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You don’t have to solve it, only evolve it!
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Silvia Hartmann (Energy EFT: Energize Your Life From -10 to +10 With The Essential Next Generation A-Z Field Guide To Self-Help EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques)
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Most of us humans have no idea how stressful any change is for animals.
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Colleen M. Flanagan (Tapping for Rescued & Adopted Dogs: Fast Surrogate EFT Methods for Canine Emotional Well Being)
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Anything you want can come true if you cast it in the form of a "golden goal" and apply EFT-Matrix Reimprinting to get clear and activate it "in the matrix".
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Caryl Westmore
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Now is the time to save the life you are entitled to live
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Kate Hudson-Hall (Bulimia Sucks!: 10 Simple Steps to Stop Bingeing and Purging)
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Animals store their fears and at times OUR fears in the body and manifest physical illnesses like we do. Like us, these fears may have occurred in infancy and are still carried in the adult body.
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Colleen M. Flanagan (Tapping for Rescued & Adopted Dogs: Fast Surrogate EFT Methods for Canine Emotional Well Being)
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Often, when a human suffers through major emotional traumas, a lack of well being follows if their feelings about the trauma are not completely expressed. When the trauma is severe and the suffering is continuous, their animal companion’s condition may deteriorate too.
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Colleen M. Flanagan (Tapping for Rescued & Adopted Dogs: Fast Surrogate EFT Methods for Canine Emotional Well Being)
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She also realized that there must be something to this tapping since today was the first day in a long time that she felt hopeful and flooded with new ideas. “With love, light, laughter, and with ease.
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Tessa Cason (80 EFT Tapping Statements for Abundance, Wealth, Money)
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EFT for Blood Sugar Levels By Kate Flegal Oh, my goodness! I just had the most amazing experience with EFT. I have type I diabetes (aka juvenile diabetes), and recently my blood sugars have been running very high, often close to 300 mg/dl, which is in the danger zone for things like diabetic ketoacidosis and long-term complications like blindness and kidney failure if the level stays elevated for long periods. It finally occurred to me to try tapping for my blood sugar this morning. Guess what? My blood sugar is back down to 115—in the good range! I started out by saying, “Even though my blood sugar is high, I deeply and completely love, accept, and forgive myself.” And then I did the full routine several times, focusing on the phrase “blood sugar.” It probably took a total of 5 minutes, and it didn’t take time away from my job; I tapped as I worked. It’s such a huge relief to have my blood sugar back to normal, and not just physically; the emotional toll of high blood sugar is big, too. It’s hard not to feel like a failure when you can’t keep your blood glucose in a good range. I’m confident that with EFT and healthy behavior, I can keep my blood sugars normal. Whew! You can bet I’ll keep using EFT for all of my life, which will be much longer and healthier now that I know how to use EFT to help control my diabetes!
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Dawson Church (The Tapping Manual: The Complete Guide to Using EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) for Common Issues – Including Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, Phobias, Weight ... Work, Family (The Tapping Series Book 7))
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There is no time in the limbic system. Because of this our past often takes us over without warning and we relive it in ways that can be very troublesome. The
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Gloria Arenson (EFT Tapping: 64 Quick & Easy Tips)
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Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.’ DEAN KOONTZ
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Karl Dawson (Transform Your Beliefs, Transform Your Life: EFT Tapping Using Matrix Reimprinting)
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Cheryl Richardson’s
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Tessa Cason (300 EFT Tapping Statements for Intuition)
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Cheryl Richardson’s Self-care Cards:
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Tessa Cason (300 EFT Tapping Statements for Intuition)
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I say it all the time: using EFT makes us more resourceful. We feel like we have more bandwidth to face the world around us. It’s as if the brain turns on and lights up, the body aligns, and we can actually cope! It brings us to a place of peace and understanding understanding—about ourselves, about others, and about our life situations.
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Nick Ortner (The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living)
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With EFT, we can change those unhealthy habits and patterns.
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Nick Ortner (The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living)
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As I said before, EFT isn’t a mind eraser; it doesn’t delete memories in any way, but it does clear the negative emotional and energetic patterns behind a memory. Thus it changes our approach and response to the event—and to life going forward.
