Are you involved with modern energy work such as EFT or EmoTrance? Do you love it? And do you feel a little bit uncomfortable to tell everyone about it because you're afraid people will call you a fool, unscientific, or laugh at you? If so, welcome to the club! We all have acquired energy reversals about talking freely about energy!

So if you're a little nervous about holding out your hand to the world and saying, "Good morning! My name is Silvia - and I'm an energist!" join the AMT conference delegates for a group EFT session right now.

 

On August 8th at 8pm we are having a moment to do some real energy work - to change the powerfield of the ages that has made people be blind to the reality of energy. With more energy awareness, the world for all of us must change and becomes a better place.

Here are some ideas for EFT set ups or EFT opening statements to use on World Energy Awareness Day and to help bring the light to many, many more.

The big "hang  up" in EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques for beginners is to find the right EFT set up or EFT opening statement - what you say when you tap your round of EFT.

Once you've done EFT for a while and with a few other people as well (which gives a much better perspective than always tapping only on yourself or wondering about your own problems) finding EFT set ups is easy, logical and natural. Here is a tip how to speed up learning how to find the right set up phrase or opening statement for EFT self treatment for beginners.

Guest article on limiting beliefs based on stress reversals and how they can cause problems in the game of Snooker. These include the dreaded kick and players attitudes to the game especcially as they get older.

Wendy Beresford writes: When I first started training as an EFT Practitioner, I was amazed at how effective it was and how quickly I could get results on a variety of issues. After a while, however, I tried to apply the technique to uncover and release limiting subconscious beliefs that I felt may be holding me back in my everyday life. I quickly found that although I could identify some of my general behaviours or thought patterns that may need updating, I struggled to contact any feelings about them. Without feelings that I could give a rating to, I found I was only dealing with the symptoms of my issues rather than resolving them at the core.

Read on for the full article...

AMT Trainer Ben Huss writes: "Have you noticed when using EFT with metaphors you often make the most substantial shifts and behavioural changes? Would you like a simple and easy way to elicit rich metaphors to work on while tapping?"

Read on for more information on using Clean Language in EFT...

This article from Catherine Strang looks at the "deceptively simple" yet highly effective technique of breathing into and through layers of emotion in order to get to the core of the issue.

The article includes two examples and explains the technique in a practical and simple manner, showing how it is possible to breathe through the emotions and then heal the core issue with EmoTrance and EFT...

AMT Trainer Peter Delves writes: "When using EFT some practitioners grapple with what words to use. Although the basics are addressed in standard trainings, this article describes one of the ways you can create language patterns to help the effectiveness of EFT. It is just one of the approaches which we will be covering at the special one day EFT Language Skills Masterclass on the 5th September."

Read on for the full article...

The Setup Phrase is often an under-valued  part of EFT.   Many of us have used (and taken for granted)  the generic setup phrase that says  “Even though I have this ________,  I deeply and completely love and accept myself.”   This does work  ---  much of the time ---  but not always.

In this article, John Freedom looks at using different, personal set-up phrases to help overcome blocks to healing.

"Modern energy psychology has the concept of an energy reversal. We talk about "being reversed" on a topic; and this comes from the intriguing observation made by kinesiologists that when a person says and thinks, "Yes!" their muscles are stronger than when they say and think, "NO!" Dr Silvia Hartmann discusses how we can use our power to say "Yes!" or "No!" to prevent self sabotage, psychomatic illness and damage to our self esteem and future aspirations.

There was a complete family organisation around the mother's coulrophobia which also included that all TV had to be pre-recorded, checked for clowns or clown-like occurrences in cartoon or live format and then the family could view it.

This is a classic case example of how coulrophobia - a fear of clowns - was successfully treated with EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques.

Dr Silvia Hartmann writes: Here is a nice, simple method to help with calming down when tapping with EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques when stress is high. Over time, this can also help you build up a better idea how your energy system works, so you can have a personal map you can work with in many different ways. This is by learning which one of the EFT Tapping Points "does the trick" - creates that shift, the unlocking of the energy system that changes the way you feel and think instantly.

Carna Zacharias-Miller Writes: Here is a technique I developed that combines the clearing work of EFT with the PS Classic Game and the Genius Symbols. “Magical EFT” is not for everybody: Usually, EFT trauma work needs to be done before entering into this realm. However, I have noticed that EFT works faster (less rounds) and often in a gentler, more “tearless” way when done in this metaphorical framework...

