physician, however.
Case history #3 - Sexual abuse
Bob was repeatedly subjected to sexual abuse as a youngster. His memories of it
were very intense and created great anger within him. The
abusive events were almost 30 years ago and he knew, logically, that retaining
the anger was costing him his peaceofmind. Emotionally,however,hecouldn'tseem to
shake it.
It took two unusual sessions to give him relief on this issue. I say unusual
because it was done in a workshop environment in front of other people. He
understandably didn't want to discuss this with others so I helped him apply EFT
to the memories while he maintained privacy in his own mind.
This is easily done with EFT because all that is required is that the client
"tune in" to the problem while performing the tapping techniques. The "tuning
in" can be done privately.
I ran into Bob about a month later and he said he
"didn'tthinkaboutitmuchanymore." Thisisatypical response after using EFT. Even
the most intense issues tend to fade away. Sometimes people report that, after
EFT, they can't even think about the memory. That is inaccurate. But it does
seem that way.
The memory doesn't really go away because, when I ask them to describe it, they
can still do so in great detail. What happens is the emotional sting vanishes
and thus the memory doesn't come up in the same way. It is now a mild event from
the past.
It just seems like they can no longer think about it because it is missing a
previously powerful ingredient. This is what you want, of course. We are looking
for emotional freedom here...not amnesia.
EFT was not 100% successful in this case, however, because Bob still had
occasional, relatively mild, bouts with the memories. But it's nothing like it
was. He can probably eliminate it completely if he persistently uses these
techniques over time.
Case history #4 - Anxiety and fingernail biting
Susan had an ongoing level of anxiety and chose to do EFT frequently throughout
the day. She did this for several months and, as her anxiety level subsided, she
quit biting her fingernails (a lifelong habit)....without even trying. She
picked up her guitar one day and noticed that her fingernails were too long to
play it.
EFT sometimes works in subtle ways and positive side effects like this often
happen outside your awareness. When your life returns to normal in some area
(like anxiety) it seems well....uh....normal. There are no bells and
whistles...just relative peace. Often you don't even notice the change until
someone brings it to your attention.
That's what happened with Susan and her fingernails. EFT subtly, but powerfully,
reduced her anxiety to the point where biting her fingernails was no longer
necessary.
Case history #5 - Fear of spiders
Molly became very intense when just thinking about spiders and had nightmares
about them 5 nights a week. She got completely over her fear in just two
sessions with EFT.
In the first session, Adrienne used EFT to reduce Molly's fear to zero while she
was just thinking about spiders. Often this is enough and the fear stays at zero
even when confronted with a real spider.
But to make sure, Adrienne took Molly to a pet store to see a tarantula. Molly,
once again, became very fearful and ran crying out of the pet store. This was
not the fault of the first round of EFT. Rather, it was an indication that the
real spider brought up new aspects of the fear that weren't present when just
the thought was going on.
After a few more minutes with EFT, Molly went back into the pet store and calmly
viewed the tarantula. The fear was gone.
A few days later Molly called Adrienne to report that she was at a girl friend's
house who owned a pet tarantula (it had been surgically rendered harmless).
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She said they took the spider out of the cage and Molly let it crawl on her.
Here is a classic example of the power of these techniques. Even people without
a noticeable fear of spiders would not let a tarantula crawl on them...even if
it was no longer dangerous. But Molly was perfectly relaxed about it and had
less fear than the normal everyday citizen. Please note, however, that EFT does
not make people stupid. Molly would not have let the spider crawl on her if it
was, indeed, dangerous. EFT removes the irrational portion of phobic fears but
does not reduce normal caution.
Months later, we spoke with Molly and the fear still had not returned. In
addition, she no longer had nightmares about them.
Case history #6 - Coffee addiction
Joe quit drinking coffee. He attended one of my workshops and observed me
applying EFT to someone else who wanted to get over their cravings for coffee.
He tapped along with us, although he did it in the background, and his coffee
cravings went away....permanently. That was the last cup of coffee he had. EFT,
in this case broke the addiction in one application.
Just so you know...that doesn't usually happen. EFT is a marvelous tool for
getting over immediate cravings and is thus a major help in relieving withdrawal
symptoms. But it usually requires many repeated applications before the
addiction disappears. About 5% of the people have Joe's response. The rest take
longer.
Along these same lines, however, Susan, a psychotherapist, got over an addiction
to soft drinks in one two minute session and Robb did the same thing for
chocolate.
Case history #7 - Alcoholism
Aaron got over his addiction to alcohol. This, of course, is a much more serious
addiction than coffee, soft drinks or chocolate. He went to bed drunk every
night and spent his days with a hangover. In his words, "Alcohol was my God. "
We needed several sessions with EFT and he performed the routines several times
per day. As a result, withdrawal was easy.
In the early stages of his recovery, he walked by his formerly favorite beer at
the
supermarket with a sense of pride. And now, one year later, he finds it
repulsive. He has no cravings for alcohol whatsoever. He has his life back. He
even passed up a New Year's Eve party because he "didn't want to be around a
bunch of drunks."
Here's a note of common sense. Once an addiction is broken, that doesn't mean
you can't become re- addicted. Once you get by your addiction to alcohol, or
anything else, stay away from it or you will need to break the addiction again.
EFT does not allow you to "have a little now and then" of your addictive
substance.
Case history #8 - Grief
Alicia carried such grief over the death of her brother that, even after 2
years, she still couldn't speak about it. Her emotions were too intense to get
the words out.
I was asked to give a workshop at a convention she was attending and was allowed
to apply these techniques to a handful of volunteers the night before the
presentation. Alicia volunteered and we worked on her grief in a 15 minute
session that included 7 other people.
The next morning, midway through the workshop, she voluntarily stood up in front
of 80 people and expressed her amazement that she could talk calmly about her
brother's death.
It still wasn't her favorite subject....but the grief was gone.
By the way, everyone in that small group made progress during the 15 minute
session. One lady got over a height phobia (she tested it several minutes later
by looking over a high hotel balcony....no problem), one man got over anger at a
past situation and the others got noticeable relief over a variety of emotional
issues.
Case history #9 - Fear of needles
Connie was very anxious around needles. She would become nauseous and would
often faint when it was necessary to have
her blood taken. This was limiting, indeed, if she was to have regular physical
examinations and maintain good health. Adrienne applied EFT to her for just a
few minutes. The fear went away and her next exposure to needles was without any
fear whatsoever.
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This is typical, especially with phobic responses like this. Usually just a few
minutes with the techniques creates a lasting result. This is true even if the
object of the phobia (needles in this case) is not present at the time. In those
few times where the actual situation still brings on some of the fear it usually
only takes another round or so of EFT to eliminate it permanently.
Case history #10 - Addiction to "peanut M&M's."
Nancy was facing surgery and her doctor advised her to lose weight so that the
surgery would go more smoothly. Part of her challenge in losing weight was
passingup"peanutM&M's." Shehadbeenaddictedto them for years.
She used EFT to reduce her immediate cravings and, to her surprise, had the
experience of totally severing the addiction in about 3 minutes.
This "bonus result" happens now and then. After that, Nancy had no difficulty
walking by "peanut M&M's."
Addictions are linked to, and caused by, various forms of anxiety. If you
address the anxiety, which is done so powerfully with EFT, then the need for the
addictive substance subsides.
Case history #11 - Physical pain
Lea attended one of the workshops I did for hypnotherapy students. She told me
before the workshop that she had a lot of tight muscles and physical pain. I
walked her through EFT for relief of the pain around her neck and shoulders. It
subsided within two minutes.
About an hour into the 3 hour workshop, I asked her if the pain in her neck and
shoulders had come back. She said no and then said that the rest of the pain in
her body had subsided but was not gone completely.
Here's another example of how we address one problem with EFT and other healings
occur along the way. In Lea's case, the relief we gave to her neck and shoulder
pain spilled over to the rest of her body.
We then did another round of EFT and the balance of the pain went away....and it
stayed that way for the rest of the workshop.
Pain like this is often caused by emotional distress and that's why EFT can be
so effective in addressing it. However, new emotional stresses may bring the
pain back. If so, repeated uses of EFT will likely give relief.
Case history #12 - Low back pain
Donna is another example along these lines. She, too, attended one of my
workshops and had such severe lower back pain that she didn't think she could
stay for
the entire one day workshop. "I just can't sit that long," she said.
I helped her with EFT and her back did not bother her for the entire day.
Case history #13 - Guilt and insomnia
Audrey is a severely disturbed woman whom I met with at the request of her
therapist. She had been abused physically, mentally and sexually all her life
and had a long list of emotional problems that were a challenge to any
therapist.
I only met with Audrey for 45 minutes. In that time I learned that she carried
great guilt over the burning down of her house. It seems she fell asleep one
night with a candle going. Her cat subsequently knocked over the candle which,
in turn, started the fire.
While it may seem obvious that guilt is not in order here, that was not the case
with Audrey. She couldn't speak about it without tears. She blamed herself for
the entire episode.
I walked her through EFT and her guilt appeared to go away. To test it, I let
about 20 minutes go by while changing the subject to other things. Then I asked
her to tell me the story about her house burning down. To the surprise of her
therapist she said, matter of factly, "It wasn't my fault" and went on to
another subject. No tears. No emotional intensity. The guilt had simply
disappeared....in minutes.
I tell you this to illustrate a point. EFT can be so powerful that the changes
often feel very normal. Accordingly, you may not "feel any different" when using
EFT for certain problems (like guilt). But listen to what you say about it over
time. You will tend to dismiss the problem and it will cease to occupy any of
youre motionalspace.
It will vanish without any fanfare. That is powerful, indeed, and is precisely
what you want. It is the ultimate in emotional freedom.
Audrey also had a problem with insomnia. She slept very little...maybe two hours
per night...and had to take drugs to do that. At the end of our session, I had
her lay down on a table in her therapist's office and applied EFT to her for
sleeping. Within 60 seconds she was sound asleep. I stayed to speak with the
therapist for another 30 minutes and, at the end of that time, Audrey was
snoring loudly. She was "gone." No drugs, no pills, nothing but tapping on a
badly disrupted energy system.
Case history #14 - Constipation
Richard had been constipated for 25 years. He was taking Metamucil twice a day
and still had difficulty "being regular."
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I taught him EFT for this problem and he performed the routine diligently
several times per day. After two weeks, there was no noticeable improvement. I
told him to be persistent and keep at it. Sometimes these things take more time.
I spoke with him two months later and things had improved materially. He was now
taking Metamucil only twice a week instead of twice a day.
As a student of EFT you must understand that sometimespersistenceisimportant.
Emotional problems are often disposed of rapidly and the same is true of many
physical problems. However, some situations just take longer and it isn't easy
to predict which ones they are. If Richard had given up after two weeks he would
not have made this headway.
The message?....hang in there.
Case history #15 - Body embarrassment
Adrienne and I met Bingo at a workshop we gave in Los Angeles. He was a body
builder and had shaped himself so magnificently that fitness magazines
frequently offered him several thousand dollars to pose for photographs.
But Bingo often turned down these offers because he had intense emotional
discomfort about revealing his body in public. He was of Asian descent and
explained that, in his family, showing off his body was a shameful thing to do.
He came up on stage to try to get beyond this problem and became very nervous
right away. In fact he said, "If you make me take off my shirt, I'll kill you."
Of course he didn't mean it literally but it was certainly an indication of how
strong his emotions were about it.
After 3 or 4 minutes with EFT, he smiled and calmly took off his shirt to an
enthusiastic applause from the audience. A day or two later he accepted an offer
to pose for a magazine for $3,000.
However, I don't think he got totally beyond his problem. He made some obvious
progress but when he took his shirt off he held it in his hands as though he
might like to put it back on. He didn't just throw it aside. Chances are, he
needed a few more rounds of EFT to get rid of the problem completely.
But please remember, this was done under the most adverse circumstances
possible....on stage. To make as much headway as we did, which I judge to be
about 70%, is remarkable given the setting.
Case history #16 - Lupus
Carolyn was my first major surprise at how well these techniques can work with
physical problems. She attended one of my one day seminars during my early years
with EFT. I only spent an hour hitting the highlights of how it worked and
helped a few people get over their height phobias (including Carolyn) and their
immediate craving for chocolate.
What I didn't know was that Carolyn had lupus, a serious degenerative disease. I
was simply too busy dealing with many people at once to notice that her hands
and feet were swollen from the disease. In fact, she told me later that she
couldn't wear normal shoes because of the swelling.
During the seminar I taught a shortened version of what you are learning in this
course. Carolyn decided to tap several times per day for her lupus condition
and, to her surprise, her symptoms all subsided.
She came to another presentation of mine two months later and told me what had
happened. The only thing she did differently was EFT. She showed me her hands
and feet and reported that the swelling had gone completely away. She also said
that her energy level had risen to a point where she went dancing frequently.
This is something she couldn't do before.
So....does this mean EFT will cure lupus? I'm not saying that, although it is
very hard to ignore what happened.
It obviously helped with her symptoms. I offer this stunning example as evidence
of the power of EFT and encourage you to apply it even for serious diseases. But
please, please do so with the supervision of your physician.
As a follow up, I called Carolyn several months later to see how her lupus was
going. She had stopped doing her daily tapping and the symptoms began to
reappear. Sometimes physical problems go away completely with no more tapping
and sometimes not. This is a case of sometimes not.
What is important to recognize here is what did happen...not what didn't.
Serious symptoms definitely subsided while balancing the energy system. That is
not to be ignored.
Case history #17 - Ulcerative colitis
Here's another case with a serious disease. Dorothy had ulcerative colitis and
was taking heavy medication that had many negative side effects.
Ulcerative colitis is a painful disease of the colon and, in Dorothy's case, it
was severe. When her doctors inspected it they reported, using lay terms, that
it was "90% infected."
She worked with Adrienne and did two things: (1) she became a vegetarian and (2)
she began using EFT
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daily for her disease. She began to feel much better within a few weeks and
chose to slack off on her medication. (Note: we never advise anyone to
discontinue medication without consulting with their physician.)
About 6 months later, her doctors examined it again and reported it as "10%
infected." That was 3 years ago and she has had little or no trouble with it
since. In fact, a year ago she gave birth to a child.
Now what do you suppose caused her disease to subside? Was it the vegetarian
diet....or EFT....or both? There is no way to tell for sure. People often try
several healing methods simultaneously and so it is hard to say which
contributed the most.
Once you have more experience with EFT you may conclude, as I have, that it
should always be included as one of the healing techniques.
Case history #18 - Panic attack
Kerry called Adrienne from a Lake Tahoe hotel in the midst of a panic attack. If
you are familiar with panic attacks, you know of the overpowering terror they
bring on. People who are in the midst of a panic attack often think they are
going to die.
Such was the case with Kerry. She called Adrienne with obvious panic in her
voice and immediately gave her room number in case anyone needed to come and
find her.
Adrienne walked her through EFT over the phone and got her over the serious part
of her panic within a few minutes. By contrast, sufferers of this condition
often endure this intense fear for several hours. To take the edge off within
minutes is a welcome relief indeed. In Kerry's case, another 20 minutes was
required to bring it way down.
Case history #19 - Fear of elevators
Ellen used EFT to eliminate her fear of elevators. She approached me during a
break in one of my seminars and asked me if I could help her with this lifelong
fear. She was understandably timid and cautious about her request as are most
people who suffer from intense fears like this. Conventional
psychology often requires phobics to confront their fear head on. The fear laden
person is typically asked to grit their teeth, clench their fist and get on that
elevator. In this way, the logic goes, the fearful
person becomes "desensitized" or "gets used to" the fear. To me that's a well
meant, but unnecessary, practice that, compared to EFT creates unjustifiable
pain.
It often serves to scare people out of their socks and gives them yet another
fearful trauma to overcome. Such practices are no longer necessary.
Since EFT is about as pain free as these things get, I told Ellen that we
wouldn't go near an elevator until she felt totally comfortable about it.
