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EFT is a new technique (01/02/2010)
(...) Only when the problem has been contacted successfully can the treatment work. This is so because when there is no emotion to release, endeavouring to release it becomes rather futile! The greatest difference between truly skilled EFT practitioners and amateurs is the ability to facilitate the client to get in touch with the emotions behind the problems. NLP calibration skills are absolutely perfect for ascertaining whether a client is beginning to find the right opening statements; to ascertain whether a client is shifting and how much; to be able to feed back perceived shifts and changes to the client to help them ratify the changes to the conscious mind and thereby lessen the occurrence of the dreaded "Apex Effect"; and finally, to help the client discover root causes, "stuck states" and negative beliefs. (...)

Languaging skills and EFT (01/02/2010)
(...) Talking the other through this is a gentle way to help their neurological reordering processes along and avoid Apex related problems such as denying they ever had the problem, feeling frightened of the therapy or perceiving it as spooky or invasive. You can use phrases like, "Just sit here for a while, all safe and comfortable, and I know you're feeling a little disorientated right now and that's perfectly wonderful because it means it has worked, and your mind is sorting everything out now, so in a moment you'll be all clear and focussed again and delighted to discover that where the pain used to be, there is relaxation and peace and tranquillity instead." Keep on speaking and shifting your own state towards awareness until you're happy you have led the client safely out of the trance that ensues when a successful shift has taken place, and until they're fully back in the now. (...)

The preferred representational system (01/02/2010)
(...) This particular group of people was always difficult to deal with using the majority of NLP interventions which are heavily biased towards being able to do amazing things in your mind's eye and just for those alone, I really feel that every NLP practitioner programme should include EFT. Supervisual clients and the ones who live in Auditory Digital on the other hand, much prefer to spend time discussing cognition, new insights, memories and like to dwell on the more technical aspects. Both these groups and the ones with the preference in the auditory system like to hear other case histories and this can be a useful tool to teach them various things you think they need to know. (...)

Treating daily problems (01/02/2010)
(...) For example, a client taps a round on "Even though my mother never loved me, I deeply and profoundly accept myself". After they're through and you ask them how this is different now, they will say, "Well I guess there were times when she tried to love me, after all, but she just had so many problems of her own, you know?" which to me indicates that the tapping corrected the faulty map all by itself, and in a most holistic and ecological way. A key element of EFT treatments is that the client will be able to treat themselves at home after they have left your care. (...)

A fantastic set of kinesthetic anchors (01/02/2010)
(...) EFT is so trance inducing, it really beats progressive relaxation into a cocked hat. As it is primarily a kinesthetic induction, you can deepen it, strengthen it, do all kinds of things with it to create a truly profound altered state in clients whenever you want to. Especially if you are tapping the client, which when I do it is very light and syncopated and I tend to touch/hold other points with the other hand, instruct the client to close their eyes and take charge of their breathing. (...)

Access to most familiar sensation (01/02/2010)
(...) It's absolutely real and in its totality, an undiscovered country indeed... (...)