Ananga Sivyer’s Easy EFT Blog

Here’s an excerpt from a letter written by a Buddhist monk who was recently introduced to EFT:

This [EFT] is very likely a tool I’ll be using for the rest of my life. In all my years of learning various meditation techniques, studying healing systems, self-development methods, plus the wide array of methodologies I’ve been exposed to during my training in Psychology and Human Resources Management … I’ve never come across anything as potent as EFT for rapidly diffusing complex emotional problems and associated physical issues. In fact for dealing with specific emotional issues (e.g. phobias, addictions, grief etc.) it’s probably a more appropriate tool than meditation.

PS: It’s somewhat unusual for a Buddhist monk to be recommending a transformational tool that wasn’t explicitly taught by the Buddha. I venture to do so only because I’ve found that EFT has the potential to significantly reduce psychological and physical suffering. It does not promise Nirvana or Enlightenment (at least I don’t think so!). It does promise freedom from debilitating negative tendencies … and delivers fast! And to that extent perhaps it is congruent with the Buddha’s teachings that aim at the complete ending of all suffering.

Nyanasanti Bhikkhu

If you are interested in being free from the distraction of physical or psychological pain you can learn EFT in the next 10 minutes and start experiencing the positive benefits of EFT in your own life with our quick start EFT eBook & Step-by-Step EFT MP3s. 

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Many coaches advise dealing with worry by getting a piece of paper and writing a list of your worries down the left side and then making a column to the right and listing the worst case scenario for each and every one of those worries. This exercise is supposed to help put things in perspective and get us feeling better.

I don’t know about you, but I have a pretty vivid imagination and, if I’m not careful, I can imagine a “what’s the worst thing that could happen” scenario in glorious technicolor! Once I’ve got a nice big bright image of said imagined disaster, I can usually get my heart rate up a bit, start feeling anxious etc etc

A lot depends on our present state of mind when we do worry busting exercises. The trouble with worry is that it can be contagious and magnetic too. What do I mean by that? It’s quite simply really, once we start worrying about one thing, it’s easy to worry about a load more. One worry sticks out like a magnet and other worries drift along and stick to it like a bunch of iron filings. In my experience, that does not help me get things in perspective, and it doesn’t get me feeling better!

The neat thing about Emotional Freedom techniques (EFT) is that it turns off the magnetic pull of anxiety instantly. EFT gives true perspective, EFT turns down the brightness of any worrisome imaginings of disastrous outcomes and it  also gets your resources and coping skills back on line fast.

That’s why EFT is my number one tool for worry-busting.

How do you use EFT to stop worry and anxiety?

It’s easy
Hop over to our EFT the basics page and try it for yourself. Just pick a statement - something like “Even though I’m worried sick about…” should get you started, then follow the steps and tap the sequence through and start feeling some relief. Don’t be scared to get specific about your concerns, EFT works wonders on specific aspects of anxiety, the more thorough you get, the better you’ll feel.

If you want to get really serious about using EFT for relief from anxiety pay our EFT eBook page a visit and find out how you can be an EFT wizard in just 10 minutes!

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Did you ever hear the saying about the straw that broke the camel’s back? Here’s a snip from Wikepedia that sums it up:

The idiom the straw that broke the camel’s back is from an Arab proverb about loading up a camel beyond its capacity to move. This is a reference to any process by which cataclysmic failure (a broken back) is achieved by a seemingly inconsequential addition (a single straw). This also gives rise to the phrase “the last straw”, used when something is deemed to be the last in a line of unacceptable occurrences. A variation of this idiom is “the straw that broke the donkey’s back”.

One of may favourite uses for EFT is tapping away straw. By using EFT’s simple self-help acupressure sequence I keep myself straw free daily. My theory being, that if I brush the straw off as and when it heads for my back, it won’t get to pile up and there won’t be a last one that will break me.

More and more, research is pointing the finger at stress as being a major cause of disease in our lives, it affects us both emotionally and physically, it affects our work, our families - everything. And the more it piles up, the worse it gets, until before we know it we’re weighed down with the stress straw and our back starts to give!

Learning EFT is incredibly easy, and using EFT for a quick stress busting session takes just a couple of minutes. Why not learn EFT now and enjoy being able to shrug stress off before it piles up and has you living like a camel with a back problem?