So we stayed in the seminar room and spent 3 or 4 minutes applying EFT. She then
said that she had never been so relaxed about elevators before and was ready to
go on one. Fortunately, we were in a hotel and were about 30 steps from an
elevator. Normally, as a caution, I would have stopped Elle n before going on
the elevator and repeated the tapping procedures. In this case, I didn't get a
chance because she quickly entered an open elevator and began pushing the
buttons with an obvious sense of glee.
I got in with her just as the doors were closing and we spent the next 10
minutes in that elevator. We went up, down, stopped, resumed, opened the doors,
closed the doors and tested her fear in every way we could. She was totally
relaxed....no fear whatsoever...not even a trace.
Her lifelong fear vanished. Once again I had the privilege of handing someone
the keys to emotional freedom....just like I did for our Vietnam veterans and in
the other case histories you have been exposed to in this course.
You are on your way to gaining the same ability.
To expand your understanding of EFT, this course includes still more case
histories on the videos and audios. An important description of those Part I
items follows....
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The Videos For Part I
(For easy reference, all EFT videos are also summarized in the Appendix)
Note: Originally, there were 3 videotapes in Part I. Subsequently, the videos
were put on CDs (which dramatically lowered the cost). This necessitated
breaking up the somewhat lengthy videotapes 1 and 2 into Videos 1a, 1b, 2a and
2b. It was not necessary to break up videotape 3.
Video 1a
In this video Adrienne and I augment this manual by visually showing you each
tapping point and how to perform each step of The Basic Recipe. We assume in
this segment that you have already read the manual.
It is vitally important that you follow along with Adrienne and me and review
this segment until you have memorized the whole one minute process. Once
memorized, it is yours forever.
Video 1b
This is a complete demonstration of the entire Basic Recipe with a delightful
gentleman named Dave, wherein we help him overcome a lifelong intense fear of
water. Study this episode. Watch it several times. It is an excellent
instructional session because it illustrates the handling of aspects so well.
Video 2a
This video contains the highlights of a live workshop where the theory behind
EFT is explained and then EFT ia applied to two groups of people on stage. One
group is dealing with fears and the other with pain.
Video 2b
In this video we show you more case histories of EFT in action. Here are
highlights of what you will see:
**Larry: He overcomes intense claustrophobia while undergoing what would
normally be his most tension filled circumstance....riding in the back seat of a
small car in the busy traffic of San Francisco. **Pam: A chocoholic no longer
wants her chocolate.
**Becci: Her fear of rats makes her hands sweat at the mere thought of one. She
ends up having a live rat lick her fingers and says, "I don't believe I'm doing
this. I am doing this."
**Stephen: A 6 year old boy is taught these techniques by his father and quits
biting his fingernails. **Adam: This is my son who uses EFT to knock 14 strokes
off of his golf score.
**Cheryl: She shows up at one of our workshops and describes how she used EFT
with me for the fear of public speaking. Our original session was performed over
a year ago and she has not had the fear since.
**Jackie: She had an accident 10 years ago which left her unable to raise her
arm any more than a few inches without having intense pain in her shoulder. In a
few minutes on stage she gets complete relief from the problem and can lift her
arm at will without pain. This session shows our conversation after the workshop
where we discuss this "miracle." **Cindy:Like Jackie above, Cindy had an
accident 3 years ago and has not been able to lift her arm without pain. She has
seen numerous physicians and therapists without any material result. In a few
minutes with EFT, she lifts her arm as high as she can with no pain whatsoever.
**Veronica: Starts with a heavy desire for a cigarette and then uses EFT to
eliminate the craving. She then undergoes strong emotions about being raped by
her father. After this one session (which you will watch in its entirety) she
gets completely over this traumatic memory. **Norma: She is dyslexic and has
always needed to read things 4 or 5 times before she could understand them. She
gets over that in minutes and gets a new job that requires her to read out loud
to people.
Video 3
This video is entitled "6 Days at the VA" and shows the highlights of our visit
to the Veterans Administration in Los Angeles to help the emotionally disabled
veterans of the Vietnam war. This puts EFT to the ultimate test because most of
these soldiers have been in therapy for over 20 years with little or no
progress. You will watch their emotional intensity melt away in moments.
Nowhere is there a greater testimonial to the power of what you are learning. I
mention this touching episode in my "Open Letter" at the start of this manual.
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Important note
Please note that throughout Videos 2a, 2b and 3, Adrienne and I use various
shortcuts that we have learned over the years. With our extensive training we
know when to shorten the process and we always do so in the interest of
efficiency. Remember, we are usually dealing with skeptical strangers and are
often doing so under the most difficult of circumstances....on stage.
Accordingly, we use shortcuts (described in Part II of this course) whenever
possible and rarely do the entire Basic Recipe.
Rest assured, however, that if we had taken the time to perform the more
thorough process you are learning in Part I of this course, we would have
achieved the same results. It would have taken a few seconds longer per
round...that's all.
The main purpose of these sessions is to give you a head start in the direction
of experience by showing you how these techniques work in the real world...with
real people...over a wide variety of problems. They take you out of the
classroom and show you how these techniques are administered and how people
respond.
Also, in some cases, some of the tapping has been edited out so that the session
"moves along" on film. This allows the wider experience to come through without
being burdened by the constant repetition of the procedures you have learned
elsewhere in this course. I am not teaching The Basic Recipe here on videos 2a,
2b and #3. That is done rather thoroughly in the earlier
To further widen your experience with EFT, I have included several hours of case
histories on the audios. As in the videos, you won't be just listening to
theory. These are real people with real problems.
You will hear some people get over lifelong problems in moments while others
require persistence. You will hear Adrienne and me apply EFT to some severe
emotional problems and listen to them disappear right on the tape. You will also
hear some partial relief for ailments that doesn't go away completely. In short,
these audios add to your rainbow of experience, thereby giving you a useful
background that you can use when applying EFT.
Read these points before you listen to them.
**These audios contain a series of telephone sessions conducted by my business
associate, Adrienne Fowlie, and me. They are a collection of authentic sessions
recorded with a desktop tape recorder. While the sound quality is certainly
adequate, the recordings were obviously not made in the pristine atmosphere of a
recording studio.
**Some of these sessions are with people who are actually undergoing EFT. As you
listen in, you will literally be a first hand "observer" as people apply these
techniques to a wide variety of emotional and physical problems. This will give
you an invaluable "feel" for what you can
expect when you apply EFT to yourself and others. **Other sessions are with
people who have used EFT in the past and are telling about their experiences
since then. This gives you a good sense of the lasting nature of these
techniques. **The purpose of these audios is to expand
yourexperienceofthesetechniques. Itisnot to teach the tapping processes
themselves. That is done by the manual and Video 1a. Thus, as in videos 2a, 2b
and 3, I have edited out much of the tapping so you can focus on people's
responses and the other details involved in the techniques.
**You will be listening in on some highly personal problems and you will be
doing so with the permission of those involved. They did it so others (like you)
could benefit from these marvelous techniques. We owe them all a thank you.
**Repetition is very important in learning.
Accordingly, you will hear me repeat some important points, from different
angles, many times during these tapes. This is not to bore you. It is to embed
important concepts into your thinking.
**These sessions are for your education and not your entertainment (although
some of them areveryentertaining). Icouldhavemadethem short and snappy...editing
them to make a couple of quick points each time...and then
The Audiotapes For Part I
Here's what's in them
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parts of this manual and on video 1. 3 are all about experience.
Videos 2a, 2b and
moved on. Doing so would rob you of some of the "feel" and "depth" to these
processes. On the other hand, some conversations get off the subject and delve
into areas outside the interest of this course. In editing these audios for your
education, I have drawn a blend between these two extremes always erring on the
side of including as much useful information as I can. **Please note that the
tapping you do hear on these audios will seem different than what you are being
taught. It is not, in fact, different. It is simply shorter and takes a somewhat
different form.
As I mentioned in the section on the videos, Adrienne and I are advanced
practitioners of these techniques and have been doing them for many years.
Accordingly, we use some of the same short cuts previously mentioned.
Butthere'sanothertechnique thatisusedinthe audios.
Adrienne and I have invested the time and money to learn Dr. Roger Callahan's
Voice Technology in an effort to better assess the tapping points, existence of
Psychological Reversal, etc. We used this form of diagnosis on these audios to
save time but are, at all times, using the same tapping points that you are
learning. When I first learned Voice Technology I thought it was a major aid in
applying these procedures. After years of experience, however, I no longer
believe it adds any extra value and have discontinued using it.
I have developed a more useful diagnostic technique which is taught in great
detail in our video set "Steps Toward Becoming The Ultimate Therapist." Those
interested in this advanced training should consult those videos.
As previously stated, diagnosis is beyond the scope of this course. The Basic
Recipe (using the 100% overhaul concept) is being taught instead because it is
an adequate substitute for thevastmajorityofcases. Ittakesafew seconds longer
per round to perform and you may need to do a few more rounds (persistence) to
get the same results. In any event, we are talking extra seconds or minutes here
(per problem)...not weeks or months.
Notice in these audios not only what people say but also the differences in
their voices before and after using EFT. Also notice that many times people emit
a very relaxed "sigh" after tapping. This evidences the release of emotional
burdens.
On a few of the audios you will hear a "thump, thump, thump" in the background.
This is the result of a malfunction in my tape recorder and is not someone's
heart beating.
You may be tempted to look at the "Session by Session Summary" below and go
right to "your issue" on the audios. That's human nature, I suppose, but please
don't ignore the rest of these audios just because they don't seem to apply to
you for the moment. They contain valuable insights that will magnify your
abilities with EFT.
Session by session summary
1. Barbara through Paulette
Barbara (7 min 35 sec): Relief from a traumatic memory (hitting a windshield), a
headache and insomnia .
Del (9 min 56 sec): He stands on a rooftop with a cellular phone and overcomes a
lifelong, very severe, height phobia. The phobia is eliminated so completely
thathegoesskydiving. Neckandjointpainsalso subside.
Mike (3 min 28 sec): With graduate degrees in psychology, he finds this process
astonishing. He gets over love pain (breaking up with his lady friend) very
rapidly....but finds it hard to believe.
Ingrid (9 min 23 sec): She has had nearly constant irritable bowel syndrome,
headaches, "burning eyes," and constipation for many years. She gets substantial
relief from all of them and becomes quite humorous about her constipation toward
the end of this session.
Paulette (4 min 40 sec): Lifetime fear of flying disappears. After EFT she takes
two flights with no anxiety at all.
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2. Buz through Bruce
Buz (9 min 10 sec): A sufferer of a severe case of Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD). Listen as he tells his most intense war memory as though it was
a shopping trip.
Donna (1 min 35 sec): She uses EFT to help with her vision.
Kieve (9 min 45 sec): Pay particular attention to this one. Kieve learned these
techniques just as you are learning them and applied them to 150 people with
astonishing results. He tells of just some of the people he has helped with
phobias, PMS, migraine headaches, hip pain, corn pain and other problems.Master
these techniques and you can do the same.
Cathy(7min23sec): Thisladysufferedfromdaily back pain since an automobile
accident 24 years ago and has been through every imaginable method for
relief...with no real help.She tells how it completely subsided after using
these tapping techniques. She also dramatically improved her daily anxiety and
insomnia .
Bruce (11 min 22 sec): He has had multiple sclerosis for 7 years and gets
noticeable resurgence of strength in his legs. He is confined to a wheelchair
and stands up during the session. He gets feelings back in his hands and feet
and reduces back pain and a sleeping disorder.
3. Geri through Bonnie
Geri (10 min 15 sec): This professional psychotherapist had a major fear of
dentists. As it turns out, she had more fears than she thought. This session
helps us understand that our fears and other negative emotions sometimes contain
different aspects.
Shad (4 min 43 sec): Effectively manages daily stress and anxiety with EFT. Also
uses the technique to improve his golf score by over 10 strokes.
Margie (3 min 50 sec): Reduces her addictive craving for chocolate to zero in
moments. She says it doesn't even taste good now.
Mary (12 min 16 sec): Overcomes what she calls a global and planetary fear and
reduces pains in her knee and back.
JoAnn(4min11sec): Rapideliminationofthroat discomfort and allergic symptoms.
Bonnie (8 min 38 sec): Emotional disorders keep her from swallowing food
normally. In one session she overcomes some unidentified emotions and then
swallows food easily.
4. Steve through Doris
Steve (13 min 0 sec):This sufferer of a little known disease (Hemolytic Anemia)
gets substantial relief from fatigue, heavy or itching eyes, back pain (with
muscle spasms) and numerous other symptoms. He also eliminates an issue of anger
and related nightmares.
Rachel (3 min 53 sec): She neutralizes the severe emotion of recalling a murder
attempt on her by a boy friend and gets over a breathing problem in the process.
Geoff(11min50sec): Hehadseen5psychiatristsin the past but gained no relief from
his depression. In two very short sessions with EFT the depression subsides.
Karen (6 min 17sec): She has fatigue caused by her insomnia and thus never feels
rested. Relief occurs after one session with EFT.
Mike (7 min 50 sec): His extreme case of the fear of public speaking
dramatically impr oves. He reports that he performed flawlessly in a
presentation after using EFT.
Doris (1 min 44 sec): A cancer patient, she tells of her emotional relief using
EFT and describes it as like having a "new body."
5. Bonnie
Bonnie (35 min 9 sec): She makes dramatic improvement in her entire self image
through persistent use of EFT. Bonnie was subject to numerous childhood abuses
and has been undergoing conventional therapy for 28 years at a cost of $50,000.
She makes unparalleled improvement with countless traumatic memories, headaches,
body shame, inadequacy feelings, fingernail biting, a phobia, anxiety , insomnia
and depression.
6. Jim through Dorothy
Jim (2 min 40 sec): His claustrophobia for being in a dark closet completely
disappears in 5 minutes.
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Patricia (5 min 11 sec): This rape victim goes from a 10 to a 0 on two separate
aspects regarding this traumatic experience.
Juanita (1 min 57 sec): Her ongoing anxiety is relievedinmoments.
Susan (2 min 12 sec): Pain from a back injury on the golf course goes away in
less than a minute.
Geri Nicholas (9 min 28 sec): This professional psychotherapist appears for the
second time on these tapes. This time she gives more insights into her personal
use of EFT and how she uses it for others.
DorothyTyo(12min1sec): Finally,afascinating interview with a professional
hypnotherapist who has used EFT, just as you are learning it, to help people
with issues ranging from physical pain to the fear of public speaking to the
fear of spiders to smoking to hiccups .
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EFT Part II
NOTE: This section assumes you have already studied EFT Part I and have
persistently used The Basic Recipe for personal improvement.
What follows is the advanced portion of EFT. Here we get behind the inner
workings of EFT Part I and expand our skills with this unique technique. In this
section we will...
Explore the impediments that sometimes inhibit EFT and learn what to do about
them. Take The Basic Recipe apart and learn some shortcuts for faster results.
Thoroughly expose you to the art of EFT through countless video demonstrations
on a
wide variety of issues.
There is much to be gained in these advanced areas and it is every bit as
fascinating as what you have learned so far. But before going further I want to
make sure that I have established a vital perspective regarding EFT Part I.
Namely...The Basic Recipe is an extraordinarily powerful device even without the
advanced details...and...
...if you will persistently apply The Basic Recipe while being "tuned in" to
your problem, there is a good likelihood that the problem will fade away.
Although the advanced concepts are important for you to know, persistence with
The Basic Recipe will often do the job. The Basic Recipe is a gift and is a
condensation of many years of experience. Please keep this ever present in your
mind as you expand your knowledge in this section.
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2. 3. 4.
Psychological Reversal Collarbone Breathing Problem Energy Toxins.
