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EFT Hub Workbook 1 © 2010 www.theefthub.com All Rights Reserved

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INTRODUCTION Simply the information you need to get started and get to know EFT in depth. Not just for those who are at the start of their EFT journey, but also a companion for any serious student of the Emotional Freedom Technique. Our ethos is to promote EFT in an inspiring and ethical manner, giving you the insights into how the method really works in the real world. Yes, we get one minute wonders with some issues, but as you really get to know the process, you can see that most things take a little more time, and results are mostly down to the experience and competence of the practitioner, or the person dealing with their own issues. The skills you need can be learned easily with the right guidance, and that is our mission to help you feel competent and confident when using the process, and help you to take it out into the world if that is your calling. We hope you find the workbook useful and use our question section to help you the important points covered in the text. No hype, just quality information and education. We hope you gain the necessary insights by taking up the challenge and we will be with you every step of the way and we welcome your questions and comments, we grow as you grow. Thank you for your . Best Gary Williams The EFT Hub www.theefthub.com

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CONTENTS Part One Discovering the basic EFT and a Tapping Round – Page: 8 This part covers the basics of EFT. If you’ve already learned the basics you may want to move on to the next section. But if you haven’t, we are going to kick off with the founder of EFT, Gary Craig, talking about how he believes EFT really works. After that we’ll be getting into the Basic Recipe itself, and Marla Tabaka will be talking us through how to do that, and also using it with constricted breathing. You will be able to tap along with Marla and do the process, and actually see and hear it in action. Part Two The Evolution of EFT and the One Minute Wonder – Page: 20 EFT Master, Judy Byrne, talks about the meridians, their importance, their relevance and the many cultures that have used them for healing. Also how EFT has grown and evolved out of those ancient theories, and grown from Thought Field Therapy, a much more complicated approach. Brad Yates shares the classic and dramatic story of how the tapping process was first discovered when Dr Roger Callahan, from TFT, was working with a client called Mary. You will find this story in many publications and books on the subject. Brad also talks about how TFT grew into EFT and how the founder of EFT, Gary Craig, adopted the discovery statement from Dr Callahan “The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system or field” and will explain more about that. Also Brad looks briefly at one minute wonders. EFT Master Tania Prince talks about testing your results and continues the subject of one minute wonders further. EFT expert Ingrid Dinter shares her views on the subject, and also compares the results of an EFT treatment with traditional therapy, especially when working in the area of trauma. Ingrid also talks about how some people cannot be healed because of beliefs that may be holding them back, and how EFT can be used to create choices for people who may falsely believe that they are indeed a victim. Dr Carol Look has information on the EFT Basic Recipe and how important it is to actually stick with it, and not move too quickly into trying to short cut the process and maybe try to model the founder of the process, Gary Craig, and use his intuitive rambling, as it were. That can only really be achieved after gaining more experience in working with EFT.

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Part Three Get better results by being more specific and dealing with Aspects – Page: 30 In this section we are talking about being specific, aspects and being persistent. Brad Yates talks about digging deeper into memories, helping the client to really get into the problem. Rehana Webster talks about being specific and how some people may actually wander away from a subject and not be specific, and how important it is to be specific. Also about how using one aspect may have a generalisation effect, and may affect other aspects which may be troubling a client. Maggie Adkins talks more about how important it is to be specific, but also it can bring on feelings of failure if clients can’t particular memories. Tania Prince talks more about being specific and talks about how even headaches can have different qualities to them, and how we need to discover the different aspects in order to get success. Jaqui Crooks looks at how important it is to have good listening skills, and that the client may have the answers, and all we need to do is listen very carefully to what they are saying, and also to ask the right questions. Part Three B Dealing with Aspects, persistence and being creative with the Set-up – Page: 43 Dr Carol Look talks more about aspects and how some people believe that EFT doesn’t work, but really it’s because they haven’t covered all the aspects. Cathy Vartuli and Rick Wilkes will be looking at persistence, and how important that is to our success with EFT. Jade Barbee and Andy Bryce will be walking us through and sharing their knowledge of the set up statements. Part Four The Importance of the Gamut Point – Page: 58 We are now going to focus on the 9 Gamut Procedure. Maryam Webster shares reasons with us why the gamut spot should not be dropped from the EFT tapping sequence, and how we can only really short cut the sequence by having the necessary experience, and by working at a high level 6

over time. Maryam also says that doing the 9 Gamut manouevre addresses what we see, hear and feel. Karin Davidson talks about the gamut spot and theories about how using it gets rid of the learned part of an issue, which may lead to getting rid of the issue permanently, whereas tapping the basic recipe is not enough to clear it totally. Part Five More EFT insights into using the Emotional Freedom Techniques – Page: 68 Alina Frank talks about EFT being a form of focused intention and ritual, and gives us tips on working with others and getting yourself out of the way. Judy Byrne will be talking about memories, and how the early memories can create who we are in the future, and also create a belief about how safe the world is. Also what happens in the mind and body when we are under stress or suffering some form of trauma, and how EFT disempowers memories to bring us freedom from negative emotions. Tania Prince talks about testing your work to ensure that a client is actually getting beyond their issue, and using all the sensory information to actually work with that, to test results and to look for core issues. EFT Questions You are welcome to read the questions after each section, as this will help you to revise, and take in the information in an easier way. If you would like to see how well you ed, just email us for the sheet with all the answers and good luck. [email protected] Contributors - Page: 80 This page has a list of all the contributors and information about them, including details.

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Part One Hello, this is Gary Williams and welcome to the EFT Hub library. I would like to start off by thanking all of our contributors, over 50 contributors who have given their time freely to help you discover the art of EFT and its delivery. There are many important points to listen to on all of the audios that we will be presenting to you, and we start off by looking at the basics of EFT. Now if you have already learnt the basics you may want to move on the next section, but if you haven’t we are going to kick of with Gary Craig, the founder of the Emotional Freedom Technique. After that we will be getting into the basic recipe itself and Marla Tabaka will be talking us through how to do that, and also using it with constricted breathing. You will be able to tap along with Marla and learn how to do the process and actually hear it and see it in action. So to begin with here is Gary Craig, the founder of the Emotional Freedom Technique and he is talking about how he believes EFT really works.

Discovering the basic EFT and a Tapping Round GC EFT is a blend of very well known, very well researched therapeutic ideas such as acupuncture, which has been around for many thousands of years and has been validated in many ways – you just have to go onto Google and put in “acupuncture studies” and you will find lots of studies. The other thing is mind/body medicine, and you just have to look at yoga and meditation where the general idea is that if one can become more peaceful mentally, the better one’s health is. This has been validated in many ways – there have been decades of research about all this, and what EFT does is build a bridge and blends the two together, and we have found that as we address people’s issues using the acupuncture meridians, we are getting better results, at least in my experience over the past 16 years, than either one of them singly. That’s the essence of it, a blend of acupuncture and mind/body medicine in a way which has created extraordinary results for lots of people, as you well know. GW Right, so we are tapping the same points as in acupuncture?

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GC Yes, we stimulate the same meridians as in acupuncture except that we don’t use needles, we just use our fingertips. GW There has been research into acupuncture hasn’t there? GC Yes, acupuncture has been VERY well researched; all we are doing is borrowing from each and blending them in a way which is really quite extraordinary. GW If you pull EFT apart, how do you think that it really works? GC I wish I knew every little nuance about EFT, but what I think is happening is that when one has an emotional issue it is because the free flow of the chi (so-called by Chinese acupuncturists - being the energy which flows round the system), has become disrupted and short-circuited - the same as a short circuit in a TV or radio, and by tapping with the fingertips and stimulating these meridian points, we send energy down these meridians, and this disruption or short circuit vanishes, and with it the emotional issue vanishes. Also, as a result of taking care of emotional issues so rapidly we often find that this can take care of physical things as well, disease symptoms start to go away, headaches go away and back pain goes away and so on. GW And do you need to believe in EFT for it to work? GC No, it might be helpful but I don’t think you need to believe in it. In fact in my experience, especially in the early years, every one of them was openly skeptical and in fact some of them were just outright hostile and worked flat out to prove that it didn’t work, and how stupid it was and everything else, because we were violating their beliefs big time. And even with that open hostility their headaches went away and they were no longer afraid of traffic or whatever it was that was bothering them!

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So even with this open hostility we were able to help them. Belief becomes helpful because if people believe in it they are co-operative with you, if they are hostile with you they aren’t going to give you much time, but I don’t think you actually have to believe in it for it to work. GW It is a strange process isn’t it, when you see it being done? GC Well, it’s strange to those who haven’t seen it before, and it would be strange to someone whose own knowledge of healing would be the medical route for example, because the medical route doesn’t do anything like this, so if that’s where one is conditioned this is going to look not only unbelievable but stupid, but for someone who comes from the Chinese method of healing, this is easy to understand. For someone who has been conditioned in this way and someone who has been studying recent findings in quantum physics, this would be easy to understand. It only looks silly for people who have been conditioned along other lines. GW We’ve based our beliefs on the Greek model really where we look at ourselves from the outside of the body whereas the Oriental people look at themselves from the inside rather from the outside, if that makes sense. GC I haven’t heard it put quite that way, I don’t know much about the Greeks, but yes we are going from the inside to the outside. GW So what can be achieved which can’t be achieved by other therapies? GC Well in my experience you can apply EFT to every known emotional issue that you can name, every known physical issue that you can name, every known performance issue that you can name. You can apply it to everything - does that mean that we get 100% results for everything and for everyone? No – sometimes we seem to hit a wall and newcomers to this would say “EFT doesn’t work for that issue, or EFT doesn’t work for this person”.

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But I don’t think that this is accurate. When we stub our toe we’re not getting to find the real issue yet. We’re not finding what’s really going on and sometimes these emotional issues are hidden even from the client, and sometimes it takes a lot of detective work to bring them up. I’ve oftentimes run into walls so to speak and I’ve just kept being persistent and kept backing up, and all of sudden “Aha” and now we’re going through a door we’ve never gone through before, and all of a sudden we’re finding issues and we are getting healing where we seemed to have stopped. Generally speaking it’s not that EFT doesn’t work, it’s that we haven’t found the real issue yet. I think that EFT is appropriately applicable to every known emotional, physical or performance issue that you can name. GW So is there a danger in presenting it as a one minute wonder? GC I don’t think that danger is the right word, a lot of people are conditioned to wanting to find instant results, the fast food society – they want instant results. We do get that with EFT. We have on many occasions in one, or two or three minutes, a very brief period of time, taken care of emotional issues that have been plaguing people for decades, despite the fact that they have gone through all the conventional therapy that you can imagine. So yes, we get our one minute wonders – headaches will go away and other pains will go away, that happens a lot. While danger not being the right word, this perception that everything is a one minute wonder, that isn’t true, some things are one minute wonders, but other things take patience, they take persistence, they take skill, they take detective work, they take things like that. GW So there’s an art to actually being good at EFT then? GC Yes, but I would expand on that some. We have ten year olds who use what we call our basic recipe – that is the mechanics of tapping and what you say - and ten year olds get results really nicely. But if you get into more sophisticated areas, that’s when the skill of the experienced practitioner is invaluable because they can open doors that each individual client is simply to close to to open. GW So where would be a good place to start on the journey to learn how to become good at doing EFT?

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GC Well first of all our manual for free from our EFT website. That gives you all the basics and you can start using it from there. There are also a lot of people doing workshops that can expand on what we are doing. There are people who do workshops which condense what we’re doing, so after two or three days of workshops people can have a pretty good idea of what’s going on and can start using it, and some people prefer that. GW If you are just starting out in EFT, is there an area that you shouldn’t go into? GC Well yes, it’s a common sense area, you wouldn’t want to go where you don’t belong. You wouldn’t for example, if you were brand new at this, go to a psychiatric ward and start telling people you are going to take care of psychosis and schizophrenia and things like that. You wouldn’t go into hospitals and tell people you could instantly cure cancer and things like that. But with experience this technique can be applied to all of those things, I don’t care how severe. GW My thanks there to Gary Craig talking about how he believes EFT really works. During the course of the audios you are about to listen to you’ll hear other opinions and other ways of using EFT, and other ideas about how it works. Now we are going to use the actual process itself and Marla Tabaka is going to talk us through a tapping sequence of EFT, what’s called the basic recipe, and after that she will be using it with constricted breathing.

Now here’s Marla Tabaka with the Basic Recipe Today we are going to explore the EFT Basic Recipe. The Basic Recipe has 4 components, the set up, the sequence, the nine gamut procedure and the sequence again. Let’s talk about the set up. There are 2 different points that can be used for your set up phrase. Now there are many practitioners who feel that both points are equally as effective. We’ll take a look at both points and decide which one feels the most comfortable and the most effective for you. We are going to begin with what we call the “sore spot”.

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Now go ahead and find the U shaped notch at the base of your throat. When you find that notch go ahead and measure over about 3 inches and down towards your navel about 2 or 3 inches. Either left or right it doesn’t matter. You should now be in the upper left or right portion of your chest. If you press vigorously in that area within about a 2 inch radius or so you will probably feel the sore spot. It feels tender and that’s why we call it the sore spot. Once you find somewhere tender to the touch go ahead and rub it in a circular motion as you state your set up phrase. Now don’t rub too hard, just enough to feel the tenderness. You may find even more than one spot, and it’s a good idea to use more than one spot, if you need to do more than one set up in a session. Now, the alternate spot for your set up is what we call the karate chop point. This point is located on the fleshy side of your hand - the area that you would use if you were to go ahead and karate chop your way through a piece of wood. It’s the spot below your pinkie finger on the side of your hand. Now, to use this spot you would take 2 fingers of the opposite hand and apply steady tapping whilst saying your set up phrase. OK, now we are going to move on to the tapping points and we are going to include the 9 gamut procedure. Now when we do this Gary Craig refers to it as the “ham sandwich” because of the way it’s structured, i.e. 2 pieces on the outside and something in the middle. So hear we go onto the tapping sequence. Let’s begin with the tapping point at the crown of the head or the Crown Point. It’s right on the top of the head right around where a baby’s soft spot would be. This is one of my favorites – I like to just gently tap this point actually with all 4 fingers, so that I don’t miss the exact spot. Tap with a nice steady pace, not too hard. You don’t need to count the exact amount of times you tap the spot but make sure you get in at least 6 to 8 times on each point, and longer if you like. The next point is the inner eyebrow point. It’s over the bridge of your nose, but over where your eyebrow begins. Just tap 6, 7, 8 times, now move to just outside of the bone on the side of your eye at the end of your eyebrow, that’s the outer eyebrow point. Let’s move on and tap under the eye, you can see that we’re just following our way round the eye socket. Line your tapping up with your pupil, right under the bone, under the eye. Now we are going to move on to under the nose - it’s above the mouth under the nose. Give that spot 6, 7 or 8 taps. Now we are going to move on to the chin point, below the mouth right above your chin in that little dip, we’re not actually right on the chin. You are actually tapping through your face if you will and on your gums if you will, if that gives you direction. 13

Now we are going to move on to the collar bone point, which is one which is slightly deceiving because it’s not necessarily right on the collarbone. So to find that point go ahead and run your fingers down the front of the neck, and you will find that U shaped indentation at the base of your throat. Now move your fingers down about an inch and across to the outer part of your body, either left or right it doesn’t matter, about an inch or maybe two until you feel the beginning of your collarbone. Again this is one of those points where I like to use 3 or 4 fingers. You can even use the flat of your hand if you like. Now let’s move on to under the arm, tap about 4 inches down under the arm pit. Now there is one more point that I’d like to cover and that’s the liver point. It’s a good one to cover but you don’t see many practitioners using it as it can be potentially embarrassing to use in public. This point is located about 2 inches below the nipple on the ribs. It’s really easy for some people to find because it’s often quite tender. Now moving on to the finger points. Now again these points aren’t always used in a session, but they are very useful to know and they are part of the Basic Recipe. So let’s take a look at them. It’s a great method if you are in public and need to tap but don’t want to be too obvious, just go ahead and use these finger points. Begin by tapping alongside the nail of the thumb. Tap on the lower corner of your nail closest to your knuckle and to your body. It’s on the corner where there is like a half moon shape and it’s located right at the nail bed. Now tap on the same location on the lower inside corner of the finger points on the index and middle finger. Skip the next finger as it’s not really necessary to tap on this finger as that meridian is already covered in the other points. And now the little finger and then move on to the karate chop point that we talked about earlier. So, in review here’s the list of our points: The crown or top of the head Inside eyebrow Outside eyebrow Under the Eye Under the nose On the chin

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The collarbone Under the arm And if you like, it’s optional, under the breast, which is the liver point Now for the sake of this recording we won’t be using the liver point. Now, we don’t always use the finger points but they are included in the Basic Recipe. Begin with the side of thumb and go ahead and move through the fingers to the karate chop point. Those are the Basic Recipe tapping points. So now let’s go through the 9 Gamut Procedure. First, to locate the Gamut point on the back of the hand place 2 fingers between the pinkie knuckle and the ring finger knuckle of your opposite hand. Now move down towards your wrist about half an inch and you are right at the Gamut Point. Go ahead and tap that point and see how it feels. Now to do the 9 Gamut Procedure you tap that Gamut point whilst performing the following 9 actions. So continuously tap that point and go ahead now and close your eyes for a second or two, open your eyes, now keeping your head steady, eyes down hard right toward the ground. Now eyes down hard left whilst holding your head steady. Roll your eyes only in a clockwise circle and now roll your eyes in a counter-clockwise circle. Now go ahead and hum 2 lines of a song such as “Happy Birthday” or “You are My Sunshine”. Now count rapidly from 1 to 5, 1 2 3 4 5 and hum 2 or 3 seconds of that song again. Make sure you perform these actions in the order given whilst continuously tapping on that 9 Gamut point. Now most people like tapping with “Happy Birthday” as their tune but it really doesn’t matter which tune you choose, anything that’s associated with a happy occasion for you is fine. Now we are going to incorporate all the pieces of the Basic Recipe, the set up, the points with our reminder phrase, and the 9 Gamut Procedure into a mini tapping session. Now today we are going to focus on breathing. It sounds really simple now doesn’t it because obviously you’re already breathing. Well, nine times out of ten we can really breathe better, we can breathe more deeply, with greater awareness and really get that breath and that energy moving and that’s so healthy for us to do that.

