EFT – A Powerful Tool to Transform Your Life
Get Rid of The Negative Thoughts, Beliefs, And Emotions That
Sabotage Your Success And Happiness

EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique, a simple, easy to learn way to eliminate the self-defeating Thoughts, Beliefs, and Emotions (TBEs) that keep you from living fully, enthusiastically, and successfully.

On day one of our lives we begin picking up “bad stuff” from our surroundings – parents, siblings, school, and TV. These inputs occur daily and as they accumulate over our lives, we store them in emotional garbage bags called self-defeating TBEs. Unless we dispose of this “stuff,” it will limit us and hinder our best attempts at wealth and success.

As EFT is dissolving the blocks to wealth and success, it will also do wonders for:

• anxiety
• emotional trauma
• physical pain
• phobias
• addictive cravings
• and who knows what else

EFT is a form of “psychological acupuncture” based on the energy meridians of Chinese medicine. Instead of using needles, however, all you do is use the fingertips to tap on certain points on the head, chest, and hand. At the same time, you hold a specific problem in mind and say a “set up and reminder phrase.”

All negative emotion can be thought of as disrupted energy. This disrupted or “stuck” energy is programmed by the mind as habitual and recurring Thoughts, Beliefs, and Emotions and by the body as pain and disease. EFT balances disrupted energy and gets it flowing again. Restoring the balance of the energy system neutralizes emotional conflicts at their source. As a result, the body and mind apply their natural abilities to heal body, mind, and spirit. EFT is safe, easy to apply, and is non-invasive. Feelings of fear, anxiety, anger, and guilt, for example, are substantially decreased or completely eliminated.

Designed by Gary Craig, a Stanford educated engineer, EFT belongs to a new class of treatments referred to as Energy Psychology. Gary has dedicated his work and life to teaching people how to overcome emotional blocks (and their physical manifestations) to success. EFT is truly revolutionary. It is one of the most effective, efficient, gentle treatment techniques I have come across.

How does it work? All scientists agree that the body is an "energy configuration" made up of positive and negative electrical charges in the form of atoms, the basic "building blocks of all matter." Einstein’s genius discovered that all matter lies somewhere on the same energy continuum: E=MC². If we view the human body as an energy configuration -- rather than as merely matter: organs, parts and chemicals -- we will understand why and how EFT works.

The idea of tapping on acupressure points requires a shift in some of our deepest beliefs and may appear strange at first glance. It may certainly disturb many professional therapists. Nevertheless EFT does work whether we believe it does or not. EFT restores many levels of body and mind as it balances the body’s energies. For testimonials, click here. (Visit www.emofree.com for more information.)

Dr. Joan Berry holds EFT teleclasses for a broad range of money, success, and performance issues. Look for the link to “Seminars and Workshops” on the homepage at www.drjoanberry.com.

Before continuing and using the EFT technique on yourself or others, please read the following:

DISCLAIMER: EFT is gentle and easy to use, is gaining in scientific support, and has to date yielded remarkable results for relieving emotional and physical distress. The scientific community has not yet validated EFT; therefore, it must be considered experimental in nature with no guaranteed outcomes. If you use these techniques must agree to take full responsibility for yourself and others while applying them. A lack of result or progress may mean you need professional assistance (go to www.emofree.com or www.eftsupport.com for a list of practitioners in your area or call Dr. Joan for a telephone appointment at 843-762-9588).

1. Choose a problem to work on.

2. While tapping on the karate chop point, say the following Affirmation out loud 3 times.
“Even though I have this (state the problem), I deeply and completely accept myself.”
Ex: “Even though I have this dread of cold calling, I deeply and completely accept myself.”

3. After you have completed this step, choose an easy, short Reminder Phrase that represents the problem, such as “this dread of cold calling.” Then as you tap (5 to 7 times) on each point below, in sequence, state your Reminder Phrase.

4. If a sense of dread still exists, repeat the above, saying “Even though I have this remaining dread of cold calling . . . . “

(An example follows below)

Example: 1. The problem: fear of public speaking 2. Tap the karate chop point and say 3 times: “Even though I have this fear of speaking in front of people, I deeply and completely accept myself.” 3. Then tap each of the points 5 times while saying “fear of speaking.” 4. Repeat, if necessary, adding the word “remaining” to the statement.

Other Applications of EFT

In order to be wealthy and successful, we need to have all of our energy available to work on our behalf. Any self-defeating, counterproductive, or negative habit of Thought, Belief, or Emotion causes conflict in our unconscious mind and, because it drains our precious energy, we have less available for our daily work.

Below is a list of problems and conflicts that EFT treatment has resolved, leaving the person with more self-confidence and energy.

Anxiety Relief

EFT can successfully alleviate mild or acute anxiety or panic attacks or generalized anxiety. The duration of the fear or anxious feeling does not seem to affect EFT’s results.

Weight Loss

Food, like addictive substances, is often used to comfort ourselves, i.e., to anesthetize deep anxiety and emotional pain. EFT targets the feelings that drive urgent food cravings and compulsive overeating. Apply EFT to accept a new slimmer body image as well. (For an excellent EFT program for weight loss go to www.conquerovereating.com.

