EFT FAQ & Hypnosis
FAQ - Emotional Freedom Techniques
FAQ - Hypnosis & Habitual Behaviours
FAQ - Brain, Body Science & Change
EFT FAQ & Hypnosis
FAQ - Emotional Freedom Techniques
FAQ - Hypnosis & Habitual Behaviours
FAQ - Brain, Body Science & Change
EFT FAQ & Hypnosis - Are Words Magic?
Understanding how childhood programming
limits your adult successes, as well as seeing
how your brain naturally resists change in your life...
Just working cooperatively with how your brain naturally operates
- using this information for your benefit - can help you
to more easily achieve your goals!
Your beliefs can limit you, or create joy for you!
emotional freedom techniques, hypnosis & change
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What is EFT? Emotional Freedom Techniques
(EFT) is a Simple to Learn, Easy to Use,
Self-Applied, Acupressure Technique... that
Rapidly Calms Your Emotions, Mind & Body.
Tap & the Results May Surprise You!
EFT FAQ is Everything about Emotional Freedom Techniques:
1. What words do I use when Tapping? What do I say?
If you have any challenge or upset with a 1 to 10 intensity, that means something is logically or emotionally out of balance for you. If everything were the way you wanted it to be, your intensity level would be zero.
Since the intensity belongs to you, it’s very likely that you do know what to say, because you do know what is “wrong”.
Begin by focusing on the story of what is wrong; this is what you say out loud to Talk and Tap through. The situation might involve your health, employment, relationships, finance, or lack in those areas. If you know what the upset or issue is for you, the more you can be specific, the faster the issue will resolve.
Eg. An issue of “Barry argues with me all the time” is too vague and may have too many story pieces to clear at once. “Barry argued with me in the grocery store on Tuesday evening”… this story is specific in time and place. You can expect something this specific to resolve quickly.
As you Tap, look within the story for why the situation caused you distress… what does the behaviour that you are interpreting as unacceptable mean to you? Do you see the public disagreement as Unkind? Unfair? Rude? Disrespectful? Mean? Controlling? Did you feel angry? Embarrassed? Afraid your relationship would end? Say the truth of what you thought and felt about the situation… those are the words to use while Tapping.
2. How can I use Tapping on my own to get great results?
TAPPING FACT: Tapping should work like this – As long as you remain focused clearly on the issue with each 2 to 3 rounds of Tapping, your intensity level should drop by at least 2 intensity points or more.
As your SUD (Subjective Units of Distress) intensity is reduced, ask yourself “What about this issue is still unresolved for me?” This questioning will help you stay focused on one specific issue, so you get your best, fastest results. Continue focusing on Tapping to clear whatever remains about the issue, to get to zero intensity.
- Whenever your SUD intensity does not reduce by 2 points or more with 2-3 rounds of basic Tapping, 9 Gamut is what gets unseen resistance cleared, and basic Tapping working well again.
- Use 9 Gamut when your intensity is at a 4 or less, if you are unaware of ”what is remaining”. Sometimes an emotional feeling remains which your conscious mind cannot make sense of without a story attached. If you feel ‘something’ remains, but you can’t identify what that issue is… use 9 Gamut.
TALK & TAP works well used in this process: The Story – The Change – and The Goal
- The Story – Choose an issue, give it a 1-10 intensity, then Tap through any negatives in the issue first. (See WHY we tap on the negatives below)
- The Change – Tap through and acknowledge what you wanted in the story, which in fact you did not get (this calms/validates your inner child’s loss; acknowledging not getting what she/he wanted or needed). When intensity falls, move your wording toward what you would like now for an outcome.
The very best Tapping words? Just say the truth with honesty and conviction. Solution based Tapping can include what you can do, what you’d like others to do, and what you would like to happen next. This part of Tapping will help you think clearly, so you are empowered to change thoughts, emotions or actions, to make a better plan, and follow through for yourself to a better outcome.
“Turning off this pain… Letting go of this feeling… Finding a way to resolve this issue… ”
This part of the Tapping talk is both your intent and possible actions you might take… it is speaking aloud about what you want, or what you didn’t want, and making sense of how you can get free of what is negative and blocking your goal(s). The middle step is resolving any resistance felt about the issue, then leading yourself towards your desired outcome. - The Goal – End Tapping stating your outcome goal aloud, even if part of you believes the goal isn’t possible for you right now. (Your subconscious is always listening, and can help you look for ways to achieve what you desire, perhaps in ways in which you haven’t thought of yet!) Stating a goal helps in stepping over any possible lingering limiting beliefs.