Impediment #1
Aspects
The Impediments To Perfection
Even in the hands of relatively proficient newcomers, The Basic Recipe produces
effective results about 80% of the time, particularly when applied to specific
negative events in one's life. This is an extraordinary success ratio and few,
if any, conventional techniques can make the same claim. However, an even higher
success ratio is possible when you know how to handle the impediments to
perfection. There are four such impediments which can hinder the results of The
Basic Recipe. They are:
1. Aspects
after and during the slump. But all athletes go through this many times in their
careers. Why?
....addictions are so hard to overcome? After all, the addict usually wants to
be free of their destructive patterns. They know, and will often admit, that
their addiction is costing them their health, their relationships and even their
life! Yet they continue with it. Why?
....depression is so hard to correct?
It is one of the most difficult psychological issues to handle. If one goes for
conventional therapy to get over depression they are usually in for years of
expensive procedures. And progress, if any is made, is usually accomplished in
baby steps. Why?
....we sometimes self-sabotage ourselves? When we try, for example, to lose
weight or read faster we often manage to "stop ourselves" and fall back into our
previous "comfort zones" with little or no real progress. Why?
....healing sometimes takes so long? Thelingeringcoldthatjust won't go away, the
sprain or broken bone that takes forever to heal, the headache or pain that
stays and stays. Sometimes things just don't heal normally. Why?
Thereasonisinthebody'senergysystem. Itis the actual cause of what is commonly
called self sabotage. It is the reason why we sometimes seem to be our own worst
enemy and don't reach those "new levels" we truly want.
In addition to the above examples, it is also why people often try in vain to
make more money and fall short in countless other pursuits even though they know
they have the ability to achieve them. It is also a contributor to psychological
blocks (like "writer's block") and learning limitations (like dyslexia).
Before this discovery, people's seeming inability to make progress in areas that
are obviously important to them was blamed on such things as "lack of will
power", "poor motivation", "spacing out" or other forms of supposed character
defects. But this isn't so. There is another cause....and it is correctable.
No need to spend much time here on aspects because they have been covered
earlier. I include them here under impediments even though they are not actually
impediments. They are apparent impediments because they seem to impede progress.
Each aspect is simply a new portion of the problem which needs addressing before
complete relief is gained. It is handled with The Basic Recipe just as if it is
a separate problem (which, in a way, it is). You will see this demonstrated
repeatedly in the numerous EFT Part II videos. If none of the other impediments
are in the way, persistence will frequently neutralize the aspects.
Impediment #2
Psychological Reversal
EFT Part I introduced you to The Setup as a label for the more technical
phenomenon known as Psychological Reversal (a term coined by Dr. Roger Callahan
but originally brought to the public by Dr. John Diamond). This is a fascinating
discovery on its own and deserves special treatment in this course.
Did you ever wonder why...
....athletes get into slumps? This defies normal logic. There is no physical
reason for them to perform so far below par. The athlete is the same highly
trained person before,
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Psychological Reversal (PR for short) is that cause. It is an immensely
important and practical discovery that is finding its way into several
disciplines.
It is vital in psychology, medicine, addictions, weight loss, and countless
fields of endeavor including sports and business performance. Where PR is
present, little or no headway will be made. It...literally blocks progress.
WhatisPsychologicalReversal? Everyone experiences it. It occurs when the energy
system in the body changes polarity and it usually happens outside your
awareness. You don't ordinarily "feel" it happening. It is a literal polarity
reversal in your body's energy system and is like having your "batteries in
backwards" as explained in EFT PartI.
Interestingly, it often takes the form of what psychologists call "secondary
gain or loss." For example, the person who consciously believes that they want
to lost weight will often have an unconscious "stopper" such as, "If I lose
weight I will only gain it back again and that will cost me a lot of money in
changing my wardrobe." This person is psychologically reversed against losing
weight.
How was PR discovered? Psychological Reversal has its roots in a field known as
Applied Kinesiology. One of the tools of this discipline is known as muscle
testing. Here the patient rigidly extends an arm straight out from the side of
his or her body while the doctor pushes down on it to assess the patient's
strength.
The doctor then has a dialogue with the patient and pushes down on the arm as
the patient makes statements. If there is a subconscious disagreement with the
statement, the muscles go weak and the arm is easily pushed down. Otherwise, the
arm remains strong. This allows the doctor to "talk to the body" and thus help
diagnose where problems might reside.
Dr. Roger Callahan was using this procedure with a lady who wanted to lose
weight. For perspective, here is how he tells it in his book, "How Executives
Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking and Other Phobias."
"There is not a therapist practicing who has not encountered a patient who
simply cannot be cured, no matter how effective the therapy ordinarily is or how
diligently the patient and therapist apply themselves to the task. This
resistance to treatment is a frustration to therapists and a trial to their
patients. It has been called by many names, such as: death instinct, the loser
syndrome, self -defeating behavior or negativity. These troubled patients are
called by many names: recalcitrant patients, negative personalities, self
destructive individuals -- but their situation is always much the same, they
seem to resist all help -- no matter
what approach is used. They claim they want to be cured -- but they do not
respond to treatment.
While I was working with an overweight woman who professed to want to be thin, I
encountered this negative block. She had been dieting with little success for
years. Yet, in spite of her failure to cut down on eating, she insisted that she
wanted to lose weight.
Using the muscle test, I asked her to picture herself thin, the way she said she
wished to be. The result startled me. When she succeeded in picturing herself
minus her extra weight, her arm tested weak.
We were both surprised. Yet, in spite of the negative results, she insisted that
she did want to lose weight.
So I tried a different approach. I asked her to picture herself 30 pounds
heavier than she was. Now she tested strong.
I restated the question even more directly. I had her say aloud, 'I want to lose
weight.' The test suggested that her statement was not true.
Now I had her say, 'I want to gain weight.' This time she tested strong.
Obviously, there was a discrepancy between what she said she wanted and what the
test indicated she wanted.
Curious, I tried this same test on six other clients who had been dieting for
months or years without success. They all showed the same pattern. What they
said they wanted was the reverse of what they were shown to want when I tested
them using the same muscle test.
This was, certainly, not the first time I had encountered resistance to
treatment. But now I had a tool with which to identify it and possibly overcome
it. To have the name of this condition also be a description of it, I called it
Psychological Reversal.
....Now I began to test all my other clients with reference to their major
problems (ie: 'I want to get over my anxiety attacks,' 'I want to get a better
relationship with my wife/husband/lover,' 'I want to overcome my
frigidity/impotence/premature ejaculation,' or 'I want to be a successful and/or
fine actor/singer/musician/composer,' etc.). In each case, I also had the
patient make a reverse statement (ie: 'I do not want to get over my anxiety
attacks,' etc.). And each time I tested, using the arm test.
I was flabbergasted at the results of these tests. I found to my chagrin that a
large number of my clients got weak when they thought of getting better and
stronger when they thought of getting worse.
No wonder psychotherapy is so difficult...."
WhatcausesPR? Theprinciplecauseisnegative thinking. Even the most positive
thinkers among us carry around subconscious negative, self defeating thoughts.
PRistheusualresult. Asageneralrule,the
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more pervasive this type of thinking, the more prone we are to becoming
psychologically reversed.
With some people it is an all pervasive phenomenon. It stops them just about
everywhere they go. You can usually tell who these people are because nothing
ever seems to work for them. They complain a lot and consider themselves a
victim of the world. People with this "across the board" form of reversal are
called massively reversed.
PR is also a chronic companion of those who suffer from depression. Depression,
negative thinking and PR live in the same house.
Please understand, PR is not a character defect. These people, unknowingly,
suffer from a chronic reversal of the electrical polarity in their bodies. Their
energy systems literally work against them. As a result, they are stymied just
about everywhere they go. It is not the world that is against them....it is
their own energy system. Their batteries are in backwards.
Most people know, at least intuitively, that negative thinking blocks their
progress. That's why there are so many books and seminars on positive thinking.
However, up until now, no one has been able to explain how negative thinking
creates these blocks much less provide a way to correct it. Psychological
Reversal does both.
With most people PR shows up in specific areas. A person may do very well in
many areas in their life but giving up cigarettes, for example, seems to be out
of their reach. They may consciously want to quit and may want to do so badly.
In fact, they may even give the habit up for awhile. But eventually, if they are
PR, they will sabotage their own efforts and start smoking again. They aren't
weak. They are PR.
The energy in our bodies must flow properly if we are to perform up to our
potentia l. Psychological Reversal is one of the important ways in which it
becomes interrupted.
PR is also correctable and the correction, which is called The Setup in EFT,
only takes a few seconds to do. This process is covered in detail as part of The
Basic Recipe.
PR is possible in any human endeavor. There are literally thousands of
possibilities. But just to illustrate, here are a few examples.
Some examples of Psychological Reversal
Learning difficulties. Writer's block and most learning difficulties are often a
direct result of PR. A student, for instance, can do well in all subjects except
one (like chemistry) and the odds are high that PR is behind the poor subject.
Students don't know they are psychologically reversed because, until now, they
didn't even know the phenomenon existed.
But they do tend to give reasons for their "inadequacy." They may say, "I' m
just not cut out for chemistry," or "I can't seem to concentrate on it," or "I
hate it."
These reasons are usually inaccurate. The real reason is usually PR. When they
think about their poor subject, their polarity reverses and performance suffers
accordingly. Correct the PR and the grades will usually improve.
Some students are PR about school in general. This is a major contributor to
poor grades and it often goes unaddressed. The students are considered "slow" or
"learning disabled." What a label to carry through life unnecessarily!
Health. PR is almost always present with degenerative diseases such as cancer,
AIDS, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, lupus, arthritis, diabetes, etc. From an
EFT point of view, it is one of the main impediments to healing. In time, I
suspect western medical disciplines will recognize this fact and integrate PR
into their other techniques.
Unreversing oneself (aiming The Setup at a particular ailment) appears to allow
the body's natural healing processes to work more fluidly. This makes sense when
you consider the importance of the proper flow of energy throughout the body.
Broken bones seem to heal more quickly when your "batteries are installed
properly" and physical ailments of many kinds make greater progress.
Physicians, acupuncturists, chiropractors and other health practitioners whose
patients are making unsatisfactory progress might wish to teach their patients
to unreverse themselves. It may release more healing force and speed up the
recovery.
Athletics. It's a good bet that people are PR whenever they are stymied in some
area of progress in their life. Athletes are prime
examples of this. The great basketball player
who is lousy on the free throw line is almost certainly PR about shooting free
throws. Correcting for the reversal will likely bring about a dramatic
improvement.
The same goes for field goal kickers, high jumpers, baseball hitters and
athletes of all types. Owners and
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coaches of professional sports teams could make stunning use of this easy
concept.
Dyslexia. If you think about it, dyslexia is a classic example of reversal. In
fact, reversal is its major symptom. Among other things, people transpose
numbers and letters and thus have difficulty learning.
Annie approached me after one of my seminars and asked me if I could help her
with the dyslexia she had lived with since childhood. She was 49 years old. She
told me she couldn't write down telephone numbers accurately. "I get the first 3
numbers right", she said, "but I mess up the last 4."
Ithenrecited10telephonenumberstoherandasked her to write them down. Sure enough.
All 10 were wrong.
I helped her correct her PR and then recited 10 more phone numbers. This time
she got 9 of them perfect ....and it was effortless.
I don't want to leave the wrong impression. We may not have totally eliminated
her dyslexia. What happened was that we got her Psychological Reversal
temporarily out of the way and, with it gone, she performed normally. That is a
stunning example of the power of PR. In the case of dyslexia, the PR will likely
reappear in time and with it will come the dysfunction. Annie has more to do.
But without an understanding of PR, her progress will most likely be very slow
if, indeed, there is any progress at all.
PR blocks progress. Of particular importance with EFT is that...when PR is
present the tapping procedure won't work. Remember, PR literally blocks progress
and that is just as true with EFT as it is with any other technique.
I have many friends who are psychotherapists and they all have numerous clients
that just don't respond to even the best of techniques. Until they learned of
Psychological Reversal, this blockage was a mystery to them.
After years of experience with EFT we now know how often PR shows up. PR is
present in about 40% of the issues that people address with EFT. In some issues,
however, PR is almost always blocking progress. Depression, addictions and
degenerative diseases are the main examples. For most issues, however, PR may or
may not be present in a given individual. One person may be PR for relieving
asthma, for example, and another may not.
How will you know if you are experiencing PR? You won't. That's why The Basic
Recipe includes an automatic correction for it (The Setup). It only takes
seconds to perform and does no harm to correct it even if it isn't there. So,
unless PR is corrected, your success ratio with these methods will suffer
dramatically.
That's why the correction for PR is built into The Basic Recipe.
Impediment #3
Collarbone Breathing Problem
In a few cases...maybe 5%...a unique form of energy disorganization occurs
within the body that impedes the progress of The Basic Recipe. It's details are
well beyond the scope of this course but I can show you how to correct it. I
call it the Collarbone Breathing Problem not because there is something wrong
with one's collarbonesorone'sbreathing. Rather,itisnamedafter its
correction...the Collarbone Breathing Exercise.
This correction was developed by Dr. Callahan and need only be "thrown in" in
cases where persistence with The Basic Recipe is not showing results. It takes
about 2 minutes to perform and may clear the way for the normal operation of an
otherwise impeded Basic Recipe.
Although I describe it verbally below, you are advised to consult the videos for
EFT Part II for a live demonstration.
Collarbone Breathing Exercise
While you can start with either hand, I'm going to assume you are starting with
the right one. Keep your elbows and arms away from your body so that the only
things touching are your fingertips and knuckles as described.
Place two fingers of your right hand on your right Collarbone Point. With two
fingers of your left hand, tap the Gamut Point continuously while you perform
the following 5 breathing exercises:
**Breathe half way in and hold it for 7 taps. **Breathe all the way in and hold
it for 7 taps. **Breathe half way out and hold it for 7 taps. **Breathe all the
way out and hold it for 7 taps. **Breathe normally for 7 taps.
Place the two fingers of your right hand on your left Collarbone Point and,
while continuously tapping the Gamut Point, do the 5 breathing exercises.
Bend the fingers of your right hand so that the second joint or "knuckles" are
prominent. Then place them on your right Collarbone Point and tap the Gamut
Point continuously while doing the 5 breathing exercises. Repeat this by placing
the right knuckles on the left Collarbone Point.
You are now half way done. You complete the Collarbone Breathing Exercise by
repeating the entire procedure using the fingertips and knuckles of the left
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hand. You will be tapping the Gamut Point, of course, with the fingertips of the
right hand.
How do you use the Collarbone Breathing Exercise? First, assume you don't need
it and proceed as normal with The Basic Recipe. This is a logical assumption
because this problem doesn't impede EFT for very many people.
But if you have used The Basic Recipe persistently and your results are either
slow or non existent then start each round of The Basic Recipe with the
Collarbone Breathing Exercise. You may find that it "clears the way" and allows
dramatic relief.
Impediment #4
Energy Toxins
We live in a sewer
I opened a new bar of soap this morning and read the label. It has 8 chemicals
in it I never heard of. They all get on my body when I shower.
My shaving cream has 7 such ingredients and my hand lotion has 13. These go on
my body too.
My toothpaste didn't show any ingredients but I'm sure it has several chemicals
that no doctor would advise me to eat. Yet they seep into my system through the
sensitive membranes in my mouth.
Then there is my underarm deodorant that has 9 foreign chemicals in it. And, if
I was a woman, I would be subject to numerous cosmetics. Eyeliner and lipstick
to name but two.
I wonder how many noxious chemicals find their way into our bodies through such
things as facial creams, hair spray, cologne, perfume, shampoo and hair
conditioner. It has to be an intimidating list and, so far...we haven't even
left the bathroom.
The water that comes out of our faucets contains another list of toxic
substances. Yet we bathe in it, cook in it and make our morning coffee with it.
Chemical residues from the laundry soap in which we wash our clothes come in
contact with our bodies all day long. We sleep between sheets that have these
same residues.
There are chemical air fresheners and deodorants in our homes and offices that
smell nice, but do so at the expense of filling our air with foreign substances.
