Emotional Freedom Technique - 2013 Tapping World Summit

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Braun on February 23, 2013 at 8:25am

Many have been doing this for years now, David. I have since before I began my practice and continue to do so. Heck, Melissa Tiers does it and Roy Hunter mentions using it in his training via HPTI. If they do, you know it has to be a legitimate help!

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Permalink Reply by David Cervik on February 24, 2013 at 10:53pm

Michelle,  Thanks for your comment.  I have learned EFT for about one year now.  What I like is that it completes the circle of mind body work.  The scripts for calming are tremendous.  Dave

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Permalink Reply by Barry Neale on February 25, 2013 at 12:16am

Hi,
i agree with Michelle's comments . I have been using EFT in my practice since 97 with great success.It is interesting to note that EFT has gone through similar issues with certification though. In 97 i had several long conversations with Gary Craig about certification. at that time he was totally against it because he felt it was such a simple and effective process that it didnt need certification and that he wanted everyone to learn it.
since then of course others have taken his work and created certification courses and masters courses for hundreds of dollars.

regards
barry

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Permalink Reply by Ricardo Costa on February 25, 2013 at 1:03am

What would be the best way to learn EFT on distance and for a fair price?

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Permalink Reply by Ricardo Costa on February 25, 2013 at 4:07am

Thanks, Jo! Will download it when I'm home.

Do you think it works fine if you use it for your self without any "therapist" or is has less results in that modality?

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Braun on February 25, 2013 at 7:46am

Gary Craig must have been very unsettled with what all happened in the EFT world since he retired, so much so that he has come out of retirement. He has his original website www.emofree.com again  I feel it is best to learn it from Gary and develop your own spin. I believe the original intent was to approach it like an open source method, much like David Grove did with Clean Language.

This is what Gary said about the Tapping Summit in his latest newsletter.

"Did you attend the "Tapping World Summit"?: Around this time each year, a highly promoted "Tapping World Summit" occurs wherein about 20 EFT'ers are gathered together to promote their products.

I neither endorse nor participate in these types of events because I am uncomfortable with the quality and commercialism involved. As an example, I polled attendees of previous summits and discovered that only 15% felt that what they purchased lived up to its promises. Further, past summits have been loaded with Scripts, Brief Tap Along Audios/Videos, Choices and other methods that limit the truly symphonic use of EFT.

Someday I may provide a "summit" myself wherein the EFT quality will follow our Gold Standard EFT and the commercial drumbeat will be absent.  Maybe I'll call it...

Gary's Gold Standard EFT Summit
(The Palace of Possibilities^TM)

 Let me know what you think."

I do agree that rampant commercialism developed after Gary retired. Unfortunately, that genie  does not want to go back in the bottle.

The biggest advantage of the summit was many people were introduced to the concept and made aware of its versatility. Many, many talented people are using it in many ways.

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Braun on February 25, 2013 at 8:02am

Ricardo, the beauty of EFT is, it is a take along do-it-yourself thing. Get your info from Gary Craig's site and decide. I use it with clients, but most importantly, I teach it to them and refer them to Gary Craig's website for further information.

EFT and self-hypnosis are similar in that they both are very effective used alone by yourself. Also like hypnosis, sometimes we need an impartial party to help move us along forward. I don't know how others use it, but I often use it myself and with clients in trance. My belief is it all works faster and ... deeper.   : )

Ricardo Costa said:

Thanks, Jo! Will download it when I'm home.

Do you think it works fine if you use it for your self without any "therapist" or is has less results in that modality?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on February 25, 2013 at 3:52pm

Hi Dave, et al,

Milton Erickson found that when hemispheric dominance was shifting from one side to the other, people were much more susceptible to hypnotic suggestions. Additionally, neurologists find that even though both hemispheres of our brain seem to work simultaneously, one hemisphere is usually dominant at any given time. This suggests that we are processing information and/or our experiences in the dominant hemisphere in gear at that time. Think of the times that we find ourselves trying to feel things that we should be thinking about or trying to think about things that we should be feeling. This can be quite stressful and I believe we experience our inner-conflicts based on our prior conditioning.

With this in mind, I respectfully view EFT as a very effective un-acknowledged hypnotic technique. I believe that what makes EFT so effective is that the tapping creates bi-lateral activation and the bi-lateral activation helps us reprocess information and experiences in ways that promotes holistic integration and healing.

@ Jo,

My guess is that when you were practicing EFT you unconsciously trained you brain to use bi-lateral processing when when you are using the same affirmations even though you  are not tapping.

Michael E.

