Tapping Q & A with Gene Monterastelli - Get the most out of tapping and EFT

Pod #356: The Science Behind Tapping w/ Dr. Peta Stapleton

by

With every passing year, more and more research is being conducted into how tapping works and its efficacy. Dr. Peta Stapleton is one of the researchers at the forefront of this work.

Peta recently completed writing The Science Behind Tapping (publication date: April 16th). The book provides a brief history of tapping and a comprehensive overview of existing scientific research on tapping. Based on scientific research, it also provides a clear set of recommendations on how to get the most out of tapping, depending on the issues you are addressing.

In this conversation Peta provides a preview of The Science Behind Tapping, as well as ways you can get better results from your tapping practice.

Knowing the latest scientific research on tapping will make it easier for you to share tapping with your skeptical friends and loved ones. If you want to share tapping with others, you must listen to this conversation!

You can pre-order it today!

Peta is also offering 4 free gifts if you order the book. So right after you pre-order the book you can sign up for your free gifts here.

Support the podcast!

Subscribe in: Apple | Android | Spotify

Guest: Dr. Peta Stapleton

Contact: web @ PetaStapleton.com; twitter @PetaStapleton; instagram @petastapleton

About: Dr. Peta Stapleton has 22 years of experience as a registered Clinical and Health Psychologist in the State of Queensland, Australia and has completed a Bachelor of Arts, Postgraduate Diploma of Professional Psychology and Doctor of Philosophy. Peta held academic positions at Griffith University for 14 years, teaching and coordinating psychological research trials into new therapies in the area of obesity and weight management and is now Associate Professor in Psychology at Bond University

Peta regularly contributes to the academic field with publications in the areas of nursing, morale, communication, psychological interventions and eating disorders. She regularly reviews for academic journals and offers supervision for new and existing Psychologists as well as students.

All interviews with Dr. Peta Stapelton:

Pod #355: Tapping To Magnify Celebration

by

As Dr. Rick Henson shared with us back in Podcast 349, it is important that we spend time not just feeling positive emotions, but reveling in them. By doing this we can do more than enjoy feeling good in the moment, we can turn it into a habit for life.

For most of us, including me, spending a lot of time feeling celebratory isn’t the most natural experience.

Celebration can feel embarrassing. It can feel boastful. It can even feel egotistical.

This week we talk and tap about how celebration can make us feel uncomfortable AND tapping in the spirit of celebration. All the tapping scripts from this audio can be found below the audio player.

Support the podcast!

Subscribe in: Apple | Android | Spotify

I am worthy of success…I am worthy of celebrating that success…When I am successful…I’m not stealing success from others…When I am successful…I’m not pushing other people down…When I experience success…I can also lift others up…I am made for success…I am worthy of success…It is appropriate that I acknowledge that success…It is important that I celebrate my successes…And I’m not doing this in an egotistical way…I’m not doing this because I want other people to look at me…I’m doing it because acknowledging success is healthy…Celebrating my success creates space for more success…I know many people think celebrating is the wrong thing to do…Some friends and family believe we should all just be humble…But it is possible for us to be humble and still acknowledge the truth of our success…Some of my friends and family believe celebrating success is a sinful thing to do…They believe that celebrating is a sign of bad character…It is possible for me to appreciate their disposition without buying into it…I can appreciate my success and remain grounded…I can celebrate my success and keep moving forward…I am worthy of success…Because I am made for success.

I give myself permission to be happy about the good things happening in my life…I give myself permission to enjoy and savor them…Being happy about my success does not deprive other people of success…I’m happy about the good things happening in my life…Even though my life is not perfect…I can appreciate what I’m experiencing…And I can move through this in a way where I continue to connect deeply to my success…While continuing to experience joy…I am happy with the progress I am making…Even though it isn’t happening as quickly as I would like…I celebrate each small step forward…Knowing that each of these moments is contributing to greater and greater success in the future…I appreciate how far I’ve come…I appreciate the amount of work that I have put in…I give myself permission to enjoy my success…Enjoying my success helps me to create more success in the future for myself…And more success in the future for others…I am comfortable and happy with my success.

Pod #354: Why Does Healing Always Have To Be A Process?

by

Even though tapping is such a powerful tool, at times it feels as if it is just taking too long to get the results we want.