We eat rancid popcorn at movie theaters that is loaded with salt. We drink "soft
drinks" that are nothing more than chemical cocktails. We consume massive
amounts of refined sugar. Our foods are laden with a list of
dyes, preservatives and pesticides that would compete in size with a small
telephone book.
We ingest alcohol, nicotine, aspirin, antihistamines and countless drugs. We
breathe fumes from our cars, industrial smokestacks and the insulation in our
homes. In short, we face an army of chemical intruders 24 hours a day.
Like I said, we live in a sewer.
A different kind of "allergy"
Our bodies are designed to ward off the effects of toxins and, all things
considered, they do an admirable job. But enough is enough! Sooner or later,
this onslaught shows up in our health.
Allergies are among the most common reactions we have to all these toxic
substances. Sores, rashes, and a host of sinus problems are but some of the
allergic symptoms from which we suffer.
Allergies are commonly thought to be chemically caused. That is, these toxins
cause chemical reactions in our bodies which are, in turn, responsible for our
irritating symptoms.
An ene rgy system "allergy."
But there is a different kind of allergy that needs to be introduced here. It
doesn't necessarily irritate our internal chemistry and so it doesn't fit the
classic definition of an allergy. Rather, it is like an allergy in that it
irritates our energy system.For lack of a better term, we call them "energy
toxins."
Ways to avoid energy toxins
If you have repeatedly tried EFT with little or no success AND you have
exhaustively addressed all the aspects of the issue AND you have applied EFT to
the specific events that may be underlying the problem, then a possible culprit
is some form of energy toxin that is irritating your energy system and thus
competing with these procedures. It is not because EFT doesn't work. On the
contrary, it works marvelously given the proper environment.
There are several ways to avoid the effects of energy toxins even if you don't
know what specific toxin may be effecting you. I list these ways below:
Energy toxin avoidance method #1 -- Move from where you are. Sometimes there is
something in your immediate environment that is causing the problem. It could be
an electronic device like a computer or TV or it may be fumes from a plant, your
carpet or your ventilation system.Perhaps you have some sensit ivity
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to the chair in which you are sitting or maybe the room you are occupying has
been newly painted.
So....just the physical act of moving can remove you from some offending item.
You might want to stand up and go elsewhere in the room. If that fails go to
another room or go outdoors.
Since EFT takes so little time to perform, you can move to several different
places and try it out. If you find success by moving, then rest assured you have
removed yourself from some toxin to your energy system. If you still have no
luck then use....
Energy toxin avoidance method #2 -- Remove your clothing and take a thorough
bath or shower without soap. The clothes we wear have chemicals on them that may
interfere with our energy system. The fabrics themselves may cause sensitivity
as may the various chemicals with which they are manufactured. The chemicals
used by laundries and dry cleaners as well as the residue from your laundry soap
can also irritate your energy system.
You may have residues on your body from numerous other substances. Perfume,
shaving cream, soap, cosmetics, hair spray, shampoo, conditioner, etc. My
experience has shown that sometimes even a very minute amount of a toxic
substance is enough to cause a problem.
Please remember that a substance that is toxic to your energy system may not be
toxic to someone else's. Energy toxins have very individualized effects.
So, in case any of these things is interfering with your progress you will need
to take a bath or shower and scrub vigorously with a soap free washrag.
Make sure you include sensitive areas such as underarms and the genitalia. Be
diligent around areas where you may have applied perfume or cosmetics. Rinse
your hair thoroughly. Don't use soap or shampoo in the process as it can leave a
residue of its own. Doing these things will usually remove the chemicals on your
body.
Then start fresh with EFT. But this time....do it in the buff.
I know that sounds a little odd but this will often do the job. This way all
chemicals are off your body and you minimize the chance of them interfering with
your energy system. Make sure you stand up so that you avoid contact with chairs
or beds or other possible offending substances. You will be barefoot, of course,
and it would be best if you stood on a hardwood floor or
a board or a piece of plastic. This way you avoid your carpet and any chemicals
that may be on it.
If the above procedure results in success with EFT, then an energy toxin was
likely in your way. However, if you make no headway despite this effort then
use....
Energy toxin avoidance method #3 -- Wait a day or two. If methods #1 and #2
don't allow you the result you are looking for then, chances are, the energy
toxins aren't on you. They are probably in you.
This means that the toxins were ingested. You either ate or drank them. If you
wait a day or two, you allow the ingested toxins to be eliminated. And, once
eliminated, they are not around to compete with these techniques.
If the ingested toxin is something you consume consistently, however, your
system will, at best, have only small windows of time within which EFT can be
successfully administered. If, for example, coffee is an energy toxin to you,
then your everyday consumption minimizes the opportunity for EFT to work. It is
forced to compete with an ever present enemy within.
We are often addicted to the things we consume consistently and thus giving them
up presents a problem. EFT provides a valuable aid for those who want to get
beyond their addictive cravings. This is covered elsewhere in this course.
This brings us to an interesting point. Energy toxins are not always things that
are commonly known to be bad for you. French fries, for example, fail to make
the "healthy foods list" of just about every nutritionist in the country. But
that doesn't mean that they interfere with your energy system. On the contrary,
I often find that french fries are not in the way of these techniques. That
still doesn't make them advisable to eat, of course. On the other hand,
otherwise healthy foods can be very bothersome to your energy system.
As a general rule, things you consume a lot of will tend to be energy toxins to
you. This is true even for the healthiest of foods....even lettuce. Lettuce,
like all other plants, develop their own internal toxins to ward off predators.
It is a natural form of self preservation. We ingest these toxins, of course,
whenever we eat the host plant. Normally, our bodies handle these toxins with
ease. But if we eat a lot of lettuce then we begin to overload our systems with
these "lettuce toxins." These excess toxins then become bothersome to the body
and, in particular, can irritate the body's energy system.
This goes for potatoes, peas, plums and any other food that we eat. In short,
foods we overdo become candidates to be energy toxins. It would be advisable to
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cut back on their consumption. While virtually anything could be toxic to your
energy system, there are some items that show up with some frequency They may or
may not be toxins to you but they are common. I list them below:
PerfumeRefined SugarAlcohol Herbs Coffee Nicotine WheatTeaDairy
CornCaffeinePepper
And how will you know which foods may be irritating your energy system enough to
inhibit The Basic Recipe from working? You won't. But if you will eliminate all
of the above substances from your diet for a week the chances are excellent that
The Basic Recipe will start working its wonders. If that doesn't do it then ask
yourself intuitively what it might be. Your intuition is often accurate.
Everyone experiences toxins but that doesn't mean they will interfere with these
techniques. On the contrary, most people are not bothered enough by the energy
toxins to infringe on these marvelous procedures.
On the other hand we must also be mindful that some ailments are caused by
allergens or other forms of pollution. This is just common sense. Nonetheless,
we are often able to relieve the symptom even though its cause is from the
environment. In fact, we can sometimes collapse the allergic reaction itself by
using EFT. For example...
Even though I am sensitive to wheat... Even though I am allergic to my cat...
Even though my soap causes a skin rash... And so on.
I've seen many cases where allergic reactions completely disappear with the use
of EFT. This is not always the case but it is certainly worth a try.
Let me also mention that, in some cases, simply removing a given substance from
someone's diet or environment can provide dramatic healing results. For example,
one friend of mine had bouts of depression for many years. She took prozac and
all the drugs and had no real relief...only temporary masking of the problem.
She eventually discovered that she was sensitive to wheat and, upon eliminating
wheat from her diet, the depression lifted entirely. No pills, no EFT, or
anything else. Just the cessation of wheat in her diet.
The Value of Persistence
I started EFT Part II with the following reminder...
...if you will persistently apply The Basic Recipe while being "tuned in" to
your problem, there is a good likelihood that the problem will fade away.
Persistence, by itself, can serve to sidestep the effects of many of these
impediments. With persistence you will be performing The Basic Recipe at
different times of the day...indoors and outdoors...at the office...in the
home...while wearing different clothes...and while enjoying different diets.
This means your toxic environment will be constantly shifting and you are likely
to find one or more time windows where energy toxins (assuming they represent a
problem for you) are not in your way.
Also, the Collarbone Breathing Problem is not consistently present. It comes and
goes and persistence will probably find a time window for you where the
Collarbone Breathing Exercise is not necessary (assuming it was necessary in the
first place).
And with persistence you are repeatedly performing The Setup and addressing
Aspects thereby routinely handling most problems presented by these phenomena.
My point here is that...persis tence pays.
Diligently and persistently apply The Basic Recipe to whatever problem interests
you and you will likely raise your success ratio without having to dwell on the
technicalities of these impediments. Your success ratio will be even higher if
you apply EFT to all the specific events in your life that may contribute to
whatever problem you are addressing.
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Since The Basic Recipe only takes one minute to perform you might wonder why I
would introduce the idea of short cuts. After all, how much shorter than one
minute do you need to get?
Although it is possible to skip this section altogether and still be very
effective with EFT, delving into short cuts gives you two advantages:
1.You can deepen your understanding of The Basic Recipe because most of the
shortcuts involve taking the process apart and detailing the individual pieces.
2.Therapists, physicians and other people helpers will appreciate the time
efficiencies involved. You can often get by with a 15 or 20 second version of
The Basic Recipe and that time saving really adds up if you are dealing with
many patients.
Let's start by revisiting The Basic Recipe. It takes the form...
The Setup
Sequence 9 Gamut Sequence
If we can eliminate any of these steps or make them shorter then, obviously, we
gain some time efficiency.
Shortening The Sequence
The Sequence is the workhorse in The Basic Recipe. It is the main contributor to
knocking down those emotional bowling pins after The Setup has done its job. But
while we can't eliminate it, we can usually shorten it.
As it turns out, the energy meridians that circulate through the body are all
interconnected and, through experience, it appears that tapping on one meridian
will often affect another. Thus, through trial and error, I have found that
tapping on fewer meridians will usually do the job. I start with EB (beginning
of the EyeBrow) and stop with UA (under the Arm). Continuing on by tapping on
the points of the fingers and hand is usually not necessary.
You will see me do this repeatedly on the videos. I rarely do the entire
Sequence. For clarity, the short cut version of the Sequence looks as follows:
EB = Beginning of the EyeBrow SE = Side of the Eye UE = Under the Eye UN = Under
the Nose
Ch = Chin CB = Beginning of the CollarBone UA = Under the Arm
Eliminating The Setup
Please recall that Psychological Reversal is almost always present in
depression, addictions and degenerative diseases and thus The Setup, in these
instances, is almost always necessary to perform.
But in other cases, PR only appears about 40% of the time. This leaves an
obvious 60% where The Setup isn't necessary. Do we dare eliminate it and risk
failure on the 40% where PR is present? Sure. There is a way to do it. However,
I usually include The Setup routinely because it only takes a few seconds to do.
But if I choose to omit The Setup there is a procedure that allows me to know
quickly if I need to go back and do it.
I start with the Sequence (the short cut version which only takes 10 seconds)
and then stop and assess if any progress is made. I ask the person if their
intensity has dropped from the original number of, let's say, an 8. If they say
yes then I know The Setup wasn't necessary and I continue on with The Basic
Recipe.
How do I know The Setup wasn't necessary? Simple. I know that PR blocks progress
dead in its tracks...and...since progress was made in this example, PR could not
have been there. If, on the other hand, no progress was made whatsoever, then I
must suspect that PR was in place and start The Basic Recipe over again...this
time starting with The Setup.
With experience, you will find that some people have little or no PR to deal
with. It's a delight to discover this because you can usually zip right through
their issues with incredible speed.
Eliminating The 9 Gamut Procedure
The 9 Gamut Procedure is not always necessary either. In fact, it is only needed
about 30% of the time. It too, can sometimes be eliminated. I often eliminate it
simply because 70% of the time it is useless. If I'm not making the progress I
would like, I can always put it back in. If it was necessary, progress should
resume.
The Floor to Ceiling Eye Roll
This is a useful short cut when you have brought the intensity of the problem
down to a low level...like a 1 or 2 on a 0 to 10 scale. It only takes 6 seconds
to perform and, when successful, will take you to zero without having to do
another round of The Basic Recipe.
Shortcuts
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To perform it, simply tap the Gamut point continuously (while holding your head
steady) and take 6 seconds to slowly move your eyes from hard down to the floor
to hard up to the ceiling. Repeat the reminder phrase while you do it.
This process is demonstrated for you on the videos. Adrienne shows you how to do
it in the shortcut section of the first video in the Part II video series.
The Art of Doing Short Cuts
Because there is some art involved, it is difficult to put down on paper how
these short cuts are to be used
in real situations. That is one reason I have included numerous video
demonstrations with this course. You will watch me use these short cuts in
numerous situations and can then get a feel for how to proceed. Experience is
the best teacher when it comes to using short cuts. This section simply
acquaints you with the fundamentals.
Please remember, however, that The Basic Recipe only takes one minute to
perform. You don't really need to do the shortcuts. They are faster and more
convenient, that's all.
The Videos For Part II
(For easy reference, all EFT tapes are also summarized in the Appendix)
Video 1 - Overview
This tape is a bridge between Part I and Part II wherein Part I is recapped and
many of the new concepts included in the Part II manual are reviewed. Here we
discuss the impediments to perfection, shortcuts and the forest and trees
metaphor.
Video 2 - Audience Examples
The rest of these videos contain a condensed combination of two 3 day seminars.
This video starts at the beginning of those seminars and explores a wide variety
of issues...both emotional and physical...and lends an invaluable perspective to
the far reaching power of EFT. It discusses issues such as the fear of public
speaking, agoraphobia, anxiety, migraine headaches, physical pain, fear of
flying, depression, fibromyalgia and high blood pre ssure.
There is also a discussion from the stage of The Discovery Statement and some
important demonstrations of Psychological Reversal. These latter demonstrations
are critically important for you to study.
Video 3 - Emotional Issues I
There are three sessions on this tape. The first is with Jason who works with
anger and betrayal as a result of his wife leaving him and issuing a restraining
order that prohibited him from seeing his daughter.
The second session is with Veronica. You will recognize her as the lady who used
EFT for being raped by her father in the second video in Part I. She appears
here, 3 or 4 months later, and still has no emotional problems with that
specific issue. This is incontrovertible evidence of the power of EFT under even
the most intense of issues.
On this video, she works on an entirely different issue. She has obviously
intense emotions about being
abandoned, alone and not being lovedas a small child. Our session with EFT
eliminates the problem and she comes back the next day to report that she feels
"light as a feather."
The third session is with Sandhya who works through her emotions regarding the
experiences her father had during the World War II Holocaust.
Video 4 - Emotional Issues II
There are two sessions on this video. In the first session, Marlys uses EFT to
get over "love pain"...an obsession over the loss of romantic relationships. As
this EFT session unfolds, several aspects show up and the issues shift in a
daisy chain fashion. It eventually evolves into the fact that her mother didn't
love her and, after using EFT, she laughs about it.
In the second session, Kathy has three issues: (1) a fear of being touched
(hugged), (2) a traumatic incident where her mother threw boiling water on her
and (3) a sore shoulder which is related to her having to fend off beatings. She
responds beautifully to EFT and The Setup (Psychological Reversal) is not
necessary even though numerous rounds of EFT are performed.
Video 5 - Physical Issues
There are four sessions on this video.
First, Connie J. has tightness in her jaw that comes from clenching her teeth at
night. The clenching is so severe that she has to wear a bite plate at night to
protect her teeth. With EFT, she achieves complete freedom from this problem in
minutes even though it has been with her for 2 or 3 years. She also had a
headache which she eliminated on her own using EFT.
Second, Patricia came on stage with an episode of asthma from which she had
suffered for over 10 years. She gets dramatic relief with EFT and reports that
it is
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still gone the next morning. She also experiences major relief from a back
problem even though she has herniated discs.
Dorothy came on stage with an irregular heartbeat which is an ailment for which
EFT had never been used. Since we try it on everything, we applied EFT to it
with excellent results.