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It’s important to to rate the level of whatever you are working on, a kind of before and after kind of thing. So typically to do that we use what we call a SUD’s scale from a zero to a ten. Now SUD’s stands for subjective units of discomfort scale. I’ve also heard it referred to as subjective units of distress scale. Sometimes in order grasp this people think of a thermometer or a yard stick. If you think you need that visual just close your eyes and imagine some kind of measuring tool in your head to measure your emotion, your physical sensations, or whatever you’re working on at the time. Today we’re working on your breath, so in a moment we are going to go ahead and take a nice deep breath and rate from a zero to a ten. Zero would be that you’re not breathing at all, well we know that that’s not true, and ten being the deepest and most satisfying breath you can imagine. Breathe in now, exhale………………. and how do you rate that? Let’s see, I am about at a 6 because of all the talking I have been doing, and where are you? Did you inhale all the way down to your solar plexus area? Did you release your stress on your exhale? Was that the deepest breathe most cleansing breath you could imagine? That would be a ten. Write down your SUD’s number now. OK, let’s tap. Beginning at your set up point. For today we’re going to use your karate chop first with the set up statements and we’re going to repeat that statement 3 times. Find your karate chop point. “Even though I have this constricted breathing, I deeply and completely love and accept myself” “Even though I have this constricted breathing, I deeply and completely love and accept myself” “Even though I have this constricted breathing, I deeply and completely love and accept myself” Now let’s begin tapping on the crown of the head whilst saying our reminder phrase: “This constricted breathing” Now move down to the inside eyebrow point And the outside eyebrow point Under the eye

“this constricted breathing”

“this constricted breathing”

“this constricted breathing”

Under the nose “this constricted breathing” On the chin

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On the collarbone “this constricted breathing” Under the arm

“this constricted breathing”

Inside thumb point “this constricted breathing” Index finger

“this constricted breathing”

Middle finger

“this constricted breathing”

Little finger

“this constricted breathing

On to the karate chop point “this constricted breathing” Now to the 9 Gamut point, keep tapping that point Close your eyes, open your eyes, keeping your head nice and steady, eyes hard down right toward the ground, eyes hard down left, keep tapping the 9 Gamut point. Roll your eyes in a clockwise circle, now counter clockwise, hum 2 seconds of that song, count rapidly 1 2 3 4 5 and hum again. Back to the crown point

“this constricted breathing”

Now move down to the inside eyebrow point And the outside eyebrow point Under the eye

“this constricted breathing”

“this constricted breathing”

“this constricted breathing”

Under the nose “this constricted breathing” On the chin

“this constricted breathing”

On the collarbone “this constricted breathing” Under the arm

“this constricted breathing”

You can include the finger points again as well as the 9 Gamut point. Now take a nice deep cleansing breath and exhale …………………. How does that feel? What’s your SUD’s level now? What was your SUD’s level at the beginning and how would you rate this breath that you just took? How much of an improvement did you see? If you really saw a great improvement, congratulations - you’ve just successfully completed using the EFT Basic Recipe.

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If you had very little improvement or no improvement at all please don’t worry. All you have to do is to repeat this procedure and eventually you will relax and be able to take in that nice deep breath that you so deserve. this recipe so that you can use it anywhere and at any time.

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Hear are some questions to help you some of what has been shared with you in the material from part one of the workbook. Part 1 Questions 1.

List the tapping points on the head and body.

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Gary Craig developed EFT from TFT, explain his reasons for doing this.

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Name the 2 points that can be used with the set up phrase.

4. Which organ is connected with the point just under the breast and why is it that we do not always use it? 5.

Explain the 9 Gamut procedure.

6. Why do we use a song such as “happy birthday” in the 9 Gamut procedure? 7.

What is the general meaning of mind/body medicine?

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What does SUD’s mean and why do we use it?

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Part Two The Evolution of EFT and the One Minute Wonder Judy Byrne talking about the meridians, their relevance and importance Judy EFT is just the latest in a long line of energy meridian therapies. Its history goes way back. We know from evidence that has been found, for instance a 2000 year old body that was found frozen in the Alps between Austria and Italy in 1991 (as by that time it was possible to date it accurately), and that body had tattoo marks on it which would still be acupuncture points today, on points that referred to conditions that the person had had. So we know the relevance of acupuncture points on the body has been around for a very long time, and it’s also cropped up in the Bantu in Africa and the Inuit, so it seems to have evolved in different cultures. We tend to think of China and Japan – acupressure and acupuncture - but other meridian therapies have come probably spontaneously in other quite different cultures, so the more recent history of it and how it came into western culture has been partly through several people – George Goodheart – Chiropractic/Kinesiology, John Diamond - Behavioral Kinesiology, Roger Callahan Thought Field Therapy. Callahan was a Clinical Psychologist and was influenced by both his own study of meridians and acupuncture and acupressure, and by being aware of what people like Diamond were doing at the time. So there is this transition and taking in of western ideas into an eastern tradition. Gary Craig, founder of EFT, went on a TFT training and became quite steeped in TFT, but then thought, hang on, if it doesn’t take very long to tap a series of points that cover everything, why do we get so hung up on working out exactly which points are relevant. So that was where TFT and EFT parted company. In my view, EFT tends to be more client centred, whereas TFT is focusing on the client, but on the client’s energy system in a more focusing on specific points in a meridians’ way. EFT is about getting to know how to tap certain points, but getting to do them quite automatically and really focusing on what kinds of issues, what kinds of aspects, and what emotions, and what feelings are coming up for the client. That’s what appeals to me about EFT. Of course when people get to a higher level, they become more intuitive and they dip in and out of the points more intuitively, but nevertheless the basis is knowing the series of points and knowing them so well you don’t have to think about them. You can focus on the client and what the client’s giving you.

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Gary Thought Field Therapy was quite a complicated process wasn’t it really? Judy Well, yes. I’m not an expert on it but it seemed to work on two levels. When I first looked at it and decided not to go there it seemed to have a series of algorithms, so you had to diagnose whether it was anger or fear that you were dealing with, and know an algorithm that corresponded to that. At the higher level people do muscle test a lot to work out exactly what points, in exactly what order are relevant to problems that they are working with. So it is quite a different focus in a way. Gary But you can still do all of that with EFT, or not have to do all of that I should say! Judy Yes! You can do it with EFT. I am not a great fan of muscle testing but I know that people who already know how to muscle test will bring the skills they have into EFT. Gary Do you think that people may feel that they are missing out on something by not doing TFT because of all the complications? Judy Do you mean clients or practitioners? Gary Well both really. Judy They may do but my feeling is that you may be missing out on something at one level, but you’re gaining in another. Because to me, doing any therapy or using any other tool in a therapy is about focusing on the client with intense concentration. So I don’t want any of that concentration to go on muscle testing, or exactly what points, and in what order. Gary And do you think that the meridian system as it is laid out is important to EFT – you know that’s what’s actually happening? 21

Judy 98% of me probably says yes, 2% of me says that we don’t absolutely know for sure. Gary But we still use that as a basis. Judy Some people use it as absolutely the explanation, but to me it’s probably the most likely explanation. But I am open to the possibility that what we are doing is working in some other way. There is actually very good evidence now recently that the meridian system as it’s been described does exist. It has become possible to see, as our measuring instruments have become more sophisticated, that there are differences in the electrical response either side of the traditional meridians. For instance, if a meridian is stimulated it will release serotonin and other endorphins, and if you stimulate the other side of it that doesn’t happen. So, we have the evidence that the meridians exist. We have the evidence that TFT works. They are probably related but I wouldn’t lose faith in EFT if somebody came up with another explanation. Gary But we are tapping those points that are marked up on those meridian systems? Judy Yes.

Now Brad Yates talks about Roger Callahan, who discovered the tapping process when working with a client called Mary. Brad There was a psychologist called Roger Callahan who was very interested in working with phobias, and he had a particular client named Mary. Mary had a life long fear of water and my understanding is that she was about 40 years old at the time. She had seen various therapists, had nightmares and had different physical issues around water. She could only bathe in about an inch of water which was very troublesome for her. After working with Dr Callahan for about a year, the best they could do was have her sitting near a swimming pool, but she had to be facing away from it. She was kind of ok with that but it was still kind of difficult. So, Dr Callahan was expanding his knowledge in different ways and was taking a

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course in acupressure. Acupressure and acupuncture are based on thousands of years of Chinese medicine, and there is energy travelling along pathways in our bodies called meridians, and when this energy is out of whack, illness is experienced. So in Chinese medicine you keep people’s energy balanced and their wellbeing is maintained. So knowing that there were different points on different parts of the body relating to physical issues, he asked Mary what physical issues were coming up at the time when she was having trouble about water. She said that she was experiencing a knot in her stomach. Dr Callahan said that there’s a meridian point under the eye that has to do with the stomach – let’s see if we can do something about that, and so he tapped her under the eye for a few moments. And she looked at him and said “It’s gone” and he said “what’s gone” and she said “the fear” and started running towards the swimming pool, and he goes running after her shouting “stop” and she said “No, no it’s ok, I don’t know how to swim”. But she got down towards to the pool and started splashing water on her face and had no negative reaction whatsoever, and naturally Dr Callahan thought “well that’s very interesting!”. And so he started trying this with different clients and found that with different issues, he needed to tap different points. He came up with different algorithms, tapping this point, then this point for one issue and this point, and then another point for a different issue. Within a year he put himself out of business because all of his clients who had been coming to him on a weekly basis with their issues felt cured. They were no longer having these uncomfortable reactions and Dr Callahan came up with a discovery statement “all negative emotions are caused by a disruption in the body’s energy system”. So by tapping on the meridian points we balance that energy and clear out the disruption. So not only do we see an enhancement to physical wellbeing, but the clearing out of uncomfortable emotions. So Dr Callahan started this technique and one of his first students was Gary Craig, who had trained as an engineer at Stanford. Taking that training Gary looked at all the different algorithms that Dr Callahan had come up with. He had thoughts that it was all a bit complicated as you had to go through all of this diagnosis to find out which points to use, and there were only about 8 points that were being used anyway, and he thought why not just tap them from top to bottom in order. It would only take a few moments – it was the same as if a TV set wasn’t working and you took it into a shop, and if it wasn’t going to cost any more time and money to replace everything rather than going through to find out which tube or which dial was having a problem - why not just have it all overhauled. So that was how he came up with just tapping all of the points in order and he found that he was getting the same remarkable results clearing things out.

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So he called this new streamlined therapy, which had been called Thought Field Therapy or the Callahan Technique, the Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT. Gary Are there any important aspects to learn from when Dr Callahan observed Mary running towards the pool and everything? Brad Well, that it doesn’t have an idiot factor! She didn’t think “I’m now not afraid of water, I’m now going to jump in!” just like if someone is cleared of a fear of heights, they’re not going to go jumping off buildings thinking that they can fly! We clear the excessive emotion, we can remove fear without removing natural caution – that is a key point – as well as it is about balancing this energy which can get disrupted, and when we balance that we clear that out, and this affects the body and mind in a positive way. Gary And I suppose you could class that as a one minute wonder. Is that true in every case? Brad No, that’s always the danger in telling this story as it was a one minute wonder, and we certainly have those. We’ll work with people and an issue that has troubled them all their lives or for what seems ages, is gone in a matter of moments. Most of the time it doesn’t happen quite that quickly or easily. It’s usually more of a process and to use Gary Craig’s analogy of a forest, more often we are cutting down tree by tree or taking out certain areas but not taking it all out at once. But we see both.

Here’s EFT Master Tania Prince talking about one minute wonders Tania I have had one minute wonders, but I do find that some people come in and get disappointed if they don’t get a one minute wonder. Almost like “it doesn’t work for me so I must be a failure”. I think that it’s good to dispel that because some issues are considerably complex and they take considerably longer than one minute. These things take as long as they take basically. But it is very nice when you do get a one minute wonder. Saying that, I worked with a lady who had had a spider phobia for about 50 years and it took about one minute to get rid of a life long spider phobia. So the speed at which you get rid of a problem is not dependant on the length of time that you’ve had a problem. 24

Gary It is important to know that isn’t it? As there could be an assumption that because you’ve had this for a life time it’s going to take a long time to get rid of it. Tania I think that people might naturally make that assumption, but that’s not necessarily true at all. I don’t think that the two are linked, so it’s interesting.

We continue the conversation with Ingrid Dinter Ingrid It is definitely true that with a round of tapping a person‘s life completely transforms. Actually the shortest session that I ever had with a client was probably a five minute session, and she had never had EFT before. She came to me and said that she was all closed up and that she used to be an artist and that she didn’t even have access to her own feelings any more, and we just hit it right. We tapped and she looked at me and she was going to get up and say “thank you very much this was great” so I said “wait a minute what are you talking about” and she said “that was exactly what I needed, the door is wide open and I know what I’m doing” and boy was she right! So in just five minutes she opened that door, went home and changed her life. Changed her job and started to study EFT and teach it to the kids and everybody else. So that’s a great example of that. Sometimes what is really needed is one round of tapping or a few rounds of tapping on the right things. But what that does not mean is that this is true all the time. I think what really matters is having experience with EFT so that we really learn to see things in a larger context. Even though we can release a certain aspect of traumas with a round of tapping or two, it does not mean that the entire trauma is gone. You know you see it on Gary’s DVD’s over and over when he says – that specific event, how does that feel? – and that might be down to a zero, but that does not mean that the complete problem has been resolved. In my field, working with veterans, I would never assume a one minute wonder. I know that these men and women have been through a lot, and I want to get to as many aspects as there are and work with as many things as they want to work with, and I assume that that takes time.

