How can mind maps and EFT Tapping help you to achieve your goals?
Did you take your New Year’s resolutions seriously and establish action steps to achieve them or have they faded in to something that you’ll dust off at the start of next year?
You can use mind maps and EFT Tapping to keep you on track and deal with resistance, negative thinking and distractions that stop you from moving forward and making progress towards what you want.
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Missing someone at Christmas? EFT Tapping can help.
Christmas canbe a tough time when you are missing someone. Let this EFT tapping video help your heal the emotions that keep you from enjoying the holiday season
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What’s better, real people or robots? Rod Sherwin in Marketing Magazine
Rod Sherwin says the therapy can help marketers a lot with daily issues, especially dealing with disappointment.
“When you’re dealing with a client, you get a brief, you go away, and you might do some work you would consider amazing,” Sherwin explains. “You bring it back and they say ‘that’s all crap’, so there’s this frustration, you’re disheartened. That initial emotional reaction affects the ability to communicate and deal with those emotions with the client. This therapy is not about making us robots, it’s about freeing us up so we can make better decisions. Because under stress we don’t make good decisions, we’re not rational.”
Sherwin says EFT is all about getting to the underlying cause of the stress, which often isn’t work–related.
“We’re a whole person, maybe something is going on away from work, maybe you’re moving house and it’s stressful or maybe you’ve got a child who is having an operation,” Sherwin says. “All of these things affect how we turn up each day. If we can shift those emotional levels, if we can change that at a deep enough level. We get changes in thoughts and behaviours and feelings. And it’s not just about positive thinking and telling you to be grateful. You are allowed to be upset, frustrated, disheartened, angry, disappointed. Whatever the feeling is, we deal with that at an emotional level. A good company is trying to think about the whole wellbeing of their employees, and often it’s troubles at home causing them distress, and that’s not the employers fault, but if we deal with that, they’re probably going to turn up as a better employee.”
So should employers be worried that giving their employees this therapy could make them see they are not a good fit for the job? Yep, they should be.
“I actually do think it’s a risk (that people will quit their jobs after therapy),” Sherwin says. “But if someone is really unhappy in their job, is it serving the company for them to be there? Maybe they just need to be helped to make that decision to move on. The good thing is a lot of people love their job, there just might be one particular aspect of it that is uncomfortable or difficult. Thankfully, most people don’t decide to quit.
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Rod Sherwin interviewed about his journey of emotional freedom on Mastering the Art of Becoming
Mastering the Art of Becoming # 18: Tuning In; Tapping In; Stepping Out!
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EFT could well be described as the newest ‘over the counter’ miracle drug for ‘whatever ails you!’ If Rod Sherwin knows one thing, it is circuitry, and the importance in keeping all pathways open and clear so that info (energy) can move itself through. Listen to how Ron made the transition from IT specialist to EFT specialist and why it all made sense to him!
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Review of the Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
This is my take-away from reading The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt. This is a great book that combines Eastern wisdom with the latest psychological studies to get us closer to an understanding of what
The book presents 10 great ideas from major world philosophies and analyses them with modern scientific understanding. The 10 great ideas are:
- The Divided Self
- Changing Your Mind
- Reciprocity with a Vengeance
- The Faults of Others
- The Pursuit of Happiness
- Love and Attachments
- The Uses of Adversity
- The Felicity of Virtue
- Divinity With or Without God
- Happines Comes from Between
The author uses the analogy of an elephant and its rider to represent our emotions/subconsious self (the elephant) and our rational/conscious mind (the rider). I find this very much applicable to working with emotions using energy psychology and EFT, as it is much easier to change thoughts and behaviours if we work the elephant rather than the rider (as is done in tradtional talk therapies).
For me the first major takeaway was the Happiness Formula presented in chapter 5 developed by Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ken Sheldon, and David Schkade: H = S + C + V
This translates to: Your level of happiness (H) is determined by your biological set point (S) plus the conditions of your life (C) plus the voluntary actions (V) you do. Different self-help gurus over the years have focused on each of these different areas to focus on in improving your happiness. From this formula you can identify what is within your power to change and what is not.
The Happiness formula is referred to through out the book but is not seen to answer all the questions about happiness in the dicussions that follow.
Towards the end of the book, the author explores the Holy Question, that of “What is the purpose of life?” Using his philisophical training, he looks at the question from a number of different angles and finds that the question that can be answered should actually be “What is the purpose within life?”. His answer to the question becomes his Happiness hypothesis: that happiness comes from between.
“Happiness is not something you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait. Some of these conditions are within you, such as the coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you: … people need love, work, and a connection to something larger.