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Nick Ortner (The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living)
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Also, if you're depressed I suggest that you check out EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), which involves tapping on acupressure points while saying helpful statements. You can also easily find demonstrations of this process on YouTube.
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Carolyn Elliott (Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power (A method for getting what you want by getting off on what you don't))
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There’s only one activity that stimulates the brain to produce all seven at the same time, and that’s the ecstatic state of flow. The shortest way there is deep, alpha-driven meditation. When you blend all seven into a single cocktail, the result is euphoria. Let’s see: What might a combination of the first letters of each drug look like? Serotonin, Oxytocin, Norepinephrine, Dopamine, Anandamide, Nitric oxide, and Beta-endorphin? Just for fun, let’s combine them, and call our cocktail’s special blend SONDANoBe. This is the magic formula that, produced inside our own bodies in the proper ratios, bathes the brain in the chemicals of ecstasy. GETTING HIGH ON YOUR OWN SUPPLY When I meditate, I can feel the moment when each drug in the cocktail kicks in. First, I use EFT tapping and release any and every negative thought, emotion, and energy. This drops my level of cortisol, along with suppressing the high beta brain waves of stress. I now have a molecular substrate in my brain upon which I can build a deep and focused meditative experience. Next, I close my eyes and focus. Dopamine kicks in as I anticipate the delicious hormone and neurotransmitter drug cocktail I’m about to be rewarded with. The dopaminergic reward system of my brain fires up and the “body learning” of how to meditate—stored in my basal ganglia, which memorize frequently performed actions—comes online. Ingredient one. My mind starts to wander. My email inbox. The morning’s first meeting. The laugh line of the movie I watched last night. An overdue deadline. Damn, I’m way out of the zone already, cortisol rising, and I haven’t been meditating more than 5 minutes. Dopamine brings me back to focus, aided by norepinephrine. I’m motivated. I want Bliss Brain more than I want an endless loop of the Me Show. I return to center. Cortisol drops. Ahhh, I’m back. Norepinephrine stimulates my attention. Ingredient two. Then I realize that my body is uncomfortable. I have a twinge in my right knee. My lower back hurts. My tummy’s rumbling because it’s empty. I consciously shift my wandering mind back into focus. Back in sync, my neurons secrete beta-endorphin, which masks the pain. The discomfort drops away, and being in a body feels wonderful. Ingredient three. I tune in to each of the archetypal strands that guide me. Mother Mary. Kwan Yin. Healing. Strength. Beauty. Wisdom. I imagine myself meditating in a field of a million saints. I’m lost in Bliss Brain, as serotonin, the satisfaction drug, kicks in. Ingredient four. I feel one with the universe. Oxytocin starts to flow, as I bond with everything. Ingredient five. That releases nitric oxide and anandamide. Ingredients six and seven.
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Dawson Church (Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy)
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When these ancient parts of your brain are active or rehearsing the next disaster using the DMN, they effortlessly hijack your attention. You try to meditate and repetitive negative thinking takes over. In the cage match between Caveman Brain and Bliss Brain, Caveman Brain always wins. Survival is a more important need than happiness or self-actualization. You can’t self-actualize if you’re dead. In 2015 the US National Institutes of Health estimated that less than 10% of the US population meditates. One of the primary reasons for this is that meditation is hard. Most people who start a meditation program drop out. GETTING THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS When writing my first best-selling book, The Genie in Your Genes, I experimented with many schools of stress reduction and meditation. Heart coherence. Mindfulness. EFT tapping. Neurofeedback. Hypnosis. One day I had a Big Idea: What happens when you combine them all? I began playing with a routine that did just that. Here’s what I came up with: First, you tap on acupressure points to relieve stress. Second, you close your eyes and relax your tongue on the floor of your mouth. This sends a signal to your vagus nerve, which wanders all over your body, connecting all the major organ systems. It’s the key signaling component of the parasympathetic nervous system, which governs relaxation. 4.8. The vagus nerve connects with all the major organ systems of your body. Third, you imagine the volume of space inside your body, particularly between your eyes. This automatically generates big alpha in your brain, moving you toward the Awakened Mind. Fourth, you slow your breathing down to 6 seconds per inbreath and 6 seconds per outbreath. This puts you into heart coherence. Fifth, you imagine your breath coming in and going out from your heart area, and you picture a sphere of energy in your heart. Sixth, you send a beam of heart energy to a person or place that makes you feel wonderful. This puts you into deep coherence. After enjoying the connection for a while, you send compassion to everyone and everything in the universe. Feeling universal compassion produces the major brain changes seen in fMRI scans of longtime meditators. As we’ll see in Chapters 6 and 8, compassion moves the needle like nothing else. At this point, most people drop into Bliss Brain automatically. They’re in a combination of alpha, heart coherence, and parasympathetic dominance. They haven’t been asked to still their minds, sit cross-legged, follow a guru, or believe in a deity. They’ve just followed a sequence of simple physical steps. After a few minutes of universal compassion, you again focus your beam on a single person or place. You then gently disengage and draw the energy beam back into your own heart. Seventh, you direct your beam of compassion to a part of your body that is suffering or in pain. You end the meditation by returning your attention to the here and now.