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I do see that compared to traditional therapy – according to what they tell me about their experience, we get phenomenally quick results. I always see results after every session. I have yet to see a session that didn’t bring positive results. I’ve been doing this for more than 8 years and have yet to see that people don’t have lasting results after only one session, and many of these men and women come to me after 20 or 25 years of traditional therapy, so I can compare to the results they were getting otherwise. Is this always the case? I don’t know but that is what they are telling me. But we have to honor oftentimes that problems are very complex, very much intertwined and one thing goes to another and to the next and if we really want to help somebody make a complete shift in their life, and live the life that they want to live, and make their own choices, we have to honor that there might be many, many reasons why the person is where he or she is. So I find it a respectful thing to honor our clients and their complexity and not have our own agenda, and think that I’m just going to show you that we can fix this in a minute. Gary If you have someone come to you who says they want to be fixed really quickly, how do you deal with a person like that? Ingrid It is very effective to work with EFT on various specific events so if somebody says that they have a specific thing that they would like to release, a specific memory, then we can take the charge out of that, and that charge is gone afterwards. I see that over and over and over. So if somebody says that they would like to have a quick lasting release from something then I would like to know in which area they would like to experience that and zero in on something. Gary Are there some people that you can’t help in that way, that maybe they are expecting too much? Ingrid I assume so. I see very often that people I work with very often assume that they cannot be well. Just feeling a little better would be enough for them. So for some reason or another they are not willing to heal completely. They can’t see themselves well, they don’t even know what that means. It’s not really desirable to them because they feel safe with the way they live – even though it is difficult and complicated. I think it is a miracle if we can take the charge out of something that happened in the past and has been bothering us for many, many years. But if somebody has 25, 30, 40, 50, 100 traumas we have 26

to honor that as a reality. And the beauty of EFT if that when we get to the most fundamental energy disruptions or beliefs or feelings that a person has, and really let those go, those that relate to this initial core trauma usually seem to subside as well. For example, if someone has a traumatic event that makes them believe that they are worthless, and we can go and release this really big, big trauma, then the many many times in their lives when they perceived themselves as being worthless can’t hold up any more, because the only reason they saw it this way was because they had this belief in the first place. So things are really connected - when you chop down a tree the branches have to come down as well. So that’s why it’s so important to go after core issues, but if somebody has many trees you have to go after them. The beauty of it is that as soon as the first tree has fallen, lives begin to change and at some point it’s really the question of how far does this person want to take this now. People come to a place of choice in their life. They can say you know, I can either go the old way or I could go a new way. And they would rather go a new way, I would rather tap now than being all upset . I would rather do this or that now and that means that they claim their power now and they begin to direct their own life instead of being a victim. Once people have released this feeling of victimisation and claimed their power and make choices, then their lives have a different dynamic, a different pace and a different meaning. When that happens, and I see that very often with my veterans between sessions 3 and 6, very, very often they say that they started to tap and things began to change. Then the question is how far do you want to take it now? Do you want to release everything or do you find a place where you say I settle with that? People are different there.

Tania Prince talks about testing a one minute wonder to see if it really is a one minute wonder. Tania If I am working with someone and it seems to be clear after one minute, I want to be testing that because some people are very very keen to get a result, they might not test it properly within themselves, and you do need to test it because you want to make sure that there is a true result there. So I’ll go for multiple testing mechanisms with the person. One of them is to ask them to think and try and get that back and be ruthless with yourself. I will only ask that if I felt it was safe to ask them to do that. I will give them time to do that because I want them to go through every possible thought they could have to get into it, because you want to make sure it’s 100% gone.

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I now talk to Dr Carol Look and ask her why it is so important to continue doing the Basic EFT recipe before moving on too quickly. Carol It’s really, really important. Someone was talking to me about that and they said it’s like learning French or Italian. You don’t want to skip the grammar. I know it’s a drag, but you don’t want to skip the beginning parts because you’ll never get it quite right. So there are people who are learning it and they don’t know what Tell the Story Technique means, they don’t know what the Tearless Trauma Technique means, they don’t know why the set up is so important, and I think that’s a mistake. I say to people – learn the basics – I teach them the finger points in a workshop setting – and I say it’s up to you if you want to you use them when you are stuck. I always teach 9 Gamut and you’ll see that I won’t do it much in the next 3 days (on a workshop), but ask me to do it and we’ll see if it will move somebody along. Again I use 9 Gamut if somebody is stuck. Gary How long should we be doing the Basic Recipe before moving on to more advanced work? Carol There’s really no rule of thumb. What I would say about the Basic Recipe is that you should always be using the Basic Recipe. Doing advanced work is all about your own emotional growth and your comfort level in a new area. Usually people don’t feel comfortable enough to move on and start playing with the words. I’ve watched people who have moved on and they are clearly not ready as they are not looking at their clients, so they are not tuned in. And they say that they are doing the intuitive ramble, “I’ve seen Gary do it”. Well, it’s not a good idea – you’ve got to be tuned into your client and watch then and feel them and really know what’s going on, then you can start to shift the phrasing, but again the basics of EFT – why would you give those up? Start on the karate chop point “Even though I have this problem I deeply and completely accept myself” or some version of that, and then tap on all of the points, focus on the problem and check the intensity ratings before and after. The pieces are beautiful, there is no reason to stop all that, and the short cut that Gary Craig has been using for years now is more than adequate and is beautiful, so I would not drop the pieces.

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If someone can drop the pieces – say they drop the karate chop with a lot of people – but they will need it again, or they drop the eye brow point, they’ll need it again. It takes so little time to tap on the points. There is no need to start getting fancy with that. The sophistication again is in your knowledge of the subject and your understanding of a particular client, your understanding of the mechanism of what happens in trauma, or what happens with people’s limiting beliefs. That’s where people need to do training and they need to practise, practice, practice the physical part of this EFT practice and getting comfortable with the EFT phrases in the set up. EFT practitioners need practice because it’s pretty awkward to sit in front of a client – maybe someone with a fear of bridges “Even though I’m scared to drive over bridges..........”. It takes confidence to jump in there.

Hear are some questions to help you some of what has been shared with you in the material from part two of the workbook. Part 2 Questions 1. Why is a thorough training in EFT important, as well as practise, practise, practise! 2. What is most important to be focussed on when working with someone else with EFT? 3. What is a key point about removing negative emotions such as fear, with EFT. 4.

What is the danger of focussing on one minute wonders?

5. What is an initial core trauma and what sometimes happens when you collapse an initial core trauma with EFT? 6.

Why is it so important to test your results?

7. Why is it so important to continue using the basic recipe when starting out with EFT?

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Part Three Get better results by being more specific and dealing with Aspects Brad I am reminded of an expression that I think is from Gary Craig “to get results that are terrific be specific” and it’s because when we are really specific about a certain thing we can really tune into the emotion that’s there, and really clear it. With anything that we are clearing - if we are trying to clear a stain on our floor - we want to focus right where the mess is, rather than being broad. Now sometimes we are not sure what’s there, so it may take some tapping and some clearing to get down to where it’s specific. You know obviously if we can find where the pain really is, then we can really go in and do a much more effective job of clearing that out. So in of being specific, what might happen is - Say I’ll ask a client what is it that’s troubling you? And they will say “well my mum always yelled at me”. Not being specific, we could tap on “even though mum always yelled at me” but what could be much more effective would be to come up with an exact memory. Think of a time that your mother yelled at you that really stuck out, and people often resist this, and they will try to keep it away from being specific because it doesn’t feel safe to go there. It feels much more comfortable to keep it general and say “I was always yelled at, I was beaten, I was rejected”. But when we go in and be specific we can really tune into the heart of that. One of the things I like to do is if someone has a limiting belief about themselves, like they are not likable, not lovable – I’ll say “Imagine a court of law, and you are presenting the case that you are not lovable, and you are the prosecuting attorney at this point, and you’ve got your box of evidence. What is the strongest evidence against you, what exactly did you do?” Because in a court of law the attorney can’t just say “This man is a criminal, he breaks laws”. He can’t do anything with that, it is like what specifically did this person do, what was the crime that was committed? So going in and really rather than just saying “Oh you know I was bad or this person was bad to me”, really zoning in on a specific event, and going in as close as you can moment by moment to all the different parts of that. It’s like doing the movie technique and going in and asking what are the exact moments that were involved, so that you can really get into the heart of the matter, and really do an effective job of clearing it up.

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More now on being specific and persistent from Rehana Webster. Rehana The whole idea of being specific is breaking it down for the client and getting to the nodules, that’s the hardest for them to even see themselves or to be able to get to, so that is the job of the EFT practitioner really. Getting to the nodules that the client can’t see because there could be so many other little nodules, and they may not even be aware of that. Gary Can clients keep wandering off and start talking about other aspects when really you need to be homing in on one specific aspect? Rehana That is what Gary Craig says over and over again, that a client will tend to wander as the mind does, as it goes here, there and everywhere, but as you say they need to work on the one specific area or aspect, finish that before moving into the next one. Because otherwise they won’t have resolution of anything in particular. The whole idea is to resolve whatever is causing you the negative emotion. Gary Are aspects like what Gary says about the trees, like a forest? Rehana Chopping down the trees - like Gary says you have to chop them down one by one, because if you don’t you will be getting nowhere, and making a big mess in the forest that you trying to level. So if you get the one tree that is causing all the problems, then all the other trees that are related will collapse in on themselves and resolve the problem. It’s like getting the tap root, when you are trying to cut down weeds you want to get the tap root rather than all the little weeds around it, because until you get the tap root it’s not going to collapse the whole issue. It’s isolating one aspect at a time or one area to work with rather than trying to work on everything at the same time, So once you have isolated something you want to work with, agree with your client that that is what you are going to work on, and then get very specific with that item to find the core experience, or the core imprint that caused the problem to begin with, and then doing either the tell the story technique or movie technique, because this is a core fundamental of EFT and that will collapse that issue using EFT.

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In contrast now Maggie Adkins looks at the negative side of being specific. Maggie Telling people that it is so important to be specific can also bring up feelings of failure. “I should ” and those kinds of things in clients and in ourselves - and that’s not really appropriate when we judge ourselves, or are hard on ourselves because we can’t , and why would we some things? They can be pretty nasty things to , so we may have numbed them out. So it is kind of a duality as we want to be as specific as possible but we don’t want our clients or ourselves to feel like failures, or to blame ourselves if we can’t be specific. What I find with EFT is the reason that it is good to be specific is that the more specific your language is and the more specific your focus, is the more we can get inside of that and release it, so in my eleven years of EFT I have found that to be very true. At the same time if we can’t be specific just looking at one of Gary Craig‘s first DVDs - in it a women named Victoria is on the DVD and he was working with her on smoking, and then they go to a break - most people this video as it’s so dramatic. She starts crying, and the guy doing the video just continues during the break. So this takes place in about 20 minutes to a half hour, and she is crying and Gary asks her what’s going on, and she says a sadness. So she starts tapping on “even though I have this deep sadness” and they tap on that, assuming it was at a ten at first, and it then comes to a six or seven, and then to a four and when it then comes to a three, she’s calm, she’s not crying, she’s not overwhelmed anymore. If someone’s overwhelmed you go with as specific as you can be without putting the client in more trauma, so if someone’s crying what’s going on? Well I am so sad, or I feel hopeless, or I feel so guilty, and then you would tap on that “Even though I have this great guilt” “Even though I have this deep sadness” whatever it is, if someone’s angry you tap on “Even though I have this huge anger” until it comes down, and then how do we become more specific? It is very easy actually, for Gary with Victoria he said “Well, what makes you the saddest?” They were working on sadness, he’s getting more specific and she is still calm and she says “My father raping me” she is still calm, so that means we can go deeper, we can be more specific because we want to be as specific as possible without putting our clients or ourselves through unnecessary pain and suffering. So he says “Was it one time or many?” and she says “Many times” and she is still not overwhelmed, she is so calm.

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So he gets even more specific, he says “Was there a worst time?” she says “Yes, the first time”. So they do EFT on the first time her father raped her, and then all of the sudden she says “Its gone”, and Gary says “Well we have balanced out your meridian system”. Now the impressive thing about this is that about three months later, evidently she was at another workshop of Gary’s and he says “Victoria is here etc., and I worked with her three or four months ago” or whenever it was, and he says to her “How are you doing”? The video pans to her face and the first thing I thought was “Oh my Lord” she has lost ten years and she looks so much younger. And what happens next is that Gary says “How are you doing?” and what she says, and I would almost bet $100 that this is verbatim, because I have watched it so much and ed it, she says “I don’t know who that other women was, and I didn’t know that that was with me every day, until it was gone”. And it’s so impressive, and it’s a great example of being as specific as we can without causing more harm, and this is where the artistry of EFT comes in. Many people think because they know the tapping points they can do EFT. No, we need to be skilled at being with people, where they are at, helping them to come through it in as gentle a way as is possible, without causing more suffering. So it’s very important to be specific, but I would never want a client to say “Well, I should that” and they do that enough to themselves, and so I would just tap with whatever they had to begin with, I have even tapped on “Even though I cant what happened and I should do” because if we get rid of the blame and guilt or judgment or whatever you want to call it, then there is a chance that they will be shown something, or we could tap on “Even though I am afraid to , what does that say about me, how painful is that going to be?” So you tap with whatever you have. I would never not tap just because I couldn’t be specific, and the more specific you are, the more powerful I think the EFT is. Gary Are there any tricks that we can do to be more specific? Maggie Well, I think the first thing I thought of when you said “Is there a trick we can use?”, is not necessarily a trick, but there are many EFT practitioners who are not confident yet in their practice – they are half way going “What am I going to do with this?” They are thinking “Am I going to be able to handle this?” So they are already thinking of an answer, and the client is still talking. We have to really listen to what our client is saying, and if we are working with ourselves, it helps to write it down. When we write it down we can literally see it, that visible ink on the paper, and we can see it maybe in a different way. 33

So I would write it down if I was working with myself, as things are clearer so that you can actually listen to yourself, instead of having the mind go round and round. Listening is so important, and then evaluate what to do. Gary You often hear, don’t you, interviewers interviewing people, and not really listening to the answers that are coming back and thinking about their questions, which is the next one on the list? Maggie That’s right exactly. I feel like my job is to be with my client wherever they are at, as much as possible, and to honour that, whether I would want that for them or myself or not, but to honour them in that. Also I think that we are building the kind of trust and rapport that people will be able to unfold into, and perhaps that particularly nasty thing, and that will help them to release it.

That’s Maggie Adkins and my thanks to her, and here is Tania Prince talking about how important it is to be specific, and how even a headache can have various qualities. I think it’s important to be specific, as when using EFT, it’s about getting really good results. If you are being very global you’re addressing the whole broad problem, there may be so many aspects and pieces to that problem that when you begin to tap on it you are really not getting as good a result as you would be if you got really tight in on what exactly the problem is. Such as if you are addressing a pain in the head. You know we can have different qualities to that pain in the head. It could be a throbbing pain in the centre of the head, or it could be something different, and the more specific you get on that, the more likely you are to get a good and profound result. Gary Yes, it’s true that our client comes in not knowing how to pull that apart as such, they just look at things as one big problem, yes? Tania Yes, pain is pain. But that is how a therapist helps people when they come in. They help them to get, in exactly more detail, what is that pain that you are experiencing, where is that pain that you are experiencing? They help tighten it up really. But when you get really specific you also know when things shift by the way, because if you are working on a pain in the head and you tapped on that, the quality of the feeling could change and change location, and if you are just thinking about a pain in the head, you may still have a pain the head and it may by you the fact that it has 34

become different. Then you are not even noticing the results and you might be a bit disillusioned, thinking - well I’m not getting much happening here. Gary When learning EFT we often use global phrases don’t we, like this anger or things like that, so are you saying that we need more detail? Tania Well, I think that it’s a good starting point as when you work with some people, they don’t have detail, they couldn’t get more specific at the beginning, so you start where the person is, and EFT will then begin to strip away the layers of the problem, and more details begin to pop into the person’s mind or they some specific events. So if the person can’t get into detail and get more specific you have to start where they are. Gary Could it be that we worry too much about being specific if you like, and that kind of stops us from getting underway? Tania If the person you are working with can’t get into detail, or if you are even working on yourself and you can’t get into detail, if you keep trying to push them and ask for detail, detail, detail, if you are working with someone else you will often lose rapport because they may be thinking I don’t know and I don’t know and I don’t know, and you can lose rapport, and it’s much better really to take them where they are, and begin to strip away the layers by being global. And see what pops up and you begin to get into more specific stuff then, so EFT can naturally begin to take you to more specific detail. Gary So if you are working with someone and they can’t seem to give you any detail, that can be quite frustrating for the practitioner as well can’t it? Tania People can be frustrated, but that’s the practitioner’s issue. Clearly they need to tap out their own frustration with that so that they are not frustrated, because that’s where the person is and it’s about accepting that.

