Tap Along Phrases for Sadness – by Gene Monterastelli
Sadness can be one of the most difficult emotions to use when doing meridian tapping. It really doesn't do it justice to tap on the phrase, "I feel sad."…
Sadness can be one of the most difficult emotions to use when doing meridian tapping. It really doesn't do it justice to tap on the phrase, "I feel sad."…
(Here is a slightly abbreviated version of the article "Tapping To The Lessons I Learned While Tapping" by Gene Monterastelli, reprinted from his website www.TappingQandA.com with his kind permission. I (Pat Carrington) have added a few comments of my own within this article as they occurred to me – thanks Gene. – P.C.)
Reprinted from the Practical Wellbeing website, with permission, and featured in www.eftfree.net.
NOTE: Andy Hunt is an EFT & NLP Trainer and Practitioner living in the North East of England. He works with people who give themselves a hard time and get in their own way. He is the author of the … Continue reading
Why is it Particularly Effective to Give Yourself Permission to Change with EFT?
Gene Monterastelli is an EFT practitioner in Baltimore, MD, and author of numerous articles on EFT that appear regularly on his website eftQandA.com. He can be e-mailed directly at eftqanda@gmail.com.
When I was working with a client today she asked me a question that caught … Continue reading
Kinney is tall for 13. He has light brown hair and a pair of sad eyes that competed for the saddest I’ve ever seen. He expressed immediate interest: “Can you teach me?”
“Sure.”
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By Ann Adams
Teddy is one of too many children who are victims of child abuse and neglect. With an emotionally disturbed diagnosis, he spent two and a half years in our intermediate level residential treatment facility (From GC: Ann holds an administrative position with this facility.) Teddy had made a lot of progress and was scheduled to leave on Friday to a therapeutic foster home.
When others are in distress, we want to help, to be caring, to be present. Yet, other people's troubles often trigger our own issues. If we are empathetic and sensitive, we can even find ourselves feeling another person's emotional pain very intensely. So how do we protect ourselves from being adversely affected by their distress, and much less helpful because of this?
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is an offshoot of TFT (Thought Field Therapy), a meridian based energy psychology technique developed by Dr. Roger Callahan in the 1980’s.
Both methods employ light tapping of the meridian end points accompanied by special verbalization. EFT differs from TFT in many respects. To distinguish between these two methods we suggest you read the definitive discussion on this subject by Gary … Continue reading