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Tap Into Freedom

Hi Persuader,

I credit part of my new physique to the tapping techniques of EFT. I love to teach people how to tap their way to emotional freedom and if you’ve ever been in one of my coaching groups or at one of my seminars, you’ll already be familiar with how to perform this method.

I wouldn’t start out with something huge, like 180 pounds of weight loss or a cessation of smoking. Start with something less entrenched. Start with maybe a phobia of spiders or clowns, or a discomfort with crowds or parties (unless these are incredibly severe). Try to choose one that feels do-able just to start with.

Once you’ve identified a problem, then think of the feeling it creates and measure the strength of the emotion. Give it a rating from 0-10, 0 being no strength at all, 1 being weakest, 10 being strongest.

Once you’ve given it a rating you’re going to tap.

Find the point on the side of your hand you would hit if you were doing a karate chop; it’s the fleshy part below the pinky finger and above the wrist. Then you’re going to say the set-up statement to correct reversals and you’re going to do it three times.

That’s what you do. You’re going to tap and say a statement. This tapping along with the statement will resolve reversals.

The statement is very, very simple. And if you like, it can be radically embellished upon. But just learn it first and foremost in its simplistic form.

And it is this: “Even though I have this (name the issue, problem, phobia, negativity, deep personal flaw. . . just kidding) I deeply and completely love myself.” You’re going to fill in the blank with the problem you identified in step one.

Let’s say that you procrastinate making the phone calls you need to make. You’d say, “Even though I procrastinate making the phone calls I need to make, I deeply and completely love myself.”

So try it.

Take your left hand, extend it out in front of you, take your right hand with the three fingers–your index, your middle and your ring finger–and begin tapping on that karate chop point on your hand, tap, tap, tap, tap and say the following: “Even though I procrastinate making the calls I need to make to customers, I deeply and completely love myself.” “Even though I procrastinate making the calls I need to make to customers, I deeply and completely love myself.” “Even though I procrastinate making the calls I should be making to customers, I deeply and completely love myself.”

Now, there’s a ‘choreography’ so to speak, for the remainder of this exercise.

Above the eyebrow. To the side of the eye. Under the eye. Upper lip. Chin. Collarbone. Under the arm. This is the order we’re going to go in, and we’re going to tap each a few times while repeating the problem. ‘Procrastination in making customer calls.’ Tap above the eye. Tap, tap, tap. ‘Procrastination in making customer calls.’ Side of the eye. Tap, tap, tap. ‘Procrastination in making customer calls.’ Under the eye. Tap, tap, tap. ‘Procrastination in making customer calls.’ Upper lip. Tap, tap, tap. ‘Procrastination in making customer calls.’ Chin. Tap, tap, tap. ‘Procrastination in making customer calls.’ Collarbone. Tap, tap, tap. ‘Procrastination in making customer calls.’ Under the arm. Tap, tap, tap.

After one or two passes, see where you rate the problem. Has it moved? Improved? Disappeared completely?

Continue to tap until you’ve zeroed out the problem and guess what? You’re done. People ask, does this last forever? Well, odds are, yes. But what if it doesn’t? How about spending another three or four minutes to get rid of it again?

If you’ve been tapping a while, I would love it if you’d share your success stories. Please comment, comment, comment.

Until Next Time,

Kenrick E. Cleveland

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Peter Cafik - December 19, 2007

I loved that one! I coach so many Agents with some sort of self inflicted barrier, I can’t wait to give them this release! Thanks Kenrick! Peter Cafik / Tampa Florida

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Ruben Salinas - December 19, 2007

This reminds of a story on a Tony Robbins CD where he describes a therapist’s use of “temporal tapping” on national TV to cure a snake phobia (i.e. tapping the temple of a person while they thought of a particular subject that caused them fear, concern, etc.).

The takeaway from TR’s story was that temporal tapping was nothing more than a “pattern interrupt”. Additionally, he added that it didn’t really work given that the subject needed to have two conditions met for it to actually have lasting change:

1. There had to be a will to change by the subject
2. There had to be something that replaced the old habit, pattern, etc.

I love a phrase TR used on a different occasion that says: “You never STOP doing something, you only START doing something else.”

So, keep in mind that however great a technique might sound, deep change does not come from a magical tapping sequence…it comes from the mind being ready to change and from an effective pattern interrupt and substitute strategy.

With best regards,

Ruben Salinas
Xycology.com

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Ben Schwarcz - December 19, 2007

[quote comment=""]This reminds of a story on a Tony Robbins CD where he describes a therapist’s use of “temporal tapping” on national TV to cure a snake phobia (i.e. tapping the temple of a person while they thought of a particular subject that caused them fear, concern, etc.).

