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Release Secrets from Your Cells – Julie Schiffman

August 15, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

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

Getting Your Life Back After Any Kind of Loss – Jamie Lee Silver

August 15, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

Jamie Lee Silver lets her brilliant light shine and in her work as a sacred guide, leads her clients to new insights and happiness too! Jamie has been a light-bringer her whole life, starting as a child, and developing her skills through crystals, meditation, a lifelong Buddhist practice, Sacred Energy Training in Sedona, Arizona and her practice as a Certified and Accredited EFT Professional.

Jamie learned of EFT just as her son Ben, 20, was beginning his treacherous journey through schizophrenia, and death by suicide. Jamie suffered fathomless sadness, and knew her life would never be the same, because “the worst” actually could happen. She clawed her way back to the light through Tapping and Buddhist Chanting, writing and meditation. Having brought her light back through her tears she became even more determined to help others who have suffered life-changing setbacks.

Through her loving intuition, Jamie continued to feel Ben's loving energy after his death and she began written automatic correspondence with her singer, songwriter, and poet son. In 2017 she privately published “Our Forever Ben, One Mom's Letters to Her Son-in-Spirit and His Poetic Replies.”

In 2019 Jamie earned her EFT Certification and Accreditation through the EFT Tapping Training Institute. Since then she has served a worldwide clientele using EFT and Past/Present/Future Matrix Reimprinting. Jamie provides a magic carpet of services through her Silver Lining System of Healing After Great Loss, including car accidents, divorce and other life changing losses.

Website: TapforHappiness.com

The Value of Remote and Self-Tapping – Stephen Daniel

August 15, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

Dr. Stephen P. Daniel was the fifth person to ever be trained in Voice Technology by the world renowned Dr. Roger Callahan. Dr. Daniel is a conference presenter on the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or The Tapping Solution for chronic illness. He is also advanced level trained in Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques (NAET) by Dr. Nambudripad, and Level 3 trained in Total Body Modification (TBM) by Dr. Victor Frank.

Dr. Daniel has Master’s level training in Neurolink and is a Licensed Scientific Investigator of the Institute of Technical Energy Medicine, using Resonant Field Imaging. He was also trained to use Heart Rate Variability Instrumentation as well as Heartmath. In addition, Dr. Daniel studied and developed expertise in Field Control Therapy, Chinese medicine, and Dr. West’s lymphatic work.

Website:.QuantumTechniques.com

Tapping for Postpartum Depression and Anxiety – Jackie Viramontez

August 15, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

Jackie Viramontez is a Master Level EFT trainer, Reiki Master, and bestselling author. Her personal journey through anxiety, traumatic loss, and depression transformed into a commitment to share the most effective healing tools with others. She teaches future practitioners and counselors in trauma-informed approaches through EFTInternational. Her holistic approach, which blends EFT, Inner Child and energy medicine, has been featured in VICE, Fast Company, and ENews. When she is not teaching, she is exploring Northern California with her filmmaker husband and joy-bubble 2-year-old son.

Website: TheEftMasterClass.com

Using Tapping in the Correctional System for Trauma, Addiction and Recovery – Kerri Rhodes

August 15, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

Kerri Rhodes is a licensed mental health clinician with 30 years of experience, personally touched by the opioid epidemic and fueled by the loss of her son, Taylor. With a powerful message and rapidly growing platform, Kerri is challenging and changing how America treats and addresses mental health, trauma and substance use disorder.

Kerri has spent the last 29 years working in schools, community mental health, the justice system, and private practice.

She brings her expertise to bear as she educates and empowers, in addition to the lessons Taylor taught her.

Her platform has reached schools, prisons, and national leaders. Invitations to speak, collaborate and teach are growing and include work with Weill Cornell Medicine, Shatterproof, Discovery Channel Plus, Senator Patrick Kennedy, Psychology Today, and the National Safety Council.

Kerri is currently a trauma therapist in the Chesterfield County Jail and works with the HARP program that helps those incarcerated with substance use and mental health issues to heal. The HARP program has certified over 100 inmates in the Trauma Tapping Technique in collaboration with the Peaceful Heart Network.

