Tag Archives: Practitioner

I don’t know about you, but I constantly find myself answering questions about EFT and tapping. It is great that we can lean on personal experience (and the experience of those who we work with) when sharing about tapping, but in many cases this is not enough. It is good to have structured scientific studies that are peer reviewed to build the wall of proof that so many are looking for.

To that end I have something that will help you in two parts to answer people who are looking for scientific proof about tapping and EFT. First, I have an interview with Dawson Church, Ph.D about completed research studies, on-going research studies, and planned research studies. Second, I have summery of many of the resent studies make it easier for you to talk about them.

In this interview Rue Hass shares a new techniques that she is using which uses metaphors and having clients draw pictures. It is absolutely brilliant. The technique is simple and elegant. As she was describing it I could see immediately how this could fit into my practice.

I know you are going to love this!

A manifesto is nothing more than a statement of beliefs. This is what I believe about the healing process. This is not about tapping the tool, but what happens when we heal and transform. This is how I think when I am working with clients.

What You Will Learn In “Recovering Self – A Healing Manifesto”:

• Why you stop the healing process even when you know the steps you should take
• Why others don’t want you to heal
• The two categories that all healing falls into
• What you need to know (and what you don’t need to know) to heal
• How to stop fighting yourself and start healing

Many of the practitioners I know are very spiritual people, but for one reason or another they are not connected to a particular denomination or faith tradition. My friend Jake Khym is a different in that regard. He explicitly does Christian counseling.

In this conversation we talk about how and why he transitioned from traditional counseling to Christian counseling and how his work now looks different. Also, we spend a great deal of time talking about what it means to provide instruction and teaching in a discipleship relationship vs. what a therapist would normally do.

Even if you are not Christian you are going to find this to be a fascinating conversation. Jake is one of the brights and most articulate people I know. His insights in to how people transform and what people are longing for are insightful and will help you with your healing journey regardless how you approach spiritually, faith, or religion.

There has been lots conversation in the last few months about certification, who is doing certification, what is the best certification, and do you even need certification at all.

Here is my take on this.

This article came from an interview I did with Jared Tendler on performance ( Improving Performance with Tapping (Pod #35)). At one point in the interview Jared said, “I don’t believe there is such thing as an emotional decision.” After a brief discussion I agreed with him. Below is a longer explanation than what we got into in the interview of why I think he is right and how we can use this point of view to improve our tapping.

For the last two months I have putting the finishing touches on a training program I am really proud of. I have taken my favorite advanced tapping techniques and I have put them all in once place. The program has over 10 hours of training and over 15 hours of support audio.

Here is a brief list of the main topic:

Lesson 1: 13 Foundations to Healing With Tapping That Every Practitioner Should Master
Lesson 2: 18 Lessons From 10 Masters of Healing
Lesson 3: Hypnotic Patter and Language
Lesson 4: Guided Imagery
Lesson 5: Parts Work
Lesson 6: Age Regression
Lesson 7: Time Lines, Forgiveness Work, and Score Boards Oh My!
Lesson 8: Meta Models

And that doesn’t even inclue any of the bonus material. If you are looking to take your tapping to the next level I would encourage you to check this out.

Full details. . .

One of the nice things about tapping is that we can just jump right in to doing work anytime and anywhere. Even though we can just start I have found that if we give some thought to how we begin we can make sure the tapping time is more effective. To start almost every session (either with clients or when I am tapping on my own) I use these five steps.

As wonderful as one-minute/one-session miracles are I think as a Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)/tapping community we are doing ourselves a disservice in the ways we talk about these one-minute miracles. I am not saying that there is no room for us to talk about these very real healing experiences, but I think we can get lost in our own enthusiasm and run potential tappers over. (I know I have!) Here are three of the problems I think we have created for ourselves.

When I work with clients I like to teach them practical tools so that they are not dependent on our client sessions for progress. I want them to be able to continue to move forward on their. There are two tools that I teach the most because I think they are 1) very easy to do. 2) very versatile and 3) very powerful. (I will share the other tool in a future podcast.)

The tool “About, To, and As If” is a great way to deal with emotions around any relationship. The tool can be used for close friends and family or with people you have never met before. It can be used for people you have a contentious relationship with and it can be used with people who you want a better life for. You can do the whole tool in three minutes. or use it for a full hour.