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Gary So what questions can we ask to get into the specifics of a problem? Tania I think there is one really good question which I usually ask which is “What is it specifically about that, that is a problem for you?”. Then the person begins to break it down into the smaller components of the problem, and so it’s a really good question to get into detail very quickly. Gary So you are asking how is that a problem for you, in a sense? Tania What specifically about that is a problem? Say if you are addressing a spider – now a person might not have an issue with a spider that was dead, but they could have an issue with a spider that has got very erratic movements. In fact it is a very common aspect of a spider which is a problem for many people is if you ask the question “What is it about the spider that is specifically a problem for you?” they could say “well, it’s the movement, how they move”. So now you are getting down into detail – it’s how the spider is moving, as opposed to being just a spider. Gary And that’s an aspect of the problem as such? Tania Yes, it gets you down into the detail and then you can ask - what is still a problem for you?

Brad Yates gets down even deeper into the importance of being specific. Brad As Gary said, issues can often be like a forest, there are a lot of different trees there. So when we look at something which is bothering us, and we get down specifically instead of just tapping on someone’s behaviour, such as “well I don’t like the way my roommate squeezes the toothpaste from the middle” - if we go to a specific thing that bothers us, we can tap on that, and there might still be things that come up because even in that specific event there might even be different aspects.

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that and sometimes it’s not necessary. Sometimes it’s like taking out the garbage, you just take the bag and you throw it out into the big can, and you don’t need to go back through and identify every piece of trash that’s you’ve thrown out. It’s different with different people at different times. Gary

My thanks there to Brad Yates and now to finish off here’s Jaqui Crooks exploring the importance of questions and listening. Jaqui If you are not specific enough then you are not going to be getting things shifting very quickly. If you are absolutely on the bulls eye with a client they will go from ten to zero in one round, and that’s often when you can get the apex effect, because the change happens so quickly they forget they ever had the problem in the first place. So that’s one of the reasons that scaling things from zero to ten is really useful, so that you can say to clients when they say “oh yes that was a problem in the past but it’s not a problem now” and you can say “well actually two minutes ago when we looked at this it was a ten”. So that’s when you have been very specific, you have listened really clearly to your client’s words and used your client’s words with their intonation,. One of the ways of being spot on target with a client is to listen carefully to what they say to you, and to listen to the words that have that emotional charge to them. For example when a client says “when he said that to me I WAS SO PISSED OFF!” – so you tap on “I WAS SO PISSED OFF!” you’re likely to be on the bulls eye because those words with that intonation represents that energetic field for the client. Gary They have power don’t they, words? Jaqui They really do, so the more you can be really careful and listen to the client, use their words, repeat their words back to them with a similar intonation, the easier it will be to be on target with a client. Sometimes you know you are just not in quite the right place, if you are letting your head rule you rather than your intuition – you may start thinking that this has happened so it must mean this. It’s really important when doing EFT not to make assumptions like that, to have a sense of curiosity, so rather than this means this, but to go into it with a - Well, I’ve got this and I wonder whether it might mean this. That’s then leaving you open to other possibilities that may pop in.

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So the client has the answers, and sometimes it can be really useful to say to the client “I am just wondering - we are doing this and it’s not working as quickly as I expected, is there a better way we could get at this, or is there something in the way? What’s coming up for you?” The client will often come up with the answer for you just by asking, so long as you say, if you had to guess, rather than ask a direct question. And of course you can use the feeling in the body to help you get really accurate so – where’s that feeling? What colour is it? Is it hard or soft or smooth? Which will also keep you on target. So those are ways of staying on target. Sometimes you are tapping on a statement that you think is as specific as you can can get, and you know that you are in the right area, and it’s just not shifting quite as quickly as you would like. I often say to a client “I’ve got this down to a specific statement as I can do, and it looks to me as if it may still be a little bit too big and it needs breaking down into an even smaller step, if we were going to do that, how do you think we could do that?” And often they will come up with something that to me as an outsider sounds identical, but somehow they have a different energetic quality to them. And you tap on those two separate steps and everything just clears completely. One of the analogies that Gary uses about being specific is if you have a whole bundle of twigs and you are trying to break them all in one go, it’s really hard to do that. If you untie the bundle and break each twig separately, although it appears that that might take longer, it actually doesn’t, because it is quick and easy to do each one. So you can take a statement and break it down into smaller chunks. But then of course there are all the stoppers, all the things that are going on for the client that might make whatever it is that you are working on, not seem like a good idea because it is a part of them. Gary Is that when we get stuck or believe that we are stuck? Jaqui Yes, if clients are really angry with somebody, if something traumatic has happened at some point and they’re still holding a lot of anger, a part of them thinks that they are not going to let go of that anger until that other person has acknowledged whatever it is that they have done, then the client is going to hang on to whatever it is that is going on, and they are not doing that on a conscious level. They are not going “I’m going to hold on to this until they apologise” but there may be a child like part of them that is still doing that. So you can put something like that in the statements usually with something like a maybe or that it’s possible, so that the client can go in and check. It’s like you 39

are letting them know that it’s possible without telling them what’s going on. So, “Even though a part of me may not want to let go of this anger because it may think that the other person doesn’t deserve me to do that, I deeply and completely love and accept myself” and then of course you can go into the Level 3 reframe “Even though they may not deserve me to let go of this anger, maybe I deserve not to carry those people with me for the rest of my life” or “maybe the person suffering here is me” or “maybe I deserve to be free of all these feelings”. So you can put in reframes there to give that part that really wants to hold on, a really good reason to do something different. Sometimes if they are angry with themselves or if they are feeling guilty, they think that they can’t let it go because they might make the same mistake again. So again, it’s noticing what’s going on for the client, noticing what their language is and having a guess about what might be going on, and putting that in with a possibility. So, “Even though I am so angry with myself, I don’t believe that I deserve to let this go, I deeply and completely accept myself”. “Even though I think that a part of me will never deserve to let this go, I’d like that part to understand that I do”. And sometimes that can be enough just to settle that part down that’s fighting. Then of course there are all thewhat if’s? What would happen if I let this go? People might not like me, my partner might not know who I am, all the identity stuff. If I let this go who will I be? How will I live my life? I won’t know what to do any more. So all those things can be going on because a part of you is trying to keep you safe. All those things that try to stop us changing things are all about keeping safe, it’s all about survival. So it’s all about finding out what your client’s particular survival techniques are, which can be really helpful. Gary So you are kind of coping with things aren’t you by being stuck and not releasing the things, is that right? Jaqui Yes, it’s the comfortably uncomfortable, I know what to expect here. I might not like it but I know what to expect, I know what to do about it. Say if you are working on relationship issues, it is difficult for people because you are no longer the person that other people knew, because you are not doing what you have always done, so there is a period of adjustment and there is a chance that some people will move into your life and that some people will move out of your life, not by any conscious means, but it just happens. You know the law of attraction says like attracts like and if your vibration is different then you will be attracting people with a different vibration. So if you are working on relationship issues as you 40

clear your relationship stuff, it’s possible that other people don’t clear theirs and therefore the vibration doesn’t match. The other possibility is that they then change their vibration to match yours and you both work on a much higher level. Gary So it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to move away from that person as such? Jaqui Not necessarily, sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t. Often relationships can go through lots of mini breakdowns and rebuilds as one person starts to change their coping strategies. Gary A lot of people who first get involved with EFT and even come to people as clients, they seem to be quite overwhelmed and they can’t pick these things apart can they? Jaqui No, it is a process of elimination really; I see it as being a detective when I go into things. I go into every EFT absolutely knowing that EFT will make a difference. What I don’t know is how or when or how long it will take me to do that, but absolutely knowing that it’s possible gives me the persistence to keep going, to keep trying different things. I think the important thing is if something is not working, do something else instead. So if you are tapping on even though I am really angry, I’m ok and it’s not shifting things, do something else, don’t do more of the same thing. If there was a better word than angry for what you’re feeling, what would that be? It might be rage it might be fury and those words would have a much stronger emotional impact on the client. So I would then try doing it with those words. You can link the feeling with the event – even though I am really angry because my dad did whatever it is, I deeply and completely accept myself, so you are getting even more specific for the subconscious. So you can see it’s this feeling linked with this event, if that’s what she wants to work on. Gary You are picking out all the different aspects?

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Hear are some questions to help you some of what has been shared with you in the material from part three of the workbook. Part 3 Questions 1. Explain the difference between being too global and being specific with your set up phrases. 2.

What can be a negative aspect of trying to be specific.

3. When Gary Craig was working with Victoria, how did he help her to clear her deep sadness. 4. How did Gary Craig help to keep Victoria safe i.e. not traumatise her any further? 5.

What is your best tool to enable you to be specific?

6. Why does is seem sometimes that an issue that has been cleared comes back? 7.

Explain the analogy that Gary Craig uses about being specific.

8. Why is it that people sometimes find that a part of them wants to hang on to their issue? 9.

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Part Three B Dealing with Aspects, persistence and being creative with the Set-up Jade Barbee I think the set up statement is really important because it’s really important to take the time to acknowledge what’s really going on with you as you go through the EFT process. So to really acknowledge it - and sometimes it’s a little tough to get at what’s really going on. So talking through it is part of what the set up process is – you say “even though I feel, this is what I am experiencing, or this is what is going on with me, or that I’m overwhelmed or frustrated”, and it may not even be about that. But also to start talking yourself into following the attention of what is really going on with me, where am I really at right now? And going in with the intention of allowing it to open up and blossom, and to maybe take you a little deeper into what is really going on. But staying in and acknowledging the energy of where you are right now, and if where you are isn’t very deep into the problem, that’s fine too. By bringing that energy of where you are to conscious awareness, speaking it out loud while tapping, you might have to go through a little bit of fear, sometimes the fear of describing the feeling that you are having is actually bigger than the fear itself. The fear of going there. You’re being authentic with yourself about where you really are, and I think for a lot of us that’s a completely new experience so even stepping into a basic set up phrase – “even though I feel ........, I deeply and completely accept myself” the basic set up phrase, I think that a lot of people are on autopilot with that. I think that they are not really connecting, which is fine as I think EFT is very forgiving and just saying the words can help us really connect. But by breaking it up into 2 parts which I like to do, the first part talking through as long as you need to – what is it that I am actually going through? I think it’s good to bounce it off another person if you are working with another practitioner or just speak out loud and talk through to yourself and just really get at the energy of what’s going on. That’s the first most important part of the set up, the second part is, I deeply and completely accept myself. It’s really asking us to reach in us a place of acceptance of ourselves, even if we don’t necessarily feel that way. I think that that can work for some people, it does also not work for a lot of people, which is why the set up has been such a flexible phrase and you hear a lot of practitioners kind of rambling, doing the rambling reframe. I’d say that’s a Gary term where you reframe the problem “even though I have this problem I love and accept myself anyway”

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and as you have rapport with the person, you are going to know what to say to them. And if you don’t know ask “what feels a little bit better for you?” What I will do sometimes is ask them to reach for something that makes them feel better which is completely unrelated at all. Like the energy of their animals – people love their animals so much and it’s easy to connect with a feeling of kinship and love with an animal. So sometimes we’ll say “even though I have this feeling of failure I really love my cat” and it’s actually the same vibration as “I deeply and completely accept myself”. By connecting with that feeling of love you are showing yourself that you love and accept yourself. Gary It reminds me of working with children when you say “even though I have this problem or this fear, or the teacher shouted at me, my mother loves me or my mum loves me”. Jade Absolutely. It’s a demonstration of self acceptance rather than just a statement of it, by being willing to connect with something that truly feels better, and being willing to activate that vibration within you. I think that does just as well as saying the conventional set up statement. Gary So people who are just starting out with EFT, they can change that statement and be more creative? Jade Absolutely, but thinking of it in of acknowledgment. In of creativity you are acknowledging that this is how you feel right now. So the language can just be built around that and you can say something like “even though I have this experience right now this is how I feel”. Gary So it has to be truthful? Jade I would say that truthful is better because you can just see someone’s face light up when they are making those cognitive shifts, and they are connecting with something that does feel better, the release is palpable. When you can say “even though I’ve experienced this, it was really hard for me” or “it feels good to finally it this” – that’s a set up statement.

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Gary And have you found that people worry about getting that set up statement absolutely right and maybe intellectualize it too much? Jade Oh sure, it’s been a while since I was a beginner with EFT but I do often work with a lot of people who are new to it and that is a concern, and what I try to help them get their minds around is that it is simply you acknowledging the problem. It is simply you saying that I am acknowledging that I have this problem, and this is where I am right now. Just to sit with that and be where you are at this moment and language just flows around that, and again that language of acknowledgement, and that language can be as simple as I acknowledge how I am feeling right now or it’s safe to be where I am right now. Gary In a sense it explains what you were saying about why we have to have the negative there if you like. Because a lot of people who are into affirmations stand in front of a mirror and say “I’m looking more and more beautiful every day” at least that’s what I do! Jade But in your case it’s true! Laughter..... Gary But a little voice in your head says “no you’re not”. So you are acknowledging that little voice. Jade You are acknowledging the negative process that has brought you to this place in the first place, and there’s nothing wrong with reaching for an affirmation. I would say though that it’s got to feel doable, it can’t be too big of a leap. And I think that I deeply and completely love and accept myself is too big of a leap. I think that when people can reach for that it’s a great place to start, but when people start feeling empowered to change that to suit them better, I just see people connecting with the process more deeply, and I think they are also more inclined to do it on their own.