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Dawson Church (Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy)
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Norepinephrine: The Wake-Up Neurotransmitter One of norepinephrine’s effects on the brain is to sharpen attention. As we saw earlier, norepinephrine (aka noradrenaline) can function as both a neurotransmitter and a hormone. When we perceive stress and activate the fight-or-flight response, the brain produces bursts of norepinephrine, triggering anxiety. But sustained and moderate secretion can also produce a beneficial result in the form of heightened attention, even euphoria, and meditation has been shown to produce a rise in norepinephrine in the brain. A modest dose of norepinephrine is also associated with reduced beta brain waves. 5.11. Norepinephrine: your wake-up molecule. Notice the paradox here. Norepinephrine is associated with both anxiety and attentiveness. How do you get enough to be alert, but not so much you’re stressed? Surrender is the key. Steven Kotler, co-author of Stealing Fire, says that stress neurochemicals like norepinephrine actually prime the brain for flow states. At first, the meditator is frustrated by Monkey Mind. But if she surrenders, despite the perpetual self-chatter of the DMN, she enters the next phase of flow, which is focus. She has hacked her biology, using the negative experience of mind wandering as a springboard to flow. Norepinephrine’s molecular structure is similar to its cousin, epinephrine. While epinephrine works on a number of sites in the body, norepinephrine works exclusively on the arteries. When both dopamine and norepinephrine are present in the brain at the same time, they amplify focus. Attention becomes sharp, while perception is enhanced. Staying alert is a key function of the brain’s attention circuit, which keeps you focused on the object of your meditation and counteracts the wandering mind. It also stops you from becoming drowsy, an occupational hazard for meditators. That’s because pleasure neurotransmitters such as serotonin and melatonin (for which serotonin is the precursor) can put you to sleep if not balanced by alertness-producing norepinephrine. Again, the ratios are the key. Oxytocin: The Hug Drug 5.12. Oxytocin: your cuddle molecule. Oxytocin is produced by the hypothalamus, part of the brain’s limbic system. When activated, neurons in the hypothalamus stimulate the pituitary gland to release oxytocin into the bloodstream. So even though oxytocin is produced in the brain, it has effects on the body as well, giving it the status of a hormone. It is one of a group of small protein molecules called neuropeptides. A closely related neuropeptide is vasopressin. All mammals produce some variant of these neuropeptides. Oxytocin promotes bonding between humans. It is responsible for maternal feelings and physically prepares the female body for childbirth and nursing. It is generated through physical touch but also by emotional intimacy. Oxytocin also facilitates generosity and trust within a group. Oxytocin is the hormone associated with the long slow waves of delta. A researcher hooking subjects up to an EEG found that touch stimulated greater amounts of delta, with certain regions of the skin being more sensitive. The biggest effect was produced by tapping the cheek, as we do in EFT. It produced an 800% spike in delta.
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Dawson Church (Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy)
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One of the exciting things about EFT is its flexibility. It can be very successfully combined with other systems and processes, including guided visualization.