When EFT is properly applied, over 80% of all issues achieve
either a very noticeable improvement or
a complete cessation of the problem.
EFT doesn’t do
everything for everyone,
yet what it does do,
may astound you!
Gary Craig,
Founder of EFT
3. WHY say negatives? Won’t talking in negatives just draw more negatives?
Tapping on the negatives you think or remember, is neutralizing those negatives. As you speak and Tap, the Tapping is calming (Tapping calms the Amygdala which calms your body’s fight and flight reaction) the mental and emotional intensity of whatever you are focused upon… clearing it, so it doesn’t keep popping up later.
You can cover your eyes and chant “There are no weeds, there are no weeds in the garden…” but that will not make what you are saying true, no matter how many times to say it, if there are weeds in the garden. (Your weeds could be anger, loss, grief, unfairness, fear, abuse, victimhood, powerlessness, people pleasing… etc.)
It just makes sense to always start with the negative of the issue you want to clear or change, first. If you try to pouring all positives into a vessel which is already full or partly full of negatives, the results will be minimized. When you Tap to clear negatives first, it’s like emptying and washing the teacup before you pour in fresh new tea. Pouring fresh new tea into the dregs of last week’s tea, with a little sour milk still in the bottom, just doesn’t make sense.
4. What are “tail-enders”? Why are they valuable to notice?
When we say something to ourselves which an inner part of us does not believe it true, or possible, we hit inner resistance. Starting to Tap by saying only positives with your conscious mind may trigger your subconscious mind to speak up in denial. Your inner voice will say, “That’s not true”, “You’ll never get that…”, “You haven’t earned that yet..” if, according to your previous knowledge, experience, or belief, what you are saying isn’t possible for you. These thoughts or inner voice resistances are called ‘tail-enders” and can show you some of your limiting beliefs, which you can then Tap to clear.
5. Are there “right words” to say when Tapping?
The “right words” are whatever is true for you in the moment. Keep it simple.
If you’re a logical thinker, and you’re aware of the situation you are addressing… speak aloud about that situation and what is unhappy or unresolved about that issue. Eg: “I am feeling so frustrated with this sharp pain in my left knee”.
If you’re an emotional person, and you’re feeling uncomfortable but don’t know why, then Tap on the feeling of discomfort. How does that emotion feel in your body? Is your stomach upset… or are your neck and shoulders tight? Describe the feeling and where the feeling is inside your body, to reduce the feeling’s intensity.
Ask yourself “What triggered this emotion/ physical feeling?” If/when you get an insight, look for how the answer you receive could be linked to the emotion or pain in your body. Be as specific as possible, and Tap while talking aloud through the story of the emotion or pain.
6. What if I can’t remember the Tapping sequence?
Tap on the points shown in the FREE Downloads: EFT Tapping & 9 Gamut Chart
If you’re Tapping and suddenly realize that you stopped Tapping while lost in a thought… even if you don’t remember which acupressure point you Tapped on last… it doesn’t matter. Just choose an acupressure point and continue Tapping. The Tapping sequence will continue to work, even if you skip a Tapping point by accident, now and then.
Just like riding a bicycle, you’ll benefit from “muscle memory” when you Tap / make Tapping a habit. When Tapping becomes familiar, Tapping feels natural. You’ll feel more relaxed even more rapidly, as Tapping feels more familiar to you.
We sometimes forget how wonderful we are
as human beings
& how powerfully important
our choices are whenever
we face challenges…
All the knowledge we need
– is already inside us
We know what the right thing to do is
we just need to remember,
and then take action.
7. Is it essential that I tap every acupressure point, each round of Tapping?
It’s OK to miss a Tapping point now and then. However, each meridian has a different emotional connection, so there is a benefit to Tapping through the full range of Tapping points… it provides a broader clearing of the emotions for the situation at hand.
8. What is SUD? How do I choose my 1-10 SUD intensity?
SUD is an abbreviation for a terminology used in Hospital Emergency Departments, for Subjective Units of Distress. SUD is usually measured as a 1 to 10 intensity scale. Zero is no intensity. A 10 is intensity so high it might involve tears, or yelling, or extreme intensity of physical or emotional pain, assessed from the viewpoint of the subject.
Think about the issue at hand, just think of the issue and imagine a score that is related to your experience. If you’re very analytical you might feel unable to choose a number, unless you have more information, but just choose the first number you think of in regard to intensity around this issue.
Subjective Units of Distress can also be used for a 1-10 intensity of how far you are out of alignment with believing you are able to do a task or chore which is important towards achieving your personal goals.