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And now more on the subject from Andy Bryce. Andy Bryce Well originally as I understand it, Gary Craig took it and used it because it would cover the possibility that there would be psychological reversals. So instead of waiting to see if there was psychological reversal we would use it every time. And when I first learnt the set up phrase ten years ago it was very simple. It would be “Even though I have this headache I deeply and completely love and accept myself”. It would drive the people around me crazy, because the reminder phrases would also be very simple. What I love about the set up phrase is that it’s a very positive affirmation, because we identify that there is a problem but we state that we still love and accept ourselves. I think that that was helpful for me in building my own self esteem and so forth, and if you are using it long term and lots of times it’s a good thing to repeat. It does allow for and correct psychological reversal, and as it’s evolved over time I make the length of it vary. I think we can work in reframes, we can work in positive statements and we can also identify aspects of a particular event and put it all into the one set up phrase, which is something which my clients would be familiar with, because if I was to write it out, it could be half a page or a page long sometimes. Then all the reminder phrases come from that set up phrase. And I think it’s really useful, especially in practical sessions. Gary Do you think it’s important to stick with the basics first though before you do what I would call a Brad Yates process, where you are just talking rather than coming up with phrases? Andy I work very similarly to Brad so what I do could be considered to be a Brad Yates process. It’s interesting to hear it called that! Gary Shall I rephrase that? Andy No, he is a wizard and a good friend. We did some assisting together at Gary’s serious diseases workshops. So I think the thing with Brad and I, and Carol Look, and other EFT Masters, that there is a level at which it becomes conversational, and it’s so part of you that it just flows out. You spend a bit of time collecting information, which when watching Brad you will see, and then it just comes 47

out in a beautiful flow. That is an acquired and learned trait and we all worked hard learning the basics, and I would say that’s the making of a good practitioner, knowing the basics before they go on an embellish and get complicated. Gary Do you think that people could jump too quickly into that maybe? Andy Well, I think it’s possible. The results will let you know whether you’ve overstepped or not. I think that the key thing in hypnotherapy or NLP and EFT is a high level of rapport, and when you have that level of rapport with a client or participants, then you can do anything with them at all that’s relevant. So when you do something as a practitioner that you are not comfortable with, or that you’re not really fluent with then that can jar that rapport, and if you are listening or are aware of that you can stop and go on in a way that your client can handle. It’s really for the client. Gary So it’s getting a thorough training then, in a sense? Andy Well yes, the more you know and the more the foundation is secure, then the high rise can go up quite quickly but I think that the basics in almost anything are important. I have a student who is a basketball player and we work on the fundamentals with EFT, and that’s been helping his basketball game all round. Gary A lot of people worry that they get their statement just right don’t they? Because when we start to learn we have this set up and it’s got to be appropriate to what the problem is, and you’ve got to get deep down into what the problem is etc. etc. So have you any advice for people who are just starting out and they are thinking “I’m going to get this wrong, I’m not going to get the right words, what do I think of next?”. Andy Well I would suggest that they do some tapping on “Even though I have to do it perfectly I deeply and completely love and accept myself.” And keep repeating that. I think that excellence is a far more achievable goal than perfection and if it stops you actually doing things then it’s not working. So practise, practise, practise. I was fortunate to have so many clients and people who were willing to work with me before I was ready to charge for it. So I learned quite a bit and then hanging out 48

with the people I was with, training and assisting was brilliant. So the more you can actually do to implement what it is you are actually learning. I If you read something or have a video you have it intellectually but if you practice it and it’s incorporated and effortless I think it’s worth the work. I think I had to learn that too because sometimes as a kid I didn’t want to do anything unless I could do it perfectly. Now I realise that learning is that opportunity to make mistakes until you get it right. Gary Is it true to say “even though I’ve got this headache” that this can sometimes work? Andy Well, it does work and simple is probably best, and I think we have to understand the scope of our practice. Because if you have just started out and you start working with someone with a diagnosed issue, either emotional, mental or physical, you are outside and beyond your scope. So if you are starting working with this pain in my back or this sore knee, or this headache is probably a good place to learn without a consequence which is unmanageable. Gary And can you ask of yourself “Why have I got this backache” and incorporate that into a statement? Andy Sure, “Even though I don’t know why I have this and if there is a message here I would like to receive it another way”. Yes, the set up statement is so flexible and in fact it can be done away with when you are in the emotion, when you’re feeling and you know it. When you are really upset, sad or whatever, you do not have to identify an issue because you are there. Gary So you are resonating with the problem as such? Andy That’s right – when someone cuts you up and you flash on this rage, tapping immediately without saying “even though I am really pissed off at you” will work, you don’t need to say that as you are already angry. You just tap on yourself and maybe saying my white knuckles on the steering wheel, feeling this rush of anger and just tapping on being present with this feeling, which will allow it to flow through you and dissipate more quickly, rather than not doing anything. Most of us dwell on things like that so it dissipates very slowly.

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We continue the conversation with Dr Carol Look Carol Look Aspects are really important as they can make the difference between a successful EFT session or one that isn’t quite working. And the definition of aspects just means different angles of the problem. The easiest way for me to see this, is a problem someone might have when flying on a plane. They say “I can’t even get to the airport I get so scared, I get so nervous at the thought of getting on the plane, and I get so nervous when we take off”. They come into our offices and we do a wonderful session about their anxiety and about the airport and they are all surprised that they can now imagine going on the trip, and isn’t this wonderful. Then they call you after the flight and they say “Well I could get to the airport and I could get on the plane but we flew through a thunderstorm, but the minute I felt the turbulence I freaked out, EFT doesn’t work”. Well that’s not true, what it means is that you haven’t pointed EFT at another aspect which didn’t come up in the session, which was turbulence, or maybe you flew through a thunderstorm and that’s another aspect of your fear of flying, and what about landing? That’s another aspect of your fear but if it doesn’t come up in the session, then it won’t get collapsed with EFT. So many clients will come back to us and say that it didn’t last or that it didn’t work. It worked but you didn’t address every angle. Gary So it’s important to hit every issue as such? Carol Well, if you have a phobia of bridges and you don’t hit every aspect of that, you’ll think it doesn’t work when you get to the middle of the bridge. You can approach it, you can drive half way through 50

and suddenly there’s an aspect when you turn and look to the left and see the wide expanse and we didn’t deal with that. I worked with a guy with a phobia about getting into an MRI machine. There’s several aspects, getting dressed for it, there’s lying down, being pushed into the little tube and what about the noise. That very constant knocking noise of the MRI machine. So there are many aspects of a problem and they must be targeted with EFT to clear the whole problem completely. You need to clear all the aspects. Beginners say that they tapped on their fear of public speaking. When asked what happened they say that they looked out over the crowd and freaked out again. Well all you did was, reading your notes, your nervousness, walking up to the podium. Well for some reason when describing it to the therapist the guy hadn’t said, by the way the minute I see the audience, if I look up and look at their eyes, I get totally nervous. So he started to panic at that point as it hadn’t been addressed. Gary So do you really need to be a detective and find all of those aspects? Carol Yes, and the way I do that is have people walk through the problem. Let’s say it is a fear of public speaking . OK, what happens next and how do you feel about it? Well I’m approaching the podium and you tap until they are so calm that there’s no problem when they are in your office. Ok, then what happens? Well it’s the silence when they stop clapping. How do you feel when it’s silent? Oh, that’s when the anxiety really comes up. OK – tap, tap, tap until they feel so calm. Then what happens? Then I start to talk. What happens then? When I first hear my voice I usually sound a little crackly and a little nervous and that makes me nervous! That’s a huge one for people when they start to hear the sound of their voice and they don’t sound confident in their own ears, and that makes them sound nervous in front of the crowd. Gary And do you find out what their SUDS level is after they’ve talked about a certain aspect? Carol Yes, let’s say for instance as they are in my office they are not in front of the crowd so it’s not real, but they can imagine it and then get very strong responses when they imagine it, and just walk them through it. Same thing with fears of flying, same thing with fears of marketing. Same thing when someone has a client coming and they don’t think they can handle them. They’ve never dealt 51

with an 8 year old before and they have all these concerns for example, asking questions of the parents. So there are many aspects to each problem which we and our clients have. And that’s all it is – to be thorough, and as I say it’s one of the difficulties with beginners. They get great results on a piece of the problem - let’s say that a client has issues with eating sugar and so they tap on having cravings, the client no longer has cravings in their own living room and they can’t believe it! But they are invited to a party and their anxiety related to socializing increases their concerns and overall agitation and they start eating the cookies. They come back and say that it didn’t work. Was there any other aspect, yes there were 50 people at a cocktail party asking me questions. And yes I was drinking alcohol and yes my boss was there. Those are all different aspects that might contribute to the problem of someone using food to quiet their anxiety. So it’s not that EFT doesn’t work – it’s did you get every piece of this problem? Gary So in of finding aspects of fears and phobias, you are doing it differently then. You’re not actually putting them on a plane or throwing birds at them like some therapies would do? Carol No for EFT purposes, unless a therapist is able to take them to the real thing, it is all sitting on a chair and imagining the situation, and how much of a charge do you feel in your body now? How do you feel now when you picture yourself giving that speech? How do you feel now when thinking about driving over that bridge, and they can get the charge up pretty high. Considering that they are not in the live situation they can get the charge up pretty high. And that’s why you know that you can address it with the tapping and get it down and down and down, until you feel really confident. That’s what you want your client to say: “I can do it, I can handle this”. Gary But do you want them to really mean that and not try and do it for your sake as such? Carol Yes, and that’s why you want to test it. Suppose somebody in the audience coughs really loudly and that distracts you – ah no problem –or yes, I hate that, it always gets me off centre. Suppose somebody in the audience asks you a question out of turn – oh yes, I can handle that. They will respond because it’s such a visceral reaction. They will tell you. If you start suggesting things that might happen – suppose you’re on the plane and it’s a smooth situation and suddenly the plane is 52

hit by lightening. I’ve been on a plane that was hit by lightening, it wasn’t much fun, nothing happened but it was certainly scary. So suppose this happened and what if your boss wasn’t going to come to that speech and then he shows up. How would you feel then? Gary But you are keeping your client safe as it were and really tuning into their resonance and level of that? Carol There is no need to get them up to a 10 plus, plus, plus. If they do - just start tapping. You can tap right away with them, but there’s no need to get them into terrible discomfort or agitation. You just start tapping until it goes down low enough, and now what? It’s always now what? Now what do you think is the next conflict or concern? Let’s say they’re going home for a family holiday. And they tap about all their fears and concerns about their father and they didn’t tell you about their brother! Or they didn’t tell you about their grandparents who were senile and very hard to be around or whatever. There are many aspects and sometimes people will handle one piece of it. I had a client who was newly sober and he was so worried about going home for the holidays, and he was mostly worried about his father. But he didn’t deal with the jerky cousin who offered him a beer. He didn’t drink it but when his cousin asked why he wasn’t drinking, it was very upsetting for him. Gary So you do the best you can and try to get as many aspects as you can? Carol Yes, and walk them through it “what do you think might happen next, you are at the office party, you’ve made it through not having the drink or the cookies or whatever, what if that particular superior of yours comes over and talks to you, will that be anxiety provoking? Let’s say you are working on social anxiety with someone. What do you think will happen when it’s late and everybody is starting to go? How will you feel if you spill a drink?” Imagining anything that has happened with that person in the past in the situation. Let’s say you are working with someone with a bridge phobia and you don’t look at the possibility of getting over the bridge and then there’s a traffic jam. So what if you tap on aspects of the bridge phobia and they manage to get onto the bridge in a relaxed way and there is some kind of traffic build up? So you just keep saying what do you think might happen next which might set you off? It’s 53

really a lovely way to be with a client, because you are saying I can handle anything, tell me anything. Gary Do you have clients who have the fear of the fear – how do I know that this is going to work when I am in that situation? Carol When the charge is low enough in your office, they usually no longer have that fear of the fear. Or you need to tackle the first one, the first anxiety attack. They have such a trauma and memory of the first time they had this panic that you need to handle that as another distinct aspect. It’s a specific event that happened the first time they panicked when they were at a theatre and couldn’t get out. And the second time when they didn’t think it would happen again and it surprised them. Tap in another angle, what if it doesn’t work? What if I get surprised? You are talking about someone who is afraid to let go of the fear. Gary I know people say that the first panic attack is THE panic attack, but after that it’s worrying about having another panic attack that brings it on. Carol Yes and they were taken by surprise and they then think, what if that happens again? And the first one is a trauma – you imagine someone who has never had a panic attack before – let’s say they have agoraphobia (a fear of wide spaces) or claustrophobia (a fear of being trapped) and they have the first one, not only is it devastating and the physical symptoms are awful, and they didn’t see it coming. And as you say, they are just waiting for it to happen. Gary And a simple cup of coffee may bring it on because your heart may speed up and suddenly you think that you are panicking. Carol Right, if you combine the caffeine with the fear in a situation which has enough triggers in it, and then you’re off to the races. And adrenaline has a life of its own. Once it gets triggered sometimes the tapping can work wonders with it and sometimes you need to ride it out if you don’t know how to handle it and don’t know how to get it down. That’s what wonderful about when I do the tapping for public speaking – people use the tapping before, during and after. 54

Gary So you can do it on many many things can’t you? Carol There are many things and aspects to a problem, so I think that is what a practitioner’s job is, is not to consider everything simplistically. It’s not just one thing – human beings are very complicated and how we learn can be quite complicated. So always ask what else might trigger you? If you are at a family occasion, if you are giving a presentation at work, what else do you think could rattle you? “Oh I once when the lights went out the whole building went dark. It had nothing to do with my speech but I will never forget it. Ok, that’s a small mini trauma with a small t that happened and they need to deal with that because they have that somewhere in their energy system.

More now from Rick Wilkes and Cathy Vartuli. Rick Wilkes If you treat persistence as something that you have to do, that you are whipping yourself to do, I would tap on that – where’s your need to be fixed right here, right now? Is it an impatience, a desperation? Tap on the desperation. If you are avoiding doing the tapping, ask yourself questions about do I feel safe addressing this right now, do I feel safe addressing it alone? I worked with a client who was tapping and making great progress and all of a sudden she stopped. She couldn’t figure it out and couldn’t figure it out. She got an intuition that she needed some help and we did an hour’s session and she said that she honestly couldn’t have gone there on her own. So sometimes when people are “not persisting” it’s because the next step is not one to do yourself. And that’s ok, I think that’s guidance. There shouldn’t be an occasion that people are not using their tapping. There is always an intelligence at work, usually that intelligence is trying to keep you “safe”. Even though you might want to move forward, if you are not in the right kind of environment with the right kind of , with the right kind of skill yourself, you may be at a point where some extra help is needed. You know Cathy and I worked together, male and female it may be the case that we share the same clients and the interesting thing that some people will be working with one of us and then shift to the other, and what’s interesting is that shifting from male to female energy, and the kind of different ways that Kathy and I approach the problem, that can create the breakthrough. You may be working with a very skilled therapist and find that your best friend does some tapping with you that creates that next breakthrough for you. It’s not necessarily about who’s the best skilled – it can sometimes be a case of allowing your guidance to take you somewhere where you feel safe and comfortable and that you can take the next baby step forward. 55

Gary So could you tap on something like “Even though it’s not safe to go there now”. Cathy Definitely – you could tap on “even though it’s not safe to go there right now, what would be the next baby step to take, is there someone that would be good to tap with? Is a question that they could ask. Rick Even if you don’t tap on it write it down before you go to bed, say what’s the next baby step for me, how can I take the next step? And just be open to the possibility that in a dream or a thought in the middle of the night, or the next day sometime, you’ll get that guidance. Gary Sometimes people are very persistent but it comes with trying to be perfect as well? Cathy Yes, when you put a lot of pressure on yourself it’s sometimes hard to shift and when you are trying to be perfect you’re not really accepting yourself and acceptance is part of this process. Rick If we ask a person – where did you learn that you had to be perfect in order to be safe? It’s one of the most popular tappings that we do – I need to be perfect – I have to be perfect or else I’ll be rejected, be abandoned. Where do you feel that in your body and as you tap on that feeling of perfection oftentimes it takes the pressure out of the tapping. People will continue to do it without that same ferocity. I tapped a little ferociously for a week or two early on in my exposure to tapping, I was making so much progress. I was just anxious, I started building up a lot of feelings like “I want to get through this, I’ve got 325 things on my list that I want to tap on” and then my body said - enough. I’d eaten enough energetic shifts for a while and my body, my brain, my spirit needed to collect itself. And that’s ok too and can very much be part of the process. Reaching a new plateau, allowing yourself to collect and rebalance at a new vibrational set point before moving on.

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Hear are some questions to help you some of what has been shared with you in the material from part three B of the workbook.

Part 3b 1. If you or someone else finds it difficult to say “I deeply and completely love and accept myself” what could we use as the second part of the set up phrase instead? 2.

Explain what is meant by aspects of the problem?

3. If you are working on yourself and clearing issues over time, what might be the cause of becoming stuck and not being able to clear an issue? 4.

When would it be best to work globally rather than specifically?

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What could be stopping you or a client from letting an issue go?

