Ask Dan & Jennifer

Hi Beagle,

First, in recent times, we don't use the Gamut 9 very much. It's simply not necessary. We just skip it and it works OK without using it.

Second, we actually use a positive affirmation as the basis for the whole tapping process. It is used each time that we tap through. A final affirmation can be used at the end, but it often works without that extra step. It's up to you.

Visualization is used often in the beginning of the session to bring up a vivid memory of the condition that you're working on... as-in playing it back in your mind as a movie. It is my understanding that it is not necessary to visualize the desired outcome when using the EFT techniques. I've never done that and it always works anyway.

I highly recommend going to their website (EFT Home - World Center for EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)) and order the various sets of DVD's. They are cheap to begin with but they are even cheaper when ordering several sets at one time. The older DVD's will show them using the Gamut 9 process... but as you work through the DVD's in all of the packages, you will find the process getting shorter and easier. It's just how this has developed over the years. You really don't have to make this difficult... it just gets easier and easier as you use it and your confidence levels rise.

There is only one way that EFT doesn't work... and that's when you haven't used it (tapped) enough! The protocol part is easy... the "art" of working the aspects takes a while to develop though.

When on their website, be sure to look at the FAQ and the testimonials. There are hundreds or thousands of feedback emails and articles that cover almost every condition you can imagine and they will give you a lot of insight as to how to work the aspects of the conditions that you desire to work on for yourself and others.

There are also EFT study groups around the world... search them out and find one to join and you will learn EFT much faster. It's really easy to do so keep after it and shortly, you too will be performing miracles for yourself and your friends and family. Everyone can do this... even kids.

Love and blessings,

paul :)

Paul: Thank you very much for your reply. I have an additional question.

If you're past the negative emotion that is the target, do you think there is a place in EFT for using positive affirmations to install positive attitudes and behaviors? If so, does the technique differ?

Hi Beagle,

The tapping used with EFT is creating an electrical discharge in our nervous system that neutralizes the electromagnetic charge which then holds a "negative emotional imprint" around a previously held belief in our subconscious mind."

I don't really know if you can or would want to use EFT to implant a desired positive behavior or state of being. You can, however, use it to negate the "aspects" of any resistance to you experiencing what you desire. It's generally through working the "aspects" to any problem that you gradually remove (negate) all of that problem's components. When there is nothing left to uphold or energize the old unwanted problem, then the old problem just dissolves and dissipates without any specific need to focus on what you do want.

Example: You have pain from a headache. You tap away the pain... but when it's gone, you don't have to tap anything more. You don't want to tap for being headache free as you have already eliminated the head pain with the tapping.

If this is not a complete answer for you, then please give me a specific example.

Thanks,

paul

Paul: Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I think I follow you-The goal of EFT is to remove the barriers to normal functioning with the presumption that the body and mind will heal themselves when those barriers are removed. That makes sense to me.

My question was about preparation for entering a situation that I know will be stressful/upsetting/anxiety producing and in which I need to be "processing" mentally at the top of my game. I want to be sure I respond to those, as yet unknown, situations in a kind, firm, and thoughtful manner. I was wondering if there was any way to couple EFT with visualization/affirmation to produce those results. I'm a therapist, so I'm familiar with covert desensitization, cognitive rehearsal, etc. I was wondering if there were similar applications of EFT.