Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Articles

Not liking ourselves is an issue for many of us. Even though we may project a different face to the world, deep down inside far too many of us don’t like ourselves very much. It seems to always be easier to find things to criticize about ourselves than to find things to praise. How often have you found yourself making some kind of silly mistake, and then saying to yourself, inside your head, “You big idiot!”? Self talk is a definite indicator of how well we like or don’t like ourselves.

Recently I was leading a small group of tappers in weekly tap-togethers. Once of our main objectives was to try eliminating unhealthy junk food from our diets. When you have a weakness for a certain kind of snack food, it can be incredibly difficult to not eat that particular kind of food.

Though I’ve been utilizing EFT as my main treatment modality in my psychotherapy practice for 7 years, I still can get blown away by the near miraculous results. I’d like to share a recent case with you that really made my heart soar. Mind you, this is a complicated case and continues to be a work in progress. Matthew (not his real name) is an adorable 8 year old boy, who was born with several birth defects, is developmentally delayed, has TICS associated with Tourette Syndrome, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), and has issues with ADD.

Emotional turbulence interferes with emotional well being and initiative. Fear, anger, guilt and anxiety are deviations from natural condition of balance and stand in the way of spiritual evolution. Restoring balance can be evolutionary in itself.rn rnPatients suffering from life threatening illness often report that their diseases have taught them to love and value the other people in their lives more deeply than before they became ill. During recovery they learn to apprecia

Since the movie "The Secret" came out, the Law of Attraction has been receiving a lot of attention. Mostly what I hear is "The Law of Attraction doesn't work for me." A simplified definition of The Law of Attraction (LOA) is: “We attract from the outside what we resonate with on the inside.” We are constantly creating our reality. This is quite a scary thought to some - this concept that we are personally attracting what is showing up in our lives. Scary or not, we are powerful beyond measure. If we have the power to attract poverty, we have the power to attract abundance.

Anger is one of the strongest emotions that we experience. It can range from mild annoyance to full blown, over the top fury that consumes you. Feeling anger when something happens that is hurtful or upsetting is normal. Unfortunately, for a lot of us it’s also normal to continue to carry anger for years, or even for a lifetime. What we don’t realize when we continue to carry anger over our past is the toll that it takes on us. Anger is an active emotion.

”Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.” Anthony Trollope How do you picture yourself? Do you have a positive or negative image of yourself? Many people don't like what they see on the outside, or ...

nLately, more and more people have been asking me how I know the emotional cause behind a person’s physical pain. After all, if we are to eliminate a physical pain using EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), then it would help to pinpoint the emotional cause of the pain. The process of finding the emotional source is fairly simple, but takes practice. nnThis article assumes you have a basic knowledge of EFT. An easy way to get started with EFT is to download my free 16-page e

The one trait that all very successful solo-preneurs, coaches, consultants, healers, and spiritual teachers have in common is that they have a clear and compelling vision for the future of their businesses. This is something that you can do too. You can think about the future and create an attraction plan and a big vision for the future. We create an attraction plan in our Law of Attraction results programs for our clients. In the meantime, you can start thinking about how yo

Do You Remember What a Push Me-Pull You Is? In the movie, Dr. Doolittle, a man who could talk to the animals, was sent a very unique animal, called a Push Me – Pull You. It had two heads and two sets of front legs. When one half wanted to move forward, the other half would have to move backward. This caused a lot of confusion and disharmony. Most of the time, the animal just stood still. What is the Push Me-Pull You Syndrome?

nIn his Palace Of Possibilities Series – Using EFT to Achieve One’s Potential, Gary Craig www.emofree.com talks in depth about the “writings on our walls” as a metaphor for our self talk; the attitudes, opinions & beliefs that we have accumulated over the years from our parents, grandparents, teachers, coaches, religion, peers, books, TV and an endless list of other "authorities" in our lives, that we use to define ourselves and our self worth. Our sel

If you have low self esteem, you’re probably obsessed with yourself. Which is just a backwards form of conceit. If you have low self-esteem, you think you’re special. No-one is as low as you. No-one is as undeserving as you. Everyone else in the world may be deserving of being treated well, of having good relationships, financial success, good health, spiritual connection, or whatever it is that you think you don’t deserve. Probably all of that.

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is simply the quickest and most effective way to deal with doubts, obstacles, triggers, cravings, concerns, and emotions that most people who are quitting smoking have to deal with. Not only does EFT help make the transition to non-smoker easier, it better equips ex-smokers to deal with any stressful situations that may cause a relapse.nnEFT was founded by Gary Craig, a Stanford Engineer, Ordained Minister and Personal Performance Coach. You

Vince Lombardi once said, “Fatigue does make cowards out of us all”. When you are run down and feeling drained, the choices you make are not the same as when you are feeling energized and alive. It is up to you to make yourself a priority and take consistent action toward supporting your mind ...