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Part Four Focusing on the Gamut spot. Karin Davidson The most surprising thing is how it can get rid of the issue forever and we all think that EFT or Tapping or MTT is getting rid of the issue and all the aspects, and that’s not actually true. The head, chest and finger points actually make you eliminate the symptoms, that’s why they make you feel better, but when you tap on the Gamut point, and it has to be for a length of time, it gets rid of what some people call the original gene histone which is the learnt part of the issue. Gary Is there any way that you can explain that to us in a brief way? Karin There are two schools of thought. One is that the issue or thing that happens to you when you are young, and you go ok - I think that men are dangerous - when other people might not think that. So whatever that learning was when you were young, where’s that storage? Where’s that storage so that you start reacting to that learned issue? No matter how you perceived it, that’s your learned issue. So is that stored in your cells? Is that stored in your field? Is that stored in the matrix? Is it stored in your brain? It doesn’t really matter with the Gamut point what we are doing and we are still finding things out about that. Wherever it’s stored there is an originating thing, and this originating thing has to be completely dissolved. If it’s not completely dissolved, if it’s not and let’s just go on in life, say your mum yelled at you for making mud pies, so you learned that happiness is bad. So now at age 4 you run in to see your friends and some kid yells “what are you so happy about?” So that actually created a node on this string or whatever this thing is which is showing happiness is bad. You can call this an issue string, a trauma string. You can call it the yo yo string, if you hold a yo yo down, that’s kind of how you can think about it. Then when you are 6 you run in to show your daddy your art work with a star on it, and he yells at you saying “I told you not to bother me, get out!” So now you’re learning that showing happiness is bad, so all those things are little knots on the yo yo string, and with EFT and MTT and other things we can clear these issues, but until we clear the original one where we learned it, it’s not going to actually disappear.

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Now we can get into long conversations about Gary Craig’s table and the trees and things like that, and also what if it’s anchored to another trauma or issue string? But let’s just say about the Gamut point, without the proof which we can go into later, until you get rid of the personal occurrence with the learned perception, (Meta Medicine calls it the original bio-conflict shock) or specific event – until we get rid of that it can actually come back somehow. And the Gamut point is the thing and there have been studies on this, that using it completely and totally dissolves that. With the EFT shortcut the Gamut point has pretty much been dropped. Usually EFT Masters will do the 9 Gamut when they hit a block or something kind of negative, or there’s some emotional things that you can’t get over, but otherwise the gamut point is pretty much dropped. Bringing the gamut point back, especially at the end of the session is very important. However, the karate chop also does something similar to the gamut point, so luckily if we use the karate chop when doing the short cut you get a lot of it. But karate chop is usually used with the set up statement “even though this is happening, I deeply and completely accept myself ” so that is not exactly the same thing as using the Gamut point while looking for the negative event. The bottom line is that at the end of every session, you’ve tested all the aspects, you’ve done all your basic EFT or MTT or matrix, you’ve done all you are supposed to do as a practitioner or doing self-help. Then you do 3 minutes on the Gamut point. I have a series of things to say while you do it as 3 minutes is a long time. By doing that you are guaranteed to get rid of this gene histone, whether it is in your cells, in your mind, in your matrix, in your brain, in your energy field, your heart map. If you do the gamut point while you talk essentially at the end of the clearing, you are pretty much guaranteed to have gotten it and as one of my clients calls it “3 minutes of insurance, I think I’ll do that”. You just tap on the gamut point and just talk. You are pretty much bringing in everything that you ever learnt. What does that mean? Well I have what I call the 3 F’s, facts, feeling and field. So it’s like a gamut review. So you tap on the gamut point and talk about the facts, the feelings and the field and then you go into gratefulness. So where do you find the words – from everything you’ve learned – Reiki, hypnotherapy statements, Sandy Radomski’s - Tap and Receive, Tappas Flemings’s - I’m grateful, Beta Healings Thanking the World. So the facts part is “When I ran into the kitchen with my hands all covered with mud I was upset but I didn’t realise, I was just 3 years old, I didn’t realise that Mom just wanted me to not drag mud into the house. So I used to think this and now I don’t think that. I used to think this and now I think that”. Which by the way also helps with the Apex Effect. And then you go onto feelings “and that made me feel that I couldn’t show my feelings in public” but now I realise that it was just something I learned when I was 3”. 59

So you keep going over the feelings “I was feeling this and now I’m feeling this”. “I was feeling this at a 10 and now I’m feeling this at a zero and I used to think that ........”. And the field is when you get into really encoming what happened “I understand that I am healed throughout all my history, my ancestral line, my core beliefs, my beliefs, on cellular levels” and I’m really just making this up “my energy field, my echoes”, if you want to, bring in Matrix Reimprinting, gene histone if you think in cells, and if you want to go into heart map. “I am grateful and am released now”. And Tappas Fleming’s “I thank all those involved including myself and God and the Universe and whatever else for helping me do this and so on” because you’ve got to fill 3 minutes. I often use heart map where you take your non-dominant hand and put it over your heart chakra and take the other hand and push on the gamut point - in heart map you relax and feel the field coming out of your body and encoming you and going out through your heart – and if you want to know about all that you can see it at heartmap.com. You just feel that wonderful grateful feeling of this being one and everything, being wonderful and whatever you want to make up, and encoming you like a cocoon and making you feel good and all this wonderfulness and hopefully by this time you’ve done 3 minutes! You’re really just making it up. I had Dr. Pat Carrington test all this because I wanted someone who wasn’t involved in finding all this out and just said to her just try this out and tell me what you see. And what she said was “An additional sense of peace – you could hear people go ‘phew’” – what I call a secondary release. I wait for that secondary release and sometimes it happens in one minute and sometimes in 3 and a half minutes. I have 3 really good examples of this. One is a woman who had cancer and after having MTT she was cancer free and it was retriggered and she really thought she was going to die again. So it took a good 5 minutes (I guess it’s not long in the scheme of things) before I saw her do the secondary release because she was really upset – she was in the advanced stages of cancer – it was really devastating for her and it took quite a long time on the gamut point before I saw a secondary release. I have a video of that which I am hoping to release so that people can actually see that. Gary How did you know that that release was there- you say she took a deep breath and released in that way. Is that very common then? Karin Oh yes- some people cry – just tears of release – it’s not the same kind of crying – it’s not huge emotional crying – a person’s eyes well up with water. It’s almost like somebody loving a sunset or it’s just that very gentle kind of love and peace and it’s so overwhelming that you tear up, and that’s 60

what you see. Other times when it is something quite devastating like someone thinking they are going to die, then that’s a huge release. Now you can only do this after they are already cleared. It’s not a magic pill – just tap a point and everything is gone. Now that it is the Gamut point, and Karate chop to a certain extent, that does this but if you just sit and whack on the Gamut point the client doesn’t feel any release, they don’t feel the emotions change until things go. It’s better to do the other points so at least they feel the release of various emotions and you can test aspects and go through traditional EFT or MTT and the basics, and when everything is done then you do the Gamut point for 3 minutes. Gary And that’s the triple warmer isn’t it in Chinese Medicine? Karin Yes Gary You were saying about whacking the warmer, weren’t you? Karin Yes, (laughing) one of my students – she’s about 20 years old and she wanted to make a point – so she walked up to Tania and I and said “That whack the warmer thing is a great deal, I’ve tried it 2 times so far!” Tania looked at her as if to say “What?!” And I’m thinking “What is she talking about?” and then it dawned on me. I suppose hitting the Gamut for 3 minutes really is “Whacking the Warmer”! Gary So you are saying that to use the Gamut point is really important then? Karin As a clearing at the end, as an insurance I think it’s a wonderful thing. Another thing which I started doing, which is different than in many years of practice, is that I used to have my clients, while they are talking to me, rub on a spot of their choice, and some people pick the collar bone point and what’s easy to do is to rub the inside of the nail bed on their thumb, while they talk to me. Because you never know what you are clearing. If they are talking to you and you are setting up the next event or you are talking about what happened last week and how that made them feel, so that you can find the original event. You know – what you do when you are a practitioner – so I just have 61

them tap or rub one of the points while we are talking. Well, I have switched that now to the Gamut point. Because both the Gamut Point and the Karate chop are both points which are very important in this and so why not work on it that way? Gary Why not work on it when you have that opportunity to do that? So work on the warmer? Karin Yes, work on the warmer. Now to a very lesser extent the fingers, and the thumb and the forefinger are important in this and for lack of another word, I’m going to call it the gene histone. Even if it’s in the matrix. It really works directly on this gene histone. And so rubbing the thumb, the forefinger, the karate chop point or tapping on the gamut point while someone is talking to you is important. And you know, clients like to have a choice. Which one of these do you like? And you can switch through. I have clients who come for 45 minutes to an hour and others who drive from very far away, so I will do 2 or 3 hours with them and they are not going to rub on the same point the entire time. That would be crazy, they’d leave with bruises so we move around. Gary And so does that mean that they can find a special point which suits them? Karin No, it’s not about a special point, the special point is about the training in EFT and TFT that you find a special point that is more comforting to you. I have a couple of points – when reading emails which are upsetting to me and another one is when I’m on the phone. Another one is when I’m driving, my road rage, which I need to tap on. So we have special points that work for us, and some people naturally seem to go towards one point. For a lot of people it’s the collar bone point. Especially women, men I find like the head. This is not exactly a special point. I give them a choice of these 4 points while they are talking to me because I know that they work directly on the gene histone. It’s always better to give people choices. So I’m giving them four. Gary How did you find out that the Gamut point was so important in the work? Karin There was an interesting article I came across which was about “EFT can be undone” and without going into a long detail about that, the article was written by someone who is not really a scientist but he goes “they are tapping over 1700 times so let’s find out what happens with my students”. 62

Well, if someone is completely and totally cleared of something and it comes back, the natural thing to think is that somebody didn’t take care of the aspects. What if someone did take care of the aspects, then what is this? So, what he found is this gene histone. If it’s not completely cleared, and if you are just clearing issues and it can pop back up, and usually stronger than before. So after finding this out, I thought how many times that the 2 things that you are supposed to feel to make EFT become undone is thinking you are going to die, while ing the specific event that caused the thing in the first place. Now how often when you are 4 years old and you are thinking that this trauma happened, and you are thinking of this specific event when your father slapped you in the kitchen at the same exact time that you are afraid of dying. And I was thinking that that wasn’t going to be possible, and with Grant there was somebody who had been in a raft and they were going over rapids that were too high for their skill level, and this woman who was an EFT practitioner, she was thinking about this event and was specific. There were 3 people in the audience. Dr Webb, who works with war veterans, was saying that they were constantly reliving this problem – fears of death- combined with what first gave them the problem. So they are constantly blowing up and undoing the EFT that he was doing and he couldn’t put his finger on what was happening as he has been doing this with veterans for 7 years. Another woman, she had a combination of menopause and medication and she had been using EFT for 10 years and been a practitioner for 6 years, so she’s cleared everything . So she’s driving and the hormone medication kicks in while she’s thinking of the event and the hormone medication makes the lines on the road come together in front of her so she thinks she’s gonna die and suddenly all of her issues start coming back. And then there was the woman Peggy who I told you about before who had cancer and had been told that she would die within 3 months, and had had EFT which cleared it, and 3 years later she’s in a workshop and she was thinking of the fear of dying and watching a session which reminded her of her own situation and everything came back stronger than before. So what I am saying is that to all these people this was happening, so we were able to show that this does happen, and it doesn’t if you tap on the gamut point for 3 minutes at the end of a clearing. And it was proven by these 3 people because they just tapped on the Gamut point for 3 minutes while going over the event that they were working on, and it was completely gone at the end of that. Gary So the connection was there? 63

Karin The connection was there. So it’s not just going over rapids while thinking that it can come back. The bottom line is just to do your regular meridian therapy as you’ve always done, but after all the aspects have gone just simply have your client or yourself focus on the issue while tapping on the gamut point for at least 3 minutes.

Now we talk to Maryam Webster Maryam Webster Gary said in 2003 that we no longer needed to use the Gamut point. The reason in the first place for using the gamut point was to root out deep seated trauma and the core causes of issues and Gary was getting these one minute miracles without using it. Because of the calibre of Gary, he is going to bring in so many different resources to get those one minute miracles and the average practitioner simply does not have that art that Gary has after originating a therapy as he did, and using it for as long as he has and being a very savvy practitioner. But for the average practitioner that’s not the case and certainly when I was teaching the Certified Energy Coach Program the people I was teaching said that when they didn’t use the 9 Gamut they didn’t resolve the stuff and they needed to put it back. That’s what we were finding and I personally believe that we’ve thrown the baby out with the bath water, and we need to put the 9 Gamut back in, and here’s why: We don’t have the mastery of Gary Craig at public level – I hope that EFT makes it into kindergartens all over the world and by the time those children are older they are going to be that master, but right now we don’t have that mastery, and so we need that 9 Gamut because we have no idea what the origin of the trauma is, what the origin of the limiting belief is, what the origin of the obstacle or blockage is, so we need to put it back in as it does root those out. Another reason – because we encode in our brains information of what we feel, what we see and what we hear. There are 3 different locks in our brains. The human mind is like a computer and it’s how the computer address is stored if you will. Now if you decontaminate we what one sees without addressing what one hears and feels during a trauma, then you are going to have those tail enders that go on for ever. When we use the 9 Gamut, that addresses what we see, hear and feel and not being sophisticated to the art of delivery of a master, we don’t have to have that, and can use the 9 gamut and get to the core of the problem. In fact, if we are constantly tapping during the day and whenever we can, and I really like the work of Steve Wells and David Lake who talk about tapping even when you are on the toilet, when we’re not doing anything else. If we tap on the 9 gamut we are going to start getting into those issues that 64

we don’t even know exist. And it’s going to start rooting them out even without us knowing that it’s going on. And so as we go through our day and using the 9 Gamut now and then, it’s going to start whittling down as Gary says – the legs on that table. It’s going to start erasing the writing on our walls. Gary And you can do personal peace procedure and all that can’t you? Maryam Absolutely. Every day. Gary There is a theory isn’t there that if you have your eyes in a certain position it can relate to where you were looking when you first experienced a trauma? Maryam That’s correct, and Darnelium invented a wonderful grid called IFT919 when it was first out there. And there are 81 different places and 9 x 9 grids of all the possible places you were looking when you had the trauma - so referring to the brain as a computer how the brain connects to that address in memory, like in a hard drive, it creates by where we were looking, what we were hearing and how we felt. Gary It is interesting when sometimes if you move your eyes around you get a stickiness in one position. Maryam And that stickiness is a place where a hidden memory exists and what we find is (I am someone who develops procedures, develops energy therapy and other processes to deal with different issues) and what my colleagues and I have found is that if you go to one of those moments, but if you bother to take it out and look at it, that tiny little flicker, that blip on the radar, can spool out into a 2 hour movie of what happened. And you go “Wow!” when you pull it out. For instance when doing time line work, it can go out for several days. A tiny, tiny, little flicker in someone’s eye. So again, that’s something that someone like Gary, who has trained in Neuro Linguistic Programming trained to look for, and trained to deal with is going to find, but most of us out in the world are not so trained. So simply doing that 9 gamut procedure is going to get to the core issue without the need for that training.

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Gary We hope to go into depth about Neuro Linguistic Programming and other things on another event to get more details, but I think what is important here is that we are not all Gary Craig. We need to kind of grow into that, and some people may look at Gary Craig or see someone experienced doing EFT in a certain way, and just think that they can leap to do that in a sense. Maryam Right, and then look at the videos and do a monkey see, monkey do, but what it is important to know about the videos, and Gary has said this many times, EFT is built on the framework of NLP and TFT, so both of those disciplines blended together. And one of the things that NLP looks at is facial colouring. So it’s obvious when someone is embarrassed and they blush quite easily, anyone can see that quite easily. But a master of NLP can see 20 different shadings that you and I looking at that face would see no colour difference whatsoever. And it’s that kind of thing that Gary is looking for when he is working on stage with someone. And he can pick up what even the most advanced video equipment can’t. So what we think we are seeing on those videos is not the whole picture. And Gary is such a fine tuned instrument at the level of mastery that he has, that he can pick up on these cues, probably without even realising it himself. He’s got that unconscious mastery, he has come to that point, and an instant turnabout in how he’s doing the clearing for that individual that just flows, it comes out, it’s microseconds in picking up on that cue, it happens in microseconds and you and I will never see it. That’s mastery. Gary Do you think that we can reach that kind of mastery with experience and time? Maryam Abosolutely. That’s within the view of everybody, I mean I’m a psychologist, I have extensive training in that background and have been at it 30 years and there are still things that I am learning today that I go “Wow – I know that there is so much more I need to know”. But someone else looking at me is going to say “Wow - that person is a master”. And Gary has said “I am still learning”. But we can all get to that same level of mastery with practice – you don’t need to have special training, you don’t need to be a therapist to begin with, you just need to practice and the more and different client types you practice with the more you are going to learn and the better a master you are going to be.

