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Pod #130: How To Use EFT To Move You To Take Action

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The first weekend of April the 2nd annual Spring Energy Event was held outside NYC. My friend Jondi Whitis did an awesome job once again of putting together a great event.

This year I was asked to talk about how we can use tapping to move ourselves to taking the action we want.

My presentation was broken into three parts:

Part 1: Tapping For Action v. Tapping For Relief
Part 2: The 9 Immutable Laws Of Taking Action
Part 3: 4 Ways To Use Tapping To Move You Towards Taking Action

The version of the handout I created for the talk had a number of blanks for the audience to fill in while listening. I have provided the completed notes below.

If you are looking for help taking action you will find over 200 audios, classes, and resources in the Ruach Center designed specifically to move you taking action.

### Notes on from recording ###

When are we motivated to take action?

  • Close to goal
    • doesn't have to be the big goal, but it is it seems easy to achieve
  • In lots of pain

When are we not motivated to take action?

  • Tolerable middle

Two Types of Tapping

  • First Aid
    • feel better/less pain
    • feel in the moment
    • feel relaxed
  • Action
    • feel energized
    • feel driven
    • see possibilities

Tapping for first aid leads to relief and pause.

Tapping for action leads to action.

Part 2: 9 Immutable Laws Of Taking Action

1) If it wasn't for resistance to change, the change would have already happened.

2) You can't think your way out of an irrational fear.

3) The problem is not the problem (most of the time).

  • Four reasons we don't take action
    • don't know what we want
    • don't know how to do it
    • hurts to do it
    • hurts to be successful
  • First two might be the problem
  • Second two aren't the problem

4) Fear is not the enemy. Misinformed and disproportionate fears are.

5) Change what you fear, change how you act.

  • If you are free of fear you don't have to prioritize your to-do list.

6) The challenge to change is inertia.

  • The shit we know is better than the shit we don't know.

7) When we are resource poor we will make emotional choices.

  • Physical
  • Emotional
  • Cognitive

8) The people in our lives want us to change for the better as long they don't have to change.

9) You don't need to be be fearless. You need to be fearless-ish.

Part 3: 4 Ways To Tap For Action

Tap for to-do list.

Tap for the four reasons we don't take action

  • Ask yourself:
    • What is unclear about my goal?
    • What don't I know how to do?
    • What would/could go wrong if I took action?
    • What would/could go wrong if I succeeded?
  • Look at:
    • practical
    • emotional

How To Tap To Action (The Great Visualization Hoax)

  • See yourself trying to do what you want, encountering obstacles, and see yourself overcome the obstacles.

Tap On Not Needing To Be Perfect

  • Perfectionism is the arch enemy of action
  • Perfectionism is nothing more than over-functioning fear

Pod #129 (part 2): Tapping For Luck w/ Rue Hass

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[Note: This is part 2 of our conversation. Listen to part 1 here.]

I am guessing as you read the title of this week's podcast you are thinking, “Luck is an odd thing to tap for. They say try it on anything, but luck… really?”

I would agree with you. When my friend and EFT Master Rue Hass recommended this as the topic for our conversation I was curious.

In the end the conversation turned out to be so fruitful that I needed to split it into two parts.

When Rue is talking about luck she is talking about how we access the opportunities around us to move towards our goals. Even though I personally wouldn't use the word luck to describe what she is talking about you will hear in our conversation that I do agree with her disposition.

You will find this conversation in contrast to most of the conversation around an attraction (and law of attraction) world view.


Rue Hass

Guest: Rue Hass

Contact Info: IntuitiveMentoring.com, rue (at) intuitivementoring (dot) com

How Rue describes herself: When I first meet a new client/customer/co-creative partner, I walk them through an interesting process of understanding their life as a story. It concludes with asking them to consider what they want their life to leave in the world as a legacy. How do they want the world to be a better place for their having been in it?

When I contemplate this in myself, and ask, “What do I want to focus on in this phase of my life, as a culmination of everything I have learned and gained?”, what emerges for me is the concept of “spiritual eldering.” This impulse finds expression in my work with individuals and local groups, inviting and assisting people and communities to move into a sense of the real transformative power of their spiritual Presence in the world.

I particularly like to work with young people, adolescents and young adults as a mentor/coach. I have always been drawn to the kind of kid who might find him/herself in trouble in school, academically or socially, but who on the inside is bright, sensitive, perceptive, intuitive, often artistic or athletic, deep hearted and imaginative, and who just doesn’t fit the norm. I want to make it easier for these young people to find their place in the world. I think they are here to save it.

Make sure you check out all of Rue's guest articles and podcasts on Tapping Q and A.

Being Open To What Is Around You
Are you looking for help to being exactly what Rue talks about into your life? Are you ready to be able to access the opportunities that are around you every day? The Ruach Center was designed to help you do just that. There are over 150 resources to help you get clear about what you want and to help you access the opportunities around you. Take a few moments to check it out. You will be glad you did.

Pod #129 (part 1): Tapping For Luck w/ Rue Hass

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[Note: This is part 1 of our conversation. Listen to part 2 here.]

I am guessing as you read the title of this week's podcast you are thinking, “Luck is an odd thing to tap for. They say try it on anything, but luck… really?”

I would agree with you. When my friend and EFT Master Rue Hass recommended this as the topic for our conversation I was curious.

In the end the conversation turned out to be so fruitful that I needed to split it into two parts.

