This is a tool that I added to my bag of tricks when I began the online business journey. The mantra for EFT is “Try it on everything”.

What exactly is EFT?

It is a therapy technique loosely based on the techniques of acupuncture and acupressure. It uses the same basic energy meridians in the body to eliminate physical, emotional, and mental issues.

Huh?

You tap on key points on your body to move around energy.

I know, right.

By tapping on these key points on our body you give yourself the opportunity to balance the flow.

Tapping into success

Of course, I use this in my life and business and have done so with success. Friend, I’m here to help you short track your success, not take the roundabout way as I did.

What are you struggling with?

It’s important to get down to the true emotion that you’re struggling with, do you need to get to the cause and not the effect.

What is causing you to feel like (you fill in the blank).

Not sure? Pull out that journal and list out all the possibilities. For me, I can tie most back to my emotions around not knowing enough and rejection.

Do you feel an emotional charge?

What do you need to tap on, the memories or emotions that bring up an emotional charge for you? Do you know where you feel this specifically in your body?

Tapping is really personal, we all have our own baggage and views of the world.

This is where the journalling comes in pretty handy.

You want to find those things that bring on the emotional string. Dig into the root of the emotions and tap on those.

Try It With

Use EFT on your headaches, emotional blockages, and limiting emotions. As the mantra goes “Try it on everything”

Besides my limiting beliefs, I use tapping for sleep. Let me say, sleep can be a struggle for me. Most nights, it takes forever for me to fall asleep, I wake up very easily and frequently in the night.

When I use EFT consistency I receive the best results. Sleep is the biggest place that I’ve used tapping.

Can you think of an area that you can try this with?

I feel like I need to give the disclaimer, I am not a licensed health care provider and this is not medical advice. If you have health issues, please seek help from a doctor.

Success Is In Consistency

With anything in life and business success comes with consistency. It makes everything flow easier and it creates the habit.

If you struggle with creating consistency, do a little habit stacking. In the book, Atomic Habits, James Clear talks about creating habits and using a current habit to trigger a new habit.

Habit stack your new tapping tool with a current habit that triggers you. James mentions in his book, this method was created by BJ Fogg as part of his Tiny Habits program.

That’s how I’ve created my evening routine. If you’ve been around me at all, I’m guessing you may have heard me say Good Morning start the night before. I know my family sure has.

Anyway, in the evenings I make sure I have everything ready to go for the morning.

• Lemon water prepped with lemon, juicer, coffee cups, cutting board, and knife next to the tea kettle.
• Coffee pot ready to go
• Dog food in the dishes
• Airpods and iPad ready
• Brush Teeth
• After I am done brushing my teeth, I will tap for a good night’s sleep and to fall asleep quickly and easily. This is right before I crawl into bed.

It’s my habit stacking because I already did all the other things

Read the steps below on how to tap or watch this YouTube Video.

How exactly do you tap?

The basic structure is:

• The Setup
• The Sequence
• The Suggestions

To Begin, rate your problem from zero to ten. On a scale of zero to ten with zero being not at all, how would you rate your feeling/emotion/Issue/Pain? In general, think of 10 as the worst feeling/emotion/issue/pain you’ve ever experienced. That’s how I personally gauge it.

The goal is to tap down a few points lower with each round.

Okay, now that you have what you’re going to tap on and you’ve given it a rating, let's move to The Setup.

The Setup

Do not skip The Setup, it is vital to the whole process and prepares the energy systems.

On the pinky side of your hand, between the bottom of the pinky finger and the bottom of the hand. Basically the side of your palm.

This is called the karate chop point. Have you ever seen a demonstration of karate-chopping a piece of wood? It’s the same place you’ll be tapping.

We are going to tap on the side of the hand while repeating the below affirmation three times:

“Even though I have this (feeling/emotion/issue/pain), I deeply and completely love and accept myself.”

The Sequence

The other points for tapping are:

• Eyebrow (at the inside end of your eyebrow)
• Side of the Eye (just at the side of your eye on the eye bone)
• Under the Eye (in the middle just under the eye)
• Under the Nose (tap in the middle between your nose and lip)
• Chin (tap in the middle of your chin on your dimple if you have one)
• Collar Bone (tap on the inside of your collar bone)
• Under Arm (under your arm, for ladies at your bra strap area)
• Top of Head (the top of your head just in front of the crown)

Tap each point seven to ten times by repeating the feeling/emotion/issue/pain and by bringing in all the other points that are similar that you journaled about.