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Gary So you need the right kind of training then? Maryam Not the right kind of training necessarily but the right kind of practise. So training on the DVD’s for instance is going to be adequate for learning EFT, but where that level of mastery comes in is practise again and again and again over many, many years. But that’s not to say that the person who just learnt EFT yesterday can’t get a good result. You certainly can. It’s like Alcoholics Anonymous saying keep coming back, it works, keep practising EFT it works. And the more you tap the better it works. Gary So just keep tapping. Maryam Yeah and tap with as many different kinds of people as you possibly can because the interaction of your energy field with their energy field is going to teach you more things than somebody talking to you, or reading or watching a video can teach you. Gary So having that interaction? Maryam At an energy level, yes.

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Part Five Working with EFT and the importance of testing our work. Judy Byrne will be talking about working with early memories and how we can create memories in the future, and also create a belief about how safe the world is, and also what happens in the mind or body when we are under stress, or suffering some kind of trauma and how EFT disempowers memories to free us of negative emotions. Tania Prince talks about testing your work to make sure that a client is getting beyond their issue, and using all the sensory information to actually work with that to test results and to look for core issues. Alina Frank talking about EFT being a form of focused intention and ritual and gives us tips on working with others and getting yourself out of the way. Alina There are many ways of using EFT and how we see EFT working in the body. For some it’s a straight matter of OK, so I am engaging in this energy system or the meridian system. For me, I like to see it as a ritual that we are using when we are using focused intention, when we are engaging our thoughts, our intention when we see that we are assisting the body in repairing itself. Of course, miracles can happen and they do, and that can take place in many different ways and I just happen to like a simple effective method called EFT, but there are lots of different ways that healing can happen between two people or with yourself, and the first step is definitely bringing attention to the problem and doing some kind of ritual. Whether that’s prayer or getting a pill or getting a placebo or something of that nature. Time after time after time research suggests that it’s really about intention, especially when you’re talking about subtle energy systems, the chakras, the meridians and auric fields and all of that. It’s more sensitive to intention than anything else. That’s why you can get great effects by not even tapping. You don’t have to be physically tapping to get great results. It’s the intention behind it. Gary So does that mean that it’s very important how you show up with a client say? Alina Absolutely. You need to get your ego out of the way, especially as the apex problem does show up quite a bit. I was walking in my small town and bumped into someone I had been working with on 68

smoking, and I asked her “how’s it going with the smoking?” and she said “I’m not smoking any more” and she proceeded to rattle off all these reasons why she wasn’t smoking any more. And or course in my mind I was thinking that it had to do with the work that we did with EFT, but you’ve got to get yourself out of the way, get your ego out of the way, and that enables you to connect with something higher, and that’s when EFT works through you and not by you, as Gary keeps saying, and that’s when you really do get insights, and it will lead you down certain paths that you previously hadn’t seen. Anyway to cut a long story short, the first thing is to set the intention that you’re gonna be helping this person, one way or the other, even if it’s just with a referral. In fact I have this kind of rule set that I have in my practice. I have these invisible rules that guide my practice and we all live by this set of rules and belief sets, and in my practice I know that every person that comes to me is going to be helped in one way or another, even if it turns out that I can’t work with them for whatever reason, I know that that’s assisting them. So go in with the intention that one way or the other this person is going to come to you for a reason to connect and that you are fully present in the moment. And some of the ways that you can do that and assist yourself is that you create a space that is only for EFT or only for working with clients. And if you have a portion of your apartment and it’s just a corner, that’s fine. Don’t have any toys, don’t have messy laundry. Don’t have personal pictures, don’t have personal clutter and just clean it up and you are asg that space as a sacred healing space. In my practice once someone has set an appointment with me, they are welcome to send me information ahead of time in a document, in an email and from some people I just get one sentence and from others I get like a lot more. I actually had the other day a 53 page document which was a whole dissertation, a whole auto-biography. That starts them thinking along the lines of “OK, if I have this thing going on in my life and it’s not working, what could possibly be at the core of it?” It starts them to think along those lines and that’s really what I use it for. I just kind of skim the document but I allow enough space, but again work is happening through me and not by me. I’m not getting in my way and that’s when all kinds of magic happens, and you get a certain hit or a certain word, or you hear just a slight change in their tone of voice that makes you think – Aha, that’s the direction I want to go in. Gary Is it something that you grow into, what you are able to do?

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Alina Oh sure, I tell my students that the first 50 sessions that you do with other people, do it completely rote. Because you can get completely lost in how this practitioner does it or the way that I do it sessions, just take the first 50 sessions just straight by the book, the basic recipe “even though I feel ............... (emotion) and .....................(incident) I deeply and completely accept myself and this emotion at all the points and that will give you a foundation and a platform to jump off at onto the next level of proficiency in this, but at first what I want for you is to get successful and comfortable in the process. It not only happens if you do it over and over again. It’s like driving car. When you were driving initially when you learnt how to drive, you were hyper sensitive to everything going on around you in the environment. You knew to look in your rear view mirror every minute or two, or to make sure that you had your indicator light on, and the distance for breaking and all of these things that you were very very focused on when first learning to drive, and now you get in the car and you get from point A to point B and you really don’t even know how you got there. I’ve heard some people say that that’s terrible, you’re not really focusing. No, your subconscious mind has learned the process enough and that allows you to take off and use your right brain for creative thinking. So things are worked out when you are driving when you reach that zone. In your driving you’re working out problems, you are thinking about the future. You are unscrambling some mess and that’s all good. Your right brain has taken over the whole process of doing a, b, c, d, and that is how it is with EFT. You learn it and then it becomes automatic and then you know what to do, and then you can sort of throw the rules out. But first you’ve got to get the foundation down. Gary So you become unconsciously competent? Alina Exactly. Gary So is it always important to test your work after you’ve been working with other people? Alina Not only is it important to test your work, it’s important to tell your client and people that you work with that if anything shows up after you’ve completed your session, it’s not that EFT didn’t work, it’s just that you haven’t picked all the pieces apart yet. When I see people that work on themselves

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and have never had guidance from a practitioner, they tend not to realise that, they just assume that it’s just EFT not working and they quit. So it’s important to lay that preframe before you finish a session. But there are many ways to test after a session, and if you can at all be in the real live re-enactment of what it is that you have been working on, this will absolutely give you confirmation that you’ve done enough work or just let you know that you are not done yet. So for your public speaking, actually going through that process and being with that person or having them go to Toastmasters or one of those organisations and try to have them speak up and see what happens. Having them jot down notes. When I work with couples on sexual issues I’m not going to stand there in their bedroom taking notes! So they are just going to have to come back to me and say well yeah I felt more comfortable in this area but not so much in that. Gary So it varies then, according to what the issue is? Alina It does vary and another way of testing is just to have them close their eyes and tune into the event and make the sounds louder, and the smells more distinct and all of those things that Gary talks about repeatedly. Those are so important because something else may show up. You might think that you are done and suddenly – oh yes and that little aspect is popping up, and I’m not feeling that this is complete. In fact at this point, after I’ve done a round or two with a client and they haven’t shifted, I know that it’s more than likely a shifting aspect that we need to clarify, we need to figure out what that is. So testing, also telling the story, if someone was very emotional before when telling the story and now they have no charge, is a great way. Being the person that attacked them verbally or emotionally and saying the words that the mother or father said to them in that tone of voice. I know that Gary Craig does that, doesn’t he to test the results, trying to poke them if you like with whatever that was. Alina Another way that I like to test - if we are working on a period of time that was extensive, over childhood I would say, then I will have the client take a snapshot picture in their minds of what that child was like at age 2 and how do you feel about witnessing that child at age 2? Yourself at age 2 and now go to age 3. How do you feel about your child at age 3 and how do you feel about yourself at age 4? Sometimes I’ll have them look at an old photo album and see how they feel now versus how they were feeling before. 71

Gary You mentioned shifting aspects earlier, can you explain a bit more about that? Alina The issue will collapse far enough that some other part of the problem will creep in and sort of overtake the original one that you started with. It’s like a neon sign “here, work with me, work with me!”. And sometimes people aren’t aware that these are going on especially when they are working by themselves. So let’s say you are tapping on being locked in a closet – your father locked you in a closet when you were 6 years old. You were tapping on the feeling of being in that closet and the fear or the sadness, and suddenly when you are mid way into the tapping, or sometimes right away, as you are at the karate chop point, you think what I’m really feeling is that he spanked me before I went in, and that’s where my mind is going. Or it could be a different event altogether. It could be a different part of that event. Or it could be a different emotion, so if you were tapping on fear and sadness and suddenly you are full of rage, then that’s a shifting aspect and one of the ways to keep track of these so that you don’t get lost when you are working by yourself, is to write that down. Write down that it changed from sadness to rage – make yourself a note – and then go ahead and finish tapping on what you are in the middle of. Test that you are not feeling sad or fearful any more, and then on to the next one. Gary So that’s shifting aspects but as you were saying earlier, we really need to test our work don’t we, but really need to test it in the real world don’t we? Alina Yes, I have had many clients come back and say that now I am doing x, y, z, I see that’s there’s still something left. So it’s important to tell your clients that you might not be completely done until you actually test it out in the real world. Some people will be surprised at how, just like the generalisation effect can take place at collapsing issues, let’s say you are working on one thing and you feel that the whole forest of issues is gone. That will happen and you won’t even know what it’s related to so you are working on all the anger that you’ve had at your father for all the abuse that you had as a child. And then your neighbour who has always bucked the crap out of you, you are so annoyed with your neighbour. Every conversation has just been pain and anger and hostility and suddenly you stop at the mailbox one 72

day and you find that that is completely gone. Whatever was interfering in the ability for you to connect with this person is completely gone. And you can’t even fathom where that came from. As an EFT practitioner I know to expect these sorts of things. But it is absolutely connected to the work on clearing your emotional distress around other people that can pervade so many other areas in your life. It’s just wonderful. Gary I know when we are starting out we kind of think we’ve got to get down to a zero on everything and sometimes we get down to the zero and think we’ll just leave it at that? Is that dangerous then if we don’t test that everything’s gone as it were? Alina Yes, it’s important to test otherwise you may push yourself into a situation beyond what you were ready for. I’m just thinking of clients who had fear of water and they set themselves up for a 10 day white water rafting trip – something like that, so it’s important to test and take one step at a time. However, I have had clients who for whatever reason have taken a while to integrate the work and if they have come down to a 2 I will just say go back and revisit this tomorrow and tell me what you think about it tomorrow or right yourself a note to give me some next time we meet. And I can’t think of one instance where they didn’t come back next day and say it was completely gone. So sometimes it’s just a matter of integration – especially if you are at a 2 or a 1. Gary I know that when you are working with friends if you are just starting they are quite helpful and they may just say that they are a zero? Alina Yeah (laughing) that’s right. Or the opposite could be true. I have a friend who is doing some work that no one is really acknowledging here where we live. And I said to her that it’s hard to be a prophet in your own kingdom. So sometimes it is good to go outside your circle of friends as they will sometimes value what you do more than the people closest to you, who only see you in a particular role. Gary Could we test the results of the results as it were using what I think is called a VOC Scale – validity of cognition, I think it’s called? Could we use that to make sure that the result is what it is?

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Alina Sure. One of the ways that I like to use is core issues at the end of a session, I have my client repeat that “I don’t deserve to be loved” and I’ll ask “ is that really true?”, say that aloud repeat after me “I don’t deserve love” and then I will say “how true is that for you?”. Is it 100% true, 10% true. I love using that because I really get a gauge on how well we’ve collapsed most of it. Gary And of course if they are kind of silent after that, you know that there is still more to do? Alina Uh-huh or they could just be so thrilled they are speechless. (laughing) Now we talk to Tania Prince You have to test your work really Gary and you have to do that in depth and thoroughly. Gary So it’s not just like asking one question, like you might fall into a place where you might say “Are you ok now?” which would be kind of ridiculous, yes?

We continue the conversation with Tania Prince Tania Yes (laughing). No if you are dealing with a specific event ask if there are any smells associated with that, any sounds, any tastes, any feelings when you think about that? And can you see that clearly? Because when people look at a specific event and it has been cleared it usually does not look the same as when they started working on it. Now if that event is still there in their face, big and bright, it tends to be still affecting them. So when it’s kind of still there and they can still clearly see it, they might not have emotion, tap one more round on “even though it may not be safe to let this go.....................”, you will find that the event will often fade. Gary I know that in trauma with war victims especially, they say that they can smell very strongly the smells that were there when they were traumatised.

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Tania So you need to go through all the sensory information that they may be holding inside to make sure that none of that is there, as there should be nothing attached to the problem. Gary Any other things we need to look out for? Tania I do a lot of work visually with people when we need to find things that people need to work on, and if they have some really big bright memories that usually means something, even if they haven’t got feelings associated with that. Also if I am testing things at the end of a session I’ll say what do you need to do to know that this problem is gone? Gary Because we often fall into looking at the feelings don’t we, that’s where we often go? “How is that feeling now?” Tania Yes, I work right across the board on anything, whether they have visual associated with it, sounds, tastes, smells. I make sure all of these systems are cleared out. Gary Are people different when working with them in a sense? Are some more geared to working in a visual way and others in a sound way, how does that work? Tania I think people are different, they work differently and you need to work with how they are processing and how they store that. So you adapt to the person you are working with. Gary Is there anything we can look out for? Even in the words I am using there I am saying “look” aren’t I, so I am using a visual way of thinking about it.

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Tania Yes, you wouldn’t like processing visually would you Gary? Laughing. People give so much information about themselves, even in the language they are using it kind of reflects how they see their own world. Gary That’s a vast area of education isn’t it? Maybe we can cover that at some point. But there are some basic things you can do to see that this person is getting beyond their problem? Tania Certainly, understanding how they process, how they think about the problem, whether they have visuals associated with it, tastes, smells, sounds associated with the issue, is very valuable information.

More now from Judy Byrne, on what EFT is really good for and the results you can get with the process. One of the things I think it is really good for is working with memories, working with everything from what we called the really small t trauma, which I tend to think of as every day trauma and we all experience this, all the way through to post traumatic stress disorder. I think EFT works very well at disempowering those memories. And of course the early ones determine who we think we are, how safe we think the world is. It is related to things that happen in our interactions with parents and others who are around us when we are small, but particularly parents, that we start to form impressions of whether we are ok, whether we’re good enough and so on. Things that happen along the way continue to modify our view of ourselves and how safe the world is. And it happens physiologically as well as psychologically. We know that people who have suffered really severe trauma or prolonged trauma, actually have physical changes to their bodies. The hippocampus, the original part of the brain which does the initial memory processing actually shrinks in post traumatic stress, or after prolonged stress, it is physically vulnerable. And if it’s really serious, we’re talking about really big post traumatic stress level of trauma, it’s almost like it’s a flash drive that’s been smashed by a hammer. And the amygdala which is attached to the hippocampus and triggers survival responses in the body, actually becomes bigger with trauma. So it’s bigger and more prone to being constantly triggered as a survival response.

