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• How to Feature the EFT Intro Video on Your Website
• DVD sets: "Using EFT for Serious Diseases"
• The Art of Receiving with EFT, by Andy Bryce, *
• Canadian Presenters-Seminars, Names of **
• Technique: Tearless Trauma
• Technique: The Movie
• Technique: The "Tap while you Gripe" *
• Technique: The "Tapping the System" *
• New behaviors: An EFT method for installing **

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EFT Insights Newsletter (August 18, 2006)

Our "Using EFT for Serious Diseases" DVD sets are now available

It took over a year to put it all together but these remarkable EFT sessions have finally been placed on DVD and are now available on our website. Our usual low cost applies (40% discount also available) and you can make up to 100 copies to give (not sell) to others.

The purpose, of course, was to aim EFT at the emotional cause of serious diseases. No drugs, surgeries or other medical interventions were involved.

No one can watch these extraordinary sessions without concluding that something important is happening. I urge you to show these to your physician.

I divided the 26 sessions (40 hours) into 2 DVD sets and together they span a wide variety of ailments. These include:
CFIDS, Cancer Pain, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Diabetes, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Keratakonis, Premature Birth, Parkinson's Disease, Neurogenic Bladder, Cystic Fibrosis, Breast Cancer, Blood Pooling, War Trauma, Breathing, Head Injury, Pituitary Gland Tumor, Hepatitis C, Severe Vaginal Problems, Asthma, Neuropathy, PTSD, Prostate Cancer and Hypermobility.

These DVD sets are ideal for professionals, motivated EFT students and those with serious ailments.

The Art of Receiving with EFT
How to Get What You Want and Keep it!
Using New Energy Techniques
(EFT And Breakthrough Bodywork)
Starting Date: Saturday, November 01, 2008
Length: 2 Days
Presenter: Andy Bryce EFT Master, Spiritcoach
http://www.andybryce.com/Workshops/artofreceivingNY.htm
Location: Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Kingston, NY.

Changing Lives From The Inside Out
• Release blocks to receiving - including guilt, grief, shame, & past hurts
• Get to the roots of self-sabotage & procrastination – and overcome it
• Embrace prosperity, abundance, self-acceptance and love
• Let go of needs for approval - and access your personal power
• Stop working so hard - & embrace the abundance of the universe
• Move beyond your present limits to a life of happiness & success.

email: abbybressack@earthlink.net or phone 845-679-3753.

Names of Canadian Presenters-Seminars

Nina Bregman, Ph.D., EFT-Cert-I, EFT-ADV, ... beyondbelieftherapy.com/
Jeanine Crombé, B Ed, CUG, EFT-CC, EFT-ADV, http://www.eftforlife.com/
Michel Guindon, EFT-CC, NLP, C.Ht.
Crystal Hawk, MEd, http://www.therapeutictouch.com/
Dr. Alexander R. Lees, http://www.dralexlees.com/
David Rourke, EFT Master, EFTCert-Honors, http://www.davidrourke.ca/
Winston "Brad" Scott, EFT-ADV, CCHT, hypnoworks@shaw.ca

Tearless Trauma Technique
http://www.emofree.com/trauma/tearless.htm

In a previous workshop I used the same group trauma method that I previously used (and outlined in a previous post) at the Portland, Oregon Power Therapies Conference. It worked superbly (again) and thus merits more elaboration. This time there were 25 attendees that identified a traumatic incident from which they wanted relief. About 90% of them estimated their initial intensity to be 8-10 and, in less than 20 minutes ...

Twenty of them went to zero. Three went to a 1. One went to a 2. One went to a 3.

And remember, I'm doing this in a public setting with 25 people at a time (it could be done for over 100 just as easily) and I don't know any of the details about the incidents being worked on (except for the lady who went to a 3). During the break I worked with the lady who went to a 3 (from an original 10, incidentally) for about 5 minutes and brought her down still further.

