How To Turn Resistance To EFT Into An Asset

By Dr. Patricia Carrington

So-called “resistance” to the EFT process such as not coming down in your intensity level after several rounds of tapping, not remembering to do EFT when it would serve you particularly well to do or feeling certain that EFT will “do no good” for a certain issue, and the like — is always frustrating.

Tapping on One’s Own to Control Appetite

by Dr. Patricia Carrington

In the early 1990's Roger Callahan appeared on a radio show (I was listening to it at the time) and led a woman in tapping who had called into the show about her "absolutely uncontrollable" need to eat a chocolate cake which she had in front of her. Roger led her step by step over the airwaves to tap for this issue. The woman … Continue reading

Use EFT for Getting to Sleep

From time to time I have written about ways in which EFT can be very helpful when we want to get to sleep and can’t seem to.  Recently, I have discovered an additional way to do this which I find extremely useful.  You may want to try a variation of it at those moments when you want to get to sleep quickly.

Before any of us fall to sleep, as … Continue reading

EFT for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

By Dr. Patricia Carrington

Some things happen unexpectedly with EFT, which leads to innovations and new ways to employ this remarkable tool. These surprise discoveries extend the use of EFT, making us even more able to help ourselves and others.

My client “Marla” entered my office with much self-recrimination because she had failed to report an incident wherein the actions of a neighbor could have affected one of their children.

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Enduring Effects of EFT – A Stress Inoculation

By Dr. Patricia Carrington

Out of deep pain and distress sometimes comes surprising good — not across the board, but little pockets of positive learning can be found even in the kind of shock that we have all undergone since the tragic events of September 11.  

I’d like to report on two things I have discovered — one has to do with the cumulative benefits of EFT used repeatedly … Continue reading

Will EFT take away healthy normal grief?

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