EFT AND ME By Lillian Nader

EFT AND ME
By Lillian Nader

My first introduction to EFT came in a round about way through my intuition. One day when I was driving to a meeting, I had a strong premonition that I would be invited to something. That was it; I would be invited to something. No details were given. As a firm believer in the intuitive process, I took note of the message and forgot about it until after the meeting. As I was saying my goodbyes and preparing to leave, my friend and colleague, Donna Kannard, asked me to tea, I thought. Remembering my earlier intuitive message, I immediately said, “yes, would you like me to bring anything?” “No thanks,” Donna replied. “We’re not having refreshments.” Oh, dear, what was going on? “I thought you invited me to tea.” “No, EFT”, she said. I had never heard of it, so she explained and began to demonstrate by tapping on her head and face, etc. That was several years ago, and I am still attending Donna’s EFT group on alternate Fridays each month. From there, I began to implement EFT into my hypnotherapy practice with amazing results.

I learned EFT by doing it with Donna in her group, and by studying Gary Craig’s manual from his website. Soon, I began receiving newsletters from Patricia Carrington and then Til Schilling’s Tappy Bear.com. At a time when I was at a crossroads in my hypnotherapy career, I received another invitation. This one was from my spiritual center, Common Ground, asking me to offer EFT for kids as part of their Children’s Enrichment program. Nest, I linked up with Judith Freyer to form our program called Conscious Kids. Together, Judith and I took Tappy Bear to Common Ground and introduced the children and their parents to tapping with pleasantly surprising results. Here’s what one parent has to say about it:
“We have used the tapping technique on our three young kids (9,7 and 5) when they are upset, angry, crying, or sad and it works like a miracle. Immediately they calm down and start enjoying the tapping with a relaxed smile on their face. It’s like pressing some magic reset button. Thank you so much for teaching parents this powerful technique. It is a powerful and easy way to instantaneously relax and regain our composure. It helps prevent parents from fighting emotion with emotion, and removes the complexity from the charged event.”

EFT stands for emotional freedom techniques, which is a powerful and fun way to release negative energy and replace it with more peaceful responses to the stresses of daily living. EFT is based on a theory by Dr. Roger Callahan, which states that the cause of all negative emotion is a disruption in the body’s energy system. Also called Meridian Tapping, it works to relieve both physical and emotional pain. It’s a modified version of acupuncture without needles. Instead, you stimulate energy points, or the endpoints to some of the meridians, by gently tapping on them with your fingertips. It’s easy to learn and only takes minutes to feel positive results. I have found that one-to-one tapping with clients for specific issues prior to hypnotherapy greatly enhances the total effect of the session. Moreover, tapping in a group setting as in Donna’s Friday EFT group has been extremely beneficial to me personally, not only as a learning tool but as a way to release emotional blocks to my own success and prosperity. The effects of EFT seem subtle, but they are amazing nonetheless. I suggest giving it a try. “Try it on everything,” says Gary Craig. Indeed, there is a DVD by that name which I use as a teaching tool with my own Meridian Tapping (EFT) group meetings at Common Ground Spiritual Center in Tustin, CA the first Friday night of each month.

In my work with children, I utilize Tappy Bear, a stuffed toy with the tapping points sewn into him for an easy way to teach children the benefits of tapping. They tap on Tappy first, and then on themselves.

You can download Gary Craig’s EFT manual for free at www.emofree.com. Learn to use it for yourself, and then, start tapping with the entire family. Kids respond to it very well when they see it modeled and used effectively by their parents and other family members.
Happy Tapping!