EFT Tapping Course

Welcome to your EFT Tapping course. EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques, and it has completely changed my life and the lives of so many clients. I bring you this course from the heart. Enjoy!

Enjoy your learning, one video at a time. This course is designed to give you a good grounding in the basics, so you can use EFT with ease for anything you want to move forward with!

Disclaimer

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The Discovery Statement

“The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system”.

Energy

This is the same energy as we are used to in acupuncture, shiatsu, reflexology, and Tai-Chi, to mention a few examples. EFT uses the same acupuncture meridians used by the Chinese medical system for millennia, with a modern twist that makes all the difference.

Uses

Research has demonstrated EFT's success with PTSD, food cravings, exam nerves, phobias, physical pain, addictions, and many other emotional and physical conditions. The only thing that does not seem to respond to EFT is the more severe mental conditions, especially where psychosis is an element. In those cases, for our happiness and wellbeing, I advise that you learn the gentler Reiki instead. Otherwise, if you see yourself asking "Does EFT Tapping help with...", try it and see how you feel!

If you like the Full Basic Recipe, by all means, use it every time. Most people use the following shortcut:

For the Setup phrase

• The Karate Chop (the hitting edge of your hand if playing Karate)

For the Reminder phrase

• Top of the Head (where most people have a swirly hair pattern at the crown)

• Eye Brow (where the eyebrow usually meets the top of the nose)

• Side of the Eye (where your eyebrow ends)

• Under the Eye (on your cheekbone)

• Under the Nose (between your nose and mouth)

• Chin (in the middle of the horizontal line on your chin)

• The mis-named Collarbone (on the bony protrusion just either side of the “V” at the bottom of your neck)

• Under the Arm (under your arm where if you were female and wearing a bra, it would be the middle of the bra strap)

We tap on each point with at least two fingers. This way, we do not have to find the exact spot (unless you are a skilled acupuncturist). We tap throughout the time we are saying our statements, and this way we manage to tap the 5-8 times initially recommended. I tap as much as I feel like. If it feels good, then it is working.

If you have a skin or joint condition that precludes you from using some of the points, do not worry about it! EFT is very robust. You can leave some points out and it still works.

Finger points

When you are experienced in EFT, you will find it easy to tap in public by tapping on the finger points discreetly. This way, nobody notices what you are doing, and you get some relief on the spot. What a great bonus!

Setup Statements

The original Setup statements were something like "Even though..., I deeply and completely love and accept myself". Some people feel it is a bit too New-Agey or feel uncomfortable with it. Whilst I personally use "deeply love and accept myself", I find that most people are more comfortable with "I just want to feel better" or "I just want to move forward". Do try saying "I deeply and completely love and accept myself", experiment, and see what works for you.

The easiest way to tap for an emotional issue is to briefly connect to a triggering event and tap the discomfort away.

Being specific really helps

Of course, you can also tap on how you feel right now. For example, if you are feeling stressed, anxious, or sad. It really helps if you can be more specific, though. For example, if you feel an anxiety in your chest, tap for "this anxiety in my chest". if it moves to your shoulders, you can tap for "this anxiety in my shoulders". And so on.

If you feel more stressed than usual, ask yourself was has happened to make you feel more stressed. It could be something to do with work, a loved one, an item you have misplaced, worry about paying a bill, a friend who is ignoring you, etc. So you can tap exactly for that thing that has brought up your stress levels. Experiment and tap on as many things as you can over the next few weeks. You may be pleasantly surprised how good you can feel after letting go of that stuff.

This video gives you an easy formula to tap for pain and let it go. Just keep at it till the pain subsides or goes away. Repeat whenever needed.

If you have tapped for pain and it did not go away, then one of two things can be happening:

• The pain can be a sign of something physical that needs urgent medical attention (such as a broken arm that you need to go to the hospital for).

• The pain was a kind of holding place for a negative emotion. To lose the pain, you need to let go of the emotion. This is a simple suggestion to use next time the pain is talking to you.

