EFT News Two by Gary Williams

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9 GAMUT FOR RESULTS THAT ARE TERRIFIC IT IS BEST TO BE SPECIFIC THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING SPECIFIC ASPECTS BEING PERSISTENT YOUR POINT TRY IT ON EVERYTHING THE IMPORTANCE OF TESTING YOUR WORK HANDLING EXCESSIVE INTENSITY A SESSION SHORT CUT

PART TWO Feel free to read the information below, listen to the audio or download to your computer. We have more information in the next edition. You can also download the complete introduction to the Emotional Freedom Technique in the EFT Tapping Hub at: http://www.eftworldmagazine.com Email: gary@eftworldmagazine.com

9 GAMUT The gamut point is used in the middle of two sets of tapping; if you think of a sandwich, the top part of the bread would be the first part of the tapping, the filling would be the gamut procedure, and then another round of tapping without the set-up (but just starting with the eyebrow again and working your way down the points on the fingers) would make the other slice of bread. So we put the gamut or the meat into the sandwich between two rounds of tapping. 3

The gamut point is on the back of the hand you can find it by making a fist and drawing a triangle back from the knuckles at the base of the baby finger and ring finger. The depression in the middle of this triangle is known as the gamut point. The 9 gamut point covers the start of the thyroid triple warmer meridian. The procedure is a brainbalancing exercise that involves eye movements, humming and counting. Always follow the 9 gamut with another round of tapping as this adds efficiency to EFT and hastens progress. As a rule you use the 9 gamut once only in the process, so in other words, as you do the next lot of tapping you are taking out the meat from the sandwich, as two lots of tapping back to back should be enough to do the job. However, if you do not get relief, then you may try placing the 9 gamut back into the tapping. 9 GAMUT PROCEDURE This describes how to do the 9 gamut procedure. Keep your mind tuned in to the problem, tap on the gamut point continuously, and look straight ahead and then: 1) Close eyes 2) Open eyes 3) Look down to the floor to the right keeping head steady 4) Look down to the floor to the left keeping head steady 5) Roll you eyes around in a circle 6) Roll eyes in the opposite direction 7) Hum five seconds of a song such as happy birthday 8) Count from one to five 9) Hum five seconds of a song again After you have done the "sandwich" sequence, rate the intensity of the original problem or issue on the scale of zero to 10. Compare this number with the original rating before you began tapping. You would expect to find either complete relief, partial relief or no relief. If you have complete relief, you have experienced, in a few moments, the power of EFT! On the conservative side, a few more rounds of tapping may help the effectiveness of the process and ensure that the original problem won't return. In the subsequent rounds, it is important to adjust the set-up statement and the reminder phrase to address the rest of the emotion or feeling. Use wording similar to: "Even though I still have some of this problem, I deeply and completely love and accept myself" during the set-up statement. Then repeat: "This remaining problem," during the tapping sequence. 4

Do as many rounds of EFT as necessary until the intensity of your problem is at a zero. If you are working on others and you get down to a two or a one, you can finish neatly the process by tapping the gamut point and having them watch your index finger as you point it to the floor in front of them, and slowly raise it to the ceiling as they tap and watch the finger. This normally clears out the remainder of the issue. You may also try this for yourself by raising your eyes from the floor to the ceiling in about six seconds, whilst tapping the gamut point. If you get down to a zero, check this out by asking them how much out of ten they believe the statement 10 being I do and one being I'm not sure. If you experience no relief after a few rounds of tapping, you may not be doing it correctly. The basic recipe of EFT is a powerful device, about 80% effective, but a higher success rate is possible when you know how to handle impediments. When EFT doesn't work, it is usually not that it isn't working; rather the real reason for not seeing results is because EFT has not been correctly applied.