In this week’s podcast we are talking about:

  • Why healing sometimes needs to happen as part of a process
  • How to make the healing process as quick as possible (when it doesn’t feel quick at all)
  • How to deal with the frustration of slow transformation

In the last step we will tap for the frustration around our healing not happening as fast as we would like, and why healing has to be process. (The tapping script is also included below the player.)

Support the podcast!

Subscribe in: Apple | Android | Spotify

I’m frustrated by the rate of healing…I wish it was happening faster…I wish it was happening easier…I recognize the fact that when I feel this sort of resistance…And I feel this sort of resentment towards the healing process…I will slow the healing process…Because I don’t want to waste time…And I don’t want to waste energy on something that isn’t going to work out…On something that isn’t going to be fruitful…But at the same time I appreciate my frustration…Not because I enjoy being frustrated…But because frustration means that there is a part of me that wants healing and transformation to happen…Frustration is just my system saying it is dissatisfied with what is going on…I hear the frustration loud and clear…I don’t want me to be unhealthy…The frustration has done its job…By pointing out the slow rate of this transformation…And since I know this is true…The feeling of frustration can relax…And if the frustration needs to come back in future…That’s OK and I allow it to come back…I give myself permission to be easy and gentle with my frustration…Knowing it is possible for me to heal.

Intellectually I understand that transformation is a process…I understand that sometimes it doesn’t happen in a single step…That is because some of my issues are more complicated…Some of my issues have multiple layers to them…Sometimes my goal for tapping is to create release in the moment…And tapping is a very good tool for doing exactly that…But at times I want to create lasting and deep change…It’s more than just dealing with symptoms in the moment…I’m not looking for quick relief…I’m looking for a long term transformation…I give myself permission to be patient with the process…Even though I would like this to be quick…It is more important that it is lasting change…I give myself permission to be easy with the process…I give myself permission to allow this to take time…I am in this for the long haul…I am in this for long term, lasting transformation…I’m open to the possibility of instantaneous healing…But I’m willing to put in the work for lasting transformation even if it is not instantaneous.

I give myself permission to heal…I give myself permission to transform…By giving myself permission to heal and transform…I’m acknowledging that some of this work might be hard…I recognize the fact that I can do hard work in a way that is safe and healthy for me…I give myself permission to put in the time and effort…By investing in the short term in this way…I am ensuring my long term transformation will be lasting and deep…My goal is lasting transformation…I trust my system to create the process that will allow the healing to persist…To allow this transformation to take root…I am a healing machine…And I allow my system to keep healing.

Pod #353: How You See Yourself Can Stop Your Healing w/ Brad Yates

by

In this conversation with Brad Yates he shares the Zig Ziglar quote “You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.”

The quote came up because we were talking about the reasons we sometimes don’t get the results we are seeking with tapping.

We often tap because we want something to change in our lives. BUT if we don’t believe we are the type of person who can have the outcome we want, we will sabotage ourselves to make sure we don’t get it.

For example:

  • If we can’t see ourselves as a successful business owner, we will sabotage the growth of our business.
  • If we don’t believe we are worthy of love, finding a lasting romantic relationship will be hard.
  • If we think it is too late for change, we won’t get around to finding time to tap.

In this conversation Brad and I talk about four of the ways in which we can uncover the beliefs about ourselves that are incongruent with what we want, and how to tap for them.

Support the podcast!

Subscribe in: Apple | Android | Spotify

Guest: Brad Yates

Contact: twitter @EFTWizard; web @ TapWithBrad.com; facebook @ facebook.com/BradYatesTapping

About Brad: Brad Yates is known internationally for his creative and often humorous use of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Brad is the author of the best-selling children’s book The Wizard’s Wish, the co-author of the best-seller Freedom at Your Fingertips, and a featured expert in the film “The Tapping Solution,” He has also been a presenter at a number of events, including Jack Canfield’s “Breakthrough to Success”, has done teleseminars with “The Secret” stars Bob Doyle and Dr. Joe Vitale, and has been heard internationally on a number of internet radio talk shows. Brad also has well over 800 videos on YouTube, that have been viewed over 23 million times.

