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Mary’s Brief EFT Recipe - The steps to immediate relief are:
Focus your mind back to the problem and see if it remains at zero. EFT activates your internal healing system as all energy interventions do and sends the chi to the fear, or the disturbance much as the acupuncturist’s needles send the chi to the pain in the body. Gary teaches to couple tapping on the negative statement with a positive affirmation much like we do in correcting reversal, “Even though I am afraid, I absolutely love honor and respect myself.” I noticed from the beginning that the positives seem to come organically with my energy processes from within the client ninety-nine percent of the time. The other one percent of the time I ask them to come up with the opposite positive, and tap on that, so when “I am afraid,” is clear and at a zero then tap on, “I am free,” or “I am fearless.” EFT Applications Tapping out of Harm’s Way When people first come in to my office I teach EFT immediately so from the beginning they have an energy technique which they can take with them. Sometimes the pain or the danger is so acute that it takes several sessions to teach the entire DEH process, and EFT offers immediate relief. In my work with women in domestic violence situations using the EFT techniques immediately have been critical for women to calm their trauma and begin to make decisions to keep themselves and their children safe. One hundred percent of the women who were in abusive situations who used EFT and DEH in combination became trauma-free and left their abusers permanently to go on and live safe, productive lives. The other places I use the brief EFT tapping as a stand alone model is in the schools, teaching children to tap to improve writing and math skills, and in the play therapy room as young children play out the trauma in their lives. With children seven and older I use some play and some DEH. Tapping in the Classroom Tapping in the classroom seemed like the next step for my client, Michelle, a first grade teacher, who found herself tapping often on the daily stressors of a more than average acting-out class. I suggested that she teach the children to tap. She started the next day. She told the kids that Chinese doctors use this to help kids calm down! They tapped every morning after breakfast and flag salute and they tapped periodically through out the day. Acting out went from 4-5 incidents per day to zero. And as an aside grades went up at least one grade point for children with learning challenges. Tapping in the Playroom Children have a natural affinity for working with their energy body, thus it is rarely a problem in play sessions to weave in tapping. Jason, 4, had been seeing me since he was two doing play therapy because he was court ordered to visit his alcoholic father, where he was left often with his step-mother whom he barely knew, and had to be away from his Mom to whom he was very attached. In our state when abuse or exposure to illegal drugs is not occurring, visitation rights of addictive parents are enforced. He was very anxious about this situation. We saw each other weekly at first and then twice a month near visitation weekends. We did play therapy for two years, until I took the Energy Psychology trainings. At that point I taught his Mom to tap on her reactions to the enforced visitations, and I would show him tapping at traumatic or anxious moments in his play. They have horses and he used the miniature horse figures to play out his fear and anxiety. They would alternate from wild, out of control horses to to horses that lined up and followed a path. Watching his demeanor I would notice when his anxiety surfaced and we would pause in the play and tap until he calmed. After several months Step-mom reported that he was sleeping better at their home and Mom reported that the transitions from her house to Dad’s were now tantrum-free! We then were able to cut sessions to once a month. And as he got older he came on a “as Jason requests” basis. Tapping in the Boardroom Jan, a CEO of a company of about 350 employees that serves thousands of clients asked me if I would work with her corporate managers for about six to twelve months and teach them the energy strategies to clear blocks energetically to their corporate goals for the next two years. The company provides service to disabled people so I could easily align with their goals, and enthusiastically said yes. We tapped on limiting beliefs regarding success, money, and childhood messages to name a few. After our first day together people reported improved health and peace of mind. After several months of work they were making inroads legislatively, acquiring more grant money, and enhancing their professional and personal relationships in ways that surpassed their expectations. Emotional Freedom Techniques is core to DEH work. It is one of the first strategies I teach clients and students as they begin this work. It holds our second nature about our energy systems. Without teaching or thought, we push on our eyebrows and foreheads when we feel stressed. We rub right underneath our collar bones when we feel disturbed or anxious. We squeeze our fingers when we are afraid or in pain. Energy is used unconsciously and purposefully. We tap for a purpose, but we tap into a system that is so natural that it is like coming home. [The Meridian Points and the Sequence]
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