Power EFT: Secrets to Success with Tapping

EFT creates a cognitive shift that give maximum results in relieving your stress, fears and anxiety. This is one of the oldest healing methods.

Roger Callahan started the first version of EFT called TFT many decades ago in the 1970's. Joan shares how EFT started. 

Global refers to learning from a methodology that is general in nature and you can not go into the issues very deep. Specific refers to being with a trained practitioner who can get into the specifics of your issues. Often, you will not want to look at your issues and only with a trained professional can you heal those issues.

Your body is full of energy. Joan demonstrates it while giving you an idea why shifting your energy can shift your thoughts, feelings and emotions.

Joan shows brain scans which show what happens in your brain with EFT.

The most fundamental theoretical base of EFT, the "Discovery Statement", states:

The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system

Every negative emotion or complex of emotions (phobia, depression, traumatic memory, guilt, etc.) is generated by a disruption of a person's energy.

So, we have negative emotions that are caused by an energy disruption in our body, which in turn is triggered by external stimuli (facts and situations that we seem, hear, etc.) or by internal stimuli (facts and states that we bring back from our memory or create in our imagination).

We don't try to explain here how the disruption has been caused in the first place and we really don't care about it, when trying to dissolve it with EFT!

This principle leads to the thought that a negative emotion is never "stored" in a person's psycho-somatic system and that it is generated upon appropriate triggering, which fires an energy disruption.

It should be noted that EFT does not suppresses emotions! If something stops bothering the person after treating it with EFT, it's because it got energetically diffused and not because we "covered" it with something else or because we forced the logical reframing of it.

We should also stress that the energy disruption is an original concept and is not identical to any terms denoting psychological, emotional or mental disturbances or disorders. It is true that may of the latest can be explained in terms of energy disruptions, but they are not the same thing...

The EFT Tapping Basic Recipe is an easy to use healing tool that provides the very foundation for expanding your emotional freedom. It is the tapping procedure that we use in every round of EFT … it is easy to learn and easy to apply, which is why EFT has become well known as a tool that anyone can use. By itself, the EFT Tapping Basic Recipe can be applied to any issue you want, and although it is still only the first step to EFT’s full potential, it continues to provide results that range from encouraging to impressive. The rest of the benefits come when you learn how to aim the tapping procedure at the best targets, but you will need to know the basics before learning the rest, so let’s get started!

Grounding is a technique that helps keep someone in the present. They help reorient a person to the here-and-now and in reality. Grounding skills can be helpful in managing overhelming feelings or intense anxiety. They help someone to regain their mental focus from an often intensely emotional state. 

Cross crawl refers to movements in which we use opposition such as crawling, walking, running, and swimming. Opposition means that opposite sides of the body work together to coordinate the right arm and left leg, then the left arm and right leg. Therapeutically, cross crawl refers to any intentional cross-lateral activity in which you cross the mid-line of the body, such as touching opposite hand and knee or foot. 

Performing this movement builds the bridge between the right and left hemispheres of the brain, allowing for electrical impulses and information to pass freely between the two, which is essential for physical coordination as well as cerebral activities, such as learning language, reading, and hand-to-eye coordination.

Joan demonstrates a powerful exercise for connecting your energy from your head and body.

Joan wraps up this section.

It is very important that you choose a target and be very clear on what it is. Joan goes through a powerful exercise to find a target so you can repeat it effectively in the future. Have a pen and paper ready.

To effectively change using EFT, you need to set a baseline. Very often people will release their trauma or stress and then shift to thinking, "Well, that was never that bad..." even though you might have been constantly crying hysterically for a week. Our mind works in mysterious ways. By setting a baseline, you can objectively see how much EFT helped you.

Joan walks you through a EFT Session so you can understand better how to go through the process by yourself.

Joan delves deeper into shifting aspects or layers of emotions and how each can be related and hold up totally different emotions that lead to a trauma in your past. Do not tap on your trauma. Go to a professional to deal with it.

Congratulations on finishing a Tapping session! Now you can repeat this section every time you want to go deeper into EFT.

Why do you need to test? What is testing? Joan shares the best ways to test to make sure your session is complete and your issue is resolved or cleared. Did you completely let go of your block or situation? Testing tells you if you did.

Everything has a story. What is the story beyond your emotions and feelings? Joan shows you how telling your story shows us if your tapping is finished or if there is more aspects that bothers you and if you need to tap more.

Play your situation like a movie in your mind's eye. Looking for aspects that still bothers you.

Did your tapping hold for the long term. We will check in 6 months and see what happened in your real life.