It’s OK to Tap without using a 1-10 intensity rating if you are an emotion-based person. You may prefer to simply check in with yourself, and notice when the feeling state about the issue begins to change for you as you Tap.
However, be aware that if you skip using a specific SUD 1 to 10 and you skip being specific regarding issues you are Tapping to clear, issues may not be fully cleared, and could return if triggered by new ‘similar feeling’ situations.
Being specific about clearing issues (one at a time, to zero intensity) will get you the more permanent emotional ‘releases’ that are so beneficial with Tapping.
Using a 1 to 10 SUD intensity empowers you to assess your progress. Any remain intensity means that you are not in harmony with the issue, and helps you to look for a reason why that smaller intensity remains, which empowers you to continue clearing any issue to zero.
9. What if my SUD score (1-10 Intensity level) doesn’t reduce?
There are a number of reasons why a SUD score might remain the same:
- You’re dehydrated. (Your neural pathways need hydration to work effectively.)
- You might need to tune into, or focus on, the heart of the problem more closely. If you have a big issue, think of the parts most important to you, then break them down into smaller (2 to 3 minute) memory pieces, to Tap through. Continue focusing on clearing small pieces of any problem (the aspects of the issue) one at a time. This is how you consistently clear issues to zero intensity… reducing a large issue into a place of neutrality.
- Part of your mind (your subconscious mind) might be resisting looking clearly at any upsetting issue to resolve, thinking that somehow it is protecting you from harm or danger.
- Your mind might doubt the speed with which EFT can work… so it may ignore or minimize the change or relase you have experienced. (This falls in the category of doubts / limiting beliefs, and these should be addressed at the beginning of any new Tapping session.)
- You might be in avoidance or procrastination, where your subconscious is actively “protecting you” from addressing and dealing with a serious issue. Issues can have many layers, so getting professional EFT support for the clearing of sensitive or traumatic memories, including PTSD, can be very helpful – and a good plan.
- USE 9 GAMUT! 9 Gamut is the Magic Key that gets EFT’s basic Tapping sequence working again when Tapping appears stuck (when your SUD remains the same).
A Clinical Study made in Bond University, Australia,
found EFT’s Weight Loss results to be
16 lbs. lost in 8 weeks.
EFT outperformed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (which has been the
Gold Standard to date) for eliminating cravings, and increasing weight loss.
Impressively, the EFT 1 year review showed
no weight was re-gained.
10. Why is 9 Gamut Tapping sequence SO important?
Tapping should work like this: As long as you remain focused clearly on the issue, with each 2 to 3 rounds of Tapping, your intensity level should drop by at least 2 intensity points or more.
As your SUD intensity is reduced, but a lesser amount remains, you then ask yourself, “What about this issue is still unresolved for me?”
This questioning will help you stay focused on clearing the heart of the matter, so you get your best results. Continue focusing on any remaining intensity, to get to zero intensity.
- Whenever your SUD intensity does not reduce by 2 points or more with basic Tapping, 9 Gamut is what gets unseen resistance cleared, and basic Tapping sequence working well again.
- Use 9 Gamut when your intensity is at a 4 or less, if you are not consciously ware of “what is remaining” about an issue. Sometimes an emotional feeling remains which your conscious mind cannot make sense of, without a story attached. If you feel ‘something’ remains, but you can’t identify what that issue is… use 9 Gamut Tapping.
- 9 Gamut helps to clear old trauma, of which the conscious mind often is not aware… so use it whenever you are “stuck”. 9 Gamut is always used in clearing PTSD.
- When we experience anxiety, grief, chronic pain, being powerless (ruminating in the past), depression, or fears and phobias, these are considered “Broad” issues. Broad issues have many component parts, sometimes so many, we can feel overwhelmed. If you or your client are dealing with a broad issue you can benefit by beginning your Tapping with 9 Gamut sequence. 9 Gamut can release trauma and help lower the overall intensity of a broad issue. When intensities lower, it’s easier to feel more in control, more able to think clearly. Once brain fog diminishes, it is much easier to then stay focused on clearing one problem or concern at a time, to achieve effectively clearing a “broad” issue, piece by piece.
FAQ - Hypnosis & Habitual Behaviours
1. How much free will do I have – how much power is there in my automatic habitual programming?
In physical reality you are using only a small percentage of your brain’s capabilities. Your conscious mind makes choices and course changes in your day, using about 10% to 15% of your brain’s function. It is your subconscious mind (85% – 90%) that is your invincible powerhouse.
