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WHAT
IS EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)?
Developed in 1980 by a
psychotherapist, Dr. Roger Callahan, who stepped far out of
the box by tapping on energy meridians to help a client he had
been treating with conventional means for a year and a half
without success. His technique was further refined by Gary
Craig, a Stanford University engineer that refined it to one
practical procedure. EFT is a technique that uses
tapping on acupuncture meridians on the body to realign a
disrupted energy flow. Whenever you have a thought that
triggers an unwanted feeling, what you are experiencing is a
disruption in the natural, even flow of energy through your
body. EFT is a powerful technique for
removing the negative emotions that block our ability to move
forward successfully in our lives.
HOW DOES EFT
WORK?
When we have a thought that
triggers a negative emotion, it's as though the body's electrical
system has a short in it somewhere, and you experience a *zzzt!*
that disrupts the smooth flow of energy through your system.
Every time you have this same thought you will get the
corresponding unpleasant *zzzt!*. EFT practiced while you
are feeling this energy disruption can restore the flow to its
intended uninterrupted free flow. When this happens, the
unpleasant physical reaction (and resultant conditioned behavior)
is no longer attached to the triggering thought. This is emotional
freedom, my friend.
WHY
IS MY SUBCONSCIOUS SO IMPORTANT?
Picture your mind as an
iceberg... the conscious part of your mind is the part of it
that is above the water line. Approximately 10%. The
part that is under the water line is your subconscious - it is 90%
of what your mind processes! Take a look at the picture, and
tell me which part you think is driving your bus...
Everything you have ever heard, thought, felt, or seen is in
there. All your decisions (whether made with good data or
bad), emotional triggers, everything. This is the seat of
your behaviors, choices, reactions - as well as the part that
keeps you alive; it breathes your lungs, pumps your heart,
replicates your cells, grows your neural connections.
WHAT IS HYPNOSIS?
If
you have never experienced hypnosis, most of what you think you
know about it could be myth and misunderstanding. Very simply, it is the
refocusing of your attention - whether internal or external.
It is a very normal state - in fact, we cycle into trance about
every 90 minutes, all day long. When you step into an
elevator and then "zone out" looking at the numbers
lighting up above the door until you get to your floor, you
are in trance. When you are driving and arrive at your
destination without being able to recall any details of the trip,
you were in trance. When you are watching tv and someone is
talking to you but you don't hear what they say - you are in
trance. Autopilot, meditation, daydreaming - all are forms
of trance. Generally when you are in a clinical setting,
trance comes in part as a result of the voice of the
therapist. You likely will not "feel"
hypnotized. You certainly will not lose control or be
unconscious, or be made to do anything or tell any deep, dark
secrets against your will. Hypnosis is just a very relaxed
state, where you are able to better "get out of your own
way" and facilitate communication between the conscious and
subconscious mind.
Hypnosis in the clinical
setting is largely induced by the voice of the therapist. It
is a safe and reliable therapeutic technique and treatment method
for many problems.
HOW
DOES IT FEEL?
You will not likely
"feel" hypnotized. You may feel very
relaxed, and it will be quite easy to converse sensibly with the
therapist. You are likely to be more aware of your external
surroundings and your internal landscape. It is
inconceivable that anything harmful could happen to someone in
this pleasantly relaxed state. You will retain a full and
accurate memory of everything afterwards.
CAN
THE HYPNOTHERAPIST CONTROL ME?
Absolutely not. You are
always in control; the therapist
is just the tour guide. But what about those people up on
stage in those hypnosis shows? The fact is that those who
wind up on stage for such a show are already willing to suspend
their inhibitions to a certain degree before an audience or they
wouldn't have volunteered to be onstage in the first place.
From there, the hypnotist further refines the choices of who
will remain onstage by using techniques designed to quickly
determine who are the most suggestible candidates, those who will
go into trance the deepest and quickest. I once asked a
teenage boy who was onstage for such a show how he felt while he
was being given suggestions, such as "now you can sing like
Elvis"... he said he felt that when the hypnotist was telling
him these things, he thought "Yeah, that's right, I can do
that. That's cool", so he "cooperated".
"It just felt like something I had to do," he said,
"like when you are craving a candy bar" he said. Well, I
asked, what did you think when he was giving suggestions to the
other people on stage? "I just thought they were acting
goofy" he said. In other words, no one ever quacked
like a duck who didn't WANT to!
In the clinical setting, the
point is to focus on what is blocking you, clear it, and begin
positive changes. For hypnotic suggestions to work, you have
to be entirely in agreement with them. No hypnotist can ever
manipulate you against your will, and no competent professional
would ever even consider that possibility.
WHAT
IF I CAN'T BE HYPNOTIZED?
Only those who are very, very
young (before language is a significant factor in life), mentally
subnormal, or under the influence of alcohol or hard drugs are not
candidates for hypnosis. Almost anyone else can go into a
state of hypnosis easily.
THOUGHTS
ARE THINGS! THERE IS A VERY REAL REASON WHY HYPNOSIS WORKS.
All our decisions and life
choices are preceded by an emotion. ALL EMOTIONS are
triggered by thoughts. So in order to change the pattern of
choices you are stuck in, you ultimately have to change the
thoughts.
SO IF MY
THOUGHTS CREATE MY REALITY, HOW DOES THAT WORK?
Not only are all emotions
triggered by thoughts; all thoughts are
energy. In fact,
EVERYTHING is energy. Everything around you... the chair,
the plants, your pets, the asphalt in the parking lot, the oceans,
the air, your own body - all energy, vibrating at different
rates. Your emotions are energy, vibrating at different
rates (love vibrates higher, faster than hate does), as are your
thoughts. We swim in an infinite ocean of vibrating
energy. Some things vibrate fast enough that they are unable
to be seen as "solids" - things like light, sound.
The slower it vibrates, the denser it appears as matter. It
is the rate of vibration that determines the nature of what
manifests.
I'm sure you've heard the old
saw that "we only use about 1/10 of our brain" - but
think about this... anything the body doesn't use ATROPHIES and
shrinks, right? So why is that "unused" portion so
large? I believe this is the result of the subconscious mind
being active... it is active 24/7 - your subconscious NEVER
SLEEPS. It is the subconscious that controls all autonomic
activity - breathing, blinking, perspiring, swallowing, digestion
and more mysterious activities such as dreaming, and - if you subscribe at all to the scientific theories of quantum physics - manifesting
reality. Though quantum physics is "new"
science (within the last 50 years), the
fact that Thought Manifests Reality has been pointed out to us for
thousands of years:
"If those who lead you say
to you, "See, the Kingdom is in the sky," then the birds
of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, "It is in
the sea," then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom
is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know
yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that
it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will
not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are
that poverty."
- Jesus (All the sayings of Jesus gathered
from ancient sources and compiled into a single volume for the
first time. Compiled by Ricky Alan Mayotte) From The Complete
Jesus. (Pg 71)
"As a man thinketh in his
heart, so is he." Proverbs 23:7
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