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Permalink Reply by Celeste Hackett, CH on February 25, 2013 at 7:13pm

Matt Sison and Randy Shaw use EFT, but  EFT, in the traditional way it was created,  is not, exactly the way they are using it.  These guys are experts at getting emotional release via having the clients FEEL their feelings and they are excellent regressionists.  EFT is just part of their overall method for them to do that and you would be hard pressed to find anyone doing work with EFT in the unique way that they do(or their students do), in terms of the way they incorporate it into their overall addressing of issues. 

 

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Permalink Reply by David Cervik on February 25, 2013 at 10:03pm

Thanks all,  I am enjoying this entire thread and learning a lot from the comments.  My mentor wrote the second chapter in a great book called Energy Psychology.  Brian Grodner was a friend and trusted colleague of Milton Erickson.  I think EFT extends the theory to a best practice model for helping others get unstuck.Just imagine how poor we would be without the ability to convene and blog here on Hypnothoughts.com.  Hope to meet some of you at Hypnothoughts Live! Wonder freely through your mind, when you come upon a block, unwind..be kind to yourself everyone. Appreciate it, Dave

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Permalink Reply by Giselle Felicia Vivian on February 26, 2013 at 2:50pm

Hello Dave,

I have incorporated EFT into my practice.  It has been a great tool for many clients.  Others just can't get over the skepticism or embarrassment of what it looks like when doing it.  More than just defining myself as a hypnotherapist or EFT practitioner, I see my job as an educator helping individuals gain understanding of the vital part the subconscious mind plays in shaping our life.  There are many modalities that use different doors to access the same building.  Some individuals like to explore  all the possibilities, or at least a few.  Some only the front door.  

I agree that we can always learn how to connect better with our clients and learn from other healing disciplines.  I believe that having a variety of resources not only offers clients a greater opportunity to find something that they are more suggestible to as a resource, but also adds value to our offerings and helps establish us as more expert practitioners.  Just like diets, there is not single bullet to hit the mark.  I love that we have the opportunity to come from our own authentic leanings as facilitators of the healing processes.  I always invite my colleagues to remember it's not just what you do, but who you are being as you do it.  Hopefully, that is someone committed to service, professionalism, integrity, and honoring of the client.

Blessings and thanks for a great thread,

Giselle Felicia Vivian, BM CHT

TRANCE-FORMED CONSCIOUSNESS 

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Permalink Reply by Ed Schicatano on February 26, 2013 at 4:11pm

Hi,

 I use "tapping" in most of my sessions.  Clients call sometimes just looking for someone who does EFT.  It's a GREAT technique.  It supplements everything else I do with clients.

Regarding the mention of  integrating the hemispheres by tapping...........     Many EFT practitioners use inilateral tapping and therefore might not involve both hemispheres.   So this may not be a viable mechanism.

  But the theory behind this is powerful.   Any voluntary movement incorporating both sides of the body while thinking about an issue will employ both hemispheres.  Andrew Austin posted a video somewhere in which he has an individual "tossing a ball" from one hand to another while thinking about a negative emotion.  Result?  The intensity of the emotion diminished.    Tapping certainly is utilizing such a process.

  Second, the presupposition of Gary Craig's EFT is this:  There is a blockage of energy causing negative emotional problems. He likens this to a taking a wire and "zapping" the circuitry of a TV.  This zapping short circuits the TV, rendering it dysfunctional.  The presupposition is "we are broken and need to be fixed".  If you accept this as your model, then that's fine.   I don't.   Most people are not broken, they come from broken ideas and learning.  (but that's just map perhaps).

  Third, while I truly believe in energy systems, (Chi or Ki), I just don't believe that "tapping" impacts these systems.   Think about it.  Why would the human body be designed to allow a simple tapping of the surface of the skin affect such a vital energy system?     There is something else going on which underlies the tapping effect.

  I use a system similar to Faster EFT.  This is an NLP belief model incorporated into a successful Tapping model system.  It works and it makes sense  (to me).

   Tapping requires an individual to go into trance.  Tapping relies on physical stimulation that preoccupies the conscious mind, probably allowing the interjection of suggestion to be integrated into the  unconscious mind.   In my humble opinion, tapping is a wondeful NLP technique.    If our energy systems are affected by tapping (due to shifts an changes in unconscious programming), then so be it.   But  I just don't buy the energy explanation as THE mechanism.

  Most people won't care in these thoughts about the mechanism of EFT.  They say,  "as long as it works, it doesn't matter'.  And that's probably true.   IF - it works 100% of the time and completely eliminates every problem.   It doesn't.  And so the understanding of how a technique works goes a long way into solving shortcomings and problems associated with said technique. 

   Enough pontificating for now.  :-)

Respectfully submitted.

Ed

 

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