"A growing body of evidence indicates that virtually every ill that can befall the body - from acne to arthritis, headaches to heart disease, cold sores to cancer - is influenced, for better or worse, by our emotions" Emrika Padus, Prevention MagazinennWe can see the effects of "negative" emotions on our bodies in countless ways: damaged immunity, impeded digestion, increased risk of heart disease, sleep disturbances, high blood pressure, water retention, anxiety, depression,

Emotional freedom means learning how to stay centered in a stressful, highly emotionally charged world. Since emotions such as fear, anger, and frustration are energies, you can potentially “catch” them from people without realizing it. If you tend to be an emotional sponge, it’s vital to know how to avoid taking on an individual’s negative emotions or the free-floating kind in crowds. Another twist is that chronic anxiety, depression, or stress can turn you into an e

We live in changing times, but we still have vestiges of a primarily male dominated sexual world. Many women feel ashamed or embarrassed by their sexual desires. Sex in the West has been defined primarily from a man’s perspective. Women have had to fight for themselves to be able to freely express their sexual desires without being the object of sco and innuendo. Some might try to deny that this fact exists but there is solid history that supports this. Until 1952 there was a condition treated in women throughout Europe and the U.S. diagnosed by male physicians.

The most common form of withholding is what we commonly call "the silent treatment," but withholding encompasses any unwillingness to express your true feelings. It also includes an unwillingness to give support, praise, or positive attention to the people you love. We have all known someone who is impossible to please, and many of us have suddenly found ourselves at the other end of a chilly silence with no explanation. At the same time, many of us will recognize our own ten

We all want to be happy. However, if a woman pushes herself to emotional and mental exhaustion in order to reach “perfect” happiness, she could suffer from a condition she probably has never heard of: Missing Mother Syndrome. When Megan Meadows (not her real name) came to me, she just wanted to lose weight. “Look at me!” she shouted, pinching her thighs. “I am fat! I am ugly! I hate my body!” Well, there was some middle-age spread, but she certainly was a very nice looking woman. Where did all this self-hate come from?

I lived through a bad marriage…well, a terrible one…so I know all about being stuck in a relationship. I know what it’s like to be miserable every single day, and still stay. I know what it’s like to wish that you were anywhere except where you are. I know what it’s like to feel happy when your husband is gone, and sad when he gets back home. Looking back from where I am now, I’m amazed that I was able to endure that marriage for as long as I did, but I was scared of leaving.

EFT, also known as Meridian Tapping, is a very efficient and useful tool that is rapidly becoming well known in the self-help, psychological, and medical fields. The reason it is catching on is that... 1. It's easy to use and 2. It works I have been using EFT, specifically FasterEFT, for years on myself and on my clients and continue to coach people on how to use EFT Tapping in their day to day lives. One of the most fascinating uses of EFT that I have come across is for eliminating the emotional charge around limiting thought patterns or "beliefs".

EFT for Aches and PainsnnWhen people think of Emotional Freedom Technique, their first thought is releasing emotions stored in the body from traumas–war, sexual, accident,–phobias, loss of a loved one, relationship issues, etc. But not nearly as many realize that EFT can be used for chronic and acute pain, including pain that has “a physical reason.” In this article I’ll discuss relieving both emotionally-based physical pain and just plain physical pain. nnA client

Positive affirmations are short, positive statements that you repeat to yourself everyday over a period of time. These affirmations may be not be exactly true at the moment you are saying them. But after repeating them to yourself after a period of time, your subconscious mind will begin to believe them, and as a result, your internal beliefs about reality will change. Your internal beliefs determine what your perception of reality is. When these internal beliefs change, you

Messy homes, cars or offices are common issues today with our busy lives. True clutter however, and I mean really messy environments, is actually a symptom of something other than a busy lifestyle. Often clutter is a Control Issue. Being unwilling to let go of things is a way people can feel in control of their lives. Even though it appears that they are totally out-of-control, hanging onto “stuff” gives people a sense of being in control.

Melissa (not her real name) was in total despair when she chose to contact me because I work with women who grew up with a physically or -more often- emotionally unavailable mother. In our preliminary talk, she said that it felt like her mother didn't like her, didn't want her to be happy, and ...