This 85% is where you naturally, easily and automatically do the actions which support confirmation of what you already believe to be true (what you know and are familiar with) without stopping to question yourself.
2. When I finally see my goal in sight, why do I sabotage my successes?
Your subconscious returns you again and again to the old programming that is within your ‘comfort zone’, based on your early childhood observations and beliefs. As an adult, even if you clearly see your old programming as negative, no longer valid, or not helpful to you – the old programming inside you remains constantly running.
You have the power to neutralize or re-write over your old limitations with EFT/ Meridian Tapping, but it requires two steps. Self-sabotage can be permanently transformed with the application of the two following steps… this is where you can use YOUR always present power of choice:
- Decide what it is that you DO want, and own that choice for yourself. Believe your goal is possible for you! Imagine the feelings in your body of owning doing it, being it, or having your goal. What emotions do you feel when you’ve succeeded?
- Take action to activate the newer and happier programming belief for yourself, in your neural circuitry. To change a passing thought into a solid belief which you can easily take action upon, Talk & Tap yourself through the visualization of enjoying owning (already having) your goal until it feels good, and true to you.
Tap through any resistance you think or feel as you visualize, so your conscious choice and subconscious programming come into alignment. How much could your goal achievements increase when you intentionally bring all of you, 100% of your resources, into alignment… intent on achieving only the same beneficial outcomes for you?
Insanity is doing
the same thing
over and over
while expecting
a different result.
~ Albert Einstein ~
3. Why are ‘comfort zones’ so hard to change?
Einstein said one of the most important determinations you will make is whether or not you see the world as a safe place. Long before you were able to speak to articulate thoughts and feelings, you were absorbing all the information around you as factual. Your childhood beliefs, which support or sabotage your actions in your adult life right now, were set in place before you were seven years old.
Any new wishes, ideas or beliefs you would like to include in your life right now, are seen as ‘temporary’ thoughts by your subconscious mind. Old and often limiting beliefs which you may not even consciously remember, are the true cornerstones of your ‘comfort zones’.
How your family dealt with money, and relationships are part of what you know, and what you think you can expect. This inner knowledge and expectation is how a person from a home with childhood rage or violence may find herself in a relationship with rage or violence as an adult. A woman would never consciously choose a dysfunctional violent relationship for herself, but those behaviours are something she knows and is familiar with. The level of dysfunction in her childhood relationships may even have led her to believe that poor treatment is all she deserves.
Your comfort zone is what you know… what feels ‘normal’ to you, it might feel safe to you, even if it does not support your growth, and any kind of present or future happiness! The first step in expanding your comfort zone is to recognize its limitations… then begin releasing the unhelpful modeling or old emotional ties which keep us in a mental or emotional place of limitation. Tapping has an amazing capacity to help you let go of the past, if it is your intention to change yourself or your situation.
4. What are examples of your limiting beliefs? (Clarity on these beliefs can empower you in releasing them.)
What was said around you, or to you before the age of seven? What beliefs did your parents/family hold? What did life feel like then? Are your beliefs helpful ones which assist you through life’s daily challenges and make your life really worthwhile?
Limiting beliefs usually arise from limiting situations or sharp criticisms in childhood:
- If you were told you were too slow, or stupid, you may have chosen to avoid academic challenges.
- If you felt unloved, you may still be repeating relationships that continue to leave you feeling unloved or abandoned.
- If you were abused physically or emotionally, you may never have learned how to love and care for yourself in a healthy and balanced way. When you have not been encouraged to develop healthy boundaries and self-confidence as a child, you are vulnerable to unhealthy/ unbalanced adult relationships.
- If you lived in a permanent state of ‘lack’ – not enough money, security, or emotional support – your thought processes recognize ‘lack’ as familiar (an unfortunate versions of comfort zone), as you carry those early beliefs forward, to colour your future.
Releasing your limiting beliefs, literally having the weight of them lift off you, can change your world.
‘In the end, we will remember
not the words of
our enemies,
but the silence of
our friends.
~ Martin Luther King ~
5. Can the intentional repetition of new positives really change my future?
Yes. Absolutely. As an adult your limiting beliefs run on and on in your subconscious mind, just like a computer program which loops, without end. You literally can choose to create a new ‘program’ with wonderful benefits for you, to input.
Repeating any belief statement until it is accepted and recorded in your subconscious mind will create an active new program inside you. Activating a new program, which then runs automatically for you, only takes 14 to 30 days of ‘homework’ with self-hypnosis. However, my experience when using EFT’s Meridian Tapping reduced that time frame for noticeable change to 10-14 days.