FOR RESULTS THAT ARE TERRIFIC IT IS BEST TO BE SPECIFIC THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING SPECIFIC (Taken from Gary Craig's website emofree.com) This tutorial should be read several times. It is that important. Why? Because it addresses one of the most common errors made by newcomers to EFT. Once this is corrected, your results will have much greater consistency and many of your difficult cases will melt away quite easily. The problem is that most clients tend to see their issues through "global glasses". That is, they describe their issues using broad labels, which to them seem very specific. Examples might be: "I just don't feel very good about myself." "My father always abused me." "My mother never gave me the love I should have had." "I don't do very well with relationships." "I'm easily rejected." Each of these, and countless more like them, is like emotional forests made up of specific trees (negative events) which contribute to the overall problem. Using EFT on the globally stated problem is like trying to chop down an entire forest with one swing of the axe. If you try to address the global problem in this way, you will probably make some progress each time you swing. However, compared to the enormity of the forest, the progress is not likely to be noticed and thus the client will probably claim "no result". You might erroneously conclude that they are beset with energy toxins, or you might give up and think EFT "doesn't work". Instead of using EFT on an issue like, "Even though I'm easily rejected" it is best to break down the globally stated problem into specific events such as: "Even though my high school teacher embarrassed me in front of the class" 5

"Even though my high school sweetheart said, I've grown tired of you" "Even though I was sent to my room for the whole day at Christmas at age 8" "Even though Mom told me you'll never get married unless you are thin like your sister" These are the true contributors to the "I'm easily rejected" issue. They represent the foundation of the problem. The feeling of rejection is but the symptom of these underlying specific causes, how could we possibly feel rejection? The answer is "we couldn't because there would be no prior experience by which to measure a current "rejection". So, we need to neutralize these causes by using EFT on individual trees. When we do, several benefits occur. 1) The client can easily recognise whenever EFT has eliminated a negative tree from their forest. They may start with an intensity of seven to 10 for a given event and end with an intensity of zero. This is clearly noticeable and thus substantially improves the client's (and your) confidence in the method. 2) Each tree that is removed thins out the forest. This allows the client to walk through the forest with more ease instead of consistently bumping in to yet another "rejection tree". The sting of rejection becomes less and less. 3) An important generalisation effect occurs. The various "rejection trees" tend to have some common themes among them so that removing one tree has an effect o the remaining ones. So after you address a few related problems with EFT, the process starts to generalise over all those problems. For example, someone who has 100 traumatic memories of being abused usually finds that after using EFT, they all vanish after neutralizing only five or 10 of them and then watch the whole forest fall. I cannot overemphasize the importance of being specific. It often spells the difference between dramatic success and apparent failure. Sometimes we tend to lump together a number of specific problems under a larger heading. This can handicap our progress with EFT. For example, most people would like to have a better "self image" but don't realise that the term is a general label which serves as a catch all phrase for numerous specific problems (i.e. memories of abuse, refection, failure, fears of all kinds). Gary Craig, the founder of EFT, uses a metaphor that likens the general problem to a diseased forest in which each of the underlying specific issues is a negative tree. The forest may be so densely populated with trees that it may seem impossible to find our way out. As we neutralise each specific negative event with EFT we are, effectively, cutting down a negative tree. Continue cutting down these trees and, after a while, the forest will have thinned out so we can walk out of it rather easily. It is very important to be specific when working with EFT".

ASPECTS (Taken from Gary Craig's website emofree.com) On many occasions, you need only apply one or two rounds of EFT to a specific event in order for its emotional intensity to vanish forever. These are our "one minute wonders" and, fortunately, they occur with delightful frequency. Many lives have been instantly shifted in positive directions because of this feature. Sometimes, however, even after you have made professional efforts to tap on specific events, the client still reports the problem as "no better." Why would this be? 6

