The Tipping Point for Tapping: EFT Goes Mainstream
Mar 29, 2018

Floyd Mann
Core Spirit member since Dec 24, 2020
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Even though the world didn’t end on Dec. 21, 2012, perhaps a real energetic change in our worldview did occur on that auspicious date. One anomaly that shows evidence of such a transformation was a workshop I co-facilitated in April for 86 health care practitioners in Greensboro, N.C., on Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for Mental Health and Wellness. The enthusiastic participating psychologists, social workers, counselors, nurses, dietitians, physicians and other therapists expressed surprise that a continuing education course on energy tapping would even be offered.

This year there is a major therapeutic paradigm shift going on right before our eyes, as 2013 is the proverbial tipping point for acupuncture meridian tapping. It has been 33 years since Roger Callahan developed Thought Field Therapy (TFT) using acupoint stimulation for relief of traumatic memories and 22 years since Gary Craig trained in TFT and then developed EFT. It has been 11 years since I learned it from Gary’s free online manual and received a preprint of the first randomized controlled trial of EFT in a major psychology journal from one of the co-authors, Patricia Carrington.

This winter, many different paths in this evolutionary process converged to tip the paradigm over. Psychologist David Feinstein published a review article of 18 randomized controlled trials of “Acupoint Stimulation in Treating Psychological Disorders” in the Review of General Psychology, an American Psychological Association (APA) journal. Then EFT researcher Dawson Church published a landmark randomized controlled trial of “Psychological Trauma Symptom Improvement in Veterans using EFT” in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, a major psychiatric journal.

In tandem with these two major academic achievements came an even more significant political one, as the APA finally granted continuing education credits for psychologists to study tapping, also known as energy psychology. This breakthrough came about through the persistent efforts of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) over the course of five years including the use of legal negotiations. Although the APA is still not actually advocating its use, it is now possible for psychologists to learn energy psychology for professional credit.

The global reach of EFT got taken to the next level in February when the World Tapping Summit, sponsored by HuffPost blogger Nick Ortner and his sister Jessica, had about 500,000 people online from all over the world learning the latest tips for free from 20 of the top tappers. Included was my teacher, Carol Look, author of Attracting Abundance with EFT, who was one of the therapists in the Operation: Emotional Freedom pilot project for veterans. The abundant EFT blessings continued when Nick’s book The Tapping Solution was published by Hay House and shot up the bestseller lists.

Considering the epidemic of trauma around the world, it is important for everyone to learn to tap and heal themselves, not only health care professionals, but also laypeople. Many of the leading tapping teachers are lifestyle coaches, such as Cheryl Richardson, who prompted me to learn EFT in 2002. When Cheryl heard I was already doing acupuncture and hypnosis at Duke University Medical Center, she suggested EFT would be the perfect combination of both techniques. My very first use was for a Duke student with severe hives after a serious car accident, which resolved completely in one short session.

After that first experience, I started teaching EFT to all my acupuncture patients, so they could work on their own self-healing between appointments. I eventually found I could get quicker results for emotional issues just using tapping followed by hypnosis. EFT focuses on negative self talk and deletes energetic body memories to provide a space for positive hypnotic suggestions to go in. For efficiency, I teach it in groups to provide relief from food cravings, stress, pain, phobias, and performance anxiety. Individual work with clients often provides amazing and lasting results in just a few sessions.

by Larry Burk For The Huffington Post


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Emotional Freedom Technique
$44 USD
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Empower yourself to be yourself with EFT

Overview

EFT - tapping around the resiliency keys (see benefits below), releasing stuck emotions, unblock stagnant chi & get the energy flowing again. Release old patterns & traumas that hold you back from living the life you truly deserve.

Target audience

Those that feel they’ve lost their sparkle in life

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Confidence, wholeness, empowerment, vitality, self worth, self trust, authenticity, courage, emotional wisdom, decisiveness, authenticity. Feeling of well-being & a new found trust in life.

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During a session I will ask you a series of questions of what you are struggling with.
We then begin to tap around the issue at hand to release the stuck emotions surrounding the issue.

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we will try to get to the root cause in one session but sometimes these are deep rooted and will require more than one session11

karen smith
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EFT Tapping Session to clear your mindset blocks!

Empathetic and motivating EFT practitioner ready to help you change your mindset and remove limiting blocks that keep you stuck - get out of your own damn way! American expat living in Germany but practicing EFT and Transformational Life Coaching sessions online helping international expats and travelers all over the world.

Offering online EFT hourly sessions alone or in combination with transformational life coaching to assess your life and create balance. Particular emphasis on limiting beliefs, mindset blocks, and changing old patterns. Having confidence issues? Self-sabotaging? Allowing a past situation to control you? Try EFT and experience the difference for yourself in how to heal and let things go in your life.

Andrea Hunt
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Transform Your Relationship With Your Money

In this session, you will learn the basics of Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT. Together we will use that technique, sometimes called simply tapping, to sort out and release any emotional blocks or resistances you may have in your money.
The process involves you and me tapping on specific pressure points on our head and chest. This has the effect of reprograming your subconscious mind, and releasing any negative emotions you may be having.

There are 5 kinds of money, and we will complete a Money Map so you can see clearly where you have some resistance. Then we will tap out those resistances, transforming them into positive action so you can move forward toward your goals.

This is a simple yet powerful process. You will find yourself much more relaxed and hopeful afterward, able to think clearly about what your next step is to fulfill your goal.

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The Power Of Emotional Healing - EFT Program

“The Power of Emotional Healing” is energy psychology education in the Emotional Freedom Technique with the perfect balance of information, instructions, videos, and ready tapping scripts. Learn all the aspects of how to apply EFT for emotional and physical pain.

Tapping is becoming a primary healing resource for more and more people over the globe. Emotional Freedom Technique is in hospitals, families, psychotherapy clinics, sports fields, coaching practices, and even schools.

When people use EFT for physical problems, they are releasing the emotional memories associated with the symptom. Once those memories don’t hurt anymore, the stress response is reduced, and the body has a chance to heal.

As you gain confidence with EFT, you’ll find yourself becoming fearless when it comes to exposure. You’ll discover you don’t have to remain afraid of old traumatic memories; you have a tool that allows you to reduce their emotional intensity in minutes or even seconds. The usual pattern of running away from a problem is reversed. You feel confident running toward it, knowing that you’ll quickly feel better.

The course anatomy:

  1. Emotional Experience Shapes Your Pain

1.1.Why do you still feel pain?

1.2. How your body can heal?

1.3.Reducing your pain with Emotional Freedom Technique

  1. EFT's Basic Recipe

2.1.The science of how EFT works

2.2. Main components of tapping

2.3. Practice EFT: remove your past emotional pain

  1. Integrate EFT into your practice

3.1. Tapping script for holiday stress

3.2. Tapping script for procrastination

3.3. Tapping script for low self-esteem

3.4. Tapping script for resentment

EFT is easy to learn, and simple to apply.

Dawn Cady

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