To find out how read on

Have you heard this one?

"I (or someone I know) suffers from (insert ANY disease known to mankind). I'm thinking of using EFT - BUT do you know of anyone else who has successfully overcome/healed (disease X) and HOW did they do it?"

Sometimes, you can refer the person to an existing case history, which may or may not be relevant to this case in hand; sometimes you quote Gary Graig and shrug your shoulders and say, "Well just start tapping, Gary says to try it on EVERYTHING ..."

Angie Muccillo Writes: What is Imaginary Tapping?

“Imaginary tapping” is a useful technique children can use when they are in a situation where they are not physically able to tap, for instance during an activity where it is impractical to tap or in public where they may not want to be seen tapping.

Instead of physically tapping children can just think about the problem and at the same time imagine they are tapping by visualizing the tapping points.

The light is changing in the Western Hemisphere - winter is on its way. For many people, this heralds the onset of "the Winter Blues", a form of depression put down to an electro-chemical reaction in the brain that happens under low light conditions.

EFT Protocol for Seasonal Affected Depression, Winter Blues but also an excellent set of scripts for general EFT self help to deal with anniversary depressions of all kinds.

Read this fantastic new 'how to' article from Silvia Hartmann, PhD, on extracting EFT opening statements for self-help through the study of linguistic markers in people's speech. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, this is a must read for anyone engaging in the EFT process on a personal level or a professional level with clients.

Good morning from Germany! We have just spent 15 minutes standing at a street corner in a snow storm, with rather unsuitable English good weather clothing, and good old EFT provided not just much needed amusement, but also some interesting insights, once again, into the nature of the human condition - and how we can do so much better!

Silvia Hartmann writes: Here is a full, practical and very powerful self help treatment protocol to reduce stress and all forms of anxiety. Included are three full self help protocols which will help lower adrenaline levels and prevent stress spikes - one for stabilising the stressed systems, one for in depth treatment of the symptoms associated with anxiety, and one to help dissolve anxious thoughts. Complete and free, with my compliments.

Silvia Hartmann writes: Thousands upon thousands of people have successfully cured their phobias of all manner of things, substances, events and occurrences with EFT since it was first released. Indeed, EFT's predecessor TFT (Roger Callahans Thought Field Therapy) breakthrough story revolves around a severe case of ablutophobia (fear of washing and water), which was cured completely in a single tapping session and NEVER came back - this is now 17 years ago, so the METs can be said to really cure phobias once and for all. Here is the step-by-step guide on how to cure phobias successfully in self help treatment.

Silvia Hartmann writes: I needed something that was more open ended than the SUDs scale and also, I didn’t want to discriminate and call emotions “disturbances” nor did there seem any point to go on about how, of course and indeed, emotions are most subjective indeed. Introducing the EI Scale - measuring emotional intensity on a range of subjects.

GaugeWork was developed just a few months ago by Lifeworks therapist Astra Johnston and may be thought of as using the metaphor of a “gauge” or “meter” which is nominalised or labelled with the name of a desired state.

Telephone Consultations

Many meridian therapies, such as EFT, TFT and TAB, can be very successfully conducted over the telephone.

This is an important EFT script which can be used when a problem is entirely resistant to EFT treatments and the SUDs won't move at all. People sometimes say that it feels like the normal effectiveness of EFT is switched off; there is something stopping the EFT treatment from starting to work as it should.

This is indicative of some pre-work needing to be done, and we must ask the question, "What has to happen BEFORE this problem can be unlocked or released?"

Touch And Breathe 2001 by John Diepold.

You can also find an online stress relief animation for a basic version of Touch & Breathe here: http://theamt.com/stress/

I put forth the proposition that in some cases, the actual problems are not present at all and thus cannot be resolved and that the reason they are not present is because *the individual has structured their entire life in such a way that the problem need never be experienced*.

We have tried this special version of the EFT technique and have found it to be very helpful with long standing problems that have too many different aspects to even start, or problems you might have worked on for a long time and still you keep finding more and more aspects.

As an introduction to relaxing by stimulating major body meridians, here is an online animation of a shortened Touch & Breathe protocol which can be used to introduce people to the stress relieving properties of meridian and energy therapies such as EFT. Pass on the link to stressed people and keep it handy if you need a quick break from stress.