Why does the process work so easily in most cases but appear to get bogged down in others? There are a few possibilities here (the others will be covered later) but one of the most common causes is that the client is "shifting to different aspects." Some issues, it turns out, have many pieces, or aspects, to them. These are actually separate issues. However, clients don't usually make this distinction unless you point it out to them. Suppose, for example, a client wants help with their frightful memories regarding an automobile accident. You can apply EFT, of course, to "this accident" and you are likely to make good progress. If you don't, however, you can ask for more specifics (aspects) with a question like: "What about the accident bothers you the most?" Let us suppose the client says, "Oh, the headlights, the headlights, I can still see them coming at me!" You can then tap on "the headlights" or "my fear of the headlights" or any other words that seem to fit. After the client's reaction to the headlights has been EFT'd to zero, you can then ask: "____________What else about the accident bothers you?" At this point the client may bring up other aspects such as, "The screams in the car" or "My anger at the other driver" or "My anger at the doctors," etc. The list can be quite long. Usually, though, it contains only one or two aspects. Tap on these other aspects until the client can no longer find anything bothersome about the accident. As a test, ask them to "run the movie" of the accident in their mind in vivid detail. This will bring up any trailing aspects for tapping. Eventually, the client should have no charge on the accident. It will just be an unfortunate event in their life, and that is all. One mistake that is often made along the way, however, is to tap on "the headlights" and then ask too much of a global question such as, "How do you feel about the accident now?" That question doesn't ask for any new aspects. It just asks for an overall feeling. In fact, if there are any other aspects (such as the screams in the car) the client will report "no progress" because they still have intensity. Remember, the client doesn't distinguish between the aspects. To them, it is all one big problem. You have to make the distinction by first recognizing that aspects exist (that is just simply experience) and, second, asking the right questions to bring them to the surface. Aspects can happen with almost any emotional issue. Examples might be: A war trauma can have aspects such as: the sight of blood, the look in a comrad's eyes before they die, the sound of a hand grenade, etc. A rape experience can have aspects such as the smell of the assailant's breath, the impact of a fist, the penetration, etc. A fear of public speaking can have aspects such as the sight of microphone, the on-looking eyes of the audience, a memory of being ridiculed as a child, etc. Another thing to recognise is that an aspect can also be an emotion. Thus, some clients report that the anger they had regarding a given event has shifted to sadness. Pick up on 7

these clues. These different emotional aspects are taking you deeper into the problem. They are opportunities for greater healing and present you with great possibilities for mastering your craft. Our tape sets are loaded with live examples of aspects which you can replay over and over again. I don't think you will find better examples anywhere of how to address this important subject. Pay particular attention to Dave and his fear of water at the end of the first tape in the EFT Course. This hour-long very thorough session, is a classic example of aspects and how to address them. Hugs, Gary Craig

BEING PERSISTENT (Taken from Gary Craig's website emofree.com) When working with a specific aspect or with a general issue, persistence is sometimes the key to success. Although you may see instant success with EFT with some issues, many times creativity and patience are the difference between failure and success. The key to real success is to get the issue to a zero, not just stop at a two or a three. Be flexible; follow emotions or pains as they change during a session as this is often symbolic of new aspects or issues needing treatment during a session. Asking such questions as: * What does this remind you of? * When was the first time you felt like this? * What in your life is a pain in your neck? When treating neck pain, often brings up aspects that are contributing to the problem. It might seem very freeing to have an intense problem that we previously experienced as a 10 to drop to a two, but, a little bondage can be just as troublesome in the long term as a lot of bondage. Once we have achieved a low level, let us not limit what we can achieve. Let us settle for nothing less than complete transformation. Test the changes out in the real world. Ensure that you have tested all possible provocations for the problem returning and when you have learned EFT, often you will find you have other issues in your life to which you could apply it, but you may not think to do so.

YOUR POINT As you are using EFT you may feel that you are drawn to a particular point on your body it may be the collar bone or karate chop or some other point. If you are tuned in to this and your intuition is pointing the way then you must go with it. Some people have had one minute wonders by using EFT in this way. It is also useful to use just the karate chop if working on the telephone with a client who finds it hard to take in your description of the points and the areas of the body that they may be found. 8

TRY IT ON EVERYTHING (Taken from Gary Craig's website emofree.com) Some of our beliefs need help, especially if we are to truly understand and effectively use the wide-reaching versatility of EFT. We have been conditioned to believe that each of our ailments requires a specific remedy. Thus we take aspirin for headaches and antihistamines for allergies. We also see specialists such as podiatrists, psychiatrists, urologists and gynaecologists. Further, in emotional healing we consider fear, guilt, grief and trauma to be separate problems requiring separate techniques. The list goes on. These aren't "bad beliefs" by the way. To the contrary, some of these specific remedies have been quite useful in our quest to obtain healing relief. However our belief systems now have a new challenge. That is, there has never before been such a "one approach addresses everything technique." To most, it is a completely foreign idea to use the same technique for a headache that you use for a height phobia. Yet, that is precisely what we do with EFT. As you know from our various training tapes we "try it on everything" and we usually get results. We use the same approach for trauma of every description. We use it for the fear of public speaking and for grief over the loss of a loved one. We use it for stress, anxiety, addictive cravings, stuttering and depression. We've had success with almost every physical ailment including pain, lactose intolerance, allergies, and everything from TMJ and infertility to PMS. We use it to enhance sports and music performance as well as relationships. We use it to give educational freedom to those with learning disabilities, to relieve nightmares and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and to help victims of rape, accidents, abuse and war. Again, the list goes on. Unfortunately, many people use EFT to relive just one ailment and completely miss its use for all the others. Why limit EFT to 1% of its capabilities? There is, of course, an "art of delivery" that separates the beginning EFT'er from the master. However, even the novice can apply the basics and achieve high percentage results. Mastery, fortunately, is a choice and is achievable by anyone. You need only pursue it. Try it on everything also assumes common sense. It would be inappropriate, for example, to drink a gallon of gasoline to see if you can "tap it away". Similarly, untrained people should not go where they don't belong and thus should not try EFT on truly emotionally disturbed people.