When Rue is talking about luck she is talking about how we access the opportunities around us to move towards our goals. Even though I personally wouldn't use the word luck to describe what she is talking about you will hear in our conversation that I do agree with her disposition.

You will find this conversation in contrast to most of the conversation around an attraction (and law of attraction) world view.

Listen to part 2 here.


Rue Hass

Guest: Rue Hass

Contact Info: IntuitiveMentoring.com, rue (at) intuitivementoring (dot) com

How Rue describes herself: When I first meet a new client/customer/co-creative partner, I walk them through an interesting process of understanding their life as a story. It concludes with asking them to consider what they want their life to leave in the world as a legacy. How do they want the world to be a better place for their having been in it?

When I contemplate this in myself, and ask, “What do I want to focus on in this phase of my life, as a culmination of everything I have learned and gained?”, what emerges for me is the concept of “spiritual eldering.” This impulse finds expression in my work with individuals and local groups, inviting and assisting people and communities to move into a sense of the real transformative power of their spiritual Presence in the world.

I particularly like to work with young people, adolescents and young adults as a mentor/coach. I have always been drawn to the kind of kid who might find him/herself in trouble in school, academically or socially, but who on the inside is bright, sensitive, perceptive, intuitive, often artistic or athletic, deep hearted and imaginative, and who just doesn’t fit the norm. I want to make it easier for these young people to find their place in the world. I think they are here to save it.

Make sure you check out all of Rue's guest articles and podcasts on Tapping Q and A.

Being Open To What Is Around You
Are you looking for help to being exactly what Rue talks about into your life? Are you ready to be able to access the opportunities that are around you every day? The Ruach Center was designed to help you do just that. There are over 150 resources to help you get clear about what you want and to help you access the opportunities around you. Take a few moments to check it out. You will be glad you did.

Your Goals Are Holding You Back

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I am a huge fan of goal setting!

About once a year I sit down to craft out my goals for the next year. Once a month I look at my goals and rewrite them to meet the changes in my life. Every Monday morning I spend a few minutes reading and tapping with my goals.

I have found that goal setting has been hugely beneficial in my life and I don't say that in a “I feel better” way. There is tangible evidence that I am more productive, happier, and healthier because of setting goals.

But there is a dark side to goal setting.

Sometimes we set the wrong goal.
[Read more…] about Your Goals Are Holding You Back

They Keep Telling Me I Am Stupid For Giving It Away Free (Are They Right?)

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I am going be up front with you. This email is going to challenge you. I might even come off as a little cranky (or a lot cranky).

I'm OK with that. This is too important for me to worry about what you think about me.

“You Give Away Too Much!”
Hear this a lot from other practitioners. They tell me there is way too much free content and because there is so much free content nobody will ever hire me or buy my stuff. Why would they bother?

I personally think it is a good way to work but I decided to consider this more closely.

On the back of an envelope on a recent flight I did some calculations. Based on the average number of people who open my emails only about 0.6% ever hire me for sessions or buy anything from the site.

That is not 6%, but 0.6%.

That mean 99.4% use the resources totally free of charge.

In the end I am OK with that because my goal in creating the site isn't only as a source of income. I know that the site ends up helping those who might not able to afford to pay for tapping resources.

With that in mind…

A Question For The 99.4%
I am guessing you keep opening my emails because you find them useful in some way. Not everything and not everyone, but there is enough useful stuff that you come back for more.

So the question I have for you is this…

How valuable are the hundreds of free resources that are available at TappingQ&A to you?

If I gave you the choice which would you do?

  • Give up one cup of coffee on the first day of the month or give up TappingQ&A
  • Give up two movies in the next year or give up TappingQ&A
  • Give up one night with friends or give up TappingQ&A

I'm Not Really Asking You To Give Up TappingQ&A
I am not asking you to give up TappingQ&A, but I ask those questions so that you consider what the free resources mean to you.

AND I would like to give you the chance to demonstrate what you think it is worth.

April 21st through May 12th ten EFT practitioners are going to the Philippines to tap with 10,000 kids whose lives were impacted by a major typhoon last November. I am asking you to consider a way that you can show your appreciation for the value of TappingQ&A is by helping to support this powerful work.

Better Than Any Thank You
I love the very kind notes that people often send me thanking me for the site. I love when people tell me about how they used one of the tools to make their life better.

It really means a lot, but this would mean so much more.

If you want to say thank you for what you receive free from TappingQ&A you can do it in a way in which you will be also helping kids on the other side of the world recover from a major trauma.

I am not asking you to do something I won't do. I receive a number of things free of charge to which I willing give money monthly because I believe in the work that is being done. (I donate $100 a month to just one cause because I know it brings me so much value each month.)

If you would like details on the project you can find them here: Full details

Click this link and make a small donation.

A donation as small as $25 will mean EFT work for 5 kids.

You Give! You Get!
As a thank you if you donate $25 or more I will send you:

  • “50 EFT Scripts To Stop Self-Sabotage” ebook by me
  • “New Energy Therapies” ebook by Steve Wells and David Lake
  • “EFT Level 1 Manual” ebook by Tania A. Prince.
  • (If we reach the goal of $15k) I will do 4 free teleclasses.

Think of it like this: Kids receive the help they need and you receive some really useful tapping bonuses.

Click this link and make a small donation.

Thanks for your continued support of TappingQ&A.

Please let me know what I can do to be helpful!

Gene