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Can You Use EFT For More Than One Issue, In The Same Day?

Andrew Wilkie — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:17:43 +0000

Absolutely, you can never over tap.

With EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques or Tapping. You and your body don’t have a certain amount of issues that you can work on in any given time or space.

In fact, in the beginning of your EFT journey it is a good thing to tap as often as you can. The more you do it, the more comfortable you will become with the process. The more you’ll know which words and emotions are you’re “big ones” and need further tapping. You’ll begin to discover which of the EFT points seem to be “your” spots and where for you, the magic happens and you consistently get big emotional releases.

You’ll begin to start changing the setup phrases to really suit what you are feeling. Too often new tappers come to EFT and are afraid to change even the tense or grammar of the sentences to fit their problem, challenge or emotion.

EFT is such a forgiving technique. Your set-up phrase and reminder phrases should be as easy as possible for you to say and remember. If they are not , you’ll worry about them and stop doing the tapping.

Why am I not getting a shift in my issue?

You are trying to tap on too many issues at once.
You are not being specific enough in describing your problem. You’re wanting to hide something or not admit something to yourself. Go for it!
You don’t really want to tap on what it is that you are feeling. – Then you really need to tap on this one.
You’re tapping has worked and without noticing you have started using different language or feeling a different emotion.

I feel tired when I tap.

When you tap lots in one session, you’ll find many things can and do happen.

You might yawn a lot.
You have a need to drink lots of water.
You sleep like you haven’t slept in ages.
You’ll have little releases of emotion and big emotional releases.

You’ll be tapping on issue D and find that issue A, that you tapped on earlier no longer bothers you.
When doing lots of tapping, you results and changes will start to show up gradually too, even if you think nothing has happened whilst you have been tapping. Your body and behaviours are catching up with the new you.

These are all great signs that you are changing at a much deeper level.

Best of all, you might even discover…

You say something at the right moment, with the right words and feeling and you’ll have an emotional release there and there. These are the real crowning glories of EFT Champagne moments.

Happy Travels

p.s. If you want to find places and times to tap, check this post out too - How To Do EFT Every Day.

Fear of Needles? – Banish It with 1 Simple Step! – EFT

Andrew Wilkie — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:37:14 +0000

21% of Americans have a fear of needles, are you one of them?

Trypanophobia is the extreme and irrational fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles.

I know how you feel.I love to travel, but getting those shots I hate with a passion. No matter good the travelling is, I still hate getting the injections.

But there is something that you can start using today…

It is thought that a fear of needles has evolved from the fear of being stabbed.

What is this technique?

It’s EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique).

How Can EFT help you overcome your fear?

What is that you fear will hurt or go wrong? As you think about needles, any negative emotion i.e. anxiousness or fright can easily and quickly be resolved and dissolved with EFT.

A fear of needles isn’t so much the fear of the needle but what might happen or more importantly…what might hurt.

Fear The Sight

Even though I’m afraid of needles…
Even though the sight of needles scares the hell out of me..

Thought or Feeling of Needles

Even though I don’t like the thought of being hurt…
Even thought this is really going to hurt me…
Even though you’re not meant to put something in me…

Childhood Experiences

I grew up having to have injections for travel as a child. At one point I hid under the desk in the doctor’s surgery. My grandmother was not impressed. Yet, there was no way my doctor was going to stick that needle into me. My last lot of travelling I had to have six injections. All were pain and more importantly anxiety free.

With EFT if you can remember any past experience or even with needles. You can tap on that to dissolve the emotional charge that the event has on you.

Even though I remember being in the doctor’s surgery and hiding under the desk…
Even though I’ve bad experiences in the past, I’m choosing to release this anxiety now…

The more specific you can be with any event, i.e. date, time, how, who was there, what was said, the quicker and easier you’ll get over your fear of needles.

Yet, you’ll still have great success with:

Even though I have this fear of needles…

It might just take slightly longer as you mind goes looking for your past needle events.

Most people don’t fear needles, isn’t it about time you became one of them?

