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Pod #634: How to make tapping routine

October 23, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

On August 1st, 2007, I posted my very first article to TappingQandA.com with the title “Making Tapping and EFT Routine”.

In the intervening years, I have often talked about that same topic with my students and clients because they know that their lives would be better if they were to tap more. 

Just because we know tapping is good for us does not mean we do it daily or when we are in emotional distress. AND what is worse, when we know how to do something and we don’t do it, we end up beating ourselves up for not tapping, which only makes matters worse.

This week in the podcast, I share with you five simple steps to making tapping (or anything else) a part of your daily routine. I took the four steps from the old article, simplified them into three steps, and added two new steps that I have learned since writing the initial article.

If you have ever wanted to tap more regularly, then this week’s podcast is a must.

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Daily, Habit, Routine

Pod #633: Tapping to overcome the resistance to self-care

October 16, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli 2 Comments

One of the subconscious resistances we have to taking care of ourselves stems from the recognition that we have it better than so many other people in the world. Because we recognize this, we may feel bad taking care of anything beyond our basic needs.

This situation can be compounded when others see us as their go-to person to help them or others, and we find it hard to turn away those in difficulty.

Because of this, I sometimes struggle to take sufficient time to tap for myself beyond a little emotional first aid in the moment.

To overcome this resistance, I have started tapping for someone new. That person is “Future Gene”. Future Gene is exactly what he sounds like, it is me in the future.

The funny thing is that I am willing to tap for Future Gene, even when I am not willing to tap for myself at the moment.

In this week’s podcast I explore this off-the-wall idea and how you can incorporate it into your tapping as well.

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Resistance, self-care

Pod #632: Tapping to Break Free from the Weight of “Should”

October 9, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli 1 Comment

When I work with clients, I pay close attention to the language they use and I pay particular attention to keywords that alert me to how the subconscious mind might be informing their narrative.

It is so much easier to create change and transformation with tapping if we can identify the often misguided stories driven by the subconscious mind.

One of those words is “should”.

The word “should” comes with so much baggage. It does not just express what needs to happen, but carries with it a huge amount of unspoken information and expectation.

In this week’s podcast, I break down all of the extra emotional meanings conveyed by the word “should”. I also share a simple four-step tapping process you can use to uncover and clear the resistance that usually accompanies the word “should”.

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Action, Resistance, should

Pod #631: The Yes Code w/ Carol Look

October 2, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

Before we can take action aimed at improving our lives, we need to know what to do, how to do it, have access to the necessary resources, and the internal desire or reason to take action.

Sometimes you might have these four elements in place and still find yourself struggling to act because you are held back by internal resistance.

For as long as I have known about Carol Look and her work (which has been going on for close to two decades), she has talked about how to identify and clear this internal resistance. In her most recent book, The Yes Code, Carol explains the step-by-step process of how you can uncover and release this resistance to help you get to an internal emotional “yes!” and take action.

This podcast with Carol is in anticipation of the release of The Yes Code on October 8th and shares the process of clearing resistance as well as what she learned about herself and the process through writing the book.

You can sign up for bonus training by visiting The Yes Code book launch page.

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Guest: Carol Look

Contact: web @ CarolLook.com

About Carol: Carol Look is a Founding EFT Master, licensed psychotherapist, author, world-renowned workshop presenter and speaker, and creator of her signature coaching method, The Yes Code™. Carol has taught workshops in England, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Canada, Australia, and all over the United States. Known for her laser-like focus and state-of-the-art approach, Carol helps clients release their limiting beliefs and emotional conflicts so they can enjoy lives of exceptional success and fulfillment. Carol is a regularly featured energy medicine expert on leading global summits and is a featured expert in the field’s top documentaries.

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Action, Carol Look, Resistance

Pod #630: The Subconscious Tug of War: Tapping to Balance Short-Term Relief with Long-Term Healing

September 25, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

Do you ever feel like no matter how much time you spend working on your personal growth, you’re never truly moving forward?

One of the biggest challenges in creating lasting healing and transformation is the simple fact that there’s never enough time and energy to tackle it all. At any given moment, you might want to improve your health, deepen your relationships, focus on spiritual growth, sharpen your professional skills, declutter your space and, and…the list never ends.

The harsh truth is that you can’t work on everything. And the real struggle isn’t just choosing what to focus on, but it’s also the subconscious mind pulling you in multiple directions, forcing you to deal with immediate pains and short-term issues instead of focusing on meaningful long-term transformation.

Our subconscious mind is wired for survival, which means it’s obsessed with right now: the urgent discomforts, the stress of the moment, and whatever feels like a quick fix. This constant urge towards short-term relief often leaves us spinning our wheels, feeling busy but never making any real progress.

The result? We get caught in a cycle of putting out life’s daily fires without ever tackling the deeper, more meaningful changes we long for.

In this week’s podcast, I dive into why your subconscious mind is so fixated on the immediate and how it sabotages your long-term goals without you even realizing it. More importantly, I’ll walk you through simple, daily tapping exercises to break free from this subconscious tug of war, so you can finally focus on the big-picture transformation that truly matters.