Tap Away Anger by Lindsay Kenny, EFT Master, Pro EFT Master This article presumes that you have a foundation of EFT. If not then please read about it on our website at www.ProEFT.com There is a wealth of information there, especially on the Free Stuff, Media, and FAQs pages. Be sure to download our “Tapping Chart” there. You will get more out of this article by knowing more about tapping. For more info on “The Power of 10s” the series from which this article came, please visit us at www.Powerof10s.com

People usually mean well. Although sometimes they’re just tired of putting up with someone else’s problem. And it’s not as if you’re not trying. You’d love to just get over it, after all. It’s no fun holding on to all this negative emotion. The good news is that it’s not because you have a weak character or there’s something wrong with you that you haven’t been able to get over it until now. Honestly though, it feels like it’s holding on to you, not the other way around, and there’s not a lot you can do about it. If you could, you would have done it already.

This is not an article about how to have the happy childhood you missed out on by bonding with your children and experiencing a new childhood along with them, although that’s a great thing to do. If you have children, I recommend it. Nor is it an article about getting in touch with your inner child and spending time with her or him every day, doing some of your favorite childhood things, in essence nurturing your inner child and so forth. Although there’s great value in that kind of approach as well. This is about a cutting edge development in emotional healing.

Do you often catch yourself saying and doing things just so that people will not be displeased with you? Do you feel afraid of angering people or making them dislike you for any reason? These people could be your colleagues, friends, family or even salespeople at a store. Unfortunately, you may not even realize you have this fear until it starts to rule your life.

I don’t like to be corrected, not even if the correction comes from me! I laugh because just last week my offer to help was met with resistance and I couldn’t understand why. I walked into the kitchen to find my husband making breakfast. I noticed a couple of burnt pieces on the plate and instinctively turned the bacon over while saying “Let me help you with the bacon.” He quickly replied, “I just turned it over.” I felt like he didn’t want my help, but at the same time I also felt vested in the task of keeping the bacon from burning.

Sometimes, but not usually, pain or discomfort is the result of one single traumatic event. When that happens we can use EFT techniques to resolve the emotions surrounding the trauma, and get physical relief really quickly. I would suggest that when a person experiences a medical trauma such as a stroke heart attack, a fall or even a finger cut, some of the residual pain might be a result of the trauma event itself. EFT can often help release the emotional charge, and associated pain, surrounding the trauma event.

Spiders. Roaches. Ants. Worms. Snakes. Lizards. If all the hair on the back of your neck is not standing up now, you’re probably in the minority. There just aren’t that many people who like creepy, crawly things. There are the insect collectors, and the snake lovers and people who just adore spiders, but for most of us, myself included, those critters are all pretty low on our list of favorite things. Although I don’t love creepy, crawly critters, I can honestly say that I’m not normally scared of them either. My daughtersnake is a snake love who kept a pet python for years.

(The following article was published in Gary Craig's newsletter, with a brief introductory note by him. Gary Craig is the founder of EFT (see www.emofree.com). Hi Everyone, Jennifer Davidson from Switzerland writes this MUST READ, engaging article on how she overcame many hurdles with her inexpressive Parkinson's client. Note her ongoing creativity.

EFT and S-E-X, what could be more intriguing? A Dartmouth College study of 16,000 Americans on Money, Sex and Happiness¹ revealed "the more sex, the happier the person." Given that most people want happiness, sex and relationship, then exploring what gets in the way of full sexual expression is ...

‎"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
 -(Trina Paulus) I love that quote! It speaks to our willingness to let go of old patterns and choose a new higher way of being. This is not an easy task since our negative patterns are so highly addictive. Why is that so? Why do we get so stuck in our dramas and misery? The answer may surprise you. A recent article, “Anatomy of a

The nice thing about it is that it doesn’t have to go into some landfill and pollute the planet. This is actually a guilt-free process, although it doesn’t always feel like it. Why not? Because so much of our mental trash has these labels on it like “Mom gave this to me, do not throw away.” Or it could have been my teacher in third grade. Or… well, whoever – the details don’t matter.

Did you know that dry skin can be triggered by unexpressed non-beneficial emotions? When a patch of dry skin appeared on the right side of my back, negative work-related emotions were the culprits. I harbored fears that a pesky business project would never “get off my back”. I wished the whole situation would dry up and go away. I applied EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques, which is acupressure for the emotions, and released all the fears about the situation. The dry skin flaked away for good. The rough, dry patch healed itself in about two weeks. r

Anger is a part of all our lives. If we’re really fortunate, we may not have a lot of people around us that make us mad. If we’re less fortunate, we may find that every day is a test for us, and that we spend an awful lot of time trying to stay calm in the face of irritations, aggravations and stressors. I was married to a man for 12 years that didn’t think anything I did was right. He infuriated me by nit picking about every detail of our lives. If I went to the trouble of baking a cake for him, it was too dry. If I cooked a nice dinner, the food wasn’t hot enough.