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Nick Ortner (The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living)
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It’s important to be aware of the end goal, the grand theme, the big vision. But once that is clear to you, then you just have to take the next step in front of you. What’s amazing about using EFT with this strategy is that it works perfectly on addressing just that: the next step. The next obstacle. What’s in front of you right now!
Even though I’m overwhelmed by all the things I have to do with this project …
Even though I’m not sure what to do next …
Even though I don’t feel confident that I can figure out how to get this done …
Even though I’m out of my league and don’t know what I’m doing …
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Nick Ortner (The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living)
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Sometimes EFT is as simple as that: slotting a few minutes into your day. Tapping when you feel stuck, frustrated, or lazy. Of course, EFT is amazing for the huge challenges in our lives, but it works just as well for the little stuff. The thing is, it’s the little stuff that turns into big stuff. Procrastination is a little daily thing—but it’s a big life thing. It kills dreams, stops million-dollar ideas, and keeps people stuck for years. If your procrastination is really bad—as in you never get anything done, always put things off, and are miserable about it—then it’s likely there are some deep underlying beliefs or traumas creating this pattern. But more often than not, moving through daily procrastination is as simple as doing a little tapping, getting the energy flowing again, and then moving forward. Using EFT in this manner brings clarity, focus, and awareness.
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Nick Ortner (The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living)
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EFT is not a tool for making people do what you want; it’s about clearing emotional energy.
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Nick Ortner (The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living)
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Getting started is easy, as I’ve said. I will go over each of the eight simple steps in detail later on, but I will list them for now:
1. Choose your “Most Pressing Issue” (MPI) and devise a reminder phrase (see pages 16 and 20).
2. Rate the intensity of your MPI on the 0-to-10 Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUDS; see page 18).
3. Craft a setup statement (see page 18).
4. Tap on the karate chop point (see page 21) while repeating your setup statement three times.
5. Tap through the eight points in the EFT sequence (see page 21) while saying your reminder phrase out loud. Tap five to seven times at each point.
6. Once you have finished tapping the eight points in the sequence, take a deep breath.
7. Again rate the intensity of your issue using the 0-to-10 scale to check your progress.
8. Repeat as necessary to get the relief you desire.
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Nick Ortner (The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living)
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Once again, here are the eight steps of EFT tapping. It may be helpful to bookmark this page so you can come back to it as you move on to the chapters that follow. That said, most people learn these steps rather quickly, so you may not need this reference for long! 1. Choose your Most Pressing Issue (MPI).
2. Rate your MPI using the 0-to-10 SUDS.
3. Craft a setup statement, using your MPI to fill in the blank: Even though __________________, I deeply and completely accept myself.
4. Speak your setup statement three times while tapping on the karate chop point.
5. Tap through the eight points in the EFT sequence while saying your reminder phrase out loud. Tap five to seven times at each point, starting with the eyebrow and finishing at the top of the head.
6. Take a deep breath.
7. Rate the intensity of your MPI using the 0-to-10 scale.
8. Repeat, or move on to a different MPI.
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Nick Ortner (The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living)
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Sometimes EFT is as simple as that: slotting a few minutes into your day. Tapping when you feel stuck, frustrated, or lazy. Of course, EFT is amazing for the huge challenges in our lives, but it works just as well for the little stuff. The thing is, it’s the little stuff that turns into big stuff.
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Nick Ortner (The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living)
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With EFT, she learned to slow down and listen to her body, which, we quickly learned, was storing her emotional anguish.
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Nick Ortner (The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living)
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Your job is not to “fix” your partner, and tapping isn’t a tool to do that with. Work on your own stuff first. If your partner angers easily, don’t think of ways you can change that. Rather, think about how you react to that anger. Are you open and loving? Or do you react back? Then use EFT on yourself to change the pattern. You’ll be pleasantly surprised with what happens!
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Nick Ortner (The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living)
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Once the dysfunctional emotions, experiences, and beliefs have been “deleted,” our body automatically gravitates to health, wealth, wisdom, peace, love, joy… * By changing the mis-beliefs and dysfunctional emotions on a subconscious
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Tessa Cason (All Things EFT Tapping Manual)