Connie M. uses EFT for her neck pain which, according to her, came about because
of emotional issues. She gets complete relief.
Video 6 - Addictive Cravings
This session starts with two ladies who run an eating disorder clinic. The
concepts in this conversation lead into the causes behind all addictive
behaviors, including eating disorders.
Then follows (1) an important discussion of the causes of addictions and (2) an
entire session where EFT is used on a group of people to overcome the immediate
cravings for chocolate, cigarettes and alcohol.
Video 7 - Energy Toxins, Phobias & Persistence
This important video emphasizes the effect of energy toxins and the value of
persistence when using EFT.
The first part is an interview with Todd who gets nowhere during the seminar
because energy toxins are in his way. He then comes back, a month later, to tell
the members of another seminar about the dramatic effect a change in his diet
had been on his sleep disorder, eye pain and depression.
Next is an unusual session where several people experience improvement on their
snake phobias. However, even though the improvements are dramatic by
conventional standards, they are considered slow and relatively ineffective by
EFT standards. This is due to suspected energy toxins within the room.
Persistence is required to generate relief for most of these people.
Finally, we show the value of persistence in a session with Grace who was beset
with intense depression and many other issues. We make little headway on stage
but her persistence and attention to her diet in the following weeks creates
major improvement in her emotional well being. She tells of this
enthusiastically in a phone conversation.
Video 8 - Common Problems and Q&A
This is a catch-all video that explains EFT's use in
such areas as sports (golf), business, public speaking,
procrastination, self image and relationships.
It also entertains numerous common questions from the audience to round out your
understanding.
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Appendix
Articles written by Gary Craig on...
Using EFT on Fears and Phobias Using EFT on Traumatic Memories Using EFT for
Addictions Using EFT for Physical Healing Using EFT to Enhance Your Self Image
Summary of the EFT Tapes
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Using EFT on Fears and Phobias
About 10% of the population suffers from one or more phobias. They can cause
intense fear and often severely limit the lives of those who have them. There
are hundreds of possible phobias and EFT can be effective on all of them. I
include below some of the more common ones:
Public speaking Heights Snakes, spiders and insects Claustrophobia Dentists
Needles Driving Elevators Flying Bridges Rejection Sex Water Speed The telephone
Marriage Men Failure Disease Dogs Computers Bees Being alone
What is a phobia? For our purposes, a phobia is any "excess fear" over and above
normal caution or concern. Let me explain....
Our fears are essential...to a point. They are important to our survival.
Without them we might walk off the tops of tall buildings, eat arsenic or play
tennis on the freeway. They are automatic mechanisms that kick into place when
danger is afoot. They step on the brakes for us and keep us from harm.
But sometimes fears overdo their function. They go well beyond the normal
boundaries of caution and create an unnecessary fear response. It is one thing,
for example, to be cautious when you see a snake or a spider. Some of them are
dangerous and could cause you harm. But it is quite another thing to experience
a pounding heart, headache, nausea, vomiting, sweat, tears or a long list of
other excessive fear symptoms. These latter responses are useless in that they
contribute no more to your safety than does normal caution. They
are "excess fear" and serve only to create misery for the phobic person.
It is that "excess fear"....the useless part....the part that is above and
beyond normal caution or concern...that we define as a phobia.
What is fascinating about EFT in this regard is that it eliminates the phobic
part of the fear but leaves the normal caution or concern alone. People are
often amazed at how quickly a lifelong phobia vanishes. But the process doesn't
make them stupid. They don't suddenly jump off of tall buildings or kiss grizzly
bears.
What is interesting, though, is that people who eliminate a phobia with EFT tend
to have less fear than the general public with regard to that phobic
circumstance.Almost everyone, for example, has some phobic response to heights.
Ask 100 people to look down from the top of a tall building and most of them
will feel a little queasy. That's a phobic response, of course, but for most
people it is rather mild. It doesn't cause them any real problem in their day to
day living.
By contrast, those who completely eliminate a height phobia with EFT don't even
feel queasy. They are left only with normal caution and could spend the day
calmly looking off that building.
It doesn't matter how intense the phobia is or how long you have had it either.
That's a big surprise to many people because conventional wisdom has told us for
decades that long standing, intense phobias are "deeply ingrained" and must take
months or years to eliminate. Not so with EFT.
Some phobias take longer to resolve than others but that's not because of their
intensity or longevity. Rather it is because of their complexity, i.e. the
number of aspects involved.
If a phobia is being "stubborn" with EFT, try using EFT on the specific events
that may underlie the fear. Examples might be....
**Even though that snake bit me when I was 8.... **Even though I fell off the
school roof in the 4th grade... **Even though the class laughed at me when I
forgot the words to my speech.....
And so on.
With that in mind let's apply what you learned in the earlier parts of this
manual. Please recall the discovery statement upon which EFT is built:
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"The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy
system."
All phobic responses are negative emotions and are thus caused by a "zzzzzt" in
your energy system. That means the solution to your problem is conceptually very
easy. Just eliminate the "zzzzzt" and the phobia will fade to zero. No
headaches. No pounding heart. No problems whatsoever. The emotional intensity
will be neutralized.
Our tool for this is The Basic Recipe. A few trips through it should eliminate
the problem forever. How many trips you need, however, depends on how many
aspects there are to the phobia.
Aspects are important. Aspects, as discussed earlier, are different parts of the
phobia that contribute to your emotional intensity. Let's revisit the height
phobia example for clarification on this idea. Most height phobics have had many
specific events in their lives where they were up high and their phobic
responses left them with distressing memories. For example, one gentleman I
helped with a height phobia had a fearful memory (aspect) of sitting on a water
tower when a little boy. There was no way to get down and it scared him to
death. Memories like this are separate aspects of a height phobia if, when
separately recalled, they produce a fear response.
Since most phobias only need one aspect addressed, just 1 to 3 brief trips
through The Basic Recipe will usually do the job. You will be rid of the problem
in a matter of minutes and, in most cases, it will never return.
At this point, neither you nor I know how many aspects of your phobia need to be
addressed. That notwithstanding, we can still proceed very effectively. All we
have to do is assume you have several aspects that need addressing and address
them, one by one until you have no more emotional intensity. When your emotional
intensity has vanished you will know that you are done and all relevant aspects
have been addressed.
Questions and Answers
Q. Once the phobia is eliminated, is the result permanent? Yes. However, if it
appears to "come back" that is almost always because there are new aspects that
weren't properly addressed the first time. If you quiz the client on what is
going on with them you will usually hear them speak about the fear differently.
For example, the snake phobic might discuss his/her adverse reaction to the
moving tongue of a snake. If
this aspect didn't come up while using EFT, then it remains a problem. Using EFT
on the moving tongue should eliminate that aspect and provide complete relief
from the phobia unless, of course, there is yet another unaddressed aspect.
In other cases, a brand new traumatic experience could start the phobia all over
again. In this case, you need only repeat the process again as if it was a brand
new phobia (which it is). Relief should be moments away.
Q. What do I do if I have several phobias?
Address them one at a time. For example, make sure your spider phobia is totally
neutralized before you address your claustrophobia. Then make sure your
claustrophobia is totally neutralized before you address your driving phobia,
etc.
Some phobias are labeled complex in that they are several phobias wrapped into
one. The fear of flying is sometimes like that because it can also involve (1)
claustrophobia, (2) the fear of falling, (3) the fear of dying, (4) the fear of
turbulence, (5) the fear of taking off, (6) the fear of landing, (6) the fear of
people, etc. If you can isolate them in your mind, they qualify as different
aspects and should be addressed separately.
If you have a complex phobia, but are unaware of it, persistent use of The Basic
Recipe should still do the job. But it may take many trips through the process
until all "zzzzzt's" are neutralized. The intensity may rise and fall as the
different aspects are handled "behind the scenes."
Using EFT on Traumatic Memories
(Including War, Accidents, Rape, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and all
past abuses.)
This section is in stark contrast to all conventional approaches. In it we lump
a nearly endless list of emotional problems into one category (traumatic
memories) and handle them all as if they were identical. In fact, they are
identical because they all have the same cause...a disruption in the body's
energy system.
Traumatic memories generate a wide variety of emotional reactions when people
recall them. Some become very intense. They get headaches or stomach aches.
Their hearts pound. They sweat. They cry. They may have sexual dysfunction,
nightmares, grief, anger, depression and any number of other emotional and
physical problems.
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Let's begin by applying what you learned earlier. Please recall the discovery
statement upon which EFT is built:
"The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy
system."
Thus every negative emotion you have regarding a traumatic memory is caused by a
"zzzzzt" in your energy system. That means the solution to your problem is
conceptually very easy. Just eliminate the "zzzzzt" and the emotional impact
will fade to zero. No more nightmares. No more headaches. No more pounding
heart. No more problems whatsoever. You will still have the memory, of course.
But that is all. The emotional charge will be neutralized.
Our tool for this, of course, is The Basic Recipe. A few trips through it should
give relief. How many trips you need, however, depends on how many aspects there
are to the memory.
Aspects are important. Aspects, as you recall, are different parts of the memory
that contribute to your emotional intensity.
Most traumatic memories have only one main aspect. Thus 1 to 3 brief trips
through The Basic Recipe will usually suffice. You will be rid of the problem in
a matter of minutes and, in most cases, it will never return.
Some traumatic memories, though, have several aspects. They require more time
because more trips through The Basic Recipe are needed. But even if extra trips
are necessary, we are usually only talking minutes here. Maybe 20 or 30 minutes
instead of 5 or 6.
What we need, obviously, is a way to locate these aspects. Once located, it is a
simple matter to address them one by one until every aspect of the memory has
beenneutralized. Wecandothisratherefficientlyby using the "short movie in your
mind" concept.
A short movie in your mind. Consider a traumatic memory as a short movie that
runs in the theater of your mind. There is a beginning. There are main
characters and events. And there is an end.
Usually, the "movie" plays in a flash and ends in a familiar unwanted emotion.
Because the movie plays so fast, we are unaware that it may have different
aspects that are contributing to the negative emotion. It seems to come from the
movie as a whole.
If we could run the movie in slow motion, the different aspects could be located
and then addressed. So that is what we do. We run the movie in slow motion.
Narrate the movie. The best way to do that is to narrate the movie OUT LOUD.
Tell it to a friend, or a mirror or a tape recorder. And, most importantly, tell
it
in detail. This automatically slows the movie down because words are much slower
than thoughts.
As you tell it in detail, each aspect will make itself known to you. Stop as
soon as you feel any intensity (remember, we minimize pain here) and perform The
Basic Recipe on it as though it was a separate traumatic memory. Actually, it is
a separate traumatic memory. It just got lost within a larger movie.
Then continue through the aspects, bringing each to zero, until you can tell the
whole story with no negative emotional impact whatsoever.
As stated, most traumatic memories only have one aspect. Others have 2 or 3.
Rarely is there more than 3 but it could happen. If so, be persistent. Relief is
not far away.
Questions and Answers
Q. What do I do if I have several traumatic memories? Address them one at a
time. Take your most intense memory first and bring it to zero before going on
to the next one. Follow this pattern until all of your traumatic memories are
neutralized. In the process of putting your traumatic memories "in the bag" you
will likely feel a freedom that may border on euphoria. It is an incredible gift
to unload useless baggage like this.
Some people (like war veterans) have hundreds of traumatic memories. If you are
among them, you can expect the generalization effect to work for you. For
example, if you have one hundred traumatic memories, you probably only need to
address 10 or 15 of them. After that, you are likely to have difficulty getting
any emotional intensity over the remaining ones. The generalization effect will
have neutralized them.
Q. Doesn't the rapid elimination of emotional problems "rob" someone of the
importance of exploring the problem in depth and "getting to the bottom of it?"
Conventional methods presume that the cause for these "deep set" emotional
problems resides in some recess of the mind which must somehow be discovered and
unraveled. To do otherwise is to
"cheat" the client and leave the problem unresolved. EFT ignores this idea
totally.
I have helped hundreds of people with traumatic memories...some of them
extraordinarily intense. After using EFT, not one person....ever....has shown
any interest in exploring it further or "getting to the bottom of it." To them,
it is completely resolved and they are gratefully relieved of its burden.
In my experience, EFT does get to the bottom of the issue and does so very
powerfully. People's attitudes change almost instantly about the memory. They
talk about it differently. Their words shift from fear to understanding. Their
demeanor and posture evidence a
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dramatically shifted disposition about the memory. They don't even bring it up
any more because it has been put in perspective. All this happens when EFT
removes the offending "zzzzzt" from the energy system. That's because the
"zzzzzt" is the true cause.
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Addictionsareamysterytomostprofessionals. Addicted people come to them for help
and want....really want....to be free of their addiction. But despite their good
intentions and despite spending a great deal of time and money, they usually
revert to their former behavior.
And even when someone kicks one addiction they somehow manage to pick up another
in its place. Most people who give up cigarettes, for example, usually gain
weight because they substitute food for cigarettes. Likewise, people who get
beyond alcohol often revert to heavy uses of cigarettes and coffee. In these
cases the addiction is not overcome....it is merely shifted.
The reason for the poor performance of most addiction treatments is that they do
not address the true cause!!! If they did, people would not need to substitute
one addiction for another.
So what is the true cause of addictive behavior? Let's start by listing what it
is not. It is not what conventional methods have tried to make it for many
decades. For example:
It is not a bad habit. It is not inherited. It is not because it runs in the
family. It is not because the addict is weak. It is not a lack of will power. It
is not because the addict has a "secondary gain."
In my experience, these "causes" are put forth because they seem to be
explanations for this unwanted behavior. There seems to be some logic in them
and that, of course, is why they are pursued. However, they all have one thing
in common...a poor record for relieving someone of their addiction. What is
needed here is the true cause....not a list of seem-to-be's.
The true cause of all addictions is anxiety....an uneasy feeling that is
temporarily masked, or tranquilized, by some substance or behavior.
To many, this is a refreshing "Aha" because it unveils a cause they didn't know
how to articulate. Inwardly they have always known that their need to smoke,
drink, overeat, etc. is propelled by their need to tranquilize a level of
uneasiness. But they didn't directly link that feeling with the true cause of
their addiction.
Ifyouthinkaboutit,thislinkbecomesobvious. For example:
Addicts often refer to their addictions as nervous (anxious) habits and, Addicts
accelerate their use when under increased stress (anxiety).
Take away an addict's substance (tranquilizer) and they will get very fidgety
(anxious). In fact, they will often become anxious at the mere threat of taking
the substance away.Listen to addicts when they talk about their addiction and
you will often hear them say, "It relaxes me." This is the most obvious clue of
all. Why would they need to relax unless they were feeling some form of anxiety?
What else would they need to relax from?
Let's examine this further by looking at the false idea that addictions are just
"bad habits." While there may be some habitual behavior involved, addictions are
more than just bad habits. This is evident because habits, by themselves, are
very easy to break.
Here is an example. I have the habit in the morning of putting on my right shoe
before my left one. If I wanted to change that habit it would be very easy to
do. I would simply put a note by my shoes that reminded me to put my left shoe
on first. After a few repetitions of this process, my habit would change and the
note would no longer be necessary. Changing a pure habit like this is easy
because there is no anxiety involved.
But this same method would fail miserably if it were applied to the "habit" of
cigarette smoking. Merely placing notes around to remind one not to smoke is a
useless exercise. Those notes are powerless in the face of someone with an
anxiety driven craving.
When addicts have cravings they seek out a favorite substance (cigarettes,
alcohol, etc.) to tranquilize their anxiety. They do so, of course, in an effort
to relax, calm their nerves, take their mind off of things, take a break, etc.
All of these reflect different forms of anxiety which are driving them toward
the addictive substance or behavior.
So addictive behavior is not simply a bad habit. It is an anxiety driven need
that begs for relief.
The real problem for the addict here is that their substance or behavior only
relieves their anxiety temporarily. It merely masks the problem for awhile.
