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Tag Archives: How To

Pod #422: How To Find Root Causes

January 15, 2020 by Gene Monterastelli

Recently I was working with a client who was frustrated with the process of tapping. He felt angry. The process went like this: he felt angry he tapped for the angerhe felt bettersome time would passhe felt angry again Dealing with the same ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: How To, Root Causes, Symptoms

Pod #408: The Tools That Helped Us To Survive In The Past Aren’t Always Useful Today

November 27, 2019 by Gene Monterastelli

Many of my clients would identify as the 'black sheep' of their families or communities. Because they moved to the beat of their own drums, they were usually out of step with everyone else. This can be particularly difficult for youngsters to ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Childhood, How To, Past, Tools

Pod #406: Tapping To Send Loving Thoughts To Others

November 20, 2019 by Gene Monterastelli

There is no shortage of pain or struggle in the world. Because of this, at any given moment any number of our loved ones can be suffering in big and small ways. When our loved ones are in pain, we really want to ease their burden, but just because ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Care, How To, Love, Loved Ones

Pod #405 How To End A Tapping Session

November 18, 2019 by Gene Monterastelli

How we end a tapping session is sometimes more important than how we begin it. At the beginning it is most important that we simply start tapping. With each successive round of tapping, we gain clarity about the issue at hand and where we should ...

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Filed Under: Podcast, Tools Tagged With: End, How To, Phrases, Practitioner, Session

Pod #394: 12 Lessons From Doing EFT With A Total Stranger On A Flight

October 10, 2019 by Gene Monterastelli

In my early years of tapping I was super eager to share tapping with everyone I possibly could. Over time I learned that it was best to share tapping (or anything for that matter) only with people who are actually open to learning something ...

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Filed Under: Podcast, Sessions Tagged With: How To, Practitioner, Smoking

Pod #364: Getting To The Bottom Of It w/ Lori Lamont

May 22, 2019 by Gene Monterastelli

In Recovering Sell - A Healing Manifesto I share twelve thoughts on healing. Number six is: "There is always resistance to change because if there weren't resistance, you would have changed already." As a tapper, this means that one of our most ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: How To, Lori Lamont, Resistance

Pod #318: What is the best way to use EFT for this issue?

June 20, 2018 by Gene Monterastelli

I often hear from frustrated clients because they have tapped for an issue, but they haven't made any progress. When this happens they question whether tapping can help. The reality is that in many of these cases the issue isn’t whether tapping will ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: How To

Pod #293: What is the best way to tap?

November 15, 2017 by Gene Monterastelli

Almost daily I receive an email asking something along the lines of, "What is the best way to tap for [insert issue]?" It’s great that people are looking for the most effect ways to clear an issue, but sometimes I think this question can be ...

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Why I hate (the name) Emotional Freedom Techniques

July 8, 2017 by Gene Monterastelli

Note: This article was originally shared on Sept 2nd, 2012 with the title "Why I Hate Emotional Freedom Techniques". This is an updated and edited version of that article. I have a confession to make. I hate Emotional Freedom Techniques. OK, I ...

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Filed Under: Tools Tagged With: How To

What To Do When The SUD Scale Doesn’t Work For You

September 12, 2016 by Gene Monterastelli

In Podcast #236 I answered four listener questions. Below you will find the audio of all four questions and the transcript for question #3. Please bear in mind that I speak in a slightly more informal fashion than I write, which you will notice in ...

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Filed Under: Q&A Tagged With: How To, Measure, Success, SUDs

Pod #232: All About The Tapping Points w/ Beth Kearns

August 3, 2016 by Gene Monterastelli

Even those just starting out with tapping know that Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) works via the meridian system. I know that when I am explaining tapping to the uninitiated I will just say, "It is like acupuncture without needles." When Roger ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Acupuncture, Beth Kearns, How To

Tapping Tools You Might Have Forgotten About

August 1, 2016 by Gene Monterastelli

Many people don't know that the T in EFT stands for "Techniques", which is plural. When Gary Craig, the creator of EFT, was studying Thought Field Therapy and teaching EFT, he understood that the process would grow and change with time. Each time ...

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Pod #222: Is There A Right Way To Do EFT? w/ Gwyneth Moss

May 25, 2016 by Gene Monterastelli

The first set of EFT training videos were recorded by Gary Craig over 20 years ago. Gary developed EFT after he trained with Roger Callahan in the tapping protocol Thought Field Therapy, which was developed 10 years prior to that. In the last 30 ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Gwyneth Moss, How To

How To Tap For Any Emotion In 10 Easy Steps

May 23, 2016 by Gene Monterastelli

One of the easiest ways to tap for an issue is by using the storytelling or movie techniques where you are tapping and working through the basic facts of the story. It can be harder to tap on your own when you don’t have a specific story to tap ...

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Filed Under: Q&A Tagged With: Emotions, How To

Pod #200: What To Do When Your Speaking Voice And Your Inner Voice Are In Conflict While Tapping

December 24, 2015 by Gene Monterastelli

I hear it all the time from my clients when we are tapping together. We’ll finish a round of tapping and they will report that while we are tapping their critical voice is saying the exact opposite to our tapping phrases. I know how frustrating this ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Critical Voice, How To, Phrases, What To Say

Pod #165: Using Hero Tapping To Take Action

April 8, 2015 by Gene Monterastelli

We know that when we are trying to make a change but not taking the required action we need to find out what is behind our resistance. We can ask ourselves what the penalties are for trying, for failing, and for succeeding. But sometimes these ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Action, How To, Resistance

Pod #156: How To Share Tapping With Others Without Sounding Like A Whackjob

February 4, 2015 by Gene Monterastelli

I love talking about the work I do. When I am meeting someone for the first time I don't jump right into tapping or EFT. I talk about self-sabotage, limiting beliefs, and emotional healing. At some point in the conversation, because people are so ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: How To, Teaching

Pod #150: 3 Key Things To Keep In Mind Before You Start An EFT Session (w/ tap-alongs)

December 17, 2014 by Gene Monterastelli

Often our biggest obstacle we have to using tapping in the healing process is ourselves. This plays out in two ways. First, sometimes a part of us doesn’t feel it is safe for us to heal. Since a part of our system doesn't feel safe healing we short ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Before You Begin, How To, Mind-Set

Pod #149: The Real Goal Of EFT – Proportional Well Informed Emotions

December 10, 2014 by Gene Monterastelli

My clients often complain that even though they tap regularly for their issues, there are times when their emotions get the better of them. The goal of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is not for us to become emotionless. Our emotions are ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Emotions, Focus, How To

Pod #146: Stages Of The Emotional Healing Process

November 14, 2014 by Gene Monterastelli

I was recently having drinks with a friend and we were talking about my time teaching anger management in jail. She asked if I would teach her one of the tools I taught the guys. So I explained one of my favorites. She responded, "I can see how ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Awareness, How To, Transformation

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