Podcast

So often we don’t begin our healing work because we think the work is too big, it feels too overwhelming, or it just feels impossible. In this podcast we talk about how important it is to just open the door a small crack to the healing process and how that can make all the difference in the world. Sometimes it just takes a small change to create radically different outcomes. We also spend time doing a little tapping for the feeling of overwhelm that comes with knowing we have lot of healing we want and need to do.

In this podcast my friend Jondi Whitis asks be a bunch of questions about this and that. In the conversations we cover:

• Being able to be honest about where we really are and why that is paramount to healing.
• Using where we are to build to where would like to be.
• How to stay in the moment (which leads to healthier choices).
• Noticing what is happening emotionally.
• Tapping is like a hypnotic inductions?
• What is the deal with resistance to healing and how can we deal with it.
• Why tapping doesn’t work when I tap on my own.
• How I can move forward and still fill like I am moving backwards.
• What to do when I don’t know what I want.
• What to do when a client doesn’t know how to talk about their emotions.

I do I continue to understand that I am enough.

We all know the montra “Try it on everything!” Deborah Miller took this completely to heart. Today she visits the cancer ward five days a week. She gets the chance to work with the children, the parents, and even the hospital staff. In this interview she talks about her experience, what she has learned, and her hopes for the future.

Even if you don’t know someone with cancer and you don’t think you are ever going to be working in a hospital setting you need to listen to this interview. There are many specific lessons that you can learn that will help your daily tapping practice and how to introduce tapping to to others.

One of the biggest road blocks for beginning tappers is using the set up phrase “Even though…I love and accept myself.” Sometimes we don’t believe it. Sometimes it is painful to think of how we don’t love and accept ourselves. Because of this we won’t spend time tapping.

In this interview I chat with Steve Well about the idea of self acceptance. During this conversation I quickly came to realize that Steve and I see acceptance and resistance in the same way. We talk about Steve’s own (continuing) journey to self acceptance, how with a simple 30 day process he made major steps forward, and how moving to self acceptance heals many other issues in our lives.

“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.” Jerry Seinfeld

Fear of public speaking can effect not only large moments when we speak in front of a group of people, but also in the small moments like asking for help at a store. This is how I originally found my way to tapping. I could speak in front of 8,000 people but couldn’t ask for help in a store. In this interview I talk with Janet Hilts on how we can use Tapping/EFT for many different aspects of public speaking. We discuss how sometimes the issue isn’t the speaking itself but aspects that touch speaking. We talk about a very simple approach that you use to start tapping for your public speaking fears right away.

In Pod #11: Tapping for Romantic Relationships I talked with Gina Parris about how we can tap for our romantic relationships. In this interview we take the next step and chat about how we can use tapping to improve our sexual relationship to truly reflect the emotional intimacy we share with our partners. It can put a real strain on a relationship when we don’t feel connected to our partner and often time we don’t know how to talk about it or even where to start. In this interview Gina shares a number of very practical tip for use tapping to rekindle the passion and fire in your relationship.

Back in the fall I asked 10 practitioners that I admire and respect to answer 5 questions about the healing process, the healing journey, and their work with clients. The questions I asked them were:

* What lessons have you learned about healing from a client?
* What is something you have changed your mind about when it comes to healing, working with clients, or your own transformation process?
* If you were to start your own healing journey over again what would you do differently?
* What is one thing you wish your clients believed about themselves?
* What is one thing you wish your clients believed about healing process?

Here is my response to all 5

This is a slightly different type of podcast. Instead of a straightforward teaching or an interview it is much more a conversation. The topic of the conversation with my friend Jondi Whitis where we talk about using tapping protocols and how we find our ways to core issues.

Today’s podcast is an interview with Jesse Jacobs and is little different. I first heard Jesse interviewed by Dan Benjamin on the show “The Pipeline” which is business show. Dan was interviewing Jesse about the tea house that he runs in San Francisco. What caught my attention was the last five minutes of the interview in which he started to talk about the power of ritual in how he has created work that he loves and a life that feeds him.

In this interview we spend a little time talking about how moved for being a techie to created a space where people could relax, be at peace, and make real connections with other. The bulk of the interview is spent talking about this idea of ritual. We talk about the power of ritual, how it can ground us, and how we can add a daily ritual to our life.

I have a real problem with the word “fix”. It means that something is broken. There are a number of draw back to looking at any issue or part of our life as broken. In this audio (with full transcript) we look at the key differences between fix and transform.