That's why it is a tranquilizer. When the effect of the tranquilizer wears off,
the anxiety surfaces once again.
Using EFT for Addictions
(Rethinking the cause of addictions)
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This is clearly so. Otherwise, one use of the addictive substance or behavior
would permanently relieve the problem. As is well known, this never happens.
Instead addicts must repeat their behavior for relief. They then grow dependent
and end up associating anxiety with their tranquilizer. This becomes, of course,
a vicious circle in which they become trapped.
Often, their anxiety becomes even more intense when they are deprived of their
tranquilizer. This increases their withdrawal symptoms and builds a barrier
against giving up their addiction. The pain of withdrawal becomes too great a
price to pay. They much prefer the risks of their addiction.
The withdrawal problem
This brings me to an attractive feature of EFT. It dramatically reduces the pain
of withdrawal and often eliminates it entirely. This is but one of many features
that sets EFT apart from all other methods.
Withdrawal consists of both physical and emotional factors. When people
discontinue an addictive substance, the physical need for it usually leaves
within 3 days. This is a natural process wherin the body rids itself of unwanted
toxins. But the emotional factor (anxiety) tends to persist for weeks or months
and sometimes it never leaves.
In my experience, anxiety is the biggest part of withdrawal. This is obvious
when you apply EFT because the anxiety usually subsides to zero in a matter of
moments. And as the anxiety leaves, so do most of the withdrawal symptoms.
Let's turn now to the solution. We will begin by applying what you learned in
the earlier parts of this manual. Please recall the discovery statement upon
which EFT is built:
"The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy
system."
Since anxiety is a negative emotion, it follows that it is caused by a
disruption in the body's energy system. And that, of course, is easily addressed
with The Basic Recipe. Eliminate the "zzzzzt" and you eliminate the craving.
It'salmostassimpleasthat.
I say almost because, to be complete, I must discuss another important barrier
in your way....Psychological Reversal. To emphasize its importance, I devoted an
entire section to PR in an earlier part of this manual. I urge you now to read
it again because it applies in a major way to addictions.
Please remember that PR is the cause of self sabotage. It is the reason people
thwart their own
efforts and behave in a manner contrary to their own best interests.
All addicts know their addictive behavior is heading them in the wrong
direction. Many try repeatedly to overcome it and, even if they make progress,
they eventually defeat themselves by slipping back into their previous behavior.
This is a classic example of PR.
PR occurs in over 90% of all addictive behaviors. That is why we find it so
difficult to put addictions behind us. Our energy systems change polarity and
subtly work against our otherwise well meant efforts.
That is also why we can eliminate addictive cravings and still find it hard to
discontinue our addictive behavior. I know that may seem strange...but it
happens consistently. If you have repeatedly failed to put an addiction behind
you, I guarantee that PR was a major factor.
To be effective, then, we must eliminate both the immediate cravings and the
Psychological Reversal. The Basic Recipe will be our tool, of course. It is
particularly well suited to the task because it contains The Setup....a built in
correction for PR.
How to address the addiction
This is straightforward. Just aim The Basic Recipe at the addiction and repeat
it throughout the day. It will help reduce any anxiety that is driving the
addiction as well as correct for any Psychological Reversal.
However, we must remember that The Setup does not eliminate PR permanently. PR
usually comes back and, in the case of addictions, does so frequently.
Thus...and this is important...you will need to perform The Basic Recipe a
minimum of 15 times per day.25 times per day is recommended.
This will keep your anxiety (and thus your cravings) at a low level and will
continually keep the subtle (but damaging) effects of PR out of your way. In
time, the PR should fade and diminish as a problem.
The 25 time per day recommendation should be spaced so that the tapping is done
throughout the day. To do this you could (1) get a watch that beeps every 1/2
hour to remind you or (2) do it along with habitual daily routines such as...
Whenyougetupinthemorning. When you go to bed at night. Before each meal. Every
time you walk into the bathroom. Every time you get into or out of a car. Every
time you hang up the telephone. Every time you sit down.
Every time you stand up. Every time you enter or leave your house. Every time
you go through a doorway.
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Obviously, people have different routines and some of the above may not be
practical for you. They are listed to give you the idea of it. Customize your
own list for your circumstances.
Sometimes you will find yourself in social circumstances (like parties or
restaurants) where doing The Basic Recipe may cause others to doubt your sanity.
In that case, excuse yourself and go into the bathroom or out to your car or
anyplace else convenient.
How to address the craving
If you follow the above precisely, it is unlikely that you will have much in the
way of withdrawal or cravings during the day. But, if you do, you must perform
one or more rounds of The Basic Recipe until the craving subsides. This is in
addition to the recommended 25 repetitions for the addiction.
Addressing specific events that cause your anxiety
While the above routine, if followed diligently, should assist you in breaking
an addiction, I must also, in the interest of thoroughness, urge you to address
the specific events underlying the anxieties that addictive behaviors strive to
tranquilize.
Seemingly, this can be a daunting process because most people are not aware of
the specific events that directly contribute to the addictive behavior. So,
without that awareness, how can they apply EFT? Also, depending on the person,
there may be an endless list of such specific events.
Fortunately, there is a solution to this that I placed on the EFT web site. It
is called The Personal Peace Procedure. It's value here is to systematically
collapse every specific event in your life that causes anxiety, addictions, or
limits of any kind. Here, for your review, is a copy of The Personal Peace
Procedure.
The Personal Peace Procedure
Hi Everyone,
The Personal Peace Procedure that I'm about to unfold for you is not just a way
to "feel a little more peaceful." Properly understood, this technique should be
the healing centerpiece for every person on earth. Every physician, therapist,
spiritual counselor and personal performance coach
in the world should be using it as a leading tool for helping others (and
themselves).
In essence, the Personal Peace Procedure involves making a list of every
bothersome SPECIFIC EVENT in one's life and systematically EFT'ing their impacts
out of existence. By diligently doing this we can pull out every negative tree
from our emotional forests and thus eliminate major causes of our emotional and
physical ailments. This, of course, propels each individual toward personal
peace which, in turn, contributes mightily toward world peace.
Here are some uses....
1. As "homewo rk" between sessions with a physician or therapist. This is
certain to accelerate and deepen the healing process.
2. As a daily procedure to clear out a lifetime of accumulated emotional debris.
This will enhance self-image, reduce self-doubt and provide a profound sense of
freedom.
3. As a means to eliminate a major contributor (if not the sole cause) of a
serious disease. Somewhere within one's specific events are those angers, fears
and traumas that are manifesting as disease. By addressing them all, you will
likely cover those responsible for the disease.
4. As a useful substitute for finding core issues. If you neutralize all the
specific issues you will have automatically included core issues.
5. As a means for consistent relaxation.
6. To become an example to others as to what is possible.
This simple concept should shift the entire healing field. I can state it in a
sentence...
MOST OF OUR EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL PROBLEMS ARE CAUSED (OR CONTRIBUTED TO) BY
OUR UNRESOLVED SPECIFIC EVENTS, THE VAST MAJORITY OF WHICH CAN BE EASILY HANDLED
BY EFT.
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Not bad for a mere engineer, eh? That sentence, if adopted by every healing
practitioner and patient, would likely (1) dramatically increase our healing
rates while (2) precipitously dropping our costs.
Please note that this idea completely ignores chemical causes such as those
propounded by the medical model. That's because I have repeatedly seen
improvements in clients where drugs and other chemical solutions have failed
miserably.
This is not to say, however, that drugs, proper nutrition and the like don't
have their place. Indeed they do. They can often be vital. In my experience,
however, our unresolved specific events are nearer the foundational cause for
illness than anything else. Thus they deserve our primary attention..
How obvious! Experienced EFT'ers are well aware of EFT's ability to cleanly wipe
the negative specific events off of our mental walls. This is the area wherein
our highest success ratios appear. To date, however, we have focused our efforts
on those negative specific events that underlie a given ailment such as a
phobia, headache or traumatic incident. This is good...very good...and we should
continue doing so. On the other hand, why not use EFT on ALL the other specific
events that are behind our more generalized (but VERY important) issues such as
(to name a few)....
Self- image Anxiety Depression Persistent insomnia Addictions Compulsions
Feelings of abandonment
As you eliminate the emotional baggage from your specific events you will, of
course, have less and less internal conflict for your system to deal with. Less
internal conflict translates into a higher level of personal peace and less
emotional and physical suffering. For many, this procedure will likely result in
the complete cessation of lifelong issues that other methods have not touched.
How's that for peace in a paragraph?
The same applies to physical ailments as well. I'm talking here about everything
from headaches, breathing difficulties and digestive disorders to AIDS, MS and
Cancer. It is becoming more widely accepted that our physical maladies are
caused (or contributed to) by unresolved angers, traumas, guilt, grief and the
like. I have had many discussions with physicians in recent years and more and
more of them echo emotional strife as a major cause of serious diseases. Until
now, however, there hasn't been an effective way to eliminate these health
bandits. We can mask them with drugs, of course, but true cures have been hard
to find. Fortunately, EFT and its many cousins now provide easy and elegant
tools that will aid the serious health practitioner in killing the root causes
of disease...instead of the patient.
What I share here is NOT a substitute for quality EFT training NOR is it a
substitute for quality help from a masterful EFT practitioner. Rather, it is a
tool that, properly applied, is capable of wide ranging relief (quality training
or quality assistance will add to its effectiveness). Its simplicity and far
reaching effectiveness give it candidacy as a mandatory method for anyone
seeking help for even the most difficult of problems. I know that's a bold
statement but I've been at this for over a decade now and have seen so many
impressive results over such a wide variety of issues that this statement is
easy, if not essential, to make.
The method here is simple (I'm assuming you already know how to apply EFT).....
1. Make a list of every bothersome specific event you can remember. If you don't
find at least 50 you are either going at this half- heartedly or you have been
living on some other planet. Many people will find hundreds.
2. While making your list you may find that some events don't seem to cause you
any current discomfort. That's OK. List them anyway. The mere fact that you
remember them suggests a need for resolution.
3. Give each specific event a title....as though it was a mini- movie. Examples:
Dad hit me in the kitchen--I stole Suzie's sandwich--I almost slipped
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and fell into the Grand Canyon--My third grade class ridiculed me when I gave
that speech--Mom locked me in a closet for 2 days--Mrs. Adams told me I was
stupid.
4. When the list is complete, pick out the biggest redwoods in your negative
forest and apply EFT to each of them until you either laugh about it or "can't
think about it any more." Be sure to notice any aspects that may come up and
consider them separate trees in your negative forest. Apply EFT to them
accordingly. Be sure to keep after each event until it is resolved.
If you cannot get a 0-10 intensity level on a particular movie then assume you
are repressing it and apply 10 full rounds of EFT on it from every angle you can
think of. This gives you a high possibility for resolving it.
After the big redwoods have been removed, go to the next biggest trees.
5. Do at least one movie (specific event) per day...preferably three...for 3
months. It only takes minutes per day. At this rate you will have resolved 90 to
270 specific events in 3 months. Then notice how your body feels better. Note,
too, how your "threshold for getting upset" is much lower. Note how your
relationships are better and how many of your therapy type issues just don't
seem to be there any more. Revisit some of those specific events and notice how
those previously intense incidences have faded into nothingness. Note any
improvements in your blood pressure, pulse and breathing ability.
I ask you to consciously notice these things because, unless you do, the quality
healing you will have undergone will seem so subtle that you may not notice it.
You may even dismiss it saying, "Oh well, it was never much of a problem
anyway." This happens repeatedly with EFT and thus I bring it to your awareness.
6. If you are taking medications, you may feel the need to discontinue them.
Please do so ONLY under a qualified physician's advice.
It is my hope that the Personal Peace Procedure becomes a worldwide routine. A
few minutes per day will make a monumental difference in school performance,
relationships, health and our quality of life. But these are meaningless words
unless others (you) put the idea into practice.
Personal Peace to all, Gary
What to expect
As you apply EFT as directed above, your cravings should be dramatically reduced
on the first day and they should get milder and less frequent as the days roll
on. Eventually, you should have no cravings whatsoever and any addictive
substance involved will actually seem repulsive. You will be free. Your
attitudes toward it will change and you will wonder what you ever saw in the
addiction in the first place.
These are healthy signs, of course. When you reach this point you should
continue with the entire daily routine for a few days to "lock it in."
Once the addiction is broken, however, you are still not immune from being
re-addicted. Avoiding any future temptation is advised. This is true, of course,
with any addiction recovery.
Questions and Answers
Q. How much time will it take to get over my addiction? This varies widely. In
my experience, addictions to relatively mild substances like chocolate, coffee,
soft drinks and various foods are often gone in a few days. They actually become
repulsive to the addict. I just finished helping a lady who overcame addictions
to soft drinks, bacon, onion rings, chocolate, gooey type candies, and french
frie s with one or two trips through The Basic Recipe for each substance. She is
no longer tempted by them. Other people take longer, of course.
Addictions to stronger substances like cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine, etc.
usually take longer....maybe a week or two. I worked with one man who eliminated
his several year addiction to alcohol in 3 or 4 trips through The Basic Recipe.
This result is not rare but it's also not the kind of thing I can predict for
you.
There are no hard and fast rules here. It is over when it is over....and you
will know when that is because you simply won't want it any more. Withdrawal
symptoms should be nominal.
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Q. Can I address several addictions with the same trip through The Basic Recipe?
No....you can only address one addic tion at a time.Do not combine two or more
addictions into the same trip through The Basic Recipe. Use a separate trip for
each addiction.
Don't be surprised, however, if diligently pursuing one addiction breaks other
addictions along the way. This happens sometimes because the tapping drops one's
anxiety in such a manner that nothing is required as a tranquilizer. There's no
way to predict this rather delightful phenomenon but it does happen.
Q. How does EFT help with weight loss? If you want to lose weight you must
address the foundational cause. And that cause is an addiction to food which is
driven by anxiety...just like any other addiction. In fact, the number one
addictive substance in America is food. It has a way of temporarily masking
anxie ty in a manner similar to tobacco, alcohol, etc. How many times have you
raided the refrigerator when you weren't
really hungry? Why did you do it? To mask a feeling of anxiety? You may not have
called it anxiety. You may have called it boredom or "nervous eating" but it
was, nonetheless, a form of anxiety.
The anxiety that drives an addiction to food...or any other substance or
behavior...can come from many places. It can come from the stress in the family
or workplace or it can come from abusive childhood experiences or traumatic
memories.
To lose weight, obviously, you must eliminate the anxiety that drives the
overeating behavior. What better tool to use than EFT? In addition to The
Personal Peace Procedure (described above), persistently apply (25 times per
day) The Basic Recipe to your overeating behavior so that the underlying anxiety
subsides. Use it again to reduce the unnecessary food cravings when they arise
(Even though I crave that pie...) and, over time, the cause of your food
addiction...and thus your overweight condition...should leave.
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Using EFT for Physical Healing
Nowhere is there more obvious evidence for the existence of the mind-body
connection than EFT. By now you have witnessed (and I hope experienced) dramatic
physical healing on several levels.
Here is a beginning list of the physical ailments which have been addressed by
EFT with either partial or complete success:
Headaches, back pain, stiff neck and shoulders, joint pains, cancer, chronic
fatigue syndrome, lupus, ulcerative colitis, psoriasis, asthma, allergies,
itching eyes, body sores, rashes, insomnia, constipation, irritable bowel
syndrome, eyesight, muscle tightness, bee stings, urination problems, morning
sickness, PMS, sexual dysfunctions, sweating, poor coordination, carpal tunnel
syndrome, arthritis, numbness in the fingers, stomachaches, toothaches,
trembling, multiple sclerosis.
There are many, many more. A complete list is several times as long.
Try it on everything.
I try EFT on every physical ailment presented to me and am repeatedly astonished
at the results. I don't have 100% success (who does?) but often EFT will give
startling relief where nothing else seems to work.