Go through a round or two and check back where you are on the scale.

One key to this working is you have to focus on what you’re tapping about, not your to-do list when you’re done tapping.

The goal is to get to zero before you move on to the suggestions part of the tapping.

The Suggestions

The suggestions are my favorite. This is the part where you tap on the positive suggestions.

Run through all the tapping points again.

• Eyebrow (at the inside end of your eyebrow)
• Side of the Eye (just at the side of your eye on the eye bone)
• Under the Eye (in the middle just under the eye)
• Under the Nose (tap in the middle between your nose and lip)
• Chin (tap in the middle of your chin on your dimple if you have one)
• Collar Bone (tap on the inside of your collar bone)
• Under Arm (under your arm, for ladies at your bra strap area)
• Top of Head (the top of your head just in front of the crown)

Tap each point seven to ten times by giving positive suggestions and by bringing in all the positive things you’d like that you journaled on.

• Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
• This is a tool that I added to my bag of tricks when I began the online business journey.
• The mantra for EFT is “Try it on everything”.
• The Emotional Freedom Technique is based on a more complex technique called Thought Field Therapy
• Within the first year of my business, I was introduced to EFT by one of my very first clients.
• You tap on key points on your body to move around energy.
• Friend, I’m here to help you short track your success, not take the roundabout way as I did.
• What is causing you to feel like (you fill in the blank). Not sure journal on it.
• Tapping is really personal, we all have our own baggage and views of the world.
• Besides my limiting beliefs, I use tapping for sleep.
• With anything in life and business success comes with consistency.
• If you struggle with creating consistency, do a little habit stacking.

I cannot, I will not. I do not have time, I do not understand. I'm not sure how to do it. I'm not sure anybody wants it. What happens if you remove the not?

But really in the end any excuse will do.

So when you're not sure how to do something, do you dig in and figure out a solution? Or do you start to list off all of your nots?

Change the story

What if you change that story by eliminating the not from your vocabulary and removing the not from your mindset, what would shift for you, what would change for you?

Instead, your self-talk will be filled with; I can, I will, I have time, I do understand, I am sure how to do it and I am sure somebody will want this.

That my friend is how you begin to shift and change the story. Those stories are the difference makers, those are the ways that you can reframe it.

Tell Yourself What to Do

Changing the story, just tells your mind exactly what you want. Your self-talk needs to be shifted into I will, I can, I have time, I understand.

It has to be important

Say it's important to you, believe it’s important to you. If these are truly your dreams and your goals they cannot be more important to somebody else than they are to you.

You are the one to drive it, you need to be the one to make it happen. Because there's not going to be anybody else out there that cares more about your project, that cares more about your goals, that cares more about your dreams, that cares about your vision, and that cares more about your WHY there's not going to be anybody out there that cares more than you.

Get it out of there, all the I cannot, I'm not enough, whatever it is that you have cycling through in your brain.

You need to reframe that story, you need to think of it as I may not know right now, however, I can learn. I don't have time right now, but I can find the time. I may not understand the solution now, but I will look for the solution. It's just taking that time to recenter yourself around the things that you want, instead of trying to recenter yourself on the things you don't want.

It's changing the story in your mind so you know exactly what you want to do and why you want to do it. Now go get’em, tiger, I believe in you, and I appreciate you.

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

• What if for one week you remove the not from your vocabulary? What would happen?
• You are capable of so much more than you give ourselves credit for.
• How many times does your self-talk contain you’re not able or you cannot do something?
• Tracking it will cause you to pay attention to how many times you were putting the label on yourself that you cannot do something.
• What if you change that story by eliminating the not from your vocabulary
• Changing the story, just tells your mind exactly what you want.
• If these are truly your dreams and your goals they cannot be more important to somebody else than they are to you.
• Get it out of there, all the I cannot, I'm not enough, whatever it is that you have cycling through in your brain.
• Fill your self-talk with; I can, I will, I have time, I do understand, I am sure how to do it and I am sure somebody will want this.

Whoa, guess I had a lot to say on this subject. As thanks for reading! Wish you success.