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: long term healing, mindset, Subconscious

Pod #629: Tapping for a creativity boost

September 18, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

No matter how much we consciously want to focus on a task, subconscious resistance can get in the way, making us distracted and unproductive.

Part of us might be resisting tasks because of anxiety about the quality of what we produce, if we can get enough done, how others will receive our efforts, and whether we will be happy with the end result, to name just a few common concerns.

Last week, I had a task that I needed to complete but I was aware how unsettled my mind was when I sat down to work. To combat the distraction, I created a brand new tapping process to keep me on track.

Not only did it work then, but I have used it every time I have sat down to work since coming up with it.

This week in the podcast I share exactly what I did, and how you can improve your own productivity just by drawing a few circles.

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Creativity, Focus, productivity

Pod #628: Tapping for the emotions that prevent healing

September 11, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

When we are working on our resistance to taking a particular action, we often end up referring to the past to see if we can identify the roots of our reluctance in not wanting to repeat past mistakes or struggles.

Combing through mistakes we have made can bring up old feelings of defeat and disappointment, leaving us feeling worse than when we started tapping as we experience deep emotions about our past failings.

Unfortunately, the result of this is usually that we give up on our tapping. Not only do we stop moving forward with our healing, but it can put us into a bit of an emotional spiral.

When this happens to me, I have a simple process to get myself back on track.

This week in the podcast I share how to recognize when you get emotionally hijacked in this way, the process I use to get back on track, and we do some tapping to show you exactly how that process works.

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Emotions, Process, Resistance

Pod #627: Why lessons from the past are not always useful

September 4, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

When we are working on healing and creating transformation in our lives, we spend much time looking backwards.

The way we understand ourselves, the world, and our place in the world is informed and created by our past, which means our limiting beliefs, insecurities, and bad habits are often rooted there too.

That is why there are so many tapping tools that focus on the past, such as the movie technique, the photo technique, and the middle school playlist, to name just a few.

While it can be useful to look backwards, sometimes trying to understand our past and why we are the way we are is not helpful and can even get in the way of our healing journey.

This week in the podcast I share when it is useful to look to the past, when the past gets in the way, and a simple way to tap to ensure you do not get caught in this trap.

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Healing, Past, Transformation

Pod #626: Tapping for daily distractions

August 28, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

The Buddhist concept of the “monkey mind” describes our human tendency to get restless, distracted, or confused.

For some reason, my monkey mind has been going crazy these past few weeks. I feel like I haven’t been dealing with a monkey so much as a troop of them! (I just learned that a group of monkeys is called a troop!)

Every fifteen or twenty minutes, I have found myself looking at social media or a news website or my inbox or an online dating app or what the weather will be like tomorrow.

It was as if I had completely lost control of my attention. One minute I was working and concentrating on the task in front of me…and the next, I was firmly in Distractionland.

Instead of beating myself up, I decided to do a little tapping experiment.

The results were AMAZING!

In this week’s podcast I share what I tried, how it worked, and what I learned.

This is something you will want to add to your own transformational tool box right away!

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Pod #625: Being open to uncomfortable truths

August 21, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

One of the most common forms of resistance people encounter when doing any sort of deep transformational work (tapping included) is the fear of what will be uncovered.

The two most common fears are either that there will be an overwhelming number of emotions that will be difficult to handle or that a previously suppressed traumatic memory will surface.

There is another version of this resistance that is less emotional and less dramatic.

That is the fear that you will learn or be reminded of something that you don’t want to hear.

It could be:

  • an uncomfortable truth about your life
  • an action that you need to take but are avoiding because you know it will be hard
  • a toxic relationship that you need to exit
  • a harmful habit that is you need to give up
  • a realization that you failed in the past because you were unwilling to show up for yourself

Nobody wants to deal with these types of truths BUT if we want to create lasting change and transformation in our lives, then we need to face up to these truths and heal our relationship to them.

In the podcast this week I share a simple tapping phase I love that will make it easier to be open to healing and transformation.

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Fear, Memories, Past, Resistance

Worldwide Humanitarian Aid Tapping – Gunilla Hamne and Ulf Sandstrom

August 15, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

Gunilla and Ulf are co-creators of the Trauma Tapping Technique (TTT), a simplified, language and content-free tapping modality that is designed for non-specialist scaling. Via the organization they founded, Peaceful Heart Network, TTT has reached over 200,000 people in trouble spots around the world. 

For over 15 years Gunilla and Ulf have been involved in international humanitarian work in countries that include Rwanda, DR Congo, South Sudan, India, the United States, Canada, and Sweden.

Website: PeacefulHeart.se

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: 24hr, Gunilla Hamne and Ulf Sandstrom

Tapping to Release Chronic and Acute Pain – Julie Schiffman

August 15, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

Julie holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work and is an internationally recognized expert EFT practitioner. For more than 30 years, Julie has counseled thousands of clients, helping them break through physical and emotional barriers. Her life-changing YouTube videos have been viewed more than five million times.