The takeaway from TR’s story was that temporal tapping was nothing more than a “pattern interrupt”. Additionally, he added that it didn’t really work given that the subject needed to have two conditions met for it to actually have lasting change:

1. There had to be a will to change by the subject
2. There had to be something that replaced the old habit, pattern, etc.

I love a phrase TR used on a different occasion that says: “You never STOP doing something, you only START doing something else.”

So, keep in mind that however great a technique might sound, deep change does not come from a magical tapping sequence…it comes from the mind being ready to change and from an effective pattern interrupt and substitute strategy.

With best regards,

Ruben Salinas
Xycology.com[/quote]

I’ve been using tapping increasingly for myself, my family and my psychotherapy clients over the past couple years (lately much more so). Though initially skeptical as well, I now have great trust in this technique to remove even chronic problems. The most incredible cases have been relief of physical symptoms (since it is less subjective and easy to verify the results) – including migraines, urinary retention problems, stomach aches, back pain and acne (serious acne!). And it works great with emotional traumas and memories too – almost instantly in most cases.

Call it magical if you want. Or pattern interruption. I’ve stopped trying to analyze how it works – I just know that it does. I find it works even with people who are very cynical about it. But I do agree, there needs to be a willingness to let something go. As for replacing it with something else? How about replacing it with the feeling of well-being that is there after a successful round of taps? That seems enough in my experience.

With Heart,
Ben Schwarcz

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Ben Schwarcz - December 19, 2007

[quote comment=""][quote comment=""]This reminds of a story on a Tony Robbins CD where he describes a therapist’s use of “temporal tapping” on national TV to cure a snake phobia (i.e. tapping the temple of a person while they thought of a particular subject that caused them fear, concern, etc.).

The takeaway from TR’s story was that temporal tapping was nothing more than a “pattern interrupt”. Additionally, he added that it didn’t really work given that the subject needed to have two conditions met for it to actually have lasting change:

1. There had to be a will to change by the subject
2. There had to be something that replaced the old habit, pattern, etc.

I love a phrase TR used on a different occasion that says: “You never STOP doing something, you only START doing something else.”

So, keep in mind that however great a technique might sound, deep change does not come from a magical tapping sequence…it comes from the mind being ready to change and from an effective pattern interrupt and substitute strategy.

With best regards,

Ruben Salinas
Xycology.com[/quote]

I’ve been using tapping increasingly for myself, my family and my psychotherapy clients over the past couple years (lately much more so). Though initially skeptical as well, I now have great trust in this technique to remove even chronic problems. The most incredible cases have been relief of physical symptoms (since it is less subjective and easy to verify the results) – including migraines, urinary retention problems, stomach aches, back pain and acne (serious acne!). And it works great with emotional traumas and memories too – almost instantly in most cases.

Call it magical if you want. Or pattern interruption. I’ve stopped trying to analyze how it works – I just know that it does. I find it works even with people who are very cynical about it. But I do agree, there needs to be a willingness to let something go. As for replacing it with something else? How about replacing it with the feeling of well-being that is there after a successful round of taps? That seems enough in my experience.

With Heart,
Ben Schwarcz[/quote]

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Ben Schwarcz - December 19, 2007

P.S. I suggest to people that they experiment with EFT on anything and everything!

Ben Schwarcz
http://www.AlternativeDepressionTherapy.com

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Robert - December 19, 2007

New physique? Where were you? where are you now? Where are you going?

Robert

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Shawn - December 19, 2007

Tapping has worked for me in a number of situations. A bad day or mental attitude can be turned around by engaging in a tapping session. I have on at least two occasions used it to alleviate severe physical discomfort from a digestive issue.

One should approach this as anything else in life, with an open mind. A two dimensional attitude will usually result in two dimensional results… I’m right, you’re wrong. Tapping, like most practices that require a person to turn inward usually requires that they are open to a change, and leave something behind. In that same light, when one leaves something behind, it is usually replaced with what was not there before.

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Dave Kohler - December 20, 2007

Hey Gang!

Tapping works! It is simple … it is effective … it is real!

Start tapping and change your life.

Thank you, Kenrick, for ‘mainstreaming’ tapping …

All the best!

Dave Kohler

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Frederic - January 11, 2008

On a sidenote, what completely eluded my knowing when it comes to EFT is this:
Do you tap to anchor the statement (like after the end of the statement and only there) or do you keep tapping all the while trying to maintain the sentence without losing it midway?

Regards,
Frederic

P.S: And you need very short finger nails around the eyes lest you tap the nerves and muscles surrounding the eyes with your fingernails 😉

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