There was little or no emotional pain evident in the session.
That's why I refer to it as The Tearless Trauma Technique.
I know that minimizing emotional pain is criticized by some members of the healing community. In my experience, however, I don't see why pain is at all necessary (but would welcome a debate on this). I say this because I have taken care of a mountain of traumatic incidents (some of them VERY severe) and, after the healing, the clients just have no interest in spending time on insights or the "why" of their past incidents.

To the contrary, there is a visible and obvious cognition change that shows up in the way they talk about the once troublesome incident. The client seems done with the issue because the resolution that is so highly valued by the more intense techniques seems to take place within the EFT session with minimal pain. To me, this is profound and tempts me to rename the process as "Peace without Pain." As long as I get the resolution without the pain, then I don't see the need for the pain. Again, I value anyone's input to the contrary. We are into truth here, not territory.

I know I outlined this method after my Portland, Oregon workshop but I thought I would do it again from a somewhat different angle. I am a great believer in repetition and, in that spirit, I present the steps below. Please note, though, that this method is NOT limited to addressing trauma in a group. The exact same technique could be (perhaps should be) used quite effectively in one-to-one individual sessions. Here are the steps:

1. Ask the participants to identify a specific traumatic incident from their past.
   Ask that it be at least 3 years ago to minimize any complications from the dynamics of a current event. An example might be, "the time my father punched me when I was 12." By contrast, the phrase "my father abused me" would be too broad because, chances are, the abuse took place over many, many incidents. Please note that you may need to instruct the clients to stay on their original issue because many of them will shift to other issues as they resolve the original one.

2. Ask the participants to GUESS at what their emotional intensity would be (on a 0-10 scale) IF they were to vividly imagine the incident. Instruct them NOT to actually imagine it (although some will close their eyes and do this anyway). This GUESS is a surprisingly useful estimate...and...it serves to minimize emotional pain. Have them write their GUESSES down and then go around the room having them state their number. This gives you a good feel for various participants' intensity.

3. Have the participants develop a phrase to use for the EFT process such as
   "this father-punch emotion" and then proceed with a round of tapping.
   
   

4. After this round of tapping, ask them to GUESS again and go around the room asking them to state their new number. Typically, they report noticeably smaller numbers.

5. Perform more rounds of EFT (or your favorite tapping procedure) and go around the room each time asking for their new numbers. In my experience, a total of 3 or 4 rounds will bring just about everyone down to GUESSES of 0 to 3.

6. Once everyone is down to acceptably low GUESSES, then perform another round of tapping and, after this round, ask them to vividly imagine the incident. Notice that this is the first time you are asking them to do this. All previous times have been relatively painless GUESSES. In my experience, just about everyone goes to zero and the rest are at very low numbers. If there is an exception or two, then work with them individually to complete the process.

I urge everyone who works with trauma to try this. ... especially with those who are afraid of the intensity they usually feel when discussing or "getting into" their incident. ...

The Movie Technique.
http://www.emofree.com/tutorial/tutorcthree.htm

Simply stated, if the client can make a mental movie of the event then it is automatically a specific event. A movie has a specific beginning and a specific end in time. It has a specific plot and specific characters. It has specific words & specific actions and generates specific feelings. In fact, if the client can't make a specific movie of their problem then the problem is too globally stated.

Here's an example.
Suppose the client states their problem as,"My father always abused me."
This is too global, of course, because that abuse is likely comprised of numerous specific instances (events) of abuse. If you ask the client to make a specific movie of this abuse, YOU FORCE THEM IN THE DIRECTION OF A SPECIFIC EVENT. Once in awhile the client will make a vague generalization of the issue instead of a specific movie. In such cases, you will need to guide them in the proper direction.

To give you some guidelines for stepping through this Movie Technique,
I submit the following procedures that I have refined over time ....

• First, ask the client, "If it was a movie, how long would it last?"
  Typically, they give me an answer that can be measured in minutes.
  This reflects, of course, a specific event. If they say, "several hours" or "several days," then you can usually assume they are still being too global.
  
  

• Next, ask the client, "What would the title be?"
  This also tends to force specificity. In most cases, they will give you a specific title such as, "Fight in the Kitchen" or "My accident in Mom's car." If they give you a more general title, be sure to check out how specific they are being.
  
