So here’s important lesson. If your physical pain does not want to go away, and you tap and tap and tap, you have to look for the feeling related to that pain. I also tapped along myself and my neck pain didn’t want to go away, but when I tapped on the bad feeling that happened in the morning, my pain went away.

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FIRST POINT

I release and let go, all sadnesses

SECOND POINT

I release and let go, all fears

THIRD POINT

I release and let go, all emotional trauma

FOURTH POINT

I release and let go, helplessness, hopelessness, the stress and anxieties and everything else, it is safe to let it go

GRAB WRIST

Breath in and out, peace….

Second round, I release and let go and tap the points

Cheers

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Gary I wish you all the best, I feel for you. I hope you get healthy. Too bad the newsletter is dead. I though you have a staff that is taking care of this, but obviously all along you were taking care of the website. What a great and dedicated guy.

Can somebody help Gary Craig? We need to keep the EFT alive!

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By Lori Lorenz

Dear Gary and List Members,

I was recently referred a client (“Tim”) for a phone session who had been unable to work for the past 5 years due to extreme panic attacks (though probably more accurately they were anger attacks). Innumerable sessions with therapists of various persuasions, including some meridian/energy type therapies, had not budged his problem.

Now in his early 40’s, Tim had had a blooming career cut short by the fear that he would “explode” either when left alone or out in public. The company of a friend or his partner was all that kept him calm. Tim was terrified that during stressful situations, he would rip his shirt or clothing off in a rage or start throwing things and scream uncontrollably. As insurance, he always carried spare clothing. It was a question for him as to whether it was the rage itself or the fear of making a fool of himself which kept him always in the company of his partner or with a “babysitter” friend for security.

We had one session two months earlier when we worked on EFT coping strategies for his beginning a new job. With those working well, Tim now felt ready to tackle the underlying issues in his continuing urge to explode. In our talking together, Tim realized that in his “explosions” he was acting the way his raging, unpredictable, abusive mother had acted only now it was his own behavior which he could neither predict nor control. In one session, Tim was able to work through (1) his fear and rage at his mother, (2) the horror of watching his father beat his mother to ostensibly stop her screaming and (3) finally laugh with relief at what had formerly been so traumatic.

The following is the essence of our work with the wording for the setup phrasing as close as possible to what we covered. Sometimes this phrasing ran very quick and free, changing with each line, which made it lively and also very triggering to get at the aspects quickly. We generally did full single rounds including the liver point at the bottom front of the rib cage but with no 9-gamut.

LORI: Try picturing your mother and see what you feel.

TIM: I feel the pit of my stomach – a pressure, an anger.

EFT: Even though I have this mother anger in my stomach… (tap: this mother anger)

LORI: What do you feel now?

TIM: I feel sorrow for me because I had to watch all this… and sorrow for her. I have forgiven her before, why do I still have this feeling in my stomach?

LORI: I don’t know, but let’s try a round.

EFT: Even though I’ve forgiven her, I can still have this anger that needs to be looked at… (tapping on “this mother anger”).

TIM: The feeling in the pit of my stomach is gone. But I feel it now just below my throat – there’s still some anger.

(I remembered now to pick up some SUDs intensity readings (0-10 scale) and asked Tim how strong the anger had been at the start vs. now. He’s started at a 7 or 8 in the stomach which was now gone. Now it was a 5 at the throat. We repeated the same phrasing for another round and the throat anger was gone.

TIM: I still feel the anger but now it’s in my head – in front of my forehead – like my head wants to burst, to get rid of this negativity. I want to take it out on whoever is around me. I could scream. I feel a pressure inside, an anger.

LORI: …all these years of stuffing this mother anger? Is it like it wants to explode just like hers did?

TIM: Yes!

EFT: Even though I feel this anger pressure in my head…

Even though I’ve stuffed this anger and it wants to explode…

Even though I could scream…

All these phrases were used during the one setup tapping the karate chop point.

TIM: I guess I feel more relaxed – and also uptight for bringing up the past. I haven’t done this for a long time. It bothers me in a sad way. If we weren’t brought up this way, I’d be a different person. I feel sorry for her and mostly for me – I’ve lost 5 years of my life.