Julie is trained in multiple healing modalities but is best known for her expertise in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT/Tapping). In her private practice, she uses energy medicine techniques to help clients all around the globe overcome their physical and emotional challenges.

Julie is passionate about empowering people to heal and transform their lives from their power within. She has been a featured presenter for the *Tapping World Summit* every year since its inception in 2008 and she regularly participates in health and wellness summits.

Website: JulieSchiffman.com

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Lessons Learned from Research – David Feinstein

August 15, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

David is a clinical psychologist who has received nine national awards for his books on consciousness and healing. He has served on the faculties of Antioch College and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He and his wife, Donna Eden, have built one of the world’s largest and most vibrant organizations teaching Energy Medicine.

Website: EnergyPsychEd.com

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Tapping for Attachment Disorders – Yves Wauthier-Freymann

August 15, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

Yves Wauthier-Freymann is a trained psychotherapist, coach and author who specializes in attachment disorders and complex trauma. He is the founder of the Self Emotional Balancing© method and co-director of IEPRA (European Training Institute for Professionals in a Helping Relationship). Among the books he has co-authored are *EFT Tapping and Energy Psychology*, *Clinical EFT and Treatment Protocols*, and *TEP – Provocative Energy Techniques*

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Tapping’s Relationship To and Impact of the Nervous System – Dr. Jen Cincurak

August 15, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

Jen trained as a naturopathic doctor and is obsessed with neuroscience and how changing our physiology can create real change in our lives. Using somatic tools like EFT/Tapping and developmental rhythmic movement among others, she helps people mature their nervous systems and untangle old patterns that no longer serve them, so that they can enjoy a greater sense of freedom and daily peace. “

Website: YourConsciousEntrepreneur.com

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Tapping for Confidence – Gala Darling

August 15, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

Gala Darling is a speaker, teacher, bestselling author, and self-described Tapping Queen and spiritual pop star. With a mission of making EFT/tapping mainstream and accessible, she has taught tapping and radical self-love techniques to millions of women over the past fifteen years.

She was inspired to start doing this work after healing her eating disorder and depression using tapping. That done, she became obsessed with the idea that what we think is a life sentence is actually just a story. As a teacher, she is effervescent, unconventional, and unapologetically enthusiastic.

Gala’s TED Talk has been viewed over a quarter of a million times. Her first book, *Radical Self-Love*, became an instant bestseller at #1 in its category and has been translated into five languages. She has taught at NYU, worked with celebrity clients, and has been featured in every major publication that counts from Vogue to O Magazine to the New York Times.

She believes that life is to be celebrated, change can be joyful, and deeply and completely loving, accepting, and forgiving yourself is the key to living the life you’ve always dreamed of.

Website: GalaDarling.com

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Mindset for Business – Pamela Bruner

August 15, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

Pamela Bruner is a business coach, author, speaker, and EFT expert. After removing her own discomfort with marketing and sales, Pamela built her business from $375/month to annual sales of $1,000,000 in less than three years. She specializes in working with conscious entrepreneurs to build six- and seven-figure businesses by combining effective strategies with cutting-edge mindset tools. Pamela is the co-author of *Tapping Into Ultimate Success*, a book and DVD with Jack Canfield, co-creator of *Chicken Soup for the Soul*.

Website: AttractClientsOnline.com

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Vibration of Abundance – Carol Look

August 15, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

Carol Look, LCSW and EFT Master, is an author, speaker and coach. Trained as a psychotherapist and hypnotist, Carol has studied EFT for over 24 years and became an EFT Master under direct mentoring by EFT creator Gary Craig. Carol has taught abundance workshops all over the world. She loves mentoring Tapping students and creating EFT resources, including her popular book *Attracting Abundance with EFT*.

Website: CarolLook.com

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Trauma Informed Tapping – Craig Weiner

August 15, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

Craig is a director of the EFT Tapping Training Institute and of the continuing education program Tapping out of Trauma. He is a master trainer of trainers for EFT International, a certified trainer of Matrix Reimprinting and a META Health trainer/practitioner. His passion is to educate and influence practitioners and individuals as to the power of understanding of how trauma influences every aspect of a person’s life, how to safely and gently work with traumatic experiences and how it provides opportunities for growing resilience and achieving post-traumatic growth.

Website: EftTappingTraining.com

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: 24hr, Craig Weiner

Research Findings for Tapping for Chronic Pain – Dr Peta Stapleton

August 15, 2024 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

Dr. Peta Stapleton is a registered clinical/health psychologist and Associate Professor at Bond University (Australia) who embraces evidence-based and innovative techniques. Peta is a world-leading researcher in Emotional Freedom Techniques (Tapping) and led a world-first study investigating brain changes after EFT. 

She was awarded the Harvey Baker Research Award for meticulous research (Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology), and was named 2019 Psychologist of the Year (Australian Allied Health Awards). Peta has authored *The Science Behind Tapping: A Proven Stress Management Technique for the Mind and Body* (Hay House), which won Best Self-Help Book (2019 Best Book Awards, American Book Fest).

Website: EvidenceBasedEFT.com

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: 24hr, Peta Stapleton

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