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Energy expert Jon Gordon recommends EFT in his latest Energy Tips ezine as a way to reduce stress. Here’s what he has to say:

Learn more about EFT-It is a new technique developed by Gary Craig that incorporates acupressure and the principles of acupuncture to help clear emotional blockages and help energy flow through your body. Yet unlike acupuncture you can practice EFT on yourself. I have been hearing about the benefits of EFT from countless numbers of people and have experienced benefits with it myself.

You can learn EFT here

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Thousands and thousands of people the world over are living with depression daily. One of the keys to lightening the load, according to depression counsellors, is to regularly find and immerse yourself in happy memories from your past. Unfortunately, there are some among us who’ve had such a rough start in life that it’s very hard to find a single good experience to call forth and sink into.

There are several ways to deal with this. My personal favourite is to use EFT for a dash of treasure hunting.

You can try set-up statements like:

“Even though I don’t have any happy memories…”

“Even though I can’t remember one single good thing about my childhood…”

“Even though I can’t recall a happy time…”

Of course, these are just my random prompts to give you an idea of how to start. Ideally, you should use your own words, play with my examples and see what works best for you, or better still, listen in to yourself and find your own words and feelings on the matter. What would you say if I asked you to recall a happy memory right now…? Those are the words you want to be using in your set-up statement.

How does this work to get some happiness in your life? It’s simple really. EFT smoothes out the glitches that prevent positive recall of a good experience. It’s unlikely that there isn’t a single simple moment of happiness in there somewhere - and EFT is a great way to dig it up and give it a polish. And why just settle for one? Using EFT regularly is a great way to increase your happiness and shine up your memories and emotional treasures.

Don’t waste your days in a swamp of sadness, get clued up with EFT and get feeling better now…

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All this faced paced, high tech living is bringing with it an array of problems and challenges that simply didn’t exist 50 years ago. My suspicion is that we’re getting swamped with doing more bigger faster and better and missing out on the little things in life that are actually essential to our core stability and satisfaction.

When was the last time you stopped to breath in a sunset, or kicked off your shoes to walk on some cool soft grass, paid full on attention to your child with no time limit, sat and stroked a pet for half an hour or so, or laughed out loud with a friend?
These are examples of the simple things in life that are passing us by. We’re too busy for them, but we’re suffering as a direct result. Everyone wants to be happy, everyone wants to feel satisfied with their life, but the trouble with a fast paced lifestyle is we get caught up in a loop of anxiety and quick-fix pleasures.
In America the numbers of people addicted to shopping (and shop lifting), sex, alcohol and gambling are on the rise. Why? People are looking to feel better, to escape, to grab some pleasure. But they’re going about it all wrong and trying to snatch at fleeting moments while they’re all caught up in a life that resembles a rinse and spin cycle!
We need to slow down. And we need to shake of the illusion that pleasure comes from winning on a fruit machine or buying your 59th pair of shoes.
The next time you’re too busy to embrace one of life’s sweet and simple pleasure’s you could try a quick spell of EFT self-help.
“Even though I’m too busy too…”
“Even though I have to shop to feel good…”
“Even though… what…? What distraction do you turn to to get out of your head and try and find some pleasure or diversion? And what simple natural pleasure could you find instead?
EFT stops anxiety and can set your free from compulsive or addictive habits, it’s easy to learn and easy to use, and it can get you back in touch with the good things in your life.

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  EFT & the Acupuncture Connection

I’ll admit it! When I first saw an EFT demonstration, I thought it looked a bit weird. All this rubbing your chest and tapping different places on the body and making statements about how you feel. Aaargh! I’m English! I was not comfortable. And how do you tap your top lip when it’s programmed by geographical pre-dispositon to being stiff??

It took me about 5 minutes to get over myself when I realised that people where getting relief from really negative issues with EFT. The penny dropped for me when I realised that the tapping that happens in EFT is on a set sequence of meridian points. As soon as I noticed this I got hold of a list of the EFT points and looked up their acupuncture references; I could immediately see why EFT was so incredibly effective for dealing with emotional issues.

I was still a bit uncomfortable with the set-up statement business, but it soon became apparent to me that it really enhances the process and so I put my sense of reserve aside and set out to learn all I could about EFT. Within months I was demonstrating EFT at health shows around the UK and was surprised to find English folk very receptive and happy to having a powerful alternative to dealing with negative emotions than the traditional stiff upper lip.