EFT: Even though I’m grieving for the loss of this time and the loss of my childhood to my mother’s illness and rage…

TIM: I feel lighter. The pressure in the head is gone. There’s no pressure anywhere.

LORI: OK. Let’s test our work. Picture her pulling your hair, her verbal put downs, her telling you she hoped you’d be hit by a car or choke on your food.

TIM: I feel this hatred when I remember how she did those things. (It was difficult for Tim to feel these feelings before – they appeared to be judged out of awareness. Now it was possible to access them and so clear them.)

EFT: Even though I feel this hatred when I remember how she… (We went through the list during the setup and tapped on “this mother hatred”.)

TIM: Tears are rolling down my cheeks – such sorrow – we all went through this including my grandmother. It was a tragedy. Everyone suffered a living hell. Dad hit mom with his fists, bruising her. She’d go to the floor still foaming at the mouth, still screaming – nothing made her stop. We kids would shout “Please, mom, shut up! Shut up!” There were 18 years of this.

LORI: (Very gently said) OK, Tim, just picture the beating, the foaming, the bruising.

TIM: I want to scream – like I did then.

EFT: Even though all we could do was scream “shut up, mom”, and dad would hit her, and she’d foam and bruise, and we’d cry and feel angry both… (tapping with “shut up, mom, shut up”).

There was noticeable calming even during the setup and then progressively through the round. It seemed that finally speaking the unspeakable was a tremendous relief and it seemed important to speak all of it while tapping.

TIM: I’m happy it’s over and I will never, ever have to listen to that again. The memories are there, but I’ll never have to live through it again. There’s a sense of relief… and I’m a little nervous. I just brought this up and I’m relieved that I did – and it didn’t have much impact on me now as it would have in the past.

LORI: What has you nervous?

TIM: I’m a little scared because I brought it up.

LORI: Is it like you’re betraying the family secret? Like you might be punished for that?

TIM: Yeah.

EFT: Even though I might be punished for betraying the family secrets – how crazy mom was…

Even though I’m telling all the family secrets… (tap: I’m telling all the secrets.)

TIM: I feel very relaxed! (laughter, sigh) It feels like all this negative stuff is dissolving.

LORI: Take a couple of deep breaths and enjoy the relaxation.

TIM: I feel drowsy, comfortable, floating if I close my eyes, drifting. Feels great!

We discuss continuing to check our work or stopping here. Tim wants to continue.

LORI: So picture mom again. Let’s check our work. See her throwing things.

TIM: I had an 8-track stereo/turntable on my dresser and I loved to play 70’s music. I’d earned the money for it and I loved my music – it calmed me. She would come into my room and bounce it on the table until it began to come apart. Then she’d turn it off and order me to do tasks. She’d destroy my pleasure, something of mine.

LORI: How do you feel now thinking of this?

TIM: It bothers me just a little – she’s ruining something of mine. I feel it in my chest and arms – the muscles used to destroy things, to rip shirts and throw things.

LORI: The same muscles she used to ruin your things?

TIM: Yeah.

EFT: Even though she broke my things and I feel this pressure in my muscles to do the same thing… (tap with “break things just like she did”)

LORI: So picture this incident again.

TIM: It bothers me just in the sense she’s ruining something of mine. I worked hard to buy that stereo.

LORI: What do you feel now?

TIM: Anger and frustration – I wanted to bounce HER head on the table. I had to stuff it. I loved that stereo.

EFT: Even though I feel anger and frustration that she bounced my stereo and I just wanted to bounce her head instead – I loved that stereo… (tap: she bounced my stereo)

TIM: It doesn’t bother me to think about it. There are no physical sensations. It feels good to have said these words.

LORI: So try picturing dad hitting mom.

TIM: It doesn’t bother me. There are no physical signals from my body except what one might expect.

LORI: What is that?

TIM: Well, when I picture dad hitting her, she’s on the kitchen floor and foaming, well, there’s really no reaction.

LORI: What would you give it on a scale of 0 to 10?

TIM: A zero.

