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One of my mentors recently posed an excellent question – Why Does Bad Stuff Happen or as he put it – Why We Bring Challenges Into Our Life

Just because we do EFT doesn’t mean bad negative stuff doesn’t happen. How you quantify an event is your emotional response to it.  Sometimes we have emotional, mental and physical blocks that we don’t know about for a variety of reasons.  You only know what your blocks are sometimes because you’ve uncovered so much else, released it and learned from it too. Yet, it is as if sometimes, we have to go through layers of blockages. We can’t just skip and go to the deep, deep stuff. Changing that would be too much for you and your environment.

Your unconscious mind is just doing its job:  protecting you and preserving your body. Even if we realise logically, it’s now got it “wrong”.

All you have to do is take a look at your life and know how many childhood things happened way back when which still affect you as an adult.

Logically now with your adult head on, your childhood event and reaction make no sense  because you’re now an adult. Feelings and your unconscious mind don’t work like that.  Your unconscious mind is about the age of a small child.

I don’t know Gary’s situation personally so I can only speculate.  I do know however everything happens for a positive reason. We just don’t always know what it is at the time. Yes, even disease and death are positive. I know this from my own experience.

Why would anybody want to make themselves ill or have bad things happen to them?  We like a challenge. Maybe something externally is going on in your environment and the one way you can accomplish an outcome is by becoming sick and ill.  Very often people are and remain sick because it give them something which they don’t realise that they could get else where.  Whenever I think of somebody who gets seriously ill. I’m always reminded of the work of Dr. Hammer. I can pretty much pin point events even with my rudimentary knowledge of his ‘medicine’. Of course this is only speculation and my reframe for when somebody ill.  It is a belief. Does it serve me yes. Is it the reason…who knows.

All I know is that my life and I’m pretty much certain Gary’s and yours can only have been ‘bettered’, increased and improved because of doing EFT.

I certainly don’t think this should stop you from doing EFT. I know some in the EFT community have been knocked by the sudden departure of Gary as it’s leader.  Yet, this is now a new EFT future for us all. Notice your own emotions to Gary’s situation or anybody you know and tap on those.

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Happy Travels

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If you love EFT, (Emotional Freedom Technique), then you’ll want to print a copy of this list. These are the most wished for books on Amazon. This means there is probably a book or two on this list your EFTer would love. Save yourself some time by using this list as a shopping list. Your EFTer will love you for it.

1.The EFT Manual (EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques) by Gary Craig. (4.5 out of 5 stars)

No surprise that this freely available pdf is now No.1 on the Amazon EFT list. Gary started EFT for us all. No matter how you learned of or about EFT. It came from here. Learn EFT from the Original EFT master.A must read.

2.Five Simple Steps to Emotional Healing: The Last Self-Help Book You Will Ever Need by Gloria Arenson. (5 out of 5 stars)

A clearly laid out and concise extension to EFTs basic doings.  If you haven’t been ‘getting’ EFT to work for you. This may just be the bridge that you need to start clearing your own emotions. As it says, maybe ‘the last self-help book you will need. This is a very practical hands on book. Happy Days

3.EFT for Procrastination (EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques) by Gloria Arenson. (5 out of 5 Stars)

Another book by Gloria, this time just focusing on how to apply EFT to procrastination. If you are about to stop reading this book or put things off. Then this is the book for you.  This is a small and compact book, which you can carry with you and take out when you need it.

4.EFT for the Highly Sensitive Temperament (EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques) by Rue Hass. (5 out of 5 stars)

Perhaps the worse thing about this book is the title. I did get confused about highly sensitive temperament. Then thought oh, she just means highly sensitive.  If you are highly sensitive, then this is a great addition to your EFT library. Yet, if you are ‘shy’ do you go looking for help and assistance?

5.Improve Your Eyesight with EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques by EFT by Carol Look (5 out of 5 stars)

I’ve improved eyesight before with hypnosis and it works a treat. It is great to see improve your eyesight as an application of EFT. As ever, I’m always impressed with the detail and breadth of Carol’s tapping. She always seems to cover all her bases, leaving no stone unturned.

6.Freedom at Your Fingertips: Get Rapid Physical and Emotional Relief with the Breakthrough System of Tapping by Ron Ball and Joseph Mercola (4.5 out of 5 stars)

This is can be used by a beginner to EFT, but for me it is more of a Question and Answer and How do I use EFT for … Think of a question about EFT. In here you will find an answer for it. A great Q and A reference guide.

7.EFT for PTSD (EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques) by Gary Craig. (4.5 out of 5 stars)

Perhaps this is where EFT has been used or show its application the most. If you get to watch any of Gary’s intro DVDs. This is where you’ll see the amazing power of EFT. Recorded live sessions with war veterans.  This book is an excellent resource guide.