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So our bodies and our view of ourselves and our whole approach to the world is very memory influenced. So it’s great that EFT gives us a way of disempowering memories, and doing it in a way which is the least traumatising to the client as I have ever come across. Gary Are you saying that EFT can work equally as well with those larger traumas as with the smaller traumas, as well as the other things that happen in our lives? Judy Well I think that it is a very good way not of getting rid of the memory but getting rid of the emotion that is attached to the memory. So that it just becomes something that we in a neutral way. Consciously and unconsciously. It’s not just the emotion that we have when we bring a memory to our conscious attention. Very often we are being driven by unconscious memories as well. Certainly not as easily, I think when you are working with really big trauma - you have to work more slowly, more gently and more skillfully than with the relatively small stuff. Gary Right, and I think we said before that you need really some experience in that area to be effective? Judy I think that if you are working with somebody with really big trauma, the sort of thing that would qualify somebody with post traumatic stress disorder, or maybe not quite, as the psychiatric classifications are quite strict and have conditions which you might not necessarily meet, but you could still be badly traumatised. If you are working at that end, I think that EFT is a brilliant tool but you need a whole way of working, a therapeutic way of working that goes beyond just knowing how to use the tool of EFT. So you need experience and I think some background to do that. Because you need ways of keeping a person safe while doing it, and working with the whole person and not just EFTing the trauma memory. Gary So that’s sort of a more advanced approach to EFT then?

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Judy And an approach which is more suited to people who have a lot of experience in doing therapy one way or another and who take the trouble to educate themselves about it as well. Gary But we are capable of doing most things with the technique? Judy Oh the technique can go anywhere. It is just having somewhere to take it in of having some kind of a model. I have actually recorded a number of DVD’s about working with memories and the most recent one of them is specially about traumatic memories, and I talk there about a four stage plan of therapy and about the sorts of things that you need to put in place in order to make the tapping safe before you start, and safe to do, and how you might pick up again afterwards as well. So it does present a model of therapy, including tapping, but it is not for people who have just learnt tapping and don’t have quite a bit of experience to take that into, because you are dealing with big stuff. You are potentially dealing with dynamite when people start bringing up really traumatic stuff. Gary You say that’s available at your website? Judy Yes it is. I have several on working with memories but that one is on really traumatic memories.

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Hear are some questions to help you some of what has been shared with you in the material from part five of the workbook. Part 5 1. Why do some people, especially people who are working with EFT on themselves, stop doing EFT as they think that it is not working? 2. Talk about the different ways of testing the results of your work with EFT. 3. Why do you think that intention and being fully present with a client, and getting yourself out of the way is so important? 4.

When starting out with EFT, where is it important not to go and why?

5. What is meant by the different methods of processing that people have, and why is it so valuable to know about yourself or a client when doing EFT? 6. What is meant by being unconsciously competent and how would you get to that point?

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EFT Hub Workbook 1 contributors Marla Tabaka Life Coach and EFT Practitioner, Marla Tabaka, (www.marlatabaka.com) coaches and inspires busy entrepreneurs to realize their dreams by developing what she calls The Million Dollar Mindset. Marla's utilizes EFT to help her clients learn how to achieve a positive mindset, life/work balance, and to reach their desired income. With the help of EFT, Marla's clients have broken financial and internal barriers to grow their businesses as high as the ten-million dollar mark! Marla is the author of the popular Million-Dollar-Mindset for Solopreneur's http://www.inc.com/one-person-business Blog at Inc. Magazine Online where she shares insights, experiences, and tips for a happy life and successful business. And now, in her weekly broadcasts on the Toginet Network, Marla and her guests will reveal secrets to success, including EFT! Find out more at her website: www.marlatabaka.com Judy Byrne Judy's ion is using tapping to help people have the best life they can. She feels that so often this seems to come down to resolving old traumas as safely and painlessly as possible so working with trauma seems to have elected itself as a specialist area for her. She is particularly concerned about the servicemen and women who are returning from war zones damaged by their experiences and in turn damaging the lives of those around them. She feels that if we cannot help them, the effects will ripple out over a whole generation, and to generations to come. Judy also loves ing the EFT community and one way of doing this is promoting the annual Masterclass as an opportunity for learning and sharing and expanding and evolving EFT and other energy therapies. After the first one she organised she thought she would need a long holiday before doing it again, if ever. But now,15 months later, she is already working with Sue Beer and Emma Roberts on the next one in London in October 2010. They have set up a Facebook page to update people and will have a live website and booking system soon. Judy feels that it is just such a privilege to do this work and she shares her wealth of knowledge in the EFT Hub library.. Find out more at http://www.judybyrne.co.uk/

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Brad Yates Brad likes to think of himself as an Evolution Catalyst. He feels blessed to be known internationally for his creative and often humorous use of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). He was trained and certified at the respected Hypnosis Motivation Institute in Tarzana, CA, where he served on staff. Combining this background with training in energy psychology and various schools of thought in the area of personal growth and achievement, he coaches groups and individuals in achieving greater success, health and happiness in their lives. Brad has a wealth of information about learning how to tap into loving the self with EFT tapping and other areas that can help improve your tapping ability and also in the EFT Hub he shares his knowledge on the subject of addictions. Find out more at: www.bradyates.net Tania Prince Tania is a leading therapist and international trainer who specializes in using the most advanced techniques available in the world today to get fast and effective results. Tania is an EFT Master. She is a fully qualified Hypnotherapist, Psychotherapist, and Counselor. She is a Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP, trained in America by Gary Craig, creator of EFT. She studied with Tad James creator of Timeline Therapy ® and a leading NLP Trainer/ author; as well as Tapas Fleming, (creator of TAT) in England. Tania gives us exclusive information on how she has developed a new form of tapping called Deep State Repatterning and other useful information in the EFT Hub to develop the art of EFT and its delivery. To find out more please visit: www.nlp-hypnotherapy.com Ingrid Dinter Ingrid Dinter is an EFT coach and interfaith minister and owner of EFT4Vets in Hopkinton, NH. As the daughter of a WWII Veteran and POW, she specializes in helping Veterans and their families heal from the trauma of war. Ingrid was one of five EFT practitioners who participated in the filming of Gary Craig's documentary ing EFT with Combat Veterans in San Francisco. She has since coauthored and presented several published research studies about EFT for Veterans, and comoderates the official EFT Forum for trauma/PTSD and the EFT forum for practitioners.

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Ingrid has gained unique insights into the military and veterans world, and teaches her EFT4Vets healing and coaching program in the context of understanding the importance of the archetypal warrior and war as a rite of age. Her often challenging work has allowed her to gain profound insights into true forgiveness of the unforgivable. Her motto is: We don't judge, we don't condone and we don't excuse what happened with EFT, we help HEAL what happened Ingrid Dinter offers help on her blog: www.eftforvets.com, and her website www.eft4vets.com Dr Carol Look Carol Look's specialty is inspiring clients to attract success and abundance into their lives by combining cutting edge energy psychology methods such as EFT with the Law of Attraction to clear limiting beliefs, release resistance and build "prosperity consciousness". Before becoming an EFT Master, Carol was trained as a Clinical Social Worker and earned her Doctoral Degree in Clinical Hypnotherapy. Through seminars, teleclasses, and extensive audio and written materials, Carol leads people through the process of eliminating their emotional and energetic blocks to success so they can finally live ionate and joyful lives. A leading voice and pioneer in the Energy Psychology community, Carol is well known for her four seasons as an internet radio show host, as a highly sought after international seminar presenter, and as the author of the popular book, Attracting Abundance with EFT. She has also created audio CD sets and able products on the topics of the Vibration of Abundance, Clearing Clutter with EFT, Improve Your Eyesight, Eliminating the Fear of Public Speaking, Weight Loss, Business Abundance Now and training DVDs titled Success and Abundance with EFT and the Law of Attraction and A Vibrational Approach to Healing Pain and Illness. She appears as a primary practitioner and energy psychology expert in the documentary DVD, The Tapping Solution. Find out more at: www.attractingabundance.com Rehana Webster Rehana Webster is a Counselor, Trainer, NLP Master, EFT Master Practitioner, Trainer & Mentor to EFT Practitioners, Member of ACEP (Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology Rehana has over 20 years experience in the adult training and education area and is currently self-employed providing training and counseling services to a range of organizations in her area of expertise being Trauma.

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Rehana is experienced in deg, delivering and implementing training courses as required by clients on a number of issues involving domestic violence, crisis intervention and substance abuse to name a few. She has delivered numerous courses in EFT and NLP to large and small groups of Counselors, Social Facilitators, School Psychologists and Health Workers and is highly skilled and experienced in working with high-risk offenders/criminal population within the justice system of New Zealand (using NLP and EFT techniques). Rehana has developed a cultural sensitivity working with native and multi cultural population in New Zealand and is also experienced in counseling children, adolescents and adults individually and in group sessions. Rehana developed educational programs for students at different learning ability levels and she is skilled in conducting assessments and writing reports in relation to patient treatment. Lastly Rehana has conducted crisis intervention sessions providing problem solving advice, information and referral, education and prevention for people in crisis. Find out more at: www.behaviourchanges.com Maggie Adkins Maggie says that "It is my belief that you excel when you truly have ion for your work. I have that ion for EFT and the extraordinarily deep impact it has on people's quality of life - dreams, hopes, and essential wellbeing." Maggie's ion has always been discovering what empowers her and then sharing her discoveries with others. In the late 1980s through 1993, she followed Stephen and Ondrea Levine's workshops throughout the U.S. whenever she could. Their work is primarily in the areas of healing, grieving, relationship and dying. She worked for Stephen and Ondrea (Warm Rock Tapes) from 1990-1993. Working so closely with their path of the heart transformed her life in ways she had never imagined possible and deepened her motivation to share her ion. In 1995 Maggie migrated to Australia where she was introduced to energy psychology techniques. In 1997, she received a letter of permission from Dr. Caroline Myss to teach portions of her work in Australia. She taught Dr. Myss' work from 1998-2000 throughout Australia. During this period she also practiced Bowen Therapy and Pranic Healing with clients as well as teaching classes on other healing techniques. When she was introduced to EFT, she was so impressed with its effectiveness, she slowly but surely stopped teaching all other philosophies/techniques and dedicated herself to mastering EFT. After 8 years, she is more enthused about EFT than ever before! Maggie studied TFT (Thought Field Therapy) in Australia in 1998, and then attended EFT Founder Gary Craig's workshops in 1999 & 2000 at the International Energy Psychology Conferences in Las Vegas. She also presented at the 2000 Conference. In August 2004, Maggie was one of 16 EFT practitioners Gary invited to participate in a 4-day training where it was determined what would become the Level 1, 2 & 3 approved EFT trainings.

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She has attended all of Gary Craig's U.S. EFT and Serious Illness trainings, and was an Emotional Assistant at all but one of them. It is very important to her to keep up-to-date on all the newest nuances of EFT. One of the things she loves most about Gary Craig is that he does not get stuck in what he did last week or last year or ten years ago. Maggie feels that he has been on a course of discovering and continually re-discovering how EFT can best work for people. Maggie teaches the Level 1, 2 & 3 approved trainings throughout the U.S. and Australia. She thoroughly share Gary Craig's ion to empower as many people as possible with the gift of EFT. In March, 2006, she was awarded the highest honor in EFT, the EFT Master designation. She feels truly honored and wants to help others reach this goal through her Business Mentoring programs. One of her very favorite EFT arenas is working with other EFT practitioners to help improve their EFT skills and business strategies. Some of Maggie's other special interests are creating programs for letting go of that sharp critic so many of us have inside, as well as programs for releasing chronic anger and depression. Her 'Body Dialogues with EFT' are quickly becoming one of the most popular EFT techniques where she explores with her clients who are in pain or have disease in the body. In addition, she has a successful private practice with an international client base who work with her by phone and/or email, or in person for one-on-one EFT healing sessions. Her newest labour of love is now being ACEP's co-ordinator for Australia. ACEP is the first international organization formed to all forms of energy meridian therapy. ACEP stands for Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology. If you would like information about how to , just send her an email. Find out more at: www.maggieadkins.com.au Jaqui Crooks Jacquie Crooks is an EFT tapping master and is well respected by many in the EFT tapping world. Jacquie shares with us how she uses tapping in many areas, including working on emotions and patterns that may have been created in the womb or even past lives and how to use EFT for abundance, marketing, moving beyond limiting beliefs and more. Find out more at: http://www.beacontraining.co.uk

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Cathy Vartuli Cathy Vartuli is a scientist, skilled in the use of technology to analyze man-made structures (integrated circuits) down to the atomic level. To accomplish this feat she and her team carefully peel away layer after layer until they can shine a focused beam of energy upon the part of the circuit that may have a disruption or block or weakness.How apt it is that in her skilled use of EFT, she helps clients peel away layer after layer until they get to their previously hidden core issue. Then she softly yet directly focuses energy upon the issue and not only helps it to shift but also helps her clients gain insight in the process. Cathy demonstrates the finest qualities of a coach... which includes being a student first and a teacher second. Her intuitive and energetic gifts are well-developed, and she consistently is able to reflect back to her clients deep truths about the state of our emotions and beliefs and the movement of energy in the physical body that are difficult to see on our own. Find out more about Cathy at: www.thrivingnow.com Jade Barbee Jade says "I know what it's like to have been checked out, shut down and otherwise emotionally unavailable ' to myself, my relationships and to life. This powerful mindful acupressure process has helped me transform my experience and continues to be one of my strategies for moving through personal challenges, attracting fulfilling abundance and living life as authentically as I possibly can. EFT (and Inner Theater) helps me get back on the horse when I fall, keeps me stretching comfortably, and gives me the ease and confidence to approach all of my goals more effortlessly". Jade's training and experience includes hundreds of hours of private sessions and group work and more than a year of intensive daily training and supervision with EFT Master Sophia Cayer with whom he was privileged to experience a deep, disciplined and highly intuitive approach to EFT. He also brings more than seven years of experience as a private tutor and learning specialist to his 1on-1 session work. He teaches EFT workshops all over the US, and is an active member of Associated Psychotherapists of Vermont (APOV). Find out more at: www.emotionalengine.com

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Andy Bryce Andy Bryce began working with energy healing in the mid 80's with Reiki and has trained in Intuitive healing and Psychic Surgery. Andy also created Beakthrough Bodywork in 1988 and worked with teenagers in care for ten years in the 90's. In 2000 Andy found EFT and he has been working with it ever since. Andy has also presented a workshop combining EFT and the Law of Attraction in the US, Canada and Australia that he called the Art of Receiving. Look out for other useful material from Andy including: The Freedom to Sleep Audio Program, Freedom from Dental Fears and Phobias DVD and Andy also has much to share in the area of EFT and relationships. Find out more at: www.andybryce.com Maryam Webster Maryam has been using EFT for many years and her wealth of experience is shared throughout the EFT Hub library in many areas. Maryam uses EFT to bring higher awareness, and induce a permanent state of conscious awareness, which she calls the "solution to most problems you'll ever face". On the tribute audio Maryam takes us back to the first time she met Gary Craig in the really early days of its development and also in the Hub library Maryam looks at the importance of the 9 gamut process and when not to tap. Discover more of about Maryam Webster at her website: www.maryamwebster.com Karin Davidson In this interview, well-known "TapAlongs" tapper, Karin Davidson, shares how she first met Gary Craig through discussions on his web movie. You will discover how Karin was a TV Producer who met Gary Craig the founder and how that meeting changed her Life's Focus over a 5-year path to become the co-founder of the Meridian Tapping Techniques Association. Karin Davidson video taped and produced DVDs featuring 28 of the 29 masters and Gary Craig. She is the for www.EFTMastersWorldwide.com Karin is a certified hypnotherapist, a Reiki master, an AAMET Trainer, an AAMET Level 3 Practitioner specializing in working with EFT Practitioners and is co-founder of AAMET America/MTT Association. She also is co-founder of Advanced MTT, the certification body for MTT. Find out more information at: www.howtotap.com, www.tapalongs.com and www.MTTassociation.com 86

Alina Frank Alina Frank says that, "Sex can be as functional as flossing your teeth or it can be used as an expression of a real sacred union and higher consciousness." The energy of sex and the many ways it can be, anywhere from slightly too very dysfunctional, can be healed quickly through the use of EFT. During Alina’s interview in the EFT Hub, we explore internet pornography and addiction, how and why sex can be an issue in a relationship. Finally we discover how sex can connect us with our partner and also with a higher power, on a deeper level, through the act of making love. Alina Frank has specialized in women's issues including intimacy, relationships, and sexual/reproductive health. Alina Frank has more on her website: http://www.tapyourpower.net

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