Ask yourself - if this pain was a holder for an emotion and/or a person, what and/or who would it be? For example, it could be worry, anger, panic at an impending driving test, fear of moving forward to find a new job, guilt about something you have done, anger at your friend, just to give a few examples. If you cannot think of an emotion or person, just guess or make it up. Your subconscious mind will bring to the surface something very close to what it really is, and you will be able to use it for tapping.

Then tap as follows, substituting the emotion and person as appropriate. Keep tapping till the pain goes.

Setup: ¨Even though I have this [emotion] in my..., I just want to feel better”.

Reminder: ¨This [emotion] in my ....¨

Experiment and see how you feel.

Breaking up an issue into its constituent aspects is a skill that grows with practice. One way that I have noticed aspects is that often when working on a scary memory, it initially triggers fear. Then when the fear is gone, anger may show up. And as the anger goes, sadness appears. Then finally, all the negative emotions go, and you are left with a feeling of peace. Enjoy your learning and your journey.

With EFT, we say that you are not engaging in a bad habit due to lack of willpower, or due to a lack of strength, or because there is something weak or wrong about you. You engage in a bad habit because it has positive benefits for you. The problem is that at least eventually, these positive benefits are overshadowed by the negative consequences.

We tap to release the emotions that make us want to self-soothe with the bad habit. And, after tapping on it and all its aspects, there is no longer a need for the habit.

The following aspects may be part of the addictive craving, although the list is by no means extensive:

Work stress, family stress, the need for comfort, boredom, having negative thoughts that the habit helps distract us from, fear of being deprived without the habit, the need for a treat or reward, and the need for a stable constant in one's life.

Experiment with these suggestions as you repeat the video above, and see what works for you.

Preparation for the Tell the Story/Narrate the Movie technique

First of all, find an event. Make it as specific as possible. Let us say I have an unpleasant relative, Mary, that makes me feel bad. So, I look in my mind for a time when she made me feel bad. For example, if I am tapping on the time I went to lunch with Mary and felt uncomfortable, I could hone the event down to when we were at the restaurant. If this is a clip of film on a TV screen in front of me, it would ideally not last longer than about 5 minutes.

Otherwise, I would break this down into mini-events, such as (if they trigger me): Mary texting me the invitation the week before; As I got up that morning, full of dread; At the restaurant. This is just an example, yours can be a very different series of events and for a very different issue.

Briefly imagine looking at the movie on TV, or holding the book in your hands. If this brings up anything above a 3 out of 10, tap on it something as follows.

Setup: “Even though I have this feeling about this story/movie, I just want to feel better”

Reminder: “This feeling about this story/movie”

Keep repeating until you feel no more than about a 3 out of 10 for the brief thought of watching or telling this story or movie.

Then proceed as follows...

Make sure you stop at every part of the story or movie that triggers you and tap on it. Each part of it is like a container for a part of the problem, an aspect of the issue. If you feel like skipping a part, because it cannot go down further due to the upcoming part, then, by all means, move on. However, when you have finished the story or movie, go back from the beginning and tell the story or watch the movie again, checking and stopping at any part that still triggers you, until it is all a zero.

This may take half an hour, an hour, an hour a day for a few days, or however long it takes. You are not in a competition with anyone, just go at a pace that is right for you. Enjoy the healing and the journey.

I have lost count of the number of self-tappers that come to see me for a session saying "EFT doesn't work for me", only to find out that it worked beautifully for managing their hip pain, helped them with reducing the amount of coffee they had, but they got no results with their self-esteem. Or maybe it worked on their self-esteem but not their migraines.

That only means that the specific aspects of the unsuccessful issue need to be found and addressed. Or it could mean that we need to do more tapping for more events, which again, are themselves specific aspects of the problem. For example, if you are tapping for self-confidence, ask yourself for at least 5 events, from childhood till now, that pop into your mind as you think about this issue. Then tap on every event until zero. Do not worry if you have, say, a thousand events. Once you have tapped on 5-15 of them, the effect will generalize over pretty much the whole thousand. This is a neat bonus with EFT called the Generalization Effect.

And Finally...

Well Done for coming this far! Please feel free to ask any questions in the comments. I answer all questions, big and small!

Suzanne Zacharia, Offering Holistic Self Empowerment since 1999 for you and yours - Enjoy, Grow, Develop!

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