THE IMPORTANCE OF TESTING YOUR WORK (Taken from Gary Craig's website emofree.com) When using EFT it is so important to test your work and challenge your results. One way to do this is to ask the client out of ten, how much they believe the statement that they just gave about being at zero intensity. If they pause you know that some intensity is still available to work on. Also if they say that around three is left, ask them what that three may be made up of. 9

Also ask pointed questions, re-enact a bothersome memory, have the client vividly imagine the event, etc. Never just be satisfied with a zero; challenge your results in the real world. You are also watching form immediate physical non-verbal signs of relaxation and resolution. Facial muscles, yawns, sighs etc could show the person has gained some relief on the problem. You only start serious checking of the results if you think your person has largely collapsed the problem. You want to see if there are other aspects. There are multiple ways to do this but they usually fall into one of these three categories. One of the best tests is to re-enact the scene. This is not always possible but you want to work with them to role play the situation as much as you can. E.g. re-create the tone of voice or look on the face or physical placement. You want to assess if all the aspects to the issue are resolved. Stop immediately at the least sign of upset and tap again. If you can't re-enact it, help the person vividly imagine the situation. It is helpful to go through the five senses: see, hear, feel, smell, taste and help them make it bigger, larger, and brighter, etc. As always stop and tap if you find any sign of upset. On Gary's tapes, you will see him at times ask very pointed questions designed, as he says, to make the person's emotional knees buckle. However, EFT is designed to be as gentle as possible and you would not use this method to check for aspects unless you believed the person had not resolved most if not all of the problem. Ask pointed questions Re-enact a bothersome memory Vividly imagine the event

HANDLING EXCESSIVE INTENSITY (Taken from Gary Craig's website emofree.com) Despite the usually gentle nature of EFT, some people bring with them some very intense issues and, as they tune into them, they may exhibit extreme intensity. Handling this requires skill and experience. In the past, it has been found quite effective to simply tap the EFT sequence repeatedly until they calm down. This may take several minutes and 20 or more rounds. NO guarantees of success, of course, but this method has been effective in a high percentage of cases. Also take a look at out section on abreactions. It should be noted that if you are not trained in certain areas of work, and the work you are considering is usually undertaken by medical professionals, say in mental health, then you should not attempt to do the work. Don't go where you do not belong. People's issues can be intense Tuning in may bring up intense emotions Tap over and over until they calm down Don't go where you don't belong! 10

A SESSION Start by identifying the problem. Take your intensity level and then create a set-up and reminder phrase. Do the sequence followed by the 9 point gamut finished off with another sequence. Once you have done a round or two stop, close your eyes and re-evaluate the problem. If there is still some feeling, do another round. This time though change the set-up phrase to start with "even though I have this remaining". So for the example of the headache it would become: "Even though I have this remaining headache, I deeply and completely accept myself". The reminder phrase should also be changed to "this remaining". Keep checking and repeating rounds until the problem has reached a zero. If after several rounds you are getting stuck, repeat the set-up phrase while tapping KC, finish by forgiving/letting go do the 9 gamut procedure, remember to keep tapping GP. Repeat the sequence Check intensity level Repeat if necessary with "this remaining". Make sure all feeling has gone and intensity is rated at zero

SHORT CUT Doing a complete round may seem simple enough, but you can make it shorter still. Many therapists are now leaving out the 9 gamut procedure, using it only when a client is getting stuck. This usually makes no difference to the treatment other than to make it quicker. Leaving out the points on the fingers also seems to work. In most cases going straight to the karate chop point after doing the face and body works just as well as the full sequence; another 20 seconds saved. Some practitioners prefer to keep these points in as they believe it makes the treatment more effective, and it takes so little time. My advice is experiment and see what works for you. Trust your intuition with each case. Using the karate chop point instead of the sore point for the set-up phrase at the beginning of each round works most of the time. This is easier for group and telephone work.