We ran through a number of other violent or abusive memories from Tim’s childhood and each was coming up with a SUDs of zero, much to Tim’s surprise. One in which mom had hit the kids with a wooden spoon when they couldn’t quote the Bible perfectly actually looked hilarious in its hypocrisy. He could finally laugh at it.

LORI: So let’s do a little more checking here. Think of tearing your shirt off.

TIM: It’s so easy to do. I’m afraid I will, I can.

LORI: Try picturing mom with the stereo.

TIM: I feel a slight urge to do it too.

LORI: What’s the SUDS?

TIM: 3 or 4.

EFT: Even though she got to do it, my muscles want to bounce on something too – she got away with it, my muscles want to… (tap: my muscles)

TIM: There’s still some tendency to DESTROY things.

EFT: Even though I feel an urge to destroy things to discharge this anger pressure that builds up in me… (tap: destroy things)

TIM: (Laughter) Damn, that’s good! I can laugh at it. I can look around the room and it doesnt’ bother me! It’s gone! Wow, that’s amazing! This is the same reaction people get on the EFT tapes! With the laughter it clicked! I feel so good!

This is what I love about this work!

By the way, I just followed up with Tim (two weeks later) and discovered that he did not have any of his former explosion reactions. However, he did have some concern over having those reactions again and he wanted another appointment. This suggests that either there is more work to do on the original problem OR his concern is simply a fear of the fear returning. In either case, it is likely a tappable issue.

Love to you all,

Lori Lorenz, MA

Source:

http://www.emofree.com/

http://faster-eft.com/

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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.

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 even realize that the shift is taking place. 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.

After a few days into the process, you will notice that the “big trees” you started with don’t seem to show up in your life any more. That is typical and there is a lot of freedom in that. Enjoy it.

Source: http://www.emofree.com/

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These remedies range from laying on of hands to drugs & surgery to fasting to mental imagery. They all seem to show results for some people, some of the time. However, none of them work for all people, all of the time.

Here is a beginning list of the physical ailments that 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 provide startling relief where nothing else seems to work.

Based on my experience, EFT works so well that it should be included in every healer’s toolbag. 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 when 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. The undeniable fact is that EFT deserves a prominent place in the physical healing hall of fame. 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?

Many mysteries surround the healing sciences, which 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. 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 these 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 for 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 even months. So, be persistent and make 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 well 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 indeed radical. It is outside the beliefs of almost everyone I have met. However, I have personally witnessed many startling examples of this, and I would be remiss if I didn’t report them to you.

Q. How often should I apply The Basic Recipe to my problem? For symptoms such as headaches, pain, 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 rounds of The Basic Recipe should be spread throughout the day. A good way to do this is to link them to your habitual routines, such as:

• When you wake up in the morning.
• Before 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 also help.

Q. Will you please discuss some of your experiences with various physical ailments? Of course. Please remember that the examples listed below represent only a tiny portion of the possible ailments that EFT can address.

Back pain

I know many people who have significant damage to their backs, and the reasons for their pain are evident in their X-Rays. Nonetheless, after a few minutes of EFT, their pain 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 joints. Relaxing the muscle tension through EFT thus reduces unnecessary stress on the joints, resulting in less pain. I have lost count of how many back pains I have seen subside. Some pains vanish completely and never return, while others require a daily tapping routine to keep the pain at bay.

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 once had a business dinner with Anne, whose carpal tunnel wrist pain was at a level 7. After less than 2 minutes of using The Basic Recipe, the pain disappeared altogether and didn’t return for the rest of our meeting. Needless to say, she was astonished since nothing else had ever given her relief. Although our paths have not crossed since then, my guess is that her problem has either greatly reduced or disappeared.

This is the type of problem, however, that tends to come back, so additional tapping would likely be necessary.

Psoriasis

Donna’s psoriasis was so severe that she had difficulty wearing shoes. Her medications were not helping. After tapping routinely for a few days, 90% of it went away.

Allergies

These usually respond well. I have seen 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 person experienced instant and permanent relief with one tapping session. Others needed to tap daily for a few weeks before years of constipation subsided.