If you’re thinking EFT looks weird you’ve nothing to lose (except a stack of negative emotions) by shuffling off into a dark and secret place and giving it a try!

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Snip: Dr. Elaine D. Eaker of Eaker Epidemiology Enterprise conducted a study that found tension proved as fatal in men as high blood pressure, whereas anxiety raised the risks of women.

Study Summary:

-Tension increases a man’s risk of heart disease, heart rhythm abnormalities and death from any cause, while women who report a high degree of anxiety are at greater risk of death, a new study shows.

- In fact, Dr. Elaine D. Eaker of Eaker Epidemiology Enterprises in Chili, Wisconsin and colleagues note, tension increases men’s death risk to the same degree that high blood pressure does.

- “The implication is you need to take care of the tension in addition to taking care of your cholesterol and your diabetes,” Eaker told Reuters Health.

- Eaker and her team looked at 3,682 men and women participating in the Framingham Offspring Study, whose average age was 48.5 years, and followed them for 10 years.

- Men who reported higher-than-average levels of tension were 25% more likely to develop heart disease over the next 10 years, while their overall risk of death was 23% greater.

-They were also 24% more likely to develop atrial fibrillation (AF), a type of abnormal heart rhythm that can lead to stroke and death.

- For comparison, men with higher-than-average blood pressure face a 23% increased 10-year risk of death.

- A number of studies have linked heart disease to psychological factors, she added, but this is the first that was able to control for other risk factors for heart disease, such as cigarette smoking and being overweight, and the first to investigate tension.

- Past studies have also been limited because they have relied on chest pain and other “soft” endpoints, which don’t necessarily indicate heart disease, she added; however, this study used “hard,” unambiguous endpoints like heart disease, atrial fibrillation and death.

- People who are concerned about their feelings of tension and anxiety should see a health care provider, who can tell them if seeking counseling might be appropriate, Eaker said.

Or they can do what thousands of others have already done and get started with EFT. A few years ago I was asked to teach EFT to some workers at Alcatel’s massive production plant in Greenwich, UK. It took them about ten minutes to learn EFT and appreciate it’s value in reducing tension and anxiety. When I went back a couple of weeks later to see how they were getting on. I found that many of the ladies were regularly and openly using EFT for niggling anxiety and physical tension from performing repetitive tasks.

One lady told me she felt more relaxed at work and regularly tapped at her desk, another was getting relief from her RSI and anxiety at the same time (she was OK at work, but had anxiety in her home life she decided she could do without and was finding EFT easy and effective for reducing her anxiety on the spot any time she thought about what was troubling her home life). The ladies were open and supportive about using EFT, they reminded each other to tap and sometimes downed tools for a quick two-minute group tapping break. EFT had become part of their daily routine. When I spoke with some of the men I found that many of them had adopted regular use of EFT but were be more covert about it. Some said they just shut the office door for a minute or two for a quick and private EFT session, others took themselves off to a toilet cubicle and where now considering trips to the toilet as tension relief breaks!

I was delighted to see how EFT had been quickly adopted by everyone and I’m positive that it will serve them well as protection from the sobering findings in Dr Eaker’s study.
Are you ready to get to grips with your anxiety & tension with EFT?

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“Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.” ~ Marston

Have you ever wanted to start something and been stopped dead in your tracks by a nagging doubt? Was it something creative? A dream you always wanted to pursue? Or a career move, perhaps striking out on your own and being your own boss?

All too often we have a noble aspiration and see it shot down in flames before it even gets off the ground. The problem? Your doubts. Those lurking little negative beliefs the “buts” and “what ifs” the “I could nevers” and the “I’m no good ats”

One of my favourite self-help exercises is doubt busting. And one of my favourite tools for doubt bashing is, in case you haven’t already guessed, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Though to call EFT a doubt basher doesn’t really do it justice. The neat thing about EFT is that it silences the voice of doubt and lets your previous stifled resources shine through.

I’ve lost count of the times I’ve sat and listened to people change from statements of self-doubt like: “I’m just no good at…” to “Well, I suppose I could start with… - what’s the harm?” It’s hard to convey the shift in energy and enthusiasm I’ve witnessed in using EFT for self-help issues, for getting started on a dream project, or for setting and meeting goals…

I guess you’d have to try EFT and find out for yourself

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