  

• Next, ask them to run the movie in their mind and evaluate the intensity they are having NOW (as they imagine it) on a scale of 0-10. Alternatively, you can ask them to GUESS what their intensity would be IF they vividly imagined it. I usually find their guesses to be reasonably accurate AND guessing tends to save the clients some emotional pain.
  
  

• Next, do several rounds of EFT on "this ____________ movie."
  At the end of each round check out the 0-10 intensity. Typically, it will come down to low numbers or to zero. You may be done with this specific movie at this stage but continue with the procedures below to thoroughly test the completeness of your work.
  
  

• Next, ask them to go through the movie in their mind, starting with a low-intensity segment, BUT STOP WHENEVER THEY FEEL ANY INTENSITY. You will usually need to emphasize the importance of stopping because most clients are conditioned to believe that, in order to be rid of their problem, they must be brave and feel the pain while going through it. This is now ancient thinking. With EFT, these stopping points provide opportunities for tapping.
  
  

• Next, use EFT on each stopping point until there is no more intensity on that segment (aspect) of the movie.
  
  

• Have them run through the movie in their mind again, beginning to end, tapping on intense aspects as they come up, until the movie no longer has a charge on it.
  
  

• Finally, when the intensity seems to be resolved, ask the client to go through the movie one last time, but exaggerate the sights, sounds, colors, etc and really TRY to get upset about it. If they find some more intensity, then keep repeating the steps above until it is gone. When they can no longer get upset, your work is done.

Properly done, this procedure should neatly remove a negative tree from the client's emotional forest. Then you can remove another tree ... and then another ... and then another ... until 5 or 10 of them have been thoroughly uprooted. Since most of these trees have some commonality among them, there is usually a "generalization effect" that spreads throughout the whole forest, thereby toppling the rest of the trees. Thus, the client's problem of "My father always abused me," even though it may have several hundred specific events (trees) contributing to it, is often handled after 5 or 10 specific events have been neutralized.

The Movie Technique is similar to the Tell the Story Technique, and they are both fantastic tools for being specific and thorough in your work.

The Movie Technique has the added advantage of helping you address events that the client can’t or would prefer not to discuss out loud.

... the Tell the Story Technique will present opportunities for you to ask specific questions to help your client get to the less obvious aspects. As you refine your skills, you may develop a preference for one or the other, or you may choose to combine elements of each, depending on the individual session.

The "Tap while you Gripe" Technique.
http://www.emofree.com/articles/tap-while-gripe.htm
By Rick Wilkes, CMT

Have you ever called a friend just to gripe about everything that's gone wrong in your day? The truth is that when things go wrong, we need to feel that we're not alone. So we turn to trusted friends and family to let off steam and be comforted. It's a natural part of being human; most of us have been expressing our pain this way since we were very young children.

What I am calling "griping" is just a way to retell a story with emotional intensity.
And there is scientific proof that this can help us. Recent brain studies show that there's an opportunity when we relive an experience to have the stored emotions of that experience heal... or become even more intense. As we recall the story and feel the emotions in our body, our brain is making a decision--one that can go either way! Here's how it works...

Let's say the story that we're telling is one in which we feel alone and unsupported. If we tell that story to a friend who is loving, present, kind, and comforting, chances are that our primitive emotional brain will no longer feel alone and unsupported, right? In the process of telling the story, we heal the emotional intensity. That is the ideal outcome.

Yet, how often has it happened to you that in the process of telling and retelling an intense story, explaining about how you were "done wrong" by someone else, you find that after the second or third or fourth retelling that the pain is now more intense than it was right after it happened? And that's the risk of sharing our painful experiences with others, whether they are talk professionals or not, unless you are using a technique that consistently allows you to eliminate and then harmonize the emotional intensity. And EFT is just such a technique.

That is why I suggest that you always tap while you gripe.
Tap while you complain. Tap everytime you tell a story that has negative emotional intensity. And pretty soon, you'll probably notice you have a lot less in your life to gripe about!

Here's how you can get started:

You've had a bad day.
You want to feel that there's someone out there that understands you, that cares about you, that takes your side. So you pick up the phone, and you call your best friend. Start tapping ... and tap continuously while you talk to her!