There are thousands of physical ailments that befall human beings for which the
healing sciences have developed a wide array of remedies. These remedies range
from a laying on of hands to drugs & surgery to fasting to mental imagery. They
all seem to show results for some of the people some of the time. But none of
them work for all of the people all of the time. EFT, in my experience, works so
well that it should be included in every healer's tool bag. And I'll go a step
further. I think it should be one of the first tools the healer uses. Here are
the reasons:
The relief from symptoms is usually immediate. It often works where nothing else
will. It is easy to apply. It takes very little time.
It is not habit forming.
I don't know any other healing technique that can make all these claims. Do you?
Nonetheless, EFT does
not replace medicine or any other healing practice. It is best to work with
other healing practitioners.
That EFT deserves a prominent place in the physical healing hall of fame is
undeniable. Even the most casual observer must greet the results with great
respect. But the obvious question is...why does it work?
Why, if its original design is to address emotional issues, does the identical
process work so remarkably well on physical problems? There are many mysteries
surrounding the healing sciences and that is why research in this field is an
unending process. EFT is no exception.
Just as the proper flow of blood throughout the body is vital to one's physical
health, so is the proper flow of the body's energy. Thus, balancing it with EFT
is bound to promote physical healing.
It is undeniable that negative emotions contribute to physical ailments. To the
extent that EFT neutralizes those negative emotions, the physical symptoms
appear to subside.
Questions and Answers
Q. How long will it take to get relief? There is no hard and fast rule on this.
Symptoms often fade away in a matter of minutes although, occasionally, there is
a delayed reaction for a few hours. Relief from the underlying disease could
take days, weeks or months. So....be persistent. And be sure to consult with
your physician. Many people are tempted to discontinue medication as healing
takes place. This should only be done with the guidance of your physician.
Q. Can I address several symptoms at a time?
No! Use The Basic Recipe on each symptom independently. Start with the most
severe symptom and work down. Don't be surprised, however, if working with one
symptom generates relief for the others. This happens frequently.
Q. Can I really expect results from EFT for long standing, severe diseases? I am
quite aware that conventional wisdom suggests that many long lasting diseases
are permanent fixtures in one's health profile. Accordingly, to suggest that
they can be measurably reduced or eliminated by methodically tapping on the
energy system is radical indeed. It is outside the beliefs of almost everyone I
have met. But I have seen, first hand, many startling examples of this and am
remiss if I don't report them to you.
Q. How often should I apply The Basic Recipe to my problem? For symptoms such as
headaches, pain,
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upset stomach, etc....perform The Basic Recipe whenever you want relief. For the
underlying disease, it should be done 10 times per day until you are satisfied
with the results. The 10 daily trips through The Basic Recipe should be spread
throughout the day. A good way to do this is to develop the habit of doing them
by linking them to your own habitual routines...such as:
When you get up in the morning. When you go to bed at night. Just before each
meal. Every time you use the bathroom.
It is also important to apply EFT to every specific event that may be causing
the physical ailment. Applying The Personal Peace Procedure will help as well.
Q. Will you please discuss some of your experiences with various physical
ailments? Sure. But please remember that the examples listed below represent a
tiny portion of the possible ailments which EFT can address.
Back pain
I know many people who have significant damage to their backs and the reasons
for their pains are evident in their X-Rays. Nonetheless, after a few minutes of
EFT their pains faded dramatically.
This doesn't appear to make sense until you recognize that stress shows up in
the muscles which, in turn, exert abnormal strains on our join ts. Relaxing the
muscle tension, through EFT, thus reduces unnecessary stress on the joints. The
result is less pain. I have lost count of how many back pains I have seen
subside. Some pains vanish completely and never come back while others require a
daily tapping routine to keep the pain away.
Headaches and stomachaches
I estimate that at least 90% of the cases I have witnessed regarding these
symptoms have responded very well. Most of them faded away completely within a
few minutes of using The Basic Recipe.
Carpal tunnel syndrome
I had a business dinner one evening with Anne, whose carpal tunnel wrist pain
was at a 7. After less than 2 minutes into The Basic Recipe, the pain
disappeared altogether and didn't come back for the rest of our meeting.
Needless to say, she was astonished since nothing else had ever given her
relief. Our paths have not crossed since then, so I don't know how long it
lasted. This is the type of problem, however, that tends to come
back and so additional tapping would likely be necessary.
Psoriasis
Donna's psoriasis was so bad that she had difficulty wearing shoes. Her
medications were not helping. She tapped routinely for a few days and 90% of it
went away.
Allergies
These usually respond well. I have watched many people eliminate sinus drainage,
itching eyes, sneezing and a host of other allergy related symptoms.
Constipation
Results vary widely here but, in my experience, success is usually achieved. One
experienced an instant and permanent relief with one tapping session. Others
needed to tap daily for a few weeks before years and years of constipation
subsided.
Please remember that you will not always get immediate relief from your physical
ailment and sometimes the tapping will not appear to work. Be patient....and
persistent. All you are expending is time. The odds are in your favor if you
keep with it. This applies to all ailments....not just constipation.
Eyesight
I have seen many people improve their eyesight with EFT....at least temporarily.
People come up on stage with me, do The Basic Recipe for eyesight, and then
report noticeably clearer vision. I have not carried through on this and cannot
report on any permanent changes. I suspect, however, that permanent improvement
is possible with persistence.
Arthritis
Arthritic pain often reduces under The Basic Recipe. I've seen this many times.
Because of the underlying condition, however, it does tend to return. Thus you
must address the symptoms and the underlying disease.
Can you reverse arthritis and get rid of it forever with EFT? I don't know
because no one, to my knowledge, has persistently used these techniques for
these purposes. Conventional wisdom tells us that arthritis is not reversible.
It cannot be cured. It can only be arrested.
However, I was diagnosed with arthritis in 1986 and have no sign of it today. I
didn't use EFT at the time because I didn't know about it. It left as a result
of fasting and changes in my diet, lifestyle and frame of mind. I'm convinced
that EFT would have hastened my cure.
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Using EFT to Enhance Your Self Image
The cause of a poor self image
The term "poor self image" refers to a generally negative feeling about one's
self. Authorities on the subject have not developed a precise definition for it
nor have they pinpointed an exact cause. Accordingly, there is no agreed upon
way to handle it.
EFT, by contrast, is much more precise in its approach and pinpoints an exact
cause. Here it is:
The cause of a poor self image is an accumulation of negative emotions about
one's self.
This is self evident and is stated here because, in these terms, EFT makes
eminently good sense. If we eliminate the negative emotions then we eliminate
the cause. And without the cause the poor self image fades away.
And what better tool to eliminate the negative emotions than EFT?
Poor self image may be the world's number one ailment. It is so prevalent that
almost everyone carries around some degree of it. Our self image is often
equated with our self confidence.We tend to "radiate" it through our mannerisms,
posture, words and gestures and others "pick it up" whether we want them to or
not. Accordingly, it has a major effect on our business, social, and personal
performance.
Sometimes jobs, promotions and sales are won or lost depending on how we radiate
our inner thoughts to others. Friendships and romantic encounters can flourish
or die depending on how we project our feelings about ourselves. The lower our
self image, the easier it is to get upset and the more intense become our anger,
guilt, jealousy and other emotional responses. When our self image is low we
tend to stay stuck in one place. We don't venture into that new business or get
out of that abusive relationship or try something new. Some parts of our lives
can be very dull and depressing.
In short, our self image is the centerpiece of our emotional strength. The
quality of our lives often depends on it.
Go to the self help section of any major bookstore and there you will find
countless books with solutions to the self image problem. In general, they
emphasize positive attitudes and give exercises for looking at the brighter side
of life. They encourage focusing on your strengths rather than your weaknesses
and some emphasize visualization and affirmations to help you achieve these
things. I applaud them all.
I'm in favor of anything that helps and many of these approaches do help people
improve their self images. The results are a bit spotty, however. An improvement
here. A new attitude there. Rarely does anyone achieve an across the board,
dramatically improved self image with these tools.
The reason so many of these techniques fall short is that they do very little to
neutralize all the self doubt and negative feelings that make up the poor self
image. Rather, they try to overwhelm them with megadoses of positivism.
This is a laudable effort, of course, but one's established self doubts and
negative feelings can be rather stubborn. If your journey through life is like a
bus ride, then these self doubts and negative feelings are passengers on your
bus. You are at the wheel and they are your "back seat drivers" who think they
own the front seats. Conventional methods won't move them much.
EFT offers a refreshing new approach to this problem where dramatic, across the
board changes do occur. I have seen people totally transformed by these
techniques. Their mannerisms, posture, words and gestures all change to reflect
a more positive, self assured person. Their friends and co-workers comment on
the "new" person that has evolved before their eyes.
Rather than try to install new attitudes and perspectives, as conventional
methods tend to do, EFT effectively liberates one from their self doubts and
negative feelings. They loosen those unwanted passengers from their front seat
positions and kick them off the bus. Once off the bus, they no longer contribute
to a poor self image.
The self doubts and negative feelings that make up a poor self image are forms
of "negative emotions" which, of course, are what EFT was designed to handle.
Remember the discovery statement upon which EFT is built...
"The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy
system."
With this in mind, the process to improve your self image is simple. Just
perform The Basic Recipe on every negative emotion you have. One by one they
leave and, as they do, the balance between your positive and negative emotions
shifts inevitably toward the positive. A refreshing and confident new self image
bubbles up to the surface. The baggage has been thrown off your bus.
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This is a perfect place to use the previously mentioned Personal Peace
Procedure. It automatically addresses all those negative specific events that
intrude upon an otherwise healthy self image.
The forest and trees metaphor
Here's a metaphor that will further help your understanding of this concept.
Consider each of your negative emotions or specific events as a tree in a
negative self image forest. They might be reflective of things from your past
like rejections, abuse, failures, fears, guilt, etc. There may be hundreds of
them and they may be so thick as to resemble a jungle.
Let's assume, though, that there are 100 diseased trees in your self image
forest. If you cut one of them down (by neutralizing it with EFT) you still have
99 left. While you will get some noticeable, and much appreciated, emotional
relief from removing that one tree, you still haven't made much of a dent in the
self image forest.
But what would happen if you methodically cut down one tree per day? Gradually,
the forest would thin out. You would have more room to move within it and it
would be a freer place in which to reside.
Eventually...with persistent use of EFT...all the trees disappear and in their
place is a much more emotionally free you. The world looks different when the
forest (or jungle) is gone and a new self image emerges.
Generalization
Fortunately, you will not have to cut down all 100 trees to get your result.
That's because using EFT to neutralize a few negative emotions of a given type
will tend to generalize over the remaining negative emotions of that same type.
For example, assume that in your forest you have a clump of 10 trees known as
"abusive experiences." Take the biggest (most intense) trees in that clump first
and cut them down with EFT. Once you have done 3 or 4 of them, you will usually
find that the remaining 6 or 7 fall on their own. Balancing the energy system
for some trees then spreads to other trees of the same type.
You can then repeat this generalization concept with other clumps that might be
called "failures" or "rejections." In this way, a 100 tree forest might be
cleared by cutting down approximately 30 trees.
Be an observer
With EFT, shifts in self image come much faster and much more powerfully than
with conventional methods. But the shifts don't happen as rapidly as with
phobias and distressing memories. EFT frequently handles those in moments
whereas complete self image changes often take weeks. This is because the shifts
in self
image are the result of the time consuming elimination of numerous negative
emotions (trees)....one at a time. When I say that complete self image changes
often take weeks, I do not mean that nothing is happening in
the meantime. On the contrary, with each tree that is removed from the forest a
shift in one's self image takes place. However, the immediate emotional freedom
that comes from the removal of that one tree does not usually make a noticeable
change in the much larger self image problem. But the cumulative change that
comes from removing several trees is noticeable if you become an "observer" of
what is happening.
The changes that happen within you are gradual, subtle and powerful.They feel so
natural that you don't evenrealizethattheshiftistakingplace. Eventually, your
friends will comment on your changes and then you will have incontrovertible
proof. But, until then, you need to be an "observer" and tune yourself into what
is going on.
Notice, for example, how you handled a recent rejection more matter-of-factly
than before. Observe how you speak up more often and how you are taking better
care of yourself. Listen to how the tone of your own conversations are shifting
toward the positive. Watch the reactions of others toward you as you radiate a
more assured self image.
Being an "observer" is important because, without it, you might conclude that
nothing is happening and give up on the process.
How to proceed
The method here is simple. It is the essence of The Personal Peace Procedure.
There are only two steps:
1.Make a list of every past negative emotion you can think of. Include every
time you had fear, rejection, guilt, anger, abuse, tears or any other negative
emotion. Include both the big ones and the little ones but put the big ones on
top. This is because you want to neutralize them first. Don't concern yourself
if you can't think of every one of them at first. You can add to the list as
they occur to you over time.
2.Then use The Basic Recipe everyday to "cut down a tree" from your list. Do
this daily until no more negative emotions (trees) exist. Be sure to "observe"
your progress along the way. You may do this more than once per day if your
schedule permits and you may cut down more than one tree per session. However,
you must handle each tree separately. Don't lump them together in the same trip
through The Basic Recipe.
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After a few days into the process, you will noticeup in your life any more. That
is typical and there is a that the "big trees" you started with don't seem to
showlot of freedom in that. Enjoy it.
Summary of the EFT Videos and Audios
Note: The EFT videos and audios are discussed and summarized in various sections
of this manual. To avoid the cumbersomeness of flipping through the manual to
reference a particular taped session, they are being summarized here once again.
The Videos For Part I
Note: Originally, there were 3 videotapes in Part I. Subsequently, the videos
were put on CDs (which dramatically lowered the cost). This necessitated
breaking up the somewhat lengthy videotapes 1 and 2 into Videos 1a, 1b, 2a and
2b. It was not necessary to break up videotape 3.
Video 1a
In this video Adrienne and I augment this manual by visually showing you each
tapping point and how to perform each step of The Basic Recipe. We assume in
this segment that you have already read the manual.
It is vitally important that you follow along with Adrienne and me and review
this segment until you have memorized the whole one minute process. Once
memorized, it is yours forever.
Video 1b
This is a complete demonstrate of the entire Basic Recipe with a delightful
gentleman named Dave wherein we help him overcome a lifelong intense fear of
water. Study this episode. Watch it several times. It is an excellent
instructional session because it illustrates the handling of aspects so well.
Video 2a
This video contains the highlights of a live workshop where the theory behind
EFT is explained and then EFT is applied to two groups of people on stage. One
group is dealing with fears and the other with pain.
Video 2b
In this video we show you more case histories of EFT in action. Here are
highlights of what you will see:
**Larry: He overcomes intense claustrophobia while undergoing what would
normally be his most tension filled circumstance....riding in the back seat of a
small car in the busy traffic of San Francisco. **Pam: A chocoholic no longer
wants her chocolate.
**Becci: Her fear of rats makes her hands sweat at the mere thought of one. She
ends up having a live rat lick her fingers and says, "I don't believe I'm doing
this. I am doing this."
**Stephen: A 6 year old boy is taught these techniques by his father and quits
biting his fingernails. **Adam: This is my son who uses EFT to knock 14 strokes
off of his golf score.
**Cheryl: She shows up at one of our workshops and describes how she used EFT
with me for the fear of public speaking. Our original session was performed over
a year ago and she has not had the fear since.
**Jackie: Shehadanaccident10yearsagowhich left her unable to raise her arm any
more than a few inches without having intense pain in her shoulder. In a few
minutes on stage she gets complete relief from the problem and can lift her arm
at will without pain. This session shows our conversation after the workshop
where we discuss this "miracle." **Cindy:Like Jackie above, Cindy had an
accident 3 years ago and has not been able to lift her arm without pain. She has
seen numerous physicians and therapists without any material result. In a few
minutes with EFT, she lifts her arm as high as she can with no pain whatsoever.
