Even when we have a clear idea of what we want to do, we can come up against internal emotional resistance to taking action. This tap-along will help you to take more actions, without feeling like you are being careless or reckless.
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Recently I was working with a client on using tapping to help him to go after some major goals in his life.
He didn’t need to address a particular issue, but instead he was looking for a good way to set himself up to pursue his goals. After we ...
Sometimes it's hard to know where to start tapping on an issue.
We know tapping will help. We know that we just need to start. But we don't quite know where to start. Our emotions feel like a knotty, tangled up necklace, with no obvious place to ...
Trying again where we have failed in the past is one of the hardest things to do.
I was recently faced with wanting to do something that didn’t go well in the past. It wasn’t that it went badly, but it was far from as successful as I would have ...
The basics of tapping are so simple that they can be taught in mere minutes.
But just because tapping is simple, doesn’t mean that effective tapping is easy. There is so much more to it than knowing the tapping points.
In this short audio I ...
I am a huge proponent of goal setting.
Having clearly defined goals is helpful in two ways. First, it helps to define the actions we need to take to achieve them. Second, it gives us a measuring stick with which to evaluate our efforts along the ...
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 ...
Even though tapping is such a powerful tool, at times it feels as if it is just taking too long to get the results we want.
In this week's podcast we are talking about:
Why healing sometimes needs to happen as part of a processHow to make the ...
One of the situations that my clients struggle with the most is dealing with the expectations of their loved ones.
Our loved ones want what is best for us, but they want what is best of us in terms of what they think will make us happy. Often what ...
We all know that tapping is a powerful tool when we are in pain, distress, and discomfort. Did you know it can also be a useful tool when we are celebrating success?
The reason for this is because it is common to feel a number of negative emotions ...
Recently I was listening to the actor and comedian Dan Van Kirk being interviewed on Kevin Pollak's Chat Show podcast. Dan told the story of his career path, moving from rural Illinois to LA, then to Chicago, and finally back to LA where he ...
A few weeks ago in Podcast 299 I shared with you a simple way to use intentions at the beginning of every day as gentle way of taking more positive action throughout the day.
I heard from a number of clients who tried the process and struggled to ...
I might seem counter intuitive, but there are three good reasons to why our loved ones don't want us to heal and transform. This can even be true for the people in our lives who are vocally supportive of us.
In most cases this lack of support from ...
There is an amazing contradiction that exists for most people who use EFT. On one hand we know how powerful it is. On the other hand we don't use it as much as we could.
I have even heard many clients report that there are times when they actively ...
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 ...
There is a counterbalance to most things in life. Success to failure. Happy to sad. Action to rest. Growth to deterioration.
Often when we tap we are working only on the part we see as negative, thereby addressing only half of this balance.
Even ...
One of the most powerful things I have done to improve my productivity is spending a few moments every morning tapping on my to-do list.
When I clear away all the emotional resistance to the items on my to-do list I find myself easily able to take ...
I love the emails that I receive from my readers. (You can always email me directly.)
At least once a day I receive some version of the question: "What are the tapping phrases I should use for [insert issues]?"
This question is flawed in two ...
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In the discussion forum of a program I help out with an interesting question was posted this week.
The poster, "Debbie", told the story of having to deal with a lizard in her house. Debbie is petrified of lizards. When ...
I want to use EFT to work on a major issue in my life, but somehow I always find an excuse not to do it. I know it will help me. I do want to get over this, but it just doesn’t happen. What can I do?
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I’ve noticed an ...