Two weeks to change your life outcomes is pretty outstanding!
Building in the new and beneficial programming can be an easy guided visualization, a detailed list of affirmations (filled with gratitude and enthusiasm)… you can refine your words and intent to match whatever supports your goals! Measure and empower your results by keeping track on a calendar.
The repetition of feeling the emotional benefit of a desired belief/outcome, can be a strong connection in changing a newly learned piece of information into one of your building blocks of belief; a strength from which you operate your life, easily and automatically, as habitual programming.
6. Does Hypnosis/Guided Visualization always work?
Yes, but only IF your subconscious mind agrees that your new beliefs/choices are a good idea for you to acquire: AND if you repeat your new ‘programming’ regularly (for 10-14 day with Tapping) or 14-30 days with self-hypnosis.
New programming CAN be accepted by your subconscious mind… provided your wish is not viewed as dangerous to your well-being, or outside the possibility of your life path. Your self-protection programs are always running… but they can be altered, or updated at any time! Tapping helps us get past the limitations of the sub-conscious mind’s resistance to change, and to expand our ‘safety zone’. When you negotiate with your subconscious mind in Hypnosis, or with EFT – YOU GET RESULTS!
Helpful Fact: Your subconscious mind and cellular memory DOES know the limiting beliefs and core issues you hold, even if your conscious mind does not. There are a number of ways to use wording in EFT or in hypnosis which can assist you in achieving your goals… depending on your individual way of seeing the world.
7. What is cellular memory, and why is it important?
Cellular memory is why your body is such an amazing healing machine. When you were born, you knew how to heal yourself. No one taught you. You could heal a cut, or mend a broken bone. Stitches or a cast do not cause healing to begin – your healing response is part of your cellular memory. Reproduction of perfect cells, and your body’s most healthy state, is in your cellular memory.
8. How does my subconscious control my body’s health?
Like a powerful master computer, your subconscious mind runs all of your automatic functioning: walking, talking, thought patterns, memory access, co-ordination, breathing, heart rhythm, blood pressure, blink rate, hair growth, body temperature, sleeping cycle, and every other tiny detail of your bodily functions, down to the chemicals your brain produces, when and how your cells reproduce, and so much more! Using EFT and guided visualization can lower your stress, help you to sleep better, and change your life outcomes… sometimes in surprising ways!
What your subconscious
mind believes is the
difference between
success and failure,
sickness and health,
happiness & unhappiness.
If you change your mind
you can live
happily ever after.
~ Charles Tebbetts ~
FAQ - Brain, Body Science & Change
1. What is cellular memory, and why is it important in healing and wellness?
Cellular memory is why your body is such an amazing healing machine. When you were born, you knew how to heal yourself. No one taught you. You could heal a cut, or mend a broken bone. Stitches or a cast do not cause healing to begin – your healing response is part of your cellular memory. Reproduction of perfect cells is in your cellular memory. Find out about Cellular Cleansing and vibrational medicine.
2. Why are some people successful with ‘will power’ and others not?
When your subconscious mind agrees with and supports your conscious choices, simply making the same choice until a new habit is formed is not beyond most people’s abilities. However, unless you have the approval and support of your subconscious mind, you will be unable to either achieve or sustain your long term goals. Your subconscious mind is the hidden powerhouse which always controls the long term outcomes of your plans. Your subconscious is awake and aware, even when you sleep! (Listening to CDs when you sleep helps you to easily incorporate what you listen to at night into your daily life.)
3. How does my subconscious control my body’s health?
Like a powerful master computer, your subconscious mind runs all of your automatic functioning: walking, talking, thought patterns, memory access, co-ordination, breathing, heart rhythm, blood pressure, blink rate, hair growth, body temperature, sleeping cycle, and every other tiny detail of your bodily functions, down to the chemicals your brain produces, when and how your cells reproduce, and so much more! If you are not well, an interactive approach to directing the focus of your healing system to gain wellness, especially EFT and guided visualization, can be very worthwhile.
4. How can I get the improvements I really want?
Mentally processing the operating of all the actions of your physical body with your conscious mind would be totally overwhelming. But when doing so, in reality you are using only a small percentage of your brain’s capabilities.
It is your subconscious mind that is your invincible powerhouse. When you begin telling your subconscious mind specifically what you want, you can begin receiving specific results. Call and ask me more about how to use EFT, with Hypnosis and intentional Consciousness to get really specific. – The more specific you are when you are working in alignment inside yourself, the better your results will be!
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