Poor Self Image

EFT relieves the negative energies of shame, guilt, apathy, and grief by targeting specific beliefs underlying these feelings. The negative limiting beliefs we hold about ourselves (such as I’m not competent, I’m not worthy, I don’t deserve success) that support a poor self-image can be transformed with EFT.

Pain Control and Physical Conditions

EFT can accelerate healing, improve energy circulation, reduce muscle tension and dissolve the emotional states that may be contributing to the onset of any physical or physiological condition. Maladies such as migraines, chronic back pain, PMS, fibromyalgia, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, allergies, hypoglycemia, sinus conditions, hemorrhoids, and many others have been relieved by EFT.

Smoking and Chemical Dependency

An addictive substance such as cigarettes or drugs is generally used to tranquilize inner turmoil or anxiety. Because EFT eliminates feelings of anxiety, it also alleviates the urge to smoke, physiological and psychological withdrawal symptoms, and environmental relapse triggers.

Sports and Sales Performance

EFT can help any professional salesperson or athlete to improve performance, especially performance under pressure. There are endless ways our minds trick us to sabotage our performance. EFT has been used by salespeople and athletes to alleviate performance anxiety, reduce muscle tension, and neutralize other self-defeating psychological blocks that reduce personal effectiveness and peak performance.

Phobias

EFT has an impressive record when it comes to neutralizing specific phobias such as claustrophobia, fear of heights, needles, elevators, and snakes. By tapping the endpoints of the meridians while tuning in to the problem, the “congested energy” is “metabolized” and the anxiety dissolves.

Note: It is important to keep your body well hydrated while using EFT. Since such energy therapies work with the electricity of your body and water conducts that electricity, you’ll need to drink water as you are tapping.

Psych-K – Installing New Beliefs

Your beliefs are the foundation of your personality. Beliefs, along with perceptions and values, guide your behavior and establish the limits of what you can achieve. They define you as powerful or powerless, trusting or suspicious, fairly treated or victimized, competent or incompetent, self-reliant or dependent, wealthy or poor.
It is obvious that beliefs have significant consequences and determine the way you look at and approach life – your self-esteem, your physical health, your job performance, your relationships, even your belief in God. Beliefs systems act as the large frame around personal change work that is done. All the affirmations in the world will do no good if people really believe that:

• The desired state doesn’t match their identity
• They don’t deserve the desired state
• They’re not safe in the desired state
• They don’t have the capacity to accept, work toward, or live in the desired state

Saying over and over again “I am rich beyond my wildest dreams” will make little or no difference in net worth if the person claiming it doesn’t believe he IS rich, doesn’t deserve wealth, isn’t safe being wealthy, or lacks the ability or capacity to do what it takes to be wealthy.

Beliefs are the result of conclusions we draw about our experiences in life. Stored in the Unconscious mind, the presence of these energies helps explain why the Unconscious is so powerful in directing our behavior. Given their power, it is crucial that we know how to identify beliefs that limit and sabotage us and change them into beliefs that support and nurture us instead.

While we have the capacity to use both Left and Right sides of our brains fully and appropriately, experiences in childhood tend to create dominance of one side in specific situations. Subsequent experiences then trigger that same dominance which results in an imbalance. In this case, communication between the two sides breaks down. What is needed are ways to re-establish “cross-talk” between the two hemispheres, what we’re calling Whole-Brain communication.

Psych-K is a technique designed to create a Whole-Brain state and then, while in that state, to reprogram with new positive, enabling beliefs. Originated by Rob Williams in 1988, Psych-K includes processes for dramatically accelerating personal growth. Like many innovations, Psych-K was the result of a series of intuitive leaps generated by years of research and countless sessions with individuals. It’s a non-invasive, effective way to change outdated perceptions and beliefs at the subconscious level. See www.psych-k.com.

Inner Dialogue: Resolving Inner Conflict

The third in the family of effective, innovative techniques for dealing with Blocks and obstacles identifies them as Parts, dysfunctional subpersonalities that inhabit our Unconscious mind. These “energy patterns” form in the early years of our lives, taking on specific personalities, and either maintain or grow in strength as similar and reinforcing experiences take place in our lives. Each Part has a specific purpose, a particular necessary task, always positive, to protect and further our health and well-being.

Unfortunately, that specific purpose formed in childhood in time of need may no longer be relevant and a Part may, in faithfully performing its duty, be preventing you from succeeding. You may, for example, have a Part responsible for keeping you modest, since modesty was valued and reinforced in your original family. As an adult, however, such modesty may prevent you from comfortably and passionately selling yourself or your ideas and products critical to making your contribution and your living.

Inner Dialogue opens communication between the Conscious and the very powerful Unconscious minds enabling you to be aware of and then direct or re-task Parts, to bring them up-to-date, to re-program them to support you. It is fun, it is easy, and it is remarkably effective. It is based on the work of Hal and Sidra Stone: www.voicedialogue.com.