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”.
If you’re asking what is EFT, read this
Okay, this could be a little woo for you depending on your woo level, but give it a try. I too was skeptical of anything that seemed woo when I transferred into entrepreneurship. However, this is backed by science, and as a girl that questions everything, I like data and research.
The Emotional Freedom Technique is based on a more complex technique called Thought Field Therapy (TFT) created by Roger Callahan. After taking Callahan’s course, EFT founder Gary Craig realize he could greatly simplify the procedure, and EFT was born. Gary Craig’s entire EFT manual is available as a free download from emofree.com.
Intro to EFT
Within the first year of my business, I was introduced to EFT by one of my very first clients. She splits her time living between the midwest in the United States and Australia depending on the seasons. What a smart lady never dealing with winter weather.
We would have daily tapping sessions together, we would take turns leading on what limiting belief was popping up for us. We’d spend a few minutes discussing what was coming up for each of us and we’d tap together. Generally, we were both pretty in sync with our limiting beliefs around starting our businesses.
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.
Little Side Note
EFT Tapping for Money Manifestation:
Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪
- 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.