If you have found your way to this article than it’s more then likely that you have heard about Meridian Tapping or EFT and you’re curious as to how you can use tapping to improve your life. Or maybe you are an experienced tapper but you are always looking for ways to get better results. Either way I would like to share with you what I believe are the greatest benefits to applying FasterEFT Tapping to your life on a regular basis. ------------------ Why Should I Tap? ------------------ In my experience as a practitioner I have found that the most powerful benefit of tapping is…

Stress has been shown to cause a physiological reaction in the body that can have many adverse effects, including osteopenia and osteoporosis. Bone loss may lead to further stressors such as pain, less mobility, medical bills and depression, which can create a feedback loop of more stress leading to worsening symptoms leading to more stress, until we find a solution.

My husband’s PTSD was severe. He spent two years in the VA as an inpatient when he returned from Vietnam. Our life was hell. He was often suicidal and suffered from constant depression, nightmares, flashbacks and his anger was scary. In fact he had almost ALL of the symptoms of PTSD. PTSD is a normal response to very abnormal conditions or situations. War is not normal. Neither are rapes, natural disasters or any of the other situations that are traumatizing and can cause PTSD.

The idea of quickly releasing negative emotions by tapping is a new paradigm, only discovered decades ago. However it is based on 5000 years of Chinese acupuncture. And it works time after time as acupuncture does. With similarly surprisingly quick results. And unlike acupuncture, we can do EFT over the phone. =Try it on everything?rn=How is EFT is like psychological acupuncture?rn=How do Stress, Frustration, Grief, Fear, etc, affect the body? rn=What about negative events?rn=Do we forget the events?rn=And we use EFT for...BUT WHAT IF:rn=Will I see immediate results?r

Fathers can be physically or emotionally absent in their children’s lives for many reasons, and all of them hurt. Some of them are death, divorce, abandonment, prolonged work-related absences, or abuse. While the impact of a missing father on his grown-up daughter’s relationships with men has been discussed extensively, there is not that much information available about how this situation influences her professional life. (One source is Pamela Thomas in her book Fatherless Daughters.)

Anxiety and worry are part of everyone’s life these days. Marrying, having children, working, getting the bills paid..those are all anxiety provoking. There really isn’t a way to eliminate anxiety and worry from our lives, but by using EFT, we can neutralize a lot of that worry, allowing us to come from a much more positive place in our day to day lives. One of the most frustrating kinds of worry is when we worry about things over which we have absolutely no control.

As an EFT practitioner, I have many examples of how our mind can cause actual physical changes in our body. I have never seen a case more compelling, however, then an experience that I had myself. I was scheduled to do a session with someone that I was a bit intimidated by. By the day before the session, I was full of anxiety about the session, although I really wasn’t at all sure what the reason was for all that anxiety. I woke on the morning of the scheduled session and noticed some itching in the palms of my hands.

After a car accident, EFT can be an extremely useful tool to help anyone involved to overcome the physical and emotional effects of that trauma. I would urge people who have been in car accidents, whether recent or long past, to tap on acupuncture points while reviewing the images, physical sensations, any aches and pains you have, as well as all the thoughts and emotions that come to mind while tapping on the incident. First learn EFT, and if you are unduly upset about the incident get help from an EFT practitioner.

Fear of abandonment is a a very common issue for adoptees, as is anger over having been abandoned by their birthmother. After all, if their own biological mother didn’t care enough to stick around and be a part of their life, why should anyone else? Sadly, many adoptees blame themselves on some deep level that even they don’t really understand. They think that there is something wrong with them, and that’s why the woman who gave birth to them didn’t keep and raise them.

The results of several research articles show that shame plays an important role in depression. I was prompted to examine the research when I noticed that many of my clients seeking help for depression also had feelings of shame. So I did a little informal survey of my own. I randomly pulled 71 client records. As part of my client intake process, I use a “Symptom Checklist” consisting of over 80 emotional, psychological and physical indications of distress. Included is a checkbox for “depression” and one for “feelings of shame”.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be focused and have clarity on what you want this year if you want to reach your goals. For some of you that will be really easy. You may already have the vision in your mind. You may know exactly whom you want to work with and how you want to work with them. You probably know what you would do with the money you would make: vacations you would take, people you would help and so on.