If you don’t like reading, if you start a book, put it down before you have finished it. You know you can EFT that too?

Happy Days

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Since Gary Craig announced his retirement on emofree.com. I’ve been wondering what is the future for Emotional Freedom Techniques and the EFT community at large?

I am pretty new to EFT and its community. Yet, the out pouring of help and friendliness has been astounding. Especially on twitter. I’m loving my journey and so are others that I’ve already introduced and taught the Emotional Freedom Techniques to.  However, I already fear for its future.  I already see the fragmentation of a great community and its learning resources.  I’m from an NLP and hypnosis background.  This looks very familiar.

Leaders

NLP was the child of Richard Bandler and John Grinder. These two for years had a spat.  NLP and its community was divided.  There were questions over the future of NLP, what should or should not be taught and how it should be taught.  It even came down to who actually created NLP. Who will lead the EFT community now?  There are some recognised big players that I think we all know.  There are also many, many smaller players.  Everybody has something important to add to the EFT community and EFT’s skill and technique development.

Although EFT had its beginnings from other techniques and technologies. Gary codified the essence into something simple and easy that we have all been able to easily learn and apply to our lives and those of others.  He developed and galvanised the EFT community into what it is today.  Who wants to take that mantle now?…ME for one!  I certainly want to play my part. Watch this space for more info.

Associations and Trainings

The NLP and hypnosis community is full of schools, academies, experts and ‘governing bodies’ who hand out qualifications as if they are going out of fashion.  If you’re any good, people send you their qualifications in the post.  There are ‘universities’ of hypnosis.  Yet, they are not real universities.  It seems very easy, certainly in the UK and the US to set yourself up as a school, academy, institute or training body.  Each town or state has its own school of hypnosis it seems. Is this the route that we want EFT to go?

If you are in private practice,you must have public liability insurance.  Yet, no government is taking a leading role in how EFT, hypnosis et al, should be taught or governed.  We have to become our own police.  I certainly don’t want creativity and EFT’s future development skill and development to be stifled.

What makes one person able to teach over another? What makes one person an expert?  For me, it is not pieces of paper.  It is a willingness to do and a confidence.  That is far more important that a certificate. Yet, this is one to ask you clients – why did you choose me over another EFT practioner?

Will all future school and bodies gather together to come up with a recognised curriculum and maybe a certificate?  Yet, what real value will it hold?  Or will everybody go hell or leather and we’ll see who survives? I’m belittling any qualifications that you may have, yet this seems all very “schoolish”. Go to school, get a qualification, get a good paying job. I just don’t think that doctrine applies much any more.  Yet, many of us, still spout it as law.

Skills and Techniques

There are the basics of EFT which I believe we all know. They will remain so. Not everybody has seen Gary’s DVDs.  Yes, they are a great training aid. I hope that they stay around, so that we can enjoy them into the future. I’m sure others, myself included will produce our own training DVDs and other material.  For me there are so many things missing or, I’ve yet to find others whom talk, produce or blog about what I think could and can be added to EFT to advance it.

Where to hang out now?

As you will notice, this blog is very,very new. Less than a week old.  It is not the finished article by a long shot. Yet I just had to get this out. Content  and discussion is far more important that design.

I want to know your opinion.  There is the newly created forums, found here. It is a slow start,but we will wait and sees if it is successful. I was already thinking to add my own forum section on this blog before I started it. Yet, I’ll hold onto that idea for the time being.  It is easier enough to add it if you the reader wants it.

The Future of EFT

One thing that seems to not have happened is, nobody is asking what do you want the future of EFT and its community to be like?  We are at a cross roads for EFT and its community.  We all, no matter how big or how small, whatever your level of involvement with EFT have something very important to contribute to EFT and its future.

For me there are several things I’d like to see coming to the community in the future.

A World EFT day –  If you are in the community and have had personal success. EFT is all you think about. Yet, nobody else knows about it, or actually really cares.  EFT is just a tool to solve a presenting issue.  Clients and you don’t care as long as your problem or issue is resolved.  It’s time we raised or continued to raise its profile to the general public.  A date needs to be selected so that it EFT can be easily applied to things going on year on year.

A live EFT World Summit or Conference – Yes, there was the recent virtual EFT World Summit. I do believe we could have a ‘live’ event.  With today’s technology it would be very easy to make the live version, go virtual so those that could not travel, could still participate.

Over to you, please comment below.

What do you think is the future of EFT?

How do you want EFT and its community to evolve from here?

What is missing?

Happy Travels, oh and welcome to eftmagic.com!

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