How To Improve Your Confidence with EFT- 3 Top Tips

Andrew Wilkie — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:43:39 +0000

Is something holding you back from achieving all your goals? Do want to do something but you can’t?

I’ve been there. I’ve recently been planning a trip abroad. All is booked up ready to go. Yet, I thought what if they don’t let me in the country? I’m going for longer than I normally do.

Panic, fear, self doubt all set in. I came up with a million and one reasons why they might not let me in. Even though I’ve been in this country 6 or 7 times already without any problem.

Then I thought come on, I’m not even there yet, and I’m already worrying about my trip.

There is a simple technique that you can use to overcome any lack of self confidence in any area.

What is the technique?

It’s EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques).

How can EFT help you?

Lacking in confidence is not a character flaw. It is not you. It means you just have some doubts over whether something at the moment is possible or not. You probably don’t lack confidence, it is actually another emotion that you are feeling

1.Confidence in Your Unconfidence.

Have you ever notice how confident you are in being unconfident. Wow…that is amazing. You already know how to do and be confident. What if you just kept on being confident in your unconfidence?

You could tap on the following:

Even though I’m confident in my unconfidence…
Even though I’m not sure or unconfidence, what if it was all just a big lie?

2.Not Prepared Enough

This is a big one. Most times you have doubts, it is because you are not prepared enough, you haven’t done the revision or the required work or you know that you could have done more and to a higher standard. EFT will not do the work for you. It will help you feel confident and calm even if you haven’t done everything that you could have.

3.Afraid to Fail or Succeed.

Thanks to the school system, we are taught to fear getting things wrong. Yet this doesn’t help you in the real world. With EFT you can overcome your fear of failure and if you do ‘fail’ or get it wrong, let go of the emotions that you feel – anger, sadness, guilt etc. EFT does what getting it wrong is suppose to teach you – learn from it. The insights and learnings you can get from a ‘failing’ situation can be incredible.

What if you achieve your goals and succeed? That might scare you too. You’ll be break free of your comfort zone. You might have to explain yourself to other people. Will they be jealous? All these emotions can be resolved and dissolved with EFT.

Bonus – Tip!

The real key is being specific about where you think you lack confidence. I’m pretty certain you don’t lack confidence going to buy your groceries or tying up your shoes laces.

Afraid to do EFT? – Then you need to do EFT

EFT – The Single Most Effective Way to Get Pain Relief Drug Free

Andrew Wilkie — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:03:38 +0000

Are you the one in five older Americans who regularly uses pain killers?

I’ve had days when I’ve been in pain all over my body, but I had no idea what was causing it.

It does not matter whether you have chronic pain, dental pain or surgery pain. Or you feel pain and you don’t know what it is or how it was caused.

When properly applied, an estimated 80% achieve noticeable to complete pain relief within minutes when using EFT.

Pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined.

EFT works where other techniques have failed because EFT works with the two vital causes of pain.

Cause #1 – Disrupted Subtle Energies: You are made up of energy. It flows throughout your whole body.When your energy is out of balance, you feel pain.

EFT tapping dissolves the disrupted energy system of your body. When your energy is allowed to flow freely. You feel better.

Cause #2 – Negative Emotions Anger, Fear, Sadness, Guilt etc. Carrying these negative emotions around with you causes you to feel sick and ill.

When you do EFT on any of your negative emotions, The emotion literally disappears. You too will have your own Champagne moments.

EFT can and does work on both your physical and mental pain. EFT affects are life transforming.

The less pain you have, the healthier you are and become. Why do you have so much pain in your life? It’s literally heavy and it does you no favours. Get rid of it with EFT today.

Do you not want to be pain free? Are you afraid you’ll not get the help and support from others that you want? You think you’ll just fade into the background? Wrong! Using EFT will get you more of what you want and you’ll be pain free!

Why are you still carrying your pain around with you? Don’t use it instead of going to your doctor. Use in addition to regular medical checks.

With EFT you can tap for general pain and be very specific. i.e. It’s location, size, look, feel, colour.

