The Power of Backing Up in EFT (Article)
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
In this article, I want to talk about a strategy I find particularly valuable when conducting EFT sessions with clients, and also when using EFT simply for myself. I call it, for want of a better name, "backing up in EFT", but there may be other designations that would be even more fitting (I'm open to suggestions!)
Using EFT to Change a Basic Perception of Life (Article)
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
I find that even very experienced EFT'ers often fail to use EFT to change the basic ways they view life. This is probably because most of us have difficulty seeing the forest for the trees. We can recognize the details of our lives and we know how we respond to them, but we can be quite unaware of the underlying assumptions about life and people that are actually running our lives.
Improve Your Self-Esteem by Tapping the Positive (Article)
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
Many of us have known for some time that we can use EFT to increase self esteem by tracing the myriad beliefs that may be corroding that self-esteem and tapping to reduce or eliminate them.
This can be helpful, but were we to try to neutralize every negative belief that most of us hold about ourselves, that would be a lifetime's work.
Use the Rule of 5 for Maximum EFT Benefits (Article)
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
It is all too easy to walk away from an EFT tapping session too soon, just because you feel “a little better”. This happens all the time and results in many people failing to get full benefit from EFT.
How can you make sure you will keep going with EFT when you feel you want to pull back from doing it for some reason, even when continuing might bring you a much greater benefit?
Using Personal Resource States in EFT (Article)
I am increasingly impressed with the effectiveness of using what are called "Personal Resource States;" a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) term and concept, with EFT. The result can be excellent. By accessing personal resource states and inserting them into the set-up and reminder phrases of EFT, we can often make breakthroughs that might otherwise not be possible.
How to Use Role Playing in EFT (Article)
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
Role playing is an accepted strategy that can be used in therapy sessions to help clients learn how to handle a feared situation in a more constructive way. The therapist will ad lib the role of the antagonist (although later he/she sometimes reverses roles and enacts the role of the client), and the client usually plays their own selves. Traditionally, it’s a form of emotional re-education, but when used along with EFT (I’ve been using it this way), it can often change actual behavior in a dramatic manner and affords the therapist a superb opportunity to assess the effectiveness of the tapping right there and then. Here’s an example of how this works:
The Value of EFT Homework (Article)
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
There is a saying in social agencies which goes, “Always meet the client where they are.” I remember my first clinical supervisor telling me about that. It translates roughly into the concept that as therapists we should never force our own ideas on the client or expect them to want for themselves what we want for them – we are to meet them where THEY are. The following case of Victor illustrates the wisdom of "meeting the client where they are" as well as the effective use of doing "EFT homework" between sessions.
Using EFT for Gratitude (Article)
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
I am always interested in new uses for EFT that may not yet been recognized. Many of us use this remarkable technique when things go wrong in our lives but fail to recognize that it can be used equally successfully to enhance what is already good in our lives. One such use of EFT is to increase the deeply affirming experience of being genuinely GRATEFUL.
How to Use EFT to Change Negative Attitudes (Article)
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
EFT is a powerful instrument. It can even be used to effect a radical change in the way you approach life.
However, as we all know, it is not easy to change the way we react to certain aspects of life, because to us our attitudes seem to be carved in stone; unchangeable. I have found, however, that we can alter even fundamental views by using Personal Resource States in EFT. I have written extensively about the power of these inner resources that we all have within our memory banks, in my EFT Choices Manual, but I cannot emphasize strongly enough how important they are if we want to effect a basic change in our life.
Using EFT to Create Desirable Behaviors (Article)
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
In addition to its use for handling specific problems (by far its most common use) EFT can be extremely effective in helping you rid yourself of repetitive behaviors that don’t serve you well and replacing them with new behaviors that you’d love to have.
Increasing Self-Acceptance through EFT (Article)
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
As we all know, self esteem is a major issue in many problems. It is often so central that the default self acceptance phrase used in EFT (“I deeply and completely accept myself”) or its equivalents, do great service in helping people overcome this core issue. Since I advocate using a “Choices” affirmation in place of this phrase for many issues (See the Choices Manual). I want to make it clear that I almost invariably use the standard self acceptance phrase where issues of self esteem, self blame, guilt etc. are clearly at stake. Because of the value of this phrase and of the concept behind it, I would like to offer a few suggestions on ways that we can, when that is necessary, perhaps make it even more valuable.
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