Please remember that you will not always experience 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 stick 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 have come up on stage with me, done The Basic Recipe for eyesight, and then reported noticeably clearer vision. I have not followed up on this, so I cannot report on any permanent changes. However, I suspect that permanent improvement is possible with persistence.

Arthritis

Arthritic pain often reduces under The Basic Recipe. I’ve witnessed this many times. Due to the underlying condition, however, the pain tends to return. Thus, you must address both the symptoms and the underlying disease. Can you reverse arthritis and eliminate it forever with EFT? I don’t know because no one, to my knowledge, has persistently used these techniques for this purpose. 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 wasn’t aware of it. It disappeared as a result of fasting and changes in my diet, lifestyle, and frame of mind. I’m convinced that EFT would have expedited my recovery.

Source:

http://www.emofree.com/

http://faster-eft.com/

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This section starkly contrasts with conventional approaches. Here, we amalgamate an extensive range of emotional issues under one category—traumatic memories—and treat them as identical. In reality, they share the same cause: a disruption in the body’s energy system.

Traumatic memories give rise to a plethora of emotional reactions upon recollection. Some experiences intensify, triggering headaches, stomachaches, rapid heartbeats, sweating, tears, sexual dysfunction, nightmares, grief, anger, depression, and various other emotional and physical afflictions.

Let’s apply the knowledge from earlier. Recall the foundational principle of EFT: “All negative emotions stem from an interruption in the body’s energy system.”

Thus, every negative emotion linked to a traumatic memory results from a disturbance (“zzzzzt”) in your energy system. Consequently, the remedy is conceptually straightforward: eradicate the “zzzzzt,” and the emotional impact diminishes to zero. No more nightmares, headaches, or pounding heart. Your memory remains, but the emotional charge vanishes.

Our tool for this purpose is The Basic Recipe. A few rounds of this process should offer relief. The number of repetitions required depends on the number of aspects within the memory.

Aspects are crucial. They represent different facets of the memory contributing to emotional intensity.

Most traumatic memories center around a primary aspect, typically necessitating 1 to 3 iterations of The Basic Recipe for resolution. Within minutes, the problem often dissipates, with infrequent or no recurrence.

Some traumatic memories, however, entail multiple aspects. In these cases, additional rounds of The Basic Recipe are required, although this usually takes only 20 to 30 minutes instead of 5 or 6.

What we require is an approach to identify these aspects. Once located, addressing each sequentially neutralizes every facet of the memory. This can be efficiently achieved using the “short movie in your mind” concept.

View the traumatic memory as a brief mental film. Envision it as a theater projection, complete with a beginning, main characters, events, and an ending.

Ordinarily, this “movie” plays rapidly, culminating in an undesired emotion. Due to its swift pace, we overlook the potential presence of diverse aspects contributing to the negativity, attributing the emotion to the entire film.

By slowing down the movie, these different aspects can be pinpointed and managed. Narrate the movie out loud—share it with a friend, mirror, or tape recorder. Describe it in detail to decelerate its pace, as spoken words are slower than thoughts.

While recounting it, each aspect will surface. Halt when you sense intensity (prioritizing pain reduction) and apply The Basic Recipe to that aspect, treating it as an independent traumatic memory. In essence, it is a distinct memory within a larger context.

Proceed through the aspects, reducing each to zero until you can narrate the entire story devoid of any negative emotional impact.

Typically, most traumatic memories have a solitary aspect. Some have 2 or 3, rarely exceeding 3. In such cases, persistence is key; relief is within reach.

Questions and Answers

Q. What if I have multiple traumatic memories?

Address them one by one. Begin with the most intense memory, neutralizing it before moving to the next. Follow this pattern until all traumatic memories are resolved. This process often leads to a liberating sensation bordering on euphoria.

Releasing such unnecessary baggage is a remarkable gift.

Individuals like war veterans may possess numerous traumatic memories. For them, the generalization effect often applies. For instance, if you have a hundred traumatic memories, addressing around 10 to 15 can often suffice. Subsequently, emotional intensity for the remaining memories is likely to diminish significantly due to the generalization effect.

