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

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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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Pod #626: Tapping for daily distractions

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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

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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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Worldwide Humanitarian Aid Tapping – Gunilla Hamne and Ulf Sandstrom

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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

Tapping to Release Chronic and Acute Pain – Julie Schiffman

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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

Lessons Learned from Research – David Feinstein

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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

Tapping for Attachment Disorders – Yves Wauthier-Freymann

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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*

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

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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

Tapping for Confidence – Gala Darling

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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

Mindset for Business – Pamela Bruner

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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

Vibration of Abundance – Carol Look

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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

Trauma Informed Tapping – Craig Weiner

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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

Research Findings for Tapping for Chronic Pain – Dr Peta Stapleton

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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

Tapping for Better Sleep – Carol Richards

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Carol is a sleep coach, emotional success coach, and Master Conscious EFT™ practitioner. She helps sleep-deprived individuals get the one thing holding them back from thriving in life: consistent, refreshing, deep sleep without the need for medication or complicated bedtime rituals.

Website: SleepSuccessAcademy.com

Tapping for Domestic Violence – Melissa Beasley

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Melissa built her skin care line, Love-Essential Skin Care, while recovering from an abusive marriage, and now uses her experience to help survivors of domestic violence and spiritual abuse rebuild their lives. She coaches women one-on-one and also offers mentorship programs.

Her approach to healing is gentle and methodical, starting with learning to regulate and calm the nervous system using tools like EFT/Tapping, and progressing to healing trauma. Through this powerful process, she guides women to rebuild their lives by discovering where they have become stuck in life, identifying their deep desires, and reconnecting to their innate strength.

Website: LoveEssentialSkinCare.com

Emotional Alchemy – Kris Ferraro

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Kris Ferraro is an Author, Energy Healer and Teacher on practical healing, emotional alchemy, manifestation, and spirituality. Blending ancient with cutting-edge principles and practices, Kris teaches how to clear past wounds and create a flourishing future. She is an accredited certified EFT Practitioner and licensed Spiritual Practitioner, with a private coaching practice for over 15 years. Her books include the #1 Amazon bestseller Energy Healing, an introduction to energy psychology practices, and Manifesting, now in its 6th printing. Her latest, Your Difference Is Your Strength, debuts 10/3/23.

Website: KrisFerraro.com

Tapping for Sexual Trauma – Jules Vandermaat

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Jules is an EFT Trainer, a mentor, Advanced Certified EFT Practitioner and a social worker. Based on the East Coast of Australia, she works online with people from all over the world in her private practice, specializing in helping people to recover from the trauma of sexual abuse.

She particularly enjoys training mental health professionals on how to incorporate EFT safely and gently into their therapy practices for traumatized clients. 

Jules first discovered EFT on Facebook about six years ago when she was working at a local sexual assault centre. She was amazed at how quickly EFT helped her clients to recover from PTSD, anxiety, depression and other trauma-related issues like shame, guilt and self-blame. She was hooked on EFT from the very beginning, and credits it with helping her to recover from burnout, and for reinvigorating her passion for her work.

Website: TappingWithJules.com

How EFT and Meditation Work Together – Dawson Church

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Dawson is an award-winning science writer with three best-selling books to his credit. *The Genie in Your Genes* was the first book to demonstrate that emotions drive gene expression; *Mind to Matter* showed that the brain creates much of what we think of as “objective reality”; and *Bliss Brain* demonstrates that peak mental states rapidly remodel the brain for happiness. He has conducted dozens of clinical trials, and founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare to promote groundbreaking new treatments. Its largest program, the Veterans Stress Project, has offered free treatment to more than 20,000 veterans with PTSD over the past decade. Dawson shares how to apply these health and performance breakthroughs through the EFT Universe website, one of the largest alternative medicine sites on the web.

Website: DawsonChurch.com

Tapping for Productivity and Focus – Alex Ortner

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Alex is the CMO and co-owner, along with his brother Nick and sister Jessica, of The Tapping Solution, a company with a mission to bring EFT/Tapping into the mainstream. He is also a producer of The Tapping Solution's annual online *Tapping World Summit* that has been attended by more than 2.5 million people over the last 14 years. 

Alex is the author of the children’s book *Gorilla Thumps and Bear Hugs: A Tapping Solution Children’s Story* and speaks to teachers and students on how to use Tapping in the classroom to create balance, relieve stress and get better results. 

Most recently, Alex has developed The Tapping Solution App, which features hundreds of Tapping Meditations that have been played millions of times, and has been downloaded in over 130 countries. 

Website: TheTappingSolution.com

Using Tapping in Palliative Care – Sue Marsden

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Sue has been a palliative medicine physician for more than 30 years, following an initial medical career as an oncologist and was first introduced to EFT some 20 years ago. 

In finding EFT powerful in her own life, Sue soon started to use it on her palliative care patients. She has mainly used SET (Simple Energy Technique), developed by Steve Wells and Dr. David Lake, for its simplicity that makes it suitable for patients at the end of life with limited energy and concentration. 

A native New Zealander, Sue has also lived and worked in Australia. She has taught palliative care and co-facilitated self-care workshops in South East Asia, Zimbabwe, USA, Samoa and in Australasia, some of them sponsored by the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross organization. 

She now provides locum cover for hospices and palliative care teams and has just finished writing a book, *Thank you, Elisabeth. Self-awareness when working with people at the end of life*, which is soon to be published.