(Karate chop) Ring.... Ring... Hello?
(Top of the head) Oh I'm so glad I reached you.
(Eyebrow point) I have had such a terrible day!
(Side of eye) I really need someone to talk to.
(Under the eye) Do you have a few minutes?
(Under the nose) First off this (*&^%$ boss of mine...
(then... Chin, Collarbone, Under Arm, back to Karate Chop, Top of Head, etc.)

The order of the points don't matter.
The number of taps at each point doesn't matter. You can tap one point that feels good the whole call if you want. You can use the finger points shown in Gary Craig's free EFT manual. Just tap continuously while you talk. Don't stop!

Why would we do this?
We talk to others to feel better, don't we?
But there are two different approaches to griping and complaining that we can take.
The first is, alas, the most common. It is to gather people to our side of the upcoming war. We tell a story to make us "right" and the other party "wrong." With this plan, we must build intensity in ourselves and in others while we plan revenge ( ... or lawsuits or divorce or other dramatic action designed so that we WIN and the other LOSES).

The other approach is to want to heal from an emotional pain, and we're mature enough to know that intensifying the fear by making us the "Victims" and others into the "Powerful Forces of True Evil" just creates war inside us, not peace.

We can make our healing far more likely if we just tap the acupoints while we express our hurt and our anger and our sadness and our feelings of being out of control ... We use what has been human nature since cave folks sat around the fire -- the need to tell our story to tribe members to gain their supportive energy -- and we use that supportive energy in a new way that is far more likely to result in a sense of peace for all of us.

What I find is that tapping while I gripe and complain shifts my entire perspective.
As the noise of the emotional disruption settles down, I am far more likely to hear my intuition guide me to steps that resolve the situation in the best possible way.

Try it for yourself.
Tap the acupoints while you are on the phone; no one needs to know that you are tapping. And just notice whether you see a change that helps you feel both more peaceful and more empowered. I am confident you will.

In fact, you may find this so effective that you pick up your phone and tap while you gripe without even calling your friend. Once you get it all out of your system, then you dial ... and perhaps have a very different kind of conversation.

The "Tapping the System" Technique, multiple Guilt layers.
http://www.emofree.com/articles/guilt-system-tapping.htm
By Ulrike Tuzar

I came up with this idea when I was working on a guilt issue of my own.
I am a mother and, like most mothers, there are memories regarding my children that are loaded with guilt. I used EFT on these guilt issues but the intensity rate didn’t really decrease. Upon looking on the issue in more depth I discovered thoughts like...

“If I use EFT and forgive myself for what happened then that means I am betraying my son. Accordingly, I should pay for my actions for the rest of my life and that is like it has to be." And so on …

This, of course, is yet another form of guilt thinking and thus I was going in a circle. I would tap on one form of guilt that would generate another and another and another. I was in a conflict wherein I wanted to get rid of the guilt but didn't allow myself to do so. Even if I was very persistent in tapping, all the feelings and memories and thoughts decreased very little in intensity and the whole issue kept coming back.

This led me to the "Tapping The System" Technique wherein the System is defined as a combination of ...

My son (Steffen) as he was during the guilt issue.
Me as I was at the time of the guilt issue.
Me as I am now.

The situation was when my son was a baby and in a hospital and I left him alone.
This created guilt on my part and so I tapped on his and my feelings together.
I recognized in this that “his feelings” were my projections anyway
(I don't really know what his were) and probably feelings from my own childhood.

I vividly imagined the situation, tapped on the whole thing and then I focused on my son and what he might have felt. It was like switching into him (that was a hard one! Next time I would suggest the Tearless-Trauma-Technique on that part of the process ...). I tapped on that.

Then I came back to my feelings when I was in that situation.
Then to my judgments about me now and then back to Steffen … and on and on went the cycle.
It was similar to having EFT lead me through the process by shifting aspects.
It was quite a journey but at the end there was peace.