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Need is a 4-Letter Word – Brad Yates

August 15, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

Brad is known internationally for his creative and often humorous use of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). He 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*. Brad has also presented at numerous events, including Jack Canfield's Breakthrough to Success, on teleseminars with stars from *The Secret*, Bob Doyle and Dr. Joe Vitale, and on internet radio talk shows. Brad has more than 1000 videos on YouTube that have been viewed over 37 million times.

Website: TapWithBrad.com

Pod #624: The power of speaking subconscious thoughts

August 14, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

One of the phrases that Gary Craig used in the original EFT training videos that has stuck with me is “the comedies of our mind”.

When using this phrase, Gary was referring to the recurring thoughts that we had about ourselves that, when they were examined in the light of day, were seen to be comical or even farcical.

For example, right before I try something hard my subconscious mind will pipe up with, “You have failed before and you are going to fail again.”

Unexamined, that thought could stop me in my tracks. But if I pull it from the echo chamber of my subconscious mind and into the here and now, it loses its power. It might slow me down, but I can work my way through it,

This week in the podcast I share with you the process I use throughout my day to ensure I am not a prisoner to these unhelpful and untrue thoughts.

This is an approach that you can use in your tapping and also in your daily life without having to tap.

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Pod #623: Five questions to ask yourself before making a change

August 8, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

New opportunities can be so exciting as they bring the promise of growth, change, and countless possibilities.

The problem is that most of us already have full lives and we don't have the time or energy to add something new.

When this happens, we have a tendency to take one of two approaches.

One approach is to take the plunge in the hope that things will “just work out”…but they rarely do. We find ourselves stretched too thin and not doing anything well.

The other approach is to not try at all. We decide our life is already too busy and allow great opportunities to pass us by, only to feel bad about missing out afterwards.

This week in the podcast I share with you the five questions I use when I am presented with an interesting opportunity. These questions have changed my life to help me to add new exciting things to my life, while still maintaining balance.

I also share how I use tapping to super charge these questions.

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Pod #621: Tapping to be charitable towards ourselves

July 24, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

Maintaining high standards for ourselves is a good thing and means we have goals to shoot for and measuring sticks with which to evaluate our progress.

Unfortunately, it is all too easy to fall into self-criticism and self-judgment if we fall short of these standards. So much so that it rarely feels like a choice, but the moment we fall short, the internal critical voice comes roaring forward to berate and belittle us.

Even when we are critical of ourselves, we are still able to extend kindness to others and give them the benefit of the doubt.

Evaluating our actions is a good thing…but becoming overly self-critical is harsh and unhealthy.

When I am too hard on myself, one of my best friends gently chides me in a way that transforms the way I feel about myself and what comes next.

He doesn't say, “Gene, you are being too hard on yourself!” because that would not shift my mind or mood.

Instead, he says something completely different that turns everything around.

In this week's podcast I share the one phrase that changes my perspective in these situations, and how that phrase can be incorporated in our tapping.

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Pod #620: Tapping with the HARP participants featuring Kerri Rhodes

July 17, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

One of the highlights of this year's 24 Hours of Tapping was the conversation that I had with Kerri Rhodes. Kerri is one of the program directors of the Helping Addicts Recover Progressively (HARP) program in the Chesterfield (VA) County Jail.

The inmates use many of the tools created by the Peaceful Heart Network to create emotional healing and transformation as part of their recovery process.

In addition to learning about the HARP program from Kerri, we also had the opportunity to hear from the women in the program. Not only did they share their firsthand experience of tapping, but they also led us in a number of rounds of tapping.

This is a conversation that you don't want to miss.

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Pod #619: Just feeling your emotions

July 10, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

Most of the time, when we sit down to tap, we are trying to create positive change.

We are trying to:

Release a negative emotion and create a positive one in its place
Clear resistance and limiting beliefs so that we can take consistent action
Heal a past trauma or story so that our present is not haunted by our past

I love every single one of these tapping outcomes!

But there are times when we cannot create profound change or facilitate deep healing.

Sometimes the best and healthiest course of action is simply to be fully present to the emotions we are feeling. And that is no bad thing.