Q. Does rapidly eliminating emotional issues diminish the importance of delving deep into the problem?

Traditional methods presuppose that the root of these entrenched emotional problems resides in the recesses of the mind, necessitating exploration and unraveling. Disregarding this notion is perceived as neglecting the client and leaving the problem unresolved. EFT defies this perspective.

I have aided numerous individuals with traumatic memories, some exceedingly intense. Following EFT, not one person has displayed interest in further exploration or delving “to the bottom” of it.

To them, the issue is entirely resolved. Through my experience, EFT effectively addresses the root of the issue, causing a profound shift in attitude towards the memory. The transformation is evident in their words, demeanor, and posture, as fear evolves into comprehension.

These individuals seldom bring up the issue again, as it gains perspective through the elimination of the disruptive “zzzzzt” from the energy system—the true cause.

For further insights and techniques, you can also explore http://www.emofree.com/ and https://fastereft.com/.

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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 *censored*tails. We consume massive amounts of refined sugar. Our foods are laden with a list of 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 severaldifferent 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 echniques.

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 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:

Perfume Refined Sugar Alcohol

Herbs Coffee Nicotine

Wheat Tea Dairy

Corn Caffeine Pepper

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… persistence 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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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, 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?

The lingering cold that just 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?

The reason is in the body’s energy system. It is 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.

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.

What is Psychological Reversal? 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 Part I.

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….”

What causes PR? The principle cause is negative thinking. Even the most positive thinkers among us carry around subconscious negative, self defeating thoughts. PR is the usual result. As a general rule, the 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 potential. 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 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.”

I then recited 10 telephone numbers to her and asked 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.

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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 all 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.

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?

In EFT, stress and anxiety have the same cause as all 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.

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 efficient 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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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 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.

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 problems 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 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.

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Applying The First Step 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.

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 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. You may hear us use affirmations on DVDs like…

**”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. **It is best to say it out loud but if you are in a 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 nondominant hand with the two fingertips of the dominant hand. If you are right handed, for 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.

EFT – Step 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.

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 E ye B row.

**On the bone bordering the outside corner of the eye. This point is abbreviated SE for S ide of the E ye.

**On the bone under an eye about 1 inch below your pupil. This point is abbreviated UE for U nder the E ye.

**On the small area between the bottom of your nose and the top of your upper lip. This point is abbreviated UN for U nder the N ose.

**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 Ch in.

**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 C ollar B one 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 U nder the A rm.

**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 B elow N ipple. As discussed below, this point has been added for this edition.

**On the outside edge of your thumb at a point even with the base of the thumbnail. This point is abbreviated Th for Th umb.

**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 I ndex F inger.

**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 M iddle F inger.

**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 B aby F inger.

**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 K arate C hop.

The abbreviations for these points are summarized below in the same order as given above.

EB = Beginning of the E ye B row

SE = S ide of the E ye

UE = U nder the E ye

UN = U nder the N ose

Ch = Ch in

CB = Beginning of the C ollar B one

UA = U nder the A rm

BN = B elow the N ipple

Th = Th umb

IF = I ndex F inger

MF = M iddle F inger

BF = B aby F inger

KC = K arate C hop

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.

EFT – Step 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 oints…..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 sandwich. The Setup is the preparation for the sandwich and the sandwich itself consists of two slices of bread (The Sequence) with the cheese, or middle portion, as the 9 Gamut Procedure. It looks like this…

The Sandwich

The Setup

The Sequence (Bread)

9 Gamut (Tofu)
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.

EFT – Step 4 The Sequence (again) and The Reminder Phrase

The fourth…and last…ingredient in The Basic Recipe was mentioned above. It is an identical trip through The Sequence. 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.

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Rapid remedies for “difficult” emotional problems are, in some circles, considered impossible and anyone who purports to dothem 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. “

You do not have to believe in these techniques for them to work. Some people mistakenly conclude that EFT gets results. 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.

Gary Craig (founder of EFT) 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. “

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.

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.

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.

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 conventional means 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

The EFT 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 can find more about EFT in the following articles.

Source:

http://www.emofree.com/

http://faster-eft.com/

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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 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.

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