Here is every interview that I have done with Brad:

10-Year Anniversary

by

This post is a little different than the usual one you get from me. I am going to do three things. I am going to celebrate, I am going to share a useful challenge with you, and I am going to ask you for help.

#1 Celebration!
Sunday March 3rd marked the 10-year anniversary of the Tapping Q and A Podcast!!!!

When I started the podcast all I had was a $19 microphone and a doohickey that I bought from RadioShack (remember them?), which allowed me to connect my landline (remember them?!) to my computer so that I could record telephone interviews.

I had no idea what I was doing, but I thought it would be fun.

I certainly didn’t think I would still be doing it 10 years later!

In that time, between interviews, instruction, tap-alongs, and bonus episodes, I have recorded over 400 hundred episodes.

That is more than 168 hours of free content! (As in, it would take you seven straight days without sleeping to listen to all of the podcasts.)

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! For your willingness to listen, to tap along, and to share with other people.

The podcast has been downloaded by people in over 160 countries and more than 1.75 million episodes have been downloaded. (The number is actually closer to 2 million, but because stats weren’t tracked in the early years of the show I don’t know the exact number for sure.)

#2 Go Learn Something
Even if you have been with me from the very beginning and even if you have listened to every minute of the podcast, there is still so much we can learn from those past interviews.

Think of it like an old book you love or your favorite movie. Even though you have read or watched it before, there’s something new for you each time you go back.

The podcasts are no different. There will be something useful when you hear it again – and it might even feel like you are hearing again for the first time.

My challenge to you is to pick seven podcasts from the archive and listen to one each day for the next week. It’s a simple commitment to yourself that will pay huge dividends. (I would also love to hear which seven you chose.)

The whole archive is waiting for you, free of charge, at http://TappingPodcast.com

#3 Help me out!
The podcast is a labor of love.

They don’t just magically appear on the website or in your podcast app of choice. There is scripting, reaching out to guests, recording interviews, editing interviews, writing show notes, writing these emails, making the graphics for social media, and creating the final version of the show.

On average I spend about four hours on every episode of the podcast. Assuming a 40-hour work week, that means I have spent over 10 months working solely on the podcast. (And that doesn’t take into account all the time I have spent learning how to do the podcast and my continuing education to make them better.)

I love doing it. I love the fact you listen. AND I need your help.

There are two ways in which you can support the podcast.

First, tell a friend about the podcast. Well actually, I want to you tell three friends. The marketing budget for the podcast is word of mouth and the most common way new people find their way to it is via a recommendation from a friend.

Think of three people you think would benefit from the podcast. Send them an email, show them how to listen to a podcast, or you might even help them by showing them how to subscribe on their phone the next time you see them.

When people join my email list, I ask them how they found me. My favorite response is always “A friend told me about your podcast.” Those emails warm my heart.

Please help to warm my heart some more and tell a friend about the podcast!

My goal in the next year is to double the number of listeners to the podcast. This isn’t for the pure vanity of doubling my downloads. I believe in my heart of hearts the more people who tap regularly, the healthier the world will be for all of us. This is a small way in which you can help that to happen.

Second, support the podcast. In addition to my time, there are actual costs for producing the podcast. I pay for the hostings, software to edit and make it sound good, and my editor who makes sure all the emails and show notes look good.

There are two ways you can give your support:

  • You can become a monthly supporter of the podcast. For as little as $5 a month you get access to a bunch of bonus content, including extra podcasts every month only for supports. You can join here: http://tappingqanda.com/support
  • You can make a one-time contribution of any amount https://tappingqanda.com/tip/

The podcast is set up on an interesting business model. Everyone gets free access and then if you think it is valuable, you can give your financial support. It is a risk on my part, putting in the work without any support up front.

Not everyone is in the possion to support the podcast financially, but if you are, I would encourage you to do so. Not because you get bonus content (which is nice), but because it is something you value.

By investing in the podcast you are letting me know you value it AND you are making a statement to yourself that you value your personal growth through the podcast.

There are a number of ways I am hoping to grow the podcast in the future (including transcriptions of all the interviews, including the archives), but I won’t be able to do that without your support.

Thank you!
Once again, thank you for continuing to support the podcast. I hope you keep listening, learning, and tapping along.

Here is to another 10 years!