**Veronica: Starts with a heavy desire for a cigarette and then uses EFT to
eliminate the craving. She then undergoes strong emotions about being raped by
her father. After this one session (which you will watch in its entirety) she
gets completely over this traumatic memory. **Norma:She is dyslexic and has
always needed to read things 4 or 5 times before she could understand them. She
gets over that in minutes and gets a new job that requires her to read out loud
to people.
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Video 3
This video is entitled "6 Days at the VA" and shows the highlights of our visit
to the Veterans Administration in Los Angeles to help the emotionally disabled
veterans of the Vietnam war. This puts EFT to the ultimate test because most of
these soldiers have been in therapy for over 20 years with little or no
progress. You will watch their emotional intensity melt away in moments.
Nowhere is there a greater testimonial to the power of what you are learning. I
mention this touching episode in my "Open Letter" at the start of this manual.
Important note
Please note that throughout Videos 2a, 2b and 3, Adrienne and I use various
shortcuts that we have learned over the years. With our extensive training we
know when to shorten the process and we always do so in the interest of
efficiency. Remember, we are usually dealing with skeptical strangers and are
often doing so under the most difficult of circumstances....on stage.
Accordingly, we use shortcuts (described in Part II of this course) whenever
possible and rarely do the entire Basic Recipe.
Rest assured, however, that if we had taken the time to perform the more
thorough process you are learning in Part I of this course, we would have
achieved the same results. It would have taken a few seconds longer per
round...that's all.
The main purpose of these sessions is to give you a head start in the direction
of experience by showing you how these techniques work in the real world...with
real people...over a wide variety of problems. They take you out of the
classroom and show you how these techniques are administered and how people
respond.
Also, in some cases, some of the tapping has been edited out so that the session
"moves along" on film. This allows the wider experience to come through without
being burdened by the constant repetition of the procedures you have learned
elsewhere in this course. I am not teaching The Basic Recipe here on videos 2a,
2b and #3. That is done rather thoroughly in the earlier
Video 1 – Overview
This video is a bridge between Part I and Part II wherein Part I is recapped and
many of the new concepts included in the Part II manual are reviewed. Here we
discuss the impediments to perfection, shortcuts and the forest and trees
metaphor.
Video 2 - Audience Examples
The rest of these videos contain a condensed combination of two 3 day seminars.
This video starts at the beginning of those seminars and explores a wide variety
of issues...both emotional and physical...and lends an invaluable perspective to
the far reaching power of EFT. It discusses issues such as the fear of public
speaking, agoraphobia, anxiety, migraine headaches, physical pain, fear of
flying, depression, fibromyalgia and high blood pressure.
There is also a discussion from the stage of The Discovery Statement and some
important demonstrations of Psychological Reversal. These latter demonstrations
are critically important for you to study.
Video 3 - Emotional Issues I
There are three sessions on this video. The first is with Jason who works with
anger and betrayal as a result of his wife leaving him and issuing a restraining
order that prohibited him from seeing his daughter.
The second session is with Veronica. You will recognize her as the lady who used
EFT for being raped by her father in the second video in Part I. She appears
here, 3 or 4 months later, and still has no emotional problems with that
specific issue. This is incontrovertible evidence of the power of EFT under even
the most intense of issues.
On this video, she works on an entirely different issue. She has obviously
intense emotions about being abandoned, alone and not being lovedas a small
child. Our session with EFT eliminates the problem and she comes back the next
day to report that she feels "light as a feather."
The third session is with Sandhya who works through her emotions regarding the
experiences her father had during the World War II Holocaust.
parts of this manual and on video 1. 3 are all about experience.
Videos 2a, 2b and
The Videos for Part II (8 videos)
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Video 4 - Emotional Issues II
Video 6 - Addictive Cravings
There are two sessions on this video. In the first session, Marlys uses EFT to
get over "love pain"...an obsession over the loss of romantic relationships. As
this EFT session unfolds, several aspects show up and the issues shift in a
daisy chain fashion. It eventually evolves into the fact that her mother didn't
love her and, after using EFT, she laughs about it.
In the second session, Kathy has three issues: (1) a fear of being touched
(hugged), (2) a traumatic incident where her mother threw boiling water on her
and (3) a sore shoulder which is related to her having to fend off beatings. She
responds beautifully to EFT and The Setup (Psychological Reversal) is not
necessary even though numerous rounds of EFT are performed.
Video 5 - Physical Issues
There are four sessions on this video.
First, Connie J. has tightness in her jaw that comes from clenching her teeth at
night. The clenching is so severe that she has to wear a bite plate at night to
protect her teeth. With EFT, she achieves complete freedom from this problem in
minutes even though it has been with her for 2 or 3 years. She also had a
headache which she eliminated on her own using EFT.
Second, Patricia came on stage with an episode of asthma from which she had
suffered for over 10 years. She gets dramatic relief with EFT and reports that
it is still gone the next morning. She also experiences major relief from a back
problem even though she has herniated discs.
Dorothy came on stage with an irregular heartbeat which is an ailment for which
EFT had never been used. Since we try it on everything, we applied EFT to it
with excellent results.
Connie M. uses EFT for her neck pain which, according to her, came about because
of emotional issues. She gets complete relief.
This session starts with two ladies who run an eating disorder clinic. The
concepts in this conversation lead into the causes behind all addictive
behaviors, including eating disorders.
Then follows (1) an important discussion of the causes of addictions and (2) an
entire session where EFT is used on a group of people to overcome the immediate
cravings for chocolate, cigarettes and alcohol.
Video 7 - Energy Toxins, Phobias & Persistence
This important video emphasizes the effect of energy toxins and the value of
persistence when using EFT.
The first part is an interview with Todd who gets nowhere during the seminar
because energy toxins are in his way. He then comes back, a month later, to tell
the members of another seminar about the dramatic effect a change in his diet
had been on his sleep disorder, eye pain and depression.
Next is an unusual session where several people experience improvement on their
snake phobias. However, even though the improvements are dramatic by
conventional standards, they are considered slow and relatively ineffective by
EFT standards. This is due to suspected energy toxins within the room.
Persistence is required to generate relief for most of these people.
Finally, we show the value of persistence in a session with Grace who was beset
with intense depression and many other issues. We make little headway on stage
but her persistence and attention to her diet in the following weeks creates
major improvement in her emotional well being. She tells of this
enthusiastically in a phone conversation.
Video 8 - Common Problems and Q&A
This is a catch-all video that explains EFT's use in such areas as sports
(golf), business, public speaking, procrastination, self image and
relationships.
It also entertains numerous common questions from the audience to round out your
understanding.
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To further widen your experience with EFT, I have included several hours of case
histories on the audios. As in the videos, you won't be just listening to
theory. These are real people with real problems.
You will hear some people get over lifelong problems in moments while others
require persistence. You will hear Adrienne and me apply EFT to some severe
emotional problems and listen to them disappear right on the tape. You will also
hear some partial relief for some ailments that doesn't go away completely. In
short, these audios add to your rainbow of experience, thereby giving you a
useful background that you can use when applying EFT.
Read these points before you listen to them.
**These audios contain a series of telephone sessions conducted by my business
associate, Adrienne Fowlie, and me. They are a collection of authentic sessions
recorded with a desktop tape recorder. While the sound quality is certainly
adequate, the recordings were obviously not made in the pristine atmosphere of a
recording studio. **Some of these sessions are with people who are actually
undergoing EFT. As you listen in, you will literally be a first hand "observer"
as people apply these techniques to a wide variety of emotional and physical
problems. This will give you an invaluable "feel" for what you can expect when
you apply EFT to yourself and others. **Other sessions are with people who have
used EFT in the past and are telling about their experiencessincethen.
Thisgivesyouagood sense of the lasting nature of these techniques. **The purpose
of these audios is to expand your experience of these techniques. It is not to
teach the tapping processes themselves. That is done by the manual and Video 1a.
Thus, as in videos 2a, 2b and 3, I have edited out much of the tapping so you
can focus on people's responses and the other details involved in the
techniques.
**You will be listening in on some highly personal problems and you will be
doing so with the permission of those involved. They did it so others (like you)
could benefit from these marvelous techniques. We owe them all a thank you.
**Repetition is very important in learning. Accordingly, you will hear me repeat
some important points, from different angles, many times during these tapes.
This is not to bore you.
It is to embed important concepts into your thinking. **These sessions are for
your education and not your entertainment (although some of them are very
entertaining). I could have made them short and snappy...editing them to make a
couple of quick points each time...and then moved on. Doing so would rob you of
some of the "feel" and "depth" to these processes. On the other hand, some
conversations get off the subject and delve into areas outside the interest of
this course. In editing these audios for your education, I have drawn a blend
between these two extremes always erring on the side of including as much useful
information as I can.
**Please note that the tapping you do hear on these audios will seem different
than what you are being taught. It is not, in fact, different. It is simply
shorter and takes a somewhat different form.
**As I mentioned in the section on the videos, Adrienne and I are advanced
practitioners of these techniques and have been doing them for many years.
Accordingly, we use some of the same short cuts previously mentioned.
But there's another technique that is used in the audios.
Adrienne and I have invested the time and money to learn Dr. Roger Callahan's
Voice Technology in an effort to better assess the tapping points, existence of
Psychological Reversal, etc. We used this form of diagnosis on these audios to
save time but are, at all times, using the same tapping points that you are
learning. When I first learned Voice Technology I thought it was a major aid in
applying these procedures. After years of experience, however, I no longer
believe it has any material value and have discontinued using it.
I have developed a more useful diagnostic technique which is taught in great
detail in our video set "Steps Toward Becoming The Ultimate Therapist." Those
interested in this advanced training should consult those videos.
As previously stated, diagnosis is beyond the scope of this course. The Basic
Recipe (using the 100% overhaul concept) is being taught instead because
The Audiotapes For Part I
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it is an adequate substitute for the vast majority of cases.
Ittakesafewsecondslongerperroundto perform and you may need to do a few more
rounds (persistence) to get the same results. In any event, we are talking extra
seconds or minutes here (per problem)...not weeks or months.
**Notice in these audios not only what people say but also the differences in
their voices before and after using EFT. Also notice that many times people emit
a very relaxed "sigh" after tapping. This evidences the release of emotional
burdens.
**On a few of the audios you will hear a "thump, thump, thump" in the
background. This is the result of a malfunction in my tape recorder and is not
someone's heart beating.
**You may be tempted to look at the "Session by Session Summary" below and go
right to "your issue" on the audios. That's human nature, I suppose, but please
don't ignore the rest of these audios just because they don't seem to apply to
you for the moment. They contain valuable insights that will magnify your
abilities with EFT.
Session by session summary
1. Barbara through Paulette
Barbara (7 min 35 sec): Relief from a traumatic memory (hitting a windshield), a
headache and insomnia .
Del (9 min 56 sec): He stands on a rooftop with a cellular phone and overcomes a
lifelong, very severe, height phobia. The phobia is eliminated so completely
thathegoesskydiving. Neckandjointpainsalso subside.
Mike(3min28sec): Withgraduatedegreesin psychology, he finds this process
astonishing. He gets over love pain (breaking up with his lady friend) very
rapidly....but finds it hard to believe.
Ingrid (9 min 23 sec): She has had nearly constant irritable bowel syndrome,
headaches, "burning eyes," and constipation for many years. She gets substantial
relief from all of them and becomes quite humorous about her constipation toward
the end of this session.
Paulette (4 min 40 sec): Lifetime fear of flying disappears. After EFT she takes
two flights with no anxiety at all.
2. Buz through Bruce
Buz (9 min 10 sec): A sufferer of a severe case of Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD). Listen as he tells his most intense war memory as though it was
a shopping trip.
Donna (1 min 35 sec): She uses EFT to help with her vision.
Kieve (9 min 45 sec): Pay particular attention to this one. Kieve learned these
techniques just as you are learning them and applied them to 150 people with
astonishing results. He tells of just some of the people he has helped with
phobias, PMS, migraine headaches, hippain,cornpainandotherproblems. Masterthese
techniques and you can do the same.
Cathy(7min23sec): Thisladysufferedfromdaily back pain since an automobile
accident 24 years ago and has been through every imaginable method for
relief...with no real help.She tells how it completely subsided after using
these tapping techniques. She also dramatically improved her daily anxiety and
insomnia .
Bruce (11 min 22 sec): He has had multiple sclerosis for 7 years and gets
noticeable resurgence of strength in his legs. He is confined to a wheelchair
and stands up during the session. He gets feelings back in his hands and feet
and reduces back pain and a sleeping disorder.
3. Geri through Bonnie
Geri(10min15sec): Thisprofessional psychotherapist had a major fear of dentists.
As it turns out, she had more fears than she thought. This session helps us
understand that our fears and other negative emotions sometimes contain
different aspects.
Shad (4 min 43 sec): Effectively manages daily stress and anxiety with EFT. Also
uses the technique to improve his golf score by over 10 strokes.
Margie (3 min 50 sec): Reduces her addictive craving for chocolate to zero in
moments. She says it doesn't even taste good now.
Mary (12 min 16 sec): Overcomes what she calls a global and planetary fear and
reduces pains in her knee and back.
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JoAnn(4min11sec): Rapideliminationofthroat discomfort and allergic symptoms.
Bonnie (8 min 38 sec): Emotional disorders keep her from swallowing food
normally. In one session she overcomes some unidentified emotions and then
swallows food easily.
4. Steve through Doris
Steve(13min0sec): Thissuffererofalittleknown disease (Hemolytic Anemia) gets
substantial relief from fatigue, heavy or itching eyes, back pain (with muscle
spasms) and numerous other symptoms. He also eliminates an issue of anger and
related nightmares.
Rachel (3 min 53 sec): She neutralizes the severe emotion of recalling a murder
attempt on her by a boy friend and gets over a breathing problem in the process.
Geoff (11 min 50 sec): He had seen 5 psychiatrists in the past but gained no
relief from his depression. In two very short sessions with EFT the depression
subsides.
Karen (6 min 17sec): She has fatigue caused by her insomnia and thus never feels
rested. Relief occurs after one session with EFT.
Mike (7 min 50 sec): His extreme case of the fear of public speaking
dramatically improves. He reports that he performed flawlessly in a presentation
after using EFT.
Doris (1 min 44 sec): A cancer patient, she tells of her emotional relief using
EFT and describes it as like having a "new body."
5. Bonnie
Bonnie (35 min 9 sec): She makes dramatic improvement in her entire self image
through persistent use of EFT. Bonnie was subject to numerous childhood abuses
and has been undergoing conventional therapy for 28 years at a cost of $50,000.
She makes unparalleled improvement with countless traumatic memories, headaches,
body shame, inadequacy feelings,fingernailbiting,aphobia,anxiety,insomnia and
depression.
6. Jim through Dorothy Jim (2 min 40 sec): His claustrophobia for being in a
dark closet completely disappears in 5 minutes.
Patricia (5 min 11 sec): This rape victim goes from a 10 to a 0 on two separate
aspects regarding this traumatic experience.
Juanita (1 min 57 sec): Her ongoing anxiety is relieved in moments.
Susan (2 min 12 sec): Pain from a back injury on the golf course goes away in
less than a minute.
Geri Nicholas (9 min 28 sec): This professional psychotherapist appears for the
second time on these tapes. This time she gives more insights into her personal
use of EFT and how she uses it for others.
DorothyTyo(12min1sec): Finally,afascinating interview with a professional
hypnotherapist who has used EFT, just as you are learning it, to help people
with issues ranging from physical pain to the fear of public speaking to the
fear of spiders to smoking to hiccups .
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A Format for Using EFT
Below is a diagram showing a format...or flow...to use with EFT. It is a useful
guide for knowing where you are in the process and becomes second nature after
you have used it a few times. It's use is best described on video and you will
find a session dedicated to it near the end of the first video in the Part II
video series.
Identify
Problem
Be specific where possible
Setup, Aspects Full BR, CBE, Toxins
Apply Basic Recipe
No Relief
Partial Relief
Complete Relief
Test & Reapply
If Necessary
Apply Adjusted Basic Recipe
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