Even though I have this pain and I don’t know why. I deeply and completely love,forgive and accept myself.

Even though I don’t know why I have this pain. I accept all of me anyway.

I’ve found tapping on the second one,your mind shouts back a or many reasons. You make a choice whether or not to tap any further.

How have you used EFT to get rid of pain in your life?

Happy Travels

How Often Should I Practice Tapping?

Andrew Wilkie — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:46:06 +0000

The short answer is as much as you need to.

The beauty of EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques or Tapping is:

It always works.
You can never over tap.
Once you have cleared all your negative stuff you can tap on positive feelings and for what you are thankful for. You don’t have to wait for this, but most of us do.
You should use it continually since as you change, so does your environment, your results and therefore your emotional responses to events.

When doing tapping and EFT, you initially take your emotional intensity score on a 1-10 basis.

10 – you are carrying around with you. It is like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders.
1 – It, whatever your negative emotion is, doesn’t affect you at all.

With Emotional Freedom Techniques, you are always wanting to get your emotional intensity level down to the 2 and 1s. Ideally you want to hit the zeros.

This question often comes up because, you’ll be tapping and nothing seems to be shifting and you’re getting no closer to the 2s and 1s.

Yes, you can keep tapping on the same emotion and eventually it will go down to the 2s and 1s. Why? You be tapping with different triggers in your environment. At the exact point when you are tapping, you are really tuned into what you are feel and just like magic it clears up as you want it to.

If things are not clearing up look closer at how and what you are tapping on.

Are you doing full and complete rounds of tapping?
Are you starting off with the set-up phrase and tapping on the karate chop point?
Are you tuned into your problem and emotion?
If you are tapping on subsequent rounds are you changing your setup-up phrase to

Even though I have this remaining…

Even though I still have this…

Are you really describing what you are feeling? How many more ways could you describe it? Look what you are feeling up in a dictionary or thesaurus.

Change your environment when you tap for this particular issue, there maybe something in your environment which is stopping your from clearing that final piece.

If in doubt, take a break. Do something else. Something that you really enjoy doing. Something that will really take your mind off things. Before you know it you’ll have inspiration to tap on another word, phrase or take some other action all together.

How Often do you tap?

Happy Travels

Get Over a Relatioship Break Up with EFT

Andrew Wilkie — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:13:18 +0000

Have you every been hurt in a relationship?

I know how you feel.. Boy does it hurt or at least it did for me!

Yet, thankfully I got over my pain of being hurt in a relationship with a little know technique. I did not know I was still hurting from my previous relationship until 12 years later and I used this secret technique on the other person involved

What is the secret?

The Secret is EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)

EFT was “built for” over coming your present, past and future relationship pain and hurt. You know the pain I’m talking about : the constant thinking about the other person, hoping they are happy and at the same time dead. You can’t sleep, you can’t eat. Your stomach wants to crawl in on itself. You want the other person back so much, that even though they may have hurt you. You’d still take them back.

I was in a bar when I had my first experience of using EFT and relationship pain. Boy, was I amazed because I thought I had dealt with it all. Evidently not. The relationship was some 12 years ago.

So how can EFT help you?

Pick An Emotion

When your relationship ends. You will feel hurt, anger, sadness and guilt. With EFT you can dissolve and resolve all these emotions whether they are connected with you, the other person or events even before you were in the relationship.

Pick An Event

As you replay what went right, what went wrong. You can use Emotional Freedom Techniques to lessen the emotional charge that all these events have on you.

If you are still emotional attached to anything, a person, an event or thing. Until you let go of all your negative emotion that you have about your past relationship. Your negative emotions will significantly affect any current and future relationship that you form with other people. Even you non personal relationships will be affected.

Your Past History

Often during a relationship you’ll fight over something small. Yet you’ll feel horrific. What your feeling is partly the here and now, but also the compounding of other events just like this. Thus, the emotional level and intensity has had time to intensify. That is why it is often something very small that breaks the camels back and ends your relationship. EFT can help you overcome your past trauma.