An EFT method for installing new behaviors.
http://www.emofree.com/articles/installing-behavior.htm
by Thorsten Kominek

I was on a vacation with some children, and after helping one kid (age 12) to get rid of his depression attack (which is an exciting story itself), it seemed like I was a magician performing tricks. And I asked him if he wanted to see another cool thing.

He was happy sitting with his back bent forward, and I asked him, if he wanted to be able to easily sit up straight. He answered, that he had always wanted that, and I said: OK sit up straight for a moment, and tell me how it feels to you.

We identified an unfamiliar feeling, which we brought down to zero in one round. By using:

Even though I have this unfamiliar feeling ...

And after that there was a little bit of strain, which we resolved to zero in one round. We tapped:

Even though I have this strain ...

Then he was easily sitting up straight with a comfortable familiar feeling, as if he had always sat that way. He mentioned, that he went to physical therapy for that issue several times but to no avail. The whole thing I did with EFT took us less then five minutes.

Now the funny thing:
I wanted to test the result, and asked him to sit as he used to sit before.
He bent over and said that now this felt unfamiliar.

I had the chance to watch him for a few more days, and he sat up straight ever since.

I also use this behavior change with golfers to optimize their swing.
By integrating one piece after the other you can completely change a complex movement - the swing - in a matter of hours. I ask them to do this one part right, that I want to integrate, for example more body tension. And I ask them again how it feels. Let's say it feels unfamiliar and exhausting. I resolve with them the unfamiliar feeling, until it feels familiar. Then I greatly reduce the exhausting feeling, until the high body tension feels good and comes automatically without having to think about it. I then go to the next item. For example too much right and left movement, and then I do the same thing with that.

It is important to always get an intensity number for the familiarity and for the effort first, because the conscious focus created is useful and sometimes crucial. Also, people tend to forget. Without the numbers, it would seem like you are not making any headway while , in fact, you are.

Here are some ideas you could use (for XYZ insert the wanted behavior):

Even though, XYZ feels unfamiliar and strange, ...

Even though I am not used to doing XYZ ...

Even though I dont want to do XYZ, because it feels unfamiliar, ...

Or suggestive:

Even though the unfamiliarity is only an emotion like fear, we can resolve now, ...
(This is great. I always show them that EFT works in some other not so problematic area first. If the person has experienced and witnessed the success of EFT in one area then you can expand the belief of this one area to another, unfamiliar area as well. This is a bit advanced.)

Even though I want this XYZ to feel familiar, like I have done it for ages...

Even though it feels hard and difficult for me to do XYZ, ...

Even though its exhausting to do XYZ, ...

Some reason elements:

Even though it doesn't need to feel unfamiliar, because after normal practice, it would feel familiar anyway, ...

Even though it is exhausting, because I am not used to doing XYZ, ...

Test the old and the new behavior afterwards.
The old behavior should feel unfamiliar and the new and wanted behavior easy and familiar. Go on until the familiarity is 10 and the unfamiliar feeling is 0. You can also test the scale, if it is 10. You can ask: So it feels familiar like you are tying your shoe now? - If not, go on until it does.

The other way around:
Why not use this doorway the other way around on a depressive person for example to get rid of the familiar feeling of sadness, so that it now feels strange and unfamiliar for them to be sad. (Replace the sadness accordingly.) Some examples:

Get a number for how familiar it feels. Use this as a benchmark.

Even though the sadness feels familiar, ...

Even though I like this familiar feeling, ...

Even though I need this familiar feeling, because ..., ...

Even though this familiar feeling reminds me of ..., ...

Even though I want to keep the sadness, because of the good familiar feeling, ...

Or using provocative methods:

Even though I want to feel more sad, to have more of this good familiar feeling, ... I want to have the sadness of other people as well.

Or instructive to the unconscious:

Even though I command my unconscious to make sadness unfamiliar, ...

Even though I command my unconscious to make peace familiar, ...

Experiment yourself, and let your intuition guide you.
Intuition brings up all the tricks you use in other situations, with a preference for the sentences that hit the bulls eye.

Please, as always with EFT:
Do not be discouraged if it does not work right away, like in the example.
In most of my cases it took more than two rounds.