This week in the podcast I explore the power of feeling the full depth and breadth of our emotions in the moment as we tap. It is one of my favorite ways to tap and something I do multiple times a week.

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Pod #618: Tapping in response to failure

July 3, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

The primary goal of our subconscious mind is to keep us safe.

To do this, it is constantly learning lessons from our experience. For example, after touching a hot stove a small child quickly learns quickly not to do that again.

This only becomes a problem when the subconscious mind learns the “wrong” lesson from an experience.

I frequently see this come up when working with my clients around their reluctance to take action. Their resistance usually stems from one of these lessons that is neither useful nor true.

The most common lesson learned is that failure is bad, painful, and must be avoided at all costs. At first glance, this seems reasonable…except that the solution proposed by the subconscious mind is not to try at all.

The logical fallacy is obvious: Not taking action doesn't keep us safe, it keeps us stuck.

In this week's podcast, I share two ways to release the resistance to taking action that is created by past failures.

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Pod #617: Overcoming the corrosive nature of the word “too”

June 26, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

Wanting to belong is a basic human desire.

For our ancestors thousands of years ago, belonging to a tribe was a matter of life and death. Without the protection of a tribe and its strength in numbers, death was a real prospect, so this desire to be accepted is part of our genetic heritage.

Even today, on a subconscious level, belonging equals safety and not belonging equals death, though intellectually we know that is no longer true in most situations.

We evaluate whether or not we belong in many ways.

Are we included in activities?
Do people ask us for our input and listen to our contributions?
Do others share and celebrate their success with us?
Are we given a warm welcome when we arrive?

Those are clear indications of invitation and inclusion, but there are more subtle signs too. When I am working with clients and students, one of my favorite ways to unearth times in their past when they felt excluded is to ask the question, “In the past, when were you told you were too much of something?”

These types of being “too something” include being too loud, too emotional, too closed off, too dramatic, too quiet, too serious…and the list goes on.

Being told that you are “too something” can bring up subconscious fears of being wrong, and therefore excluded from your tribe.

This week in the podcast we explore how and why the word “too” feels corrosive and as if it undermines our experience. I also share a tapping process you can use to transform those times when you were told you are “too something” into an asset and empowering resource.

If you have ever been told you are too something, then this is a must-listen.

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Pod #616 Tapping for peak performance w/ Erik Tait

June 19, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

Erik Tait is a world class magician and someone I love to see perform. He has spent over two decades performing as a juggler, standup comedian, and magician.

In 2020 Erik decided that he wanted to compete in the 2022 FISM, which is the world championship of magic. Even though he is comfortable on almost any stage in the world, in preparing for the competition he realized he had some deep-seated fears that were affecting his performance. His fear was so acute that it would cause his hand to shake uncontrollably, which is the last thing a card magician wants.

Erik's therapist taught him tapping and he credits it (and other tools) with helping him to overcome his fear and win third place in the competition. This made him only the fourth American to accomplish this, and the first American to stand on the podium for card magic in two decades.

In this week's podcast, Erik shares how he was first introduced to tapping, how he used it to overcome his fear when preparing for FISM, and how he still uses it today.

Even if you never want to perform on stage, Erik's insights are valuable for anyone interested in improving their performance in any arena or endeavor.

ALSO, if you want to be blown away by world class magic, you can watch the act we talked about during the interview here: Erik Tait's FISM performance

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Guest: Erik Tait

Contact: web @ ErikTait.com; instagram @eriktait

About: Erik Tait has won awards for both standup comedy and magic throughout North America, appeared on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, and was the 2018 International Brotherhood of Magicians Gold Cups Close Up Competition Champion. He took home third place at FISM Quebec 2022, the world championships of magic, in the category of card magic. Erik is only the fourth American to accomplish this, and the first American to stand on the podium for card magic in two decades. He graduated with honors from the prestigious Humber College Comedy Writing and Performance program, which means Erik can academically prove why he is hilarious. Beyond that, Erik is the only magician in the world with a degree in funny. He has put academic theory into practice on some of the most prestigious stages in the world, including The Magic Castle, Second City Toronto, and the Hollywood Improv. His client list has some of the most recognizable brands in the country including Honda, Macy’s, and Bark Box.