New Relationship and Partner

Once you have let go of your old relationships. You can use EFT to attract your ideal relationship and partner, faster, quicker and with greater ease than you ever thought possible.

Do you want to be in a relationship or not?

How To Let Go Of Your Past Negative Emotions with EFT – in 2 minutes or less.

Andrew Wilkie — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:34:56 +0000

Do you sill moan about your past?

I’ve been there. I’ve talked about how bad things were for me. I’ve moaned about people and places to myself, even when nobody was about to listen. For some reason something was triggered inside of me and bam..I start moaning and feeling terrible.

My big secret over the last two years without question has been EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). I’ve applied and do apply to everything. You don’t have to accept your past any more? You still keep the memory. You just don’t need to hold onto the emotional baggage. Yes, you might have to trawl through some mud, yet speaking from experience the other side is pretty amazing.

With EFT you can pick any area of your life, large or small and by using EFT any memories that used to make you angry, depressed, annoyed or sad, can now be gone and replaced by better feelings.

When tapping on a negative emotion, event or person. Your inner mind will find the old emotions, and beginning dissolving the negative emotions associated with it. As you release the negative emotions you will find the positive lesson in that memory and create a connection with that memory that holds the new emotions.

This is a very enlightening experience, and a very simple way to let your mind be free of the pain and judgement of the past. The change can happen very fast or it can happen very subtly.

Action

1.Take out several sheets of paper

2.At the top of each paper, list on one sheet, one of these emotions. Anger, Fear, Sadness and Guilt.

3.Next think about your major life areas: Career/Business, Relationships, Money, Spirituality, Personal Growth, Things You Want to Have and Do. Also any others that are important to you.

Now on each sheet of paper begin thinking about each emotion and each life area. Think

What makes me angry or What am I angry in my career?
What makes me sad or what am I sad about in my relationships?

You get the idea…

Now everything that comes up is something to tap on with EFT. You can tap on as many or as few things as you want to. Obviously the more you use EFT, the more effective it all be for you and the results that you will see.

Who’s up for changing their life today? Who was to have an amazing, life changing EFT weekend?

Afraid of Commitment – EFT can Help You

Andrew Wilkie — Tue, 11 May 2010 09:38:56 +0000

Do things seem to be going really well, you want to get married and then the brakes seem to go on?

What if it isn’t him that doesn’t want to get married, it is actually you?

Have you been dreaming of getting married since you were a little girl. You know how many children you want, the dress, the cottage you are going to live in. You are already emotional involved in wanting to get married.

Even if you haven’t told him all these things. Talking to you as a guy, we all pick up on your unconscious signals.

But there is something that you can start using today… to over come all of this and more.

You might call it a fear of commitment: fear of intimacy, commitment phobia, fear of dependency or, more broadly, “intimacy issues.”

In the end, all these labels are describing the same general behaviour – a fear of becoming too emotionally invested in a relationship and making oneself vulnerable to being emotionally scarred.

There are many reasons for not committing:

Maybe you have told him that you want to get married. We hit problem no.1

He starts to think am I good enough? Will I live up to what she expects? He thinks of you as Cinderella. He certainly is not a prince charming. Or so he thinks.

Fear of Being Hurt

Both of you have been hurt in the past. Being hurt in the past will show up in your behaviour and emotions. Use EFT to get over your past hurt and emotional attachment to your past lovers. Especially any that you might have the slightest anger towards.

Even though I have this fear about getting married..

Even though I never what to be hurt like that again.

Even though getting married means

Fear of Trusting Another

Getting married will not solve all of your problems, from childhood issues with your father, huge shopping debts. Women often hide their true personalities and agendas until they are married. You’re expecting “project husband” to fix everything. Does he even stand a chance?

Even though he’ll let me down like…

Even though I can trust anyone, including myself…

Not Your “Soul Mate”

Your soul mate is a person who is nearly perfect. Basically, this amounts to a fear of interpersonal conflict. Thanks to movies, television, the media. We are all led to believe that this is possible and if we don’t find our soul mates, we’ll be a failure.

