Tag Archives: Why

Overwhelmed By Emotions While Using Tapping/EFT: Preventing it from happening and dealing with it if it happens

July 16, 2011 By Gene Monterastelli 1 Comment

I have so many emotions and memories coming up all at once that I’m overwhelmed by them. It feels like they are queuing up to get fixed! Yes, I’m glad this stuff comes up and I deal with it as it comes, but issues are tumbling out so fast they are ...

Not using “Even thought I…” and the KC point

May 14, 2011 By Gene Monterastelli 7 Comments

I have read a number of your articles. I love the fact that you often give tapping phrases to go along with the info, but you don’t give them in a way that I am used to seeing tapping phrases. Why don’t you use the phrase “even though I...” while ...

Need To Know How We Got Here

January 22, 2009 By Gene Monterastelli 1 Comment

To work down a path of healing we need to take stock of where we are and what issues we would like to heal. One of the questions that come to mind when we do this is, “How did I get here?” This can become a consuming question, to the point that it ...

Physical Pain From Injury

January 15, 2009 By Gene Monterastelli 1 Comment

I am very aware that there are times when we have pain in the body that has an emotional base. There are also times when we just hurt ourselves. I just twisted my knee and it still hurts a few days later. Do I tap in the same way with this sort of ...

Ev/EFT – Evolving Emotional Freedom Techniques

January 7, 2009 By Gene Monterastelli 1 Comment

Why do you use the term Evolving Emotional Freedom Techniques (EvEFT) instead of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)? When Gary Craig introduced EFT to the world I believe he did a very smart thing when chose the name. He called it Emotional ...

Getting Started

September 18, 2008 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

I know EFT works because it has worked for me before. For some reason I just can’t get myself to sit down and do the tapping I want and need to do. What is my problem, and is there anything I can do about it? photo by Jon Marshall I’ve ...

Feedback – What We Can Learn From Each Round of Tapping

May 1, 2008 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

I read all these stories about how people get amazing results with EFT right away. It’s just not happening for me. What am I doing wrong? photo by dave_mcmt Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is easy to use, it can be used on many ...

When We Don’t Know The Root Cause Of An Emotion

April 9, 2008 By Gene Monterastelli 3 Comments

My 11-year-old daughter has suddenly developed a fear of school. She has previously been very, very happy there, and can’t give a reason for feeling like this. She really wants to go but feels she can’t, and doesn’t know why. Any ...

EFT Losing Its Effectiveness

March 30, 2008 By Gene Monterastelli 1 Comment

When I first learned EFT it worked really quickly on everything. Now it isn’t working as well. Do we build up a resistance to EFT? Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a wonderful and powerful tool, but just we knowing how to do EFT doesn’t mean we ...

Emotions and Physical Pain – AKA:Can Pain Be Our Friend?

March 6, 2008 By Gene Monterastelli 1 Comment

I have heard a lot of talk about how pain can have emotional issues. Is this true? If so can I use the pain to discover and work on the emotional issues tied to the pain? [Note from Gene: I asked Pennsylvania-based EFT practitioner Chip ...

I Feel Tired After Tapping

February 28, 2008 By Gene Monterastelli 9 Comments

Has anyone mentioned to you that they feel REALLY fatigued after an EFT session? I have had about three sessions with clients where some really amazing core issues moved. At the end of the session the clients felt quite tired after. Is this ...

How long to tap, how many session to tap, getting 100% clear

February 23, 2008 By Gene Monterastelli 3 Comments

How long should I use EFT on an issue? Is it important that I tap on an issue until it is 100% clear? How many sessions should I work on the same issue? There are a number of things to consider when approaching these questions. Let’s take these ...

Why do I have to tap? (part 3 of 3)

February 12, 2008 By Gene Monterastelli 1 Comment

Why is it that fretting, stewing, or worrying about an issue consciously doesn’t dissolve the emotions, but tapping while expressing it does? photo by Mike In part one of this series we looked at how the human mind creates models of ...

Why do I have to tap? (part 2 of 3)

February 12, 2008 By Gene Monterastelli 2 Comments

Why is it that fretting, stewing, or worrying about an issue consciously doesn’t dissolve the emotions, but tapping while expressing it does? photo by Sacha Fernandez In part one of this series we looked at how models of information ...

Why do I have to tap? (part 1 of 3)

February 12, 2008 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

Why is it that fretting, stewing, or worrying about an issue consciously doesn’t dissolve the emotions, but tapping while expressing it does? photo by Alessandro This thoughtful question is about many topics at once. Embedded in this ...