You are not a problem that needs fixing. No matter HOW many issues, concerns, problems, syndromes or challenges you have. You don’t need to be fixed. Occupational Hazard As an EFT tapper, you might disagree. Maybe you’re aware of a ton of things in your life that you want to change. And now you have [...]
Maybe you experience envy often, or maybe just every once in awhile. For some people it’s almost an automatic response. Whatever the case, it’s an uncomfortable feeling, and EFT is a great way to shift that. Digging Deeper Let’s start by digging a little bit deeper into this whole envy thing. It’s actually a form [...]
Why do you procrastinate anyway? For very good reasons. That’s right. And that’s the first thing to realize. It serves you in some way. It’s simply a response to something. So you have to look underneath that response – that behavior of procrastinating. Often it actually makes you feel safe. There’s a fear underneath – [...]
Many people using EFT find themselves avoiding working on childhood events and issues. These are some “why”s I hear from clients: That was so long ago. I’ve already dealt with that in therapy. I don’t see what it has to do with me now. I don’t remember much about my childhood. Let’s work on current [...]
How well do you keep commitments you make? The consequences can be really big for not following through when other people are involved. Relationships are affected by it. Trust is affected – not only your trust in yourself, but other people’s conclusions about how trustworthy you are. This is a big deal. All those judgments [...]
Keeping commitments to yourself is a huge deal because it’s the basis for trusting yourself. And sometimes you might be at the end of your list for keeping commitments. The things you’ve promised other people always come first. But this works like the oxygen mask on the airplane does: You have to take care of [...]
This challenge showed up with a client yesterday, so I dusted off a topic from last year to remind us all about how tricky it can be to do EFT about the people we’re closest to. Resentment and hurt and love are often tangled up together. So when you tap on an issue with these [...]
In my last post, I wrote about a huge urge to quit – to completely stop a big project I was working on. Now I want to share how I used EFT to get back in the groove with it. First I realized the urge was just my subconscious trying to protect me from possible [...]
It happened to me last week. I was blind-sided by the urge to quit. Not just a quiet nudge but an overpowering, all-consuming command to quit. Everything in me was telling me to just give up on the big project I had been working on – something I had put a lot of time, thought [...]
In the last post, I promised you some tips about how to use EFT to help you use self kindness as a strategy — and a habit. Here are my tapping suggestions: These are the steps to take to start using self kindness on a regular basis for yourself: 1. First, investigate your resistance to [...]