When a client is experiencing the pain intensely in the present moment, often the set-up and reminder phrases can be dropped. The client's attention is already focused on the problem. This is good to calm them down so you can start a full treatment. If things are really bad, using just the karate chop point will help to start with. STORY APPROACH (Taken from Gary Craig's website emofree.com) Newcomers to EFT soon awaken to the vast possibilities for elevating the emotional joy in our lives. And why not? Why be satisfied with routinely taking care of most headaches, phobias, traumas, angers, etc. when you can get underneath them and resolve years of underlying issues? Why let self-doubt dominate when it can be replaced with an enhanced 11

sense of peace and freedom? In short, why be an average practitioner when mastery can provide so much more? I have great respect for beginners who have become "mechanical tappers" because they provide a valuable service for themselves and those they come in contact with. However, there is so much more to learn and a rich experience awaits those who choose to graduate from the mechanics to mastery. Along these lines, EFT already provides many tools for mastery and among them are: (1) The Tearless Trauma Technique (2) The Movie Technique (3) Borrowing Benefits and (4) Choices All of the above are all pre-designed processes by which even the beginner can deliver impressively thorough healing. If they are not already familiar to you, please study them with dedication and apply them to yourself and others. With a little experience, they will soon move you toward mastery. There is another tool for mastery that I call the "tell the story technique". I've been using it for years and you can see live examples of it on the "six days at the VA" video available from Gary Craig's website: www.emofree.com The idea is very simple. Just have the client narrate a specific event (about a trauma, grief, anger, etc.) and stop to tap whenever they get to emotionally intense parts of it. Each of the stopping points represents another aspect of the issue that, on occasion, will take you to even deeper issues. Conceptually, this is about as easy as it gets and it has a tendency to bring up important aspects that would otherwise take sophisticated detective work to locate. There are a few guidelines to enhance the process and I list them below. 1. After describing the "tell the story technique" to the client, ask them how they feel now about the mere thought of telling the story. Often you will get some substantial intensity at this stage and, if so, it is worthwhile to do a few global type rounds of EFT to take the edge off. "Even though I'm nervous about telling the story....." "Even though I'm afraid what might happen when I tell this story...." "Even though I don't like this whole thing....." "Even though just starting the story gives me the jitters...." 2. When the client feels comfortable about starting the story (perhaps an intensity level of zero to a 2), ask them to begin at a time when there is nothing to be concerned about. An example might be having lunch with a friend just before having a car accident. This tends to ease the client into the experience. 12

3. Instruct the client to stop the moment they feel any intensity whatsoever. This is critical to the success of this procedure. Most clients are conditioned by conventional techniques to "be courageous" and to "feel the feelings" and to "be brave and get through it." Thus, they are likely to go right by an important tapping point without telling you. The client needs to understand that if they don't stop, they have missed a healing opportunity. Hit this one hard. Emphasize it. Raise your voice a bit to punctuate it. Insist on it. Remind them that we are looking for minimal pain here and that they get no points for bravery. 4. Have the client repeat the story while doing EFT until they can tell it nonchalantly-- like it was a shopping trip. 5. Then ask the client to close their eyes and vividly imagine the whole event and ask them to try to get themselves upset by exaggerating the sights, sounds and feelings. Chances are they will get through it fine but, if they don't, then you will have uncovered an important aspect or underlying cause. Use EFT for whatever comes up until they cannot get upset about the issue by either imagining it or talking about it. 6. The ultimate test, of course, will be to physically visit the scene/person again and see if anything else arises. If there are any remnants left, they will show up during the "real deal. This "tell the story technique" has several benefits.... 1. It is easy to perform and, because the client talks a lot during the process, it often parallels what clients consider "real therapy." Thus the perception of EFT's "weirdness" is minimized. 2. The "story" provides a built - in procedure for finding aspects. 3. It can be used either as a primary technique or as a way to test your results. 4. It allows the issue to unfold as gently as possible. 5. The client gives you solid information along the way that allows you to know how you are progressing.