This question is an unusually challenging one and I will try to summarize the quite lengthy e-mail inquiry so you can know all that is involved.
This reader's inquiry addresses not only the question you see in the title above –– whether one can actually overdo EFT –– but is an example of how easily more fundamental considerations can be covered up by more surface ones. As … Continue reading
Question: You mentioned on your videotape that when there are multiple Aspects to a problem, each Aspect will need to be tapped down individually. While that sounds fine in theory, if this is a complicated problem that could take a lifetime!
Answer: You’re right but fortunately though it doesn’t work that way. What happens is more like the effect of knocking a single domino down … Continue reading
Question: I have suffered from a fear of speaking and reading aloud in public for many years. One of the problems I've had with using EFT to treat these fears is that I can think of so many aspects to each problem that I become overwhelmed and don't know where to start. For example, some of the aspects for the public speaking include: fear of people staring at me, … Continue reading
Question: You mentioned on your videotape that when there are multiple Aspects to a problem, each Aspect will need to be tapped down individually. While that sounds fine in theory, if this is a complicated problem that could take a lifetime!
QUESTION: My husband’s father is on the verge of dying from cancer. My husband and I are both new to EFT (we’re in our early 30’s) and he is concerned that he won’t like not feeling the pain of his father’s death. He wants to feel it, not in an incapacitating way but in a human way. Would EFT make him feel hollow or emotionless at his father’s death? Would … Continue reading
Is EFT just a form of distraction?
QUESTION: What about the possibility that it’s just distraction that makes EFT work? It is distracting to tap and say those phrases?
QUESTION: If I get over my fear of heights by using EFT, will I tend to go near the edge of a dangerous precipice or an open window and lean out too far? Isn’t fear self-protective?
ANSWER: Fear is self-protective and a necessary part of life, but that useful part of fear is never lost through EFT. What EFT takes away is unreasoning fear and panic, and … Continue reading
QUESTION: I am wondering about the difference between thinking about something and having your fears reduced to 0, and actually going out and confronting the object of your fear. I noticed that on your (original) First Steps in EFT, you told about peoples’ anxiety sometimes coming back again when they had to face the real life situation.
ANSWER: Anxiety can often rise slightly when the … Continue reading
“These three tips, using Clinically Standardized Meditation (CSM), help boost the benefits of meditating under stressful and uncertain times.”