It is worth striving to get the right relationships between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself. If you get these relationships right, a sense of purpose and meaning will emerge.”
I found the interweaving of classical wisdom from Buddhism and philosophy and modern scientific research to be fascinating and illuminating in my own continuing search for happines.
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Leadership Training as demonstrated by Guide Dog Training
From a recent news letter I received about instructional design:
We have just started training a guide dog (tax deductable “security”…). It is very interesting process. Before we got the dog, we had to sign an agreement relating to its training and care. We have been supplied with a comprehensive manual and receive a weekly visit from the master trainer to ensure we are doing a good job (compare this with having a baby; planning, manual, support – all optional.) The training process is primarily through positive reinforcement and consistency - no punishment.
If the dog fails to get accepted as guide dog, the failed trainer has to pay and gets the dog back. Imagine how leadership training would improve if we had the threat of getting the failed leader as our own boss!
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Yes, I was a Sydney Olympics Volunteer
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EFT Approaches for Serious Issues such as Trauma, Abuse and PTSD | Tap4Health EFT Practice
EFT Approaches for Serious Issues such as Trauma, Abuse and PTSD
There are many videos on the internet for the everyday stuff that EFT is good for and, in my experience, EFT is unsurpassed for handle series emotional issues such as trauma, abuse, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). However, you use different approaches for these serious issues than you do for everyday issues. I have created some videos that explain some of the more advanced approaches to applying EFT to deal with serious issues as gently as possible.
All EFT Practitioners should be familiar with two approaches that Gary Craig used often in his manuals and on his DVDs, the EFT Movie Technique and the EFT Tell the Story Technique.
Both the Movie technique and Tell the Story technique help you identify a specific event to tap on. Beginners to EFT will work with global issues, rather than specific events, and wonder why they are not achieving results. These two techniques guide you in identifying a specific issue to work on and thoroughly clear all aspects of the problem.
While working with one event, I might expand the emotional aspects of the event to other areas of your life, but I always return to this specific event again and again as a point of navigation to test your progress.
Another advanced approach that I use is combining Pattern Interrupts with EFT. I have written about using pattern interrupts for an even more tearless trauma technique and this video explains in more detail how to use them.
Remember, the most important part of using pattern interrupts is to develop and maintain deep rapport with your client. It is only with their trust and connection that you can redirect their attention from a serious issue to a trivial issue and back again. Here’s a good overview of how to develop and maintain rapport.
Most of the time you would be using EFT shortcut tapping sequences and you can always fall-back to the full EFT Basic Recipe if you are not getting the breakthrough you expect.
Let me know how you have applied these techniques and other approaches you use to make EFT as gentle as possible for serious issues by adding your comments to the blog or to the videos on YouTube.
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I like the versatility of EFT and, with the right approaches, the power to do some wonderful healing.
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TEDxMelbourne: Community & Youth. Melbourne, 20th November, register now!
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDxMelbourne will bring a diverse group of people together to share ideas, knowledge and inspiration through a series of events.
At our TEDxMelbourne event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
The 5th TEDxMelbourne event will be held on the 20th of November at the State Library of Victoria. The event will include a combination of electrifying live speakers and the famous TED Talks videos will spark deep discussion and connection around the theme of Community and Youth.
Be part of the audience for this amazing TEDxMelbourne event. The program offers an array of incredible talks and performances, with exclusive opportunities to network with the TEDxMelbourne community.
Speakers include Andrew MacLeod, Jan Owen AM, Mike Penrose, Elliot Costello, Tania Major, Lucinda Hartley, Adam Jaffrey, Amanda McKenzie, Chuck Berger and performers Radhey Gupta, Winneth Sotingco, Dig Deep, and Emilie Zoey Baker. Find out more about our Speakers and Performers.
Limited seats available for the live event, however TEDxMelbourne is offering a free satellite event in the State Library’s Experimedia venue, where you can enjoy all the talks on the big screen and see an expo of community organisations as well as some live performances.
The event will be a full day event with registration opening at 8am and the program running from 9am – 6pm.
TEDxMelbourne is brought to you with the help of these sponsors.
How to get there:
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston St
Melbourne Victoria 3000Nearest train station: Melbourne Central
Nearest tram stop: Cnr Swanston & La Trobe Streets
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About me
I have been interested in complementary and alternative health and wellbeing for over 20 years. I don't believe in "a pill for every ill" instead I believe that our health is built on a triad of biochemistry (governed primarily by the food we eat), our physical structure and our emotional wellbeing.