The romance section of a book store is one of the most popular – enough said. You can use EFT to attract the mate that you truly want, not the one you think you should have.

Even though I’m not sure X is the one…

Even though there is only 1 person for me and I’ve not found him…

Even though I don’ know if X is my soul mate…

Even though it should be just like in the movies…

Fear Related to Relationship Performance

For you and your partner, this is huge. From being the perfect husband and wife, to providing. What if you have issues around children and finances? EFT can be very successful in resolving emotions surrounding both.

Even though I’m afraid of being committed to X…

Even though I think I’ll miss out on someone or something…

Even though I have to be perfect and I’m not…

Even though I don’t know what I really think about children or…

Even though I don’t know what he thinks about…

Fear of Sacrifice

Does married mean commitment or compromise to you? Is it 50/50 or my way is the only way? Whatever your reasons for this position. Over come them with EFT.

Even though I’ll have to give up a part of me to get married…

Even though I’ll have to give up…

Even though I’ll have to turn into something or some one I’m not…

Even though it’s more 90/10…

The real problem is: if you don’t use EFT to let go of all your emotional baggage before you get married, does your mate even stand a chance?

Who is really afraid, him or YOU?

Hello to The Readers of the Ezine Articles Blog

Andrew Wilkie — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:25:36 +0000

A big hello and thanks to you all for coming after I commented on how I completed the 3rd #HAHD 3 and Cartoon Mug Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by. I really appreciate it. Your support and comments too where great. If you want to learn more about EFT and how it can help you sign up here.

EFT – 6 Reasons It Doesn’t Work and How to Avoid Them

Andrew Wilkie — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:08:23 +0000

Are you not having the success with EFT that you want and deserve?

I’ve tapped for day, weeks, hours on an issue and nothing; I mean nothing I said or did seemed to make any difference whatsoever.

That was until I discovered how to have continual success with EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique.

What is the secret?

1 Time Only Tapping Only

Beginners to EFT, think EFT is the magic, quick fix, a 2 minute solution to all their problems – large and small. Sometimes it is. Yet, quite often you’ll need to tap more then once to be completely free of your negative emotion.

Tap 5 rounds on and around what you are feeling. Notice the shift that happens.

Remember you can start your set-up phrase Even though I have this… then move onto Even though I have this remaining… or Even though I still … Say it as thought you mean it!

2.Not Being Specific Enough

Most of the time, you will be tapping far too generally. I feel this emotion i.e. unhappiness. If you can’t put what you are wanting or feeling in a shopping basket. You are not being specific enough with your tapping. – Describe what you are feeling out loud to clarify your thoughts. Grab a dictionary and thesaurus. Look for different words to describe your experience and emotion. Imagine you had to write a letter explaining what is going on.

3.Result Expectation

When you tap, do you secretly want a particular result or ending and it does not happen? EFT always works, just not always as you expect or want. Relax! There are may ways to get an outcome. After all it is the end result that you want. Not the way to get there.

4.Not Covering Your Basics

Basic EFT is very methodical and easy to follow for a reason – It works! If you miss out pieces how can you expect to get the result that you want? Follow the basic recipe. Learn what works for you, which are your power points. Then start fiddling.

5.Forgetting the Set-up Phrase

If you do not have what you want. You are blocking your own success. Stop! Yes, you are blocking it. Always do the set-up phrase to begin neutralising your own internal blocks to your success.

6.You Think EFT It Is Not Working

Before a round of tapping score your emotional intensity from 0-10. 0 begin no intensity or emotion, 10 – maximum, feeling it, big time!

Take your score again when you are finished. If there is no change in score, has the emotion changed in another way? Its shape, location, colour or feeling? ARe you really tapping on what you are feeling.

Even though I don’t think this EFT is working for me and I don’t know why…

Even though I’m afraid to admit it is working….

Even though I don’t want it to work because…

If nothing seems to really be working. Take some time out. Go do something else. The number of times you’ll hear a word or be inspired to do something is uncanny.

EFT always works!

Have you discovered why EFT sometimes doesn’t appear to work for you?

Happy Travels