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Pod #590: You should stop saying should – Tapping Mini-Tools (Part 2)

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When working with clients, it is important to listen closely to the words they use and pay attention to everything they are saying.

When I do this, I am not just listening to the meaning of the story my clients are telling, I am also paying particular attention to the words they use.

This is because we respond to the world emotionally based on the way that we describe it, not how it is.

A simple example of this is if someone said, “Everyone at work hates me” If a client says that, emotionally it doesn't really matter if everyone at work hates them. It also doesn't matter if they truly believe that everyone at work hates them.

Saying “Everyone at work hates me” means they will respond emotionally as if it is true.

That is why I pay such close attention to the exact words used by my clients. Their words are the key to how they are feeling emotionally.

In this week's podcast, we are continuing the Tapping Mini-Tools Series and I share with you the one word I pay the closest attention to when it's used by my clients.

If my client says this word, I can immediately see where their emotional struggle will come from. I also share an easy way to reframe this word so that you communicate clearly and without creating unnecessary emotional distress.

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Pod #589: A new way to think about goals – Mini-Tools (Part 1)

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I love goals.

They are a powerful way to focus attention and to help us stay motivated to keep taking action.

At the same time, the moment we create a goal, we also create expectations. Naming something that we want to happen means opening ourselves up to possible disappointment if we do not achieve the goal.

This week, as we start the Mini-Tool Series, I share with you a brief phrase I add to the beginning of all my goal statements that ensures I am not adding pressure to my life by stating my goal.

I also share a simple way to tap with this phrase that will make it even easier to take consistent action towards my goal.

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Pod #588: How I designed the 30-Day Tapping Challenge

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This November we hosted our most successful 30-Day Tapping Challenge to date.

The goal was to, as a community, do 15,000 rounds of tapping collectively. We ended up doing over 20,000 rounds in the month of November alone AND people keep tapping.

You are more than welcome to revisit any of the videos as they will remain on YouTube, where you can access them free of charge. Full playlist

This is the fourth year that we have run the challenge. With each passing year, I have spent more time ahead of the challenge designing and planning the process.

In the first year, the goal was simply to get people to tap. In the second and third years, I gave more thought to the topics and how all 30 topics worked together.

This year I took it a step further. As well as giving a lot of thought to the topics for tapping, a huge amount of thought also went into designing how we tapped.

In the last few months, I have been exploring a new healing framework to understand why we resist healing, taking action, and moving forward. This new framework has not only improved my personal tapping practice, but it has also helped to create faster, deeper, and longer lasting healing for my clients.

In this week's podcast I share the design behind the challenge and how you can incorporate this framework in your own personal change work.

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Pod #587: The most important goal of tapping  – Healing Fundamentals (Part 18)

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Whenever I start working on a new project, I begin with getting clear on what I want to accomplish. That clarity makes it so much easier to decide on where to start and what steps to take.

Tapping is no different. If you know what you would like to accomplish with a round of tapping, then you will have a better idea of where to start. You will approach calming your nerves differently than trying to change a limiting belief.

You are using tapping in both cases, but where you start and how you approach the tapping will be different to get the best results.

On a more global level, I think it is important for us to understand the main goal of healing and transformation. A simple answer might be “to feel better”, but I think it goes much deeper than that.

In this week's podcast we are continuing the [Healing Fundamentals](https://tappingqanda.com/tag/transformation-fundamentals) series with a look at what I believe is the primary goal of tapping.

Of all the fundamentals in this series, I think this is the most important as it informs every other aspect of the transformational process. I hope you enjoy the podcast.

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Pod #586: Letting yourself go there emotionally

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The deeper we get into our study of transformation, the more we understand.

We gain a greater understanding of how transformation works, the workings of the subconscious mind, how emotions operate and, most importantly, how we are in the world.

This understanding can speed and deepen the healing process because we better grasp the nature of our struggles, and we can use our healing tools more effectively.

But sometimes our understanding can hold us back. A combination of all this knowledge and all the tools available to us can result in intellectualizing the process to the point that we get stuck.

This week in the podcast I talk about how we can overcome overthinking in a way that will liberate the healing process.

You can find the full tapping script of this audio as a pdf over at Tapping Q and A Podcast Scripts and Transcripts.

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