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Pod #615: Tapping for perfectionism

June 12, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

There is a natural human tendency to want to make sure everything is “exactly right” before we take action. That's because when everything is exactly right, we can be as sure as we can be of getting the results we desire.

Our subconscious mind takes this idea to the extreme because its key driver is the need to keep us safe. In addition, it has a tendency to overreact when things go wrong.

Here's how it goes:

The subconscious wants us to be safe
Any small thing that goes wrong is not only unsafe, the subconscious mind judges it as catastrophic
The easiest way to make we are safe is to do everything “perfectly”
As perfection is generally an unrealistic and unattainable goal, the subconscious holds us back from taking action while waiting for ideal circumstances that never come

On the surface, this logic makes sense except for the fact that things will never be perfect. That leads us to over-thinking and failing to take decisive action.

This week in the podcast I share a simple concept and how to incorporate this concept into your tapping so you can avoid getting caught in this unproductive trap.

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Pod #614: What the novel Dune taught me about fear AND how that impacts my tapping

June 5, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

One of the reasons I love art is because it gives us the ability to communicate meaning in ways that we aren't always able to do when simply talking about our lives.

We have all heard the expression that “a picture is worth a thousand words”, which is true, and it is so much more than just that.

The genres of science fiction and fantasy offer us the opportunity to explore the human experience without the political and cultural baggage of our modern world.

Recently, I have been listening to the audiobook version of Frank Herbert's Dune. One of the underlying themes is how our emotions impact our ability to make good choices in moments of crisis.

There is one particular litany that the main character Paul recites multiple times in the story to calm his fear in the moment.

In this week's podcast I explore how that litany and Paul's journey to conquer his fear has impacted my tapping. I even built a tapping script based on the book's text.

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Pod #613: Tapping to create a new state

May 29, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

One of the reasons I love tapping so much is that it can be used for so many types of issues. It can be used to:

Provide emotional first aid
Break down a limiting belief
Heal a past memory
Manage pain
Clear a substance sensitivity

For me, it is super important to know why I am tapping in each given moment. Am I simply trying to calm myself when I feel overwhelmed so I can take action OR am I dealing with emotional resistance to taking action because I fear failing at my next task?

When I know what I am trying to accomplish, it makes it easier for me to stay on track so I can better evaluate my progress to see if I need to keep tapping on the issue.

Over the last few months, I have come to realize there are two different types of tapping issues that I had conflated into a single issue. I was approaching how I feel in a moment and what state I am in as if they are the same thing.

These are two distinct areas to tap for, with each having a different approach and different goals from the tapping itself.

In this week's podcast, I break down the difference between tapping for an emotion versus tapping to change your state, when you should be tapping for each, and how to tap to change your state.

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Pod #612: Tapping to become an agent for peace in the world

May 22, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

Late last year my friend Brad Yates reached out to see if there was some way we could use our platforms to encourage more people to tap for peace and to become more active peacemakers in the world.

After a number of conversations and with help from lots of our tapping friends, we relaunched the Tapping4Peace.com website.

The movement is simple. If you sign up to participate, you will receive a short email every week.

The email will remind you to do some tapping for peace AND if you aren't exactly sure how to do that, the email will contain a link to a tapping resource from a different practitioner every week to help you to do exactly that.

After signing up to join us, a number of people suggested that it would be fun to gather live and do some tapping together as a community. It was such a great idea that is what we did last Sunday.

People from all over the world joined us live.

This week in the podcast I am sharing some of the tapping we did, so that you too can tap with us to create more peace in the world.

Please tap along and join the Tapping For Peace Movement here: Tapping4Peace.com

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Pod #611: Tapping to reinforce the positive

May 15, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

I love how tapping can be used to clear and transform the negative.

It can be used to:

Release a negative emotions
Heal a past memory
Transform a limiting belief
Reduce (or even) eliminate physical pain
Quiet our critical voice

Did you know that in addition to being able to transform the negative, tapping can also be used to reinforce and embed the positive?

This week in the podcast I share a simple step-by-step process that you can use to reinforce and enhance positive feelings and positive states so that you can access them in future.

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